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mond and it is also my firm conviction that if
the foregoing resolutions had been adopted by the
Congress at its last session. measures would at this
time have been in progress tending to a final and
satisfactory settlement of the questions at issue be-
tween the North and South But # these efforts
had been made and mad failed, we should have been
no weaker either in moral in physical resources
at home, while abroad, among the people of Europe
and Of the North, we should have gained great
moral power by the exhibition on our part Of an
earnest disposition to st:y the eusion Of blood and
to terminate this awful conflict in accordance with
those principles of reason and justice which reflect
lustre on civilized, Christian nations. We might
then have hoped that the people of the North,
giving heed to this appeal and anxious as they must
be for peace, would have risen up at tie polls and
defeated MI Lncolns re- election in November next,
and thus have paved the way for settlement Of
our difficulties by the Conservative men Of the two
sections. As it is, with the temper which seems
to govern the rulers of the two sections, can per-
ceve no reasonable ground for hoping that Mr. Lin
coin will be defeated or that the war will ceas
until the South shall have conquered the North, or
the North the South. We are not fighting for con-
quest and we should not incur the risk of being con-
quered by the North without putting forth every
effort meanwhile to terminate the struggle by ne
gotiations.
The Standard will continue to be devoted to the
rights Of the people and to the independence and
sovereignty of the States. 1t will maintain the
integrity and independence Of the judiciary, the
freedom Of the press and Of speech, and the free
dom and purity of the ballot-box, without which
our present struggles will be in vain, and our
free forms of government an empty mockery 1t
will insist on strict construction of the Confed.
crate Constitution, and on searching but not un-
generous scrutiny of the acts of rulers. 1t will
inaexibly oppose any and every attempt to render
the civil authority subordinate to the military pow.
er. And it will oppose, at all times and every
where, with the utmost earnestness to the last
moment, all attempts to subvert our present form
of government and to establish dictatorship or
monarchy on its ruins.
As the elections are now over, and as the Stand
ard will be relieved for some time to come of the
pressure Of matter purely political in its character,
will endeavor to render it a more welcome and en-.
.ertaining vehicle of news, literature and science.
trust my friends will exert themselves somewhat
to increase the circulation of the paper.
With many, many heartfelt thanks to my friends
and patrons, I am Very Res pectfuily,
W. W. HOLDEN.
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A GREAT CHEESE REGIoN.-At Convention held
at Rome Oneida county, N. Y. representatives were
present from sixty four cheese factories which en
pzyed ss,6:e cows Of these cheese factories,
81 were in Oneia: county. The others were in
Herkinor, Ghataiqre add Courtland ccuutiss. The
.arcest Of hsse faeo.es Is IL. Court.and county,
which has ls,, COVE. c:li ope in New Woodstock,
which has l2hn T::ase were nine private dairies
Representa-, ,:L;sh have together 416 cows. The
system d manufacturing cheese upon a combined
plan and cn large scale is one OF recent origin.
and this list shows it has absorbed the daily interest
ef that region.
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SuELLs.-The following from the Richmond
Sentinel should prove warning to those who are
in the habit Of handling shells, or other explosive
missiles with which daily familiarity renders
carelesss:
Some old shells believed to be empty, which had
been sent to Bradleys Foundry, in Winchester, to
be cleaned up, were being taken out of wagon by
some negroes. Several little white boys were play.
ing about the wagon and persisted in handling the
shells though repeatedly driven off While the
wagon was being unloaded shell which turned
out to be loaded exploded on being thrown in the
pile already collected on the ground. Instantly
fifteen or twenty shells in the pile also exploded.
causing the report to be heard in the city, and kill
ing almost instantly five negro men and three white
Toys The victims Of this sad tragedy were horribly
mutlated One of the boys and two of the negroes
were literally blown to pieces.
The fragments of shell flew far and wide through
the town Of Manchester strikinga number Of houses
and producing great excitement 1t is surprising,
considering the number Of persons moving about
the streets. that the casualties were not more nu.
merous The foundry where the accident occurred
is but short distance from the cotton factory.
