Weekly Standard (Newspaper) - August 1, 1860, Raleigh, North Carolina THE W. HO AND OF THE Dollars per in TERMS OF THE invariably in OP THE WEEKLY TO Copies 1 1U 1 411 papirs are at the expiration of the time hate Perms of Advertising in Semi-Weekly Our rates of me as One or inset 00 25 Longer Contracts will be made with at the for six or twelve and at tlie of c contract per will be deducted from the gross or business not exceeding five lines Jl be inserted in cither the Weekly or lor for six or for twelve or in botll for for six or for Terms of Advertising in Weekly One dollar per square for the and e foi each An will made on no mailer fiuto in of advertisements will be untied into the All not are inserted in the and When I he number of insertions is not on the it is inserted until Money sent us by mail is at our JULY 28, 18CO. W. W. STATK AND PUBLISHER OF THE LAWS OP THK The lack of in this issue of the is accounted for by the fact that the editor and for several clays past has quite from neuralgia in the Though not it is a very painful and nothing lore completely incapacitates one for mental Ye hope he w ill bo able to his duties by tho Letter from Mr. Among the numerous letters wo have recently approving our position in relation to the is the following from Mr. Ve are truly glad to know our course is by this and patriotic Mr. Clingman gives good news from the Western of the lie is confident of a decisive victory in August and believes that v unity and harmony the Democracy can also the State in July 22, 18GO. I am much gratified to see the position ou have taken in the Standard of 18th inst. luve myself uniformly advised our political vithout regard to their individual to tain the Democratic electoral ticket already in he Any other by dividing our defeat the object which every Democrat has t No one acquainted with our electors can but that if elected they will do whatever in- and patriotism may indicate as to advance the interest of the Democratic and promote the welfare of the From all I have seen since I came into the ve shall have a decisive victory in and unity of action will ensure the same result in No- You are at liberty to publish this should heie be any doubt as to my opinions in your section of tho Verv truly AV. Esq. T. L. have had several light but very refreshing showers during the past few and although the corn crop has doubtless we trust it will yet and make an average We learn that drought has prevailed not only in some but in nearly the whole Western portion of the Much of the forward corn is too far spent to ever but with good seasons from this lime the later plantings will greatly The last five or six weeks will long be remembered as the hot season of the summer of the ter often going up to 100 and sometimes A Johnston farmer informs us that a few As ago his prospect for 800 barrels of corn was better than it now is for 300. VOL. 31. N. AUGUST 1, 1860. WHOLE NUMBER 1322. after spending a few in our city and its left here on Wednesday to visit Chapel where he will be the guest of Ex-Governor who is his Gen. Lane was called upon by most of our and all were pleased with Illness prevented the editor of the Standard the pleasure of taking the old hero by the The Prince of heir to the throne of Great arrived at St. Johns on the 23d in- ant. lie will visit Washington and other of the United States before long. Our pictorials will no doubt some old and give us pictures of his Superior You are authorized to say I have Mr. resignation as Clerk and has been forwarded to Judge R. M. For the MR. I have been in very bad health ly nil most of the time in I have not been out or mixed with the ple at I take no opposition paper but the but from the editorials in that and the many extracts from kindred one would bo led to suppose that Mr. John Pool would lead Gov. Ellis by I do not re- gard the last Gubernatorial election as a fair test of party strength in but the cratic party proper was certainly from to for Pool to be elected by as the Opposition press and Opposition speakers and road politicians would have us ho must get the whole Whig and a very large tion of the Democratic vote or import votes from Seeing what 1 seen nnd T havo made it my business for some time to inquire of such sons as T could could tell me who it was that had Democrat would vote for Mr. I made this inquiry from men from from from from and from and not until to-day have I conversed with a. solitary man who could name a single Democrat that would vote for To-day an Intelligent a practicing and a strong who re- sides at New in Randolph called to see and T asked him the same and he said that he knew of four voters in Randolph that would change their I asked him how he knew it. He remarked that he heard them say but that two of them were Democrats and they would vote for and two wei e Whigs and would vote for The Opposition to every stratagem for years in to put down the cratic such as changing changing supporting men of the Democratic party in preference to men of their own against the regular Democratic and now they are ing to carry the election by pretending that Pool is going to make a sweep and to make their purposes doubly they have started