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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-31
THIRTY-FIRST.

ExAsPERATED. Some of the North Garolinian
newspapers are "pitching" vigorously into the
merchants Of Savannah for declining to take from
soldiers OF Cngmans brigade, North Carolina shin
plasters, which they know nothing about Do the
North Carolina merchants set good example by
taking strange money from all parts of the Confed
eracy ?-Sqrannah Republican.
"Strange money" "North- Carolina shinpas-
ters" Here is impudence FOR you. The "strange
money" and &" "shinplasters" so fiippantly alluded
to are nothing more nor less than North Carolina
Treasury Notes, for the redemption ofwhich all the
property of all the citizens Of the State is pledged
And vet they are dcnominated strange money "
and 20 shinplasters IN Savannah.
When Gen. Lee found the people Of Maryland
would not receive Confederate money for provisions,
he knew they were hostile to the flag under which
he was fighting, and marched his army back into
Virginia and If the people of Georgia and South
Carolina persist in their insults and continue to
fuse from soldiers the treasury notes of the State,
Governor Vance would be justified in marching
every North Carolina regiment out of those States.
Our people take the bank and treasury notes OF
Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia and even the
promises to pay of one Augusta Savings Bank, "
and of various Georgia Insurance Companies are
current here and we demand that treasury notes
be taken by the people of neighbOring States whose
citizens and property brave men are to detond.
Put this in our pipe Mr. Republican, anu smoke it.
Daily Progress.
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"Have we a State Government q,

Under this head the Greensborough Patriot asks
if the Justices of the Peace, who indispensable
in assessing property and raising revenue are to be
conscribed? Under our revenue law the services
of at least ten Justices in the smallest Counties and
of twenty to thirty in the largest will be required
on the district boards of valuator and to cOnscribe
these Justices, or any considerable number of them
will be to arrest the operations of our State govern
ment at the most vital point As the law stands,
we cannot raise revenue without the aid of Justices
and if we do not raise revenue the State govern
ment must stop and the State debt will be repudi-
ated The Patriot says
"If, as we conceive there is no law for conscri-
bing the Magistrates we call upon Gov. Vance to
put his reto upon it, Taking these Magistrates
away, in the midst of their work of assessment will
greatly derange the matter, and we enter our pro-
test against it ignoring all State authority and
totally without warrant of law"
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LenOir and 0nsloJV,


Anarmy correspondent Of the Charlotte Bulletin,
who writes from Camp Destitute" near KinstOn,
says:
The county of Lepoir is we'll known to your
readers as to the poverty of its soil and the charac
ter OF It's inhabitants. The county of OnsloW rs
equally as poor and is known only for its gouber or
or ground pea productveness. The inhabitants are
very penuriouS and of course their interest is gov
erned in that way They are on the side which
will pay the best. This is as a general thing of
course there are some honorable exceptions"
Tho BuLletiH's correspondent is mistaken, not on
ly as to the SOIL but as to the character of the in
habitants of the Counties referred 10, Lenoir and
Qnsow are famous as corn and pork raising Coun-
ties. Much of the soil is equal to any in the State
for corn and cotton The inhabitants, it is true, are
now poor, for>thcy have been stripped OF nearly
everything by the federal and Confederate armies;
but they are not more pcnurious than others, nor
is it true that they are "on the side which will
pay best" Hundreds of them have lost their ALL
and are now refugees and wanderers. We wish We
could say that they have met with no very penu-
rious " inhabitants in the interior of the State
If our earnest advice in this paper had been fol-
Lowell, and if our vote in the Convention could have
avaied, the Eastern Counties would have been pro-
tected, and Lenoir and 0nslow would have been
contributing at this time their large supplies of corn
prOvender and bacon for the sustenance of our
armies and people.
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For the Standard,

