Weekly Standard (Newspaper) - November 13, 1861, Raleigh, North Carolina T 11 K w. HOLD EDITOR AND TUK WEEKLY Two Dollars per Dalian per TO Copies 1 IJO 1 0 1 4M at expiration of the time fur of in Semi- Weekly Standard Our ra iiro us 0 25 n b- ai abuse twelve und ut the close of bc the gross not exceeding five tines 0" I Wi iii either or for or fur twelve or in for six mouths or for Terms of in Weekly One per first mm five cents for will L wo knw leap they will be ad ted All not directed are inserted in the und cd When Iho of not it is inserted until Money sont us by mail is ut onr NOV. 9, 1801. By the of THE 1'llESIDKXT OF THE Suites linth tlm ol mat. sis si of hii and AMI it our wilh for also io fur and cure over 11.1 11 Suite sind AND this is nml incumbent upon us in the serious our public so deeply mid are the Not do sul of November 111-- malice of in with ihe of the of the re- quest of all all 01' our to observe in anil us a day of ami Given my and Ilic seal of our Slate of at this Mil day of Bv Ihe 11EXEY T. All papers in Slate will please ELECTION people of this State voted on last for of Congress for Electors for dent and Vice give below such re- turns ns have been received up to the time of going to As a general thing the vote is riot as full us This is accounted for by the that the minds of the are much occupied by the and they think more of fighting than they do of and there was no opposition for President and Vice except in two or three there was no very animated contest for Fourth The vote at was 205 for the Graham anil and 322 for the Hodman and Guion Nov. 1861. Editor send you the votes for and Harriett The vote is not half usually the People's Ticket for 80 the old or party 1 the People's Ticket 11 the old secession ticket 13. The vole was unanimous for T. D. for Fifth For able for Capt. the vote of the Oak City 56 scattering 17. For the conservative or people's headed by Graham and the inan and Guion For Venuble 384; Arrington Three camps of soldiers not heard The vote at was Tenable 110; Arrington 77; Turner 1. Cranville For Arrington Turner 504 able 204 Gooch 1 i. For the Graham and Held ticket for the Rodman and Guion ticket 577. The vote at Oxford was Turner 180; Tenable Arrington 78. Arrington Turner 1-2 Tenable 1. Frunklin The vote at Louisburg was Arrington 148; Turner 38; Tenable 000! Sixth Nov. 0, 1801. To ihe Editor of the have had a very poll hetc number ing only whereas the vote usually polled here is from 2.30 to 800. and received 99 each and 04 and Messrs. and 5 For Congress McLean Dick and 7. M. Seventh tiie vote for Congress as 877; 175; 7fi; o. For the Rodman and Guion 305; for the Graham and Reid 203. Ninth Nov. 6, 1801. Editor Below I hend you the result of the election at this The vote is quite The were as active as partizans could electioneering for the Hodman and Guion By saying it made no difference who was voted for for and the pointing out on their ticket such conservative men as Mitchell and they deceived and induced many to with The vote Graham 78, Hodman Col. Gaither received 116 votes for The Our information is not sufficient to enable us to state positively the result in each Congressional hut wo submit the following statement to our renders as correct as to at least six of the ten W. N. of ed without Second R. R. of elected without Third contest between C. R. Thomas I. Owen and D. Mr. Keenan probably Fourth Thomas D. of I elected without Fifth A. of elected and A. Vena Sixth contest between P. Dick and J. I Seventh contest between S. VOL. 46. J. Hugh and S. H. Eighth William of ed without Ninth B. S. of ejected without Tenth contest between A. T. of and William H. of Mr. Davidson probably Calling out the We have avoided all unnecessary allusion to our military operations in of the movement of and for Nothing gratifies us so much as the exhibition of H fervid ti on the part of our their ready and co operation with the military and the most prompt and energetic movements on the part of our in securing the best possible defence of our and inland Since the appointment of Gens. Anderson and Hill to the im- mediate supervision of our they have ed unwonted energy in their hits inspired our Eastern people with a sense of security which they had not felt and we are glad to with some slight our people have rallied gallantly to their No one can truthfully charge either of them with inertness or And so far as we are informed the authorities of the State and of the Confederate States have seconded their If they hare we have not heard of it. To imike our const still more secure against it seems that Gov. Cluik has them through the commander of all the Confederate forces in the to cull out militia of the lower Counties at such times and in such numbers as they might deem advisable in an Under the apprehension that Ihe Naval expedition of Lincoln was designed to operate