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,,,,;c Meeting in Johnston County.

We nuhIish today the proceedings of public
..;nr hold in Coats District Johnston County,
,ho 9Th instant. The resolutions adopted are
Odm;r.ble in tone and expression DR.. j. 7. Leach
ramber elect to Congress from the Sd District, is
81. .ubor of them, and took an active part in the
meeting.
We learn that County meeting was held at
suith6eld on the 7th instant the proceedings OF
which we have not yet received Maj. W. A. Smith,
member of the late State Convention, Mr.. Woodall,
one of the Conservatives from Johnston, and other
gentlemen of information and influence took an ac-
tive part in the Smithield meeting. We trust the
people generally will follow the example of our
Iobns.on friends Our Constitutional rights are in
danger, and unless the people should come to the
rescue they may be entirely swept away. Now is
the time for action.
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The Columbia South GGrolinan complains that
purchasing Confederate commissaries in that State
are in the habit of impressing property ordered to
be sold by the Courts by executors and admins
traitors. The Garolinian correctly observes that
"the Confederate government has no power under
the Constitution to abrogate State laws and set
aside judicial orders, and prohibit sales under
them" We have heard of one case of this kind in
this State. The CGroLinian should, however, re-
member. that Constitutions are obsolete things
nowadays. Might makes right The States,
which were intended to be the head and master Of
the system, are now the servants of their own
creature, and their Governors scarcely have as
much power to protect life and property as Con-
federate provost Captain. Is this the entertain
ment to which we we're invited? Is this "peace
able secession ?"
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-01-12

Speaking Of the toast to " the Stars and STRIPES
at Christmas Eve Supper given in Raleigh, the
Journal of that city says: - -2.
"We are authorize d IL say that Gov Vance was
at no party on the night ABOVE ntimated and there
tore had to submit to such Outrage as that I'M.
Piled in the reported toast The Governor would
have promptly resented the indignity if offered to
hun, or tho Confederacy, in his presence" 3.
We are glad to hear this 1t would be singular,
indeed, after the sentiments enunciated in Gov.
pances late message, f'he hob nobbed to toast to
the STARS and Stripes" now on the emblem of the
most grinding tyranny that ever cursed the civilized
earth. p. . @.. - -.---. =, 90, -...'..- :
We hope another rumor that we have heard is un-
true, and that Gov. Vance is not on most intimate
terms with Holden. We desire not to interfere
with any gentemans private relations but in these
times "n0cttur q sociis" !" is more than ever max
i'm to be regarded .-Psters6urg Register. ---...-.
Who authorized the State Journal to speak for
Gov. Vance2
The good opinion of those who are malicious or
silly enough to believe that such q toast was given,
in the presence of Gov Vance or any one else is not
worth having. The people Of this State were true
up to the last moment to the old government, and
As long as North Carolina remains member of
the Confederate States they will be true to their
obligations to the new government - ~ - g
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A CONSTITUTIONAL GovERNMENT. have uni
formly maintained, as Conservative that the Con-
federate authorities should be rigidly held to the
letter and spirit of the Confederate Constitution,
and that any attempt to set at nsught the Constitu
ton and trample on the rights of the States should
be resisted by the people We are glad to find the
Petersburg Express and other original secession pa
pers adopting our views, but we fear at too late
period to save the Constitution and civil liberty
The last Express says:
ave are devoted heart and soul to the cause for
which We are struggling We would not have that
cause compromised OF endangered, or its lustre dim
med, by any act on the part Of the government Of
injurious or doubtful tendency or Of questionable
moral character. 1t is worthy of all necessary and
honorable sacrifices, and none would more cheer
fully or more promptly submit to such sacrifices
than We. But we are unwilling to submit to any
that are not needed, or which involve q servIle,
craven surrender of our civil rights for the direct
or indirect purpose Of increasing ExecptiTe power
or enthroning military authority upon the ruins of
the Constitution. We will do all that we can to
sustain the government in the exercise Of its legt
mate functions and in its efforts to accomplish, in
the proper way, the great ends tor which it has
been established: But we cannot with clear con-
science, support it in any encroachments upon
liberty, in any violations Of the letter spirit
of our institutions. As long as it confines itself
within the sphere o: It's prescribed duties we will 60
along with it but no longer.
We are decidedly of the opinion that suspen.
sion of the writ of habeds corpus at the time
and under existing circumstances, would be an act
uncaed for and dangerous to the public interests.
We cannot, therefore, bat deprecate the movement
that has Just been made in that direction in the
Senate, by one Of its members, and hope that it
will meet the fate that it deserves"
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MARKETING prices of provisions continue
to advance In the markets. beef is retailing at 81
per lb, for choice cuts and fresh pork &c. Oysters
Sl6 to $50 per gallon Turkeys range from S18 to
$50 apiece-the latter price being demanded for
lot of live ones, Tuesday. The display Of vegeta
bes is very meagre-frozen cabbage, turnips. Irish
potatoes and carrots constituting eight enths Of rhe
assortment. Butter is now selling at $6 per lb.,
and eggs at 50 per dozen-Rich Whig go,
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OBITUARY NOTICES.

