The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-23


evening mails, the responsibility will rest else.
where than on his shoulders.
HINTS TO THE NEXT SOUTHERN CONVENTION
In accordance with our usual custom we sent
special reporter to Memphis to report the pro-
ceedngs of the great Southern Convention
which assembled there on the 9th instant. This
piece of enterprise was attended with considera-
BILE expense, but it is almost needless for us to
inform the public that we are never withheld
by pecuniary considerations in such cases. We
have published the report of three days pro-
ceedings in full, devoting nearly two pages or
twelve columns to il, and this morning we pre-
sent our readers with TIE report of the doings Of
the third day.
The irregular manner in which we have been
obliged to publish them is owing entirely to
our defective postal arrangements, and the want
Of direct communication between the principal
northern and southern cities. Our reporter
left New York on the 26th of last month and
did not arrive in Memphis till the morning of
the 5th instant-eleven days after he started
He informs us that he was delayed two days on
the road waiting for trains and steamboats, and
that after he arrived he found that there were no
settled days for the departure Of the mails To
this, and the want of direct communication, we
attribute the irregular manner in which we re-
ceived our reports. The second days proceed
ings arrived one day before the first and the
third days four days after the fourth. If this
is specimen of punctuality in the delivery Of
the mails, we would advise the next Southern
Convention, which will meet at Charleston next
year, to take the subject into consideration.
1t would be well for our southern friends to
have some talk with Mr. Campbell upon it, and
to use their utmost endeavors in ettecting
reform in the present postal arrangements.
The South needs direct communication with the
North as much, If not more than direct steam
communication" with Europe. The loss to the
trade ard commerce of the whole country by
the delays of which we have spoken, must
amount to an immense sum yearly, and would
do great deal towards the construction of
the much desired Pacific Railroad Let
US settle one thing at first; for if we
attempt to do too many things at once
we are afraid the result will be nil. The
construction of the Pacific and Tehuante-
pee Railroads is very desirable, and SO
are the other important matters before the Con-
vention--the navigation Of the rivers Of South
America. &c.-but let us attend to things which
are Of more immediate Importance to both the
North and the South before we engage in the
performance Of such an immense programme as
the late Southern Commercial Convention has
presented to the country.
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easy Of navigation, by the removal OF snags and
other impediments. which at present endangcr
the lives of all who float upon them, and de-
stroy an enormous amount of property every
year. Construct railroads without number for
we never can have too many-they are the
great commercial links which bind more closely
together the political Union of the States
establish Common Schools, they are the true
bulwarks Of our liberty and Independence; ma
nufacture your own cotton, and establish
continental depot at Charleston, Baltimore, New
Orleans Patton Rouge, or wherever you think
best; but don't forget what is gilmore direct con-
sequence to the interests Of the whole country.
VANDERBnT's YACHT AND JOHN BUIL.-The
Iticle which we published yesterday from the
London Express, is proof positive that Wander
bits steam yacht the North Star. has put John
Bull into another solid. hard thinking brown
study. He admires the shp-it is wonderful
it is admirable and truly the Americans are
wonderful and admirable people. We old fogies
Of England are FALLING behindhand. Our social
system is wrong--too much Of aristocracy.
caste, and miserable distinctions among us
they tic US down hand and foot-we can't go
ahead like Brother Jonathan Such confessions
from John Bull prove that he is convinced that
some things can be done as well as others.
He may rail against our Southern slavery
be may give fetes to Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, and grand morning concerts at three
o'clock in the afternoon to the Black Swan-he
may affect to hold up his head like the self
righteous Pbarisee, and thank God that he is
not like other men but it won't do. The sail
ing yacht America. the Collins steamers, and
the Vanderbilt steam yacht. are palpabe