a. report that Ellis is so well convinced that he will be that lie has actually quit the and that Mr. Craige has taken his This last item of news is not only a common talk through the but is actually published in the Opposition papers in different Mr. it is certainly a very bad cause indeed that requires a party to resort to such sub- tei luges as these and many others not here to foist itself into The day of bragging and misrepresentation is nearly and the result will show the truth of the but if 1 have been correctly and my information has been derived almost sively from Whig friends who have called to see Gov. will poll the full Democratic Let Democrat go to the polls and and the result will as it has heretofore that nil this is for and without the Mindow of foundation in P. M. N. 21st The speech which V. Johnson did not de- liver in Macon and because the crowd refused to listen to comes to us in an extra of the Atlanta After frankly ad- the Democratic party is divided with but little Gov. Johnson sketched ly the causes which led to this state of in order to fix the responsibility where he claims that it be- the at Baltimore and The whole secession he was without justification and its authors will yet reap highest attribute is of a naked and ungenerous warfare against a great and distinguished The characteristic feature of the new organization is Congressional in- in favor of Slavery in the in Gov. Johnson's was the basis of the Compromise measures of 1850. It was embodied in the and interest and policy demand adhesion to the More than a Congressional for the if would be worth but Mr. advocacy of is nothing and is only a pretext for the war wa- ged upon the true causes of which are the of those whom he had outstripped in the rare for the and the hostility of the Gov. Johnson then proceeds to show that there was no necessity for revising this decision at the present and that by doing so the alienate from them the Democracy of the who in make laws for the This state of which the have vors the election of Lincoln and and Lane could not be elected if they get the vote every Southern They are likely to lose Alabama and and probably Tennessee and The battle will be fought in the free States between Lincoln and and the South should avert the success of the former by supporting the Gov. in reviews briefly the claims which the Sawders have to showing that they are throughout and reiterates his determination to gle for the principle of and the in- of the The announces that copies of this speech are to be distributed through the OF on Thursday but up to the time of our going to press the proceedings have not been made as lie business before the council has not yet been A vacant is to be We give an account of the proceedings in our 37s" Judge widely known as died at his home in Nova Scotia a few days Ho was Chief Justice of the R We -are rejoiced to announce to the Democratic party and to every free Southern this that D. of the Electors upon the Bell and Everett ticket 111 tins district has declared his determination to John C. BrecKinridge and Gen. Joseph Lane w I resident President Mr. McKay says 0 Southern man can do perform his to the and the nation at So it be with every true Southern before tho Later July The Pony Express 10 from San Francisco with dales to the 7th. who was tried for killing Senator in a has been The i were it was S t did and so the case and a TO BC TTi by ts published Gov. Ellis will address his at Monroe on July 30th, and tit Charlotte the next Wu know Gov. Ellis desired to meet Mr. Pool here but could not do so in of pre- vious Before Mr. Pool made his Gov. Ellis had made an pointment to speak in Wilson nnd at Sampson On Thursday he is obliged to be in Haleigh to meet the Council of State for the purpose of filling a vacant So the reader will see that it was impossible for Gov. Ellis to be here But we hope the lic will turn out Tuesday and hear Mr. and Dr. the opposition State both have appointments to speak bore Both will be replied Wo suppose neither will object to a as it is usual on such sions to allow a the person making the pointment always opening the All we desire is a fair discussion on both Our opposition it arc determined to make a hard effort to gain something in this judging from the fact they got Mr. Pool and Dr. Speed both to come here ou the same We hope democrats will see the necessity for active Dem. Important to July Postmaster General is about to issue circular to among other that in all cases postage stamps und not money shall be used in the prepayment of and prohibiting the use of the rating stamps in cancelling postage A neglect to cancel postage stamps or to postmark letters will regarded n serious cause for censure if not and all ters are required to report every instance of such neglect to the appointment Instructions are also to be issued in execution of the recent provision of Congress for the return of letters to the writers when they are not taken out of the office by those to whom they are Additional European News per NEW July combats had taken place near Messina between the Neapolitans and the advanced guard of tho Garibaldi had received further aid to the amount of a million