For the Standard.
Mr.. EDITOR Il begin to think with you that
the fate of the Southern Confederacy is trembling
in the scales. And hesitate not to say if we fail
in securing our independence, the failure will have
to be attributed to our Legislatures and not to the
want OF Vaor, patience endurance on the part of
the people. The idea Of funding hundreds of mil
ii1rs to commence bearing Z and per cent inter
est immediately, and levying and collecting an
nous tax both in the States and Confederacy, to
meet thls usurouS interest," and to absorb the
dundancy in the currency is not only fallacOus
out wicked in the extreme And predict that fu
ture events will prove the accuracy of this state
ment There are thousands Of our people who
never made less than they have in the last two
years, while there are thousands Of others now
living from hand to mouth, and who would rejoice
to know that they could or would procure bread
and water for themselves and little ones for the next
Twelve monthS-Ineat now being out of the qucS-
ton. And these persons have contributed in pro-
portion to their means, more perhaps than any 9TH
erS 10 carry on the present bloody war; And now,
alier all Their patriotism and Suflerings, they will
have TO pay such taxes as they none of their
predecessors have ever had to pay BEFORE and after
the last cent has been wrung from muitudeS Of
them, what will be the result? Will the revenue
thus collected do more than pay the salaries of all
the officers oil the Confederacy, and the per cent
interest on the 5000 000 900 worth of bonds that il
is said will soon be funded? 1t does seem TO NE
that more suicidal policy could not have been
pursued, than to make our public debt an interest
bearing debt, imnediatel tely-especally at the high
rate of interest Congress has allowed. This pro-
gramLle may suit the wealthy capitalists and spec
uators of the land but to all those who have all the
time been contributing of their substance to carry
on the war, and have patriotically refrained from
engaging in specializing they cannot and think
ought not to be required to give up all they possess
for the especial benefit of few of the more promi-
nent, but certainly not more patriotic and deserving
of their fellow-ctizens. What could have induced
Congress to proceed in the way they have, am
At loss to determine. Human nature can not en-
dure much greater burthens than they seem dis
posed to lay upon their constituents
ECHO.
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OBITUARY NOTICES,

Died. Mt the residence of II. A. Badham ESQ., in this
City on Friday last of cHngestive chill WILLIAM BADHlu
to some other TO justice to the character
of tie deceased
Died. in this City, Saturday last of scarlet fever
Mrs MARGARET STRANGE rec of the late Judge Strange
Died. at his residence in Wake County N c.. March lst
1868 private f. p Maroon, of company E. 6Sh regiment
aged about % years. He was piOus and a good
soldier. He furloughed home visit his loved enes
during which time he called by death Heleaves
fa her, mother brother and large circle of friends to
mourn their loss But they not those who have
no hope. w Z, s.
Died. the 10Th of March, in the Hospital al RALEIGH
of pneumonia, private G. j. BARBEE, company E. 6Sth
regiment aged about 81 years. He good and obe-
dent soldier, and well beloved by all who knew he
a native of Wake County, N. c. and leaves father
ard mother, brothers and mourn their loss but
they may rejoice at his DEATH for he has home in heaven
W. r. S.
Died in Granville County on the 18th inst N,xx1r A
months She child but the Saviour has trans
planted her to bloom forever in the garden Of the skies
Sleep sweet Mamie. in thy lone bed of rest
No Pnns can now reach thee nor SORROWS modest
MoLLIE
City papers please copy.
Died, in Rockingham County the 18th of February
JosEPn w. NEAL. Esq, in the SD year Of his age.
Although his illness protracted and painful he
1t with urttnde and gnatOn. He sustained and
cOmfOred amid all his suerngs by the precious truths
of the gospel of Christ. His life that of moral and
upright man. lie was kind husband devoted father
6fecfinnate brother, and a humane master Fcra num-
Der of years he filled the office Of Justice of the Peace and
two occasions he represented the County in
he State Legislature in both which capacities he dis
charged his duties with intelligence and fidelity.
In his death the county has lost good citizen and
lgOn friend He died in the communion OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, and his ED was peace.
90! for the death of those,
Who slumber in the Lord!
o be like theirs, my. last rep0se
Like theirs my last reward I'
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1t is worse than idle to talk about "appeals to
the patriotism" of planters Nothing less than law
will reach them. The mania for speculation and
money getting is abroad in the land, and has swal-
lowed up all other motives and considerations.
Hegister.
Is this true? Are our planters generally so des-
titutc of patriotism in this crisis as to require the
stern restraints of law to prevent them from pru-
ing such a course as will ruin their country? Are
they too "swaowed up in the vortex of gain p
lfso, then the cause is desperate. But we do not
believe it.
But what will the Yankees say when they see the
above in the Register? They will conclude that
even the great body of our planters and farmers
the bone and sinew of the land-have forgotten our
soldiers, forgotten the suffering poor forgotten their
country, and are determined to devote their labor
and their lands to cotton and tobacco no matter
what the consequences may be. Concluding thus,
they will take new courage and press US with their
armies at all points with more vigor than ever.
Therefore, if the Registers statement be true, it
ought not to have been made, for it will encourage
the enemy; but if false, then that paper has libecd
large, very useful, and honest class of our people
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VIcKsBURG.-The Richmond correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury says: at useless to disguise
the state Of things about Vicksburg The Yazoo
was filed with fine Mississippi steamers twenty-six
of which the Yankees claim to have captured, and
of these eighteen were burned We also had the
mate Of the Arkansas and other gunboats incomplete
in the YazoO. Mr.. Mallory was warned last fall of
all these facts, and told about the dangers of Yazoo
Pass. The pass was neglected and Fort Pemberton,
another Fort Henry, built If the Yankees pass
that they so easily within twelve miles of Vicks-
burg to another and stronger fort, which they can
attack above and below That carried, Vicksburg
is lost The place may not have been evacuated
though most of the troops have concentrated else
where and hence, perhaps, the Yankee movement
from Vicksburg"
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We notice good many conscripts, deserters, &c.
passing through our town the past three weeks on
their way back to camp, to take advantage of Gov
Vance's proclamatIon.-Na Mercury.
Glad to hear it. We hope every soldier will re-
turn at to his colOrs but let the Confederate
military authorities beware of Furnishing any soldier
who returns under Gov. Vance's proclamation. We
have heard rumors on the subject which we trust
are not true. 1t will not do to quibble and draw
nice distinctions when good faith is at stake Faith
must be kept at all hazards, especially with SOL
,iicrs. Go back, boys at Cnce. We know there
are but few of you who are not disposed to go, but
yon will regret it if you do not Now is the time,
if erer. Your country needs your services now
more than at any former period.
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For the Standard
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.

