Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-06-02
The Roll Of Honor.


The visits of angels in olden time to the denzens
of earth were few and far between;" and 50 Jsw
and 50 far bstDeen are the aecessions we receive to
our "roli of honor"
A friend writing from Pleasant Retreat, Mellow
ell County, informs US that
"Fhomas Hemphill Jr., and Thomas Y. Green;
lee, of Mcdowell county, N. c., have persisted IN
selling corn at one dollar per bushe and wheat at
one dollar per bushel, and every thing else in the
same proportion, Notwithstanding the high prices
demanded by others; they have moreover made it
their business to render all possible assistance to
soldiers and their families during the winter
giving corn, &c. in short they make it their con-
stant aim to do all they can for the families of SOL
diers and to keep down extortion."
Another correspondent furnishes three names
from Montgomery County, for inscription on the
roll of honor. He says:
"Mr. N Bingham, one Of my neighbors, is sell
ling his entire lot of bacon at forty cents per pound
to soldiers families refusing higher prices from
spectators. Mr. B. has no sons of his own, but
has three apprentices who are all in the SERVICE
whom he keeps well clothed, besides helping other
poor people to clothe their relatives in the army"
Mr.. w. N. Thayer, of the same County, sells
at So per bushel, when he could easily get S.
Mr.. Burney, who owns mill on Uwharie River,
in Randolph county, sells corn at 81 per bushel and
-four at five cents per pound Such men, says our
correspondent, will not be forgotten at the close
of the war;
We clip the following from the Milton Chronicle:
"INScRIBE HIS NAME ON THE Roll OF HoEoR-We
understand that Richard |. Smith, Esq, of this
county, has never sold -four, corn and bacon higher
than the prices these things commanded before the
war. o. for few more such men IN this Southern
Confederacyl 1t is pleasant now and then, to find
a a nlo fha rail- ,nf honor he
instances however, are too few and far between.
At least seven tenths Of men who ought to be will
ling to "diVide the last pea in the dish" seem to
nothing for country, but leaving it to the care
and protection of Others they are scufing to make
fortunes; and hoglike, the moIe they get the more
they want"
We learn that Wilfred Turner, who owns the
Turnersburg Factory, in Iredel County, has dis
tributed two thousand dollars worth of sbeetinGs
and yarns gratis to the INDECENT families of soldiers
in Iredell.
We learn also that Dr. j. T. Leach, Of Johnston
County, has sold, and is now selling what corn he
spare to the families of soldiers at one dollar
per bushe and meat at correspondingly low prices.
DR.. L has been careful and active in saving from
spectators and others all the he could in his
neghborhood, for the benefit of soldiers families.
Wesley Jones, Esq, of Wake County, has also
sold his at low prices to the families of soldiers
and others in need in his neighborhood. He has
also supplied the needy who have applied to him
from Harnett and Chatham Counties.
Gen. Alney Burgn, at Old Fort, Mcdowell Coun-
ty, is selling at dollar per busheL and ba-
con at twelve and half cents per pound to the fam
lies of soldiers.
Let these men, and all men and women who have
done likewise, be remembered and honored. And
now for the
Roll of Dishouor.
A soldier writes us as follows from Goldsborough:
Mr.. HOLDEN Please publish the following: A
young soldier, a member Of the 46Ih regiment n.
G. troops, an only son of widowed mother, pur-
chased two pounds extract of logwood in, Charles
ton, s. c., which he desired to send home. Soon
after his regiment left Charleston for Wilmington,
and on arriving at that place he met with an old
neighbor who volunteered to convey the small pack
age home to Randolph County. How do you sup.
pose the soldier boy must have felt when he learned
the fact that his mother had been charged three
dollars for the conveyance Of such small package
so short distance, by man who has been grow
ing rich since the war commenced? The same man
has four ncphews who are liable to conscription,
but they have all shrked out Of going to the war.
We have a responsible name for the above. The
creature in human form who charged the widowed
mother of the soldier boy for caryngthe package to
her. ought to be put in the ranks, and placed in the
forefront of the hottest battle but for the fact tina:
his presence under arms would be disgrace to the
flag.