Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-06-26

On Monday, between Messy Greek and Norris
town, forty two miles east o. Knoxville they were
confronted, in front and rear, by the commands of
Generals Jackson and Pegram and Colonel Scott
1t is rumored and believed that we took all their
artillery and dispersed their whole force-our cav
airy pursuing and capturing prisoners.
In the fight of Saturday, our loss was six killed
and nine wounded The Yankees lost twenty-one
killed and wounded. No injury was done to pro-
perty here.
The appointments just made of State Directorsin
the different R. R. Companies of this State show
that the powers that be have determined to make
war of ruthless prescription on all who will not
shout for conservatism" and swear by the Stand
ard ON all who disposed to stand by the Con-
federate Administration and resist those who would
embarrass it. Gov. Vance has repudiated the pro-
.miseS made in his inaugural address, and is now
fully in the hands of those who have done so much
to detract from the renown that North Carolina has
won in this war. He will live to see the day when
he will bitterly repent his course. With one or two
exceptions, these R. r. Directors are all new men,
without any experience whatever in railroad mat
ters.-RegiSter.
So far as the North Carolina Railroad is con-
cerned, Gov. Vance has fed his political opponents
from the same spoon from which they had fed his
friends. He found one moderate Conservative, Mr..
Gorrell, Director, and he has appointed one mod
crate Destructive, Mr. Everett All the others were
DestructveS, as all the others are now Conserva-
tives This is commencing the chalice of proscrip-
ton to your own lips, Mr.. Register. If the con-
tents are bitter, so the contents of your cup
bitter to the Conservatives. You commenced pro-
scription zoe retaliate and do ourselves justice,
and then you complain. Your course, and the
course Of those for whom you speak, proves that
my lberality which Gov. Vance might have shown
would not have been appreciated If he had be-
slowed one,half the Directorships in the Road on
Destructives, they would have complained at not
getting all Of them.
Gov. Vance found two Conservative Directors in
the Atlantic Road, and he has appointed three De-
structIves. Is there any ruthless prescription "
in that?
He found three Destructive Directors in the Raj
egh and Castor Road, and he has appointed three
Conservatives in their places; and yet he is'cen-
sured by the Register for doing just what the Reg
isters party itself did. "Thou hypocrte, first cast
out the beam out of thine own eye: and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brothers eye"
In the Western N. G. Road the Governor has ap-
pointed several Destructives, and among them W.
W. Avery and n. W. Woodfn, who are bitter
enough politically after that order of public men to
answer for fifty ordinary Destructives.
And yet after all this liberality, he is charged
with RUTHLESS prescription" and with having re-
pudiated his inaugural address Surely his situa-
ton is not desirable one Following the dictates
of his own honest Judgment after dgent inquiry
and consideration, he appoints number of Direc-
fOr of rit nf who
are opposed to him in politics; and for this he in
ours the complaints of friends in certain quarters,
and generally the censures of his opponents. The
Governor has no doubt done the best he could, un-
der the circumstances, and the people will sustain
him.
The Register says Gov. Vance is "now fully in
the hands of those who have done so much to de-
tract from the renown that North Carolina has won
in this war" Our reply is that but for those with
whom Gov. Vance is associated politically, the Con-
federate flag would long since have trailed IN the
dust. The old Union men, as general rule, have
fought the battles, while the original secessonists
have remained at home to grow rich at the expense
of suffering people. North Carolina is indebted
for but little of her to the corrupt and cow
ardly set for whom the Register speaks. They had
the wickedness to get the people into this war; ana
then they had the meanness to get out of it. or keep
out of it themselves. Every neighborhood can bear
testimony to this truth. Ii the "renown" of North
Carolina were in the hands of the Register and those
for whom it speaks the pure gold of the old States
character would soon become dim. Freedom of
Speech of the press, and even of the pulpit would
soon cease; the common soldier and the common
people, as they are called by the oligarchs, would
soon have no rights; and one chain of darkness,
fastened by despots and their minions, would bind
US all. But thank God, we still have some measure
of freedom,-Zebulon B. Vance is still Governor,
and our Legislature is Conservative by large ma
jOrity. Our neighbor may uJulate, but it will do
him no good. The "renown" of the State is SAFE
and, what is much more important in his eyes,
the offices and patronage have finally passed from
him and his friends This is what troubles our
neghbor. He UluIates over it mournfully and long,
out the winds mock him with their echoes, and the
reply Is, the "renown " of the State is where the
people have placed 1t, in the hands of Vance
and the Conservatives. They will cOnserue not de-
stroy that renown.
But the new Directors, 1t seems with one or two
exceptions, nave mad no experience in Railroad mat
ters This is not so. We have examined the list
carefully, and we can say with strict truth that on
no former occasion have men been appointed who
possessed more practical talent or more experience
in Railroad affairs. We know them all, and we are
satisfied of the truth of what we say. The appoint
ments so far as fitness and qualifications are con-
cerned, are certainly excellent.
We think it probable, from what we have heard