HEAD QUARrERs Co. H, 3lsT, REGT N. C. IT,
CAMP Near CHARLESTON, s. C., March 25, 1863.
meeting of the members of Company H. 3Ist reg n
c. T., was held to day TO manifest their esteem for the
memories ut our rends and oihersOdicrs prvates
MASSEY and JAMES p. FERRELL, of Wake County N. c.
who departed this le the former in the Hospital Will
mngon, n. c. on the 18th day of February 1863 of ty
phOd iever The latter in hospital Charleston c. Oh
the 18th day of March, 1885, after bef illness of typhoid
fever Sergt. Leonard Watson called to the chair
aud Serg J. r NOVEL; appointed secretary. On notion
committee of five appointed to draft resolutions
table to the Occasn consisting Of Corp W. D. Strick
land prvacs A j. Scarborough, Hutsanel Watkins A j.
Strickland and c. s. Williams.
The committee retired and in few minutes submitted
the following preamble and resolutions
WHEREAS. Ii has pleased Almighty God to take from
our esteemed friends and fellow soldiers, prvates A
Massey and P. Ferrel Of company H, 3st N. C, In
hntry therefore,
ResOSred That while we bow with humble submission
to the dispensaOn of righteous Providence that we
cannot but deeply lament the loss that both and the
cause serve have sustained.
RsoIeed, That we deeply sympahize with the relatives
and friends of the deceased in this their rreparabe loss
RtsoDed That a py of these resolutions be forwarded
to the Raleigh Standard with the request publish the
SERGT. LEONARD WATSON, Chm'n.
SERG'T. ]. R. NOVEL;, Scc'y.
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BoGUs BILL.-A friend in Rutherford County
has sent US what purports to be a one dollar bill,
issued by the awake County Manufacturing Com.
pany," and signed by j. C. Caldwell, Treasurer
There is no such company in existence. The bill
is spurious. Tue AShevie Neocs mentions shin
pasters of the denomination of twenty five cents in
circulation in the West purporting to haze been
issued by tie "W axe County Manufacturing Com
pany," and also shinplastc14 by the Cherokee
Manufacturing Company Look out for such is
Sues and you can get clue to the guilty parties
have them arrested
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ECHO.

