The North-Carolina standard., 1845-09-24
Editors Correspondence.
NEw-YoRK. SEPT. 17rh 1,

'+ NEW oRK, SEPT. l7lh lS40. \
Affairs In Nep- York-SIate Of Trade Var
Politics-I"ternGI Improvements, &c. sc.
Our city is unusually quiet and calm. The
war fever and the agitation consequent thereon
has greatly subsidized. The thousands who have
during the heat of summer been rusticating at
the Springs Pavilions and other places Of resort,
have returned and are entering once more upon the
duties the compiling room, the bar or the coun-
ter. And our population is at this time more bu-
silly employed in private affairs, than in any thing
concerning the public. Tho recent arrivals have
no news of interest. Affairs on the continent re-
naming in comparatively quiet condition, our
markets and our capitalists have nothing to fear
from sudden changes in that quarter. Importations
havebeen heavy-too heavy for the trade-and our
home markets being pretty we'll supplied from the
purchases of last spring-which together with the
failure of the crops in the West and the short sup
ply in the South-wlll materially decrease the
purchases this fall. sl
Our city is undergoing vast improvements. Old
buildings are being torn down. and new ones erec-
ted in their stead. In the Burnt District stately
edi6ces are rising upon the ruins of former ones
The hammer of the mechanic is busiy employed
and our working classes are being greatly bene-
fitted thereby.
Our npprehensions regarding Mexico arc sink
ing into kind of quiet. More words will be
wasted than either powder or ball. Mexico is too
conscious Of our power, and too sensible Of her
weakness, rashly to throw down the gauntlet, md
defy US to the chance Of arms. The result of such
a contest no reasonable man can doubt-and Mex
leo is sensible of this fact. ~ .
would call your attention to the many means
of improvement now being carried into operation
to develope the immense resources of our State.
Our many public works, attest the vast energies,
the stirring character, the restless intellect of our
people, Beside the great Erie Canal, that monu-
ment Of State pride and power, and the Mohawk
and Hudson Rail Road running along its line
the Delaware and Hudson Canal---uniting the
waters of the Chesapeake with those of the Hudson
River-and mingling the waters of the great
Lakes with those of the Atlantic, we have it in
contemplation to supply the one link wanting in
the continuous chain of Rail Road from Boston to
South Carolina, by completing the New York and
Albany Rail Road, already commenced, running
from the city in westerly direction. The New
York and Erie Rail Road, a work commensur-
ate with the Erie Canal in extent and magnitude,
running through the lower tier of counties in this
State from New York city to Lake Erie is now
rapidly progressing to its completion-one million
eight hundred thousand having already been sub
scribed to the new stock-three millions necessa-
ry to complete The work. Let those States which
have hitherto been backward in the cause of In
ternal Improvement, look we'll to the continued
advancement and prosperity of this Stale through
along series of years, and take measures to deyel-
ope their own resources and bring into action the
energies of their people,. G. p