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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-10

We have recently received numerous complaints
that our paper does not reach our subscribers with
the regularity it should A friend, for example,
writes as follows from Lhesville, Anson County:
-" We have received only one copy of your paper
at this Office since Christmas"
- The Standard is mailed to subscribers with great
care and we can confidently assure friends that
the fault is not with us. We trust that Postuas-
ters and route agents will be careful in future.
A Postmaster has no right to let the papers marked
to subscribers be taken out of the oe> to be read
by particular persons, or by the public generally
Persons who want to read the Standard ought to
subscribe for it and notrely on obtaining the paper
from Postmasters or from their neighbors.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-10

JoHEsoN's COMMON SCHooL ARrrHMErIc: Bg L.
johnson, Il. II, Professor of iAa.Asaaaties, Trinity
college: Published by Bronson d Farrar, Raj.
eigh, NJ GA neatly printed and strongly bound
book, in style adapted to the rough handling of
children. The Arithmetic appears to be carefully
and judiciOusly written. That part of the book
denominated practical Arithmetic" contains all
the examples rules and definitions found in our
best Mathematical books, upon this subject, and
extends from simple numer&tion through compound
numbers The Arithmetic may be had at the Pub
lshers' Store, Fayetteville St, Raleigh, N. @.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-10

Mr.. P. j. Sinclair, Editor of the Wilmington Car
Otia is said to have crossed the lines to the en-
emy. A correspondent of one of the papers says
he crossed the lines on permit to purchase pork.
IF he failed to get the pork be may congratulate
himself on having ''saVed his bacon" This person
Sinclair was noisy Vanceite during the last cam
pagn. He retailed private conversations held with
US, and added to them in several particulars. He
has gone LineoInwardG Let him stay.
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NEGRO AUCTION AND COM,
asss5 MISSION HOUSE.
nv THE FIRST DAY OF JANUAR

nN THE FIRST DAY OF UARY
" next at the Store formerly occupied by q. W. D.
HUTCHINGS, Fayetteville street in the City Of Raj
eigh the subscribers viii establish an
Auction and Commission House
for the sale Of SLAVES. .-...-E s.r-.... -
have provided Safe and Comforts QUARTERS, and
times will permit
With experience of twenty years in the trade, and
the advantages of extensive acquananc we Halter
ourselves that under stand The business RRd with the
of quick sales and prompt returns
solicit public patronage. ~ f. ASAEm 70:
Jan. l2, 1865. 4-u'
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Extract from letter to the Editor, dated

ne 'G.s-'a -- E..s -dshE WI Jan. Szo 1000.
ave are quiet in Ashe except that some tory
bushwhackers rob family occasionally. They are
mostly TenRssseans. We have q rumor, deemed
reliable, that the Yankees advancing along the
Railroad towards Saltvile, laying the Railroad as
they advance. The border Counties in East Ten
nessee are full of bushwhackers. The militia,
though in camp, seem only TO irritate the lawless
scamps. We are in . lamsntable condition: When
shall it be better O. - 1 have just received the
Standard Of the 18th. The conversation between
the President and Farmer is rch.n AZ
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LINCOLN AND THE CoNXISsIoNERs.-The Richmond
Dispatch of the 9th gives the following statement,
which it says it knows to be authentic as far as it
goes:
. "0n reaching Fortress Monroe, they were met by
Mr. Seward Lincoln's Secretary OF State; and our
commissioners expressing desire to see Mr.. Lin
coln he was sent for, and came Immediately Our
commissioners had five hours free. aud unrestrain.
ed conversation with him. the aIlimportant part of
which may be briefly told Mr.. Lincoln said he
had no proposition to make to the people of the
South, except that they must lay down their arms
and submit Internationally to the laws and Consti-
tntion Of the Uaited States the terms upon which
they, the people Of the North, would hereafter live
together must be settled afterwards He would ex
ert himself to make the conditions as favorable to
the people Of the South as possible, but he could
not interfere with the laws Constitution of the
United States. The question of slavery had passed
beyond his control It's abolition had been decreed
by the Congress of the United States and would be
ratified by the Legislatures Of the loyal States with
out exception.
Having heard this ultimstum, our comm issioners
returned without delay"
We will publish in our next that portion of Mr..
Lincoln's last message relating to slavery and the
restoration Of the Union.
The proposition to abolish slavery in the United
States passed the House of Representatives at Wash
ington, on the 31st of January, by = two-thirds
vote. Several Democrats voted with the Republi.
cans for the measure, though the bulk of the Dem.
ocratic members voted against it. The federals
claim % States and there are 3s States in ALL
Twe-thirds will be "a States. The indications are
that the Legislatures of two thirds of the States
will speedily ratify this amendment to the Consti-
tuition abolshing slavery. In whatever aspect the
institution may be viewed, it is gone. No human
power can save it. If the original secessionists bad
con6ded in 1860, at Charleston, in these same na-
tiona Democrats who have just voted in q minority
in the federal House of Representatives against
abolishng the institution slavery would have been
psrpetuated. But it is gone, and the leaders in the
cotton States responsible for it. 1t is emphati-
cally their work. Slavery was never so strong as
it was under the old fag But I've come to bury
Caesar, not to praise him" Four years of war
have effected what would otherwise have been the
work of centuries. We predicted this in 1860, but
we were denounced for it as traitor and ncendia.
ry. The people can row see who was right and
who was wrong-who were their friends aad who
their enemies. Ian.
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Extract from letter to the Editor, dated

