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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06

The Conservative mentions to the praise of the
counties of Edgecombe and Sampson, that during
the Yankee advance on Bel6eld, almost every man
OF the Home Guard companies of those counties,
then at Weldon volunteered to the State line
and fight the enemy in Virginia. Confederate.
The above, from the twin organs of Gov. Vance,
deserves some notice.
The regiment Of Home Guards referred to reached
Weldon alter hard nights travel in rain and sleet
and they were nearly frozen. They were called on
Immediately to go to Bellfeld. They knew moth
ing as to the volunteering of the Junior Reserves
and besides, Col. WhitfOrds regiment of regulars
was at Weldon, and was not called upon to CO.
The great body of the Home Guards had no conf
dence that if they crossed the line they would be al
lowed to return within reasonable time. Under
these circumstances they refused togo. And now,
to single out few from certain Counties who mani
Tested disposition to the line as the drawer
and better portion Of the regiment, is both ungen
erous. and unjust The men Of Sampson ano
Edgecombe are not whit braver or better than the
men from the other Counties. But they are praised
by the Governors organs, while the. other portion
of the regiment is surred no doubt mainly for the
reason that the Counties referred to are original
secret of this special commendation.
The North Carolina militia will have enough to
do to defend their own State. North Carolina reg
ulars, since this commenced, have left their
bones upon the soil of nearly every State and even
now they are maintaining the unequal contest with
superhuman valor and endurance on the soil Of Vir-
ginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. If
our Home Guards have not that confidence IN our
authorities which will induce them to spring at
once across the line into another State to meet
the enemy, the fault is not theirs Our Governor,
it is SAID, got into passion when he heard the reg
iment referred to had refused to cross the line
Perhaps if he would redeem the pledge he made in
nis letter of acceptance in 1862 to lead the of
North Carolina to battle aud to victory" and would
share with the Home Guards their common rations
and their Sufferings in sleet and rain, they would
manifest more zeal when proposition was made to
cross the line to meet the enemy.
How. many OF the militia of Virginia, or of South
Carolina, or of Georgia, Mississippi, have evnced
disposition to "come over and help US 2" We
have not heard of company even. And yet our
papers, printed under the eye and with the ap-
proVal of our Governor must strain point to un-
derrate the courage of our militia, and to impair
the fair fame of North Carolina in the history of
these timesI 1t is thus that the character of the
State is DETAINED and dragged down by her own
sons
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06

HONOR TO WHOM Honor, &c.-Without any in
tention of disparagng other officials, we take the
liberty to express the opinion that Surgeon General
Warren hes done more to relieve the sufferings of
and furnish comforts to, our brave soldiers than
any other man in the State. We believe that he
ands have had their wants supplied. We believe he
was the first to introduce a system for sending
boxes, packages, &C., to our soldiers in the field
And how many hearts have been cheered thereby
and how many craving stomachs satisfied His in
dustry is untirng, and surpassed only by his ZEAL
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06

TIE YANKEES AT GRIFFIN VANDALISM by OUR
OWN SoLDIERs.-The LaGrange Reporter, of the 9th
says We clip the following from private letter
written to US by friend living in Griffin. The
picture is horrible one, and we fear there is too
much truth in it. so far our cavalry are concern
ed. What burning shame there can be no more
discipline and order among the soldiers of the Con-
federacy The writer says:
1.-THE day after writing the foregoing our Office
closed here as the Yankees were advancing Next
day militia men passed through Griffin retreat
ing to Macon, and after them came Wheeer's cav
airy plundering and destroying the country as thew
went; burning up all the corn, grain and fodder,
and in some instances, demanding and taking the
purses of private citizens When they came to nv
house. Ipointed to my four helpless little girls and
prayed them to leafs me a few weeks suppy-the
answer was laugh of Gerision then pledged my
honor to destroy all the grain, &c, upon the place.
they would let it out Of the houses so as
to save them but while plead, the torch was ap-
piled, and in few hours the fruit of years hard
labor was in ashes Mrs. t drew water and the
children carried it, and by almost superhuman ex-
ertion kept the flames from my dwelling. While
| write to you there wives and children of Con-
federate soldiers (frem whom the last potato was
taken) crying for bread. You have never written
anything of the cruelty of the enemy which ap-
proaches what some here have suffered from our own
soldiers. Men whipped almost to death to tell
where their money was. The lewd women Of the
country, and many who hitherto had been consid-
cred honest, followed the soldiers TO stores, mills
and barns, and encouraged them to robbery. Many
of the officers and men that saw were drunk, and
much mischief was done by gangs of Confederates
calling themselves Yankees. Such is the effect Of
war upon men and women who were once respect
able and it must grow worse and worse till society
is wholly disorganized and destroyed"
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grand children of our soldiers, when the present
generation shall have passed away, and his name
will be coupled with blessings upon it. How much
more glorious his fame than that stained with the
blood Of even the victorious battle feldPr0Qress.
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Still Later.


