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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-03-29

DEATH OF. Col YARBoEouGH.-Col. Edward Var
borough of this City, died yesterday about clock,
P NJ, after brief Illness. Col Y. was we'll known
as the enterpriSng and genemany proprietor of the
Marlborough House, and he will be greatly missed
by his numerous acquaintance and friends He
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COTTON AND NAVAL SToREs-We learn that the
citizens of Beaufort and Pitt Counties, finding 1t
impossible to remove their cotton and naval stores
beyond the reach of the enemy, have committed
them to the flames We understand that P. A.
Atkinson, Esq, of Pitt was one of the first to set
the example i'll that County, and that he consumed
about 400 bales. ~
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LIEUT. COLONEL CRAToN.-It is not our purpose to
take part in the controversy between Col. Sinclair
and Lieut. Colonel Grafton, of his regiment, whom
he has caused to be arrested on certain charges !;
but fair play and justice require that the public
judgment should not be formed until all the facts
are investigated. We do not know what the facts
are but we do not believe that Col Grafton is a
coward
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-03-29

FEEs.-Is it true that company and field officers
who are commissioned By the State, required to
pay 81 each for their commissions? If so, where
the law for it {? We wish to do one injustice,
and therefore ask for information.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-03-29

Mr.. EDITORIALS we are not in possession of
such information large number of our patriotic
and chivalrIc young desire, who belonged to
the Sth Regt., N. z. State Troops, who were on -,
fnrlough, and escaped during the fight at Roanoke
Island We write to inquire who it is that keeps
these brave men from doing what they volunteered
to do during the war? We don't expect any one
who were taken prisoners TO do any thing.but wait
to be exchanged, but there is a large numbeS who
were not there at the fight who are able to whip as
many Yankees they have fingers and toes, if they
only had some one to tell them who to report to,
or what to do. Can they attach them to any other
company for the war, or who will tell how they
may be properly organized again Please publish
for the benefit of the above named, such nforma-
ton as you think they need. IL they can join
other companies, let us know. We would have
written to Gov. Clark or the Adjutant General but
knowing they have more business than they can
attend to, think We can get information from
the Standard
Yours, &c, INQUIRERS.
We are surprised that nc notice has been given
to the members of the Sth Regiment, n. C. State
Troops, who were on furlough or who escaped at
the lime of the fight, to report General Huger at
once directed all of the 3lst N. C. Vols to report
to Capt Goodwin, at Lumberton. He was the only
Captain that escaped. If any of the officers of the
Sth were on furlough or escaped, they should at
once apply to Gen. Huger for orders what to do
We doubt the propriety of any of them joining 9TH
or companies or regiments until SO ordered. If our
correspondent whom we do not know, were to ap-
ply to Adjutant General Martin, he would no douot
get the needed information, or the General would
call the attention of the Confederate authorities to
the matter, so that all the escaped and those on
furlough, from Roanoke Island, should be at once
brought into the service. We judge their services
are needed. We suppose there not less than
$50 or 800 of those connected with the three N. c.
regiments there, who escaped or who were on fur
Tough at the time Of the fight
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Coz. z b. vAScr:.--A correspondent of the Char

= COL z. B. VANcE.--A correspondent of the Char
lotte Bulletin gives the following incident:
-" An incident occurred in the aisle fronting the
House of Representatives in the Capitol at WASH
ngton. the first day of March was year ago, that
have often thought Of since the election Of e. B.
Vance as Colonel Of the 26th Regiments iIhad sent
my card to Col Vance, and we were standing taikl
ing, when representative from some of the NORTH
ern States passed by US, and remarked to Col
Vance thatif he was not careful, they would carry
a point then at issue in the House. ~
Col. Vance replied, that he came. there repre-.
sentative from the South, the land Of flowers, of
happy faces and honest hearts to fight them with
words and that if he failed to whip them by throw
ing grass, he would 60 South and bring quota of
men, and he would thrash them'n
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SALr.-The greatest difficulty in the way of the
South in the present struggle, is the want of salt
Every means to obtain supply of this article should
Dc resorted to. We eau do without many things,
but salt is a vital article
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Our attention has been called to an account Of hc
battle Of Newbern, which appears in newspaper
published in this place, and which account is said,
by those who know, to be Unfair onesided, and for
the most part unfounded We give the following.
sentence as a specimen Of this account: "Gen.
Branch has won the respect and admiration of all
who witnessed the GOODNESS and coIlectedness with
which he fought his. first battle" This is amusing.
If the Confederate cause could be wrecked it could
be by political Colonies and Generals and hireling
newspapers.
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CAMP OF INsTRUcrIoS.-Col r. II. Riddick and
Col. r. C. Hill are in charge of the two camps of
instruction near this city, aid of the brigades which
compose them.
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PRAYER MEETSGs.-Publc prayer meetings are
now held in this City every Tuesday at II o'clock,
a NJ. at the Methodist Church, and every Thurs
Jay at the same hour at the Presbyterian Church.
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WoKRILL-Our correspondents last letter from
Wilmington came too late for our last ISSUE and
would be of course behind for the present Our
correspondent will please recollect that papers and
ettersfrom Wilmington by the present mail arrange
ment are from two to three days old before reaching
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Thesmilitary district of Cape Fear embraces New
Hanover, Onslow, Brunswick, Robson, Cumber
land Bladen, Columbus and Sampson, and is under
the command of Gen. S. G. French.
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SNrHFIELD, Isle of Wight Co, Va,
March 10, 1862.

