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possession of the skull was obtained for a
night, and another skull returned instead
OF it. .Ihave heard that fifty pounds were
paid to manage and carry through this
transaction. Be that as it may, the skull
OF Pope figures in private museum.
There's fame for you, aspiring, verse
writing reader. Think of it. The skull
of the author Of the Essay on Criticism,
and translator of the Iliad Of Homer, Is
now in the private collection of phreno.
logist. The skull of the companion OF
Bolingbroke, Halifax, Addison and Mary
Montague, is in private museum. "The
palace where a god might dwell, may, did
dwell, is now the property of mountebank
and Vul gar eyes gaze at, and filthy hands
toss about, that which was the dome Of
thought, the seat of learning, wit and pos
try. Verify, in this there is much to con
sole the admirers of tie logical, polished
pungent and poetic Pope.
The woes CT genius meet us at every
turn. Byron, Burns, Hemans, Mclean
Poe ond others rise up before us, and Their
faults, sufferings and misfortunes claim and
receive our pity and our tears.
Rather than endure what ChattertoH
and Keats endured, suffer what Hemans
and Shelley suffered, and die as Burns and
Byron died, would it not be better 81
watch focks through life and die as did Ii )
hind who thought the world was bounded
by his native hills2
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now all describe in places not far distant from
where write; the bodies of peaceable citizens
slain lie, and the smoke of burning houses and the
cries Of women and children ascend towards heav-
en- and there is no power in the government to pre-
vent this state of things save in pSdcet The war
party may disguise and deceive themselves if they
will, but what say is surely so.
Mr.. Editor, before close this article let me again
advert to the Legislature OF North. Carolina. There
are grave and important truths to the theory Of
our government in various resolutions now submit
ted and TO be acted upon by that body, and in my
opinion none more true or important though brief
than those submitted by Mr.. Sharpe, the Common
er from lredell. regretted to see them tabled be-
fore the recess also those Of Mr. Pool in the Senate
These or similar resolutions, hope will pass the
Legislature before its final adjournment The peO-
pie by vast msjority sanction them. Let North
Carolina do her duty at home, while her sons in
the army are doing theirs. In this trying time, if
she fails to stay this bloody war, all good men will
mourn. If on the other hand, the Destructive war
party triumph, and like cadaverOus visaged ghouls
in some charnal abode, feast upon the bodies of
dead men slain, their secret thoughts will torment
their future days, and sights of suffering and dis
treSs Disturb their dreams
Let the Conservatives be faithful in the perfor-
nance of their duty to North Carolina and her
people, if they fail to accomplish the good Of the
country, it will be because .1= f- .s.s.
"Man's iphumanity to man,
Makes countless millions mourn"
While We have such champions of liberty there
as Pool, Dick; Warren, Fowle, Phillips, Carter and
others, let as not despair of the country:
s..-,-.s CALDWELL!
January 9Th, 1865. - I'd ). :, .
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meet and have conferences on the subject Mr.
kasson and no doabt q large party Of others like
him were surprised, and it is to be hoped agreed
bly, surprised, to hear that the South bad made q
movement looking towards peace Mr. Atkins and
thousands Of others in the South are certainly de-
lighted to hear the good news which Bishop Lay
brings in reference to peace
Why cannot ideas of peace thus be encouraged ?
"Shall the sword dsvour foreveri" Shall brave
men continue to be slaughtered like hogs witho ut
reward and without glory2 - e
Whilst we write, the warm blood from the heart
OF many strong man and bright eyed boy no
doubt reddens the soil. The whole nation is a vast
house OF mourning. Christmas, once so merry and
Joyous, now finds the wdowand her little ones cus-
tered together in. grief Carnage, blood, fiendish
malignity, devilish hate, all the horrors of hell
seem to rise uPpermost and turn the land into a
vast human slaughter-penI ....-....
Shall We begin new year and follow it through
like the one Just passed? Forbid it, oh thou great
and good God, in whose mercy We trust and whose
aid we implore ...-...-.
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ofartillery on one occasion aud forty odd
on another, with we know not how many
prisoners. We hear from Gen. Hoods
own lips that in his "victory at Franklin,
he lost thirteen generals, killed, wounded
or captured. He has ceased to advance:
he has begun to retreat. In the Valley
here we have opposed force of cavalry,
armed with nothing but single barreled
musEet, to a superior force of the finest
cavalry in the world, armed with sabres,
pistols, and the seven-shooting Spencer
gun. --
In the Trans Mississippi General Taylor
was removed for his spring campaign, and
General Kirby Smith, who has not done
the first solitary thing, has been buried
ingloriOusly in North western Louisiana
during the whole of this eventfnl year.
Forrest, whose military genius fitted him
for the most important enterprises, has
been leading a small body of raiding cav
airy General Bragg, it is true, was des-
patched to check General Sherman; but
it appears so far has met with no success.
Our finances, our river and harbor de-
fences, our international negotiations, our
domestic politics, have been managed in
precisely the same extraordinary way
For the first, we have never derived any
material benefit from our commanding
staples of cotton and tobacco. For the
second, the proposition TO construct gun
boats in the beginning of the war was re-
jected. For the, third, We have not appli-
ed 10 European powers in the only way
that we could reach them, and we have
encouraged at the North the Republican
politicians as against their opponents
For the last, We have, as far as it has been
possible under the circumstances, system
aticalle offended one ofthe great original
political parties in our midst.
Nearly all things have been done in a
maligu, perverted way we have been
breathing an impure air; we have been
nourishing a vicious blood we have seen
with a refracted light; we have Prophesi-
ed with stammering lips. Our leaGer is
afflicted with proud flesh; he secs with
an oblique eye; his ear has no sense ofhar-
mony; he has no idea of proportions no
idea of relation he is affected with color
blindness; he combines like the kaleido-
scope he sees with the vividness of the
mailman, but there is villainous demon
within that wrests things out of their places;
like some fine instrument in its concep-
ton, chord or spring has been broken,
and what should have discoursed eloquent
music, utters harsh, discordant sounds.
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For the Standard

