Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-04-19
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WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL ls.a 1854,
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We have reported from our exchanges much of
the action of this body thus far which indeed is
yet nothing more than preparatory 10 the definite
action of the convention. What will beithe Anal
action ofthe Convention upon the'v very many inn
portant resolutions which have already been
brought before it, remsins to be- seen. 1t is nu
mefonsly attended, and many Of its delegates are
the ablest men in the States whence they respec.
lively come. Quite a general misapprehension
seems TO exist inmany perts ftRe Union as 10 the
aims and obiectsof this Convention It has been
assumed that ii originated in feeling of avowed
ehostilityto tie North, and designed to devise the
ways andsmeans for breaking down or injuring
Northern enterprise and trade, with no more COM
mendable motive 10 actuate its proceedings. This
we apprehend is an entire mistake. 1t is fact,
and an unfortunate fact that the resources of the
South are far more undeYeIoped than those of
the North, that she has not made the same
Observation-Disclosures improvements, in foreign
trade and in the development Of the nanuiactu-
nng and mining facilities of her area. Possessed
oficlimate and soil, suited for every product h1y-
ingmineral wealth inferior to no other section of
theglobein,quality, quantity and variety. enjoy
ing combination of.water power and fuel, mine
ralaand Vegetable no W hereselse met with, she
yet is almost entirely without manufactures, her
avenues to market are mostly crude or imperfect,
andup TO the present date the baltimore and Ohio
Railroad furnishes the only Southern Atlantic CON
snecton with the great waters which disembogue
into the Gulf of Mexico. Her importa,ions are
limited, and while Baltimore. Alexandra, Norfolk,
Charleston and New Orleans have every natural
facility for direct rade. its yet thefact
that nine tenths the impottatons consumed even
blythe South reach her through the medium Of
Norhen enterprise and trade. SSs
. Why this is, and should this bel are questions
which. have for some time been claiming the atten-
ton Of The South. Why tits that Southern men
should have to pay for importing their goods to
New York, &c, and then paythe New York inn
potter his profit, rather than import direct at less
cost and more profit is tile question, and 10 this is
the South primarily indebted for the present con-
vention. For some years the current of trade has
been tending from the great valley of the Missis
slppi aeross the than around to it
by way of New Orleans and the Gulf. Every
efor: to penetrate the supposed ipsurmountable
barrier chain thrown by nature between the Allan.
tic and the waters that aow into the Gulf has been
more than rewarded, andthe torrent of commerce,
whichonce rolled with the wave of the Mississippi
intoiNew Orleans, is now beckoned back by The
optsttetched hand of triumphant art. and led do
Gle into the ports OF the Atlantic, while The i'm
ports of the seaboard are in turn sent back in ex-
change for the staples of the "Great West,s 1t is
hardly necessary to- add, that tosthe Northern sea
board most Of this trade is tending, and because
itheayenues of trade to the Southern seaboari are
mPerteety opened, and also because The limited
foreign trade of the South fails to offer as profta-
Ole market 10 the Western producer. Hencejthe
necessity of southern effortto build mp southern
trade and southern wealth. Hence the propriety
OF this general Parliament of the South, IN. order
thata-nnited! and Concentrated effort may be made
to secure trade Of the West and the imports of
Europe, bysideyeloping well devised internal
Improvements to reach the West, and organizing
direct (which will carry hence the
products Of the West, and return 10 it the infinite
variety Of European products it exchange for
them. Thps and thus only, can5thei South build
np9allher great interests. 1t is Just to herself
and not unjust to Others, and we hope TO see the
fruits of this convention, ina thorough, perma-
nent Unnecessarily successful effort to build up,
foster andencourage all the Southern States by a
well directed system of Improvements at home. a
wide extended commerce abroad, and the thorough
development of the agricultural mechanical and
mineral, resources of the States. Let the effort
but bemade and'the result is certain. 3,5i4 -
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REFUSAL TO EXCHANGE NATIONAL CouRrEsiEs.
The report that Commodore Newton on entering
Havana harbor refused to exchange salutes with
the Spanish forts is we'll founded. The reliable
Havana correspondent of The New York Journal
of'Commefce says that the refusalwas on account
OF dscourteous and insulting language used to-
wards the President and authorities of the United
ststes by the public Journals, under the authority
OF the Captain General of Cuba, which Commo-
dore Newton has required should be retracted or
explained before he could consent TO interchange
the usual international courtesies. 81 sci
1.-THE Cincinnati Atlas states that the steamers
Minnesota, Mail, Caledonia, aud Belle, passed
downJthe river, recently, with cabins and decks
filled with passengers. On the latter boat there;
must have been two hundred children, belonging
families allbound for points on the Upper Miss
issippi, ADORE the rapids. AtP ittsburgh one days
trains brought in thirteen hundred emlgrants, as
reported blythe Belle, which had 10 refuse the
majority that applied. At all the points above on
theriyer, WelIsburgh, Beaver. Liverpool and steu-
benyille, applicants were refused. s.a.aa 100 ,
SA5FREE GosfEL.-The Louisville Examiner tells
-sStoty OF a church member who had always been
more remarkable for opening his mouth to say
amen than opening Lis purse. He had. on, some
occasion, takeL his usual place near the preach-
er's stand, andwas making his response with great
admiration. After burst of burning eloque nee
from The preacher, he clasped his hands, and cried
out in a kind of ecstacy. eyes thank God, have
been christian fortwenty years, and ii hasn't
cost me twenty five centsl'' "Bless your sii6sy
soull" was the preachers emphatic reply