E. e. EINoRE, ESQ.,:
Treas. g. S. t., Richmond Ta
SrR:-Encloscd please find fifty dollar Confed-
crate note, which dcsire-to present to the govern
ment, through you for carrying on the war.
Very respectfully,
SAMUEL NICHOLS,
3rd Corp. Co. A.
LIST n G. Art
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OUR MAHS.-Our mails by the Railroads are all
behind at present. owing to the necessary of the
railroads for other purposes.
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men, OF this naIue are in camp this place, from
MOGtgomery County. Their officers are as follows:
r. r. D. Debefry Captain; LIST Lieutenant, John c.
names; I'd Lieut., John C. Montgomery; Sd Lieut.,
a. NJ. Russell
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LOsT on mIsLAID.

UHAVERECENFLYI OSFsA NOTE 0fsHAND
Dollars and ninety cents, dated in AUGUST 4e6O
AHpersons hereby forbidden to trade for aid
note. JOHN ktA(f.ss
wake Co, N. G., March 90, 1889. -.
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FURNITURE Ar ACTION.

ss7s IRISH POTATOES. .ssss51,-1 ~
GENUINE MERCER SEEDLINGS 0NsAEE
VI a. FaEmsr's Hali. ssgs-z JAS h. ToWbtSs AftsS
March %, 1862. ssseSes7 40
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-14
NEW SERIES-NO 466
The Hand of God.
From the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph, No

From the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph, Nov. s.
As nation the hand of God has touch
ed us. The sun of our Indian summer
looks down on scenes of carnage and des-
ofation, the breezes quiver with the roar
of battle, and the autumn leaves rustic
under the tread of hosts rushing into strife.
North and South, there are few kindreds
whose blood has not been shed, few homes
where tear-dimmed eyes do not rest sadly
on vacant places. Fear and doubt are in
our public places -wailing by our hearth
stones. The hand of God hath touched
u.s.
Will it ever be lifted God visits ma
tions sometimes in wrath, sometimes in
mercy-now shattering them as an earth
en- vessel, now purifying them as wheat is
cleaned from chaff Has He come to US
to purge or to destroy =? History teaches
us that God never destroys nation unless
the whole mass is so corrupted that rem
ovation is new creation.
The Jewish nation and the Roman en-
pire are instances in which annihilation
was needed and was brought about. We
hope and pray that our country is not.
The mass of our people are not corrupt.
The great body of our population, repre-
sented better in our armies than elsewhere,
love justice, endure privations, and follow
guidance in defence of what they think
is right. The million soldiers now rallied
around the old flag, prove this-and the
hosts of poor fellows who followed Bragg,
barefooted, across the Cumberland Noun
tains, and those that are shivering by the
Blue Ridge around Lee, demonstrate that
sslfshness and corruption have not spread
through the masses Of the American peo-
pie, either North or South.
But the people have been proud and
careless, and have forgotten God. They
have followed their caprices, and exalted
those who flattered them into power. They
have deserved to be betrayed by their
own leaders, and have been betrayed.
They have shut their eyes upon corruption,
and allowed plunder to become the fashion.
So pride was pampered and Judgment for
gotten. In the Sonth, pride instigated
men to adopt and defend the evils and
wrongs of the slave systom, in order to de-
fy criticisms, and to declare that slavery
was more sacred than marriage, or than
the bonds of blood. In the North, it led
men to overlook the evils crying to Heaven
around them, hypocrisy, pauperism, op-
preston, fostering in their midst, to ignore
God, to calumniate and trample upon His
Church.
1t is useless to discuss the question who
struck the first blow. The voice from the
ghastly battle fields and hospitals
the frightened public halls and the SORROW
ing homes, is-"Be ye humbled under the
mighty hand Of God!"
We are not too corrupt to learn justice,
nor too cowardly to do it-but the dema-
gogues-the traitors in place and power,
the wanton caterers to mob passions, must
go under, if the country is to rise.
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HGOne to the War;,