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As an evidence of Gen. Hoods determination to
increase the strength and efficiency of the army,
was shown to day an order Just issued from head.
quarters, requiring all able bodied men in the diff
ierent departments to report at once to the 'front.'
and requiring, whenever it can be done, the heads
of departments to perform their own clerical labor,
and when that is impracticable, the employment
Of men unfit for the field. This order is directed
not only to Quartermasters, Comm,ssaries, Com.
mandants of Posts, Provost Marshals and Surgeons,
but also TO the Generals. Enforced, as have as.
he intends it shall BE- it will bring Several
thousand additional men to the field. 1t will be
received with great satisfaction by our gallant mem
now confronting the enemy, and trust will not
meet the displeasure even Of those upon whom it
is intended to operate The sentiment behind the
army should contribute to its enforcement Cor
respondsace Griffin Rebel
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WEARS THE DIFFERENCE "A friend inquired of
US" what's the difference between government
contractor and government chaplain?" Not i'm.
mediately seeing the point he replied, Zone prays
for the government and the other preys upon ~
We cared in and left SoCIBs.
Montgomery Hail.
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Election Returns.

Orange-Senate, John Berry, 1926. Commons,
Samuel F. Phillips, 927, William N. Patterson 7s0,
Sheriff, R. N. Jones 652, H. B. Guthrie e2s.
Person--Senate, Chas. s. Winstead S93, James
Holeman 31s Walker l06. Commons, John w.
Cunningham 65l, John D. Wilkerson 100. sher-
if, W. H. Smith.
Alerander.-A N. Boyle elected to the Senate
from this district and DR.. j. NJ. Carson reelected
to the Commons from Alexander.
Franklin-Wash. Harris re elected to the Sem
ate, and W. K. Davis elected to the Commons.
Rutherford, Polk and Cleareland-Senate,
Cleaveland, Dr.. W. R. Miller, 9O2, Col. O. L. Har.
ris 49, Rutherford, Miller 7o6, Harris SIT. Polk
not heard from. Miller elected. Commons, Ruth
erford, Carson 721, A. R. Bryan 7o3, Carpenter
600, McCurry 474.
Sampson.-Senate, William Kirby 46O, Thos.
l. Faison Sss, Ward 225. Commons, Powell 1926,
Murphy 4ss, Lassiter S31, Giddens 1875, Cooper
1874.
Washington-Jesse Stubbs elected to the Sen.
ate from Washington and Martin, and Maj. L. G.
Latham to the Commons from Washington
Moore and Montgomery.-Senate, Moore, DR.. j.
NJ. Crump 545, Thomas j. Bright 457. Mont
gomery not heard from. Commons, Moore Elan
J. Harrington $50, 7. W. Ritter 1876. Commons,
Montgomery, Jordan 293, Davis 256.
Chovan and Gates-M. L. Eure elected to the
Senate, and L. G. Benbury to the Commons from
Chowan.
Burke, Mcdowell and Caldwez1 Senate, Gen.
S. F. Patterson. Burke, Commons, j. j. Erwin.
CALDWELL Commons, Mr.. Isbell.
Yadkin.-Senate, Col. W. H. A. speer 454.-
Commons, A. G. Cowles 741. Sheriff, Speer 5s4
Greene and Lenoir.-Senate, Greene, Edward
Patrick 24a, J. P. Speght al. Lenoir, Patrick 75
Speight 615. Majority for Spegbt 43s. Commons,
Greene, H. H. Best 2l9, Freeman 15s. Commons,
Lenoir, Allen W. Wooten 4O1, W. W. Dunn 2O2.
Sheriff. Fields 434, Pope 159.
Nash-Senate, Taylor 4l2, Jenkins 321. Com
mons, Lewis s57, Aveht s1s, Matthews 46. Sheriff,
Cooper 27e Morgan 225, Barnes l2s
0nslow.-senate, Sanders 26o, J. F. Murrill 151,
j. H. Foy 1875. Commons A. j. Murrill S52,
Porter 2O7. Sheriff. E. Murrill, Jr. 40.
