Weekly Standard (Newspaper) - November 12, 1862, Raleigh, North Carolina T H E ON adred pearly lose Jbe re- IFOR 350 Uh or David ork ou 1 has a prore Will be A e is a He has 4 or 5 t cotne e. r THE d as an west of A MS. 2tpd. A Express 15th of ai 4tpd. lie con- ne large nd well with with store houses ne iety and are very should acres of r st from times E. lot is nig on It is on n ot tbe Twill Maj. on the says his Thomas aid slave be about i come take him ding AS AND OctO- that Eli is in this h at c. c c. AS D 9, August IAM AND S OF THE Dollars per 111 OF per in life pf been at the expiration of the time of Advertising in Semi- Weekly nil us ol uro us 1 1 1 tirM fl 00 Limber torments in will at tlit above for six or twelve and at close of per will be deducted from the gross or business not five lines in the Weekly for M fir or for twelve or in both fur f slx months or for twelve Terms of Advertising in dollar per square for tho tirsi and for insertion deduction will mult tit it. limited number of advertisements will be into the All not are insetted in the Semi- and ed the number of is hot marked on it is inserted Mone sent bv mail our u i NOV. 1803. Hack please not back cannot supply Tho The and the Richmond arc mist as to movements of our A largo pirt of his force is in front of the a strong wo learn fiom private fallen back to to prevent any upon in with a lorce Col. cainn near on Sunday and took and seventy-one s. 1 vices of the movements of tho en- though an advance that point daily It will bo seen by another in strong force h 10 advance upon the Wilmington Rail There indications that and M wiil soon be We observe that ordered from to the learn tint the enemy has been at About GO of f have been from by the Yankees who have in the in retaliation for the attacks 1U.V1.- upon Yankee on the hue no direct from Gen. say that he is advancing upon but the their to Nashville giving it Tho erau there arc from is for North and South with The hist news in to Ins general iety in the AND There are largo bers of and constantly eling on the their In changing cars they it to obtain good on account of of other We have seen ca the part of passengers do of include at the depot in this men running to cure while the sick and the wounded hobble in tV unnoticed and This should not It K a shame to our patriotism and The companies should sec to it that OIT and woun have good seats in the and tint They are not crowded by er wiio have lost their or their or received in the service of the are not only entitled to our they should receive more as they really deserve than the proudest and most knt Speak kindly to the and help him on hid when he id sick or The Protestant Conference in will at Church in Wednesday tho 1'Jth of the present months is believed there id a good deal of old bacon in the country Some of it is in the i hands of who are holding up for er Let the people resolve not to pay such prices and the article will come The General has established a Post office Vance in Wake und ed James We learn that K the con- fur the construction of the Piedmont Rail arc ahead tho work From present indications in the movements of tho we it will not be completed soon County We directed public attention the other day to the importance of early efforts being for the or ol a large armed citizen's police in all tim ns and We observe that this is king done in and the presence of the en- emy in large on our coast calls for immediate to be in that The and County Courts ought to move and at once in this When the is it too lalo to provide against it It U tint some additional legislation may be to inaugurate such a police as every ty MI Mate at the present if it 's u taut th a the approaching Legislature should to the subject at an eaily k-t us 1-u Guerilla bands Uic winter may do great wishing to invest in will see a good thutn Mr. in our columns CAT it will be seen by our advertising col- that negroes who broke jail some nights in this have been apprehended in of the people will prevent the escape to tbe Lot them bo on the K pork is selling at high It to the high price of tint of tbe salt bought for the bring down Salt at ought to bring down the price of VOL. 46. EA N. 12, 1882. Advance of Yankee Troops Into this We hear but nothing very up to the time of going to in relation to the advance of tho enemy's forces into the wards tho Wilmington and There is no doubt of the fact that six with crossed Swift Crook some days on tho North Hide of What point they were making for ia not It is certain that some enemy's steamers passed up Tar i iver on Sunday nearly if not quite to shelling the country as they Ibis may have been intended to divert attention from the advance on It is reported that a took place on day near on the between three regiments of tho with some cavalry and and a portion of the 26th regiment under Col. It is said that wo lost ten killed and thirty and that our forces had fallen bark to wichin 'a few miles pf We have various