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Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-07

The direct Railroad connection between Raj eigh
and Portsmouth, has just been completed, by the ope-
ming of the Weldon and CASTOR Road connectl ng
link some twelve miles in length between the Ter
minus OF the Portsmouth and Roanoke Road al We'll
don, and that of the Raleigh and Gasfon, at CASTOR.
The citizens Of Norfolk, Ports mouth, Baltimore,
Raleigh besides various places on the line, have been
E1ubNaung over the opening ceremonial, from which
increase of intercourse is expected flow, bring
ing with it corresponding benefits. Some of the
toass We're little " highfalutin butihat is naiura
and will happen in all such cases. This event can
have little, if any direct influence upon this place,
and if ii benefits friends in Raleigh elsewhere,
we shall rejoice over The prosperity oil portion OF
our common State, which prosperity may again react
tor our be. eft in some other way, and al any rate
must prove source of pride and pleasure to every
true lover of North Carolina.
The Standard OF Saturday remarks upon the alb
sence from the iImington papers of any pesslons
OF jealousy towards those Virginia nuPtIals over
which friends in that direction have been gloIify
ing. There was ground for such expressions III
this case, if there had been This not the
fitting occasion. The connection was absolutely
cessary and proper matters stood, and if there is
fault TO be ound it is not with the Weldon and Gas
ton connection but with the original system, rath
er want OF all system which resulted in much loss
to the State Treasury, and gave such back set to
Internal improvements within her borders. But all
these things have passed beyond the control of
friends or opponents. As they stand they are 6xed
facts, and it would certainly be making worse,
rather thar BETTER for to peypetuae the unpleasant
feelings which may at any time times have sprung
up, and thus erect and maintain barrier against mu
tua assistance or hearty cooperation in plans for the
benefit of the State and OF its different portions.
Better to let Improbable and perhaps hurtfuI jeaI-
ousies drop that the future may have fair chance
This Portsmouth affair of the past. 1t is
We have before remarked, fixed fact. and being
so, we sincerely trust that it may prove pleasant
and advantageous one.
The exertions Of the community here active
any former period in the history Of the town.
They have asked the assistance of the General Gov
ernment for their harbor, and have proved themselves
deserving OF it by taking up the matter themselves
and putting their own shoulders to the wheel. If
true to themselves they feel that failure cannot be the
result-lhat the improvement will be made, and TWEEN
~ feet secured They want the influence and SYM
pathy of the State with them they wish to meet
their friends Throughout North Carolina in liberal
and generous spirit; and they expect to be met by
them in the same. We will publish the Standards
article Tomorrow. VII. Journal.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-07
FREE NEGROES IN DELAWARE

The Convention for revising the Constitution, in
session at Dover, has passed the following section
as a part of the new Constitution, by vote of 19
yeas to nays:
"No free negro or mulatto, not now an nEabitant
of the State who shall leave the State with intent
TO change his residence, shall, after the adoption of
this constitution, settle in this State, into
and remain within the State more than days. All
contracts made with any free negro mulatto,
ing into the State contrary to the provisions Of this
section, shall be void and any person who shall
poy snch tree negro muatto, otherwise encour-
age him to remain in the State, shall be fined in
sum not less than twenty more than five hundred
dollars.''
There are, it is stated, about 900 free persons
of color in Delaware making about one-thrd of
the whole population.
some most stringent laws in relation to free
groes. The free States beg inning to feel the
evil of the increase of this unfortunate class, and
we may look for similar movements in other quar-
tiers. We hope the slaveholding States will see
to it that these free persons of color arenot crowd
ed out of the free States upon them.
DEATH JUDGE GIBSON. Judge John B.
Gibson late Chief Justice of the State of Penn
SYLVIA died at Philadelphia on the Sd. The deceas-
ed has for the last forty years adorned the bench
of the Supreme Court of that State, and had by
his eminent talents contributed more than any man
Of his time to elucldate and establish the jurspru
lence of the Commonwealth.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

