Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-06-15
TERMS OF THE STANDARD.
The terms of the Standard are as foi'ows:
Semi. Weekly. six months, ,- .
pAIEIGH: FRIDAY, JUNE 10. 1864.


RALEIGH: FRIDAY, JUNE TO- 1854
We learn that Gov Vance stated in his recent |
sneech in Greensborough, that while ne was speak
inc in Raleigh we were near him in room IN the
Courthouse listening to and taking notes VI n'S
speech. There is no truth in this statement aoV.
Vance knew he was uttering falsehood when ne
made it
We also learn that he charged US with delaying
.s State Printer the publication of bis Message Win
the accompanying documents. The Legislature was
in session but fourteen days. and we stated early IN
the session that it would be impossible for US to
nriut the Message with the accompanying docu-
ments together with such reports, resolutions, and
bills as the two houses would require from day to
dav in the short period of fourteen days referred
to- So we printed the Message itself and the Irea'
surers Report to be laid on the tables OF members.
The accompanying documents will be competed
soon. and will bs sent to the members sy mall
They will receive them in time to examine and use
them in the July campaign. We printed loo pages
during the session. and made every effort to per-
form our duty as State Printer The truth 49, we
could not procure printers, and we cannot procure
them now as we need them. They are very scarce,
manv Of them having entered the army early IN the
var as volunteers There are two excellent prin-
ters from this Office now in the l4th regiment,
where they have been since Nay, 1851. Ii we
could have had hands detailed through the Cover
nors influence, as they were detailed to print ais
new paper, the Conservative, we should have pro-
eressed more rapidly with the State printing.
We accepted the office of State Printer in Novem-
Der, 1862, at the urgent personal request Of Gov.
Vance, on the ground that if we declinea it the
Conservative party would be injured. We have
lost a considerable amount of money by the office.
At the third session Of the Legislature We were al
lowed fifty per cent the prices we were then re-
ceyng. but in less than two weeks after this allow
apce was made we were compelled to pay our work
men as much as We received from the State for Set
ting the type, this fifty per cent. included We
are now paying our workmen fifty cents per thou
sand more on the State work than we receive, and
we are consequently losing at least seventy.hve
cents on every page We print for the State Up to
a recent period we were doing such printing for the
various departments under Gov. Vance as was need
ed out it seems this has been withdrawn from US.
This printing, not coming within the act on the
subject limiting prices is charged for as other print
ing is charged for and in this way we were enabled
to realize some profits that diminished losses
the other work as State Printer; but the Governor
actuated no doubt by personal malevolence, must
have given directions to withhold this printing from
us. We are entitled to it by custom, il not by
right, but we shall not insist upon it
Gov. Vance admits in his public speeches that he
sent abroad on State steamer, five bales Of cotton
for which he received payment in gold or its equiv
alent. These five bales must have weighed 1000
pounds. At fifty cents per pound, the price paid
by the English and Yankees, these fy, bales
brought 81, 900 in gold or $4,000 in Confederate
money Gov. Vance says be laid this out in sugar
and coffee and the like. Who believes lt7 Now
observe the contrast: We are holding an Office at
the hands of the Conservative party by which we
are losing money; and the books of Mr.. Treasurer
Worth will show that we have paid into his hands
as public money, twenty eight dollars and fifty
cents received by us as State Printer in small sums
for documents sold to members of the Legislature
and Others We would have bad as much right to
this money, and as much right to use the State
paper in our hands for our own purposes, as Gov.
Vance had to use State steamer to transport his
cotton to Nassau to be exchanged for gold
When Gov. Vance charges on us the mesnness Of
having Intentionally delayed the printing of bis
Message with the accompanying documents, he not
only utters wilful falsehood but he judges US by
the same standard of integrity, honesty, and deoen
cy which he has erected in his own bosom for the
government of bis own actions.
COBB FOR VANcE-Mr. David Cobb of Edge
combe, has announced himself q candidate for re
election to the Commons. In his card he says:
"North- Carolina has two candidates in the felt
for the office of Governor. have no hesi Ation II
saying that shall support Gov. Vance,"
Mr.. Cobb is one of the bitterest Destructives il
the State. He is the author of the proposition
in the House Of Commons to endorse Presiden
Davis Cobb knows what he is about Gov. Vanc'
is good enough Destructive for him.
We learn thatt delicious fruit the May cherry
was ripening ON the lst Juneon the Brushy Noun
tains in Yadkin and Wilkes Counties week
later than usual The fruit crop in this part of tn
State will not be full one. I'd
LocusTs-We learn that locusts have made thei
appearance in the Brushy Mountainregion of " ike
County. They have the omuous W on their wings
= which used to be construed to mean Kar. VI
should rather have heard Of q variety with r .o
their flying appendages.
VERDANrLY RcH.-The "Local Items" Of tn
Conservative.
The CRoPs.-The small grain crop is now ripen