Died. in this City, the 10Th pst, Mr HrxRr A. DEP
KIN, aged IS years. .= .-7 r.
His funeral will take place al the Baptist church ~
Tuesday at 10 O'cOck The friends lcsua-
the deceased are respectfully elues,e ed TO ttsend.
Died in Fort Delaware, in 0ct. 1893, JAMES KIRK-
PATRICK, of Alex AMI Fra IS patrick of Aamauce
county, N. Z. - -. 80. ----l --..
The subject of this notice entered the service July
ls62-was member nf Company I, s7th C. troops He
participated the Fredericksburg b4te the battle OF
Winchester and in the memorable battle of lettys-
burg Pa At the latter place he captured bg the
enemy, and carried prisoner of Fort Delaware
After time, disease seized up his system and lie sick
ened and died, far fr"nl home where there
mother sister to console hun upon his diving cuch yet
his hope anchored in Friend Who forsakes,
but present with thOse who love and trust Him
Permit me TO quoe sentence from of bis letters to
his sister in reply question prpoundsd to him BY her
" cannot act the by .criIe but have hope that am
changed man. aud hpe that if we do meet again in
this world, that will meet you ali in heaven All his
letters breathed spirit of Christian hHmty and submits
sion He was man whom all loved. None knew him
Dut to love him" .... ..-.
May bis aged father and mother sisters and brothers
relatives aud friends humbv bow in submission tn this
sspensatou of Gods providence He born Sept 2th,
1929 =. d.-.-..---- --'-.--- FREND.
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The administration presses of this State, and
among them the Wilmington journal, are prepar-
ing the minds of the people for the suspens ion of
ha6eGs corpus and the consequent abrogstion of civil
law. The conductors of these presses are the alb
iect of slaves Of power, and would submit to- morrow
to the passage of law by Congress Investing Pres-
dent Davis with supreme power over the lives and
property of our people. ITO what base uses may
we come at last Horatio."
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rtovnppss.-Fhe most important of the public pro-
III Is of the Senate yesterday, was ne~-dema-
.;asI inspiration from Mr. Phelan, OF Msslsslppi
Ssnir . deposition to suspend the writ OF "aoeus
,,,'s GO es - cut off parties VINO have Iurh'Sneu
coLPus 80 as W heir constitutional recourse to the
suostl'uteS I neul ition was the occasion OF much
eouass. Lne .uS prUpUSS among parties interested,
who argued that although S.a. cornus it had only
had suspended the writ Of hGt 'srsops and that It
an for the arrest Of disloyal Tor from Missis.
DO, a gone so far as the Sena in the courts
D;nni n%C who proposed to cut on REDRESS
spP tSe questions of contract Obligation. to car
0n There is an ev:deu. tendency IN Oongre solida-
mt a certain programme OF executive OoU " such
~ and usurpation, through tne ageISS r"tes ss
uon &C the Senator from MISSISSIPPI, "nV o., yress
msn Of Che most superficial demagogoes u" ~ nnbc
1"0 lection with this general su?Jeet .n pyrks
~ .;n lead read with interest and admiration M u.n tuu
WIZ bv Mr. Foote, Yesterday, ~ tne nouSo ,o.son
A. % o'clock the House went lnto 81. tho mo,t
90 debate the currency we learn 1ns' .nh;ect is
Striking and decisive proposiIOn on ,t sn' ont new
% take the cotton and tobacco anu the old
currency on pledges Of these sSApiss tSs tashion o.
c,rrency to die natural deatn' issues
.So French assignats and the oiu consider
T. is said that such measure 's - 70 though
ahle countenance in Congress thas eH.nc;al diff
70 afford the shortest way out o' 1u nsw curren
crltes. and that the opinion Is u" n,ora readl
80 would absorb the old issues tnu"'
than any scheme of funding ..;., os the
We also understand that u,,u, I"Urss,v 10 the ia
noncs Committee have reported auS., 80 dsv ago
| hill a synopsis of which was gwen '''''S
Ous solsmns-Rich. ETd"'"S''
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Extract from letter to the Editor, dated

