Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-01-27
GENERAL ITEMS.

The time will probably come when good printing paper
will be made from the roots of the cotton plant and wrap
ping paper from the stalks.
Double the upper leather in the toes of your chdrens
Shoes and will take them twc long stump them
out as if left single.
LIQUID BLAcKISG.-Mix a quarter Of pound of ivory
black, six gs of vinegar, table spoonful of sweet OIL
and two large spoonuls of molasses stir the whole we'll
together, aSd it will then be fit for use.
CorroS PURCHASED BIZ GovERNxESr-The total amount
of cotton purchased by the government in the State of
ASslsssppl reaches about hundred thousand bales
and much more is in negotiation We have heard of none
being purchased in North Carolina.
Nine thousand seven hundred and sixy-seven persons
were arrested in Baltimore by the police during the year
1867.
Lyman Beecher father of tie notorious Harriet Beecher
Stowe, died in Brooklyn, New York, on the 10TH
In matters of conscience the first thoughts are best; in
matters Ofprudence the last.
The term of service fifty Yankee regiments two years
men, will expire by the LIST of June
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has sustained the writ
of hGbGs corpus in the of the Oaukee rioters arrested
for forciby resisting the draft.
dispatch from Gen. Heth to Gov Vance, commanding
at Knoxville Tenn, says that portion of troops at
tackled the tories at LAUREL Madison county, in this
State killed l3 and captured 90 Their forces are said to
have been exagger ated-
SALE STocK-Nue shares of stock in North Carolina
Railroad Company sold in this city at SO with div-
dend on, netting So. Ten shares in W. &W. R. r. Co.,
brought par.
Sweet potatoes selling the Petersburg market at
IS per bushe.
At recent sale of stocks in Petersburg North Carolina
six per cents brought l3l.
Nineteen hundred hogs purchased for the Confederate
government in NorthCarolna driven through Pc
ersburg the 23d They to be slaughtered in Rich
mond We glad to hear this as we learn that the "a
tons of our soldiers in Virginia have recently been re-
duced.
The Columbia Is c. Guardian contains IN advertise
ment for sac hundred deserters from Evans brigade at
Kinston. The crime of deserton is increasing alarm
ing extent.
The Governor of Kentucky has resented the wrong and
the insult of Lincons emancipation proclamation by ad-
vising the Legislature of hse State to protest against
it. Alas, Kentucky. ..
DEsERTER SHor-At Kinstou on the 14th instant pri-
vae Michael Bry mt Co. D, SD Regt N Troops (csv
ary shot for desertun in accordance with the SEN
tence of general court-msrtisl.
The N Y Herald says that the siege of vcksburg by
no means abandoned The Yankees obliged to LET
CO. but they say they will take better hold next time.
The Richmond Dispatch urging an increase ofthe Cav
airy in the Confederate army. We have doubt it is
needed much in some portions of the service.
Ex-Governor William D. Moseey the first Governor of
the State of Florida died at Palatka the 4th inst Gov.
N. was native Of LenOir County, North.Carolins.
The Washington Republican states authortatively that
forty vessels have recently left British ports to the
blockade.