of money and ST For the TO THE VOTERS OF The time is drawing when we again will be called upon as citizens to at the ballot the duties and privileges of and they are riot light and frivolous but fraught with the highest interest of our county and In no country are the and privileges of zens so free and unmolested as in because every citizen is indirectly his own In no is the responsibility of citizenship so great as in every citizen acts as an independent sovereign Hint our privileges nnd duties are so does it not become us as intelligent as sovereign to look well to our and to protect our rights Party dangerous as it is in its is calculated to Iny n cancer at the roots of our social system that will ly dissever the very cardul nerves of our tional if not checked by the sober thought and stern resistance of thi who alone have the to quell the wild chase by political and for and pi mi Never have we seen this fact more striking ly exemplified than in the present er in the political history of our State we called on to think more soberly and acl with more tion than What is the great issue for your decision It is nothing less than a political hobby whereby aspirants expect to themselves upon the Who has introduced this new issue Have tho people demanded it has been by party hacks to and dupe the The timu has when party demagogues might cast dust in the eyes of the and like the infatuated hearers of cry out Great is Diana of the But I thank and we all have reason to re- that tho day of ignorance and darkness U swift passing from our The people are be- coming they arc beginning to leal the wrongs they have to see their and they H ill defend What is proposed by this issue introduced by the They propose to cull a convention to revise tho Constitution so as to tux species of Did they consider tho vast expense to which such would bring the Did they con- sider the danger of calling an open Have wo considered the fallacy of the issue What is the great cry of these They say it is to favor the poor Favor the poor man taxing his household No. is ho to bo reducing the tax on the not according to Mr. Pool's 1 ask in the name of all truth 0, lacy 0, How can ho who is now ground down with tuxes support such a 1 wish not to assume the garb of a but as one from your as one of as one inter- ested in the taxes of T would appeal to your judgment and stand by that party which lias ever advocated equality and and give Gov. Ellis an overwhelming But let us look at our own county Let us see who will get the support of the people of Both parties have full tickets out for the The Democracy have in the in the T. D. and 11. C. Tho have in the E. in the R. J. 1J. and Billy Mr. Harris is a gentleman of great practical one who will not bo logo into now friend to AM. his legislation w ill be As to tho other gentlemen on the cratic ticket there need not be any they are nil known as economical Mr. of expects our because ho represented us last But what has he Let the records Whatever ho or may not have he has pledged himself with his and to tax your tin soap if you will send him But in the meantime where is tho What are his His like the names of his arc or what A curious compound of heterogeneous name lie cries out ly against the men man's and at the same time secretly slips his fingers in tho man's and draws forth tlie to cut the throat of his and cattle to fill tho public Shall tho people of Chatham thus be duped by the Rev. No T say By the let us not forget the fidelity of our present Let us not desert him iu this critical moment of our financial view of all that is near and dear to us as of our common in view of all that is sacred in the constitution of our let us be united in one and cry out with a voice in of those principles which have hitherto guided us through so miny conflicts and Have we in Courier marched to battle and to victory under the stars and stripes of the Democratic And shall we now desert them and turn to the fallacious and deceptive colors of the Opposition which have so often deceived us but let us cling to them more firmly as tho only hope of the people's and let us on the second day of August next march hand in with our shoulders to the wheels of and victory will bo B. REMARKS OF JUDGE Delivered in July 17, 1860. vast sea of human faces warns mo that it is impossible for my voice to make itself heard or understood by this vast 1 am overwhelmed with the honor that you have conferred upon by this spontaneous assemblage of countless thousands to pay not to but to that great principle of tional which underlies all our free 1 am informed that 1 now have the honor to speak from the same balcony from which your godlike in 1850, great defended his tion in support of the of by Congress with slavery in the as firmed in the legislation of that Renewed Tho knowledge of the fact that I speak from tho same in defence of the same that tho immortal Massachusetts statesman vindicated as the crowning act of his is sufficient to account for this assemblage of the national men of Tho history of is the history of constitutional In Massachusetts have free institutions had their of That's The battles of the Revolution were all fought in defence of the right of