New York papers of the 3Oth contain a lengthy
official report of Admiral Porter about the Will
mington disaster. 1t opens with an account of the
sailing Of the feet and then goes into the partcu-
liars of great gunpowder plot for the Blowing up
of Fort Fisher.
OF the bombardment of Fort Fisher after the
failure of the gunpOwer plot the admiral says:
regret, however, to have to report some severe
casualties by the bursting of six one hundred
FOUNDER Parrott cannon One burst board the
TiconderOga, killing six of the crew and wounding
seven others; another burst on board the Yankee,
killing officer and two men; another on the Ju
nata, killing two officers, and woundng and kill
ing ten others; another on the Mackinsw, killing
one officer and wounding Ave men; another on the
Quaker City, woundiRg, l believe, two or three
another on the Susquehanna killing and wounding
seven. l think the bursting Of the guns (six in
alD much disconnected the crews OF the vessels
where the accidents happened, and gave one and
all great distrust OF the Parrott one hundred.
FOUNDERS and as subsequent events proved, they
were unfit for service, and calculated to kill more
of our own men than those of the enemy. Some
of the vessels were struck once or twice. The
Mackinaw had her boiler perforated with q shell,
and ten or twelve persons were badly scalded.-'
The OScola Sxas struck WITH shell near the maga-
zine and was at one time IN sinking condition
but her efficient commander stopped up the leak,
while the Mackinaw fought out the battle notwith.
StanQlDB Ine EcColNSu. Luz L 1nlle
was the only vessel which left the line to report
damages.
The troops were landed in one hundred small
boats and after making thorough reconnaissance
of the Fort both General Weitzel and the Admiral
were fully of the opinion that the place could not
be carried by assault, as it left substantially
uninjured, as defensive work, by the navy fire.
The exploits of the land forces may be thus
summed up, as recounted by their commander Maj
Gen. Benz F. Butler in letter addressed to Ad-
.nral Porter. They captured Flag.Pond Battery
and its garrison, consisting of sixty. five and
two commissioned officers; and Half Moon battery
with garrison of two hundred and eight men of
the 3rd N. c. Junior Reserves and seven officers.
The latter adds that Gen. Weitzel advanced his
skirmsh line within fifty yards of the fort captur-
cd horse; killed bearer Of dispatches to Gen.
Whiting and brought away flag from the parapet
OF the fort Finding that the fort could only be
reduced by regular siege operations, in view of the
threatening aspect Of the weather, they were
ordered to re embark Buffers engineers and off,
GERS report Fort Fisher as substantially unlniured
as q defensive work.
From Tennessee.
A telegram from Columbia, Tennessee, the 9th,
gives the latest intelligence from Hood. 1t says !:
That the advance of Hoods army reached Florence
on the evening of the 1st and during the whole of
the next day his infantry crossing the river
From Duck river, Hood retreated rapidly to the
Tennessee, his main army not ones making stand.
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TAX IN KIND.

yHlHE ASSESSORS FOR WAKE COUNTY
will be i'll Raleigh from the I'd January, 1875, until
the 10th for the purpose of assessing the Tax Kind OF
corn fodder moasses sugar peas beans ground peas &C.
We want every good citizen to give in for the soldiers
wives ladies and n6rm persons of their neghborhood
hose who have not listed their wheat OATS rye hay and
wool can also list al the above time.
"OO' ~ F. G FOSTER, o.oo-.
NATHAN lVEY, A'0e'''io'
January 5, 1865. 2-td.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06
MARRIED.,