reports as to the strength of the one being that they have ten thousand troops near vrUh forty pieces of We have conversed with n friend Plymouth on Saturday who informs us that ho saw un- mistakable indications of an advance by tho enemy up A day or two wo had not more than four thousand effective troops in that part of the State; but reinforcements have been sent forward from Petersburg to the scene of Gov. Vance left with on Monday for Gen. M. is said to be in command of our There are many rumors in circulation that we do not but we give what intelligence we may receive that we inny deem at nil up to the last moment before going to We have constantly warned our for of the impending danger to our Eastern and urged them to remove their with a matt ami for But the so long gathering is now upon and we fear that not only great will but that millions of property will be de- The at Richmond is deeply interested in the which no doubt has the cutting of our Railroads at Weldon for its If tho would not be cut off from North and from all tho Southern Atlantic und indeed entirely cut from with the exception of the means of transportation furnished by tho Dinville Road and the Knst and it must rouso itself to the that eaten and make the to buck the enemy to his Thu main if not the only which we have that Eastern Carolina will bo cued from the j rasp of the is in the fact that the government at Richmond find Uself isolated from the Southern Atlantic unless it should miVc vigorous to save the nt In other the necessities of that has so long neglected our we lead to such measures as will relieve of the of the P. the above was put in wo learn from a from thu following version of the It appears thai three companies of the 2fith N. C. Regiment had been sent below Hamilton or as oilier forces had 4iecn pent to other to enable our people to their negroes and other moveable property from beyond the Many weie availing themselves of this and removing large bers of The Yankees hearing of de- termined to p1 event if ami hence moved a force in the of Hamilton or Col. with small determined to arrest their ami hence attacked keeping in check a very superior force of the my until re in when he determined to fall back to a The rumors about tho landing of the enemy in Bci nnd on Tar and of his intended advance upon were believed to be We hope that the mored destruction of property at by the is also magnified or the last moment we leorn from an entirely reliable source that the Yankees went up the river in their on Wednesday and landed in force near Halifax This place is only 2o or 30 miles from Gen. is said to bo in command at don H good wo have good hope of BAPTIST body held its session last week at Wake Forest cing on 29th ult. of was unanimously re-elected Rev. T. E. of this President W. M. of Wake Forest College arid Rev. B. F. were elected Vice Rev. J. Editor of the ed Recording Rev. J S. and Professor T. The number of delegates in attendance was but not so large as Several ministers were present from the Association of The usual business of the Convention was conducted with dispatch and THE RIGHT tho midst of the spirit of extortion in the it is a man or woman who rises above this and to let There are a few to be They one of the oases in tho We learn that our old of Red Mountain Orange who is a has never yet sold sole leather for more than 50 cents per or leather for more per He does not make for tho but for his neighbors and Such men can be relied upon when the pinch learn that Lieut. Col. P. 2d N. C. has been promoted to be Colonel of this in of Col. killed in tine battle of and Maj. W. R. Cox to bo Lieutenant Colonel in place of Lieutenant Colonel By num. The At other periods of the war the mind has felt the pressure of the situation most but of troops and the tion of tho people to sustain have removed the ever and and victory crowned our At no time have we regarded the a small Reasoning from we have been confident that the accomplishment of the ends aims of the South could only be effected by the most consummate wisdom and prudence in the agement of our highest skill on the part the most unflinching and super- human valor determination of our and by the most unselfish and overflowing benevolence and patriotism of our Of the skill of many of our Generals and the valor pf our tho world scarcely produces a Neither tho government nor the people have lacked the will to but the manner in which our affairs have been conducted has not always Buch wisdom and forecast as tho case Tho crisis in this war for weal or woe to the South is evidently No earthly doubt can exist in any mind of the purpose of the North to subjugate our destroy slavery root and and to beggar the if its myriads of immense army and naval its hellish hate can accomplish it. At all East and North and brave troops must their bosoms to at least three ov four times their The North has proven its disposition and its ability to yet it be admitted that