the of and provinces and as well as of sovereign to manage their own affairs and establish their own It is that the people of New the descendants of those revolutionary sages and who our form of should now stand in defence of the principle upon which our entire political system The liberties of this The liberties of this now put in by sectional appealing to sectional section and sectional against the peace and mony of the whole On the one you find a great NOT them al party appealing to the North against the A On the other hand you find a sectional party appealing to the prejudices of the South against the The party demand possession of the Federal Government in order that its power may be wielded fur the prohibition of slavery where the people want it. tho are The Southern sectional party demand possession of the Federal Government in order that tho whole power of the Government may be wielded for the defence and maintenance of slavery where the people don't want it. and These two sectional parties are in direct conflict with each and are producing that which can never bo reconciled until you recur to the doctrine that Congress shall not interfere with the domestic institutions of the people any For the last few the whole time of Congress has been employed in the discussion of the slavery to the exclusion of the important business the whole That's That's Whenever you ask your why they did not revise the system in order to defray the expenses of the Government without borrowing twenty of dollars a they tell you they had not The whole time was occupied in tho discussion of slavery and there was no time to raise money to pay your honest and When you asked your representatives why it was that the Railroad had not been you were told that there was no because the very question absorbed the entire session of Con- gress When you ask your representatives why it is that tho mail system not been reformed and carried on with vigor throughout the you are told that the was lost for want ot When you ask why it is that you have no overland mail route to tho and no steam you arc told that the slavery question occupied the whole and the bills were lost for want of Thus you find that all the great measures which affect the commercial the shipping the manufacturing tho industrial interests of the have been lost for want of and and cries of My there never will be time to the duties for which the government was made unless you banish forever the slavery question from the halls of Con- and remand it to the people of each State and each according to the platform of the Democratic and This great principle of by the Federal Government and popular sovereignty in the States and Territories is not peculiar the Democratic U was affirmed in the Com- promise measures of 1SOO; it was in the Whig platform of 1852; as well as in that of the it was affirmed by all national men in those and should bo sustained by all men in the present My I return to you my profound acknowledgments for the kindness which has you and for tho respectful tion with vast assemblage has listened to my desultory cries of Go and again renewing to you my I beg to take leave of you bidding you a good and long continued DESTRUCTIVE We have ced two pretty severe in this place and since our last I he first on Thursday passed over the plantations of B. Phillip and some doing very considerable damage to their Tho last on fell on this about six o'clock in the and did considerable Tho largo and beautiful road built for the accommodation of both was blown and is almost a worthless heap of The tin roof on nearly one half of Granite llow was rolled up and carried nearly fifty yards South of the building and dropped in tho street One of the chimney's of the same house was blown B. Mitel met had an unfinished house blown down and the timbers and another building moved from its The engine shed on the Western Road was also damaged in the which is put on in The metalic with the wood timbers to which it was of one of the was rolled up in a wad and ed some distance from the Another tion was turned over and fell on another of the the damage done to property in this place is estimated at from ten to twelve thousand If the storm had occurred ten minutes sooner there would have been a frightful tion of human A train arrived from a meeting at just as the storm was coming and the large crowd of people on board had barely by making to reach their homes when the passenger through which they all was The Prince of Wales in New ST. July were presented yesterday to the to which he graciously and gracefully He pleases the population im- with his handsome countenance and He takes a drive and will dine this evening at the Government House with a New July first bale of new cotton was received here to-day from Houston class NOMINEES FOR THE 0. Jan. 1 Apt. 1S13, Feb. 12, Feb. 18, NOMINEES FOE THE JOSEPH 14, 1801, V. 18, 1812, Aug. 11, 17M, AGK 47 51 63 43 61 00 showing tho number of toral Votes winch each Stute will oust in the Presidential Election of 9 4 6 fi 3 II 3 13 10 12 S li 13 B li 7 4 New 10 New New 4 Ai 120 Total Electoral Necessary for an election of 183 120 303 152 Movements of Mr. July S. A. Douglas arrived