In High Point, N. c., on December 22d, by the
Rev Mr.. Dalton, Mr.. DAVID S. ANDREW, of Ran
dolph, to Miss MARY A. THORN, of Guilford,
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06

TIE PEACE CoNSERvArIvEs.-A Raleigh cores
pondent of the Salem Press correctly says, "the
true Conservatives will hereafter be known as the
Peace Conservatives" For our part-and the record
sustains us in the assertiOn-we can perceive no
material difference between the DeStruc"cS and the
Ear Conservatives. Let them be classed together
until the latter, if eer shall separate themselves
from sao former We man who is no. "OW for
negotiation and toy peace, bat who proposes to
flight it out" without negotiation, is one Of the
worst enemies the South could have.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06

We observe that that humbug, the North Carroll
ma Volunteer Navy, is Offering for sale among other
things, five thousand bunches of cotton yarn. The
people need cotton yarn to make cloth to cover
their nakedness and the prict of is thus enhanced
by this speculatirg machine called the North, Car
olina Volunteer Navy. A plague upon all humbugs
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06
STOL E N!

ST y l. r n !!
ENRON MY STABLE, ON THE NIGHT OF
E the Sd instant, my light S0RREl MARE, years
ola neIt Sprug medium size and in good order. She has
sta in her face both hind legs white to her knees left
perceptibly lower than the right Any lntormston
gwen 10 the subscibeT at Carey P. D., Wake county
bo bankfnIIy received and rewarded by the subscr
Jonnary 1865 2-w2tpd
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06

AT the time of writing this We have received no
papers from Richmond for several days. So far as
the public action Of Congress is concerned, we OBJ
serve that no business of importance has been
transacted recently. We have r.mors, however,
that the writ of habeas corpus has been suspended,
and that Congress hes passed law assuming control
of the militia of the States, and placing every white
male in service from 16 to 60. These rumors
have greatly excited our people. We would sug-
gess, however, that it would be we'll to await the
truth in this respect, and not to rely on mere
rumor While our people are not only will
ling but determined to do their duty to the COM
mon cause, they are nevertheless resolved not to
part with their personal liberty in any event; nor
will they submit tamely to the blotting out of their
home guard or militia system. The Legislature of
the State will assemble again on the 18th of this
month, and we have no hesitation in assuring the
people that they may look with confidence to that
body to protect their rights against the usurpatons
of the central government at Richmond.
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TENTION!

-uE STRsCRIBER WILL RETIRE FROM
Business on the day of February, for the present.
All those indebted will please call at his Store, two doors
south of the Express office and settle either by paying
the cash or close accounts by note.
]. II. KIRKHAM.
January 3, 1865. 2-3t.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-06

The Wilmington papers have noldefnite iptelli-
gehce concerning the whereabouts of the Yankee
Armada. Rumor has it that the fleet has returned
to Beaufort, and that transports carrying brigade
of negro troops were lost off Hateras together with
regiment of U. S. Regulars aid sixteen hundred
artillery horses.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-06-30

SAYINGS OF JOSH BuLINGs.-It IL
highly important that when man makes
up his mind to bekum a raskul, that he
should examine hizself clusly, and see il
he aint better constructed for a phool.
1t IL very delicate job tew to forgive
a man, without lowering him in biz own
estimation, and yures tew.
Az gineral thing, when a woman
wares the britches, she has a right tew
them. l am poor, and am glad that i
am; for fnd that wealth makes more
people mean, than it does generous.
Wooman's inaooence is powerful, es-
peshila when she wants anything.
LASTLY am violently opposed to ar
dent sperits as bevridge, but for manu-
featuring purposes, i think little of it
tastes very good.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-06-30

ATTACHMENT OF ANIMALs.-Therc
were two Hanoverian horses, which as
sisted in drawing the same gun during
the whole Peninsular war, in the German
Brigade of artillery. One of them met
his death in an engagement; after which
the survivor was picketed as usual, and
his food was brought to him. He re-,
fused to eat, and kept constantly turning
his head round to look for his companion,
and sometimes calling him by a neigh
Every care was taken, aud all means
that could be thought of were adopted,
to make him eat, but without effect
Other horses surrounded him on all sides,
but he paid no attention to them; bis
whole demeanor indicated the deepest
sorrow, and he died from hunger, not
having tasted a bit from the time his
companion fell.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-06-30