against our opinion in which wo did nut Anderson last week called out the militia of Brunswick and New Hanover ties to rendezvous at and and Gen. Hill called out the militia of Lenoir and to rendezvous at Carolina Hyde and Roanoke Wo do not doubt that these were fully convinced of the propriety and the necessity of the and we concede to them a much riper judgment and skill in military mutters than we pre- tend to claim nor uo we attach an iota of blame to being assured that they acted from the est believing it to be a military Yet are forced by our own convictions of what is right and to differ with them as to the dom or utility of the We conceive it to bo a doubtful policy at any for Ihe Governor or any one acting under to call out the entire militia of any County in and rendezvous Hum at paints their own ho incs and fires The is nnd never be incurred but under the most urgent and impel ious Had Naval expedition actually attacked our it may have been but we doubt even in that but as the fleet has passed and what the storm has left of it will doubtless attack Poi t Royal or some point south of we hope those excellent officers will forthwith countermand the order and n them to their own homes The Wilmington that the people of New Hanover nnd Brunswick have turned out almost en music at the cull of Gen. An- Wu rejoice at It shows the ism of our people and thur ready obedience to huv and We hope all the Counties will fest the sanio patriotic Our readers are aware that we have time and again urged our authorities months to the militia of the and require them to drill in companies near their own homes at least a We have shown that the necessity for that course was We felt sure that our coast would be not that we expected the pre- sent large Naval expedition to do but we may expect to be harrassed on our coast all winter at in- With the regular force we have on or con- to the and with our militia drilled at from whom drafts for short time might le at once to meet an wo can at a ment's warning be ed to resist force that might But the idea of calling out the entire militia of all Counties bordering on the coast at once to leave their homes and crops surely never entered our And why because such a call must be exceedingly damaging lo tlie health of our Summoned from home without preparation to points where no provision has been made in camp for so largo a such exposure arid discomfort even for a few days must place three-fourths of them upon the sick list and render them unable for because of their inefficiency when thus Undrilled and unprovided with ble arms as many of them must be at so short a and many of them without officers of they could only Lo demoralize and per those who might bo because it is a heavy burden imposed Why should the Counties most exposed be called away from home at a time when roost and those of the ties of and indeed any of the Counties in the Eastern and middle portions of the State be Are not all alike interested in re- sisting the invader Should we not make common cause with all and each section of the State But and though not because of the defenceless condition of the population of the Counties thus decimated of entire This is a most serious The present militia law requires duty of all white males between the ages of 18 and 50 Who are left to protect the defenceless women und with a servile population in their ready to bo the dupes of wicked arid vile men t We are not We believe that our servile with and let may be generally relied But is it when we are at war with whose expeditions to the South have a carte blanche from thoir government to steal and array that part of our population against our defenceless I. NOVEMBER 13, 1861. WHOLE 1380. to denude any County of its defenders We Common prudence it strikes ought to dictate to our authorities the great danger and of such a Let the militia be and drilled as wo have and when occasions require let select portions of the militia of fifty Counties if need be most contiguous be drawn to Hie scene of but in the name of humanity and our common let not the entire militia of any County bo drawn away at These are our views honestly that we would be considered opposing the measures of the powers that be captiously far from because we feel called upon at this juncture to present our objections to a policy which may prove exceedingly and to say the is The Yankee The history of this country does not produce an instance of fitting up so so complete and so formidable a naval as that which coln set afloat a few days ago from Old Point to ravage the Southern The Northern papers are filled with encomiums upon its completeness and Of its eminent success they seem to have no The number of vessels is estimated at from sixty to one having on board an army according to from fifteen to thirty thousand The fleet made a grand display in passing out at the