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Year: 1863

A knowing" piece of calico indulges her
self in the following provoking and tantaliz-
ing strain:--


Well, we reckon some folks would really
like to know what we thought of kissing
Let's see. In the first place. we thought what
an absurd idea it is in a man to ask lady to
kiss him just as if he, the senseless being
thought the poor little trembling creature were
going to do it, The idea of man asking for
a thing so easily obtained! Why it is ridic-
ulous and man with the least particle Of
brains would hoot at the idea. She'd say
mo" till doomsday. And you, poor unbe-
lever, would forego the happiness of drawing
nectar from the rosebud month, simply be-
cause you were ignoramus enough to ask for
what you might have taken. There are ten
thousand ways to kiss girl without asking
the pleasure Direct her attention to some
thing ON the table, ask for book you know
to be there, and while she is there go with
the affected purpose of helping her to look for
it be particular to get to her left side--do
you need more telling? If you do you do not
deserve the kiss that you might so gracefully
have taken. A man who would ask kiss of
a fair maiden ought to be tarred and feather
ed, as a craven-hearted monster, Don't you
do it--don't, for goodness sake ask the girls
to kiss you. Kiss them if you want to, but
do it like gentlemen. Kiss them if you can.
Year: 1863

Years ago in our Western country young
couple were united in marriage. They at
once entered their humble abode, containing
.lg4- -saasas. ON scriYiinc= as a Kitchen. end
diuing-rool4, and the other us sleeping apart
ment. The bride was a simple-hearted child
of God, but the husband knew of religion
only by the hearing of the ear. 1t was not
long before the latter discovered that at a
Certain time every morning his wife disap-
peared and was nowhere to be found. The
mystery was soon solved. This was her hour
of secret prayer. Here was a new and no
welcome revelation. One in affection, one by
ordinance of God in bonds which only crime
or death could sunder, between them yawned
gulf wide as between heaven and earth.
To the wife was open world of hopes and
Joys to which the husband was stranger
While he was engaged in such reflections
every day the silent sermon was preached.
At length he could endure 1t no longer. By
Divine grace he was drawn step by step to
faith and repentance, and ere long he found
himself by the side of his companion at the
same mercy seat, and at the same communion
table.


A Christian patriarch relates of his own
history: When young man, | was distin-
guished for profanity and ungodliness
married. however, strange as it may seem, a
young woman of exemplary piety, and we
went at once into our humble home, full OF
anticipations of happiness. As the first day
of our residence in our new abode drew to a
close, the supper table being removed, my
wife, without saying word, placed little
table by my side, laid a Bible on it, and sat
down opposite to me in evident expectation
that would conduct family worship. What
could do? was spellbound. l could moi
disappoint her. She probably knew nothing
of my profanity and wickedness. And YET
how could such wretch as | kneel before
! Almighty God and utter words of devotion
a ct did. read and prayed But oh al
! | took the name of Jehovah on my lips, ;
terrible sense of guilt and hypocrisy stuns
my soul. rose from my knees in anguisl
of spirit.


Another day rolled by, another sunse
came. Again the tea-table was spread an'
removed, and before l was aware, there a
my side was the same stand with the dread
full Bible upon it, and my wife seated in full
expectation of the evening devotions. Hav
ing yielded once, l was less able to resis
again. and again yielded. A new horro
now came on me-a dread lest, like Uzzah,
should perish in my sacreligious act. Th
sins of a lifetime stared me in the face; m.
soul and Satan bade me curse God and die
Morning brought only deepened sense Q
guilt, and all day long I could do nothing bu
brood over the gall of bitterness within me
and the bonds of iniquity which bound me.


