Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-30
THE. STANDARD.
RALEIGH, SATURDAY. APRIL so. 1853.
THE MAILS, &c. &c.

THE MAILS, DC. &c.
1t so turns out that whenever the Northern Mail
fails here. the failure happens at the very time
when we are in want of news for our numerous
.,odors We blame no one for it, for the simple
reason that, of course, no one to blame. 1t was
caused either by run-otf, stop-short, strap
iron Railroad between this and New York, or some
other village; and it will occur again, we have no
doubt, every other Thursday morning or SO with
provoking regulsrty. We cannot help it. Our
readers must digest what they have, and wait pa
tiently for more.
There are many, very many things about which,
in .bo absence of news, we might write; and If we
knew precisely what our readers preterred' they
should be served to almost any extent. by the
way. however we have learned during our expert
ence in these duties that newspaper IS not to be
Judged so much by the amount of original matter
i contains as by its selections. 1t requires close
reading and scissors to make up an interesting
sheet
"Have we Bourbon among us q" Possibly
we have-probably we have not. If we have,
why then let him remain-this is free country,
with the two oceans and with the North and the
South for it's boundaries if we have not, why
then "the Bourbon" is somewhere else. We
make our respects to him. and wish him plentiful
SIMPLY of " creature comforts and any quantity
of hope.
The Gardiner trial is still going at Washing
ton City, and bids fair to be iuterminabe the
Bourbon question. We have not read it, and we
hope no one else has. We predict he will be &C
quilted. There are several others, who figured
Under the late administration, who might be adj
vantaoeously hauled over the Goals" well as
Gardiner; but as that their last opportunity
for fiching from Uncle Sam, and as it would be
next to impossible to convict them, we suppose
they might as we'll be allowed to run.
Our Wilmington friends-judgng by the tone
of their presses-have taken the late Railroad Cee
Lraton in good taste and becoming temper. The
Journal and Commercial have not, we believe. al
Iuded to it, and the Herald and Press have got
along with it quite handsomely. Well, what of
it? Certain Counties and neighborhoods in this
State have heretofore traded with Norfolk and Pc
tcrsburr. The current of trade, like water, will
seek its natural outlet; but tell our Will
mington friends that the hearts of those in this
quarter who Joined in the celebration, and who ac
ted properly, as we think, in thus joining, had
ILLUMINATION in them-and not only Wilmington
but Beaufort, and the Railroad that is to be to the
latter one of the best harbors on the Atlantic
coast, and the only directly on the Atlantic.
We rejoice over what u.s. and we anticipate much
more for the ports of our own beloved State. The
citizens of Wilmington, having failed in their eff
forts for an appropriation for the Cape Fear Bar
at the late Congress- have gone to work them
selves to raise the necessary funds and they
aciW accomplish their object, whether Congress
should help them or not. But the general gov
ernment ought not to aid-it ought to do the work
We believe it will. If Wilmington can only main
tain her present position an exporting City, she
must continue to grow and prosper; if she can
effect, at whatever reasonable cost or effort, the
contemplated improvement of her Bar, she will
from that moment spring forward with renewed
energy and hope. Our best wishes with her.
She has citizens, who, for intelligence, enterprise
and public spirit have superiors either in out of
North Carolina-men who are capable of confront
ing Fate ITSELF and Of compelling prosperity to the
standard Of their industry and their labors.
The Road from Goldsborough to this place will
soon be completed, and then Wilmington will
learn more Of the people here, of their VIEWS their
interests, and their feelings; and when the great
work shall have been accomplished from Colds
borough to Charlotte, though Norfolk may take
some Of the trade, Petersburg some, but not as
much as Norfolk, yet Wilmington will receive
enough to crafty the wishes of her most enter
rrising citizens.
We take it for granted that the travel for New
1ork and other Northern Cities from this region
Will, to great extent take the Norfolk route The
traveller may leave Raleigh at four P. M-arrive
at Norfolk in eight hours, and in New York, by
ocean steamer in twenty-seyen hours more-mak-
ing thlrty-fve hours from this point to New York.
Or he may touch at Baltimore by steamer. and
proceed to Philadelphia and New York. reaching
the latter place in several hours less time, Talk
ing OF the Mails we trust the Thursday morning
failures will be less frequent after this route shall
have been established.
T. s. 1t is due to Railroads generally, and the
uaston load particularly, to state that the Mail
mas arrived since The above was written, the cars
having been detained by an accident that could
not be avoided
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