-. For the Standard.
A Plan TO Ameliorate the present condition Of
the People OF NOrth.CaIOlina and TO termi-
nate the War. -...
WHEREAS, The war has been raging for nearly four
years with unprecedented cruelty and ferocity as
regards the soldiers, and with unparalleled oppres.
sion and outrage as regards the people at home it
is therefore, recommended that the people hold
primary meetings throughout the State as they were
wont to do in former times in the nomination Of can
didates for Governor, and that they appoint dele
gates from each county to meet in Raleigh, on the
I'D day of February, A D., 1866, to discuss the
present sEt1s u the State and to devise such mea-
sures as may seem to them best for the ameliora.
ton OF our present condition.
1t is also recommended that the other States pro-
coed in the same way for the same end. There has
been five hundred bloody battles in this war; and 1t
is generally believed that the sword has proved .
failure as peace maker. 1t is also well known
that our regularly appointed legislators have failed
or refused to act in the capacity of peace makers
This is a government of the people, and if the
present state of affsirs is imposing burdens upon
them too grevous to be borne, let them cast about
for something better The eleventh hour is not too
late.
Most respectfully submitted to the people of
North Carolina and the Confederate States for their
consideration by DIALECTIC.
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An ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CITIZENS OF
ALABAMA.-The Alabama Legislature, at its late
session, passed the annexed bill for the protection
of the citizens of that State:
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hous6 Of Repre-
ssntatiUes Of the State Of alabama in General As.
semblg concerned, That hereafter, if any enrolling
officer, or other person acting under authority or
pretended authority of the Confederate States gov.
eminent, arrest any public officer of this State or
any citizen Of this State who is legally exempt from
military service in the Confederate States, knowing
him to be so exempt with intent to put him into
the Confederate service to force him to do mill
tary service against his will shall threaten or in
any other way attempt to intimidate any such cit
zen or officer of this State and thereby induce him
to enrol his and enter the Confederate service
against his will knowing him to be exempt from
such service or shall, by any false paper or docu-
ments or wilful misrepresentation Of the law, in
duce any such officer citizen to enrol and enter
said service against his WILL knowing him to be ex.
empt from said service, or shall wilfully mutiliate
destroy or retain any certificate ofexempton, med.
zeal or surgeons certificate or other paper belong
ing to any citizen of this State, who is who shall
be alleged to be- subject to the military service of
the Confederate States against his WILL shall be SUBJ
ject to indictment, and on conviction shall be fined
in a sum not less than one thousand dollars, nor
more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned in
the county Jail not less than six months, nor more
than two years. one or BOTH at the discretion of the
jury trying the same. ...-... ...-..,...
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r., 2HEAD oAEsns4ad N. O.. T.

