New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-01-17

From Norfolk, you can 90 TO Raleigh BIZ the
rcsety Portsmouth Railroad, or return up the
James River as far as CITY Point" and from
there crrss ten milss OF forest TO Petersburg by
Railroad where you take the Richmond and
Raleigh train at 81 ?. III. by which you will get
iHto Ralei h at A. NJ. the next day. The
Tune Is the same either way, but the odds are in
favor OF The Petersburg route. | vas at Peters
burg yesterday, and it bsing Christmas. the lie.
groes were ali at liberty for the Gay, the places
Of business were shut up, and Inerrier holiday
you never Ten thousand galoas of Egg
Nogg were quaff5d and heap" OF people were
glorlously drunk Petersburg has population
OF l3,0OO, and does a large commercial business.
Ii you stop there | would recommend the Boiling.
brook Hou:e as well kept, and moderate in price
Night before last, Henry Phillips opened the
" Mechanics Hall" in that place for concert.
tickets 81; myself, and three other persons oalv
were prcsent-of course the meeting adjourned
ard he went North, undoubtedly cursing the
taSteiess Virginians, From Petersburg YOU como
o. 10 Raleigh, where now am, BY Railroad d.
rect You will not Ike the country, it is bar
ron and desola;e in the extreme, bang without
village OF hamlet for $50 miles. Raleigh is IN
the woods, ay, actually in the woods; it has
perhaps 5000 population black and white. The
State House, which is really very fine building.
is the only one to b. noticed in the whole tovn.
The Legislature IS al p'cscn; in session, and the
members with their heels upon the tops of their
desks, squirting tobacco jaice over the area
around them, would form capital subject for
Hogarth or Dickens. The Senate has Just OK
PEELED one of its members for appearing with a
forged certificate; he was Loco rom Onslow.
he viii doubtless be reelected, rs such men are
great favotite5 sometimes. North Carolina is
cut Of debt, but in all probability viii have to
take the Raleigh Railroad on its hands, load of
at least 81 100000. How ct ,ers like the South
know not for one do rot relish it very much.
Not but there is chivalry enough--no, there is
too much, and it rests upon rottng basis.
Slavery curses the South every intelligent slave
owner vino t!ls lahd knows it. The whole face
Of the country proves it. The whole South is
parceled into immense plantations, over which,
had one man any just right, he certainly could
not look with his own eyes, and wherever a
second psir are used there will Re lack OF
Unfit Negross at the South are really The mas
ters, they go indoentiy and leisursy about their
tasks, comparatively well fed and clothed, and
more intelligent than these OF the North, while
the owner is obliged 10 keep continual guard or
watch o;or and abont them. lie is slave TO
his fear Of losing them He rings his bfll at s
in the evening, and in they must come, or go 10
the calaboose, and he is never sure that what
they do is well DONE Indeed how can it be,
whon those VINO tell have little or no interest,
beyond eating or drinking, in what they de-.
verify believe that Southe'ners generally wish
Slavery abolished, aHd system OF things into
duced similar 10 that of The industrious, tempe
rate, and independent North. But they will not
be driven. Only leave them to their own dsiibc-
ratons. and / know they will lid themselves Of
it The South has all the clemens of success
hut energy Her institutions Rave thrown "a
lassiludc, palsy over her whole strength;
change only Can remedy the evil have taken
sonc pains 10 examine, ard know these borri-
Die stories circulated by ;lnatcs respecting cru
city to be in the main false. One Of the worst
features of The whole slave system, is the hiring
Of females to open prostitution, this is done and
that tco in the religious cities of Riehmor and
Norfolk At future time | shall give sou IN
detail! some things which have seen and know
positively, bu, as leave in an hour for Whining.
ton, must for the present close.
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