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The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03
Dead Letter Sale.

The great sale of articles accumulated
through the year in the Dead Letter Office
was commenced on Saturday by Boteler, and
has been continued, with the liveliest kind
of bidding, ever since. Over half the i'm
mense catalogue is of articles of jewelry,
largely of the "dollar" sort, but with sprink-
ling enough of the genuine to induce live
ly competition. Upwards of three hundred
articles in the collection are packages of
patent medicines, in the shape of pills, pow
ders, onguents, oils, old school and new
school allopathic, homeopathic, Thompso-
MAN, eclectic, and all sorts, for the relief of
every malady known to man or woman
There are over one hundred and fifty gold
supposed to beg watches on the catalogue,
and no end of silver watches. Also, an in
describable medley of all the varieties of
wares known to the civilization. Amongst
the odd articles thus passed through Uncle
Sans mails, finding their way to the Dead
Letter office, are sets of shoemakers' tools,
packages of type, ladies' wigs, bundles Of
clothing, duplicate parts of sewing machines,
packages of felt hats, iron cog wheels (small,)
lots of lamp-wicks, dress elevators, false bo-
SONS Qadies') shoulder-stFaps, pieces of a
piano, lamp-bumers, hundreds of military
books, &C., &c. The proceeds from the sales
will be deposited subject to the order of the
owners, should any Of them ever turn up
Washington Star.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03
Fence or No Fence?


We have seen it stated that in certain
parts of New England there are no fences
around the growing fields-only fences
around the pastures, wherein all the stock is
kept. The plan is said to work well, the
expense of fencing being avoided in great
degree, and each mans cattle kept at home,
where they ought to be. Of course there is
a general concurrencein the plan throughout
the neighborhood.
We see that this question has been raised
in Virginia-wheth there shall be fences or
not Many of the farmers, whose fences
were destroyed by the armies, are unable to
rebuild them in time for another CROP They
are now willing to do away with fencing as
far as it can be avoided, and propose gen
eral system for that purpose. We suppose
their influence is not small in the State of
Virginia.
1t looks to us like a practicable plan in a
thicl1ly settled district, where the timber is
much cleared away; but where the people
are sparsely settled and timber plentiful, it
could not save much expense to the farmers
to have no fences, but on the other hand it
seems to us they would still prove invaluable
projections. Nevertheless we may look for
ward to the day perhaps when fences will
not be seen around our farms, while some
general system will be adopted for the pro-
lection of ALL But this can only occur
when we are more thickly settled and bet
ter organized community.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03
The First Trial for High Treason.

The Knoxville Wing, of December 29th.
says:
San important trial came off last week in
county, was arraigned and tried for high
treason against the United States, and after
five days trial was acquitted by jury. He
was an enrolling officer during the days OF
rebel rule, and enrolled the conscripts of his
civil district. He was also appointed agent
to collect guns and performed some acts un
der that agency.
1.-THE defence was that there was no gull
ty intent. 1t was admitted that he was an
enrolling officer, and that he enrolled the
conscripts of his district, but it was denied
that he did so with the view of aiding the
rebellion On the other hand, it was insist
ed by his counsel, o. P. Temple, that he was
Union man, that he accepted the office by
the persuasion of Union men, exercised it In
such way as to favor Union men and pro-
tect them, and that, in fact, he never seized
a single gun, or put a single conscript in the
rebel army After the examination of about
thirty witnesses, and lengthy arguments on
behalf of the government by G. w. Hall,
District Attorney of the United States, and
O. p Temple on behalf of the defendant.
the jury were charged by Judge Trigg, and
who, after retiring and consulting, returned
verdict of not guilty.
"This case was novel and important, be-
cause it was the first regular trial for treason
against the United States, that had ever ta-
ken place in the State, and the first that has
taken place in the United States since the
commencement of the late rebellion, if not
for the last forty years. 1t was earnestly in
sisted by the counsel of the defendant, that,
if he could be convicted, three hundred
known Union men in East Tennessee, who
had held this and similar offices, during the
rebel rule, could likewise be convicted of
high treason, while the instigators and lead
ers of the rebellion were sheltered and pro-
tected by amnesties and pardons. The de-
fence was based on the broad ground of not
guilty in intent, and not on technical points.
The defendant refused toapply for pardon
because he insisted that he was never guilty
of any crime to be pardoned.n
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
RALEIGH, Dec. %, 1865.
/" Holden and 90 in, and Worth and stay ont"
W. w. HOLDEN.