:. Nea1 ilmingtS Jan. 14lh, 1865.
=, EDITOR WGhstYAE: -BSNH send you a list OF
the casualties inERjs Regims Kirkland s bri1,de
during the operations below Wilmington. Tboss
OF Co A. were cut off and captured while garrison.
ing Battery Anderson Ter Flag Pond Battery. AZ
called oy the enemy) Please publish for the ben
eht of all concerned ..... -
Company A Capt Koonts-1st Lit Joseph
Gonrad-Sergts Link Andrew Link, Thos F
Lannlng-Corpls j N Snider, Thos A Rats. WmF
Benson-Privates P N Bodenhemer, R Billings.
Danl Brlndle, D Clodfelter, j Cross, J G Doty'
W Ellis, Evans, A EyeIhart, A Fritts, A
Fritts, Ii G Frtts, Peter Fry, Fealyet, Alex
Gibbons, Gobble, Grub, Joseph Harrell, g
Headrick, A Hoover, Idol, w ii Keptly.
d Koonts, W Koonts, L Keller, W Long,
Sol Long, Jesse Long, W Laaier, ID Lenard. "
Marshall, Henry Morgan, 81 Newsom, O R Ar.
render Ovens, N R Ovens Henry Popln, W
= Prockter, NJ Pool, L Skeen, L Smith, D r
Smith, K r Smith, L L Smith, Smith, Il L Sink.
u Sink, Jos Sink, 81 Swicegood, P Siceliff. J I
Shoaf, John Shoaf, A D Simpson, D Sheads, H
Stafford, W P Stafford, A W Swink, b Tince. O s
1ice, A Wright, Yancy Willard W York., NJ
Iorkley, A YOrkley, G Oarnslison, Henderson
Miller. - ,..t -
E-Sergt L A Chuse, wounded in foot slieht
II. Private David Criscoe, killed
K-Sergt Saml Tarlton, wounded in head, ryerx
severe. .. .... =. ...-.
B- Charlotte and Raleight papers REQUESTED
to copy. Very respectfully,
49, Q. W. BRADSHAW,
..' s.--.-a .. ----.- Ii Col Comd'g
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5tnll- 4DetktQ 5tanharA.
soNNETs BY WORDSWORTH.

There is bondage worse, far worse to bear
Than his who breathes by roof and floor, and wall,
Pent in, Tyranr's solitary thrai:
lis his who walks about in the open air,
One of a nation who, henceforth must wear
Their letters in their souls. For who could be,
Who, even the best, in such condition, free
From self reproach, reproach which he must share
With human nature? Never be it ours
To see the sun how brightly it will shine,
And know that manly feelings, manly powers,
Instead of gathering strength must droop and pine,
And earth with all her pleasant fruits and flowers
Fade, and participate in mans decline.
The world is too much with us late and soon,
Getting aud spending, We lay waste our powers:
Little We in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, sordid boon!
This sea that 0ares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be bowling at all hours,
And are up gathered now like sleeping flowers
For this, for everything, We are out of tune;
1t moves US not Great God I'd rather be
A Pagan sucked in creed outwOrn,
So might I, standing this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
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nW DOL NOTICE.

Quartermaster's Department.
RALEIGH. N. c., June 9, 1854. I
AM NOW PREPARED TO EXCHANGE
Il COTTON YARN FOR WOOL, upon the following
terms, viz:
One bunch of Yarn for pounds of Washed Wool.
"A ." Unwashed
AGENTS have been appointed 10 make the exchange ct
the following places:
Oxford, Tawboro', Kinston,
Catherine Lake, Concord Rockingham,
HendersonVile, StatesVile, RoxborO',
AsheVllle, Pittsboro', Louisburg,
Fayetteville Coleraine, Raleigh.
~ Persons shipping WOOL to this place will please
mark the packages who they and cotton yarn
will be forwarded Immediately.
hope the people will periodically respond to the above
notice, as the wool is for clothing the North-Car.
0lIna troops. II. A. DOWD,
A. Q. NJ, N. CA.
July 10, 1854. - 8S-H.
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THE LORDS PRAYER.