capes of and when seen on the ocean was moving South in three with bent upon crushing the it off our coast fortifications the fleet seemed to as if to the entire ted with pride arid burning with rage at the ill cess which has crowned the efforts of the in the midst of its highest the fleet encountered on Friday last one of the most violent storms on our Atlantic const within the recollection of the est The winds raged incessantly for twenty five ocean was lashed into un- wonted God was in the storm and fought for the Ere that day's peril was known among the the at to was strewed dead hoi On Sunday morning two ships were one a steamer the other supposed to be the Great benched Kill Devil on Cm about ten miles north of The breakers were dashing over the and several others of the fleet off either signals of distress or to keep the wreckers off. On as wo mentioned in our the steamer a transport of the went ashore on Bogus about twelve miles south of Fort Eighty-one of her crew and persons con- with the army taken who have been brought to this city for safe This wreck is likely to prove a valuable We learn from a correspondent of the Progress that articles to the value of will be Already two rilled 2i Sharp's eleven eight hundred have been Her engine will be worth Slui had on board sixty-four gun baggage and A letter has been found addressed to the no- in case anything should that thu attack of the fleet M be made at Port The Union is a total Another of the steam transports was driven ashore on Georgetown S. and another was lying in distress near the about 15 miles north of the The crew of the nineteen men and two went to Georgetown and surrendered Her cargo consisted of live cattle and A steamer went down to lighten her and carry her to and it was thought she would be Col. Manigault with two com- panies had left Georgetown for the purpose of cap- turing the crew of the It is possible that the damage done to the fleet was much but the above is all that is known at this On Tuesday eight Federal steamers appeared off Port S. and began the Our batteries and Com. steamers replied to them and in disabling one and the other ran They expected to capture Five hundred men left Savannah at night for the scene of The latest account received that 42 Federal vessels were iu line of battle off Port Many vessels aru still but tho force there was a heavy and we wait with trembling ty to hear tho Tlut we have no will be early reinforced by Federal RUMORS have carefully suppressed the information we have had for some days in regard to Fort The rumor that Fort Hatteras had been as published by ut least one was at thu time without a shadow of No sufficient time had since the advance of any expedition supposed to have that purpose in to have had any information about it. it is doubtful whether any thing of the kind has been The facts as far as we are disposed to state that an impression prevailed at certain that the storm had submerged the cut it off from the main land of the and possibly had forced out its Tho Federal troops thero was had escaped to tho high land of the and were not very well able to resist an Under this if not the result of positive yet a has by this time been and if the chances wore the forces havo been at- Tho results of thu expedition will bo made public when but we think it was a flash in the P. Since the above was we learn that Col. Singletary who undertook the got aground near Beacon Island and that his command had returned to He remained to gat his It is rumored that he undertook the ex- of his own without We give it as without vouching its learn High and in pursuit of the Federal prisoners who the camp in this returned with them on Thursday having caught them near Rocky Edgecombe They were making thoir way to Yankee It is becoming a question of great financial im- what are we to do with the large number of Yankee prisoners in the They are ing a nuisance and a Tho people of mond have had their fill of It has required worth of beef alone to feed the Yankee soners in Richmond sixteen Wo rumored that the Confederate ment has purchased a parcel of land in this State for the purpose of erecting prisons and accommodations for all the Yankee prisoners We do not be- lieve but if it is we protest in the name of the people of against it. We havo enough people of our own to consume what will be mndo in the State and to supply our own We like Gen. and Price's plan McCulloch says his had rather whip them than feed We that it is far better to require all privates captured in tho war to take the oath not to take up arms again to have their and a description of their sons and send Let the cers bo kept as prisoners and and treated well until they are The moral effect of such a would Lincoln to release our own privates on the same and would exert a wholesome influence upon the Northern THE trial of the privateers of the