Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-06
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Marlborough House in this City, has raised the price
of board to Is per day.
We urge people not only to plant all the corn they
can but vegetables and especially potatoes They will be
needed.
The sale of sprituous liquors has been absolutely pro-
hbited in Wilmington and within mile thereof Let
the boys, therefore, "dry up"
We sorry to tina. friend of the Petersburg
Express copies from the New York Mercury blasphemous
parody the " TIE Deura Lavddmus" 1t makes ones
blood cold to read it. 1t substitutes Abraham Lincoln
for the Holy Trinity! lis insertion must have been the
result of an oversight on the part of the Editor.
The last sales of gold in New York l7a. Virg
MIA sixes at 6s North Carolina skies az. Cotton
selling at from 80 to 81 In Richmond, the 3D.
gold 800 Virginia and North-Carolina Banks notes
at premium of 30 per cent.
The New York WCrI says ait is manifest that
ryde the most terrible and decisive battles of the whole
about TO take place" The UOrld is correct The
about to commence in earnest. Both sides
increasing their armies and preparing for deadly
struggle. What is to be the end oft?
Washington correspondent oftbe New York Hral says
it is understood that the CONSUMPTION bill shall
have passed the House. there will be can made for six
eight hundred thousand 1t is expected that the SOL
diers whose term of service is about expiring, will offer
themselves substitutes for the unwilling conscripts.
Gen. Toombs has resigned his Office Brigadier. =.
An immense Union meeting held at indianapolis on
the 26h ut Strong resolutions passedn favor of
vigorous prosecution of the war; and Lincoln endorsed
i'll tie most unqualified terms.
SPECIAL COURT IN OHAxGE.-The Hon. R. B. Gillian,
Judge of the Superior Courts, in accordance with
mission romhe Governor, under recent of Assembly
will hold Court Of Oyer and Tsrmner at Hllsborough,
the 9Th instant for the trial Of prisoners charged with
capital crimes We presume the negroes who murdered
Mr.. StrOwd and Mr.. Lockhart will be tried.
An official letter from the French Consul at Matamoras
dated I'd March, that the city oMexco has been ca
tured by the French army.
The Yicksburg Wig states upon the authority of gen.
tIeman directly Galveston that the Yankee war steam
B'Ook7n got aground outside the bar during norther
and Gen Maguder sent the Lane and another steamer and
| captured her.
Will. c. Smedes President of the Southern Mississippi
Railway died last week in the city of Jackson, Miss.
friend has hearty thanks Cor bottle of Scupper
nong" If ,he Progress will send up few of
sind he notices, will give him that will be good
| for his stomachs sake.
! HIGH PRlcE CoRX-The Danville Appeal says corr
sold that place recently at S27 per barrel 1t has
sold high $50 per BARREL in Stokes County, in tins
State. The price in Wake is about $50 in ordinary cur
rency and 81 in specie. The article will sell for SO pei
barrel by the first day Of Nav
The Editor of the Chattanooga Re5 is an nveteratt
punser. He puHShes his readers daily in this way. II,
/ no doubt regards this as a Pun-ic war
The Petersburg EapreSs compltus that the post com
misSary that place about imp all the extra su
pe6ne -four in that place. in the hands of mil and mer
chants. The order dir that but sI9 per barrel b
allowed while the mark price is S2S to S29. The FL
Press protests agains: the proceeding unjust uncon
stituonal rb;rary, and inquiinus" The shoe pnche
that paper, and it complains These impressments hav
been going on for months in this State and Virginia Thee
are likely to continue and grow verse