in no instance have they shown selves our equal except when our men have been ltd by blundering We can whip the Yankees in equal or superior all things being but that is quite a different thing to whipping the North into a peace with acknowledgement our With a which can men and clothe nnd feed them with more ease than wo can it is a Herculean task to Yet it can bo if added to wisdom in unprecedented and nnd a united heart and Providence fights for God clearly and marvellously sustained our army in many but that God is wholly on our side and fights for ns who can prove Were we always in the authorities always wise and true our commanders all pure not and and and high-handed wickedness fill tho then might we claim God to be always on our But what is tho un- holy and the spirit of extortion and avarice which ever disgraced a fill the The North is no may he a thousand fold What then Can God be always on either side May lie not have left both North and South to the control of Satan and their own to be a mutual scourge and a curse to each Who can It will bo seen that the Bank of has declared a dividend of per for the last six Wo are glad to see that our Banks keep on the even tenor of their paying only ordinary profits in those war Every other species of corporation in the State are their former it would be difficult to estimate the enormous per made for the last six and twelve months by tho manufacturing and Railroad Companies of the and still many are not the cry of the is their The enemy appears to be extending his lines from Newborn to indicating an early advance upon the Wilmington and Weldon at the most assailable Weldon is evidently one of the objects in his design n point of tho utmost importance to the safety of burg and of the army of Should the enemy get possession of it will of course cut off of the main nels for reinforcing and feeding the The The throughout this war have proven selves the unwavering friends of the soldiers of the But their sufferings must have been We learn that the of and are every day found upon the trains passing to different points relieving the Why may not the ladies of other towns imitate their excellent example Surgeon General we has mined to establish a Way Side Hospital ot this place near the Central and the ladies of the City are busily engaged in aiding him to raise the We urged the necessity of this more than a year While on this we cannot omit to mention the indefatigable labors of Mrs. C. of this who for almost has boon ing the hospitals at tho at the Peace working for the corporeal and good of the distributing and advising and comforting them in their Mr. Crowder has also devoted much time to Perhaps tjie clergy of the City have dona so but if they have we have not heard of it. Cannot other pious ladies and the clergymen take a share in this noble work? There is work for THE AT otm dy season is unless something is done to the streets at the Western de- near this will be One of the this depot is frequently blocked up with thus preventing the passage of We believe it is the duty of the road companies to keep these streets open and in We have beon requested by ral of our citizens to call the attention of tho of the Roads to the Wo trust also that the Roads will con- struct a passenger shed at the Such a building Is much At St. on the the entire en- rolled militia of tho St. Louis District were out on to tho number of The Hon. J. L. M. has given the Judge of Probate of one thousand bushels of corn for distribution to the indigent families of Alabama Public The following extract of a letter from B friend in one of the upper embodies the views of of our It will be Well to consult tho people in all matters deeply affecting their was gratified to vigilance in ing the rights of the North Carolina imposition in suggesting to the Legislature whether it would not be well for that body to see that other States had furnished their quota of troops before we are called on for those over We have but few slaves in the Western part of this The farms are generally cultivated by white Take all up to 45, and the farms are left nearly naked of and there will not be half crops planted of strengthening our will it from Let us feed vand clothe our present and thus enable them to cope with the superior bers of the which we cannot equal in because they are three times our I trust will not suffer this State to be imposed on from any Tho fever at Wilmington continues to Not more than five new cases are reported on Tuesday Col. of tho 20th Regiment N. C. has been recommended by Gen. as cessor to Gen. who was recently Fur the MR. EDITOR While connected with the Mississippi where I was daily cognizant of the heroic deeds of Gen. Sterling of I wrote the fallowing which were- in some of the Arkansas Believing that the sentiments embodied will meet your and tho concurrence of your many i send them to for A TO MAJ. GEN. Of. TUB 0, S. i. Like the Simoon Unit Arabia's W litre ami Its gimit