nv BURKE Co., Jan. 8, 1864.
Livery day the people are becoming better and
Ie'er satisfied that the Standard is tine paper for
tb tIneS' and the only one in the State which has
rIooiy maniy independence to rebuke error in high
snI and to contend for the rights of the peocIe
rnIa rnL he supremacy of the laws When will our
~ S.erS learn wisdom, and our law. makers respect
Sas S voice OF their constituents Has public virtue
me land and good faith taken hsr everlasting
81 s"t lrom this Southern cline? Surely, it looks
sSo,,5 mink it high time that our good old State
cbiauo,,a talSe ner potent voice against the mis-.
Let tt tendencies of those who rule over U.S.
be to people take their matters in hand before it
bIe srd d'eIesh Convention as speedily as posi-
uenSa" sna . determine what should De done. Tie
tilv u congress from this Distrfes is most wo
as his presentlng his constituents end as small
arsS Eas at the last election it was ten times
does not % S.Ie Ge could get now in the District; ne
and trV h" believe this let him resign his POSITION
never has strength bsngg again believe though that
sition" AUG Oeen elected when he had any oppo-
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For the Standard.

Mr. EDrroR:--A long stiffness in affairs gener.
ally, mixed with little apprehension OF becoming
the subject Of tyranncal government, has totally
untitled me from writing, and in fact from business
Of any kind.
There is great excitement here arising from the
recent act of Congress repeating the substitute law
Our people are indignant at it, and are now only
awaiting the action of the Governor and the So-
preme Court Our soldiers here are almost unanl'
mously opposed to it They are sorry 10 see tnat
liberty for which they battling, so utterly ruined.
They evince feeling of uneasiness and aiSsatsiAc
ton towards the administration
It is truly fortunate as Col. Sinclair said IN ms
letter that we have in the State not airalo
to stand ND and battle for civil and religious oerty
Your columns have ever been open for The VIM
dication of the oppressed. But it would be lnVla-
ions not TO mention our friends of the Progress,
Charleston Mercury and Henderson Tunes
The cry.of " wolff" wolf is often hearo IN
our streets. Wilmington is constantly going 70 Se
officials saw. Dame Rumor says that Beast Butler
has 100 600 men at NeWberu. The nylng eOur-
ier" says there are twenty odd sail below. ana SO
it goes. 0s,,ss,.,
Gen. Whiting has put his veto upon passports
through the blockade. ConsohDg TO the Jews
The Israelites must slip over at some otneI port
The City is througed-twenty thousand people,
it is said are here Most of them are strangers
Robbers and incendiaries are, OF course, present
and but for effective police, and Alert nre GUN
panies, damage would ensue.
This morning the sleet was heavier than IL nAS
been since 1854 The trees are bending unoei
their icy load; and it 10 bitter eold ond Is II u
great demand and scarce, at $50 and SfO per c1lu
There are but few goods of any kInd IN MAJ Ae'
and business generally dull "oNrnNH'
Wilmington, Jan. 9, 1854. o..
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soidier,,Wase,..

