The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-07-22
GENERAL NEWS.

California promises Grant and Collax l5OOO
majority.
Hon. j. J. Blair has been nominated for Gov
ernor, by the State Republican Convention Of
New Jersey
The Samese twins, Chang and Eng, are Soon
to visit Paris, for the purpose of undergoing
surgical separation.
The Supreme Court of the Sandwich Islands
has decided that man cannot b. hung for the
crime of suicide.
Judge Harris has been elected temporary, md
Gen. o. o. Howard permanent President d
Union College.
A great A merican Exposition is talked of for
1876, the centennial anniversary of the Declare.
tion of Independence.
Hannibal Hamlin, late Vice-Presdent of the
United States, has been chosen President of the
Bangor and Piscatquis Railroad Company
The city of Burlington, Vt, has about doubled
its population in eight years and is now claimed
to be the third lumber market in the United
States.
The districts" in South Carolina are what
are known as g counties p" in other States The
term has been changed to counties in the Recon.
struction Constitution.
The Office of the Homer Had, Republican
Louisiana journal was last week visited BY mob
its press destroyed and its type scattered.
Lieutenant Governor Dunn, a colored man,
was regularly indicted into Office by the Louis.
lana Legislature on Saturday. He made speech
in which he disclaimed desire for social equality
on the part OF his race.
The militia force of Great Britain and ireland
in the year 1867, according to the latest official
returns was composed of $50 officers, or nom
commissioned officers, and 124 ,622 privates.
The Knoxville, Tenn, Herald contains the fol.
lowing frank admissions ave do not want the
negro to vote for or against us, and we propose
to disfranchise them all as soon as We get in
power"
A single machine has recently been invented
by gentleman of East Sumner Me, which cuts
thirty -sevcn shingles per minute, and can be
made to cut forty thousand per day. Only two
hands are required to operate it.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania, or rather
that part OF them which forms the voting major.
ity OF the Twenty-trst Congressional District
have honored themselves by the denomination of
Hon. John Coyodc as member to Congress
A New Hampshire correspondent of the New
York Times says that the State is sure to go for
Grant and Coliax in November, and that Onslow
Stearns, of Concord will be elected its next
Governor. Both facts will be creditable to the
Republicans of the Granite State.
| 1t is said that one OF the reasons which finally
| induced Seymour to accept the Presidential
nomination, after his reiterated and positive re
fusas of it, was the assurance that there Was lit
| tie or no danger of his being troubled with the
| Presidency, at all.
On the California end of the Pacific Railroad
| they have already cut fifteen tunnels in dis
lance OF l37 miles. These tunnels range from
IS feet in length to $50 Get, and the aggregate
length of the fifteen is & ,2G2 feet The energy
| displayed on the Pacific road would astonish tue
Old World Engineers
| General Grants powers of smoking are giving
! trouble to the Democratic journals. The same
| papers were troubled with the smoke this Re-
| publican chieftain and his Republican soldiers
made at Fort Donelson, Nieksburg, Matrices
b0ro', Chickamauga, Atlanta and along the APP
pomattox.
The National Republican Committee propose
to have the following, among other Southern
friends of Congressional reconstruction speak at
the North during the coming campaign: Gen.
| Longstreet, ey-Gov. 10. Brown, j. H. Caldwell
and Colonel Farrow OF Georgia, Senator Alcorn
| of Mississippi, Gov. Holden and Gen. Barringer
OF North CaroliLa, Gov. Smith of Alabama
Colonel Payne, who killed Captain Allen, the
alleged seducer OF his wife has just been acquit-
| ted at Nashville. He is believed TO be insane,
as he claims to have acted as Gods agent in the
uct tut WHICH Ht was nc Is u man vi Tar
ent, but unsettled mind, and is the author OF the
pamphlet called "Ariel," which maintains that
the negro is not a human being. Fs.a.
John l. Blair, of Warren county, N j., the Re.
publican nominee for Governor of that State, is
selfmade man. He is sixty five years OF are,
and is one of the weathiest men in the State
He was born in Warren county, in which he has
always lived. When boy he was employed as
acierk in a small country store, and growing TO
| manhood, he opened small store at Gravel Hill,
now Blair town. Subsequently he became in
terested in the Scranton Iron Works. was IN
originator of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, and has been connected with
several important railway enterprises West lie
has for many years been President of the Bclyl'
dere Bank. He has been very liberal with his
hard earned riches.
The New York Herald says that the American;
cannot support party opposed to the war WIN
out acknowledging that they are ashamed o
their great success, and that they repent OF tlle
adhesion to the great principles on which they
conducted the recent war. The Herald says:
Through the political sequences of the wal
we must adhere to the great leader who guidegtS
us through the great struggle, and help him SIN
to keep the country right and keep down thos'
violent political elements that would swervc u
from the path to one side or the other. W.
must stand BY GIANT as the best hope OF the u,
tons safety and the only guarantee that we slai
not be false to ourselves"