Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-12-24
Our New York Correspondence.

Our New York Correspondence.
New YORK, December, It'll 1858.
Mr. EDITOR The Presidents Message issued in this
city, yesterday, almost simultaneously with its delivery to
Congress Copies had been previously transmitted to the
Postmaster to be distributed to the editors OF the various
daily papers, Immediately after the announcement by ele-
graph that the original document delivered to Congress
but to the great establishment Of worthy Postmaster as
well as Of all other newspaper publishers the newsboys
CRYING extra Tribune and the extra Times through the streets
with the presidents Message before these authorized
copies could be dsbuted extra Sun soon followed
suit The other papers were Of course an hour or more be-
hind hand according to the rapdity with which their COM
positors could up and their work off, the docu
ment The rage the Herald the Express the Commercial
Advertiser and other papers, ndescrbabe; and they really
have just ground Of complaint for in matter OF this Sort
all journals should have been treated alike think it
quite impossible that any officer Of the Government can have
connved at Partially Some outsider must have con-
ved crbtwo three Of those copies which were sent
from Washington to this port to be despatched to California
by the steamer which sailed yesterday and he must have
sold these copies the Times and Tribune for valuable
consideration" The Presidents views OF the PACING Kali
road project give satisfaction and there can be no
doubt that Congress will with him. He justly asserts
that wherever private enterprise will avail it is most wise
for the General Government leave that and to ndi-
vua watchfunes the location and execution OF all means
of communication" But he adds that it would seem both
expedent and proper economical and practicable route
shall be found aid by all constitutional MEANS in the con-
srucon Of road which will unite, by speedy transit, the
populations Pacific and Atlantic Sates In pursuance
ofthese opinions of the Executive there can be little doubt
that Congress will pass General Railroad Act, authorizing
any private company to construct railway to the Pacific
donating necessary public lands and making proper
preparations the conveyance Of the mails OF government
stores military and naval supplies, &C. And in that event.
may expect the New York and San Francisco Com
pany of which Hon. Levi s. Chatfed is President imme
dately commence operations The Message seems to be
generally commended. 1t is much diplomatic docu
men than the Inaugural. Many of the most important pas
sages will bear that double construction which supposed
to be characteristic Of the State Papers written by Mr. Van
Buren,.
remember to have written, six ago, article
descriptive of manufacture and of India rubber
did not then think that comparatively valuable article
would be so soon entirely superseded by substance the
merits Of which beginning to be known to those en-
gagged in testing its applicability the various for
which rubber used Gutta Percha is throwing India
rubber into the shade Rubber has had its day.
derived from and that is going out Of date do
think it would be generous for to dwell upon its de-
fects True smells bad and gets sticky in weather.
but has often kept my feet dry, peace to its ashes
has made fortunes for hundreds of manufac
rers and Dealers who making up their minds
smaller incomes Many Of them becoming interested in
make money in this way than they did in the
q m
years patents. He with Goodyear many years, and
only left him when, having made experiments in
Gutta PERCH he became convinced that it bound u
mately to drive rubber from the field in many departments
Of industry, and to equal it in all the rest.
Circumstances which recently transped have called
public attention sad system in the higher educational
institutions in this CITY, There many young from
IS IS years age, whose friends regardless of the real
welfare Of their charges administer to their exavagances
in at surprising and lamentabe. The evil
does not stop with them Those oesser MEANS entced by
their wealthy classmates rush with them into dissipation and
ruin In vain appeals made to the feelings Of these in
atuated young They nothing for whom they i'm
povers so long they obtain the Of INDUCING
their vicious propenses Other students who have rich
friends and but slender private resources are in the
while placed in the most calling positions. Unable to
plee with their aristocratc pluocatic compeer they
either return from College in smay, exc out most
comfortable existence; denying themselves, often amid the
ee Of their hougess associates the uxures in which their
classmates freely indulge Those who value the welfare OF
the rising generation will do well avail themselves Of this
hint. young to College in large city like
New York; their purses should be strictly limited but the
best plan undoubtedly is to send them to the institutions in
villages small towns where vice bold attractive
as it is here. Yours truly, LOUISIANA