There is ready disposition and acquiescence
the part of most persons When solicited to grant
the of their names to petitions or memorials
without the slightest examination as to the claims
or merits Of the application. Indeed, so lax is the
virtue in this respect, that petitions, although
numerously signed, are now regarded as entirely
impotent for good or evil As illustrative of this
we will relate well attested fact which had its
location in the capitol of of the largest and most
populous States in the Union
Mr.. A. proposed bet of five hundred dollars to
B. that he could obtain the signature of more than
hundred of the most respectable citizens of that
place directing the Governor to haze hanged, on a
giOen day, the most approved Clergyman located
here. OF course, Mr. b. readily accepted the pro-
position, and backed his opinion by piling up the
silver. But the sequel proved that his knowledge
Of human nature was very limited, as Mr.. A not
only obtained the requisite number of names, and
Of the kind required but he moreover obtained that
Of tho identical clergyman himself!,
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

! SHADES OF New York LIFE. From an ar,icla
in the New York Courier and Enquirer, of February
A. extract the following detail of misery and crime
in two wards of that city:
" we sat down with the purpose of DETAILING some
OF our own personal observations of honseboId
wretchedness In the Fourth and Sixth Wards of our
clty out our taste revos and pen shrinks from
the narration. We could tell of one room twelve
feet by twelve in which five resident families
comprising twenty persons. OF both sexes and ali
ages, with only two beds, without ma rtition or e
or chair or table, and all depend for their miserob
support upon the sale of chips, cleaned from the
seels al Tour cents baskets OF another still small
Ter ana more destitute, inha bited by man, women
TWO little girls and boy who were supported bv ner
hitting the room to be used as a rendezyons bv tho
abandoned women of the of another an atlic
room' seven feet by five, containing scarcely an ar
tlcle OF furniture but bed, on which Law fneIoo<
ing man in raging fever, without medicine or dr;D
or suitable food-his toll worn wife engaged in cie.n
ing dirt from the hoer and his little child asIoen an
OF rags IN the corner of another of the same
dimensions In which We found, seated on low boxes
aroud candle placed on keg, a woman and her
Oldest daughter (the laera girl of fifteen and as we
were told, prostltute) sewing Shirts for the max
Ing OF which they paid four cents apiece and
even at that price, of which they had TO sunnort
two small children, they could not get supply of
work; of another of about the same size occupied
by street rag'Plcker and his family, the income of
whose Industry was eight dollars month of anoth.
er, scarcely larger, into which were drawn bv the
terrific screams Of drunken man beating his wife
containing no article of furniture whatever of anoth
- On'y " 1il pail Oh lighted charcoal. |
placed in the centre of the room, over which bent
blind man, endeavoring to warm himseIf-around him
three or four men and women, swearing and quarrel
ny I ~ one corner GU the moor, woman who had
died the day previous of disease, and In another two
of three children, steering pile of rags In regard
to this room, may say that its occupants were color
sd people, and from them but few daysiprevious had
been taken and adopted, by one of our beneyoIen1
'Itlzens beautiful little white girl four or i've wears
Of age, whose father was dead, and whose mother
was at Backweli's Island. Ofano,her, from which.
not long since, twenty PERSONS sick with lever were
ken to the hospital, and every individual Of them
lead" ~ ''e'l'
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

