Weekly Standard (Newspaper) - May 6, 1863, Raleigh, North Carolina THE RT OF PLEAS V ila for sale of the that i. ad the bunts of ib dered br the Co W. EDITOR AND op THE annum Dollars per the expiration of the have areas VOL. 19. N. MAY 6, 1863. WHOLE NUMBER 1470. wil 3 and nt the close of tr hn from ant. will be deducted from the gross f or business not exceeding five lines in either the Weekly or for or for twelve or in both for six or for twelve ferms of Advertising in Weekly dollar per square for tho first antt its for each subsequent insertion No deduction will tide on weekly no matter how long they j run Only a limited number of advert will be Bitted into the All not are inserted in the and When the number of insertions is not fed on the advertisement it is inserted until Money sent us by mail is at our An Imperial We publish to day some extracts from the mond Enquirer and Charleston showing the views of those papers in relation to the sion of corpus and the powers of We need not say to our readers cordially MAY 1. 1863. The In the night of the 23rd about three jjd of the enemy crossed the Rappahannock at go six miles below Port for the of breaking up a fishing store at that our soldiers have boon engaged in since the commencement of the fishing movement was wholly and was with signal The Yankees ed the three wagons and twenty mules re crossed the river in that Hooker contemplates a change of are still There no of military display on the Stafford I- other appearance of change of From have no late intelligence from Gen. command still menaces the but opinion prevails that no attack is The alarmed for of has troops from the country for its de- and a portion of our forces are in quiet session of Provisions and forngo the being rapidly removed from this which the advance on Suffolk has for the and we trust from insolence and From the is no news of importance from Tullahoma Mississippi The telegraph continues the occurrence and recurrence of trivial attended by little to either and i dispatches aro generally contra- or wholly of Vicksburg has not been mt merely withdrew his forces from tho la in front of the city to Milliken's a ice of twenty-five thinking that this feigned would cause the withdrawal of most of our oops from which then would fall an Uy prey to a joint attack to be made by the land hd naval forces of the United From Eastern There has been heavy skirmishing on the lines blow the enemy having again advanced We are indebted to the Progress for the dispatch giving some of tho Ight at Gum Swamp on the 28th instant April or four companies the 56th N. were attacked yesterday nt Gurn nine miles below by some six or thousand Our boys fought them two hours the constancy and jon of and only retired from their forks when and overpowered by jr loss is estimated at about forty wounded Among the killed is the brave of of Capt. Lockhart's com. who died this morning of his Tho were expected to continue their advance lis but evidently have not done so. Gen. Ill will give them a proper welcome when they From the United States and April dates to the 27th ive been received her Dispatches from Gen. McNeil at Cape the 25th, claim a repulse of a. rebel under Gen. at that The had taken a new and at fast Bunts were preparing to assault the works of the 3. The latter had been and two had arrived to aid A dispatch says bat the rebels were Advices from New Orleans give glowing Yankee of Gen. Grover had the celebrated Salt mines and destroyed Sixteen hundred rebels were nd more were being Destructive fires occurred in New York on the One of them damaged the Herald Gen. commanding the Department of has issued an directing that las when shall be shot or hanged without The 7th and 8th New York regiments have arrived it home from the army of the tho term their enlistment having They will be ouf of The Canadian Premier stated recently that would accept volunteers and ply them with Florida has captured tho The and cargo are valued at and insured t The Washington of tho Herald ays that intelligence from England leads to the Belief that the departure of privateers from orts will be arrested by the The rebel loan had rallied in and was at a with an enormous business 10th. Nothing new with respect to the Federal pe London Herald hints that tho Union agents pared the undertaking would not be fere consequently disposed to seek to raise the re- amount in The Polish insurrection was still in great Czar had offered a general amnesty to all Poles would return to their The Cotton market was quiet and un- correspondent writing from High Point inquires government hands are liable to poll We doubt they Soldiers only are exempt foil Government hands are but are not They work for the t and they ought to pay their approve views of the for they are the samo we have uniformly held and The it will be takes the ground that if necessary to the successful prosecution of the war it would vest in President Davis not the power of suspending the corpus but the powers of life and death with ry drum head And in its issue of the 27th very recent Enquirer has an article of some length under the head