Congress, it is said is doing this and that thing
to please the soldiers Principals Of substitutes aud
other exempts are to be swept into to please
the soldiers The last man" is to be taken from
the farm and workshop to please the soldiers. This
sounds very WE'LL but how can it benefit the soldersf
We tell Congress how to please the soldiers and
at the same time do justice-rdiss their odgss, and
see to it tdt they are not tyrdnnized oOer By their
officers and see to it also tbIt their sOGges are
promptly paid When due. This would be something
practical The private soldier is now getting only
what is equivalent to fifty cents month in specie.
What he gets will not more than keep him in to-
bacco Shame, shamel The private soldier ought
to have at least forty dollars per month in OOnfede
rate currency, and then he ought to have the right
to appropriate part of his wages to purchase meat
and bread from the government stores at govern
ment prices for his family. -
A soldier writing FROM the camp near Orange
Courthouse, says:
I'VE have no meat to-day, and our comnissary
says there is none for US. We are situated where
we can buy nothing except from suffers and sharp
ers, and the prices we have to pay them would eat
out months wages in twenty. four hours. One Of
the suffers was mObbed last night" .......5 .
We have seen letters from soldiers complaining
in bitter terms of the high prices for rent and pro-
visions demanded of their families by certain wor-
shippers of Mammon at home. The man who raises
his rent on soldiers family, or who refuses them
provisions for Confederate currency, ought to be
taken up and placed in the fore front of the hottest
battle. And the Confederate officer who refuses
Confederate money from any body for any thing,
ought to be dismissed from Office
DestructiVes who live by the government and
oligarchs who fear the power of the people, may
call this demagoguism, but It is the truth We do
not care what bad or selfish men think or say of
when we know we are doing right
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A subscriber in CASTOR County asks US if Justices
Of the Peace can be conscripted. We answer, un-
der an act of our last Legislature they were exempt
ed from conscpton, aud this act is. based on law
of Congress which allows the State Legislatures to
EXEMPT certain State officers We think it highly
nrobable that Justices of the Peace will not be
scrjDted
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We make the following extract from letter from
one of the most intelligent and patriotic citizens of
Western North. Carolina: ...-..
"I have been paying some attention to the leg
ishton Of the present Congress, and j have been
struck with the part taken by members protesting
to represent States in which they have few or no
constituents. These members go to man for the
most exactng and oppressive conscript and tax laws
when those laws willnot reach o single man or q
single dollar in their own States. I protest in the
most emphatic terms against such injus ice. Tax
alton and representation should go together. -
One strong reason, 1t seems to me. why we should
have State Convention is that slavery exists sole
ly by virtue of our State laws. Then, Is our State
government should be overturned in this reyolu-
ton, the only tenure by which we hold this species
of property will be destroyed. From Il e progress
already made by the enemy in over-running the
country, fear such will be the result Hence, the
great importance of our State while she possesses
State government taking such action as will Sc
cure this species of property and that action can on
ly be taken in Convention. ! am deeply impressed
with the fear that if the war should be indefinitely
prolonged slavery will be destroyed beyond redemp-
ton"
There is food for reflection in the view taken Of
the institution Of slavery by our CORES spondent-
We feared and so declared at the time that seces-
sion would limit slavery both as to territory and
duration; and we now apprehend that if the war
should be continued twelve months longer, with no
greater success to our arms than has crowned them
for the last twelve months, there is great danger
that the institution will be hopelessly destroyed
These are eur honest convictions, and we do not
hesitate to utter them. We went to war to protect
and preserve the State sovereigntes AMI to defend
and perpetuate the institution of slavery; but if it
should appear that we are likely to lose both, as
rational beings we should pause and consider well
the direction which things are taking.
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RALEIGH: tuesday, JAN. IL. 1864.

CONGRESS is still engaged in discussing The bills
to increase the army, to suspend the a0eas corpus
s to the principals of substitutes, and to improve
tba currency. We shall keep our readers posted as
=, fno1 action on these important measures.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-01-12

We publish to-day an important opinion from the
Attorney General of the State IN relation to the
right of the Confederate government to tax State
prouerty. In our next We shall publish an opinion
Of the Attorney General in relation to the power to
tax Railroad and Banking corporations.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-01-12

The Hon. William A. Graham, Senator elect to
the Confederate Congress, has resigned his seat in
the General Assembly as Senator from the county
of Orange. -
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- vopnIJ. CAROLINA, CHAT'