Savannah was progressing in New York at the last They were put upon their trial as They are defended by ihe ablest counsel of the We that the un- der instructions no will bring in a of not We hope for the sake of humanity this will be the Should they be condemned and our to its will make the Lincoln prisoners in the South pay the IN note from our R. C. who is now Alum seeking thu restoration of his speaking ol the condition of our in Western find some 700 invalids hero from the 2uO the remainder from ami The fith out of 1100 bus about 300 on the Georgia lias about 200 ami has been reduced to 107, and other regiments in same Our in this part of the are in a bad con- and had bettor bo sent home to cannot see the policy of keeping in the an army of broken down soldiers arid at least two-thirds of the whole in A view of thu subject which we suppose every one would rumors which havo been for some days touching thu of Gen. we are glad to have been in advance of the We doubt not but ences of opinion may exist between himself and tho which may have led him to contemplate such a step as but we are assured that lie enjoys the highest confidence and attachment of President and there is no doubt but the con- is There is too much at stake for him to take a stop Tho confidence which our whole people repose in would he shocked beyond a were he to The moral effect of his resignation would be hazardous to Southern both at thu North and in The Richmond papers appear to be confident that ho will not R. B. VANCE'S This fine fiom the mountains of this reached here on evening and went into camp on tho near this We learn that a new encampment is in course of preparation about two miles Oi camp at to which Col. Vance's regiment will remove in the course of a Col. Vance is an elder brother of Col. B. formerly of the 4th and now in command of a regiment on OF readers must bear in mind that the labors of the Board of Claims will terminate on thu 35th of December It is highly important that all persons who hold war claims against the contracted before the of May whether individual or should lay them before the Board If they are delayed until a few days before thu tion of tbo term of the Board they cannot be ined and A word lo thu is Our exchanges will do the public n service by no- the A man of experience who has tried advises that our soldiers keep a small amount of say n largo spoonful in their in order that the water may extract its It is a good pre- of chills and or veteran sinner having filled up his cup of iniquity and has re and been placed by Lincoln upon tbu retired list and retains his pay of pur Crime and disease have made a wreck of and when all his powers of resentment and cruelty to tho South are he retires on full The interview between him and Lincoln at the time of his was a scene so marked with as to make Scott licked over coln and his and Lincoln licked Scott back The old it is is going to AVull may he wish to Fur the Extract from the official report of Lieut. Col. J. P. 5th N. C. State of the battle of BULL July 22, 1861. T have tho honor to that in the engagement of having been ordered take position on tha on the opposite sidu of the where the enemy were posted with three I proceeded and halted in four or five hundred yards of tho where we were fired upon with grape and -t I greatly indebted to our Rev. Jamus for efficient sei He dud companies of and behaved 1 have the honor to very your obedient J. p. Lt Col. 5th State Com. COL. J. Gen. N. G. State N. C. A true A. Gen. For N. C. Nov. 5, 1861. Tho Faculty and Students of the University presented to Prof. Captain of company 28th C. a beautiful Navy soon after ho left us to go into The following is the correspondence between Capt. tin and the committee appointed to request his of the present CHAPEL Oct. 22, 1801. DEAR A Pistol ordered from by the Faculty and the of the University of N. has doubtless reached you before We hope that you will accept it as a token of respect and esteem towards one for whom we entertain thu highest regards as an a and a Most A. W. I It. THOMAS J 28rn N. C. N. C. Oct. 20, f Johnson and The Navy Pistol of which your note duly Please say for me to tho Students of the that I accept this handsome and most opportune present with the liest thu more especially since it comes as an evidence of and from those whose respect I have always tried to and whose esteem be a highly prized reward of my efforts in their Allow me to thank for the very complimentary terms with which you have con- the I beg always Very sincerely W. J. For the At a called meeting of Palmyra 147, held on the tst day of A. D. 1801, A. L. 58'il, appointed to prepare resolutions on thu death of our friend and Henry B. report the We have heard with much regret of the death of our much esteemed and Henry B. who was amongst first an- swer our country's call and oiler himself as a