Weekly Standard (Newspaper) - June 8, 1864, Raleigh, North Carolina 1 THE WILLIAM W. EDITOR AND OF TUB of the Standard are as six 7 three 4 Weekly six 6 three 3 Tlic government through iU financial anil the corporations and trading mon. having dollar Confederate bills at of their we are compelled to do the Persons sending five bills be credited for two-thirds of their face and no and no bills duo tho can hereafter be paid in save at such Twos and ones and new issue ed. Advertisements inserted at two dollars per square of ten tines or for and one dollar for each subsequent The very large circulation of tbe Standard renders it a valuable medium for 13. N. JUNE 8, 1864. WHOLE NUMBER 1516. excellent remarks of Gov. Graham in the Standard of They have the ring of the true We trust Mr. Graham will write out his remarks in full JOHNSTON we the of Johnston have held a nominated a ticket of true and disposed of Messrs. Woodall and Stronger or more ble man could not have been nominated than Messrs. Smith and They will bo elected by a large Stumping the The Confederate of the 3d of of the mercenary organs of Gov. a notice that the Governor will address the people from the 4th to the 22d commencing at and ending at The Governor will thus be absent eighteen neglecting the business of his office and stirring up strife among the Meantime wo shall have a Deputy Governor in the person of some shade unknown to the It will bo seen by the following handed to us in handbill that Gov. Vance has been using the Central Railroad to convey his partisan friends to hear him The most rigid restrictions are imposed on citizens who and many members of families who desire to visit sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals are prevented from doing and passes are required of all citizens who men and women but the partisans of Gov. Vance are invited to travel without to hear him Tho Governor seems to have come to the conclusion that he has some special personal inter- est in the public The pots and favorites who surround him are permitted to purchase plies for their families from the State stores at low while the people are stinted and suffering for the necessaries of life and ho sends off his ton on a State steamer to purchase his Yankee and European and uses the Railroads to trans- port his friends from point to point to hear him extra will be run on Railroad from on the 24th of Ladies and gentlemen who desire to hear nor Vance's can leave and other points on the Road in the and re- turn the same Agents will issue return tickets for one Train will leave at 8, A. M. 8 25, 8.45, 9.15, 9.40, Haw 9.50, 10.45, And arrive at 11 3D. By order of T. J. Engineer and THE for tho strife and tion Gov. Vance is creating in the State by his stump and the neglect of the business of his office by which many of the people aru fering we should thank so far as we are for his efforts before tho He loses votes by these efforts wherever he makes We have reliable information to this from Snow and other A writing us from Snow 11 We are all right up Vance made no impression in his favor by his He let off his gas to no purpose at Snow So long as you stand up for the people and their rights they will standby Gov. Vance will not poll more than seven if that or if any at at where the Snow Camp people while his opponent will get from seventy to Mark the PUTTING ON one of tho Editors of tho organ of the and property putting on In one of his notices of the Hampton der against us ho In the meantime Mr. Holden ought not to be permitted to make this a question of a political In our it is a question for a j udge and jury and for the people That the wants us Will he turn common We now tell him and all tho other mercenary supporters of Gov. that our skirts are as clear of treason as theirs can and that we are and have been truer to than they have been or can Our devotion South is disinterested and their what there is of has been bought and paid When the money gives out the devotion will Come on with your judge and Col. All we ask that none of your political associates shall sit upon the and that no friend of ours Tvill offer a fee large enough to induce you to pear for The Ex Colonel in just now putting on ter the first Thursday in when the people shall have all the starch will be out of But we give him notice that if the war should be in progress on the first of 1865, and ho should a conscript as he was when Gov. Vance saved him from service by not requiring him to settle his we shall not interfere to shield him fronn Yankee The place for him is not in the but close to the flashing of tho The Richmond says that Mr. the Secretary of the has so ed his business that though the creator of millions of paper with full power to print and and with a large number of clerks he finds the treasury empty with not a dollar to pay off just claims This accounts for the fact that so many of our soldiers cannot get their which has been due them in some cases for six and nine this Confederacy is sadly with such as Mr. But there is no The President will not remove Hard We noticed in our issue of 27th a ment made to us by a friend in Smithfield that Gov. Vance had in his speech in that that he could by two or three as respectable bers as there are in the that we made propositions to them to introduce resolutions calling for a Convention for the purpose of