Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-07-01

The Legislators Of the State of New York and
the editorial fraternity of New York city have been
making o grand excursion to- Niagara. Falls on the
occasion Of the opening of tfie Rochester and Sy-
racuse direct Railroad The New York papers are
full Of the most glowing acogihts Of what was SAID
and done and drank at the festiVity; AID Judging
from these -colored reports we should say hat
the lawmakers and editors had good time of it
On the return trip, great speed was accomplished
according to the following statement of the Com
mercial Advertiser:
Yesterday morning, at exactly quarter past
setsn oslock, the Company started upon the return
trip portion of them having previously left, for
Buffalo. The number of cars was reducedi ara the
baggage car dispensed WITH and We started with the
expectation of making the entlre distanEe OF 305
miles in hours and fifteen minutes thus aphor-
toned from Niagara Falls to Rochester, rs miles,
hour, 4s minutes from Rochester to Syracuse, 81
miles hour IS minutes; from Syracuse to Utica;
So miles, hour, Is minutes from Utica to Schen-
ectady, IS miles, / hour, IS minutes; and from
Schenectady to Albany, II miles, % minutes The
first division made in time, within about two
minutes on the second division, the time was ex-
ceeded by about fifteen minutes, and the whole dis
tance performed in seven hours and forty mini
utes. We believe the whole distance, six hundred
and ten miles, has never been performed with equal
rapidity Nor is it desirable that it should often be-
AS rule, we deprecate this headlong travel, On
this occasion it was specially provided for, and 1t
designed to show the Legislature what was the
maximum of speed that could be reached upon =
nine nfiutes, and one of about miles, at the rate
of seventy six miles the hour. Nbt tlig slightest
accident occurred either trip, and the writer will
not readily forget the comfort-dust excepted-with
which, leaving Niagara Falls at quarter past Z, A.
NJ, he reached his home in this city at 10, P. NJ,
the same day having spent full three hours at AT
bany in the interim
B6S~ Louis Napoleon is evidently very much an
noyed with the reception of the King of Belgium at
Vienna. and the attention paid to him by the soy
ereign of Austria and Prussia. Thousands in Eng
land remember the day when FRINGE Leopard OF
Cobourg became the centre of attraction as the
young gentleman who was matrimonial visit to
England. He married the heiress of the British
Crown, and within year afterwards lost both wife
and child. He was offered the crown of Greece,
which he refused but when offered that of Belgi;
um he accepted it. He married the accomplished
and amiable daughter of Louis Philippe, and has
again been left wdower. He has governed
Belgium wisely and successfully during twenty
years of great political commotion and great break
ing up of old dynastes and establishment Of new
He has raised talented aud amidble family,
and he is with his eldest son, the Duke Of Bra
bant the favorite guest of the Emperor OF Austria
and the honored associate of the King of Prussia.
He Is attracting unusual attention among the politl
cal classes not only of France and Germany, but of
Europe at large. His son is contracted to prin-
cess of the House of Hapsburgh, archduchess of
the Empire, and the daughter of the late Palatine
of Hungary. Leopolds daughter, the Princess
en- to ascend the imperial throne wife of the Fiji
peror of Austria. and Leopold himself will espouse
it is said the Archduchess of Modena the beautiful
widow, Elizabeth dEste Whoever contemplates
the probable result of these marriages will find much
which concerns the future state of Europe; and
when it is remembered that Leopold is the mater
nal uncle of Queen Victoria of England, and the
paternal uncle of Prince Albert, and that his ami-
ly is closely allied to than one other royal
house of Europe there is plenty of materials for d
future history of Europe, in which the descendants
of the family of Couburg will occupy many Of the
first positions.