Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-02-16

TIE RICHMOND AND DANvILLE.AND THE NoRrH
CARoLINA RAIL RoAD. We publish in another col
sUmn. letter dated Richmond jan s25th l853 from
Mr.. Nathaniel ]. Palmer, to the Raleigh STANDARD,
for the purpose of calling the attention of read
ers TO the and movements of the interest IA
vor Of connection between the North Rail
Road and the Richmond and Danville Road. Our
citizens, and indeed, all who feel either interest in
the North Carolina Road as State work, or in the
prosperity Of our present through route, aware
OF the effect which this connection would have we
Therefore, refrain from any remark, merely again call
ing attention to the matter, and recommending it
the consideration of the public. -
r .ss@. Wilmington 10 .rnat.
w. p Tunstall, President of the Richmond and
.Danyile Road is out in the last Richmond En-
quirer with quite sharp reply to Mr.. Palmer.
Mr.. Tunstal ridicules the idea of the branch road
to Milton, and contends that the connexion between
the two Roads should take place at Danville. He
concludes as follows +" 1 have this moment read
q letter from gentleman in North Carolina, who,
not even aware of Mr.. Palmer's mission or pres
ence in Richmond, writes me that North Carolina
will and must have connection direct with
Road at Danyille, and that gerry so M"
But for the passage of the Central Railroad bill
Sin 84s-49, a charter would have been granted
to the Danyille Road, and the latter would have
been, by this time, well nigh completed. The State
would thus have been cat IN t,co, and large por-
ton of Its produce and travel would have poured
into South Carolina and Virginia. The feeling
isting between Eastern and Western North Carolina
would have been increased in warmth, and we
should have become tributary for an age, perhaps,
to these two States. Yet, at that time, SO strong
was the wish of many of our intelligent and enter
prisng citizens in the interior to get to market,
that even this result would have been risked and
consequently, nearly all the members West Of this
place came to the Assembly in 1s4s-49, the ad
/ vocates of the Richmond and Danville scheme.
The Central Road bill was, however, brought for
ward-these members, or the greater portion of
them, gave up the Richmond and Danyille scheme
and went for the State Road, and the charter for
the latter secured as we'll remembered by the
patriotic casting-vote of the Senator from Caswell
la County then in favor of and deeply interested
lin in the Danville route. This closed the door, as it
i was thought, against this route but the idea has
. never been abandoned. 1t will be pressed at the
next session of the Assembly, and would have been
at the last but for the certainty that it would fail.
The true policy of North Carolina-no matter
lis to build Roads fer herself, and not for her
sister States--to aid her own market towns, and
mot those Of South Carolina and Virginia. If ex-
4 tensions of her present Roads must be made, let
J, them be to Beaufort in the East and to the Ten
: nessee line. West; at any rate, let our people
1,fs bof
haze to any .connexion which shall add to the ex
5. sting drain upon our resources for the benefit o
j othersstates.
q IMPORTS INTO. New York. The imports of for
? eign merchandise into New York during the las
. month amounted to $13, ,440, $40, showing an in
crease of about two millions and half over th'
corresponding month of last year. The exports 70
the last month were about four millions Of dollars
q of which $744 ,e79 was in specie. The exports il
4 January, 1852, were over five nillionsof dollars
of which nearly three millions was in specie
) LAND WARRANTS. Thompsons Reporter, pub
. Hshed at New York, says: Land warrants hav
: risen so rapidly and have now reached 50 high
v price that we hardly think there is much sproba
e bility Of a further advance. y That paper give
{; at prese mt as follows 16o acre warrants, buryn
: at $780, selling at $l64; 80 acre warrants, buy
e ing at $ss, selling atss5; 40 acre warrants, buy
d, ing at $4s, selling at s$44 -. q.
: S. Hon. r. J. W ALKEn The Washington Core.
: pondent Of the Baltimore Sun says that the healt
!. Of the Hon. Robert j. w alker is improving, an
that the late rurnors about his declining health az
5; unfounded. :. IS g. e s.
u EE The Aztec Children were in Petersbur
g. on Wednesday last. The Express says : they al
certainly the most remarkaSle specimens Of the b,
" man race we have ever seen.'' e. = sfs
81 s t B. B.a semple, Esqs the Editor Of Il
3 3 Fredercksburg News and the Mayor Of Frederick
s !. burg, died suddenly in Richmond, on the 81
&. instant. 1a 80 -. {. IS S 8
ds New Posros Deadfall, a. sNigen, Ps.a
1T and Deep Creek g. Woodbura, r. N: both