Our Father God, who art in heaven!
All hallow'd be thy name;
They kingdom come; thy will be done,
In earth and heaven the same.
Give us this day our daily bread;
And as we those forgive,
Who sin against US, so may we
Forgivins grace receive.
Into temptation lead us not;
From evil set US free;
And thine the kingdom, thine the power,
And glory ever be.
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INSURANCE IN ENGLAND.-A writer in the British
Almanac for 1864 estimated the amount of property
insured in England, at e. al 900 OOO and the to.
| tai property insured and uninsured at e5 600 900
| 600, or $25, 900, 600, 900.
This gives us some idea of the enormous wealth
Of population whose territory is not as large as
the State of Virginia. An of six miles around
Charing Cross in London contains alone "property
liable to destruction by fire, valued at 81 500 000
000." Allowing for the incombustibe property, it
may be safely said that the area above named is
equal in value to all the real and personal property
in the Confederate States, and to half that of the
| United States including New York, Boston and the
numerous other large cities.
The premiums paid for the insurance Of property
in England, varies from Is Cd the e1OO to 5s 4d
| per 9l00; the lowest being on "the better and
| safer class of dwelling houses in London and its
neghborhood; )" and the highest rates being charg.
ed on theatres. The average insurance is 5s per
SloO Reducing these figures to another form of
expression the rate ofinsurance first class dwell.
ings, three fortieths of one per cent the rate on
theatres five and one fourth per cent and the
age rate property of all descriptions one fourth
of one per cent. These rates, low as they are are
greatly in advance Of the real risk. at is estimat-
ed that the premiums paid to the companies are four
times large as would cover the average losses by
fire All experienced officers declare that their
necessary premiums might be reduced one half, but
| for the fraudulent demands they are compelled to
! comply with" The premium paid by an honest
policy holder consists of four parts of which one
part is the real risk two other parts the compcnsa
ton and profits of the insurers, and the remaining
part contribution to the frauds of dishonest policy
| holders. 1t is a sad commentary on human nature
that with all the care and watchluness of experts
the cheating among policy holders is as great as the
destruction by irel If mans property be so scat
tered that he can afford to be his own insurer il
follows that he would effect an average saving oil
three fourths of the sum paid for insurance by
! others.
France which began the system of insurance
much latter than England now far exceeds the lat
ter in the amount insured, though the premiums
paid and the losses incurred are much less even in
the aggregate The United Kingdom, in 1856, in.
sured five and half millions of property at an aggre
gate annual premium of S., $50 900, and with annu
al losses paid by the companies of g., STE, OOe-
France insures nine thousand millions of property
at an aggregate premium of$7, SOC, 900. The cause
| Of this difference is not explained The insured
amount of the United States in 1856 was estimated
at only $l75 600 900, but little more than one fifth
of the amount insured in Great Britain.
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NOTICE!

HNHAT ON SECOND MONDAY OF FEB
ruary nNx at the Courthouse door in Dobson, Surry
County, will Be sold
Three hundred pair of cotton and wooden
CARDS ....
And quantity of grain and grass Sythes, for ea.l.
r g. GlLMER,
Co. Com.
Jan. %, 1865. ... I-Wtds:
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Jan. %, 1885.
STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA.

. CALDWELL COUNTY,
Superior Court of Law
Fall Term, 1864
WILLIE GATHER,
g.. %. Attachment levied on land
IN THIS CASE II APPEARING To THE
satisfaction of the Court that Samuel Curtis the DE-
tendant has absconded concealed himself so that the
ordinary process of law cannot be served upon him.
u therefore ordered by the Court That publication n.
made in the North Carolina Standard for x weeko not
ing saa defendant to appear at the of our S
Perior Court of Law to be held for said County At The
Courthouse in Lenor, the Sd Monday after the 4th
Monday In March next then and there plead answer or
demur or Judgment pro eonTsO will be entered against
him. 80
witness: r. r. WAKEFIELD
CLERK OF SAID Court at Office at session. the Sd Monday
alter the 4th Monday in September 1864
This January 18th, 1865.
Jan. Is, 1865. iNTst
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NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT A
IN Boy by the name of HENRY n. ROSEMOND, ap-
prenticed to has left of his accord and offer
five cents reward aud thimbe full of thanks any per-
son who will deliver him to me.
also warn all persons against employing or boarding
him under penalty of the law. = a.
H. ]. P. ADAMS.
Jan. %, 1865. .--.. 7-9tpds
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E0R SALEI
VALUABLE LAND!

WILL BE SOLD FOR CASH At TIE
Nv Courthouse in Raleigh, on Tuesday of Febrnar1
Court al Twelve o'clock onehaf of two hundred and az
County miles from Raleigh belonging to the estat. Of
y. d horton decd adjoining the lands of A. J. LYNCH
Grey Jones, J. Perry, and others " 'DOH'
D. W. SPIVEY,
Jan. g. 1885. executor
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The highest legal tribunal of Scotland, not long
since, decided that according to the Scotch law Of
marriage consent is the essence of the contract and
is sufficient to constitute marriage without any
ceremony or publication, or even without the par.
ties living together; that if the parties seriously
and actually consent to be man and wife, from that
time forth they arc man and within Scotland
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1t has been ascertained that the man who "held
on to the last" was shoemaker So
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Jan. Is, 1865.
POST QUARTERMAsTER's OFFICE, G. S. A.,
Raleigh, NJ c., Jan. 1s, 1865.
TO THE FARMERS OF
WAKE, ORANGE, AND CHATHAM
H0TTNTTES