Looking over some old notes and pa
pers, the other day, took up small,
white, folded paper, and opening it, came
upon beautiful golden curl of softesthair.
Marked on the inside of the paper was the
pet name of the lovely child from whose
head had clipped the ringlet years ago.
! wondered where he might be now, and
what he might be doing. A few days af-
ter, as if I had sought for the information,
was told he had gone to the war.
Gone to the war! The words gave me
strange chill. 1t seemed but few weeks
since the summer afternoon when, tired
with play, he had fallen asleep, his cheeks
rosy with heat, the very picture of exquis-
ite childish beauty; and had clipped this
glossy curl from close to his, white neck,
without waking the little Sleeper And
now he tolls over dusty roads, through
pathless swamps, with gun and blanket
and knapsack, his fair, youthful face.burnt
by the Southern sun, and his young heart
exposed to all the temptations of the SOL
dier's camp-profanity, drunkenness, and
crime; or if wounded, he is trampled by
his friends and foes, perchance mutilated
soldiers fate.
Oh, War!-horrible, cruel War. that
has been forced with all its horrors on the
peace-loving and loyal sons of the North,
by the ungrateful, rebellious children of
that once prosperous republic.
"Gone to the warv' Another, our qui-
ct, dark-eyed, undemonstrative boy, who
must be known to be loved, so unobtru-
sive was he, and so retiring, but best be-
loved by those who knew him best. But
the echo of Sumters guns fired his North
ern blood; his dark eye flashed, he seized
his rifle and was gone. And so, one by one,
and thousands by thousands, all over the
land, they have departed, and many heart
and home is desolate. From one home the
youngest, the pet, the darling of the house
is reluctantly given up; from the next, the
proud, noble first-born, on whom his gray
haired father leaned; and from the next
the widows son; and from across the way
every son of the household. Oh! who
but the recording angel shall estimate the
agony, the untold sacrifice called out by
this cruelest of rebellions? Yet shall their
precious blood not have been shed in vain,
if by it is purchased liberty for all now and
forever. If from these battle-felds Liber-
ty shall rise in shining garments, with new
glory on her shield; if, one kindred and
one people, we stand again with clasped
hands of reconciliation, and the black stain
upon our national honor wiped out forever,
then blessed shall they be who can count
their best beloved among the heroes by
whose struggles the glorious result shall
have been consummated. Good speed the
time and shield our dear ones in the day of
battle.-Christian Register.
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Perhaps an angels hand led her; heaven

Perhaps an angels hand led her; heaven
only knows.
Themoen was high in the sky; shadows
of evergreen bushes lay thick and dark to
the right, and to the left glimmered the
lights from the windows of her home. A
solemn purpose possessed her, strangely at
variance with the folly of her mission,
and with her hand upon her bosom she
stood for moment looking down into the
crystal waters of the well.
Then she began her walk. Slowly she
circled the little foot-trodden path; once,
twice, thrice, looking always over her left
shoulder, looking with terrible earnestness
at the dark shadows of the evergeens-for
there was a still darker shadow there, and
as she paused it moved and came out in
to the moonlight, standing there with its
arms extended toward her.
1t was the form of the man who had
once been her promised husband. She saw
him plainly as she had ever seen him in
the body and the flesh, and in that sight
lost consciousness.
When she recovered warm arms were
about her, warm tears falling on her faeeP
and she looked up to see again the features
of her vision. No spirit this it held her
to its heart with the clasp of life and love,
and uttered words of tenderness and sor-
row.
Then, as she listened, he told her of
long years of toll, of an altered life, and of
an honorable name made in far-off land,
and of the yearning he had to see her face
once more 81 never meant to speak to
you," he said, ''only to look at yon from
afar; but could not help it when you
were so near me, for I love you as aman
never loved before"
And she put her arms about his neck
and clung to his bosom with trembling
hands, and said only-"Never leave me
again, never, never"
The West Wind sailed next day. but
Rose was not on board: a new mission
had been given to her and she fulfilled it.
In that home, of which true repentance
and life of virtuous effort has made a
happy spot, she lives an honored and be-
loved wife, cheering the heart so long
bowed down by sorrow and contrition, and
showing in her every action that the words
which she heard from that rough preacher IS
mouth have never been forgotten, and
that the light to which he pointed lie the
beacon of her life.
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Mineral Lands i'm Washington Ter.
ritOry.