wo curried Or liko Ihe crashing rushes down the in its I he lovely of civil And u T tut would give hope Tho tocsin thun IK West loudly through our yoiw Drive buck tho vile 1" and men nnd To thu hosts tho sent To blot The rose crimson echoed wAiU 111 thoso 01' Uio But gloom n hopes lo Ami storm of WitU sweet nnd lustre O'er sunny it its 1'L'hi, n And tho its But the And cohorts of their they in skies the In him has and liberty A friund scorns Whose uim the West is lo From I heroes who laurels I hey huve passed Ye Washington The patriot By counsels H gave A ID And the For Home landed With the of 1'iitcu A woid that will never Grow dim through of future Hut ii will live forever In Southern P.m When Wiir with us Thy name will peerless With deeds of valor Co N. C Nov. 1, H. G 4tn P. A. 0. S. October 22, 1883. At a meeting of tho officers of this con- vened iti 10 miles below this to express their regret and sorrow at the death of their Brigadier General George 15. from the effects of a wound received nt Oti Colonel Grimes was called to tho and Capt. Sertton Gales requested to net as The following submitted by tenant el1 were unanimously We have heard with profound regret that our late Gen. B. whoso pure nnd unsullied profound ability and manly won him numerous admirers all who knew has been removed from among us by Him who nil things Be it That We humbly bow in obedience to His yet we can but express our heartfelt sorrow at our great winch deprives us one so so generous and so and our cause and our State of attainments so That while our loss is we find consolation in tho that he died a martyr in defence of which be devotedly and in upholding thAse principles of which are sought to be from us by tyranny and usurpation and tho patriot soldier can ask for no death more than one received in defence of so sacred a Tlut while we would not obtrude upon the deep distress of his sordy yet we to be permitted to mingle our tears with and to assure we sincerely thise with in their deep That a copy of these proceedings be sent to the family ot the and to the mond and and that the N. 0. bo requested to copy The meeting then adjourned BRYAN SKATON A. A. SUPPLIES FOH TUB ple in the cotton States are very actively discussing plans of charitable supplies tho An peal was recently mado on this subject by Vice ident Stephens in a speech to the of The plan which he suggested for pie of each county to provide first for their own and in doing for each contributor to select particular soldiery for whom he should undertake to until every soldier from the county should have somebody at homo to whom he look with confidence for the supply of ail his IH purchasing cloth and other the people might act through some common but each contributor should personally see to it that provision was made for the particular soldiers under his and thea the articles should be sent to the army and delivered into the very hands for whom they are in- tended by some agent of the people's own selection for that particular The result would be that every soldier would have somebody at home to stand sponsor for all his Our it nro a good deal frustrated for the want of Tho gas works have been out of but will soon be in WHOLE NUMBER 1445. ABSENTEES FROM TIIE General D. H. Hill has called for the names of all officers who have been sent from their regiments an unusual length of in order that they may be recommended to be to be preferred against all soldiers who cannot furnish satisfactory proof of the necessity for their ed absence It is well that some very stringent measures should be adopted to remedy the crying evil which long existed in relation to this for the soldier sick and tasted the comforts of home once reluctantly leaves that homestead with its winning for the cheerless or quits the fare prepared by gentle hands to resume the hard and stinted with kind and gentle is ever ful of the cares and pains and Our hospitals would be as cheerless without them as without the and oh more ing is the female hand than tho rough kindness of There is an Eastern fable which says that a falling on the lips of a dead recalled him We cannot tell all the good of kindness in time of any more than we can reckon the power of An unknown beautifully says that the brightest jewel that adorned a than a the tear that on her cheek for Further reaching than those of the its flashing rays are seen in And wonder that the soldier sadly leaves such scenes as these to return to the Yet they must return that else our army will dle But our must have a care in ing to avoid Scylla fall into They must as the writer has drag from their homes convalescent who have risen from a bed of by supporting their palsied limbs on a manage to step to the door of their ling or their bedroom they must not force to carry a musket those who can scarcely bear the morning Wo if it were cite a dozen instances where convalescent soldiers were from homo to the field when too weak to walk a nnd in a days