MoRGANToN Feb. Sd, 1850.
You may have noticed in the Salisbury Watch.
man q rumor Of threatened raid in this County
wherein tits stated that some two or three hundred
OF the enemy were in the neighborhood of Pied
mont Springs. 1T is all false alarm. The whole
country has been thoroughly secured by our forces
and there are no evidences that the enemy has been
in that region
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WOOL NOTICE.

0uaFtermasier's DepaStment,l
.... RALEIGH. n. G., June 9, 1864.
lam NOW PREPARED TO EXCHANGE
Il COTTON YARN ZOE 0OL, upon the following
terms, viz: . ..-. - .-....-.
One bunch of Yarn for pounds of Washed Wool.
Unwashed e
AGENTS have been appointed to make the exceangs a.
the following places: d.. .rr.. -
Oxford, Tawboro, hInstou,
Catherine Lake Concord Roskinghan,
UendsIsonville Statesyille, Roxboro,
AsheyIIIe Pittsboro, Louisburg,
Fayetteville, Coleraine, Raleigh
"a Persons shipping TO tAis place will PRASS
mark on the packages who they ERoN Gud cotton yarn
will be forwarded immediately. =
Ihope The people will periodically respond to the above
notice, the wool is for clothing the North.CaT.
olIna troops. L'' as II. A. DoMD,:
-. ..t.. A. O. n, n. ca.
July is, 1854 Ss"G.
..-'+ tn tx.
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Extract from a letter to the Editor dated : &
.".'s yirTe Hfcxsroap. Jan. 90 fseb

"I want you to change my Standard from -
to this office, Barringers brigade. have seen but
one number Of the Standard since came to the
army, and that one was handed round so much and
so read by the soldiers, that il was soon worn out
The officers generally are opposed to the Standard
peace. hope the friends of peace will not relax
their efforts. We want peace on the best terms we
can get A prolOngation Of the war is inevitable
destruction" tE
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-10

1t is reported that the upstsrt emperor of Mexico
Macmillan, has ceded FIVE Mexican States to the
emperor Napoleon, to reimburse France for the ex-
penses incurred in placing the said Maximilian on
the throne. High times, when the despots of Eu.
rope coolly parcel out American States among them
selves. The day is not distant when Maximilian
will retire, it may be precipitately, from Mexico,
and subside into petty German Duke.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-10

The Legislature Of this State adjourned on Tues
day morning last to meet again on the third Thurs,
day in May. We may have something to say in
our next in relation to the dOings of this body.
We publish to day the well considered and excel.
lent Home Guard law passed by the Legislature
1t will be that the rank and file now have the
privilege of electng all their officers, and that the
list of exemptions has been considerably extended.
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Aiming the slaves:

.
We make the following extract from the message
Of Gov Vance to the Legislature in November last
Fon the subject of armng the slaves:
under no circumstances would consent to
see them armed, which would regard as not only
dangerous in the extreme, but as less degrading
only than their employment In this capacity by our
enemies. The proposition to emancipate them by
the Confederate government (which in conscience
should be done if they fought in our armies) re-
gard it as entirely out Of the question. imagine
that such an idea abolishing slavery by the gen.
eral government advocated f1Vs years ago, would
have made people stare, and caused some little ex-
citement This course would 1t seems to me- surren.
der the entire question which has ever separated
the North from the South, would Etultify ourselves
in the eyes of the world and render our whole rev.
olution nuga.ory-A mere objsetless waste of hu-
man life l need not allude at all to the cousttu-
tional question involved, which presume must be
understood by this time. Our independence, i'm.
agine, is chiefly des;rabe for the preservation Of
our great institutions, the principal of'which is
slavery; and it is only to be won by the blood of
white freemen. The slave, however, should GER
tainly be made to do his part as non combatant."
This is sound doctrine If the Governor will
stand to it will support him to that extent cheer
fully and firmly. We never permit our personal
feelings 70 Interfere with our public duties. Ard
if the Congress- should pass law to emancipsis.
and arm the slaves, without the consent of the
States, and should thus not only trample on the
Confederate Constitution ard on the States, but
dsorganize and totally destroy Southern society
and if the Governor should thereupon convene the
Legislature in special session, aad recommend \
Convention, we now assure him that we will sus-
tain him IN such course, and commend him for
his efforts to carry out the wishes of our people
Will the Governor do this Will he stand by and
see the slaves armed and do nothing to prevent tf
Is he prepared to carry on this revolution when he
sees it must be "nugatory f"-when, to urge it
still further, will be- be has already declared, ga
mere objectless waste of human lifei" For snug
atory" 1t must be, and "a mere waste of human
life it must be- if the institution for the preserva
tion ofVhich our independence is "chiey desirable"
should be destroyed, whether by our own hands or
by the hands of the enemy. Is not that SO, Gov.
ernor?
If it requres-as it does in some cases-ropes
handouts, and bloodhounds to return desertsrs and
recusant white conscripts to the ranks what would
be necessary to put the negroes in service and keep
them in? They would have to be caught, knocked
down, tied, and hauled to camps of instruction in
wagons; and then, the first chance they got, they
would escape to the enemy. The proposition is
unreasonable, ridiculous, shortsighted, foolish, des
perate, ruinouS, horrible
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D. c. MURRAY. JAS 4. MOORE. Jxo W. HAER4soS-.
D. G.. MURRAY. & CO.,
GEN ERAh
AUCTION AND COMMISSION
RCHANT5,

IA FETTEYLLLE STREET RALEIGH W Q.
WEAyING REGULARLY COMMENCED BUSINESS,
EE soIicits cousignments. They will attend promptly
TO the purchase and sale of goods, &C., Sc.
-- REFERENCES:
Chas Dew ey Cashier, and W. l. Jones' Cashier Hall
eigh. -....
Harris Howell, Wilmington. r
]. Ii. Lindsay, Cashier, GreeasboTo'. -.~
d. j. A. Davis, Cashier, Salisbury.
T. W. Dewey, Cashier, Charlotte '
n. Mclean, CashieG Fsyetteyille. -..f
Branch, Norton i Co.. Richmond, Va
JAS Cuthbert, Cashier, Petersburg Va
Jan so 1864 81. ..... - e.. .- ~
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Extract from a letter to the Editor, dated

WILKES Co., Feb. I'd, 1865.
" Mr.. Asheworth's resolutions are timely. The
Home Guard and kind of Independent company
protesting to put down robbery, have hung women
till nearly dead, (some of them pregnant to make
them tell on deserters IN this County. They have
done nearly every thing unbrided soldiery could
dnn
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COUNTY TRUSTEE.

WTE ARE REQUESTED TO ANNOUNCE
w Mr.. j. F. HUTCHINS as a candidats for re cleo
ton as County Trustee at the approaching February Term
of Wake County Court
Feb. 8, 1865. lO-w&swfd
E Progress ConsrDltiUs, and Confederate will copy
three times week in Daily, till day.
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COUNTY TRUSTEE.

ENE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
:" 9. p. WILDER, candidate for the Office of
County Trustee. elected he pledges himself to dis
charge the duties of the Office faithfully.
Feb. 9, 1865. S-Utd
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-10

Our readers will find much important news in
our paper to-day.
twill be seen that active operations have been
resumed at Petersburg. We may expect soon i'm
portant movements by the respective armies in that
quarter.
1t is reported that Sherman has Augusta and
Branchvle, and that two of his army corps are
moving on Charleston.
1t is also reported that Stoneman is organizing
large cavalry raid in East Tennessee, and that he
is to attempt to sweep through the northwestern
part of this State to strike our Railroads in the in
terror We give this rumor for what it is worth.
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COUNTY TRUSTEE