seceding from the And the charge by a correspondent in the that Gov. Vance said that Mr. Holden had declared to two or three members of the Legislature that he advocated a Convention of the State for the purpose of carrying the State out of the Southern W e could not imagine what could bo the foundation for this We simply denied stating that when we saw the certificates we should be better able to comprehend and characterize it. And the mountain has labored and the mouse has 1 A batch of certificates has been gotten up by and as a ter of on an alleged private in one of which certificates Mr. W. W. one of the Commoners from the County of says that one during the session of the Legislature last in the Commons near the fireplace to the left of the Speaker's he heard W. W. Holden that the Legislature should call a Convention of the State and take the State out of the says my in less than six months you will see that I am Mr. of says he happened to be near and overheard something that was said about the Con- federate but what particular subject was spoken of I did not he then repeats that wo uttered substantially the language attributed to us by Mr. Col. of and Mr. of are introduced to prove that Mr. Hampton repeated this alleged expression of ours soon afterwards to Col. This is the substance of the And what does it amount to la the first place we declare most emphatically that we have no recollection of any such and sec that if any such conversation we used no language the meaning or purpose of which was to call a Convention to from the govern Mr. who is an intelligent gentle admits that overheard something that said about the Confederate but what particular subject was spoken of ho did not under thus leaving tho if such sation that much more was said than that repeated in a manner by Mr. Hamp But Mr. who is a ed and incapable of comprehending either a long or a or a state ment in an would have the public believe rushed into his presence near the fireplace and made the declaration attributed to How ab It is our and indeed our business talk as well as We engage in hundreds of con during a month of which we retain no distinct and we bt as no one can be that we have not used certain words or It would bo if we could recollect all that we say in these conversations among or all that is said to But tho gist of the charge is we desired a Convention to secede from the This we solemnly There is no truth in the Our whole record and all our con- with our intimate friends have been the other We desired a Convention to not to the We may as among our intimate political and personal Col Secretary of Mr. of the Dr. J. T. Calvin J. Green H. Maj. W. D. Maj W. A. of and Mr. of and we can confidently appeal to them to say if we have ever proposed to them to call a Convention to secede from the And we can go and remind the Hon. Sion H. Rogers and Williams of this of a conversation occurred between us in our about the 22d of January and we could appeal to to if in that conversation we breathed a word which showed a purpose on our part to secede from the Is it at all probable that we should havo concealed the views attributed to us by Mr. Hampton from all our and from all our intimate and have chosen the lobby of the House of Com- near the and him as the special sel into which to empty these views the charge will not bear It is ridiculously false upon its It is not to refresh the leaden memory of Mr. we could not do if we for we have no of the but wo say to him that the statement of a man of honor ought to be as carefully made as if delivered undor lhat when he comes forward to act again as a willing witness for Executive he should bear in the solemn injunction of the oath to tell tho tho whole and nothing but the The is never told when a statement is garbled or perverted from its real And if there be any thing in this why has it slept so If it be and if it be why does not Gov. Vance arrest you will hear no more of it alter the It is used for two to put us on the other we will not Gov. Vance knew that he had committed himself to secession in a certain in his and to break the force of this admission he trumped up this alleged private conversation against In that speech he said people of went into this thing and will not go oat of the Con- I can conceive of circumstances under which it might be IF FOR TUNES OF WAR TURN AGAINST IT MAY BE See his speech as published in the Confederate and mington If the fortunes of turn against the Governor sert his the make terms with There it publicly Ho vate conversation about no certificates sary to prove the But ins who are reviling and slandering us on the basis of alleged private will declare the above because it from the is all and if ho says in one breath he may go out of the in another he says he will We confess the above sentences in juxtaposition present the Governor in about as consistent an attitude as he generally oc We publish to-day a very able and instructive communication over the signature of Western exposing the historical mistakes in Gov. Vance's The writer ex- hibits tho fruits of great research and thorough knowledge of the points of which be I I. I I The Personal Liberty and the against the suspension of Two of the most important measures passed the recent session of our Legislature are the sonal liberty introduced by Mr. of and the resolutions introduced