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RELIEF FOR PErERsBuRG-Many of the citizens
Of Petersburg driven from their homes by the mer.
ciless shelling Of the ehemy, are encamped in the
neighborhood of the city, out freach of the enemys
guns, but cut off from supplies of all kinds. Their
condition is sad one indeed, ard appeals forcibly
to the citizens of other more favored sections of the
Confederacy. In relieving the wants Of other per-
sons thus situated, in contributing of their means
to aid the government in this deadly struggle, and
in instering to the wants Of our sick and wounded
soldiers whom the fortunes of war had thrown
among them, the citizens Of Petersburg have been
exceedingly liberal They should not be left to suf
fer without aid or sympathy in this season of sore
in this city, or to the Bank Of Petersburg now loca
ted in this city, or to R. Ragland, Petersburg, will
be appropriated as directed Dr. Hawkins, President
of the Raleigh and CASTOR R. R. will furnish car
to convey supplies of clothing and food, if a sui
cient quantity is sent in to justify it-B6. Recor.
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The Pacha Of Egypt has lost daughter aged 6f
teen, who was betrothed to one of His Highness's
aid.decamps Since her death the Viceroy has not
left bis residence at Ghise, and receives no one
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HE DYING MozARr.-Wolfgang Mozart the great
German composer, died at Vienna in the wear i79l.
There is something beautiful and touching in the
circumstances of his death. His sweetest song was
the last he sung-the Requiem. He had been EN-.
pioyed upon this exquisite piece for several weeks
his soul filled with inspirations of richest melody,
and already claiming kindred with Immortality
After giving it its last TOUCH and breathing into it
that undying spirit of song which to consecrate
it through all time, his "cygnean strain," he fell
into gentle and quiet slumber. At length the
light footsteps of his daughter Emile awoke him.
"Come hlther," }" said he, "my Emilie-my task is
done-the Requiem-my Requiem is finished
"Say not So dear father" said the gentle girl, in.
terrupting him, ss tears stood in her eyes. "You
must be better-you look better, for even now your
cheek has glow upon i'll am sure we will nurse
you well again-let me bring you something re.
freshing" "Do not deceive yourself my love-"
said the dying father "this wasted form can never
be restored by human aid From heavens mercy
alone do look for aid in this my dying hour
You spoke Of refreshment my Emile take these
my last potes-sit down to my piano here-sine
with them the hymn of your sainted mother-let
me once more hear those tones which have been so
long my solacement and delight" Emile obeyed,
and with voice enriched with tenderest emotion,
sung the following stanzas:
Spiritl thy labor is o'erl
Thy term Of probation is run,
Thy steps are now bound for the untrodden shore
And the race of immortals begun.
Spirit! look not on the strife,
Or the pleasures of earth with regret
Pause not on the threshold of limitless life,
To mourn for the day that is set.
Spirit! no fetters can bind
No wicked have power to molest;
There the weary like ,hee-ths wretched shall find
haven, mansion of rest.
Spirit! how brightis the road
For which thou art the wing,
Thy home it will be- with thy Saviour and God,
Their loud hallelujah to sing.
AS she concluded, she dwelt for moment upon
the low melancholy notes of the piece, and then
turning from the instrument looked in silence for
the approving smile of her father. 1t was the still
passionless smile which the rapturous and joyous
spirit left-with the seal of death upon those fea.
lures.
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pondent, writing to the Mobile Register, says: II
have passed through the biggest cornfeld l ever
saw. 1t stretches from Demopolis to Selma, and
for miles it really does seem to be one vast cornfiela
There is vet an abundance of old corn all through
the country. and doubt if it can all be gotten
away in time to mske room for new crop"
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The: Prince Del Drago recently found some beau
tiful ancient mosaic pavement on one OF his estates
in the country, and he has just now exhumed from
the cellar Of his palace, in Rome an exquisite statu-
ette of Venus, minus the head and arms, unfortun-
ately, but perfectly beautiful as to the body and
lower limbs. 1t is about three feet high
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TEACHING CHILDREN RHYMES.-SOme one, in urg.