COUNTY TRUSTEE.
XUE ARE REQUESTED TO ANNOUNCE
w LYNN ADAMS, Esq, as a candidate for the Office
of County Trustee for Wake County.
If elected he will endeavor attend faithfully to the
duties of the Office.
Feb. 3, 1855. IBID
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ence Of opinion as to the promptness anil ability and
impartality with which the duties Of the Speaker.
ship have been performed. All must conceds that
the present incumbent has added fresh laurels to
well earned reputation, through honorable public
career that will long be cherished as the pride of
his friends, and the inheritance of the country
The present House of Commons can congratulate it.
self, with having We'd with all predecessors in
prompt dispatch Of business and clear calendar.
In conclusion, Mr. Grissom hoped that in May
the Legislature would re,assembe under happier
brighter auspioes-thst ere that time the sword
might be changed into the pruning hook and that
the war worn soldier might return to enjoy the
sweets of domestic life once more, beneath mis- own
vine and fig tree. "a
The resolution was unanimously adopted, and at
9, A. NJ the House adjourned. .-. E..
TThe Reporter would acknowledge cordially, the
uniform urbanity of Messrs. Tucker and Stanly,
Clerks of the House They afforded him much aid
enabling him to supply deficiencies or correct in
accuracies in his daily reports, which frequent &C
cess TO the calendar the journal alone could pre-
clude.' The courtesy, fidelity and dispatch with
which these gentlemen discharged the onerous ou-
ties devolyed upon them, has been, in part reward
ed by the vote of thanks recorded in the latest pro-
, eeedings of the House, The Reporter now intro
duces resolution of like, purport, which requires
but one reading, and passes unanimously
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MFRS. MILLER CONFINES TO ACCOM.
1IH nOdate BoardsEs!Sy the day, week, or month.
.ARgust J, 1864, ''-.- f7+'sf--. -'fs Az-L
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TENAI-EN UP AND COMMITTED TO JAIL.
Il negro man BY the name of HENRY, wto says he
belongs to Benz. Redmond Of Charlotte County Va
Said boy is about 90 years of age front teeth out
raised in Johnston County, N c. and sold by J. Stern,
in Richmond Va. a.--
The owner OF said boy hereby notified to for
ward prove property pay charges and take him away
lie will be dealt with as the law directs
WIN. H. CULLOM, Sheriff.
Johnston County N. C.
Jan. 20, 1855. e-H
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FOR SALE
VALUABLE LAND!

NNTILL BE SOLD FOR CASH AT THE
w Courthouse in Raleigh, on Tuesday of FebruAr
Court at twelve o'clock, nnehaf of hundr and six
ty of land lying the Coaeld Railroad in Wake
County IA miles from Raleigh belonging the estate Of
c. H. Horton decd adjoining the lands of A. J. Lynch,
Grey Jones, }. X; Perry, aDd others.
D. W. SPIVEY,
Executor.
Jan. %, 1885. -ts.
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RALEIGH: FRIDAY. FEB. 10. 1855.
The Confederate, of this City, after giving tn
terms of peace offered by Mr.. Lincoln to the Sou

The Confederate, of this City, after giving the
terms of peace offered by Mr.. Lincoln to the Sou
therR people, says:A
these propositions impress us wait to see wheth
those who have heretofore differed from US, will
offer US hopes Of united action"
The Legislature oE this State, which has just ad
journed, would neither make war nor make peace
1t seemed to halt between two opinions. The reply
of Mr. Lincoln was known to that body before il
adjourned, and yet it neither prolonged its session
nor expressed its views in relation to the terms
which he had offered us. 1t said neither yea nor
nay to those terms. Of course we speak of the
majority, composed of Davis and Vance Destruc-
tives. Even the Editor of the Confederate, who
speaks for the Confederate officials in tins State and
for the Destructive party "waits to see' what his
political opponents will do, before he buckles on
his armor and hurls defiance at President Lincoln
Binder these circumstances, what are zoe to do
If the Editor of the Confederate and those who
agree with him. think there is reasonable ground for
hoping that Grant and Sherman can be driven back,
the federal armies generally defeated our lost ter
ritory reganed, and that as the result of this, the
enemy will sue for peace and then give US indepen-
dence,-we say, if they think there is reasonable
ground for hoping for this. let them urge on the
war; but let them remember that the Confederacy
will need, in order to make successful headway in
the field at least two hundred thousand more men,
to say nothing of negro soldiers and that supplies
must be produced for the army and the people at
home. If the war fever is increasing, and if the
purpose is TO fight it out" to the last extremity,
why is it that We hear of no volunteering, and of
no efforts to raise companies to meet the enemy?
But suppose there should be no reasonable
ground to hope for success and that, from very
desperation, the war should be prosecuted six
months longer, and fifty thousand more lives should
belost and all these States should be overrun and
subjugated, aud utter ruin should thus befan us.
sweeping into its vortex our slaves ard the unof-
Tending women and children and the States should
be reduced to a territorial condition an6 military
Governors placed over them and they should be
held in this condition for years ;-snppose these
results should take place, what would be the feelings
and the fate of those whom the people would regard
as instrumental in causing all these calamities!
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-22
Rock ISLAND POST OFFICE
Winter Mail Arrangement.

Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Mail arrives at
$3.50 A. M, and 4:46 p. N. Closes at 7.20 A.
M, and 1880 P. M.
Sterling and Rock island Railroad Mail, via Mo-
line, Waterfowl, Hampton, Rapids City, Port
Byron and Cordova arrives at $50 q. m, and
closes at 4.30 p.
Davenport Mail arrives at 100 A. ID. and 500
p. M. Closes 500 A. NJ, and 4.l5P. M.
oquawka Mail via Pleasant Ridge, Hazlitt, Ham
let, Perryton, Aledo, Monroe, New Boston and
Keithsburg, to oquawka, leaves Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday, at A. NJ. Arrives Tues
day, Thursday aud Saturday, at AZ. M.
4 Aaeomb Mail, via. Presumption, Farlow's
Grove, Viola, Pope Creek, North HeLder-
son and Monmouth to Macomb, leaves We'd
rs nasday and Saturday at A. N. Arrives Tues
day and Friday at 7P. III.
Centre Point Mail, via Rural, Prarie6eld, Rich
land Grave, Centre Ridge, Oxford, North Prairie
I'D Henderson, to Centre Point, leaves We'd
nesday and Saturday at A. M. Arrives Tuesday
and Friday at 6 p.
cambridge Mail via: Coal Valley, Pennsylvania,
Orion and Andover, to Cambridge, leaves
Monday and Friday, at A.. M Arrives Thurs
day and Saturday at P. M. .-.-..
Office hours from A. N. to 500 P. N.
On Sunday open from to loam.
G. TRUESDALE p. NJ.
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3ailroads
Chicago 4 Rock Island Ran Read.
kN0A2 s -
GRANGE OF TIME.

-- GAE CHANGE OF TIME. szasv
WINTER ARIA EMENT
On and after Sunday, Now 9th, 1864, until
turther notice ,trains will leave Rock Island Depot
a. follows:
EAST -4
Day Express and Mail train al 7.50 m, arriving
IN Chicago at 4.S0 m. a ' l'-- T
Through hfreight tram al Io:l5 a. m-, arriving in
Chicago ID M.
Express Freight tram, at 545 p. M, arriving in
Chicago, at $40 a M. --tEr
Night cypress ats.00 p m, arriving in Chicago
at boo a. m. III
TRAINS ARRIVE FRon THE EAST:
Night Express at $50 a m, LEAVING Chicago At
IL midnight -.r ..-- .
Express Freight train, at 7.l5 a. m, leaving
Chicago al $40 o. m. lH1-z-
Throagh Freight at 4 p. M, leaving Chicago
6.45 p. m.
Day Express and Mail at 4.45 p m, leaving Chi.
-cagO at $40 In. T. 80 Ea.<r -
Ali trains over this road direct connection
at Chicago with trains the Michigan South
ern, the Michigan Central, and the PiIisburgh and
Fort ayne Railroad, to and from Detroit, To-
iedo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, PIiisburgh,
Dunklrk, Buffalo, Niagara Fails, Albany, New
York, PhiiadelPhIa, BaltInere, and W ashInglon.
Also at LaSalle with trains of the Illinois Gen.
tral Road, North TO Gsiena and south to st. Lou
u, anu SaAro. aF .a --rsl.y e ~
Passengers are reminded ofthe essIty of Civ
ing distinct directions the DESTINATION of thei
baggage also to procure tickets before king thei
seats In the cars, as the conductors coliecI fare
only to stations the line OF the Chicago and Rock
Island Railroad JOHN r. TRACY, Snp't.
w. ii. WHITMAN, Ass't Sup,t. ~1.-LEGI1---
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business Gards.

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MO. 81, PARK ROW, New York, and 6
Y State Street, Boston, are our Agents tor the
DAILY WEEKLY ARGUS, IN those cities, and
.lllJrIzed take Advertisements and Sub
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