0Since the announcement ofthe Presidents tel
egrm to Gov. Holden intinating his wish for him
to continue in office, several of our contemporaries
in the State have twitted US about our unfortu-
nate course, and the delay we had occasioned in
the restoration of the Union by the advocacy of
Mr.. Worth's claims. We were not disposed to- re-
ply then, nor will we now twit them in RETURN
We knew then that the election of Mr. Worth
could do neither the State nor any one else any
HARM and we think so still. WeOnly place at the
head of this article the text upon which they
preached so much nonsense, as simple reminder
and as a warning to them in future. "-Sentind.
We thought we were to have peace when
Gov. Worth came into office, but the above
from the Sentinel OF the Goth, Gov. Worth's
organ, shows determination to continue
strife.
Gov Worth comes in with taunt. His
organ assumes what is not true, that it was
"twitted" into uttering the above, and it
then improves the OCCASION by endeavor-
ing to show what extraordinary wisdom has
marked its course as partizan Journal We
should offer no objection to the self-satisfed
air of our contemporary, or the laudation with
which it fathers itself, if the impression it
thereby seeks TO produce as to the present
status of the State were correct 1t is not
true, as the Sentinel would have its readers
believe, that the State has been restored to
the Union. The State is no more restored
than it was under Gov Holden. There are
various sorts of ibs; the fib selfish, the fib
direct, the fib malicious the 6b by insinua-
ton, the fib by concealment, and the fib in
direct. Our contemporary has perpetrated
the latter
The Sentinel says the election of Mr.. Worth
as Governor has not delayed the return of the
State to the Union. But President johnson
says it has. The Sentinel makes no reply to
this declaration by the President, but like
the Irishman's owl, it "kapes up divil of
thinking" 1t would denounce the President.
if it dared. But the time has not yet come
for that. 1t will come.
The Sentinel says it knew the election of
Mr.. Worth could do the State no harm. The
answer is, has it done the State any good
We have had feuds, and strife, and i'll feeling
in the State, ever since the Editor of the
Sentinel and few other leaders brought out
Mr. Worth for Governor; and the tone of
the Sentinel indicates that we are to have no
peace hereafter. Who is to blame for this
If Gov. Holden had been elected without
opposition, and if nine members of Congress
had been chosen like Mr.. Pool, the State of
North Carolina would have been restored to
her full privileges as a member of the Union
by the first of February next. There is no
doubt of it. Who, then, is to blame for
keeping the State from the enjoyment of
these privileges ? The answer is, the Editor
of the Sentinel and other politicians of his
stamp, who preferred their own ambitious
and selfish ends to the good of their country.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.


GAINESVILLE, TENN, Dec. 2S.-A row OF.
Cured here on Christmas day between SOM
drunken negro soldiers and a party of citi
zens. A policeman interfered and struck n
negro soldier with his club, which the Negro
resented, using his bayonet; crowd gather
ed, and Mick Cuinley, formerly notorious
guerrilla, drew his revolver and fired twr
shot at the soldiers, who then fired into the
crowd. Two white men were seriously
wounded, and one soldier slightly. Majo,
Burd, the agent of the Freedmen's Bureau
promptly quelcd the disturbance, sendin,
the soldiers to the fort, but they soon return
ed in large force and it threatened to be II
serious affair, but as Curnley had escaped
out of town, things were soon quoted. All
is now quiet, and no fears are entertained o.
another difficulty.
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Let il be Remembered.