A TRUE MAN-Thomas S. Edwards, of Haywood
county, made last year surplus OF 1000 bushels
of corn, for which he was offered So per bushel-
tie refused to take it, and is now selling it to the
families of soldiers at 20 cents buShel. Look at
him, reader Don't it do you good in the midst Of
world of extortioners and thieves to find one man
with soul in his body? We understand also that
Col Cathey of the same county is furnishing the
families of soldiers -four at So hundred, while
almost everybody else is asking $40. Well may
Haywood be proud Of such sons. May Heaven bless
them !-AshegHle Ners
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-IHPREssMENTs. We publish to-day the act of
Congress on the subject of impressments, which
has received the signature of the President and
is now the law of the land. All hnpressments
heretofore have been made without authority of
law. Let the people, whose property has thus been
unlawfully seized, report the guilty parties to the
Secretary Of War for punishment
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For the Standard.
JAMES ISLAND, (neGr Charlest0n.)I
March "a, 1868.


March "a, 1868.
Mr. HoLDEN:-Our thanks are due to you, as
well as to the Messrs. Hale of the ObserOer for
keeping up with US in our numerous changes of
location Our papers arrive with considerable reg
ularity. The boys say that Clngmans brigade has
to defend our coast from the north eastern part of
our own State to Savannah, Ga, and that whenever
the Yankees hear that on the way to meet
point This has certainly happened in several in
stances. Generally, these changes and moves"
are Objectionable but ,lO,o an order to leave, no
matter where We went, would be hailed with pleas
ure. Ny own love for South Carolina, as you may
be aware, was never very great, and since our So
iourn within her borders nothing has occurred to
change my feelings. Selfish, proud, exclusive, pro-
scrptive always, now she seems doubly so. North
Carolina soldiers are treated here if it con-
tlescenson on the part of her chivalry TO allow
them to come amongst her own sons of high de-
gree-to eat her poor beef, drink her "tadpole
water" and be insulted and cheated br her specu-
lating Jews hucksters and niggers." Your cor
respondent from the 6lSt handles them most prop
erlv, and hope he will not allow his trenchant pen
to remain idle. Let them be shown up, and our
people at home know what estimate is placed upon
our glorious old State, down here in this Palmetto
kingdom. There are men Of hightoied patriotism
and liberal and generous spirit heTe-such, for in
stance as Col Yeadon of the Courier, whose cheer
fu honest face and buoyant step is often met on
the streets as he hurries some mission OF benev-
olence or public Importance; but their influence is
ovefshadowed by the contracted, sectional, super
cIliouS spirit whicl'haS characterized the ma
jurity Of the PalHettOites.
Respectfully THIRTY-FIRST.
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We learn from the Raleigh Progress, that Captain
Alexander McRae, Cbetter known as Gen. McRae,) }
has been promoted to the rank of Major Of Artillery,
with the command of a battalion of three companies
of heavy artillery, now at the battaries on the Cape
Fear River. This appears to US to be promotion
eminently deserved Wilmington Journal
We concur with the Journal Ifpatriotism could
be rewarded by Office, Major McRae deserves to be
full General. Gray stricken with years, with
failing sight he is still in the trenches, ready to do
and die for his country.
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GALLANT CoNDUCf.-A correspondent of the Pro
gress compliments in high terms Capt. John u
Whitford for his gallant conduct in the recent at
tack by Gen. Pettigrew on Fort Darlington; and
correspondent Of the Wilmington Journal says that
Major Henry Mutt, of the 5Oth N. G. Troops,
of Wilmington, distinguished himself by his cool
ness and daring in the recent fight at Deep Gully.
Mutt is but sixteen years of age.
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OUR NEW TERMS.

