Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-07-20

last At Bushels with the moat dattering prospects
for the Conservatives. That box will give them
between three and four to one over the Stafederate
ticket Let every other part of the County do as
well, and the ticket will DO elected by an average
majority of not less than one thousand.
We have not had the pleasure Of hearing the can
didates, but We learn that Messrs. Jones, Calvin j.
Rogers, Afford, Richardson, and Russ are making
. 6ne impression among the people; and we have
heard the speeches Messrs Russ, Jones, and Rogers
specially commended for their force and elequence
W. W. Holden, the secession candidate for Gov.
ernor draws forage from the State in the shape of
molasses, with which to feed his printing press.-
C6nsssuGtire.
The above il untrue. About eighteen months
since, when no moasses could be obtained in this
City, We applied to Maj Hogg to sell US a small
quantity to make some rollers for our press Two
or three other printing establishments in town up.
piled to him at the same time, and we're accommo-
dated, as We were. But for this accommodation
We should have been compelled to stop our press
until molasses could have been procured from dis
lance, and no doubt the other presses referred to
would have been compelled also to stop. Soon af
ter we purchased barrel of molasses from Mr..
Harding, some Of which We have yet Maj. Hogg
will bear witness that we applied to him but once
for molassss and under the circumstances We have
stated.
It is also charged by the Conasruatios and Con-
tsdsrats that We imported lot Of paper from Mas
sau on the steamer Adoanes. This is also untrue.
The lot of paper referred to was imported for US
by Messrs Kidder and Martin, of Wilmington, on
their schooner ARABIA
Such are the arguments by which We are assaulted
by order of Gov. Vance.
If We had been corrupt or venal | ike many O.:
thoss who surround the Governor, we might not
only have lived luxuriously on English and YANKEES
supplies, such as cheese, sugar, syrup, sardines'
coffee, tea wines, and brandies, but We could have
grown rich by sending out cotton on the State
steamers and getting gold for it in return. b.,
these people, with Gov. Vance at their head, knew
Us too we'll even to make US an offer of this sort
Gov. Vance admits that he sent out his cotton and
traded Nth the enemy for it is notorious that the
cotton sent to Nassau passes into Yankee hands,
and he says he purchased some sugar and coffee
with the proceeds but he admits he sent five bales,
which must have brought one thousand dollars in
gold, and surely he did not expend all that for suga
| and coffee Where isthat gold, Governor The Leg
islature had just refused to raise your salary in Coz
federats money, but had given you through mistake
five hundred dollars in gold 10 DO paid to you in
Nassau. Finding that that body had acted under
4 missapprehenson in voting you the gold, and
| fearing clamor if you took it. you refused it. and
then claimed great credit for having done So; bu
| in very short time thereafter you sent out tn
cotton referred TO- without the shadow of authority
and realized for it one thousand dollars in gold
You refused five hundred dollars with one hand
and then made one thousand with the other viii
out authority We have faithfully used ever
sheet of paper placed in our hands as State printer
and We have paid into the Treasury $2S 30 receive
for documents belonging to the State which v
have sold. We have saved every cent We could fc
the State, and ut the same time lost thousands
dollars by our contract as State Printer, while 70
and YOUR Sta!lfedsrate minions have been using n
living on the State property, and acting IS if Il
State and its people, and its ships and railroac
belonged to you. Even your newspaper In Raieaa
are printed by persons whom you have had dstai
| ed from the army for that purpose
We have always paid our taxes chserfully, n
We have uniformly supported the authorities of Il
esuntry. both State and Confederate, and conduct.
ourself on Ill occasions q loyal, law abiding cit
.sn- We have asked no favors At the hands of eth
| Govern ment and We have received none. Train
soldisrs Of the Confederate government under
dsrs mobbsd our Office in September last by whie
We iost thousands of dollars; and We have n
asked, nor do We expect any compensation for II
iniury Tho officers soho led tho mob hare BE-
screamed from pupikAmsnt BY Psssident Davis a,
| Con. Vance. In addition to this, soon after Il
mob. pair of horses employed mainly in haul;l
vood for our Office and family, was pressed from
Nv thu Richmond administration at about half the
| vslue. while the pleasure horses of tho friends
That administration in this City were released by
| specisl commission from Richmond. The Confe'
er.ts Qusrsermastsr for the State had performed
duty by impressing horses without respect to Pc
IONS or parties but Is the result Of appeals Wink
vre made by the friends of the administration,
AGENT was sent to this place to investigate the ms
ter and the horses of the avorites referred to we
returned to them, but ours were taken. Two
these fsyorites had each too PAIR of horses and We
allowed to retain them. We will do the Quartz
master the Justice TO say that he offered, on bis on
responsibility, to return our horses; but We to
him that if the government needed them 1t w.
Welcome to them, and that We did not wish to
yolve him in an unpleasant situation by acceptiI
his Offer One of these favorites, who was allow
To retain t,oo pair of horses, and who had becon
infl.med because his horses had been pressed !
| the Ouartermaster wrote to Richmond demandi'
the removal Of that officer, setting forth the gre
things M had done for the three volunteer con
panies raised in Raleigh in 1851, when the Fl
was W had done more for these companies tb:
he had, according to our respective means; ..
urging the removal Of the Quartermaster ON T.
/ ground that he lived within forty yards Of Ho
j den, and WAS seen, on the morning after Il
Georgia mob, with his arm on Holden shoulder
These sre facts we'll known in this com munity, al
We refer TO them only because We have been falls
" charged with receiving fsvors from the Cover
eminent. No, vs have received nothing but abus