RESPECTFULLY APP AL TO THE
Farmers of Wake, Orange and Chatham Counties to
brng In their surplus Immediately for the support
OF our army 1 have obtained permission to pay Local
APPraser rates for all grain delivered previous LIST Of
will deliver their grain Immediately and relieve me OF
the unpeasantuess and themselves the notification of
resortng to rigid impressment which will be cOmpell-
ed to do on and after the LIST Of February.
The following are the of my authorized Agents:
Raleigh, Minetree FOrestville J. W. Fort Morris
Tllle j. Morris; and Durhams W. p Ward. Hills
boro to be filled, and PittsbOro' to be filled
W. E. PIERCE,
Jan. 10, 1885. 6CSt.
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MFRS. MILLER CONTINUES TO ,ACCOA.
NH modate Boarders BY the day, week, or month.
August |, 1854, 42-u
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CARD NOTICE.

..-.. -. CARD NOTICE.
THERE Is NOW ANOTHER LOT OF
Cotton and Wool Cards (ready for use) for distrbu-
tion TO Soldiers families, at $40 per pair Agents will
please call for them.
Il. "A. DoWD, A. Q. M,NC.
January ], 1855. 1T
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1865-06-16
VOLUME 80. NO. 81

StNsNSfH oF CHARkcrER Stren-rb Of
eharaeier consists Of two tbings-Do~er ~
"ih and Po-er Of seh-restraint. II re-
q1ires too things. therefore. for IL. .x;.-
tenee-strong feelings and .tro,~ eo,.-
mAnd over them Nov ~e all v~-v os,.,
mistake strOng feelings for strong eh.r.,-
ter. A man -ho bears all before him. be-
lore whose bursts ofiury make the children.
Of the household qsake-because be IA.
ha ~'A obeyed and has own -sv in al
'h'ns'. We call him a strong man. The
'rsin 's that he Is weak nan it Is ki.
passions that are strong; he. mastered bv
the m. ~ weak You must measure The
strength Of a man By the po-er Of IN. fs.l-
'ng' be sabdaes. not by the power ofthoss
that saSsiue him. And hence eom,o.rr,
- very often the highest result Of strength
Did We ever see a nan receive a a.gr.n,
injury. and then replied quietly9 That Is
a man spiritually strong. Or did We ever
see man IN anguish stand, as n Hearved
out Of sohd rock. mastering binself7 Or
one bearing hopeless daily trial remain
''ient and never tsll the .~orId What eank-
ered hrs home peace? That is strength.
lie Who. WITH strong passions. remains
ebaste be who. keeniy sensitive. with man
y powers Of Indignation in him. can be
provoked and yet restrain himself and for
siEe-he Is strong man. the spiritual
hcro.
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NOBLE AND WTu REPLY In 1861.
PhiiiiP J. sent the Young Constable De Cas-
tiie 90 Rome @ congratulate Sexius V.
on has adEancement. The Pope said.
e. Ara there 90 few men IN spain tb.t
yoar king sends ue one ~ithout beardsr
90 sir." sal the fierce Spaniarl. % II bis
nalesiy Posscssed the least idea that you
Imagined merit lay IN the bcrad. he you'd
have dePuted a goat % you. and not a
gentleman %
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ANUcDoTE OF FsTHER TAYLOR. Az
aiher Taylor vas giving Temperance ad-
dress IA koekyhill meeting house. a certain
dfunkard ~as so much offended with his
severe bat trathl1i remarks. that be rose
up aHd began 70 hiss the speaker. Instant
iy F.ther Taylor turned the .t,enion of
the large audience 70 the InsOlent rowdy
and thea very iorcibly said. as be pointed
20 his victim. '' There's rcd nose goi into
cold water; don't you bear it hiss?-
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Al a concert in a small town not far from
Boston. isE evenings ago. youth vas
observed % give vent 70 his pleasarable
ir-Hng' Uy ciappiug has hands a. The end
oi one oi The pieces A ma wh0 sat near
hin. and uh0 vas taking notes Of tbs
proceedings. said
o. Hush- think y0l WoaN clap IL a
d0nkey Eas 70 bray
q" Yes. immediately answered the youth
'' get Up and try
Ihe complainant was silent.