here at two o'clock this He was received at the depot by a large number of his with a band of accompanied him to the ted States where he made a few One guns were Funeral of the late Joseph July funeral of the late Joseph Gales took place The was comprised All the city and other places of were WONDERFUL METEORIC On Friday evening about twenty minutes be- fore ten one of the most remarkable mena of the heavens that has occurred during the was witnessed by citizens of New Norfolk ind other places near to those All who it represent it as two balls of fire passing from west to occupying nearly a minute in the and connected together by a red and green-tinted spray of similar to that at the explosion of a The two balls were to the eye four feet and moved so slowly and regularly together as to pre- clude the possibility of their being The New York and Philadelphia all contain notices of its appearance in those from which we make tho following extracts AS SEEN IS The New York Evening Post It appeared at about ten o'clock over the upper part of our The night was warm and and the skies were occasionally illuminated by vivid flashes of sheet The heat of the weather had brought the great majority of our population to their doors and when in a silence more impressive than any thunder a meteor shot across the Its so great that people at supposed there was a fire near looking they saw two balls of flame coursing across the sky from the and ing towards the like two chariots of fire urging their way in some mysterious race over the mighty course of the Tho motion was majestic rather than and gave of ple an opportunity of witnessing the while the apparent nearness of tho name to the earth caused many to suppose at first that it was merely a It presented different aspects at different When first seen it appeared like a blue star rounded by a thick mist coming from the on nearing the changed to a red ball of this soon the two balls keeping near together until lost in the Some of those who saw it thought it fell near Broadway and while others traced it with the eye as far as the East on its way horizontally over the Of the size of these balls of fire it is im- possible to form any accurate They to be as large as a dinner with trails eight or ten feet in length yet we learn this ing that at very nearly the same time that our observations were the meteor also passed over while from various points along the Hudson have received information showing that its orbit may have of planetary di- and that it was much larger and much higer than it seemed at the time to any who saw it. AS IT Last about half past a very extra- ordinary meteor made its appearance in the Tho writer was riding in Broad street below the and had a view of the phenomenon in its whole Tt in the part of the from a cloud which was not revealed until the light of the meteor made it Then an object about the size of the full and as suddenly started from the traversed in a direct Easterly line the whole extent of visible dropping in its like till it passed so far Eastward as to ble a red ball about twice the size of the planet visible in the So soon as it a flash like heat lightning cloud to the low down in the which con- to emit flashes of light for after- The phenomenon at one time seemed to separate like a rocket when it but the larger portion keeping in a straight course towards the It was witnessed by many and caused considerable wonderment for the and was certainly the most extraordinary appearance that we ever saw in the Its motion was not so as that of a though its height and the vast extent of space that it proved that its velocity must have exceeded that produced by any known force which we are quainted The from all must have been AS IT AT A correspondent of the Washington Star At half past nine last a meteor appeared in the at an elevation of about ten degrees above the It moved through a descending Edit and faded away in It consisted of two each as bright as Venus when close to the One followed the other so closely as to make them appear like an im- mense It lasted about 30 and was seen by five or others at the same each one remarking its being divided into AS IT AT The Norfolk Day of night about ten vye one of the most strange and beautiful dis- plays of meteor kind that has ever come under our and though it is difficult to wo attempt it. In the meteor resembled two dumb bells and were of exceeding and starting from a North-west continued at an incomprehensible towards the in the one by one of the balls of the imaginary until nothing was left but a mere which quickly disappeared from We make no pretensions to astronomical and fore hazard no explanation of this singular We noticed also that in the direction from which the meteor tod a formidable looking cloud had banked which immediately dispersed when the meteor left itb Col. one of the ablest and most reliable Democrats in this and as such was holding the office of at has been brought to the simply because it became known that he entertained opinions favorable to Mr. Vermont One Day Later from N. July 14th, passed Gape Race The Illinois at Southampton on the 18th. There was but little news of Several steamers have been