The third evening drew nigh, and with
the inevitable table with its sacred furniture
To yield again was impossible. Increasin
horror took hold upon me- As sought n
aid from Heaven, Satan volunteered his. nj
mind was made up. l resolved on suicid


A rope hung from tree in the orchard, wit
which purposed to terminate, as | mad
dreamed, the horrors of my soul. We toe
our third and as l believed, our last supp'


together fingered in therroom until ! sa
Year: 1863

Women that are the least bashful, are not
unfrequently the most modest; and we
are never more deceived than. when we would
infer any laxity of principle from that free
dom of demeanor which often arises from a
total ignorance of vice. Prudery, on the
contrary, is often assumed rather to keep off
the suspicion of criminality, than criminality
ITSELF and is resorted to to defend the fair
wearer, not from the whispers of our sex, but
of her own; it is cumbersome panoply,
and like heavy armor, is seldom worn, ex-
cept by those who attire themselves for the
combat, or who have received wound.
Year: 1863

Lord Byron said: "The mechanics and
workingmen who can maintain their families,
are, in my opinion, the happiest body OF men,
Poverty is wretchedness, but even poverty is,
perhaps, to be preferred to the heartless, un-
meaning dissipation of the higher orders. =
Another author says: "I have no propensity
to envy any one, least of all the rich and
great; but if 1 were disposed to this weak
ness, the subject of my envy would be a
healthy young man, in full possession of his
strength and faculties, going forth in morn
ing to work for his wife and children, OF
bringing them home his wages at night"
Year: 1863

l would that l could utter


My feelings without shame,
And tell him how 1 love him,


Nor wrong my virgin fame. /,
Alas ! to seize the moment
When heart inclines to hear.
And press a suit with passion


Is not.a woman's part.


IF man comes not to gather


The roses where they stand,
They fade among the foliage
They cannot seek his hand.
Year: 1863

REPENTANCE hath purifying power, and
every tear is of cleansing virtue; but these
penitential clouds must be still kept dropping
one shower will not suffice, for repentance is
not one single action but course.
Year: 1863

An EXCHANGE comes to us with notice
that "Truth" is crowded out of this issue
This is almost as bad as the up-country editor
who said, "For the evil effects of Intoxicating
drink see our inside"
Year: 1863

The following is from correspondent OF
the American Agriculturist


"I have dwarf pear trees fifteen years old
in NV gardsn-thritty, hardy. produc i've.
and bidding AS fair 20 live the next ii ty
years as any standard tree upon my grounds.
The complaints against these pets of the
garden. am fully persuaded. are owing
more to nesec, aud acknowledgement than
to any inherent difficulty. Some varieties
will not flourish on the ounce stock the
fruit books will point them out do not
plant such. They will not be productive
on grass land. or in hard inflexible soil do
not plant them there. They want deep.
rich, mellow border. at least eighteen inches
in depth if you cannot afford to prepare
border. do not purchase dwarf pear trees
In addition to being properly planted. they
must have care every season. Now they
should be shortened in. about two thirds of
the last seasons growth. This keeps hem
F." stocky." and prepares them to sustain a
great burden Of fruit. They also want a
barrow-iull OF stable manure put around
them every fall. The ounce roots cannot
70 tar in search of food. They should have
al they can take up within six or eight feet
Of the tree. With manure and good man
agemsns dwarf pears will be a success"
Year: 1863

EVIDENCES OF VITALITY.-It must be
refreshing to every one who feels an inter
est in the steady growth and advancement
of our city, as he threads the streets on his
way to his place of business, or strolls
merely on peregrination of pleasure, to
witness the many signs of life and business
activity which fail not to loom up before
his vision on every hand. The accommo
dating merchants on Main street seem to
be generally busy with their customers
from the surrounding valley, from the vari-
Gus mining sections that environ US, or
with the demands for supplies made by our
own community. The echo of the il on
hammer, the click of the scissors, and the
muffled sound Of the brush, tell plainly
of the toiling industry of our artisans,
whether carpenter, blacksmith, shoemaker,
timer or painter: each is engaged in the
special branch of industrial pursuit that
choice or fate has assigned him from ''eatly
morn till dewy eve, and with remunera-
tive compensation for the work he turns
out The many sojourners we may expect
among us during the coming winter, to-
gether with the diversified wants that will
have to be supplied, must impart fresh
and unusual impetus to every channel of
trade and mechanical calling. This will
iufuse new life into our people, reintigo-
ate their energies, encourage them to make
still larger investments and prosecute more
e2tensive projects on the return of Spring
and we shall thus be enabled step by step,
year by year, to build up mart of inland
trade which shall be alike creditable to our
energy and zeal, and promotive of our ma
terial and social comforts.
Year: 1863

