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In addition to Bates of Missouri, Cabinet places have been offered by Mr. Lincoln to Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, and Robert T. Scott of Virginia.--N. Y. Evening Post, Dec. 31.
the Raleigh Standard says: North Carolina still commands us to obey the Federal laws and to respect the Federal authorities.
Up to this moment these laws and these authorities have breathed nothing but respect for our State, and have offered nothing but protection to our citizens.
It will be time enough to talk about levying war and capturing forts when the State shall have dissolved her relations with the Union.
She has not done so yet, and we trust that no such step will be required.
She is too brave to run out of the Union under temporary panics, and she is too wise to commit herself to revolution for the purpose merely of imitating the examples of other States.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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