purchased for at Two of them had A Neapolitan corvette had deserted and to Cotton and breadstuffs Consols Additional ly the July The weather was favorable to crops in Flour dull and but Wheat Corn Sugar i six closing quiet and Rice Rosin dull at 4s. 4d.a-is. 3d. Spirits turpentine slightly It waa reported that Garibaldi's Ministry had re- France asserts that Naples may the of 1812 to buc England Douglas Ratification Meeting at July 21. The people rallied en masse in this place last night to ratify the nomination Douglas and Three immense meetings were held at the same which were addressed by Hon. Edward of Kentucky Hon. ford E. and Hon. Francis R. The greatest enthusiasm After tho the Douglas clubs hada grand torch light At least people attended the In on the at the residence of JI W. by the Mr. B. nf the Abbeville and Mrs. ull of In this on 20lli in tho 27th year of Ivis oldest son of the late Hamilton C. aud u papers AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION For Sale of NEGROES BOTH PUBLICLY AND mid pledges his best to obtain the market i lie a and commodious where he will board all Negroes intended for his sules at SO per July 27, 1800. ENCOURAGE ROCK Gray nnd ROCK ISLAND and for anil PLANTATION HEAVY ROCK ISLAND 4-4 BROWN AND A large supply iu which we offer on moderate McGEE July TO THE FRIENDS OF HOME THE KINSTON SHOE FACTORY IS NOW IN ORDERS for negro BROGANS and BOOTS are J. C. N. July 27, 1800. ONE HUNDRED SONGS FOR 25 HOME containing nearly 100; of the most popular aud Bound iu Price 25 Sent by Mail free of 1'ostagc. Published by 0. DITSON CO 277 Washington July 27, OF W COURT OF A. Price H. W. ft al. To W are hereby notified to appear at the next term of said to bo held on the last Monday in Court of at this the A. 18GO. O tUU 11. C. B. C. 11 E. July 2T, 1860. The Great Eastern coming to Hampton The following telegraphic despatch was received last night about 11 from July 21. To 1'oint MY DEAH SIB think I can truly say that the Great Eastern will anchor in Hampton Roads on Sunday morning next and remain until Monday at which time she will proceed to Annapolis to take in twenty-five tons of Respectfully A. DUDLEY National July Breckinridge al Committee here Jo not credit the report that Mr. Breckinridge has written a letter in favor of a. Union electoral ticket in New They say that in matter of so much importance they would be sed of what had been This committee has expressed no opinion against Union electoral as was at one time but reserve its should it be for a specific when it may Arrival of the Prince of Wales at St. N. F. ST. N. July British war ships Hero and arrived here last night the PRINCE 01? WALES on The Prince landed this morning amidst a royal salute from the Thousands of men and children crowded the wharves to witness his There was a general display of flags from every prominent point in the Douglas Ratification Meeting at July Ratification Meeting was on Saturday Soule and Forsyth the LANDS FOH HAVING TO MOVE I OP- FEE lor talc tract of land on which I now situated in county of about live miles from eight from Imton and eight miles from lying on river mid Lynch's acres of. which is rich bottom 100 acres in balance in original The upland is all open except about 75 which is well timbered and very There is a large two story dwelling house upon the land containing six with a little could be made very comfortable and Tl ere are all other ou the such as negro all new and in good 1'ei sons tho eastern part of Stato wishing a summer residence to resort during the sickly would lind Hi's remarkably well adapted to that besides being three mineral Any further description is unnecessary ns those wishing to purchase will be certain to examine it before I will take pleasure in showing the to any sou who may wish to look at it. Terms N. P. July 27, SEVENTY-FIVE TO PURCHASE FROM FIFTY TO enty five YOUNG of both from eight to fours as will be saleable in tho Southern No unsound negro I will pay Richmond prices for such as I- Any either in person or by to tho purchase of will bo thankfully received and ally 1 can bo found ut the Yurborough July 27, Register and Tribune copy till VALUABLE FOR SALE IN THE TOWN OF 4T 11 O'CLOCK ON WEDNESDAY STH DAY of tho subscriber will sell ou place known na the property B. It is beautifully located in ot the Inlet und Fort und also has a fine view Beaufort and is about mile Messrs. Page's The contains from to 5 has a large and commodious pn ing 7 or 8 moms of good and a recently negro bouse with 6 rooms of comfortable a horse and There also two very line which produce vegetables ly and in There is on the lot a spring of ex- and one of the most beautiful Live groves surrounds the and almost completely covers the yard with its This is a most delightful summer in the hot months of August as a breeze refreshing to the man of health and the J invalid is almost always sweeping over the Any person wishing to purchase such a place would do be present on the day of Terms will be B. F. July ii THE NEXT TERM BEGINS Circular address the COL. July insert FAMILY FLOUR by W. July MARBLE FOR THE SALE OF MARBLE Mantels and Furniture Orders by mail punctually attended la. Woik ed and Y V