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FoND OF RoNE-PlacH bone in the earth near
the root Of grape and the vine will send out q
leadng root directly 10 the bone In its passage it
will make no flores; but when it reaches the bone,
the root will entirely cover it with the most delicate
bres, like lace, each seeking pore of the bone.
On this bone the vine will continue to feed as long
as nutriment remains to be exhausted.
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GEORGIA WITH NORTH -CARoLINA.-Gov. Brown,
in his recent message to the Legislature of Georgia
in special session, opposes the endorsement Of the
bonds of the Confederate States by Georgia, cal
cuated to imp$r the confidence of capitalists and
iniure the credit of the State Mt home and abroad.
He says it could do the COnfederacy no good. We
are glad to find the great State of Georgia in this,
as in other respects, standing side by side with
North. Carolina
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GARGLE FOR SORE THROAT, DIPTHERIA OR SCARLET
FEYER.-Mix in a common size cup of fresh milk,
two teaspoonfus of puverized charcoal and zen
drops of spirits of turpentne. Soften the charcoal
with few drops of milk before putting into the
cup. Gargle frequently, according to the violence
OF the symptoms -FL0ridian.
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MARRFD.

In Davidson, n c., on the oath nst bv Samuel Cecil
Esq the Rev SAMUEL A. CECIL to NANCY KENNEDY at
me mouse OF Chas L. Cecil Also, the same dav by
samuel Cecil, ESQ., THOMAS S. CECIL 70 NANCY NJ CONNER
at the house of Olive Newton. '
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CAMP HoLMEs.-We learn that Col Mallett, hav.
ing sufficiently recovered from his wound received
In the battle of Kinston, has resumed his place as
commandant of the camp of conscrIpts near. this
City. Col. August who has occupied the place
during Col Malletts temporary absence, retres with
the respect and good wishes of people generally
The Clerk of the County Court of Caldwell writes
US that there forty -four magistrates in his Coun-
Y, and that he lacks twenty yeigbt copies of the
revenue law to supply them. The revenue law, as
will be seen by its 12lst section, was not printed
10r the magistrates, but for the sherif clerks as
SCISSORS, tax-listers aud members of Assembly.
Copies have been sent to these officers in accord
aAce with law. The magistrates will receive the
revenue Law in the acts Of Assembly, now in course
OF publication
70
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$50 REWARD.
Headquarters, 39th y. C. Vols.
EAMP. NEAR SuPLEYYILLE Tenn

Headquarters, 39th y. C.. VoIs.,l
CAMP SHELTYTILLE, Tenn,
Ndrch 2rt4. 1868.
TGNHE ABOVE REV ARD WILL BE PAID TO ANY
q person who will arrest ard bring into the camp OF
this regiment JAMES C. ABBY private in company G, Of
this regiment SIS for his confinement IN any jail in
western North Carolina. in Jail at Knoxville Tenn 1t
is probable thst said Axby has Joined Capt. Whakers
company of Thomas Legion, at Coco Greek, East
Tennessee near the North Carolina line.
Bv order OF Lieut. Col. F. A. REYNoLns, Commanding
Regiment: JAS: ID. HARDEN, AdJt
Nurch 81, 1873. l4-w4t.
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IMPORTANT SALE.

wwrUL, BE SOLD AT TOwLES' AUCTION ROOM
w on Wednesday. lst day Of April at 1919 O'Clock.
One fine DIo,-ied Mare.
One nice Feather Bed bols:cr and pillows.
3 boxes by 10 Glass
] lot new Sash.
! lot Paint Brushes.
! cask empty Bottles.
pair imported Gotten Cards
81 sacks of newly ground pcal.
12 sacks Coast Salt, if to Baad.
Also Il large quantity of damaged Commssary Stores,
consisting of Flour, Rice, C.ackcrs &c, &c.
JAMES NJ. T0WLES, Auc.
March 80, 1868. q
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.

ENSCAPED FROM NE AT HENDERSON, ON FRI
1II' day night last, negro named DICK. He had
deserers gray sack coat and dark brown hOmespun
pantaloons He quite dark with whiskers from ear to
ear extending under his chin He is slow spoken Dick
was purchased from j. H. Marsh, of Bertie and may be
aiming get TO BERTHE to the Yankees. Twill give one
hundred dollars reward for the apprehension and cOnne
ment Of Dick that get him again. Any person who
nav arrest Dick will please write John Pool ESQ., az
Coierain, Rertie and inform him of the fact.
CAPT. 7. p. GREGORY.
March 81, 1868. 27-4tpd.