There is grave disaffection to the Confederacy in North Carolina,
even in high quarters. The Raleigh Standard of the 31st July printed an article from the pen of the Hon. It. S. Donnell, Speaker Of the Lower House, and approved, it is said, by Governor Vance, commenting in the bitterest manner on the Confederate policy, pointing out that all the premises of the leaders of Secession have been falsified, and urging the North Carolina statesmen to press on the Government to con- • elude as soon as possible an honourable peace. " I think," says Mr. Donnell, " that all calm and dispassionate men every- where are now ready to admit that it would have been far better for us to have accepted the terms offered us, and preserved peace and union, than to have plunged this once happy country into the horrors of this desolating war." So writes a statesman in North Carolina. It seems strange that the cor- respondents of our leading journal have never met wit one of these men. Every inhabitant of the States is, according to them, prepared to spend his last half• penny on the war.