A WAR DEMoCRAT.-JohnM NJ. CaDnady,
Democratic candidate for tie Delegateship
in Idaho Territory is emphatically War
Democrat. He holds that the present re-
bellion shall be put down, aud that ii is the
duty of every man loyal to the Federal
Government to give his voice and his aid
toward sustaining our armies in the field
in opposition to rebellion aGSd 10 unbold
the Constitution as it was framed by the
uHnGuers of the Republic. Entertaining
these views of lofty patriotism, the charges
of "COpperhead," traitor, etc. cannot
affect him. Copperheads are opposed to the
war to put down rebellion, and opposed to
giving another man or another dollar to-
ward supporting the war. Mr.. Cannady is
in favor of giving both men and money
to sustain the Federal Government in its
effort to crush the rebellion and maintain
the Union as it was, and hence he cannot
have traitorous instinct about him.
Year: 1863

FATAL AcCIDENT.-One day last week,
while Mr. James Gordon was on his way
from his home on the Walla Walla to this
city with load of lumber-having his fam
lily on the wagon-a small child fell from
the wagon, the wheel passing over its
head and killing it instantly.
Year: 1863

The Golden Age says :he Democrats of
Lewiston are for putting down the rebel
lion for polcy's sake We like that sort
of policy and hope the Democrats at Lew
iston as well as all others throughout the
land will advocate it until the rebellion is
nut down
Year: 1863




In times like these the chief requisite to public
servant is unwavering fidelity to our cause. 1t
is the solemn conviction of nv heart that our cause
is just. Freedom and the rights of man everywhere
morality and social order the rights of persons and
of property, pride and interest-al that is dear to
man-sppeal to US to resist the CALLING yoke of des-
potism and tyranny which Lincoln and his abolition
friends are endeavoring to hsten upon US. We
would be recreant to God-ingrate and false to our.
selves and our posteFity, to the memories of our
slaughtered countrymen, to our heroic soldiers, to
the hallowed fame of so many well fought battle
fields of this revolution, and to the glorious souve-
Mrs of our forefathers, we to bend the knee
to our adversaries and fawn upon their frowns.


In arduous struggles like the present, great dan-
ger to be apprehended from individual chickering's
and State jealousies. 1t only by the unceasing
efforts of Washington and his compatriots that our
revolutionary fathers were saved from like danger
We need that strength which can be found only in
perfect union of hearts and sentiments Public
servants and private citizens should do all in their
power to unite all the people of our whole country,
and especially the people of sovereign States. All
the States of the Confederscy have suffered and done
much in this great struggle. Their devastated fields
and smouldering ruins, the blight of so many once
happy homes, their citizens in exile, the walls of
widowhood and the cries of orphanage, and the
bones of thousands of their best sons now bleach
ing upon hundred classic battle fields attest the
truth of this assertion North-Carolna may we'll
lead the van in restoring concord and amity among
sisters that have suffered so much and fought so
we'll in a common cause. She may bid farewell to
envy and jealousy. l would not have her heart
poisoned by such grovelng sentiments. The modest
and gentle mother of a'lion-hearted soldiery that
have advanced her standard so high in the van of
this revolution, needs envious tongue to sing her
praise. Bethel, the two Manassas, the immortal
Seven Days around Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Charlottesville, Sharpsburg and Gettysburg and
Chickamauga, are the monuments. Of her undying
fame and glory. For her they paint many moral
and adorn many tale. They will attune many a
harp and tongue to sing her praise. They will
transmit her name down to the remotest posterity
in history and in song.