by Mr. ren of protesting against the act ing habeas corpus and demanding its The latter we have already and the former we give as AN A OT move effectually to secure the benefits of the writ of habeas and to prevent the transportation of citizens in civil life beyond the of the SECTION 1. Be it- enacted by the General bly of the State of and it is here by enacted by the authority of the That any person as to whom a writ of corpus has been issued and who wilfully or under any pretence to obey the mandate or the orders of the Judge or tho same is to or who ingly or intentionally prevents the service of the same by or by keeping out of the or who shall wilfully fail or refuse to permit any son upon application by in his to with and have the assistance of for tho purpose of suing out or prosecuting said or who shall send away or conceal any person who is in his custody or under his with intent to prevent said writ from being sued out or or the petitioner from being when the Judge or Court so shall be guilty of a high on conviction in the Superior shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than SEC. 2, Be further That if any person under any pretence transport be- yond tho limits of this by force or any person in civil such person so offending shall be guilty of a high on con- shall be fined not less than two thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than one SEC. 8. Be it further That if any person in civil life be transported beyond the limits of this contrary to tho provisions of the second section of this the Governor of the State shall forthwith demand him of the authorities of the Confederate States where such person may be Read three times and ratified in General the 38th day of 1804 R. S. 8. C. GILES 13. S. The foregoing measures would of if nothing else had been done beyond providing the necessary means to carry on the have reflected lasting credit on the General In our paper of the 17th May we said publish to refresh the minds of our readers on the the act of the Confederate Congress suspending the privilege writ of habeas We verily with Mr. Vice President that this act was unnecessary it and that it was passed to certain elections and expected blages in put a puzzle upon certain presses and a bit in the mouth of certain speakers in that This being the it is especially incumbent on our Legislature to protest against the act and to demand its and it is to be regretted that Gov. Vance did not at once convene the so that this protest and demand might have been made at the time the Georgia Legislature acted on the The protest of this State would have carried with it much more moral weight if it had been made promptly and would have been done but for the fact that Gov. Vance substantially endorsed the suspension of the writ in his and but lor the further fact that he was not dis- posed at that time to trust the people's What he will say now remains to be The passage of these measures was in strict ac with the principles and doctrines of the We did not concern ourselves while the members were here to know who they were for or who they were against for We holed no and we had no crowd of favorites and dependents to them for us and licit their influence and We too much respect for the representatives of the and too much self-respect to adopt such a It is enough lov us that the General by some in spite of the qf Gov. Vance to civil liberty and in spite of his Destructive has given practical evidence of its devotion to those principles by which alone our free tions can be Whatever may happen in the we shall prove true to those principles and to the good old State of The yeas and nays were not called in the Senate on Mr. Boyden's measure on its final be- as wo the sense of the body was reached on the following amendment offered by Mr. That the provisions of act shall not apply to any cases mentioned the act of Con- gress to suspend the writ of habeas Harris of Adams of of Harris of Smith of Taylor of The vote in the Commons was as Co Henry of Mann of Me A Young of Young of Harris of Henry of It will be Been that Messrs. Harris of Henry of and Vance Conservatives of the crooked voted against the We shall have the pleasure of laying Mr. Boyden's remarks on this measure before our readers at an early PRIVATE staple of Vance's stump and of his two organs in this seems to be private H commenced this sort of warfare at he seems determined to keep it We shall nc imitate We could fill our if we chop to do with private conversation's with and his But we would not do if wo were sure it would secure our and H we knew it be secured in no other shall refer to these conversations only in and in doing so we shall he as careful AS sible not to involve gentlemen iu unpleasant For Gov. Vance charges on the basis t a private conversation that we desired a Convention in November last to secede from the and a detached sentence attributed to us is prove the We that if we were dis- posed to assail Gov. Vance in this we could prove that he said in September erate cause is arid also that the people ought to tear up the Railroad bridges to prevent the passage of It would be exceedingly unjust to him to use these detached expressions o without the circumstances and the language that accompanied Under the they were one blamed him for them as we do not But the storm against us is not yet at its Our whole life is to be and words uttered in the confidence of private life are to be brought out and used against The are busily Conversations are to be or or manufactured to suit the Gov. Vance is to get these conversations up through his and his two mercenary organs in this City are to publish We see that the ireful little who edits the Con- threatens us with more of these private What would he think if we were to condescend to imitate his example and repeat the very chaste and elegant conversation in which he indulged towards some members of the House of in the hall of that some days since 1 Tho truth this whole business of raking up and repeating private conversations for political is to the last degree disgusting and We do not see how any decent gentleman can do such a It is tolerated in no other State of the Confederacy but The Wilmington Journal publishes a letter from a soldier in in which he We call on Gov. Vance now for his liquor that he ed us if we would take the starch out of for it is he is as limber as a Gov. Vance denies in his speeches that he made this promise to the If City reports be we fear the thus promised in another If the secrets of one of tho State departments here could be laid it might be found that at least a barrel of the blockade article has sparkled and disappeared without the soldiers having tasted a drop of it Who acted as tapster on the sion We learn that on the last day of the in the House of while Mr. Boyden's personal liberty was many of the Destructives winced and made efforts to avoid True to their instincts as they sought to troy the organization of the House when they found they could not control that body against the pies of We learn that Mr. and Mr. Ex Candidate with several erate were anxious spectators of tho no doubt doing all they could to induce their partizans to disorganize the But on motion of Mr. a call of the House was action was pressed with an iron and tho vote at last reached a and 11 against the On motion of Mr. Dr. of Hay and Mr. of were censured by a vote of the House and fined each for con- tempt of that body in not attending and voting on the This is Commencement week at the University of this at Chapel We learn there are and from forty to fifty In 1860, before the were about five dred and some seventy to eighty This is the University in the we which has continued regularly to dis- its benefits during the the institution may go through the and come out of it prepared for still greater If some of our as will send us an count of Commencement we will take pleasure in laying it before our To the Sheriffs and of Carolina The following is a copy of so much of an act passed at the last session of the General Assembly as relates to the in which taxes may be SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General bly of the State of and it is by enacted by the authority of the That all taxes due to the State or counties and lor school or taxes for the all payments for entries of public and all' fines and forfeitures for the use of the State or may be paid in Treasury notes of the Confederate States under five or in the new issue authorized by the act of tho Confederate ratified the 17th of all such dues may be paid during the present year in the old issues of Confederate Treasury notes of the denomination of five dollars up to fifty both less thirty three and one third per the tax imposed by the act of SEC. 3. Be it further That the act fied July 3d, act in relation to the payment of and for other and so much of section second of the Ordinance No. 85 of the State ratified 26th 1862, as directs the receiving of Confederate ury notes in payment of taxes and all other are hereby Owing to considerations explained in my late re- port to the General our Treasury notes of less denomination than a dollar are not ex- changed for Confederate but these change notes will be exchanged for North Carolina ry notes of larger or for from our State On presentation by you or any other person at this department of amount notes above a or our due change notes for the same amount will for This exchange he through the agency of the Southern Excess Co. JONATHAN June 2d, 1804. DR. J. T. Richmond Examiner tf to sneer at the Hon. James Thomas of the representative from the 3d District of i this State in on account of his efforts to secure an honorable Dr. Leach is a cian and plain and is no He is highly esteemed where he is best for his sound common correct and ible adherence to his convictions of right He is one of the and has thus far shown their faithful Power neither intimidate nor seduce He has shown an ness and fitness for his place to a remarkable de- during the few weeks he has been in his scat He has met the shrewdest and ablest politicians from other and has made reputation by the pointed and admirable manner in which he has home himself in his discussions with Above he is a peace as true as the needle to the Examiner will neither increase its influence in this State nor subserve the cause ot truth and good government by its attacks on the representative from the 8d District Capt Pierce gives notice in the papers that straw is urgently needed at the Raleigh hospitals to make bedding for the wounded Farmers who have the article to spare will no doubt cheerfully send it in. Let every thing be done that can be to mitigate the sufferings of