would suffer a relapse and be sent back in a worse condition than at and several of the cases never Let us then be vigilant as to the duties of the but be lest in eagerness to do good we do GENERAL There are several com- at and A Mrs. Nancy captured ono of the bridge burners The Yankees are of the citizens of Fernando Wood is a candidate for Congress in New York in opposition to a noted Gen. has seized all the shoes in Oa for his barefooted The State election in Arkansas has resulted in the tion of Col. Harris tor by an over- whelming majority ovor 11. tho present It is that ff Georgian recently invested one lion of dollars in 8 per A few hundred such men would make the country breathe We a statement in the papers that English nrc investing money in Confederate If it is a good A hns been introduced in tho Alabama fin bidding fi from following any or or business in Ihe Mr. of advocated it. Ho was for ordering every to the country who did not the oath ol allegiance to the Confederate Our small force under Gen. Echola in Western it is has been compelled to retreat from the The in force it ia are now in The Patriot fays the travel from to Danville now requites two four-horse coaches daily Messrs. IWrey and Simmons hare chased the lines from Danville to und from to from G. D. Bills have been introduced in Iho Alabama for Ihe of and to protect the ple The Charleston snys that the rice crop in that State is0 good though not so large BS Wood and the S. with ten men from the one night last gallantly at- in the lying loaded with and bound They hoarded her and took her officers und crew and having removed what they set fire to This was a gallant Morgan's divi which kept cooped up land Gap by Kirby so has been and sent into Western f here are many Koat in it. The British steamer recently New and demanded the release of a British subject from Fort and indemnification for the seizure of his to the amount of liutler for 12 days to consult his Lt. Perihelion had u narrow escape for his life on the Mississippi Central railroad A collision took place by which upwards of Si soldiers were kilted mid many The car in which Gen. berton only slight Apples sold on the streets of at only per The steamer Herald arrived at n Confederate port last cargo of useful Gen. Kirby Smith serial of his stall am red in Richmond on Monday The election in New York took place on the 4fh It is stated that Ihe troops passing through from the New England Slates were detained in Ihe in order to op- upon the Bloody scenes were It is said that Gen has again been made Com- manding General and that has been sent out Gen. is jn command of This is said to bare been done to influence the Northern Gov. of we are glad to has arrangements at the Virginia far bushels of halt for the use of the Virginia pork without interfering with contracts previously roude there by other and the Confederate At a meeting of the Stockholders of tho Wilmington nnd Rutherford ton Rail Road on the 22d at Esq was re-elected The is completed 10 miles and graded to Ou the lower end it is completed to within miles of Richmond Within a year the principal bank of Fear at I as lost its Cashier and five Directors by The Salisbury says one of the most Machine Shops iu the Confederacy is to waste in that place for wont of an enterprising Why do not the speculators buy it and set it a They might do some good for the country in that Jones Lee hare established R cotton card factory at with machinery direct from They hope soon to deliver fifty pairs One of the moet active and efficient Agents in the State for the of Salt among the we ja our friend B. A. of Foray He has reduced the matter to a system so that all shall get their due of B. Branch's and John of- Co. 44th S. C. in obedience to the sentence of the Court at tbe of Col. at If yesterday They were taken out of till hour or two and spot of short distance southeast of the fn an ambulance their and their persons Cain bore bis apparent and laughed and converted as though he wore going to a wedding feast conquered the sentence that a just and said that the Confederate been as strict twelve months army would have been saved the able and he for would have still been in the on the other a vastly different spirit from that ot ifb Went when Brought out of jail and taken to tbe place of but si bore up They were shot at both fell dead at the first pierced by It is earnestly to be hoped that the execution of these men have a beneficial effect upon especially that portion of it encamped ia this and adjacent Bourn CAROLINA learn by in South Carolina papers that that State has altogether but fifteen thousand soldiers in Virginia and in Bragg's We are surprised at this because we thought that South Carolina had at least thirty thousand men in Virginia and in the Kentucky North wo has very nearly thousand men in Virginia She has Regiments in besides a number of companies of We take pleasure in making this statement the especial benefit of