Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-05-05
GENERAL ITEMS.

10 hear that but few comparatively Of the planters
wen are disposed to or the restriction Of the culture
aeoo Toe present sessnn That paper says the great
"i ae planters going in for large crop of the
| weed" Sorry to hear it,
pASp OF The "6rH-Thc we'll known band of the Goth
regiment was in the City Saturday on its way to tho
ogade the members having been on furouob to their
" os'er anu on Saturday hight they entertained
ige auu'enee III Inc Town Hall with some excellent
music The clever wizard, Gus Rich, member of, the
tand, exhibited some of his best sleghtof.hand
The detective police in Richmond, Va, have srras,ed
James Sexton, Thomas Ksrr and e. F. WyviIe accused
OF forging Treasury drafts to large amohnt Tim OBri-
en- was caught but afterwards effected his escape and
| still at large.
okra having been recommended as substitute for co
lee an exchange says that it is to be used cautiously
the effect on the system is known II is said to have
produced partial blindness
Edward VII will be the name title and style of the
Pnnce OF Wales when be ascends the British throne.
Inc Florida planters are plowng up hundreds of
OF cotton, and planting We hope their example
may be followed in other States
l. St. Ghrysostom,in in his Thoughts on Prayer" wrote
this sentence: The potency prayer has subdued the
strength of fire. it has brdled the rage of lions busbed
anarchy to rest exugushed wars appessed the element
expelled demons burst the chains of DEATH and expanded
the gates of Heaven -
Treasury notes to the amount of s72S 900 have been
funded in eight per cent Confederate bonds at Green's
boro in this State Large have been thus fund
ed throughout the Coafederacy.
That fqite~s endsavor" as the boz said when
he went nta orchard to STEAL and caught licking
The monetary camp life in the army of Middle Ten
is relieved by sham battles and tbeatrcals Sol
dirrs must do something when not fighting. Rational
amusements keep them out of mischief We are glad that
our commanders are learning this.
Many persons do understand the cause Of the high
prices which the s5o0O GO bonds command as compared
with those of the $i0OOOO0 oan The export duties on
cotton cannot be paid in Confederate notes. as any one
may see BY the conditions their face They must be
paid in gold the coupons of these sl5OOOO0O
bonds These latter therefore sought after by block
ade runners eagerly specie and prices have up
accordingly.
capacity to do good not only gives title it, but also
makes the doing of it duty This sentence says Cotton
Mather, should be preserved in letters of gold.
When sailed the Yankee iron-clads
Proud Sumter's walls to level,
Alas although whipped them off
From redoubted Maak0f,
Poor Charleston "caWgkL the deUilP'
The provost officers Rhode Island have begun to cut
the army buttons from citizens COATS in pursuance of
recent order that prohibits any citizen from wearing
United States uniform, matter how he came by it,
whether by purchase or otherwise.
The wheat crop throughout The South is promising.
The Exemption Act.
The following is a copy Of the act amendatory Of
the exemption Act" of last session, as passed by
Congress at Richmond:
To repeal certain clauses of an act entitled an act
to exempt certain persons from military service
etc apprOyed lth October 1892
l. Tile Congress of The Confederate States Of
America do enact, That so much of the act ap-
proved October 11th, 1862, as exenpts from mill
tary service >"one person, either agent, owner,
or overseer, each plantation on which one white
person is required to be kept by the laws or ordi-
nances of any State, and on which there is white
male adult not liable to military service, and in
States having no such law, one person, as agent,
owner, overseer, each plantation Of twenty
negroes and on which there is no white male adult
not liable to military service" and also the follow
ing clause of said act, to wit: land, Furthermore,
for additional police for every twenty negroes on
two more plantations, within five miles of each
other, and each having less than twenty negroes;
and on which there is white male adult not liable
To military duty, person, being the oldest of
the owners ovepseers such plantations be
and are hereby repealed
2. For the police and management of slaves there
shall be exempted one person on each farm or
plantation, the sole property of minor person
of unSound mind te1ne SOLE person absent
from home in the military naval service of the
Confederacy, on which there are twenty or more
slaves; proridod tho person SO exempted was
employed and acting as an overseer previous to the
18th April, 1863, and there is no white male adult
on said farm plantation who is not liable to mil
itary duty which fact shall be verified by the afida
Wits of said person and two respectable citizens and
shall be Gled with the enrolling officer; and proci-
3ed the owner OF such farm or plantation his agent
legal representative, shall make affidavit and de-
liver the TO the enrolling officer that after dill
gent effort be procured for such farm
or plantation mt liable to military duty; proCtded
FURTHER that This clause shall not extend to any
farm Jr plantation o- which the negroes have been
u'.vci ry ,;l,.i.n .r'i any other farE, planta-
ton -in-- t,ie n lay Of October, 1867 pr0Uided
j,,rfhtT '.,a' - eyurC person exempted as afore-
sal ami .~.. ija f.y ! Of such exemption, there
shall hc ,.:u a,.,.,r In:n the public treasury by
the owners of such slaves, the sum of five hundred
dollars.
g. Such other persons shall be exempted as the
President shall be satisfied ought to be exempted,
in districts of country deprived of white or slave
labor indispensable to the production of grain or
provisions necessary for the support of the popua
ton remaining at home, and also on account Of JUS
tce equity and necessity.
4 In addition to the State officers exempted by
the act of October 11th 1862, there SHALL also, be
exempted all State officers whom the Governor of
any State may-claim to have exempted for the due
administration of the government and laws thereof
but this exemption shall not continue in any State
after the adjournment of the next regular ses-
sion of its Legislature unless such Legislature shall
by law exempt them from military duty in the Pro-
yisioual Army of the Confederate States
SURPLUS PROVISIONS. ~.-.
hANE OF THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE