Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-12-18


eraey. Already bonds of SO q D. to the amount
OF $50 900, are in preparation, an win be eagerly
sought for as q safe investment for Warren is as
wealthy as it is public spirited aud patriotic. The
committee to supernend the issuing of the relief to
soldiers families have been unremitting in their
exc enSr'Gns ana the names of Messrs Yancey Wilcox
. ana Montgomery will be hereafter regarded with
nonor and gratitude. We understand j. G. Yancey,
Esq has just purchased $4,000 lbs of aork at one
dollar per pound for the county distribution, fact
winch ought to be recorded honorable to all par
ues IN the tranSaction-one for the provdent fore
i.nOught the Others for selling at price much be-
: 10" market rates elsewhere. Mr. Yancey's untirng
exertions for soldiers families deserve particular
mention, as he has devoted himself to that patriotic
! WORK since the commencement of the war; and has
oeen cordially seconded by his brother commission
ers All honor 10 such citizens and asoto the peo-
PIE VINO give them the means to soften the horrors
| OF war, which fall so heavily upon the families of
!; our brave and devoted soldiers
! TIE PRICE OF GoLD-A WIDE DIFFERENCE
petersburg Regtster quotes gold at $50 for l. Sill
yer at Sl6 to Sl9 The Richmond ENQUIRER of YES
terday, quotes gold at $1 so to $12 90 Silver 80
on to $40 90. Here is opportunity for spec
! day.
We know nothing of the source whence the Rich.
] mond Enquirer derives fits information about the
price OF gold and silver. Our information as to the
value OF these articles in this market is derived from
the Well'known firm, the name Of which always &C.
I companies the reports, which revised twice
week on the days preceding their publication. In
these reports, we have the most perfect confidence
| else they would not appear in this paper
Inc price of gold IN Raleigh, we learn, from one
oil the papers published there is twenty-five for
Blockade running is great apprecator of gold and
silver over what is sneeringy and most unpatrioti
cally called Confederate Fodder" 1t must be the
I opinion of every sane man who loves his country,
/ and who doeSntH-as some deSign-intend to
away from it and leave it in its strait that if Con-
tcderate cTedit is not sustained man in the Con-
tederacy, we care not how much Bank stocks State
stocks, State money lands and negroes he may fancy
himself to be WORTH is worth enough to pay his
funeral expenses, no matter how economical may be
| the mode Of his burial. But why waste breath on
I this topic? "lts like singing psalms to dead
!. horse"
The $4,000 appropriated by the wealthy County
OF Warren at the rate of twenty for one is cquiva
lent to So 750; and the billion proposed he fund
ed by the Confederate government divided in like
manner by twenty, gives quotient $50, 900, ,OOO
The extent to which the Warren appropriation will
afford relief at the present prices of corn and pork
admits of easy computation. The $4,000 pounds
of-pork already purchased on terms $50 honorable
to all parties" cost $50 OOO 500 barrels of corn at
$50 per barrel, will amount to $25 900 more, and
these two items exhaust the appropriation.
| There will be difficulty in any of the Counties
in providing for the payment of these appro:
prations- In many cases, the magistrates who make
! them will be found ready, able and more than will
ling to advance the requisite amount Of Confederate
! money, and receive County bonds payable thirty
years hence with interest at the rate of six per cent
| The same patriotic" spirit which prompts this
forts to sustain Confederate credit" and thus
secure six per cent annually in gold and silver
their equivalent, investment, the principal of
which is at present Of less value by one per cent.
than the annual interest Vendors of pork at dol
lar per pound and of corn at ten dollars per buShel
will oe found sufficiently patriotic to dispose of
plus Confederate notes on the same terms. If they
hesitate merchants manufacturers spectators, and
blockade runners stand ready to take their places.
Seyenty-five thousand dollars for the relief of the
families of our gallant sold ers, expended BY aslnge
County, looks well on paper. But do not analyze
the statement too carefully, lest you dissolve the
charm The soldier who has served two years at
! $ll per month has been taxed by the depreciation
of the currency quite one half the aggregate amount
of his pay and he, in common with the great body
of the tax payers is to be taxed hereafter twenty
times the value Of these County and Confederate ap-
preparations and investments for the benefit Of the
! fortunate few, who increased their estates while he
perlIed his life Carry out the funding sys-
| tenn to the extent indicated by the signs of
! the tines and we will soon be taxed to an extent
to which the history of civilization affords paral
J lei. Will Congress, with childish improvidence,
! barter an estate in expectancy for sugar plum in
/ hand? We shall see The $500 000 900 of Con-
federate notes to be retired by the proposed loan
! Of Mr. Memmnger, not mere than equal in value
at present S25 O00 000 in cola and yet the inter-
est on the proposed billion of Confederate bonds,
/ including the amount thus retired and bonds
now in existence to be converted into the loan
will be $50 0OO 600 in coin How is this coin to be
raised? If raised at ALL it will be done by selling
out nineteen twentiethS Of Our people. The twen-
tieth man, more lucky than the rest because he has
or can procure the coin the coupons, will become
the owner of the property thus sold for taxes. The
disease is desperate, but the remedy is worse than
the disease If the patient must die, let his death
! be as easy as possible. Do not increase his con-
! Sulsons by violent, unavailing remedies.
We commend the following, from the Richmond
Examiner, to the Fayetteville Observer and Others
VINO are constantly denouncing what they are
pleased to call "croakers" In the language of the
Examiner, an original secession paper, there are