A Coon CHARACTER.-Ag good char.
acter is to a young man what a firm
foundation is to the artist who proposes
to erect building on it; he can well
build with safety, and all who behold ii
will have confidence in its solidity-a
helping band will never be wanted but
let a single part Of this be detectj'e' and
you 90 on a hazard, amid dou''Ing and
distrust, and ten TO one it Niil tumble
down at last and min2le alIhat was built
on it in ruin. Withopa good charac-
ter poverty is cure-wI'h 1t scarcely
an evil. Happines cannot exist where
good character not where it is not
frequent visi,f. All that is bright in
the hope ofyoutb' all that is calm and
h;..G,i in ae sober scenes of life, all that
!. soott.g in the vale OF tears, centres
:, ~ is derived from q good character.
Tptefore, acquire this as the first and
Jst valuable good.
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The SORa OF The sIeN BOARD.

:" IN MEMoRIAH."
Twas boisterous night in the most stormy
month
OF a stormy, tempestuous year;
Part waking, part sleeping, part dreaming l lay,
When the song of the sign-board that hung DER
the way
Was borne by the wind to my enr
Like the kne of a bell sad aud slow,
1t sung as It swung to and fro
"In yon desolate marsh is suicides grave;
Hark, how the wind whistles by
He was handsome and noble, lght-hearted and
brave,
When first attracted his eye
He is not the only poor mortal, fear,
Whose downfall began when he first entered
here.
Z" In memoriam In memoriam
Souls destroyed forever;
In memoriam In memoriam
Hopes recovered never,
As I swing 20 and fro in the breeze or the gale,
Distinctly see from this spot
Two buildings we patronize, workhouse or gaol
Both filled by the drunkard and sot,
Alas must it aye and forever be so
Must my song be forever Of sorrow and woe
ain memoriam In memoram!
Happiness and peace;
In memoram In memoriam
Shall never cease
" Alas must sing it forever and aye,
Till man gaineth wisdom from sorrow,
And the world goes to sleep on the bitter to-day,
To wake to r happier morrow.
TIL then continue sad, solemn, and slow,
My melody mOurnful of sorrow and woe.
In mcmoriam! In memOriam!
Shall cease Oh never!
In memOriam In memoriam
Ever AYE, forever"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-06-30

The TRUE GENTL a gen.
tleman, we mean not to draw line that
would be invidious between high and low
rank and subordination, riches aud pow
erty. The distinction is in the mind
Whoever is open, loyal, and true who-
ever is of humane and affable demeanor
whoever is honorable to himself, and in
Judgment to others; and requires TO law
but his word to make him fulfil an en-
gagement-such man is a gentleman
and such man may be found among the
tillers of the earth.
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IRASBURGH. VERMONT, FRIDAY, j

of the United States; he enjoyed ranl
and emolument of its bestowal /; he wa
bound by his oath and his honor to stanc
by its government, and he failed in both
! Where John Brown shed rills of human
blood, Robert e. Lee has shed rivers
where John Brown was merciful and
kind toward the prisoners who fell into
his hands, Robert Lee allowed Belle Isle
Libby prison and Andersonvile to dis
grace humanity and where John Brown
refused to tell lie to save his life,
Robert E. Lee has lent his name to
statements that he must have known
were false. In everything wicked and
criminal, Robert L. Lee is far ahead OF
John Brown; his generous impulses and
manly truthfulness, and true heroism,
John Brown with all bis great mistakes,
stood head and shoulders above Robert
L. Lee. General Lee was Lieutenant
Colonel in the United States army in
1859, and he took command of the storm.
ing party that captured what was left Of
Browns force OF twenty men. We have
never heard that be made any effort to
save the brave old enthusiast from the
gallows. He must know that his own
crime is as much greater than that of
John Brown, as the Shareholders rebel
lion is greater in its dimensions than the
John Brown raid. John Brown sleeps
in the grave whittier he was sent by Vir>
ginia justice, or Virginia terror Robert
+. Lee is at large on the parole of a sold
Ter. Does he appreciate the generosity
OF northern foemen? or does he feel
about Dis throat, 20 his dreams, the sHcir-
cling hemp vaeh Ice rlst kHow ll=I
crimes -ulhej lun To-? Yet there j,
party OF defeated ) ympathizers with trea
son, and mawkish sentimentalists in our
loyal northern communities, who talk
about the 'magnauimity' of Lee, of his
soldierly honor his 'unstained sword,
and all that sort of unqualified bosh.'-
Lees treason dwarfs that of Arnold he |
has been a leader in the most stupendous
political crime upon record, aud what
adds TO the enormity Of his offense, is the
act that he knew perfectly we'll that be
was doing wrong when he enlisted in the
,ause Of rebellion, for he hesitated long
about taking the step when his native
State was whrling rapidly into the vor-
ex OF insurrection. Admiration of such
criminal is only worthy of the source
hat styled Jefferson Davis stern states
man, and cast obloquy and reproach up
n the President of the United States, in
he darkest hour OF the greatest peril OF
he republic"
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The Green Mountain Boys.