of A Con- federate in which it takes the ground that a mere or or oligarchy is not desirable in the Southern but that the model of tho present imperial despotism of France is the best that exists for our It 44 The empire and is now as ly Democratic as the republic is to all Frenchmen belong to only one and there is perfect equality before the and the Emperor founds his title not the grace of God like the English but of God and the will of the A military monarchy may be but a patrician and orders cannot Where there has been a long and all tho people are compelled to be soldiers and live under military there is undoubtedly a tendency towards imperial but no tendency at all towards creation of a The government of this for if the war lasts several years may compel the country to invest its as with dictatorial in order to a 4 strong and pet feet unity of action for the common defence but it is not possible so much as to conceive its ending in the creation of a privileged The it must be borno in is re- ferring to the views of those citizens who it says aro distrust of the of Democratic institutions in this sighing for gradations of that mob ought not to about the of higher and wishing for a strong and its object is to give the ewe to these citizens to cease to advocate a Confederate and to take ground for an imperial tary despotism like that of These views are not new with the In one of its issues of February last it said 11 If the government has not sufficient let it have Never mind six months it will be time enough to redress the to adjust the and to bring tho delinquents to Till the army and navy are our nil in This people luve elected a military partly because he vuis a tried but because he was a proved soldier they have given him a and noble task to accomplish he has a right to demand that they give him their confidence without and place the powers of the people and of tho States as a sword within his Is this the entertainment to which the people of the Confederate States have been We were when the old was broken up by the States south of that the contest was to be for liberty that tho civil power was to prevail over the that the common government was to be the agent of the their mas ter and thai free not an imperial were to constitute the great object of our toils and But the official paper has de- clared That paper is opposed to a no- bility to be established by u favors a tary despotism like that ol We are to have a great i the States ing the same relation to that the provinces of France bear to the throne of This is the programme laid down by the official Does that journal speak for the heads of tho If it does let them promptly withdraw from it the publication of the official That they read it carefully wo entertain no Thus they have allowed the public to infer that it speaks their sentiments by publishing all their army and the like first in its to the exclusion of other Richmond It is no excuse for them to say that they are not willing to appear to interfere with the freedom of tho for it is notorious that they bestow nd patronage of any kind on Conservative or on papers that do not defend them or reflect their We know that military despotism is making rapid strides in these We know that no people ever lost their liberties at but step by as some deadly disease steals upon the system and but surely saps the fountains of We know that tyrants and their minionS always prepare the popular mind in advance for their and that those usurpations are always based upon the plea of the general The argument now we Lincoln so bitterly that in order to re- sist him successfully we must make of Tho answer of our people we will le slaws neither to nor nor nor is a not a and she has eighty thousand of as brave troops as ever trod the When she calls them they will If the worst should happen that can she will be able to take care of herself as an independent will not in any to a law of Congress passed in deliberate violation of tho investing Mr. Davis with dictatorial but she will resist such a law by if from the and she will fight her way out against all with a courage and an ardor which will eclipse even any former achievements of her sons during the existing For we are mined not to exchange one despotism for Richmond Examiner we hold 44 The strength of the Confederacy will depart from the moment it becomes a pale reflex of the Northern The North possesses greater and all the physical ad vantages in a greater degree than the Yet the resists with and why Because of fts superiour moral This is still a free Our armies fight with courage for their property and Our people endure the ills of war with that their laws and privileges may be The North is governed by a Its soldiers and its people arc But if wo do as the North has and surrender all the powers of the State into the hands of one will governed also by arbitrary and fts will be Then the struggle will resolve itself into a struggle between two each sessing a certain amount of brute As the South bad far less this than the the con- is inevitable that the South most The only hope of this country rests on a strict