Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-26
Correspondence OF the Standard.
PHII.ADELpHI6. March 20th. 1853.

/ PHILADELPHIA, March 20fh, 1853.
Mr.. HoLDEN-Dear Sirs Since my last, nothing
has transpred of very great importance. The week.
considering the excitement usually attendant upon
the ward elections in the City and Districts, and The
usually stormy and clustering St. Patrck's day) has
been unusually quiet. The excitement produced
by the recent horrd murder in Federal Street, South
wark, has somewhat subsidized since the arrest and ex-
animation of Arthur Spring and his Arthur
! Spring is confined in the Moyamensing prison,
and is held for trial on the testimony of his who
is also In confinement. They will be brought out
for trial tomorrow the son, whose testimony point
ed out the exact situation of the murdered women,
the marks of blood, &c., in the house, md the
ner in which the murder was committed, Is strongly
suspected being accessory the MURDER, it
wonld seem unnatural for father, after committing
such an atrocious crime, to disclose intimately the
details of the transaction to his own son, a
young man of seventeen years Of age. The impress
sion, however Is among the masses that the father
is the murderer.
ST. Pa.ricks day was rainy and dissgrseabe, and
passed off without any unusual excitement, The
day and evening celebrated in various parts OF
the City by few of the Emerald Isle, with
feastng and music, songs and Lager Beer. have
heard of but one breach of the peace, end that was
induced by the appearance OF stuffed Paddy - in
front of establishment where number of the boys
of the sod were at work.
Shealey's day. in the morning, was just such day
as melancholy man would choose to commit sui
eide By throwing himself from the highest pie
it was one of those gloomy, dreary, drizzng, smo-
king, rainy, melancholy, neither-one-thlng-or the
other-sort-of.days, that known only the
coast, and fully appreciated in the City of London
About noon, however the mist cleared away, and the
DAY wound up with high wind, which, during the
afternoon, blew down the drying shed and unroofed
and otherwise injured an extensive coach factory
one man had his leg broken, and several men and
boys were more or less injured.
The business in this City may be said to be
fully opened and the sales already to Southern and
Western Merchants have far exceeded the expecla-
ttons of Merchants generally. 1t has been thought
by Southern Merchants necessary TO 60 to New
York to purchase goods. and they have given
themselves the trouble to inquire what was in the
Philadelphia market. The sales this spring, how
ever, GO to show that buyers making some in
qniry, and the result is they find goods quite low
here as in New York. and have heard several Mer-
chants express their appreciation of the gentemany
manner Of doing business, and the. gentemanly
treatment they have met with while making their
ections in Philadel phia. The system of dunning in
this City is now almost obsolete. Rents are lower
than in New York, which, together, should enable
Philadelphians sell at least five per cent. below
New Y ork. Add to this, the comforts of a quiet
City, with the thousand and places of attraction
for and instruction. and the preference is
decidedly in favor of this City.
The weather yesterday and to-day reminds me OF
the sunny South, and creates within slight desire
to wind up my business here and return.
Yours, B.