"The Progress and Standard we believe, stand
now alone in this State in calling those who differ
with them traitors, or guilty of treason We,
therefore, desire to give them warning, unless
they regard themselves above law or below law.
In the Supreme Court of the United States on
last Friday, Mr.. Carpenter asserted, and the At
torney General admitted its correctness, that to
charge man with being traitor-and Of course
the applying to him epithets which mean the
same thing-who has been pardoned by the Presi-
dent, was actionable. Such charge subjects the
maker oft to suit and damages. Those papers
have made this charge very fppantly against per-
sons at different times, so direct as to make them
liable The charge is defamatory and insulting,
and should not be borne in silence"
This extract from the Raleigh Sentinel is exactly
the thing. 1t is time the true Union supporters
of President johnson were turning upon these
defamers. This thing has gone far enough, and,
in the language of distinguished Senator, i" must
STOP" We neither desire personal or legal diff
cnlties, but will not tamely submit to such out
rageOus abuse. We have not assailed the char
acter or motive of any one-havc endeavored to
be courteous to all--and whenever we have in
dulged in personalities it has only been to repel
an unjustitiable and wanton attack. We desire
harmony and peace, and if it does not prevail it
is no fault of ours.-C Charlotte Times
Going to sue, are you, gentlemen And
you are quite sure that to call man traitor
is actionable2 What lawyers Blackstone
lays it down that you may call person
thief but unless you specify that he stole
certain thing it is not actionable. To charge
person with an overt act of treason may be
actionable, for the charge implies an indict-
able offence; but one may call another a
traitor or a thief all day, and not be liable
at law.
And so these worthless who have been
traitors, and who boast that they were
traitors, are not to be insulted" by being
told of it, and that too when their present
conduct proves that they are still more or
less rebellious. This is free country for
loyal men, but not for traitors We are not
to be deferred from doing our duty to the
government by threats of any kind or from
any quarter. What was the conduct of these
same worthless, when, under the rule of Da-
Wis, Union men were called traitors, and i'm
INJURED in dungeons, and hunted down as
conscripts, and hand-cuffed and forced to
fight against their villa When the true
men of this State called for peace IN 1868,
and labored to secure it, they were not only
called traitors, but they were prosecuted, i'm
prisoned, mobbed, their property destroyed,
and their helpless families insulted. Have a
care, gentlemen. The Union men have no
fear of the Courts, but when the Courts are
again in operation, there are certain tyrants
and oppressors of the people in Confederate
days, who will be lucky if they escape the
gallows.
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Death of Thos. 1. Faison, Esq.

We regret to announce the death of Thos.
l. Faison, Esq, of the County of Sampson,
which took place suddenly few days since,
at his residence
Mr.. Faison had represented the people of
Sampson for many years in the General As
sembly of the State. He was also men,
Der of the Convention of 1885, and MEM
Der of the present Convention and of the
State Senate. He retained his popularity
under all circumstances, and was always
strong man before the people of his County.
His death will be deplored by many friends.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03
Contraction of the Currency.

Secretary Mccullough strongly urged up
on Congress the immediate contraction Of
the currency. Congress has passed reso-
luton expressing its determination to carry
out the Secretary's recommendation. We do
not know whether his plan will be adopted
or not but it is simple, and if adopted,
would no doubt be found efficient He first
proposes that the compound interest notes
shall cease to be legal teuder from the day
of their maturity. His second proposition
is to sell bonds of the United States, bearing
interest at rate not exceeding six per cent,
and redeemable and payable at such periods
as shall be conducive to the interests of the
government. This would give him an OPP
portunity to retire, not only compound in
terest notes, but the United States notes.
By this plan, it will be observed, no vio-
lence would be done to any interest what
ever and with the exercise of a fair amount
of discretion, the work might go on almost
imperceptibly.
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Lieutenant General Early, who was sent

Lieutenant General Early, who was sent
"whirling up the Valley Of the Shenandoah
by Sheridan on one or two occasions, left
Havana few days ago for thecity of Mexico,
where many of his friends have taken up
their abode. He says he lis not an applicant
for pardon, and would not accept pardon
from the President of the United States if
gratuitously rendered me without conditions
or restrictions Of any kind" Hehas nothing
to regret, except that his services in aid Of
the rebellion we're not of more avail.
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" In all candor and sincerity we would ask,
what man in North Carolina contributed more to
bring about the late war than William W. HOl-
den? He was the original secessionist Of the
State; and he is responsible, more than any one
else, for the "awful consequences" of which his
journal now speaks.-.Wa. Dispatch.
The whole paragraph bears the falsehood
on its face
The obscurity of the editors of the Dispatch
in the political contests of 1S60'61 protect
their records. Gov. Holden then labored as
no one else labored in this State for the pre-
servation of the American Union. Where
were the Editors of the Dispatch then? Did
they agree with him, or were they opposed to
him Were they among the noble Union
men of that day, who forgetting party, raj
lied like heroes around the star spangled
banner9 Or were they then wearing seces-
sion cockades9 Let them answer.
We could point out those who labored to
bring on war when Gov. Holden labOred to
avert it, if it were necessary to do so; and
who labored to keep it up, when he was ven
turing his life and property in advocating
peace and reconstruction. But all these
events are too recent in the public mind
The people well know that the same persons
who denounce Gov. Holden as Secession
list, once clamored for his arrest and execu-
ton as Union tory and traitor to the South
em Confederacy.
P. S.-There is a popularity about the
Wilmington Dispatch. The Sentinel in
Raleigh assaults Gov. Holden, the Dispatch
follows suit; record" is published in
Raleigh, the Dispatch publishes also; the
Sentinel calls us radical" the Dispatch
bawls RADICAL" (wonder if it knew what
it meant p the Sentinel gets mad, the Dis
patch raises its bristles. Verify, who edits
the Dispatch? Is it edited in Raleigh or
Wilmington In both places we presume
as the Sentinel and Dispatch appear to be
mere reprints.
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COiiisiOn.-A collision occurred in Whining
ton on the night before Christmas, between the
police and some negro soldiers, which, however,
resulted in nothing more serious than knock
down or two. The Herald complains of an ap-
parent disposition on the part of the colored
troops, at that point, to set atdefance the power
of the municipal authorities and suggests that
the military authorities should be called upon to
assist III the preservation of law and order.
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Tournaments.

Gen. Male, at Petersburg, issued orders on
the 10Th ult., quashing tournament to be
held on the goth, because there was an agree
ment that yankees were to be excluded
The general administered sharp rebuke to
the parties.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03