these gallant We see it stated that at the late session of the Presbyterian General Assembly at N. 43. the schism which has so long existed in that de- nomination was and the two old and NORTH the half that we hear of suffering and distress in the Western ties bo the condition of many of the people is pitiable There is much suffering for want of and we learn by letter that have tually been some cases of starvation in sonic of those counties bordering on the Tennessee In fact the whole beyond the Blue has been almost literally and the best and most intelligent citizens are apprehensive of With tithe impressments and the plundering of marauding bands they have but little ana now the boys from seventeen are being taken and the prospect for the coming harvest is not en- There are but few slaves in those mountain and the able-bodied men are nearly all in the leaving only the old women and children to labor on the We learn that Gov. of induced the authorities to ten of the poor mountain counties of that State from Why could not a similar favor be extended to those ties in this State lying beyond the Blue as to the boys from 17 to 18 years of age The Latest May Grant having crossed the in futt has begun entrenching along tho his line extending irregularly from Hanovertown on the to mills on the road leading from to Old The Creek is in the shape of an the curve being within 9 miles of It is between the ny and A raiding party made a descent upon Hungary Station upon the railroad at one o'clock P. M. At three o'clock our were in line of battle near Alley's Station upon the Virginia Central An early collision was looked It is said that Grant does not mean to fight any but wilt rely mainly upon An army correspondent of the World is reported to have been captured to-day with papers on his person showing a loss of one sixth in since the campaign Gen. Hampton was placed in temporary com- mand of the Cavalry of our army this The enemy are reported to be embarking their troops at Bermuda under protection of their Butler probably reinforce Grant and with their united columns make a move upon Nothing later has been heard from Gen. who was repulsed in Western ginia by in attempting to forma with We supposed the coast is now clear and he will turn up in few Our are represented to be in fine and a Richmond correspondent of the Recorder says that Lee has been strongly European intelligence of the 4th says the Georgia is now lying in the Mersy to be Her officers were entertained at a dinner of the Liverpool Southern An effort would be made to retain her crew toman the No result has been arrived at by the London A general European war is A ish Admiral seized the Chincha Islands which belong to We have Georgia of Saturday dated New Hope the 29th. Jackson's dismounted cavalry engaged the enemy on our Gen. Bates was then ordered to feel their He deployed his command as skirmishers and drove in those of the taking possession of their He then ordered a charge to be but ascertaining that the enemy were in force counter- manded the which did not reach ade of the 2d, 4th and 6th who rushed leaped the breastworks and found themselves confronted by Logan's 16th army One hundred of them were wounded and The Senate passed a to-day 80tb) ing commissioners under the act of habeas corpus per month and then resolved itself into secret The House resolution in reference to Secretary Memminger was referred to the Judiciary A resolution was adopted extending the session of Congress to the 7th of The President had vetoed the establishing a General May fight occurred yesterday about 3 Church the road 9 miles There was a considerable engagement between H portion of Early's and divisions the 5th corps of Yankee We attacked the enemy for the purpose of discovering bis position and found him massed and entrenched on our Tho fight lasted about two and we drove them back about a mile and a half to their from which it was impossible to dislodge Our loss was about wounded and 50 among tho former Willis of tho 12ih aud 45th N. C. T. Among the latter Col. 18th who was mortally wounded and left in front of the enemy's We captured about 130 The enemy's loss in killed and wounded is supposed to bo heavier than Heavy cannonading was heard morning in the direction of There was skirmishing also in front but no eral Stater intelligence says that Daniel's and Battles brigades flanked tho enemy's skirmishers evening and 120 prisoners the Some heavy tiring occurred upon our left also this but the yet ex- Tho enemy moving wards our right in order to cover and use the York Along Butler's line in Chesterfield County to-day comparative quiet A little picket firing and tha usual cannonading on the part of the my's gunboats in James Rivor was all that occurred worthy of On the south bank of the near lin's Farm in Prince George there was a sharp skirmish between a portion of Gen. command and a lot of U. S. negro commanded by men with white if remained with our but a gentleman present thinks tho loss inflicted wax about The enemy were strongly entrenched at and their right flank protected by the Yankee two of which moved up participated in the little fight which Our total casualties were four killed and nine The heavy firing of Monday afternoon was caused by the opening of our batteries to ascertain the en- os stated The gunboats as but our casualties were