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RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE, VA,
IN FULL OPERATION.

THIS TIME-HONORED INSTITUTION rs
L once more in successful operation, with full
Corps of Professors The chairs Of the several
schools are filled by able and experienced men.
There five literary and scientific schools, viz
OF Ancient languages, NJ athematics, Chemistry
an Natural Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and
modern languages. In addition to the above, the
Board OF Trustees have established school OF
Commercial Science, with the view of giving to
the young men of the country business Educa-
ton.
To graduates in all these schools, Diplomas are
granted and the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and
Master of Arts are conferred upon students who
accomplish a certain course. The high grade of
scholarship formerly required is still maintained.
We have full Chemical and Philosophical ap
paratus for the illustration of the subject taught
The location of the College is unsurpassed for
health and geniality. 1t is situated midway be-
tween the mountains and the seaboard and dur
ing career OF thirty-three years, and with thou
sands of young men in attendance, there has
never been a death arising from malaria other
local cause. We profess to educate young men
not only mentally and morally but physically
also.
BOARD IS SIXTEEN DOLLARS PER MONTH.
Tuition from $40 to 800, according to the num-
Der of schools attended. $3.50 will cover expenses
of board, tickets for three schools, matriculation
and contingent fees for ten months.
Rooms in the College free OF charge, but the
student provides his own furniture, fuel and
lights. Young men who are preparing for the
ministry and those disabled By the late who
unable TO pay their tuition, will be allowed to at
tend any or all of the schools free of charge.
This College is situated near BoydtOn, the
county seat of Mecklenburg county, Va.
Arrangements are made to transport students
from Ridgway Depot, on the Raleigh and Weldon
Railroad, whilst a conveyance leaves Roanoke
station, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad,
on. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the
Wolf Trap Depot, on the same road, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
We solicit a liberal patronage from Maryland
Virginia and North Carolina, from the West
South and Southwest.
Students will be received at any time. The
second term will commence on the 9th day Of
February next. Young men will be received and
prepared for the College proper. For further
particulars address the undersigned at Boydton,
Meeklenburg county. Va.
THOS. C. JOHNSON,
President R. NJ. College.
Dec. 81, 1866 11S-1wtFeb12.
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Wit.

Wit was originally a general name Tor all
the intellectual powers, meaning the faculty
which kens, perceives, knows, understands !;
it was gradually narrowed in its signiticatlon
to express merely the resemblance between
ideas: and. lastly to note that resemblance
when it occasioned ludicrous surprise. 1t
marrics ideas lying wide apart by sudden
Jerk of the understanding. Humor origin
ally meant moisture, a signification 1t meta
phorically retains, for it is the very juice OF
the mind oozing from the brain, and en-
richinr and fertilizing wherever it falls. Wit
exists by antipathy. Humor by sympathy:
Wit laughs at things Humor laughs with
them. Wit lashes external appearances, on
cunningly exaggerates simple folbles into
the heart of its object, looks lovingly on the
inlirnities it detects, and represents the
whole man.
Wit is abrupt. darting, scornful. and toss
es its analoyies in your face; HumOr Is slow
and shy, insinuating its fun into your heart.
Wit is negative, analytical, detractive; HUI
NOR is creative. The couplets of Pope are
witty; but Sancho Panza is humorous
creation Wit, when earnest, has the car
nestness of passion seeking to destroy; Hu,
nor has the earnestness of affection, and
would lift up what is seemingly low into our
charity and love- Wit is bright, rapid, and
vanishes in an instant; Humor, warm and
al-embracing as the sunshine. bathes It's OBJ
jects in genial and abiding light.
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly
and crime produces its effect by brisk shocks
of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and
the branding iron, stabs, stings, plnches, tor
lures, goads, leases. corrodcs, undermines; ;
Humor implies sure conception of the
beautiful, the majestic, and the true, by
whose light it surveys and shapes their op-
posites. 1t is humane influence softening
with mirth the rugged inequalities Of eXis-
tence, promoting tolerant views OF life,
bridging over the spaces which separate the
lofty from the lowly, the great from the hum
BILE. Old DR.. Fuler's remark, that the ne
gro is "the image of God cut in ebony"
is humorous Horace Smiths, that '' task
master is the image ofthe devil cutin ivory, !"
is witty Whipped.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Ten lines or one inch space to constitute
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Each subsequent insertion, oo
Liberal deduction made, by special contract, to
large advertisers
Court advertisements will be charged 25 per
cent. higher than the regular rates.
SPECIAL Notices charged so per cent higher
than ordinary advertisements.
For advertisements inserted irregularly, % per
cent higher than usual rates will be charged.
No paper in the South has advertising 1aclhties
superior to the Standard.
Letters must be addressed to
w. w. HOLDEN & SON,
Raleigh, n. G.
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CHAP. .CCIL.
An Act to establish certain Post-Roads.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
representatives. of the United States of America in
Congress assembled That the following be estab-
lished post-roads -
NEW YORK.
From Tarrytown to White Plains.
MARYLAND.
From Beuna Vista, via MitcheIIsyille, to Coop
ersville
RHODE ISLAND
From Blackstone, via Pascoag, Slatersville,
Mohegan, and Maplesville, to Burriiville.
IOWA.
From Des Moines, via 1ndianola and Charlton,
to Luneville Estate line)
From Des Moines, via McClain, Henry. Paytnn,
Nashville, and Benson, to Grove City.
WISCONSIN.
From Arcadia, via Burnside and Hale, to Sum-
ner. --.
From Dodgeville, via James's Mills, VIM. s..
Beams, and Booth Hollow, to Avoca. t;
From Gren Busb via Armstrcng's Corners,
Dundee, New Prospect, and Eble's Mills, to Bar
ton.
From Wrightstown Morristown, and Maple
Grove, to Pauquette. ". .-... 80
From Spring Green, via Plain and White Mound
to Reedsburg. 49,.
MINNESOTA.
From Wilton, via Swan Lake, to Blue Earth
City. . .---A.- ...'- .-..... a.
From Redwood Falls, on the J Minnesota River
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ssCOSTARS -
CELEBRATED
BucktTaOrla SaIVe,

For Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Wounds, Boils, Can
GERS, Broken Breasts, Sore Nipples, Bleeding,
Blind and Painful Piles; Scrofulous, Putrid and
ll-conditioned Sores; Ulcers, Glandular Swell
lings, Eruptions, Cutaneous Affections, Ring
worm, Itch, Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, &c;
Chopped Hands, Lips, &C.: Bites of Spiders. In
sects, Animals, &C., sc.
w- Boxes, 25 cts, SO cts, and 81 sizes.
g- Sold by all Druggists every where.
t3g- And by HENRY r. COSTAR, Depot 4s4,
Broadway, N. Y.
Ry- And by RALEIGH, N. G.
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c. MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.


A TIA MEETING. OF THE BOARD OF d.
II rectors of the N. c. NJ. F. Insurance Com
pany, held at the office of the Company i'll this
City the 22nd of January, 1867, after due notice
to each Director, D. A. Covington, Esq, was
called to the chair, and Rev. VIM. Z. Pell was ap-
pointed Secretary. The following order of as
sessment made:
On motion, Ordered that for the purpose of pay
ing losses due by the Company at the dates herein
after mentioned, an assessment of fifteen per
cent on all uneNpired premium notes, in posses
sion of the Company on the Sth day of August,
1862 the 14th day of November 1864, the 27th
day of September 1865, the 25sh day of February,
1866, the 9th day of April, 1866, the Sth day of
May, 1866, and the 18th day of October, 1866, be
levied payable immediately.
Ordered, That the President as soon as practi-
cable give notice to parties liable under the afore
said assessment, according to the charter and by
laws!
Ordered, That parties paying either this as
sessment or that levied the 27th September, 1865,
may be discharged from the other assessments
not paid.
cat the same meeting T. H. Selby, of Raleigh,
unanimously elected President of the Com
dany, and K. P. Battle, Esq, was unanimously
elected Attorney of the Company Hereafter all
business of the Company will be transacted by
the President. Hence all letters must b. addressed
to him." T. 81. SELBY, President.
Raleigh, Jan. &c, 1867 132-1aw4w
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An Arkansas secession orator in 1861

AN Arkansas secession orator in 1861,
spouted as follows
Friends and Feller-citizens The wheels
of our government is stopped, the machine
ry is deranged, the rudder is unshipped, the
boiler is bursted, h-ll's afioat and the river
is rising. Our glorious ship of State which
like Dob-tailed gander has been maiesti-
cally floating down the peaceful stream of
time has had its harmony disturbed and is
now flowing with fearful rapidity towards
the shoals and quicksands of disunion, and
when he shall have come down and lit on
Daddy's wood pile, will be led to exciaim
in the sublime and ridiculous language of
Paul in his epistle to the Aboriginies,
Root little hog or die"
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THE RALEIGH NATIONAL BANK
North. Carolina.

DIRECTORS:
RoBT. W. PULLIAM, President; VIII. WILLARD,
GEO. W. SwEPsoN, C. P. MENDENHALL W. 8.
GULIcK, Cashier.
COLD AND SILVER COIN, EXCHANGE,
VI United States, State and Railroad securities,
bought and sold. Also, uncurrent money.
| Agent for the sale of Revenue Stamps. 2l-ly
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A lady at sea, full of delicate apprehen-
sions in. gale of wind cried out among
other pretty EXPLANATIONS, "We shall all go
to the bottom mercy on us, how my head
swims p MADAM, never fear." said one of
the sailors, you can never go to the bottom
while your head swims.''
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A colored boy of Cory, Pa, has invented
a rifle battery which is on exhibition at
Buffalo. 1t throws one hundred and eighty
Mimic balls at one discharge from percussion
shell cartridges. The machine can be kept
In continual operation.
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Great Watch Sale

ON THE POPULAR ONE PRICE PLAN,
Giving ecery Patron a Handsome and Reliable
Watch for the loao Price of ten Dollars!
WITHOUT REGARD TO VALUE,
And not to be Paid for unless Perfectly Salts
factory! si-is
100 Solid Gold Hunting Watches $3.50 to $3.50
100 Magic Cased Gold Watches, 200 to 500
100 Ladies' Watches, Enamelled,. 100 to 300
200 Gold Hunting Chronometer WIS. 250 to 800
200 Gold Hunting English Levers, 200 to $50
500 Gold Hunting Duplex Watches, $50 to 200
500 Gold &c American Watches, 100 to 250
500 Silver Hunting Levers, so to $50
500 Silver Hunting Duplexes, . rs to $50
500 Gold Ladies' Watches, SO to $50
1000 Gold Hunting Lepines, so to rs
1000 Miscellaneous Silver Watches, so to 100
$500 Hunting Silver Watches, 25 tv so
5000 Assorted Watches, all kinds, 10 to 70
eW- Every patron obtains Watch by this ar
rangement, costing but $40, while it may be worth
$3.50. No Partially shown. -kEs
Messrs. ]. Hiekling l. Co.., 149 Broadway,
New York City, wish TO Immediately dispose Of
the above magnificent Stock. Certificates, nam
Ing the articles, are placed in sealed envelopes,
and well mixed. Holders are entitled to the
articles named on their certificate, upon payment
of Ten Dollars, whether it be a Watch worth $3.50
one worth less The return ofany of our certi-
icates entities you to the article named thereon,
no article valued less than $40 is named on any
certificate, it will at once be seen that this is
No Lottery, but straight 5foracard Legiti-
mate Transaction, aohich may be partici-
patel in by the most fastidiousI Fl:
single Certificate will be sent by mail, post
paid upon receipt of 25 cents, five for 81, eleven
for IS, ithirty-three and elegant premium for IS,
sixtysix and more valuable premium for $40, one
hundred and most superb Watch for Sf5 To
Agents or those wishing employment this lisa rare
opportunity. 1t is a legitimately conducted bus
iness, duly authorized by the Government, and
open to the most careful scrutiny. Try us.
Address, 3. j.. H1CKL1RG 81 CO.,
....-... 149 Broadway, N. 7.
Nov 20, 1866. 1054Sm
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Important to the People.

A. w. TRAPS,
DEALER IN FURNITURE,
West Side Fayetteville Street,
Nert to Mahler's Je,uel'y Store, and opposite tie
Market,
INVITES ATTENTION FROM CITY AND
country to his large and elegant stock of funiture
on hand and to arrive, consisting of complete
chamber Sets, Mattresses of various designs and
qualities, suitable for Cottage or Palace. His
supply of SOFAS, PARLOR, DINING ROOM
and OFFICE CHAIRS, &C., &c, is not excelled
in the State.
UNDERTA KING.
He respectfully announces that he has added to
his other busiress, that of Undertaking, and is
now ready to supply those who may require them,
Cof1ins of any desired quality. He has the best
material for woodwork elaborate silver plain
mountings, plating, etc, and new HEARSE, OF
modern pattern and finish. He is therefore in con-
dition to furnish everything requisite for funeral
occasions and will attend to all orders for his SER
vices, in this line, with promtitude.
October, Goth. 95-tf
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Miscellaneous, Ia .saait
The .NORTH-caR0LINA STANDARD !
IL RY w. w. HOLDEN & SON.

Published Tri- i-Weekly & We ekly in
.'..' 5Htp RALEIGH, N. G. . .....
THE STAND ARD IS AN "UNMIS-
i takably" loyal Union pal er. 1t is in favor
OF the reorganization of the State, so that our
people NAV have permanently loyal civil gov
ernment which will protect the lives and prop
erty of all, and do justice to all.
The motto of the Standard is "LIBERTY AND
UNION NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INsEPA-
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In addition to its political information, the
Standard will contain choice reading matter, the
latest news of all kinds, the markets, &c.
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Five copies of the Weekly one year, SIP. Ten
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five or more will be entitled to the paper one
year free of charge.
The subscribers appeal to their friends to aid
them in extending the circulation of the paper.
w. w. HOLDEN 81: SON.
Jan. 10, 1867. 129-tf.
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

To those who get up clubs of five or more sub
scribers one copy, gratis, will be furnished.
cross ID mark on the paper indicates the ex-
niration of the subscription.
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AwsoF THE UNITED STATES.

Passed at the First Session, aohich aoas begun
and held at the City Of Washington, in the
District Of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth
day = December, 4. d. 1865, and eaaded on
SATURDAY, the tpenty-eighthday Of July, A.
d. 1866"
PUBLIC ACTS. ...
ANDREW JOHNSON, President. LAFAYETTE
S. FOSTER, President of the Senate. LA
FAYETTE S. FOSTER was elected President
of the Senate pro tempore on the seventh
day of March, and so acted until the end
of the Session. SCHUYLER CoLFAx, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
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ssCOStarS
UNIVERSAL
CORN SOLVENT.

For Corns, Bnnions, Warts, &c. .-
~ Boxes 25 cts., so cts, and 81 sizes.
~ Sold by all Druggists every where.
e9y- And by HENRY K COSTAR, Depot 4S4
Broadway, N. Y.
Es- And by RALEIGH, N Z.
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AGREAT CHANCE FOR AGENTS ::
NO SOAP! NO WATER!! NO sLOP!!!
BROWNS GLASS CLEANISG POLISH.
Patented Oct. 10, 1855

Patented Oct. 10, 1855.
TOR CLEANING AND POLISHING WIN
Il DOWS, mirrors, gold, silver, plated ware,
brass copper tin, &c. new invention of tho
greatest practical work, convenience, and econo-
N.Y. Indispensable to all hoasekeepers, hotel
keepers storekeepers, &c. Address c. M Brown,
No. "a Bleecker Street New York. Liberal dis
count to the trade. Price 20 cents per box.
Jan. 10, 1867. 129-1mtw.
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Jri:: ::At5eeklg Standard.
W. W. HOLDEN. J. W. HOLDEN.
w w. HOLDEN & SON,

EDITORS OF THE STANDARD,
Ind authorized publishers Of the Lacs Of the United
States.
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MIDDLE OF THE BLOCK.
Great Bargains in French China.

All other goods equally low. Glass Ware,
Plated Ware House Furnishing Goods, etc.
HADLEY'S CHINA HALLS,
Cooper Institute, middle of the block:
No connection with corner store, New
York City. .
October 30th '7 ..... 95-3m
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-16