for her and who has fallen an early victim to which the company of which he was a member IMS much Therefore be it hat whilst bowing with humble sub- mission under dispensation of Divine Providence which all things we recognize in our de- parted brother a true and faithful a devoted and an affectionate That we will cherish and ever hold in sacred memory thu virtues and exemplary character j of our deceased i That we are admonished by the death I of brother who has been called to the Lodge in the of of our own mortality and it becomes us as accountable beings to Almighty to make the needful preparation for thai eventful That as a to which he ever fessed the strongest truly appreciating thu beauties of tlie we do sincerely lament the death of while amongst ever stood as a living example of what a Mason and Christian ought to ho and now that the silver cord has the golden bowl or the pitcher broken at the or tho wheel broken at the the dust shall return to the earth as it and the unto God who gave it. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the and to the Raleigh with the that be NEILL S. A. I WILLIAM Fur the Nov. 3, 18C1. Mil. Thw repetition of the last night by the young was very well notwithstanding the inclemency of the Tlie young ladies it any thing performed their parts much than they did the first Tho beautiful dress of tha and their smiling together with thu airy evolutions rendered within itself tho whole a perfect Fairy represented by Miss Kate was admirably Tlie exquisite dress und grace of the Queen was perfectly Tho speeches were well written and gracefully de- The without alluding to lar did their parts Southern or Wait for the by tho five little was performed During the whole performance there was a constant shower of In the whole thing was a perfect and will ever be remembered as the most brilliant thing of tho kind ever produced in There has bean considerable excitement here for four or Jive Militia from different counties have been pouring in. Tho Southern train brought in last night between seven and eight hundred from ouch of which had bis gun and There is hero between throe and four thousand awaiting Tho whole city was thrown in an unusual state of excitement on Friday morning by hearing dis- the booming of cannon thu night That morning there were ten thousand different mors and until official information could be we all believed sincerely that the ball had Tho the steamer brought the The firing proved to be at the cause of which was a However much excited and troubled some of our people along this coast the fulso alarm did n great deal of anil happened in for it has picked the ears of every The rumor now is tho fleet has gone to Port This place is situated in tho Southern ex- treme of South near the Georgia arid is to ho one of the best harbors in the whole the whole fleet having gone is only At any moment it may make its appearance on our coast at as good a harbor as Port By it is there will be live thousand militia to be kept until wo can hear of thu whereabouts of the great thing down on this part of the coast is pretty well in a short time tho whole of Wilmington will bo Tho work now is nearly For tlm CAMP Nov. 6th, 1801. No doubt you had long ago ed that you would not again be disturbed with my brief and uninteresting and admit that I became ashamed of and came to the sion that were not worth the space they pied seeing that you have no other dent from this I thought a short letter occasionally would be better than 1 dislike very write when I can relate no but a. private being permitted to leave camp but has no what he finds in the few newspapers that wend their way into Of i course there are always many camp rumors afloat I but in which there can be placed but little We are encamped now within three quarters of a of were ordered hero about three weeks support the battery should it be which was expected every hour while Lincoln's fleet was at Old That has now no for some point on our now engaged log in which to tako up winter They are vcr J think would excite the mirth of tjie wildest we will not in the as we once We would muck waa not for guarding the which will bo very disagreeable on account of tlie cold North J I am happy to state that the health nient is now very We have but little sickness of any I that is rather healthy than otherwise daring the We have had a great deal of rain for which renders cump life the SYLVINE A L The repot of Samuel of ia by the Richmond It learns that he was on the aist Tho Hatteras prisoners removed from New York to About 60' are mostly typhoid The Granby of in the western part of that and in possession of the are said to bo immensely The mines ure now producing at the rate of of pounds The quality is the best in the it is has volunteers in tho Shu turns them out faster than they armed and Too fust to no One of our privateers on tha