After the review of the Sixth Corps, q
week or two ago, VIM. III. Claiming of
Washington, wrote letter to bis sister
at Brattelboro, which has found its way
into the Pa@sir, and part Of which we
copy. 1t is merited tribute to the YER
mont soldiers
"This morning has witnessed the re-
view of the Sixth Corps in which, as
you may remember, are eight Vermont
regiments-the I'd, Sd, 4th, 9th, 9th, 8.h,.
10th and l1th. Seven of these are in
one brigade, the % brigade, I'd division,
under Gen. L. A. Grant. To mark the
Green Mountain State, the soldiers had
all placed sprig of green-cedar or ar
Dor vie-in their caps and this gave q
festal air to the whole brigade. Men and
officers looked grandly: tall, sturdy,
bronzed, muscular, they strobe by with
swinging step, fresh and bright, as if just
setting out on a campaign, instead Of re-
turning homewards after four years of as
terrible service as any brigade in any
army of the whole republic has passed
through. Their torn battle-fags and
wasted ranks told the story Of their brave
heroism. There was the regiment that
so gloriously crossed the mill race before
Yorktown, twice, and then under gall
ing fire crossed again to bring off their
wounded. There were the regiments
who held their ground so tenaciously,
again and again, in the fatal swamps of
the Chickahominy. There were the reg
iments that stormed the heights of Fred
ericksburg, aud the next day presented
so steady front on Salem heights against
the surging rebels, until our broken and
baflled left wing crossed the Rappahan-
mock. There were the regiments who
so gloriously helped to save our right
wing from utter ruin, on the first day of
he Wilderness. Here were the men
who last year saved Washington, and
hen rolled back Ewell's corps of invaders
Up the Shenandoah Finally, these were
be men who broke the lines at Peters,
,urg, and held Burksville Junction, and
marched in the very van of the army Of
he Potomac towards Danville. Where
here was fierce fighting, long marching,
xposure, fatigue, risk to be endured,
here always was the gallant Sixth Corps.
They were brave Sedgwick's pets. The
Oremost among the host OF heroes has al.
gays moved the Vermont brigade
Veil may their state, their counties.
owns and homes be proud of them
ilorious are they who live to return
'loriOus yet more are the martyrs who
CURED out their life's blood and spent
leir youthful strength for freedom
'od bless the Green Mountain Boys"
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CHRIST WASHING THE DISCIPLES FEET.
BY REV. DIR. BETHUNE.

o blessed Jesus, when ] see thee bending,
Girt as a servant, at thy servant,' feet;
Love, lOw.ness, and might, in zeal all blending,
To wash their dust awty, and make them meet
To share Thy felsl-I know not 10 adore,
Whether thy humbencss or glory more.
Daily, my pilgrimage as h0mewaId vending,
Ny weary way, and sadly stained with sin,
Daily do thou, thy precious grace eXpendmg,
Wash me all clean without, and clean within,
And make me tit TO have part with thee
And thine at last, iu heaven, iestiyi,y.
o blessed name Of SERVANT eomprehending
Mans highest honor in his humblest name,
For thou, Gods Christ, that Office recommend
ing,
The throne of mighty power didst truly claim;
He who would rise like thee, Ike thee must owe
His highest glory to his STOPPING low.