The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-11
State Items

| There was a severe storm of wind and
rain accompanied with heavy thunder in the
section of country around Salem last week.
| "A l"rge buck, killed in Cumberland
county weighing 151 tie. was carried to VIII
nlington recently.
| Harry Mccarthy has been giving con-
certs in Wilmington. He left for New York.
Saturday
An association Of Southern soldiers,
sound in body, the survivors of the late war,
is proposed in the City Of Wilmington
There is to be teufnment at Newbern
on the 9th inst, Knights and ladies from
other parts ofthe State are invited to attend
The Tarbofo' Sos.taemOs, Of Thursday.
chronicles the arrival at that port of the
steamer Cotton Plant which will hereaf-
ter make tri-weekly trips between that point
and Washington
The same paper announces that line of
steam propellers has been established be-
tween Washington and Norfolk, thus plae-
ing Tarboro7 IN communication with Norfolk,
both by land and water.
Mr.. w J. Vestal, publisher, has issued
a handsome directory of the City of New
bern Our thanks for a copy. They are
priced, $500 per hundred, 10 cents single
copy
Our Eastern exchanges frequently speak
of robberies and attempts at robbery in their
section 1t is understood that there an
organized band of ruffians, styling them
selves 4" regulators in Eastern North-Caro-
lima.
The exceeding warmth of the Fall and
Winter seasons thus far has been often re-
marked The ice-king tarries on his way,
an6 the bare trees look strangely in the light
of the warm sun. Fires have not been ne
cessary to comfort for some days past.
The following arc the exports of vii
mington, for the week ending December 18th,
1866 :
NEW YORK.-s153 bbls. rosin, rae do
spirits, s66 do tar, S3T bales of cotton,
SIG bbls turpentine. 1901 bushels pea
nuts, $500 juniper slaves, 1850 shin
gles 249 bbls soapstone, Is bales sheet
ing, rs tons IRON, Al bbls. old metal, %
do potatoes, So do flour, 48 coils rope,
10 bushels faxseed. "a pkgs mdze.
BUCKSPORT, MES, S17 #. lumber.
FOREIGN.
AUX CAVES, HAYTL-S5.7 57 #. lumber,
261 900 shingles. so bbls. tar, 10 do ro-
sin.
CUBA-1OO,O 900 #. lumber, 6 bbls. tar.
TURKS IsLAND.-96,5oO #. lumber, 49,
800 shingles.
CURACOA.-14O 900 #. lumber.
While Governor Worth of North Carolina
was writing his message, in which he saga
ciously recommends the deportation OF the
bulk of the laboring population of the State,
a large number of his fellOw-citizens, MI
John Pool among them, who is one OF the
most respectable and ablest of North-Caro-
linians, were holding an agricultural meeting
in BERTHE County. Berthe is one OF tbf nnest
counties in the State, productive OF corn anu
cotton, washed ON three sides by naVlgaDie
waters, penetrated by river deep enough 70
float any craft which can navigate any MOTH
Carolina river, and the county town IS VIII
in days journey by steamboat OF the cry
of Norfolk. But two thirds of all the Ianu
in BERTHE is covered with forest, and OF tue
cleared land more than half is not under cur
tivation. So, while the Governor IS eithel
clumsily sneering or is seriously recommend,
ing tn Legislature to take steps that Wouiu
reduce still more of the State to Wliue
ness, the farmers of Berthe naturally enougu
are passing resolutions pledging thems selves
to treat with civility and kindness NortneIn
farmers who will come among them anu 81
tie, and help to develop the resources OF the
country. It is not men like these VINO 9e
liberately write or speak sach folly as inc
Governor has been guilty of. Indeed, sucn
men as he, we are persuaded, are 80 few ~
number that it is not necessary to wish tnaS
they might be made to try for a year or t~9
life on the plantations, with no negroes anu
with their "quarteEs full of Germans say.
or two factions of Irish, or Englishmen not
fond of Indian corn.-Zhe Nation