Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-11-15

General Butler has issued detailed inst.
Major milford, Assistant Agent NJ lotions to
carrying out the arrangements recentIv a4nge, for
between Generais Grant and Lee Cor faoSu INTO
clothing the prisoners of war held by the NJ and
authorities of the United States and the military
All who have obtained for themselves
permanent reputation, have won and secnsaS st and
patient and persevering labor; by treatn, t;I"oy
as waste land tit only for stubble, bnt nue not
estate, OF which no corner is to be left uncn rue
No choral song that shakes the skv
Floats farther than the Christians sivb
An egotist will always speak of himself .;O
in praise or in censure modest man eve, e,'net
making hmsefthe subject of his conversat;or Snuns
Bruyere.
There are three modes of bearing the ills o,r,
by indifference, which is the most common III y. Iie
osophy, which is the most osteptstionS " pm.
religion, which is the most efectuaI f- %Ha BY
lgion alone that can teach US to bear them wi,S re-
signation. vi" re-
Trains are said to be running through from cb,,
tanooga to Atlanta So it will be seen what ~ IS'
fuss was made about the tearing uo of ff,r ali Sle
of railroads amounts to. "AsS
"Job printing!" exclaimed Mrs. PsrtD,,o.
other day as she peeped over her specks AZ n, ae
NSlASlh6 PoSO VI O NEWSPAPER
job they've kept him printing week alto, hOCf
ever since first learnt to read and if be WsSr',
patunist mortal that ever was he never eonIJ I uS
stood 1t SO long no how. But it's proof =; S's
tur, where Job says in Revolutions there's M
to maxim books, nor newspapers nuther,n 'uu
A TENDER HEART.-A certain man in Va.
once remarked that his children were the mo-. Uns
der hearted beings that he ever knew, and m ho"
asked what made him think so, said "Rsc."Vss
they always cry ~hs" ass them to yet a nail ss
todter."
LINCOLN A MILLIoNAIRE.-A Yankee Demoo,...
paper says:
Mr.. Lincoln was not worth five Thousand j.,
lars on the day he was inaugurated. He now WI
fesses that he is worth five millions of dolIaroT "'
Two COWS, a calf, were sold at auction in Cborot.
on Thursday, Tor S3,025.
A Chinese joss House, or tempIe for hal.
worship, was dedicated in San Francisco on n osI
of August. 1t cost $4,000. A band of tans,, .-u
embroidered with feathers and gold and! S,,!!,,
thread, which adorns the place, cost $3.50 OOO.ns.
yard, and the whole b hiding blazes with po5 r..
and tinseL The priests SHOUT, screech veil prnsH a
spin around amid the racket of gongs drums and
hddlcs and smoke opium until they are ouitedrrnL
when others relieve them. The finger nails If n,
chief priest are actually longer than his fingers ard
PAYMAsTER-A man appointed to tell the Soldier,
be g hasn't got any money"
The BLACK CLOUDS OF WAR-Two hundred an,
fifty thousand niggers put in the army.
The war bears hard upon papers North as wel,0
South. When the war commenced there were for.
ty papers in New Hampshire There are now ouIv
twenty one.
Gen LOGAN formerlva Weetarn manic, ~
gress but recently IN command of the 18th corus Of
the Yankee army, has been appointed to the com.
mand of Atlanta, and declared military Governor Of
Georgia by Abraham Lincoln
As the late Professor H was WALKING ns,,
Edinburgh, he met one of those beings usually call.
ed fools Pray" said the Professor, accosing
him, ~ how long can person live without brans!'
81 dinna ken" replied the fellow, scratching his
head; "hOW long haze you lived yourself Siri"
At Melbourne, Australia, Lucy Esteott, an Amer.
lean lady from Springfield, Mass, is now the prima
! donna.
The keeper ofone of the Cincinnati station houses
fell asleep last Sunday night; some passing scamp
possessed himself of the Keys and liberated all the
| prisoners.
An ingenious Pennsylvania has invented ma.
| chine for coal mining, which weighs two hundred
| pounds, costs three hundred dollars and will do
| the work of twenty men.
Maine paper state that Thomas S. Long of Vas.
sslboro', has an order from the Emperor, Napoleon
the Third, for four spans of matched horses.
A sting of q honey bee caused the Death Of q
| young lady of Jonesville, Wisconsin.
+ The Augusta Register notices the sale of dog
auction. lie brought $210. What next?