Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-11

has been published It deplores the suferings that
have been occasioned BY the Cotton famine, but
rejoices that efforts to create sympathy for the se
cessonists had failed in England 1t eulogises the
uttersnces of the Manchester meeting as sublimely
heroic and expresses an earnest desire for perpetual
peace between the two nations. u - ..sif.a
= The sales of Cotton in Liverpool for the week
amounted to e. 600 bales. the market closing ct Q
decline of Id. Breadstuffs were dull 80
Governor Vance, as far as he has shown himself
since his Inauguration has proved to be irst-rate
Governor sEven those who denounced him as
totally unfit for the place-said he was only jester
and clever crossroads politician, without the ability
and the dignity betting the high Office his friends
sought to confer on him--and worked and voted
against him, have since come out in his favor, and
heaped praises upon him without measure, He is
therefore admitted by all to be Governor eminenty
worthy of the high position which he so worthIS
fills. And now, who are entitled to the credit Of
having discovered the fitness of shis. excellent cit
zen for the Office of Governor, and to having called
him to fill itP 1t was not party-nelther old demo-
cratic nor old whig. Who was it then? 1t was
the act of the unbridled, unshacklcd People, who,
in the exercise of their good sense rose above party
and by an unheard of majority put the right man
in the right place. Governor Vance is not there
fore, under the slightest obligation to any man or
party for his position. The people-the People
Peoph-without regard to party, were guided, nnder
the providence of mercfut God, to select him. and
to them alone is he responsible His position is the
proudest, most creditsble of any who has filled bis
chair within the last fifty years. His predecessors,
for = term of years beyond the memory of those
who live and vote now, were more or less indebted
to party fo- their elevation; and nine times out of
ten they were partizan Governors. But here is
man who from his high position may curl the lip Of
scorn and contempt at the miserable little dogs of
party that yelp and whine around him. He has
higher nobler grander mission than to listen either
to their hypocrtical and designing Establishments,
or to regard their petty malice. May he have the
wisdom and tl,c grace of Heaven enabling him to
act his part like faithful public servant unto the
end-Salis5ury Waterman.
ALARNNe.-From the Raleigh State Journal we
copy the following sentences from o long editorial
article:
"7Ae North Carolina Treasury turned into
Brokers' Shop.-Last week the Public Treasurer,
Mr.. Jonathan Worth, was engaged in peddling N.
Z. Treasury notes at premium Of five per cent for
Confederate currency! by what authority is this
done?. Who authorized this petty peddling trans
action with the States funds? What does it meant
What the Public Treasurer of the State of North
Carolina engaged in deliberate, systematic scheme
of deprecating Confederate currency and at q
time when every effort Of the Government and Of
every patriot is directed to the means of bringing
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standard of value.
ave have no hesitation in denouncing It ss 4
dsgracefu act and as one calculated to bring shame
upon the State and greater distress upon the suffer.
ing people 1t IS small business that it will be
looked upon by our sister States with loathng and
contempt" .
This explosion Of cirtuous indignation will GER
tainly arouse the Richmond Enquirer, if not the
people Of North Carolina. What 1.-The Public Treas.
urer a. engaged in peddlingr' What sort ola wsg-
on did he have? . regular Yankee t;n.peddler's
wagon' And what did he carry in it besides Trea-
sury notes Did he realize as handsome profit
on the rest Of his notions" as on the Treasury
notes Did he pay the regular peddler's tax ? The
State Journal owes to its readers Of the new par
ty Of members Of the Legislature and others to ex.
pose this whole business Of pcddling
It is true that Mr.. Courts sold his State bonds
last year at premium Of per cent; but he didn't
"peddls" them. He WAS above that He sent
them to . broker in Richmond who did the peddling
and sent Mr. Courts the profits after deducting the
triing sum of es6 IS for doing the disgraeefu
act"'
OF course the reader sees through this transpa-
rent huinbug MIR. Courts has been censured for
not selling at premium all las he did . party of
the State obligations issued last year. To justify
Mr.. Courtss policy, by which the State failed to
make upwards Of 100000 which brokers did make
it is thought expedent to raise hue aud cry against
Mr. Worth, who is very sensibly engaged in getting
such premium as the States obligations are worth
in the market He cannot make $500, 900 for the
Safe in that way, for he is not authorized to issue
SO many millions as Mr.. Courts did but he will
make for the Treasury some $4,000 to $1O0,00
BY what authority is this done I" asks the
Journal We think we have clearly shown the
authority in another article to-day As to to "de-
preciating the Confederate currency" let the Jour-
nal assail Mr.. Courts, who with great good sense
set Mr.. Worth the example In that, only he confined
his operations to about 400 900 for which he got
premium of $4,000, and then improperly gave
away at par to brokers and others upwards of g.
100000 more, instead of "peddlng" that too at a
further profit TO the State Of upwards of $780, 900.
Mr.. Courts deprecated the Confederate currency"
by selling his issues in Richmond as high as 6 per
cent, taking pay in Confederate notes
Oil humbugl humbug Fay. Observer.
CoNNRcrIcUr.-Mr. Thomas H. Seymour. the
Democratic candidate for Governor Of Connecticut.
concluded speech delivered in the City Hail at
Hartford, on the 9th of February, as follows;
These popular uprising1tare not merely special
in their character but broad and general as the mi
versal air, and sweep with the wings of an arch
angel the vast horizon Of maladministration and of
horrible hattie fields The trne man n;nrr ,e a.: