The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-08-05
GENERAL NEWS.

The Radical candidate for Governor in New
Jersey, John l. Blair, is worth nearly $4,000
600.
1t took the copperheads four days in convcn-
ton to drum out poor old Seymour. 1t will
take the people just one day (Noyember 81 TO
drum him home again.
"WiIt thou?" said the Tammany convention
to Seymour-and lie wilted.
The name of Seymour after November will be
changed to Seen-nO-more.
There is but one way to account for the nomi-
nation of Frank Blair He was the tub tossed
to the Southern whale, and he will be awfuly
"Whaied.''
In speaking of the Democratic party, Miles
O'keilly eXcaims ''When shall we have men of
character in place Of gamblers, thieves and black
legs to represent the party?" H..
In speech delivered in indianapolis on the
2Sth OF August, 1860 Frank Blair, according to
the Sentinel, ''Stigmatlzed the Democrats as
hellhounds.''
The President has signed the tax bill with the
provision reducing the tax on whiskey from 81
to so cents per gallon, that the bill is now
law.
Governor Seymour says in his speech of accep-
lance he has been caught up by the tide" He
has, sure enough, the tide that will take him UP
Salt River
Vermont paper thinks it very natural that
"amnesty Tor all past ofeneesn should form "a
part Of the platform framed by the Democratic
Convention; there were many of them who
needed it.
The other day an old soldier who had lost an
arm said: " am waiting TO see il the people of
this country are going to elect HoratiO Seymour,
and if they do will swear L lost my arm in a
threshing machine, and not in defence of my
country" "
This season the Southern rice crop will proba-
bly, reach 90, 900 barrels, or nine millions seven
hundred and twenty thousand pounds of rough
rice, against forty-1ye thousand barrels in 1867.
The whole Democratic party, under the COM
mand OF Lee, was defeated few years ago ny
Gen. Grant 1t will be no more successful under
the leadership of Seymour and Blair.
The Democrats think that Grant won't run
well, because their rebel brethren couldn't run
him out of the South.
| Rev. DR.. j. L. NJ. Curry, of Alabama, has ac-
| cepted Proiessorship in Richmond College. His
chair, it is expected, will be that OF History and
English Literature.
The Sandusky Register publishes free the fol-
| lowing advertisement:
| Wanted a knot-hole of unusually small size.
Address S. ?. Chase, Washington, d. c."
Egypt is in a blaze of enthusiasm for Sew
myour.-SprinGteld Register
SO was New York city during the draft riots of
1868. = CHicago Journal.
The GAINESVILLE (Ohio) Gcynania, the only Ger
man paper published there, which has hitherto
| been Democratic, repudates the candidates nOmi-
mated at New York, and shows decided leaning
towards Grantand Colax. The Peoria Democrat,
| the principal organ Of the German Democrats OF
| Illinois, does not like the nomination Of Seymour
and Blair.
| The New York World says that if Grant is not
elected by clean majority of the white people oil
the country, the Democrats will not submit
The Democrats declined submit TO the election
OF Lincoln until they were induced to do so By
the forciule arguments of certain Union men
who were then, as now, under the leadership o.
General Grant.
Grant will be whipped, says the World AND
so it said all through the war. But it always
turned out that instead of Grant, it was "the
other fellow" who was whipped. And so it will
be now. So says the New York Commercial.
The uninitiatcd suppose that the chief part Of
an editors duty is writing editorials" The
editors of the London Times never write, thej
suggest subjects TO the writer's employed and sit
in Judgment on the articles when written.
The Hartford Post gives this as e new render
ing" by Grant: IS propose TO fight it out OF
this line if it takes all Seymour"
The Border Agricultural Society of Virgini,
and North Carolina, VIII nOlu their next Annua
Fair on the 10Th, 2ist, 22nd and 23rd Of October
next at their Fair Grounds in Danvile.
FA1ED-Amnngst the measures that failed i:
the bill to give arms to the State government;
and its accompanying measure to reduce the ar
my The reconstruction bill Tor Texas, Missis
sippi and Virginia did not get through the Sen
ate. Mr.. Sherman's funding bill got through b,
close shave to-day. The tariff bill goes over
as does the Sandwich Island treaty. and the New
| York Post Office bill-WaSh Star,
THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT for the montl
of July will show an increase of several million,
OF dollars since the last statement issued on thu
31st of May. On the LIST OF July S2S, 000, 900 il
coin to pay the semi-annual interest on tie $780,
and bonds of1S6l, and over Z, 000, 0G0 to pay til,
principal and interest on the bonds of 1S4S wal
taken from the vaults of the Treasury; henc,
the amount of coin on hand is much less. TIL,
| receipts from internal revenue were heavy dur
ing the months of May and June, caused by thu
payment OF the income tax, but are much les
this month. while the custom receipts were abou
the same as usual. On the 3st of May the deb
was 81 $40, 245 ISL "a, and it is Thought, when al
returns are in ior the present month, the ncreas
will not exceed five or six millions of dollars.