Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-11-02

ted spirit which neither courts nor evades them
that resignation which utters neither murmurs nor
regrets and that patience in suffering which seems
victorious even over death ITSELF"
Miscellaneous Items.
T. w. Mcmahon, author of "Cause and Con-
trast" &C., is being tried tn Richmond for trafick
ling in passports. The case was dismissed. No &C.
ton taken.
The peace Convention at Cincinnati adjourned
without making any nominations.
The Herald says Staunton is in favor Of demand
inng from the British Government the surrender of
Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, CORNER Secretary
Of the INTERIOR as the instgator Of the raid on St.
Adams, Vt -
Brig. Gen. j. G. Martin has been ordered to
make his headquarters at Salisbury, and will re-
move in a day or two.
An Assistant Surgeon says, that what water is to
wound in an inhamed state, coal oil Is in a sup
purating state-it dispels flies, expels vermin,
sweetens the wound and promotes healthy gran
ulati0n He states that he has seen two patients
whose wounds have been dressed with it. asleep be-
fore he was through with the third. Fit serves to
keep away flies, it will add materially to the COM
fort Of the wounded as well as their cure.
The North Carolinan Volunteer Navy Company
will meet in Raleigh on the second Thursday in
November. Stockholders are requested to attend
S's1SA AZ PSASoa Va ~ PAoAy' AAuoouS'
A young man in conversation one evening
chsnced to remark, II am no prophet" "True,
replied lady present. "no profit to yourself or any
one else"
| About twenty five of the prisoners who escaped
from Danville have been recaptured. Sixty nine
| escaped in ALL only one of whom vas negro. A
| number of negroes who were working with the
same party, made no effort to get away.
BEEs.-A swarm of bees in their natural state
contains from ten to twenty Thousand insects, while
in hives they number from thirty to forty thousand
In sqare foot of honey comb there are about nine
thousand cells. A queer bee lays her eggs for fifty
or sixty consecutive days, laying about five hundred
daily. 1t takes three days to hatch each egg. In
one season single queen bee matches about one
hundred thousand ices. 1t takes five thousand bees
to weigh pound.
The cars on the East Tennessee and Virginia rail
road are now running regularly from Bristol to
Jonesboro, three times week.
| Gov. Bradford, of Maryland, it is said, considers
that there is doubt that the free constitution of
| that State has been adopted, and the Baltimore
Councils have proceeded to divide that city into
Senatorial districts directed by the new instru-
ment
The conference of British North American pro.
vncial delegates now in session at Quebec have de:
cided that the members of the new Legislative
Council of their proposed new confederacy shall
be selected by the Legislative Councils of the sever
al provinces instead Of Being elected by the people
direct
Dorght, though you have enemies You can.
not escape them by doing wrong and it is little
! gain to barter away your honor and integrity, and
divest yourself of moral courage, to gain what 2
Nothing Better abide by the truth-frown down
all opposition, and rejoice in the feeling which must
inspire fee and Independent man.
| Rr nJ -Jnd,,O&,1 co. avo. ,,nfro;tf,I Az
ton keeps the soul both sweet and sound, while
slothfulness rots it to noisomeness. There is a
kind of good angel waiting upon diligence, always
carrying laurel to crown life Whereas idlsness
! for her reward, is ever attended with shame and
poverty.
WHAT are anothers faults to met
| I'm not vutures bill
| To peck at every flaw see,
| And make it wider still.
1t is enough for me to know
| I've follies of my own, ..-
And on my heart my care bestow,
And let my, friend alone.
| CURIOSITY OF TIE VIsIoN.-Tt has been found,
| while firing at the running man!target at Wi!nble-
don, England, which is scarlet one side and grey
on the other, that the scarlet dszzes the eye, and
is hence the most difficult to hit from leaving red
streak behind it, which unsettles the aim. The
grey side was struck "a times and the red only -
times. 1t is curious fact too, that men with grey
eyes shoot better than those with eyes of other
colors.
There is class of good women who have no right
to marry perfectly good men, for they have the
| power of saving those who would go to ruin bu:
for the guiding providence Of . good wife.
The AUTUMN OF AaE.-The damps Of Autumn
sink into the leaves and prepare them fer the ne.
cessity Of the Fall and thus, insensbly are we, as
years close around US, detached from our tenacity
to life by the gentle pressure Of recorded sorrow
mountain is made up of atoms, and friendship
Of little matters, and if the atoms hold not together,
the mountains is crumbled into dust
YANKEE "HosplrAL FARM.-It seems the Yam
KEGS have hospital farm near Newbern. From
this farm has been issued to the troops since July
list $4,000 watermelons, 5000 cantelopes, 200 bar
rels of corn 100 barrels of tomatoes besides large
quantity of potatoes, onions, peas, beans, cucum'
bers, cabbages ETC.
Butler has released the Virginia Reserves WIT
| were placed to work on the Dutch Gap Canal.
Hon. Robert G. Winthrop, of Boston, is spoken
OF connection with the Democratic nomination fo
Congressman in the Sd district of Massachusetts,
now represented by Mr.. Rice, (Unionl
Col. Thos- H. Seymour, of Connecticut has a
last taken the stump for Mcclellan and Pendleton
Col Seymour IS thorough peace man.
Eighteen ministers of the Gospel were elected t
the Legislature in the late election in Vermont.
"Massa, one oh your oxen's dead-todder too
was frad to tell you Of em bofe at once, 'raid yo
could't bore it"
An English company is in charge, at present, &
the projected railroad between Mexico and Yer
Cruz. 1t is believed that the railroad will be fir
ished in the course Of four years.
In Richmond, on Thursday last, six little schot
girls were made suddenly i'll from eating cake
which had been prepared for their snacks Phys
clans were called in, and the symptoms under whic
the little were suffering led To the csnclnsio