adherence to its republican The ration of the Union becomes a thing the moment is presented in the form of this Shall we belong to a great country governed by arbitrary and despotic or belong to a little country also governed by arbitrary and despotic power The Laws and As State have completed the public the and shall complete during the present The public laws of the regular and adjourned sessions make 136 and the journals of the two Houses for the two cessions will make about 600 The private laws are still to be with 60 ordinances of the Con- which the Legislature directed to be ed with the public and private These will swell the volume 4o at least 400 and it may reach 450 or 500. We shall execute this remaining work as rapidly as but we have been re- by the difficulty of procuring and the sickness of some engaged on the public There are more printers in the army any other vocation in proportion to their and our of the press will bear witness that it is no easy matter to procure suitable as it is important that the various Counties should have a copy of the public laws at the earliest practicable and as we have completed wo have been directed by the ernor and Secretary of State to send a copy by mail to each of the County Court This we will do at The County members of the and will in this way have access to the laws at as early a period as practicable after they have been during the Spring Courts now being The public and private laws in one the journals of the two and the public documents for members of the will be sent out as soon as they are which will be some time during the month of or about the of Funding Confederate In a late issue we said We advise the people to fund at seven per as these notes may de- in The State of Virginia has tually repudiated former issues by providing that only the issues after the first of this month shall be received for taxes in that We consider this good advice in relation to Confederate but the Register replies and says The above is as is The object of the Virginia law was to induce holders of Treasury notes issued prior to the 1st of to fund in Confederate and thus assist the Confederate government in diminishing the volume of The law said in substance to the Virginia forward and fund your tor if you keep them they will not be received in payment of These on their pledge the faith of the government to fund them in eight per But the government allows them to be In eights up to a certain and then says they shall be funded only in and the Virginia Legislature declares that they shall not be received at all in ment of The Register not only but claims all we have said to be We have ing to do with the object of Virginia in this ness it is enough to know that she has repudiated a poi tion of the Confederate The ister is as or more a Virginia than Carolina Of that paper defends Virginia even when she but if our Legislature had done the Register would have denounced the act as the fear that these notes will de- before tho Banks can work them off It knows the loss will fall and it wants the loss to fail on the The that the Register characterizes what we say as silly and furnishes the best evidence that we aro writing sense and doing our Commendation or concurrence a source would be like deadly We shall ways feel sure that we aro right when the Register disapproves what we The of We glean from our correspondence the following names as deserving places on the Roll of Mr. John near Abbott's is soiling flour at only per and sells at still lower rates to He also sells corn at 25 per refusing higher prices from those who would 4l grind the faces of the A correspondent informs us that Harrison Esq residing at Round Orange has sold 100 barrels of corn to destitute neighbors and the wires of soldiers at prices varying from seven twelve dollars per but never exceeding the latter He is now selling sole leather cents per and upper leather at from four to six dollars per he does less of the exorbitant prices these articles now com- In our exchanges we find tho Mr. living near Davidson Col- is another patriotic man who sells corn to families at per Mrs. Cynthia of Cabarrus has been soiling corn to the needy in her neighborhood at 50 per and flour at one-half what brings in the Mrs. Wilson is a and has two sons in the and to her credit be that she is not one of those who are determined to squeeze everything up to an exorbitant market If there wore a few thousand more such people in the South would be better in every Mr. L. of Gaston has been selling to tho poor in his corn at per bacon and lard at cents per Such people as Mr. Ewing and Mrs. Wilson are a blessing to their and will be we in this and the next A Merited Tho Richmond Examiner publishes the official which in columns some time the number of troops which has and the manner in which they are The in pays the following handsome tribute to the fish patriotism of our people and the gallantry of our Here is proof of what the noble old North State done in this Well she both men and to the and whatever her enemies may say of of this war will show that in and and the old State is not