DANGER OF BRANDY DRINKING. In the last
number OF the Irish Quarterly Review, the weak
ness of poor Magnn is thus alluded to:
lie now turned for, comfort and inspiration to
the foul end, brandy, which has been the cause of
misery and death to SO many men of genius We
regret the error Of Addison and Steele we sigh at
the recollections of poor Moreland, the painter,
working at his last picture, with a brush in one
hand and glass OF brandy in the other, for he had
then arrived at that terrible condition in which
reason could visit him only through intoxication
and MagInn. although not so fallen as this, sunk
deeply. The weary hours of lone watching brought
no resources but that which copous drau9hts of the
liquid could supply. Health was fading away. the
brightest years OF life passed forever and as
the dim future lowered, he gazed upon it under the
influence OF that demon which enLhrilled the brill
liant souls OF Addison, of Sheridan, of Charles
Lamb and which sent the once stawart form of
Theodore Hook miserable wretched skeleton to
the grave. Maginn we know, felt his position. He
was neglected 10y his own party-he was forgotten
by many OF his former friends, and as we looked
upon him IN his pitiable condition, and compared
what we then saw him with what he might have
and we hoped would have been, we often re-
called the fearful passage of Charles Lamb: when
you find tickling relish your tongue, disposino
you to witty sort OF conversation, especially if
you find preternatural flow of ideas setting in
upon you at the sight of bottle and fresh glass
els, avoid giving way to it as you would fly your
greatest destruction. If you cannot crush the |
power of fancy, Or that within you which you mis-
take for such, divert it, give it some other play
Write an essay, pen character or description-but
not as do now, with tears trickling down your
cheeks. To be an object of compassion to friends,
Of derlslon to foes; to be suspected by strangers
stared at by fools; to be esteemed dull when Won
cannot be witty; to be applauded for wit when
you know that you have been dull to be called i
lpon for the extemPoraneous exercise of that fac
lIty which no premedi:aton can give; to be set on
o provoke mirth which procures the procurer ha-
red to give pleasure and be paid with sequinting
malice; to swallow draughts of Understanding
vine, which are to be distilled into airy breath to
ickle vain auditors; to mortage miserable morrows
Or nights of madness to waste the whole seeds of
ime upon those who pay it back in little inconsd-
rable crops of grudging applause-are the wages =
f bufoonery and DEATH"
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

HueE CLIPPER SHIP. A ship builder at East
6oson is constructing monster clipper ship for the
California trade She is three hundred and thirty
with three decks and four thousand tons 6urtben cus'
tom house measurement She is to be called Yopng
America and will be worth $500 900, she will he
me largest vessel that has foated since Noah's ARK
thousand tons Of freight : 80 s -
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

To be wise is to be great, and wisdom can be
purchased at very trihing expense; all person
has to do in order to it to pay close atten
ton 70 passing events and the time to study
the psst with desire to find out the workings of
nature Who SO stupid as not to desire to be wise
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

SILVER INSTRUMENTS. The Philadelphia Band.
paraded on yesterday with the Washington Grays 4"
that city, for the first time with their slOr ID
strumenis This is something entirely new, rich ana
rare.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

We learn that gang of 81 Negroes were sold by
ton Monday last, at an average of 1919; one of
the families consisting of eight, Eve young women,
from Is to rs, man and woman of so years of age,
and an lnfaDt, sold for 81 0O5 EACH the highest sale
We have heard Of since 1886.
charlsstOn Mercury.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

RAILROAD STATISTICS. The superintendent of
the census, from recent returns states that
there are in the United States To- s14 miles of
railroads finished, and 1O,8o8 miles in the course
of construction
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

1t - stated as example of the facility of COM
mnnlcatlon with Boston by railroads that IS memb.
ers OF the Legislature 60 home and return daily.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

Brothers IN CoNeREss. The circumstances tina,
e. b. Washburn has been chosen to the next Con-
gress from Illinois, and his brother from Maine is
made the subject of in several of the east
ern papers. They speak of ii something remark.
able that two brothers should be in Congress togeth
en- and one saPIent print supposes this be the first
instance OF the kind that has ever occurred. We
could name dozen such instances. In the present
Congress there are two brothers-Frederick Stanton
from Tennessee, and Richard Stanton from Kentucky
Ihey Were menb ers of the next preceding Congress
and In addition there two other brothers. John
A. Hing OF New York, and James G. King of New
Jersew. Charles Jared Ingersoll and his brother
Joseph, now American Minister at London, were in
Congress together from Philadelphia for two terms
Henry X. Storrs of this State, and his brother il
liam from Connecticut were in the House together
80 OF Moses H. Grnnell from New York and his
brother Joseph from Massachusetts. P. P. Barbour
of Virginia, was in the House while his brother
James was in the Senate from the same State No
two men could be more unlike than the brothers
Barbour. They both possessed good deal of talent
were thoroughly educated, and both attained great
onlclal distinction. Philip chosen Sneaker of
the national House of Representatives, and at the
time of his death Justice of The Supreme Court
OF the United States. James was SUCCESSFULLY
member of the two houses of Congress- Secretary of
War, and Minister to England. Philip was of
metaphysical turn of mind-spoke and wrote with
logical and noted for his skill in cash.
lstry, and the hneness of his distinctions James,
on the other hand, full of decamatory exapger-
atlon-sPoke loosely, and lacked ccmpactness and !
conference Duff Green called him the earl of empty
barrels John Randolph indicated the pecuIarties of
the two brothers in his usual epigrammatic and anti.
thetcal style, to wit: On being asked where he had
been, he replied, " in 10 the Senate to hear Jeems
Barbour, and into the House to hear Phil. Jeemes
fired at barn-doo and missed it-Phil fred at hair
and split it,
Two instances recollect in which father ana son
met together in Congress. The late Samuel L. South
ard, of New Jersey, in the Senate e his faith
Or was member in the House from the same State.
Henry Dodge is one of the Senators from Wisconsin,
ind his son, Augustus Cesar, is member Of the
same body from Iowa. They were in the House at
he same time delegates from their respective Ter
itories. These very important "reminiscences
'ut they to show how little there is to surprise
me in the election of two brothers the same Con-
Iress. Rochester advertiser.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26
$464,7l4 90
$451,6s9 90