Whilst we should try to unite our own people, we
should leave effort untried to divide the people
of the United States l very much fear that our
Confederate and State legislation has been at fault
in this respect By this l do not wish to be un-
derstood as blaming any one. If we have erred in
this respect it has been the error of all plrties and
all persons having the control of our afiirs since
the beginning of our troubles. But cannot regard
the peace Democrats of the United States with the
same hostile feelings as do the Abolitionsts and
Lincoln. When witness the opposition of hun
dreds and thousands Of them to Lincoln's usurpa-
tons OF authority, my heart warns towards them,
Year: 1863

It seems to me that "'Tis liberty to liberty en-
gagged" would GUILTY. ate the friendship of those
peace Democrats of whom have been lncar-
cerated and banished without crime Sy the Same
tyrant that oppressed us-many of whom have been
denied the liberty of speech and of the press, ana
the freedom of elections all of whom have been out
ragged in feelings and in sentiments by the su6yer-
sion of liberty and the rapid strides of an unrelen-
ing tyranny. In some Of the States that party is
now aspiring to authority. Should they attain it,
have some hopes that they WILL ere long, say to the
Abolitionists and to Lincoln, You should not
conquer the Southern people You cannot conquer
the Southern people. Withdraw your armies, talk
with them in a friendly manner. Let them estab-
lish government deriving its just powers from the
consent of the governed"


But if Lincoln should succeed in annihilating this
party, what then? He will then have succeeded in
subvertng the government of the United States into
a complete and absolute despotism. He will be the
master of all its men and resources, and viii hurl
againstus the whole body of the people of the Uni
ted States. This would result in no good to our
enemies but we will all admit that it would do us
much harm. Let us try to prevent it.
Year: 1863

The Confederacy is distressed with too much of
what is called money. The volume Of Confederate
currency has increased is increasing, and must be
diminished in some way, or prices will reach point
at which it will be impossible for the great body OF
our people to procure the common necessaries of
life. What is the remedy? Funding will not cure
the disease for if healed in place in this way, it
will break out in another, from continuous issues
of notes to support the government The notes
will be--must be issued nearly as rapidly as they
can be funded.


The body polite is dropsical with money. Tap
it with taxation. Impose heavy taxes payable in
Confederate currency, and use the money thus col
lected in supporting the government and in carry
ing the war; and cease as far as possible to issue
new notes.


Secondly, prosecute the war with renewed vigor,
and whip and drive the enemy from our soil. This,
together with heavy taxation, will restore confidence
In the currency, and make it as good as such cur:
rency can be made. Nothing else will avail.


Forced loans from the people are spoken of and
recommended-that is the government is to put its
hands in the peoples pockets, not by way of taxa
ton, but by force, and compel them to loan their
money-goh and silver it may be-to the govern
ment The government has no such power under
the Constitution. 1t has right 10 tao the people
to any extent but no-rght to plunder them. A
forced loan would be .legalized plunder They are
| common in Mexico In that country for the last
twenty years, revolutions have been almost as fire.
quent as changes of the moon, and they are always
characterized by forced loans at the point of the bay
onet The citizen or subject rather, is ordered in
the language of the highwayman to "stand and de.
liver" We protest in the most solemn terms against
forced loans No member of Congress can vote for
| such a loan without breaking the oath which he
takes to-support the Confederate Constitution.


Taxation, rapid and successful movements against
the enemy, and economy in the'public expenditures
this is the remedy for the evil. Confidence in
the currency is what is wanted and this confidence
| cannot be created increased as long as we con
tinue to recede before the enemy. Whip and shat
ter the armies of Meade and Grant, and in less thar
| a week six dollars in Confederate currency weulG
buy one in gold, whereas now it takes twelve tc
fourteen. Lay the taxes, and see to it that thu
public money is not wasted by reckless and corruP
officials, and this ITSELF even if we are not so for
tunate as to gain any great victories, would ma
terially aid in improving and giving confidence t.
the currency.
Year: 1863