behind any of her in this great Public Fcom numerous lettens this office we make the following extracts as indicating the con- dition of public sentiment in the State; Extract from a letter from N. 0.: people heartily approve your advocacy of State and a nation of the military to the civil a letter from Alexander Tour paper is gaining popularity every day in this There are about 125 copies taken at this office It has the advocate of the people and of the and I hope it will continue so to We all like your paper for the many well-merited which you have dealt out to the Destructive Continue to give it to broken Some of them are badly and I will keep it up until a constitutional change in Extract from a letter from Hartley's ham 441 had rather do without my supper every night than without the Your a larger circulation in this County than any Every body approves your save a few peaceable whoso countenance you do not Extract from a letter from Greene 44 There is no all quiet along the lines in this Farmers are planting large crops of corn here this The oat and rye crops look unusually and the breadth of land seeded is larger than it is ordinarily in this A letter from New Wake The are calling loudly for your Mrs. a wishes your Weekly I enclose the money Extract from a letter from Richmond Yadkin 441 have been a close reader of your paper for more than twelve and have watched your course with a vigilant and I must say I most heartily endorse and approve the bold and pendent stand you have taken in defending the rights of Extract from a letter from Greene 14 We can't get along without the It speaks the sentiments of of the in our section of Extract from a letter from Stony ander 44 The most of our great and war men be- fore the war arc here Some get by being who were never known to complain others by mechanical who would have been ashamed of such occupations two years tome by being over who look very and some few of them are in tho All of who are engaged m ing the last dollar from tho wives and families of our from a letter from Davidson Vance is the man for tho I say God bless the man! for the interest In behalf of poor soldiers and their as well as the poor We not been mistaken in He is every thing we could wish Extract from a letter from Alamance 441 cannot do without your Your amidst the trying scenes through which we are meets my unqualified If ever there was a time when the watchman upon the wall should stand cry aloud and spare and hoTd every man in authority to the strict letter of the now is the Otherwise we may when too that the chains of tism are riveted upon Permit to cheer you on in the good work of the cause of the cause of the cause of law and of Extract from a Jetter irom Granville 44 You may look for a long list of subscribers from me The people in thia section unanimously approve tho course you have pursued since the war and particularly the Extract from a letter from Stone Dowell 44 Wo are with the course of the and hope that you and Governor Varico will still stick to the They are with and no We are all anxious for peace if we have Loyal Citizens driven from U will bo from the following order of Gen. every loyal person in the town of Washington has been required to leave tbe place or take the oath of allegiance to Lincoln's government This order is alike cruel and No tions arc Whole families are to be driven out as wanderers over the face of the because they are true to the State and to their native N. April 17, 1863. f Generat There is every reason to that during the recent communication has been carried on between residents of this town and the by means of and many ef the residents have openly displayed their thy with the rebel besieging It is therefore That all persons residing within our lines who have not already or who shall not give satisfactory evidence of their loyalty to the United States shall re- move within five beyond the Federal The Provost Marshal will see order is carried into By command of Gen. EDWARD B. W. AT A. A. Gen. A serious accident occurred on Richmond and ville Hond on the 28tb. The train urn across fc cow near the when tho two cars were burled embankment thirty feet killing a soldier named brakesman named and wounding some thirty or forty Flour has declined in Charlotte to per and in Salisbury to per The Democrat thinks the government wilt much as it of bucon at per and corn at per The fear of ment has had the good effect of opening many a house and corn Capt. N. A. of writes from Island to the Fayetteville that of rations for his men is but they are fiee from the gnaw ings of lie says tho regiment to which be belongs is in good The estimates for the Confederate from the 1st July to 1868; amount to This is about eight hundred millions per An Atlanta grocer advertises sardines and sherry under the head of Reminiscences of the f ot Confederate notes were funded nt S. and lit Ala. PROM THE ARMY OP THE 5s nothing of especial reported from Hooker's excepting the departure of the regiments whose term of service is together with large numbers of It is stated furloughs are yet being granted to limited numbers for