1t will be seen from this brief review of the po-
sition Of the State that Astounding in the elements
of wealth and prosperity, with unimpeachabIe
character for fidelity in all her engagements, and
unencumbered' by debt, no State in the Union has
a greater claim to the confidence of capitalists
NeaO York Mercantile Journal
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

INTERESTING FACTS. Man has the power of imi-
tatng almost every motion but that of flight. To eff
feet these he has, in his maturity and health, 60
bones in his head 60 in his thighs and legs, SO in
his arms and hands, and 81 in his trunk. He has
also 434 muscles. His heart makes Ga pulsa,ions in
minute IT, and therefore $3.50 an hour, 80, l6O, in
day. There also three complete calculations of
his blood In the short space of hour. In respect
to the comparative speed of animated beings and of
lmPelied bodies, it may be remarked that size and
comparative strength. though one body giving any
quantity of motion to another is said to lose so much
OF Its own. The sloth is by no means small ami
NAL, and yet i can travel only so PAGES in day; a
worm crawl only FIVE inches in SO seconds; but a
lady bird can fly 2O000,0 900 times its own length in
less than an hour An elk can run mile and half
the wild mule of Tartary has speed even grsa,sr
than that. An eagle can fly ten leagues in an hour
ana Canary felcon can even reach $50 leagues in
me snort space OF l6 hours. violent wind travels
OO miles In an hour; sound, ,I42 English feet in
second.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

The State Of Connecticut has the largest number
of miles in proportion to its inhabitants and also
in proportion to its area.
If only those roads are taken which are actually
finished and in operation, as to the number of in
habitants, New Hampshire is frst-there being
one mile of railroad to every $50 inhabitants.
Connecticut is next, being to 779 and Massa-
chnsetts 1 to 913 inhabitants.
And in relation to finished railroads, Massachu-
sets has one mile of railroad to every seven square
miles, and Connecticut one mile of railroad to
every eight miles of territory which is much
larger ratio than in any of the other States.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-26

Income for fiscal year, ending
Nov, 1853,
Income for fiscal year, ending
Nov, 1854,
Aggregate income two years,
Aggregate expenditures for
two years,
Balance,
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-29

