Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-07-26


at the Post Office ct Barclayvile Of two packages
of AN. @. Standard Extra, Raleigh, N. o., July
IL, 1884" each package containing i've copies
thereof each copy containing an address TO Mr.
Holden's Fellow. Citizens" and 40 Tickets Tor W.
W. Holden for Governor. The packages were ad-
dressed in the fair hand writing Of some one about
tte Standard office, to "John Deane Barclayville,
N c." and "David Tucker, Barclayville, N. o."
both free nulattoes, and one of them q minor at
thatl On the packages the postage was paid 30
that Mr.. Holden is minus 10 Circulars, 400 Holden
Tickets, and 10 cents in cash. Rather an unpront'
able investment We have received two letters
from gentlemen at Farclayvile, enclosing the COW
ers Of the packages aud copies Of the Extra One
of these letters says that Mr.. Holden will have 70
come and read his Extra to his " "colored breth'
rem, as they cannot read. But he don't think Inc
accommodations in that section would be very
agreeable to Mr.. Holden Fayetteville OoserVsr.
The above is from the Observer of Thursday eve
ming last, received here on Friday morning. In
our paper dated Wednesday, but printed and start
ed to Fayetteville on Tuesday, we exposed this
hoax, and the Editors of the Observer must have
seen exposure Of it before their paper of Thurs
day went to press. Yet they make no allusion to
the exposure, but attempt TO produce the impress
sion that we are engaged in q correspondence with
free negroes.
A week or two since we received letter from
Barclayvie containing $s:65, as subscription for
four persons to the Standard. They professed to
be warm friends Of ours. We supposed, of course,
that the letter from white persons and genuine
in its character, and accordingly sent them the
Standard with some tickets. We soon learned,
however, that the names of the four persons sent
were those of free negroes, and that we had been
imposed upon by some mean white person or per.
sons. Fortunately we had preserved the letter.
We have placed it in the hands of friend, and if
the author of it can be traced and discovered by
the handwriting, we intend to hold him up in his
true colors to our readers.
A friend writing US from Averasborough under
date of July goth, says:
"I wish to inform you of some Of the tricks of
the friends of Gov. Vance in this quarter. l am
informed there was a gathering on last Friday at
j A. Johnson's, and that John Green, ESQ.,, went
there from BarclayVille with two bundles, one
marked to Dave Tucker, free negro, containing
one Of yonr StGndards and some tickets for you,
and the other was marked to John Dean, another
free boy. also learned that the reception of
these bundles was to be magnihed and sent to the
ObserCer for publication. have my own opinions
as to this matter. One j. A. j., who says you are
Lncolnite, went on to Petersburg q few days be-
fore these bundles were received and it is believed
he caused them to be sent"
So it seems the Editors Of the Observer are par
ties to this free negro trick They are welcome
to all they may gain by this achievement We
have heretofore entertained high respect for the
Senior Editor as gentleman. but We Hnd now that
he is as depraved and unscrupuous as the meanest
Destructive in the State. There is neither wit nor
hnmor, nor decency in this trick perpetrated by
Mr.. Hale and his friends. A high toned, honorable
gentleman would have scorned any Allusion to such
trick practiced on brother Editor, save to con-
denim it as low and unworthy in its character
But adversely is the test of character. Defeat loss
of influence, aud the prospect that the election of
the peace candidate for Governor will shorten the
war, and thus stop the enormous profits Mr.. Hale
is realizing by his manufacturing establishments,
are staring him in the face, and like Gov. Vance he
is resorting to every desperate expedient, even
using the names of free negroes to injure and de.
feat us. Repeating the language of the poor cow
ards who wrote him from Barclayville, he says if
we should go to that place the accommodations
in that section" would aOt be livery agreeable" to
u.s. FIRST We are tricked, as any one could have
been, by set of unprncipled Destructives and then
we threatened that if we should happen to visit
the neIghborhOod Of these people, We would be in-
suited or mobbed. This is not the first time the
Obserrer has justified mob law against US. Il did
so in September last, soon after We were mobbed by
the Georgia troops; and our estimate of the hearts
Of the Editors of that paper now is, that they
would be pleased to hear tomorrow that our Office
had been laid in ashes by band of desper ADDE'S,
and our life PLACID in peril, if not taken. This is
our estimate of the EDITORS of that journal. We
now leave them in the company they have deiber-
ately chosen, with the remark that the odor which
surrounds them as the result of their connection
with this free negro hoax, is not more offensive to
them than their conduct in this business will be to
every decent person who may become fully ac-
quainted with it
We congratulate Gov. Vance on the character Of
the friends he has in Harnett They are worthy of
him, and he is worthy of them. Two years ago
they called him Linconite and traitor, but now
they love him so well tina: they even use the free
negro to promote his election. James A. johnson,
q. H. CO6eld, and 2. B. Vance You are welcome
to them, Governor. We should think we had COM
mIted some great crime if they were to vote for us
We invite the attention of the soldiers from Bum
combe and Wilkes Counties to the announcements
in our paper to day of Capt Brevard, of the 29th,
as candidate for the Commons in the former
County, and of Col. A. ). Galloway as a candidate
for the Commons in the latter County.
Extract from letter to the Editor of the Stand
ard dated