ing upon parents the duty of teaching the children
spiritual songs and hymns, very appropriately re,
marks that i" there is chord in every human soul
which is touched by poetry" hence the magcal
power oil ballads, national songs, and religious
hymns. Listen to the snatches Of popular ditties
which you hear in the street from passers by, after
you have gone to bed, and you will own that metre
and music have avenues to human souls, and, con.
sequently, that they should be largely employed
in religion There is reason to believe that versed
truth has peculiar force upon the commond mind,
as it is certain that it affords aid to the memory
Luther and the other reormers felt this and hence
arose the wonderfully rich collection of hymns in
the German language, to which there is perhaps,
nothing comparable on earth. To this stock Luth-
or himself contributed much. He was aided by
Hans Sachs, the poetical shoemaker. In a later
period came Paul Gerhardt the greatest hymn
writer Of Germany, not of the world. Wherever
there are pious Germans you find them with their
beloved hymn books and, FROM frequent use they
generally know great numbers of these hymns by
heart 1t is error to confne children to the
learning of children's hymns, because when they
become older these will have lost much of their
ftEess. Why should We not fill our children's
minds with the choicest evangelical hymns in the
language? These they will remember after we arc
dead and gone. They should not merely be learned
once and then left for others, but repeated again
and again, and sung over in order to fix them in
the memory, and to lay basis for lasting associa
tions. The old words and the old tune come back
to US with indescribable tenderness Let the pious
mother, when causing her boy to learn some sacred
song say to herself " Perhaps, years hence, my
SOU will remember the saving truth ofthis hymn, as
having been taught by bis mother
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Subscription opened in Denmark for the widows,
orphans and wounded Of the war, produced in a
single day at Copenhagen alone upwards Of soo,-
00Of The King put his name down for 12,o00t .
year during period Of ten yssz.
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CoTroN SUBSTITUTE FOR LINT.-Dr. Mott, of
Mobile, recommends cotton substitute for lint,
in hospitals for the following reasons:
1. Its abundance, cheapness, and general dssem-
ination.
2. Its value in padding splints, where there are
fractures to be treated.
8. Cotton has always been used as a soothing
dressing to burns, when the inflammation is of the
highest possible grade.
f. have used for twenty years on dressing
stumps, wounds Of all kinds, including gun.shot,
cotton and lint, indiscriminately, and could never
see any difference where both articles were good.
5. Buggrave, Surgeon to the King of Belgium,
has written volume on the advantages of cotton
dressings, and other surgeons in Europe recon-.
mend it.
G. Under the name of'patent lint, surgeons have
been using, for many years. a kind Of aimsy cotton
flannel, which is nothing but cotton and the pro-
fession has, therefore, fully sanctioned its use.
When was Medical Director of Gen. Bragg's
army, at Cornth, had the hospitals freely sup
piled with cotton and after the battle Of Shiloh it
was almost entirely substituted for lint, and an
swered all the indications.
With the exception Of DR.. Stone, Of New Orleans,
believe have done more operative surgery during
the last thirty years, than any man South Of the
Potomac; and my experience is too conclusive, to
my own mind at least, as to the value Of cotton
l do not hesitate to say that would prefer really
we'll made, fine charple for general use as dressing
il could get it in abundance but the cotton answers
so we'll that is ridiculous to keep our ladies vast.
ing their time in scra2ing lint Most Of the lint
sent to the army is very COARSE and far inferior TO
good cotton.
There are certain ideas which seize On the world
and which cannot be eradcated; such as bleeding
after conclusions, putting irritating substances into
fresh cuts to make them heal teing up the wool
on a negro's head to draw his palate up, &e. So is
the prejudice about cotton, which hope you may
do much towards eradicating.
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QulNINE AS AN ANriDoTE TO MALAR1A.-From an
article In the Confederate States Medical Journal
by Dr.: Samuel Logan, on the prophylactic effects
OF Qainine in Maarous localities, copy the fol.
lowing summing up of results. The Quinine was
administered in four grain doses, daily, morning or
evening:
Total number who took no quinine, $50; had
fever, 1s4 ratio per 1000 of fever cases to patients
5S2.6O, or in every II patients ratio per 1000
Of severe cases to total cases, 2ls 4s or in every
S19 cases.