Southern coast ly destroyed the brig R. K. of loaded with government stores for Gen. Lee has arrived in Richmond from his com- mand in Western The latest news from and France is dot unfavorable to un early recognition of tho Southern The Savannah folks arc moving to sam communication with Mr. G. 15. steam Lainar publishes an stating that sub- to ft Stock Company will be immediately A vessel arrived at Norfolk on the 4th, by way of fhe with 930 hags of from wreck that ashore some days ugo on the Currituck Capt. we has accepted the office of Judge of the Superior and entered upon its It is estimated that the commencement of tho tha Confederates have taken 10.000 the Hessians have captured about TUB Nothing has transpired on the Potomac for some days worthy of It is under- stood at Yankees fallen back to thoir entrenchments at Arlington Tho number of men in mid around Washington is be- to bo about 000. A rumor lhat the kees had again crossed the Potomac near was Northern politicians are urging a forward movement upon which Lincoln and Gen. McClellan but which it in ed Bluir and Cameron It is said that attempts are made to supersede McClellan by the appointment of Gen. from Hut the last reliable news announced the ment of McClellan commander in-chief upon the re- signation of We havo no intelligence from our batteries on tho or from Gen. on The I report of Com. commanding the steamer in to the Navy Department at announces that he visited Beacon Island und on the and found no Ho passed up to when the Fort and two of the steamers fired upon lie retained tho and having accomplished tho object of his ho hauled off without injury to any THE A letter noticed in the Lynch burg announces the occupation of by a part of Gen. Floyd's Gen. Floyd was in supporting This ar- rangement cuts off Rosencranz and Cox from and will compel a surrender or Later accounts state that Rosencranz his only tive Much sickness prevailed in Gen. Floyd WHS still .at Cotton only few miles from and m daily expectation of a The flood in the Kanawha had damaged and the The people of New Orleans are making active forts to prevent the ingress of the Yankees at tha mouth of the A project is on foot to build ten steamers lobe used in defending New Orleans and destroying the A tal FROM from this State rather There wete Federal troops between Eddyville and cing towards Much excitement prevailed and they were talking of removing the treasure of the banks to Thera were also 50uO federal troops at Ten sand Federal troops also were said to be upon nnd it is said that General Johnston has fallen back from Green The accounts arc conflicting and unsatisfactory from this A fight is reported by the Federals to have taken place at on the 20th between Fremont's body guard and a body of The Federals claims the but admit a loss of 0 or 8 killed and or 20 The loss of the Confederates was not Gen. McCulloch was said to be advancing with a small force to meet Fremont with Gen. Price is near where tho Missouri It was feared that Price and lock would not effect a Later accounts at Little stated that it was ported in camp that Fremont had com- a retrograde and on tte It is positively asserted by the New York Times that the President has transferred the ern Military Department from Fremont to Gen. upon the conviction of Fremont's incapacity and The latest The rumor mentioned above that Federal troops wore on to from is There are but few Lincoln troops at and none between there and The Richmond papers have reliable intelligence that the enemy has advanced with nine regiments upon and that the small Con- federate force there has fallen back to Pound Prestonsburg is only 130 miles from Va. It is supposed the object of the enemy ir. to get possession of the Virginia Tennessee This rumor in the opinion ex- pressed in our last that our forces in the tern counties in this State should not he removed from the Lincoln a strong effort to get into East The attack had not renewed upon Pork Royal by the great fleet at the last though it is thought a simultaneous attack will be mado upon Tyber and Fort Our de- fences are said to be Gen. Robert K. of has been assigned to the command of that and he with several naval officers have gone Gen. Thomas Jackson has been appointed to the of the army in called the army of the and Floyd in command of the army of the Gen. Floyd had attacked the enemy with artillery and killed twenty men and a number of Col. it is had been arid at- tacked of tKe enemy who were to cut off his and had killed and captured a large Rumors state that Was being Hu therefore outnumbers 1 Hon. John Breckinridge has been appointed a Brigadier General in the Hon. John Tyler has been elected to the Confederate Con- gress the and Col. Pryor from Petersburg The Legislature of met on day Tho jury upon the trial of the Savannah teers in- New York were 8 for conviction find for