short The correspondent The river is fulling and the condition of the roads 'a To in using breech loaders cannot be too closing or putting in the A we burst near N. C from neglect ih this nnd killed eight Some cute Yankee has stolen the copyright of the First Year of the published by the enterprising house of West Johnston of and the book is to be and out in New The demand for it is said to be very The New Orleans of the 9th reports the ment of proceedings on behalf of Frederick Adolphe to establish a mortgage claim on the property of John confiscated by of The which is quite heavy is dated at June 4th, 1302, nnd was recorded prior to tho act of If the blossom of the will now soon be in full bluom gathered and dried in the be in making instead of tho it will be found an excellent substitute for which now sells ut from twelve to fifteen dollars 4 By many who have tried it is pronounced to be a most delicious and table The Wilmington Journal We write this paragraph with a very free-flowing ink by boiling in water the birk of the bay or dwarf cut into small The ink appears to us to be in every re to any we have and it is cattily made from a obtainable almost anywhere low It seems us though it would permanently retain its at least some writing done a month ago looks blacker than it did at The investments in 8 per bonds at tho Depository in Fayetteville within the two weeks approach a million of At Green on the 5th A. to Miss Jane that wouk well was Eve made for Express j OFFICE N. April 24, In pursuance to the foregoing 't General Or all persons within our lines are requested to call forthwith at the office of the Provost hours of 9 A. and 1 P. to give satisfactory evidence of their loyalty to the United States All persons not conforming to this Order must remove within five days from boyond the Federal W. fl. Provost S. has retired from the Editorial chair of the on account of continued feeble and is by Messrs. A. and J. 0. We regret to with Mr. especially for tbe cause The we are glad to is in a flourishing We wish the new Editors much The Position at The general direction of the river is Northeast and At Suffolk tbe stream is very General position is in and on the south and west of the His under Gen. extends to the dismal on which it His under Gen. extends west and west to the The distance of lilies from the works of the enemy is about two The picket of is much has been made by us to penetrate the dismal swamp nor to cross tho in order to get into rear of Gen. on the has had all tho fighting with the and the latter have kept up a noisy on the has twice driven the enemy his trenches in heavy object of Gen. Longstreet seems to be served in holding the enemy closely in his Our commissaries and thus secured from have been able to render an immense service to the It is not probable that street will storm the enemy's If the enemy comes there will be a The capture of battery is charged upon Gen. French's defectivo and a great deal of feel ing exists against him in We take it for granted there will be a court of in- to investigate the The above statement is from a source well in- formed and We publish it as giving a succinct likely to interest our mond DAVENFORT FEMALE N. cull attention to the we publish feeling that wo are doing the publia a Those who have daughters to we To Weld Cast Tbe Observer instituted nn enquiry sometime since for something which could be used instead of is now exceedingly scarce and in welding cast The following preparation deed by Mr. Y. A. an experienced smith of this as a tute for and is said to answer the purpose Smiths and machinists elsewhere would do well to give it a The substitute consists of 8 pounds of 1 pound of copperas and Id pounds of sharp are sure cannot find a more healthy and the officers are all that the public can Davenport Female reference to the advertisement of this in another it will be seen chat Rev. A. G. of our has accepted the honorable sition tendered as President of the Davenport Female The Davenport Female is located upon an elevated in N. a beautiful and retired celebrated for cool pure salubrious and romantic Elevated several hundred feet above thti level of the and having at all cing removed the ment and contagion of large towns and the location offers peculiar attractions as a place where the young may be gathered for The College grounds contain about sixteen which nature seeing to have formed expressly for the purpose to which they aro now In the rear of the buildings natural embracing about four beautifully shaded with where the young ladies can take exercise in the open secluded entirely 4rmthe public The college regarded aa one of structures of the kind in tho Southern was planned and erected expressly the at a heavy and with a targe story building necessary for the education of youn The Albemarle We convened day or two since gent the Albemarle who in- formed us that the enemy has left that fegion and that the people greatly They aro pitching targe crops of many who own fisheries are busily engaged in catching shad and The movement by Gen. street against Suffolk has had the of ling the Yankees