One can hardly pick up nsgspsPer or turn street
corner now-adsys thst he does ot and staring him in
tn. face the an that Prof soanso has Just
discovered ausdcine which Is papscea for all the ills
that asshSs, or wsy be hesf to. These wonderful
discoveries usually have the existence Of few months
then disappear from public notice The OF their
sudden extnguishment Is apparent. They were hum
hugs 1t tar outset III sscinsi prepsssticns hsve On
equal chance Of success, as all equally unknown
but the chat IL soon wiunowed from the grain by the
vrStsesEtss which IN usprsBsdscsd public sppiissts
all things There are but few preparations OF medicine
which have w4thsiood lhe impartial Judgment OF the
people for any length Of time One Of the few when We
have now in mind and which hiss been long time Ia
miisr to nearly every u4ehod in the land the eee
brated HosTgTTERs STOMACH BITTERs. Their
almost universal sale and nse and their enpsat5 en-
from ssportoas Of the country. compel ne
admission that they must be specnc for the ailments
for which they are recommended Letters before ns az
test their efficacy In diseases OF the throat, bowels ana
liver In that truly terrible complaint dfspepsir, they
are REGARDED as sure cure In Pittsburgh where these
Bitter. are Manufactured their sale for hume use " u"
mense This fact alone speaks enies in their iA'o
Ertraefs Cssr sA> kasoafia, 0arl1 iaed fs1 . 1901
iunell -dsw
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A soldiers fair in Pittsburg cleared ten |
thousand and three hundred dollars IN 1--we |
dayss The money goes for monument
-Custar has lost three hundred men by
desertiou. The worst of 1t was that every
man took pistol and horse with him.
The New York Erening Posi- IN view Of
the animals taken upon the stage, styles the
plays now on the boards the Livery stable
drama
The hotel where A. j. dined at Raleigh
charged FIVE dollars for dinner that day.
The extra price was in the name-a Estate
dinner.H
va conscientious witness down East re>
fused to swear that he saw one man kick
another, but ..e readily took his oath that he
saw defendant take his foot away from plain
tiff three times. W
DR.. Richardson states,hat iodine, placed
in small box with perforated lid, destroys
organic posons in rooms. In cases OF small
box he has seen this method used with great
benefit.
The Maison Doree property IN New
York has been leased for ten years, at twenty.
six thousand dollars per annnm, for retail
dry goods store.
London has twenty>one daily papers,
twenty. eight weekles, and six illustrated
paners. There are six hundred and fifty pro
vincisl papers in England, forty three
Welsch. one hundred and forty Scotch, and
one hundred and twenty five irish.
Mrs Rosanna Homes, the last of the
family Of Dea. Isaac Hallett. Of Yarmouth,
/ died on Saturday, aged 80. The aggregate
ages Of the eleven children amounted to e2f
years or an average Of % years
"A married man in Williamsburg, \. Y,
eloped with his wifes niece on Tuesday,
leaving wife and child behind. She was also
married. and leaves behind her husband
and two children. The woman was about
p and the man about 40 years OF age
BY the death of her father. in Bath,
England. the wife of Colonel g. l.. Eber-
hardt, Of Macon, Ga, has fallen her 10 an
estate valued at over ; ! 100000. which VIII
he divided between herself, brother aud two
sisters.
The King Of Abyssinia remains true tc
his declaration of love for Queen Victoria,
and declares he will hold the English Consu
in prison until she consents to give him hel
hand.
1t is reported that JEFF. Davis has &c
/ copied an invitation from the proprietor o
the White Sulphur Springs, in Catawba, y
, c., to visit that place on his return from Can
ada, and that he will be there with his iamil.
t in July or August.
e Hon II. s Foote has recommended tn
f practice Of law in Nashville, Tenn lie J
n zealously advocating the extension OF tn
elective franchise TO women.
g. III c;, F,,,,.1 Of Nashville has passe
a law winch provides for the free education c
all colored children between the ages OF iiv
and fifteen.
A paper is being circulated IN Kentuck
{ praying Congress to extend the right OF sui
e irage and to testify in courts 10 negroes j
e that State
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THE New Orleans Republican, paper that
has always been strongly opposed to Gen.
Sheridan's administration, pays the following
high tribute to the sterling qualities Of the
new Governor:
''We have known Mr. Flanders intimately
for many years, and have ever found him to
be man Of invincible honor and integrity
He isa man who will follow out the line Of
his duty, or at least what he considers to be
SUCH, at the risk ofmaking himself 'unpopu-
lft.. His appointment as provisional Gov,
ernor IS one ofthe most jadicious of General
Sheridan official acts. His intimate a, ,
quaintance with the affairs Of the city and
State, bis long residence, and his high per-
sonal character, combine in him the desirable
clements Of chief magistrate. Under his
rule we have no doubt some mode will be de.
vised to rid the State, and especially the
country parishes, Of the many dishonest and
traitorous officers who are now using their
power and influence to Cypress Union men
and protect ex~rebel outlaws. If some of Che
sheriffs do not hear something interesting 10
them. from the Executive Office within q
month, We are mistaken in the man whom
eneralSherdan has selected for our Gov.
ernor II