The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-25

causes that led to the rebellion, and thereby
treachery and treason against the United
States government made odious.
H. That the proceedings of this meeting
be sent to the North Carolina Standard for
publication. JONAS SIMMONS, Chnu
]. NJ. MARSHALL, Secy.
Just out of their HOles-Four Confed-
crates Come in and Surrender.
The serenity of the office of the command
ing officer of this post was agitated, on yes
terday, by the apparition of four Confeder
ate soldiers, who caves the names and " de-
scriptive list'' as follows:
Anthony Monkas, Co. E. SD Georgia In
fantry, Sd Army Corps, A. N. V.
Thos. Wells, ditto
Jas. Brinberter, ditto.
Allan Tewksberry, Add La. ditto.
| A more ragged set of mOrtals had never
appeared before the Colonel during all the
dealings he has ever had with the ragged
rebels" of Lees army. Tewksberry was a
sort of walking illustration of original patch
work. His clothing had been tied and sewed
and stuck together with string and thread
and thorns, until there did not appear soil
! tary square inch upon it which had not been
tied up, sewed up, or stuck up in some way
or other. His companions were not quite as
| badly off, one having pair of blue, Yankee
pantaloons with only half dozen rents in
1T another hiding the raggedness of his
| grey pants with IL flowing, though ribbonry,
! Yankee overcoat, and the other making his
! decency apparent by concealing the defects
! of his upper garments with an old oil cloth
| fly, awtully bedaubed with mud.
Tewksberry, stated to the Colonel that ne
and his party stopped on the Appomattox,
about miles above the city, after the evac-
uation OF Petersburg, for the purpose, at
first OF resting; that they staid longer than
they expected, and were cut off. They then
made VOW to live on that spot, and never
go home or give up until the Confederacy
was completely annihiated. They sought
out a cave on the banks of the river, which
at that point is very rocky, and after some
little industry succeeded in erecting for
themselves a most comfortable little home
Here they lived upon fish and game and oc-
casional roasting ears during all last summer,
and upon bread made of corn they had
gathered from the corn-felds, and an occa-
sional pig they found without mother, in
their rambles during the winter. This spring
and summer they lived as they did last sum
mer, but recently hearing from an old negro
man that the Confederacy had undoubtedly
gone up" they concluded to quit the bar
barian life and surrender. They marched
to the city yesterday morning, with their
musllets and accoutrements, stacked arms in
front of headquarters, sent in word that they
were the remnant of the Army of Northern
Virginia and that they wished to surrender
upon the conditions accorded to the main
body Col. Milton cordially assented to
their request, gave them transportation to
their homes, and babe them adieu.-Peters-
burg Jnder.
THE MINERAL WEALTH OF THE STATE
Very few men give themselves the trouble to
think, understandingly, of the immense min
eral wealth of our State. AT least ten thous-
and men could be profitably employed with
in her borders, delving for the rich treasures
which underlie her surface, if the attention
ofcapitalists could only be turned in this
direction. We are credibly informed that at
the copper mines of Jackson and adjoining
counties alone, it requires from forty to fifty
wagons and teams daily to haul the rich oar
to the railroads for shipment, when the
mines are properly worked and the mines
already discovered on this side of the noun
tains, said to be equally rich. They can
not be worked, however, because there is no
coal in their vicinity for smelling purposes,
and to haul the oar to a railroad would
ruin the profits. Once the road is completed
through the mountains, these rich oars, as
we'll as thousands of Others, which the keen
eye of the mineralogist would soon discover,
will be shipped down to the neighborhood
of the coalfclds in Chatham county ,probal,-
ly to Greensboro. to be smelted and prepar-
ed for market. In addition to copper and
other finer metals, the mountains of this
State abound in mines of iron ore than
which perhaps none are richer on the CONT
nent. These massive beds of mineral wealth
are so far removed from water or railroad
that the working of them
cannot pay until transportation is supplied.
When that is done, they will at once become
great sources of wealth to the State,as well
as to those who may be so unfortunate as to
own and work Them Even the immense
Juarreys of marble, than which none on the
continent are finer, which this mountain road
will penetrate would, in the course of time,
almost pay for building the road. Strange
as it may seem, portions of our mountain
equally rich in mineral wealth. and
by civilization for the last fifty
years or more, have been less explored and
are less known to mineralogists and miners
than the Rocky Mountains of the
far off West, where the buffalo, bear, panther
and Indian still roam together in their ma
tive wildness and ferocity. Why is this =?
We know no reason but the tardiness of our
people in penetrating those mountain regi-
ons with the fiery steed, and thus opening
up the way for enterprise and commerce.
North Carolina, it seems, has been par
ulary unfortunate. She has been, ever
since our earliest recollection until within
few years past, trying to get com munication
yet she has never succeeded. She has spent
money enough, first and last, on the deep
river navigation to build a railroad half way
round the State, all to no purpose, and now,
for the last. we do not know how many
years, our people have been pecking away at
a railroad from Raleigh to the coal fields,
and it has not been completed yet.
Well do we deserve the appellation OF Old
Rip Nan Wrinkle. 1t is high time should
wake up from our lethargy, invite labor and
capital into our midst and make us a State
of which we shall be truly proud.-Nea00er's
Times.
THE CITIES OF ITALY.-The population of
the eight principal cities in the kingdom of
Italy at the beginning of this year is thus
stated in recent official document:
Naples, 447,065 Turin, 204.615; Mil
an, 137, 100 Palermo 1914 ,463; Genoa, 1877
$50 Florence, ia 1868 Bologna, los, 1896
Messina, 103,3 1924.
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