Total number who took qhinine irregular!y, 246;
had fever, 96 ratio per 1000 of fever cases to pa.
tients $50 a. or in every 256 patients ratio per
1000 Of severe cases to total cases. POI Sc, or 10
every II cases.
had fever 90 ratio per 1000 of fever cases to pa
tents, 1913 81, or in every 16 patients; ratio per
1000 Of severe to total cases, 1926 IS, or in
every 3.O6 cases.
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TRAITORS IN R1cHMoND-Ths Examiner insists
that there traitors in high places in that city
We hav'nt the slightest doubt of it. and hope they
will be detected and punished The Examiner
says:
There can no longer exist a doubt that we have
traitors in some of our high places. The assign
ment Of Gen. JOS E. Johnston, to the command of
our armies in Northern Virginia, and the removal
to that quarter of large body of his veteran troops
was not known in this city beyond the circle Of the
initiated of the War Office Yet We see the whole
of our plsns as regards our campaign of invasion,
spread before the world in the columns of the New
York Herald. 1t behooves the authorities to probe
this matter to the bottom and discover and punish
the traitor.
We have no doubt but Benefits gold unlocks all
the important secrets of our government and thus
becomes the of frustrating some of the plans
of our Generals. 1t is very we'll known that the
detectives" of the various departments at Rich.
mond, including the war Office, are men of desper
ate characters generally gamblers puglists and the
like. Gases that occasionally come before the Pc
lice Court, one of them no longer than last week,
prove this But who is to blame for all this and
who is to reform existing abusese We don't know.
Prn1aeae
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A town meeting at York, Pa, has recommended
the Council to appropriate s75 900 to aid in filling
the quota of the borough with volunteers,
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Franklin, hearing the remark that what was lost
on earth went tothe moon, asserted that there must
be great deal of good advice accumulated there.
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NAPOLEON TOO CAUTIOUS TO BE Po1soNED.-A
Paris letter writer tells the following:
l was in circle, few days back, composed Of
both native French and newly arrived Parisians.-
At last the conversation turned upon the Emperor,
and the late arrivals we're full of marvellous stories
ofattempts upon the Emperor's life One "yarn"
ran es follows:
beautiful young Italian girl was requested to
make him drink which she did. As if accident
ally, in receiving the goblet he contrived to drop
into it small knife with which he had been toying,
as he sat The knife almost Immediately turned
black from the presence Of some poison which the
Italian has dropped into the beverage-probably as
"favos." She was quietly sent back to the Dr.
leanist tribe, whence she came, disgraced.
Another damsel offered Napoleon the larger piece
of apple which she cut before his eyes, and while
in conversation with him. (She was French, and
privileged member in the household) With true
polteness be requested an exchange, he to eat the
smaller piece, and she the other The lady demur-
red she could not each so much. He seized both
pieces and bowingly retired. Next day the lady
consented to "waste her sweetness on the desert
air." of convent, where she can reflect that the
very first trouble which arosein the world, in the
year one, came from Eve offering Adam an apple
not fit for his mastcation at that time.
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Col L. G. Edwards, Of Granville has been ap-
pointed member of the Literary Board of this
State, in place of Rev. W. E. Pell, resigned.
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THORNTON, THE MISSOURI GuEkILLA.-The Thorn
ton who figures so conspicuously just now in the
dispatches as a guerilla chief in Upper Missouri,
is personally known to good many people in
this vicinity. He graduated at Bethany College in
1s5s and he was then, as he is now, sort of FIRE
eating guerilla. He is brother. in law of the no.
ted Colonel Doniphan, of Missouri, who figured
conspicuously in the Chihuahua expedition during
the Mexican war. He was known at Bethany, as
he is now in the newspapers, by the name Ct
trio desperate, his chief delight apparently being
to wear tall boot legs outside of his pants, with
bowie knife stuck inside and to use the biggest and
oldest words he could CLEAN from the dictionary.
He was quiet moody, pale faced fellow, who
drank good deal of whiskey at times, and had
very few companions He was tolerable sort oil
student, and not without intellectual ambition
WAeelang Intelltgencer, July TO-.
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