To.. vote for Scot. %. as9 total vote for Pierce, IAas
'0t. ys'. 70, Hale TrosP and wsn.sr as.s ieoss
ysj Pan .simssea '''''' :
Majority g, Pierce pierce IL ss., State.
t Majority for Pierce in these States could the
% Majority for Pierce in ,es.s sn States could not get the
The maorue In three counties are given, and not the total
The legislature presidential
The in the northern peninsula not included.
Pour coun,e. heard from. Msorhes only given some
This shows the Of oseven hnoen to be hesd
The question being stated on posponing the resolution
Mr. CASS asked for the yeas and nays; which were
ordered. and the question being taken. the result was
yeas ~, nays 29-as follow
p.w.on Fs Gsy. Hale Ms Sss Miller MORTON Sew Sew
ard, Smith, spruance, Wade. and weler-1
B,odse.d Bae c cSso 9s' Chase csHs
Dodge of Wisconsin Dodge Of Iowa. Downs, Fetch,
Mn H.%p ISnl' q Is.".' Ms
SUMNER Underwood, and Walker-s
So The resolution was not postponed
MIR BUTLER. ! move that The resolutions OF the
senator from Michigan, relative TO what Is understood
the Monroe doctrine he also referred that committee
The PRESIDING OFFICER Its no, in order.
The question being then taken the adoption OF the
resolution, II was agreed 10.
sAn IN THE DISTRICT or COLUMBIA.
On motion Of Mr.. BADGER. the Senate proceeded,
s in committee OF the whole, TO the consideration OF
the bill concerning bail 10 civil in the District Of
Columbia
Mr.. BUTLER. Mr. President, it is due 10 myself
whist shall not make any serious opposition 10 the
Dill, as member OF the committee, TO say that do not
CONCUR IN Il The law, as II now exists in the Dislrict
OF COLUMBIA, stands thus-snd il is an act which
passed TO relieve from any one upon rssns pro-
unless frauds should be charged and set out in the
ahdavit, and the fact upon which the fraud was 10 be
predicated stated. BY the act OF 1872 where the pain
I'D will that the defendant has money in his banda
and 10 about 10 escape from the District or where he
will swear positively that be has made fraudulent con-
tract, will not comply with IL, or other word.
where he will comply with the acquisitions OF the ACT
setting forth that he il fraudulent debto then he may
be arrested process. The operation OF this ac,
will be 10 abolish all imprisonment under process,
and RELEASE all persons usder ssn< that
are in arrest may be in arrest hereafter know
the act will pass but nevertheless never will give my
vote in this Senate 10 any law which, BY retrospective
legislation. can affect private rights know there are
individuals under charged with fraud. DO not
know that they are properly charged or not know
however. that my friend from North Carolina MI
BApoxa] viii make very fair and very full exposition
Of This matter, and If the Senate will pass the BILL shall
make opposition. Sill do myself the justice to say
that was in the minority in the committee upon report
ing this bill
Mr. BADGER The honorable chairman OF the com.
mittee IL perfectly correct in what he states We under
stood that he did not give his TO the bill will
make very brief statement which. to my understand
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-29
Hon. w. M. GwIy.
WASHINGTON, January II, 1853.

SIR: Yours of The 2lst instant asking my opinion of the
practicabiy OF the for The Pacific railroad ind-
Gated by Mr. II Kern in his letter you Of the lGth in
sant has been received and have the honor OF plying
a follows.
have carefully read Mr. Kerns letter, and coincide fully
with the views therein expressed am well acqu
with portions of the and vouch for the
OF his statement in regard it, aud from having
eled with him in different New
Mexico cannot speak highly OF his industry in col.
ectng and sound judgment in arranging facts bearing
the geography OF that Territory, and therefore give
fullest credence his descriptions OF that part Of
l have seen.
feel there is person having the amount of
information this subject Mr.. Kern, aud know
other better qualified express sound and inte-
gent opinion upon
am, cir, very respectfully, your obedent servant,
+. A. CUNNINGHAM,
Paymaster, U. s. army.
W. Ctyfv
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Total for Scott 9t asa total for PIERCE It4S26
total for Hale, Troup, and Webster tickets l639s9
(a) Majority against Pierce Ia New Engiand.
(b) Part estimated.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-04-23
Bullock'g tatent Seed Planter.

THIS new Implement can be used to plant any kind
of Seeds, usually planted in hills. bn is moe espe-
ciay adapted for Corn planting Ii deposits the ker-
nels at equal distances apart sufficient ave il room
for heal by growth, thereby increasing the Yield large
ly. With THIS MACHINE one man easily plant one
in two and ha hours, it deposits and covers
the seed almost at the same time. The advantages OF
this planter others in Fse the low price
for which il is Sold and the convenience Of having the
corn in rows each WHY OF the field thus giving chance
to pow or cultivate between the rows, either way
The Planters will be furnished persons buying
TOwn or County Rights, at prices which cannot fail
to pay Uery large profit. For fur ther particulars,
please call al 23 Main street. where the Machne may
be SEEM
N. b. Farmers are particularly invited to CALL anl
examine this new and useful Agricultural Implement.
Worcester, Fob. 49, 1859. dnyplf