STATE OF S1 y Ssas and oaa1tsr sessions
p HAN c0O9Y' william Dowdy aud others. %, 'Sa'
s0E tssd%'n s Ez i Taqs PeSsy p Ss and it appearing
This coming z" on Court 20 Ds that James Dwd Allen
the S'aGss H pG sbS.s %s sG
.sS i. =. Ssu e s1s
Sa .ss "1 a The Z IF as
said residents TO bpuse in Ptshoro The I'd Mop
to be 6i!e FSOrsy 1 ?s next plead OF 0F"o
may See ht - co,;.n Clerk Of said Court al once u"
Wines Re- r e. "a iG &O1day Of NS1sP1sT6 1ss6rssx So
- -; y SWIM
Jan Il, 1854.
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For the Standard
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, }
Executive Department.,
Raleigh, Jan. 9th, 1854.

". W. Holden, Esq.:
DEAR SIR:-Please publish for the information Of
the public the enclosed opinion of Attorney Gen.
eraf Rogers concerning the taxation of State pro-
perty by the Confederate government
1t will be seen that this power IS denied by the
opipion, in which legal gentlemen are pretty much
unanimous. Respectfully, &C., -.
q B. VANCE.
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SION II. ROGERS.
Attorney General

The DEAD! OF SoUTH-C CARoLNA-W. B. JJ m
sten, Esq, o. South Carolina, who WIS appo51 ted
agent to record the mares Of soldiers ron that's ate
who have fallen du ring the war ports satsfS tory
progress. His report, made up to the 1st q No
Vem6er, shows an aggregate loss Of 1859 90 m, o
which number 2,239 fell in battle or died from
wounds, and $50 kOm diseases, including Il fev
from accidental ca uses. ga - o.. - ,
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VlRIMTY CoLLEG E..-THE u EAEMf tls stS Of jan
Gs ss4 under eompeteDl board Of Professors m Ths he
oayssen Of he late President Rev Dr. Craven WI" "e
FILED a. al s per month provisions at old PrSeS OF
$50 per moptn N e4!'e Pres Of Board Of Trustees
= w9tpd.
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...iF. -. 4s4 y
Extract from letter to the Editor, dated.

81 prefer the Standard to any other paper. I
am only fourteen years old, and have earned the
money / send with. my knitting needles, when not
employed OF my mothers business I promised
myself that when got enough money to pay for the
Weekly Standard six months, I would put it to
that use"
We enrol the name of our young friend with
great pleasure on our subscription list We have
doubt it will be said Of her when she is woman,
"She looketh well to the ways Of her household,
and eatcth not the bread ofdleness "and Of her hus
band, - He is known in the gates, when he sitteth
among the elders of the land"
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Msj. W. Il. Bagley, of the 66th N. G., has resign
ed Maj Bagley is Senator in the present Legisla-
ture from the District composed Of the Counties of
Pasquotank and Perquimans.
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GERMS OF THE STANDARD.

terms of the Standard heDcetorth will be four dot-
fr the Weekly. six menths and six dollars for the
Esr,iWeeky six months, invariably in advance Owing
M condition of the currency and the uncertainty of the
zines subscriptions for longer period than six months
iii not perceived.
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were Quoted I03 u n the Soth of December, Midiugs
sSas quoted Ne% t ~ YORK as firm 81 cents. Quin.
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MARRIED..

In Orange County, the 24th of December ast bv DR.
C. j. Freeisod Mr. JAS ), BALL 10 So EMILY Al JACK.
SON, daughter of Mr Jacob Jackson of Orange Gntg
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GLOVES ANN SOCKS WANTEn.-
~ sire pun hase for the sUldiers 10 o. pairs f,
and 10000 pairs Sf Socks. Donations will bet lmu
received. EDWARD WAR IE]
Jan. II, 1884 u
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UNAKEN UP AND COMMITTED fO TIE
jail Surry county, : 90 the @'s' OF DeceI''er
1sHS nevro b,.y who saws. nIne Is ARSd, arc Dc
Ion o. 20 NJ Clark, of Patrick county. Virginia SAD
boy is about years old Eve et eight or ten
hb and dark The owner hereby notified TO come for
ward prove property. pay charges and take him away
otherwise be will be dealt With as the Law directs
o ~ WM- HAYAORE;
Sheriff of Surry county.
=, zoe. 4-6m.