DEPRECIATING THE CURRENCY.-A friend calls our
attention to the fact that in his section of the State
taking the taxes gold is assessed at four for one,
and Bank notes at two for one in Confederate money
The object of this is to obtain revenues but the e.
'e't is to depreciate Confederate money. If the
government says by its acts that gold is worth four
times as much, and Bank notes twice as much as
Its own issues, business and those having arti-
seS of prime necessity to SELL will go further and
get all they can for their gold and produce. This
natural The government thus sets the example
Ct depreciatiHg its own currency. This evil calls
ioF prompt remedy, and we trust the remedy will
applied by the next Congress
Year: 1863

Capt Turner, the Conservative candidate for Con-
gress in this District addressed large audience in
this City on Tuesday night last


We will not do him the injustice to attempt a
sketch of his remarks. He entertained his audience
for some two hours, and was warmly cheered. The
people of Wake are evincing much interest in the
election, and we look with confidence for large ma.
jority for Capt. Turner We trust that our Raleigh
friends especially will turn out and give him one Of
their largest majorities. The services of such a
man in Congress will be invaluable.
Year: 1863

We learn that j. H. Foy, Commoner frem Ons-
low, is Confederate Tax Collector for that County.
The Constitution of this State declares that &" no
person who shall hold any Office place of trust or
profit under the Confederate States or any depart
ment thereof, or under this State, or any other
State or government, shall hold or exercise any
other Office or place of trust profit under the au-
thority of this State be eligible to seat in eth
er house of the General assembly," 1t is, there
fore, Mr.. Foys duty to resign his seat as Common
er; and let new election be held in Onslow, he
cannot hold his place as Commoner and at the same
time be Confederate Tax Collector.
Year: 1863

We observe in the last Wilmington Journal that
Col Devape has, taken the stump for Congress in
the Sd District. We would again urge our friends
in this District to poll every vote they can for Dr.


Leach. His prospects are excellent Be sure to 20
to the election and do all you can for the Conserva


tive candidate
Year: 1863

The people of Petersburg are about to establish
soup house for the poor of that City: This is a
good work, but it shows the destitution occasoned
by the war. Soup houses are common in the large
Cities Of Europe, for the sustenance of paupers.
Year: 1863

The members of the secret order of the KniG hts
of the Golden Circle, finding that the STANDARD is
not to be suppressed by mob law, are resorting to
other and different steps to accomplish that result
The following letter from our subscribers at IRIS
bprg Virginia, reveals the fact that one John WOO
ton Commonwealths Attorney, has taken it upon
h;osolf n act as prosecuting officer, jury, judge,
! --'--e ~-4e. ~ndt O Pranounc that
our paper is so reasonable that it must not be al
lowed to circulate in his County. Mr.. Wooton has
thus deliberately violated tie Constitution of the
Confederate States and the Constitution of Virginia
both of which solemnly guarantee the freedom OF
speech and of the press; and we call the attention
OF GoV Letcher and of Postmaster General Reagan
to his conduct We are loyal law. abiding, tax.
paying citizen of the Confederate States. We con-
duct free press, under free Constitution: and if
Virginia is not foreign State we claim the right to
send cur paper to that State and to have it dstrib
uted By postmasters to subscribers. Todeny this
right IS at once to establish Russian despotism in
these States. If any portion OF the people of Vir-
ginis of North Carolina are prevented by official
interpostion from subscribing for and taking such
newspapers as they choose, then they are slaves,
and the fact might as well be known.


We learn also that though some, if not all of our
papers are permitted to pass through the Richmond
postofice, yet when they reach the army in Virgin
la the brigade postmasters not permitted to hand
them to the soldiers who are subscribers. pack
axe of Standards which reached Orange Courthouse
several weeks ago. was prevented from being dis
trlbuted under order issued by the commanding
General What is this but military despotism p
What is it but censorship the press, such as
exists in France2 Our soldiers naturally want to
hear from home. They subscribe to paper with
that view, and yet on the mere order of some up
start military tyrant their papers are denied them
and they are permitted to see only such papers as
this yrant may allow to be distributed in his camp
Is this liberty?