Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-02-03

By law, the present session of the Confederate
Congress expires on the 18th Of February next.
less than month from this time-and by law, it
does not meet until the first Monday in December,
nine months hence: The Senate, seeing the exi
gencies Of the approaching Spring, resolved that
Congress should meet the first Monday in May
The House, to the surprise and pleasure of every
body, resolved to meet q month sooner than shes
Senate had suggested. A bill to this effect passed
the House by considerable majority, but on the
motion Of Mr. Bsrksdale, whose relations to the ad
ministration are well known, the bill has been re-
committed to the judiciary committee. 1t seems
this is to be made test question, and there is
possoity-we trust and believe that it is nothing
more-that the country may again be called upon
=, to- mourn second interregnum, longer and far
more dangerous than that which followed the fall
Of Vicksburg aud Port Hudson, when our finances
ran to ruin at the rate of two or three millions q
day. our armies DIV ndled away, and he alone gho
had the power to call Congress together was deaf
to public entreaty, and made no sign.
This disposition to put off the meeting Of Con.
gress is unaccouniable, except upon the hypothesis
tnat the friends of the Admin straton are Of opinion
that it is the intention of Congress interfere with
the Executive Congress- has no such intention
A great deal Of important business is unfinished,
and bQt little time reinans to finish 1t in The cur.
rency question has not been settled. The military
bill has not been settled These are matters of vital
importance and if hurried over at the heel of the
session will doubtless need early revision. 1t is an.
portant to see what the effect of the currency meas
ures will be. crisis is at hand, when the people
will not be satisfied unless their representatives are
IN their places. lts necessary that the new meas-
bers should be here at the earl hest moment Indeed
1t may be said there are hundred reasons for the
early re assembling of Congress and Scarcely one,
good one against it. The people desire it and they
will watch with jealous eye those who altsmptto
thBart their wishes.
Whence cunes this factous opposition in Conareaa
to the viii OF the people? What is the meaning Of
ita Who are the instisaiors Of the movement, and
what is the .sndthey seek to accomplish? We con.
fess we are at loss COR answers to these questions
Is it not designed TO subvert the governments What
then, means this attempt to place the whole power
of emptons in the hands Of the Secretary Of War;
to ct'nscribe everybody from l6 to Co. to suspend
ha6e@s corpus and to postpone ia this time of public
peri the meeting of the Representatives of the peo
pie? Weshould be glad to obtain candid responses
to these interrogatories. = Richmond WAig.
En- a crisis like the present Congress ought to bo
constahtlyin session, and as soon as tie present
Congress expires the members of the new Congress
ought to be permitted to take their seats.
The Editor Of the Petersburg Register says " the
honest; and true throughout the Confederacy de.
maud Holda.' arrest and trial." "Honest" John
W. syme would do we'll to pay his "honest," debts
to itizens Of Rale gh whom be sanders, before pre-
: sun ing to offer advice to !. honestn men,,
Five have committed treason Or advised resis
lance to the isw, let the Grand Jury Of Wake Coun
ty Ifesent for trial If zoe are disloyal, or q
enc ,ay to the Confederate government. then thai
-gov rnment has but few friends in this State with
the exception of its Office holders for at least three
for rths Of our people agree with us ihopiaion.
MONEY Losr BY MAII.-We lose money eve-y
week mailed to US by our subscribers, showing thai
there rogues somewhere, but we do not believe
they are in the of8estat this place. friend writ
!. ing as from Surry County says: II have malice
4 money twice to Raleigh which has been lost. A