The Land Office in the prosecution of
its design in obtaining full knowledge of
the great mineral regions of this continent,
has recently sent an examiner to make re-
port concerning them in Washington Ter
rltory. He followed the surveyed wagon
road route from Fort Walla- Walla in
Southeasterly direction to Lewiston, which
is at the head of steamboat navigation, and
the depot for the Nez Perces and Salmon
river mining regions Here, for miles
around, the land has been located upon
and claimed by American citizens. The
Indians are powerless, except to complain,
and are often the subjects of cruelty on
the part of the whites, who sell them whis-
ky and practice every species of imposi-
ton when they are in state of drunken
ness. There are broad tracts of country
that are sandy and unfit for culture; but
the narrow valleys of streams are fertile,
as are belts ofland running back from them.
About these are woodlands, and the Ca
mas Prairie, towards the Salmon river,
containing two hundred thousand acres of
land, which is well wooded and watered.
The slopes of the mountains in the same
direction are well calculated for grazing.
The examiner is satisfied that the reports
of gold products in the Salmon river are
not exaggerated. Some claims yield from
five hundred to two thousand dollars per
day. The general average to man is
twenty dollars. There is rich mineral
region of eleven miles in circumference
about Florence, on the Salmon river, on
which there were thirteen hundred claims
worked by over four thousand men. Some
five thousand on the first of June were
preparing to prospect up Salmon riv-
er to Utah. The gold fields on the
Clear water and it's branches, are extern
sive, but not as rich as those of the Sal
mon river. Ten dollars day is the aver
age product to man in the former. Here
are some twenty thousand men employed,
and the number in all of the locations is
rapidly augmenting. Settlers of course
desire surveys to be made in the regions
of the mines, and they are recommended.
National Intelligencer.
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The Last Words Of a Christian Patriot
From the New York Journal of Commerce.

From the New York journal of Commerce.
One by one we lay down our noble dead
in the dust of the land they have
loved, and that dust becomes more dear to
us as we incorporate in it more and more
of the humanity we have cherished.
Among the brave men who have gone
out to battle, none was more worthy of
the name we have placed at the head of
this article Christian Patriot than Sam
uel F. Willard, of Madison, Conn, Captain
in the 14th Connecticut regiment. Those
who knew him well will bear witness to
the truth of the estimate. But it is not
for the sake of praising him that we write
this article. It is because he left brief
record of both Christianity and patriotism,
which we think both instructive and
mournfully interesting, and which we are
permitted to use. 1t contains much that
is of a private nature, but we venture to
intrude on the privacy which surrounds
every mau's home affections, for the sake
of giving this complete picture of the
American volunteer soldier, the loving
husband, the devoted patriot, the trusting
Christian, going out to battle in the cause
to which he willingly gave his life. No one
can read the record without emotion-no
one will fail to say such men as these are
the men to make nation strong" The
diary from which we extract the following
was found in pencil, on the person of Capt.
Willard. It was his method of keeping
notes to be forwarded to his wife, from
time to time, and the record here covers
the Sunday when the battle was fought at
South Mountain, and the Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday which followed, clos
ing with the last days battle at Antietam:
On TOP BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, }
WEST OF FREDERICK CRY, :
Sunday noon, Sept. IA, 1922
The regiment has just halted for a rest after
climbing these mountains for miles, and as sit
upon its summit I dot down word to you. The
view from here is beautiful indeed, but am too
tired to write much, but you can contrast the
difference. While you and the good people of
Madison were sitting quietly in the church, the
Scranton Guards were tOiling away up these
mountains in defence of our country This is
our ninth days march, and we are all about
worn out with fatigue and hunger; being OIL
the march, we have no opportunity to get any
thing to eat but hard bread and pork. To-day
we started on our long march on hard bread and
coffee alone; marched till four o'clock. Weare
now in line of battle in the Middletown Valley,
right in sight there is an artillery engagement
nothing very serious.
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OCTOBER.

Falling leaves and falling men!
When the SHOWS of winter fall,
And the winds of winter blow,
Will be woven Natures pail.
Let us, then, forsake our dead
For the dead will surely wait,
While we rush upon the foe,
Eager for the hero's fate.
Leaves will come upon the trees:
Spring will show the happy race:
Mothers will give birth to sons,
Loyal souls to fill our place.
Wherefore should we rest and rush
Soldiers, we must fight and save
Freedom now, and give our foes
All their country should-a grave!
-.Neac York Eoening Post
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MONDAY MORNING,


MIDDLETowN VALLEY, Sept. Is, 1862. {
These may be my last words; if so, they are
these:
have full faith in Jesus Christ my Savior; I
do not regret that have fallen in defence of my
country; l have loved you trnly and know that
you loved me, and in leaving this world of sin
go to another and better one, where am con-
fident shall meet you. freely forgive all my
enemies, and ask them for Christ's sake t, for
give me. If my body should ever reach home,
let there be no ceremony; ask no higher hon
in the grave, initiate my virtues, and forgive all
my errors.
prefer death in the cause of my country, to
life in sympathy with its enemies.
And now, my precious wife, goodbye. May
the grace of God sustain you, and we will meet
at last in heaven.
Signed in the valley on the battle ground near
Bolivar Heights, Nd.
SAMUEL FRANCIS WILLARD.