only There was no official confirmation of the tion of Chesterfield by Gen. but no doubt aome of his forces have been gent oft under Gen. to reinforce The weather was clear and The London correspondent of the New York Times of the 30th of saya that a memorial from every part of the under the auspices of the Clergy of the established will bo shortly to urging to use Us Influence to atop the American There has been no fighting in Georgia since Both armies are renting from the fatigue of the last 80 Small squads of prisoners ue to come in. About five hundred have been cap- tured so The dust is almost The Senate concurred in the House resolution ex- tending the session to the 7th of and was occupied in discussing a confining the of impressment exclusive of the tithe The judiciary committee on motion of Mr. were discharged from the further consideration of tli o corpus Thw committee were of o opinion that it was inexpedient to legislate further on the subject at this The report of tho special committee in the House declared the scat of Mr. Cobb of Alabama vacant on account oi The report was however recommitted to take additional testimony during the The Senate ling the pay and mileage of members of Congress was June much looked for battle between Gens. Lee and Grant has ytt but the lines are in such close proximity it may bo commenced at any moment A large force of Yankee cavalry made a raid Ashland to Persons from that vicinity report that they saw a column of smoke ascending in tho direction of the Severe fighting has taken place to day on our right A later despatch dated at near mond says there was no general engagement but some fighting reported on Wilcox's re- in the repulse of the has also been engaged to some capturing one hundred prisoners from the 2d Yankee who are on their way to also firing at one time in Kershaw's but to be nothing more than heavy skirmishing also heavy firing this evening in the direction of evening our Cavalry fought the kee infantry near Coal Harbor and were pressed back until reinforced by our During this fight Maj. of the 6th was There was also a cavalry figh linear Beulah on Monday but it amounted to very Prisoners captured report Grant out of quite General engagement may occur The length of the lines of our army precludes anything like accurate reports from the whole The despatches of Monday lost represented Gen. Grant's lines as extending from Hanovertown on the to Mills on the ville It was then supposed that he would in extend bis left flank as to cover and use the York River Bridge is below the Railroad and Coal Harbor is in a few at both of which places fighting has been going It ig thought that he will now settle himself mako the White House his base of supplies and begin the tedious process of entrenching and unless he is attacked by Gen. Lee and a pitched battle forced on But as the Sentinel says is time for to cease speculations as to Grant's movements and attend to the He has been offering fight when wo thought he was and retreating when we thought he was offering he has been advancing when he was and heading up stream when he had every reason to hurry He has gone by the rule of military con- and hag always disappointed us ever we supposed that he was acting sensibly or consistently with We suppose that he baa come to the final fight at warned by we express the opinion with becoming The New York Tribune of the 28th hag been re- at All the Yankee wounded ex- cept forty have been removed from preparatory to the evacuation of the Joshua dropped dead in Montreal on the 23d Mosby's men destroyed all the booses and bridges from Union Mills to the Nothing of interest from either Gold quoted at 186. The Tribune gives particulars of an affray at a Hotel in Washington between Vorhees and Senator in which the latter wag roughly The collision grew out of remarks at the table made by Chandler against tbe A special dispatch to the Mobile dated gives Northern dates to the 98th. It contains many on the late Federal re- verses and prognosticates Grant's with the new The Metropolitan guys these re- verses are damaging to Federal and believes the South can never be conquered tt ig M niable fact that by these recent they have ready achieved their The Ohio estimates that there will be quite a taw m cereals in consequence of the reduction of leant to 1200 The New York gayg that a large number ef officers and 9000 men recently ed in Connecticut signified their willingness serve out the balance of their time or get off on medical Juno 1st, 1 p. Senate passed regulating with nob affecting the main objects of the measure ferring the power of with from military authorities to the passed the Senate bills authorising the appointment of additional Quartermasters and The House was occupied m the further tion of tho amending the tax act. and resolutions were FROX May Judge A. B My wound is but not It through the neck and I em The very A dispatch from Gen. Lee has been i dated June 1st, in which ha toys that Anderson and Hoke attacked the and drove them to their the noon enemy pulsed by Mahone from the front and captured 160 A portion of Gen. at White House and are advancing up tbe York from Gen. division captured a stand of and gome Northern that Lee outgeneraled anil that tire whole army the PV advancing on r Gold at 188 on the 80th ult rence of wag severely ed on Tuesday