those arc in the habit of slandering and at Old North IN has of a transaction which took place in Lynchburg on Saturday which accounts extreme high that every article of value A party brought from the Valley four bales of woollen each bale containing a sand which cost him per It held by him at a but nobody would chase it at that After a time intelligence came from Richmond that a yard could be had it the speculators here bought a of it at a resold it to another for he to a- third at 10i, and he resold it to a fourth at and ho to a fifth at IH per AH this was doue in about two and the last speculator went purchased tho remaining three bales at per yard from the first and immediately resold the whole lot at per Thus tho speculators divided among themselves 5 or 6000 Pretty sharp practice this in the course of Tim OK PLANTING dent Stephens has been delivering speeches in gia wUich the papers have misrepresented by ing that he urged the planing of largo crops of He has a contradiction of the What he did say the tance of large crops of. the war only for home but lo feed the The and feeding of our men in the field lie tbe tirst and highest duty of every In to our foreign the idea of we should abandon the growth of cotton in order to force our recognition in his a radical and fundamental ns he believed be one of our chief elements of but but we see lo it that our provision crop is ample for home and army con- sumption when that is the more ton we raise tho This strikes us as being tho true policy of tho between the abandonment Ihe cultivation of cotton and the planting of crops of it. The latter we cannot do without entailing upon our soldiers and their families a terrible ad- dition to present and the former we should not both because the South itself wants a great deal of and that we never should allow the worM to suppose that we aie not willing und ready to supply it with that article which it oar i get nowhere and which is the main source of its sympathy in our Tim never were so stirred to the very depths of their hearts as the of have been by Gov. Appeal lor relief to our gallant We hear on nil hands of a spontaneous movement of women and till anxious to contribute something and bringing their gifts to of their In due time we shall hare the proper acknowledgments of most of these On Friday last a lady from county was in town with some Jeans of her own which Col. desired to purchase fur the The was selling in the streets on day at a The she hud no son in the but to contribute something for tho relief of other people's and the should have the Jems at a Of course U was gladly P. informs us that tho Captain in Creek District has already brought to him SO cts nnd besides socks and other One of the he is well worth IIo assures us that his subaltern entered heartily into the work of canvassing their Districts and collecting such useful articles of ing as the people are so ready to They are thus making their exemption doubly useful .to the is a law prohibiting the dis- of grain of kind in this have lizard of one or cases where Confederate Agents or officers have made contracts with lers for making whiskey for medical This is tn violation of our State No Con- federate or State has the right to the tunning of a distillery in for the purpose of making liquor or alcohol fiom We have the lest authority for saying There was Brandy enough made during the for medical if the Government will take measures to secure it. The people must lure the Corn for A sick man can do without key better than a well can do without Charlotte As correspondent the burg Express narrates the following On the 1st of 1802, nn old man with the air and eye of might have been seen sturdily and with a true soldier wending his way the road led from Richmond lo 11 destined the scene of the last and bloodiest stand of McClellan on the His trusty Enfield was thrown across his and a well filled cartridge box demonstrated ability to do what his resolute demeanor his Every straggler ho though an old man he passed urged with with nnd with with him to the post of To the weak spoke n kindly word of to the skulkers a scorching and if you had him whither he was wending on that July he would have to take my son's place in tho as he is too sick to move to hw company is after And thus lant old chieftain trudged eighteen That son was and is u member of the Petersburg and as thorough a gentleman and rous a soldier as the Southern Confederacy and that father was General V alter at as I see by been signed to We have it upon what we deem very an- says the Knoxville that our army fell back from General Morgan dashed into Lexington and in the the Marshal of that It that this dirty tool of Lincoln had notified the mother of General Morgan that she leave in the event of her failing to would resort to sonic severe measures her The noble learning resolved ha would take his life at all This he an reported to us by truthful Kentucky in a gallant t 41 JEWS PA PER I