We publish below, by authority, the charge
and specification against R. P. Waring, now
under arrest by the military:
CHARGES AGAINST ROBERT P. WAR
ING, CITIZEN.
CHARGE" For publishing and circulating
disloyaI and seditious acritings acithin Dis
trict under Martial Lao"
Specifcation-In this, that Robert p Var
ing, citizen of Mecklenburg county, State of
North Carolina, and Editor of IA newspaper
named and known as the Daily Carolina
Times, published at Charlotte, in the county
and State aforesaid, did publish in said news
paper, and circulate an article in words as
follows:
eve are still without Washington
news, and look forward to the report of the Com
mittee on Credentials with some interest, though
without hope of receiving justice. The South is
now under more grinding dcspotism than has
heretofore found place on the face of the earth
Raised under form of government, as eXpoun-
ded by the early fathers of the republic, when to
say, " am an American Citizen" was equal to n
king, we feel our serfdom more painfully by re-
fleeing upon what we have lost. We have fallen
from our high estate, and now there is none so
poor as to do us reverence" Other nations, while
suffering under the iron heel of lawless tyranny
can console themselves with the reflection that
their condition is no worse than that of their pre-
decessors The Russian serf, as he eats his bread
o. dependence, knows that such was the inheri-
lance left him by his fathers. Not so with the
proud, high-souled southron. He once roamed
his fields free man, and sat under his own vine
and fig tree, and none dared make him afraid. ~
He was equal, if not the superior, of the mercen-
airy race which now dominates over him." \
And that the said article was calculated,
and intended, to produce hostility to the
Government of the United States, to excite
discomfort, and to cause resistance to the
constituted authorities. All this at Char
lotte, N c., on or about the 18th day of De-
cember, 1865.
FRANCIS E. WOLCOTT,
Major and Judge Adoocate,
Department North Carolina
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1t is said the President is preparing an
answer to the resolution of Congress, inqui-
ring why JEFF. Davis has not been tried for
treason.
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Gov. Worth returned to the City on We'd
nesday night last, and Thursday, the 2Sth,
Gov. Holden turned over to him the Great
Seal, the State papers andproperty, and Gov.
w. entered on his duties.
W. H. Bagley, Esq, is Private Secretary.
We have heard of no other appointments.
We learn that Gov. Worth has summoned
the Council of State to meet in Raleigh early
in January, with view to converting the
Legislature. That body adjourned till the
9th of February, but under this call for the
Council of State it willmost probably assem-
BILE by the goth of January.
The following despatch was sent to Secre-
tary Seward:
STATE OF NoRTH-CARoLINA,
Erecaaiye Department, Raleigh, Dec. 2S, 1855.
HON. VIM H SEWARD Secretary Of State,
Washington City, D. C.
SIR: In pursuance of your dispatch of the 23d
inst. communicating to me copy of commu-
nication addressed, by order of the President, to
w. W. Holden, Provisional Governor, whereby
he is relieved of the trust heretofore reposed in
him, have this day entered upon my duties as
civil Governor of the State, having been hereto
tore duly qualified before both branches of the
General Assembly. -
desire, through you, to assure the President of
my earnest desire to cooperate with him in all
measures tending to the complete restoration of
harmonious relations between North Carolina
and the United States.
1 have the honor to be,
With great respect, your obi sevt.
JONATHAN WORTH.
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Job Work.-We have our Job Office arrang

Job Work.-We have our Job Office arrang-
ed complete, with new type and materials Of all
kinds, operated by skilful and accomplished
printers, and are prepared to do, in the very
neatest manner, and at fair prices, all manner of
Book and job Work, from book as big as tie
Family Bible down to a simple hand-bill. In
short, all manner of dob printing plain or in
colors, can now be performed at the Standard
office, in style unsurpassed, and we ask those
wishing to get any kind of printing done, to come
round and examine samples of cur work, and we
have no doubt we can give satisfaction in every
respect.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03

Death of w. G. Sharpe, Esq.-We learn
with regret of the death of an esteemed friend
W. G. Sharpe, of Wilson, whicir> took place sud-
denly on Thursday last, of Inflammation of the
liver. Mr.. Sharpe was an honestand upright man,
and very useful citizen. His death is much de-
plored by large circle of acquaintance.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03

The Masonic Fraternity of Wilmington turned
out in considerable numbers on the 9th ult. the
anniversary of st. John, making a remarkably
handsome appearance. The procession passed
through several of the principal streets of the
city to the City Hall, where they listened to u
highly interesting address by Mr.. York.
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ENTRIES OF VACANT LANDS.
OFFICE,

SEcRETARY's OFFICE,
Raleigh, Dec. %, 1865.
Gorernr viii you please inform mo
whether or not l have the right to iss'ie
grants for entries of vacant lands, and al o
for Cherokee lands under the Provisional
Governments
l have several on hand, and desire to act
advisedly.
l am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
r. w. BEST,
Secretaryef State.
His Eecellency, W. w. HOLDEN,
Provisional Goce7n.r.
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We have seen the statement in print that
Gov. Graham has been pardoned. We learn
from Hillsboro' that this is mistake.