Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-23

kent in Office if this practice had prevailed? And
so of Mr. Graham, and of many others who might be
named.
This is evidently interesting subject with the
Register and should be pleased to hear from that
paper again.
LINE OF STEAMERS FROM NORFOLK TO LORIENT
We under obligations to friend d. <. Nc
Rae, Esq, Consul at Paris for several French pam
phets of late date issued from the Partisan press
and among them two respecting the contemplated
line of steam packets between Norfolk Virginia and
L'Orient, Frances
Mr.. McRae, with all the ardour of a true hearted
Southerner, enters into the project and will without
doubt exert himself strenuousy to direct public atten-
ton in France to it let u.s. fully impressed with its
importance to the utmost OF ability endeavor to
do the in this country, for the whole South is
deeply interested in it.
This subject seems to have engaged the attention
of the Memphis Convention and we believe that the
Legislature of Virginia have had it under considera
ton.
The first pamphlet contains communication from
Messrs. E. Lacouture and A. DeMaupertus OF Rich
mond, Va, (fixes auoud'hui Etats-Unis, mails
toours Francois par lie coeu) addressed to the mem
beers of the Commission of Inquiry in which the
whole subject is treated with considerable ability and
much valuable statistical information given.
Our readers will doubtless smile when they read
the following. which is the only in the comnu-
nicaton, and we are surprised that the gentlemen
should have fallen into it. Speaking of Virginia,
they say, @ page Cest pressure une terre franchise
cit is almost French country; every where our
language is spoken if English is the language OF the
masses French is that of the upper classes no edu-
cation is complete if one does not speak French;
manners, customs, fashions, our products of
every kind welcomed and sought for; our work
men and artists Of all kinds welcomed there,
and at this time the chief Engineer of Virginia char
ged with the execution of the Central Railroad is
old French Artillery officer
The best Atlantic port in France, and naval sta
ton of considerable importance is LOrient on the
Bay of Biscay, 100 miles from Paris and about 1000
from Norfolk. 1t is proposed to connect it with Pa
ris by Railroad when, if this line of packets should
be in operation, it will become the great thorough
fare of emgation in the direct line of transit from
the east to the west 1t is proposed to form COM
pany with capital of thirty-six millions of dollars,
half to be taken in France and half in the United
States 1t is expected that the line would receive
from government for carrying the mail $4,000 per
voyage.
From the other pamphlet addressed to the Cham
Der of Commerce we extract:
"AYoiding in winter the frosts and ice of the Iud
spring the lcCDGrgS ana VlOlGnC WINGS winch
come from the polar seas and at all times the dang
ers of the ST Georges and the English Channels gain
ing 81 hours New York and 10 to y on all goods
which reach the south through that port, protiting
by the gulf stream which strikes from Cape Hatcras
to the zore Islands and the trade winds, if the for
nation of this line not expressly indicated by
nautical and photographic science and experience OF
commerce and transportation, simple secondary
consideration renders it necessary, its effect upon EN-
igration. Emigration from the different arts of
France and Germany, like the commerce whose boun-
darieS it marks, flows towards America for want of
more direct course through Bremen, Hamburg, An
vers or Ostend, by Havre and above all by Liver
pool from whence it all lands at New York. Ar
rived at New York, what becomes Of the emigrant?
He there finds the forests cut down, and thickly
populated country even to considerable distance,
and to find new lands he is compelled to seek for
them even far as the great lakes. New York is
overrun with them, and the em grant, in spite OF the
great charitable establishments which have been
founded and sustained there, often suffers for
many days straits and misery and AFFECT poverty
which he hoped to escape on leaving Europe. In the
Southern and central States of the Union the posi-
ton of the cmigrant is different in lower latitude
between the Atlantic coast and the Allegheny noun
tains the population of the States, and particularly
those of Virginia, the CaroGnas, Kentucky and Ten
nessee is sparse and in place Of the rude Anglo Sax
ons of the North, with their frosts and ice Of the
Hudson the uncertainty of grant of land often
very distant and always very dear, he finds the well
come and hospitality OF the Virginia planter, grant
of land designated and assured to him before his DE-
parture, from which he is separated only by short
and with 1t the finest climate and most fer
tile lands in the world.
1t is evident that the cities of the middle States
and of the South, and particularly New Orleans,
would not seek the Philadelphia, New York or Bos-
ton packets when they could be Accommodated at
Norfolk, the first port in the United States"
PHRENoLoGY. We learn that able lecture was
delivered last evening by Professor c. H. Brackette,
OH the above science at ST. Mary's Female School
near this City.
The science of Phrenology is interesting one,
and it is believed by many that it may be made of
much value in society.
We regard Professor Brackette as a man of intel
gence entirely sincere and have doubt but those