to withdraw all from the Albemarle and we government is bringing out from that largo quantities of corn and Between seven eight hundred thousand pounds of bacon been obtained in the County of Bertie Wo have time and from lie very begining of the the great importance to the cause of holding portion of the wan lost to us when Island Easter a olina could have fed the entire Confederate army with its and We ore that the even at this late ia izing the value of this portion of our But if Gen. Longstreet should retire from as We suppose he the Albemarle region will again be exposed to the the RonnoW land being in his there will be nothing to prevent the ascent of his boats to the STAND THE have appealed to our brave be trpe to their colors under all and not to fcr any If one can remain in the and under- go its necessary all can. It ingly important just that the ranks ol our regiments in this State should be The foiled at is making efforts to penetrate the interior of our His eye is on tho road at Wilmington or He must he driven and held where he is. every soldier who is absent from his and re- turn at There is no safety for any one except in the path of We know that Iho privations of the soldier are but those who are in for the war should that the hope of the try is centred in the and that these if patiently and cheerfully tional honor on those who shall submit to them to the We cannot tell whether the end is near or one can but the true feels that duty must be and that peace not bo secured by absence from the Stand by the Never soil your goed n by deserting it POINTED of the derson writing to his paper from Fort near Congressional election is Keep your eyes Beware of the of the winter of They are now ly no party They are the fag ends of the old defunct democratic They have fought most of their battles in or They aided to precipitate the cotton States into which have made a of and Lei them be Give them the reins of and after peace they will carry us to be marked as ly as Cain I would not trust them to as far as I could throw an ox by the Dr. L. uses the scalpel remarkably A TOUCHING was conversing not long since with returned 111 was in the hospital as nurse for lorg said assisted in taking off in dressing all sorts of but tho hardest I ever did was to take my thumb off a man's said was Then ho told me. It was a young man who severe the The ball passed completely and amputation was The limb was cot off close up to the the arteries taken and he seemed to be doing one of the small arteries sloughed off. An incision was and it was again taken is well it is not the main said the surgeon he formed the might have bled to before have taken it Charley got on finely and was a favorite with I was passing through the ward one about when suddenly as I was passing C- arley's bed ho my lee is blooding 1 threw hack the bed and the blood spirted in the The main artery had sloughed off. I knew just what to and him 1 instant I had pressed my thumb on the pi and stopped the It close to body that there was barely room for my in keeping it and arousing one of tho sent him for the who came in on the tl I ain so thankful ho as he saw you were up and what to for he must have bled to death before 1 could hove got But on examination in the he looked ex- serious and sent out for other surg All came who were within and a tion was held over the poor One conclusion was reached by There was no place to work save the spot where my thumb was they could not work under my and if I moved it he would bleed to death before the artery be taken There was no way to save his Poor Ho was very calm thar told and requested that his who was in the same might be called He came and sat down by the and for three I and by the pressure of my thumb kept up the life of while the brothers had their last conversation on It was a for me to be to feel that I had the Hfe of a low mortal in my as it and to feel that an act of mine must cause that life to Loving the poor fellow as I It was a hard but there was no The last words were Charley all his business and sent sages to absent who little dreamed bow near their loved one stood to The my more than as I ing All were said and he turned to me I guess you had better take 0, Charley 1 how can IT I Bu t it must yon he I thank you very much for your and He turned away his I raided ray once more the life gushed and in three minutes poor Charley was V CAN A a mother f Not a but she looks into the corner where you read Robinson aod thinks of you as a Mothers become conscious that their children ire grown of their They think of advise ttttttt write to if not full fifteen of cannot forget Three the thinks who are absent from the and the next at the she may her own family and if yon are look Vit for the fat limb of and coffee which none but own mother can Did forget Samuel A short of household and with genuine mother is 41 bis mother made him ft brought to him irom to she up with her husband A mother mourning at doting tho dying eyes of grief whose heavier the lion of a son who vices which be would tho Napoleon once asked a Wf i needed for the education of profound reply
