Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-01-25

hundred thousand dollars will do il. 81
ought to do it-less than that. What is d
hundred thousand dollars at the end of ten
millions. We shall feel all the better for il:
Apropos-I have just returned from a
visit to .the old North State.' Raleigh is
pleasant little - city, progressive, with
het blacksmith shops and all of sorts Of
mechanics, two book. stoies; mercantile
houses of due variety, handsome church.
es with well filled pulpits and pews, public
and private schools well organized and well
taught State institutions for the Insane, the
Deaf aid Dumb and Blind, and Slate
Hoise that is quite model. Indeed itrei
minds one OF Slaunlon more than any city
1 know: The Building for the Lunatic Asy-
lum is jbst cohHpleted, a splendid structure
and is going intS operation under the SUI
perintendence. ,!0f DR.: Fisher, formerly, Of
your town. The Institution for the Deaf
Mutes and Blind has beeh In successful op.
Grafton several years under the Supefin.
tendence Of Hm. ID. Cooke, Esq, also for
merly of your town. II was originated, or;
ganised, and has been brought to its pres:
ent completeness under bis energetic labors:
The buildings are architecturally beautiful
commod,ous and quite perfect in their way:
The accomplished Superintendent is the
same bGsy, energetic ahd efeetiye man he
always was and always will be, with 81
many ''irons in the fire" that minds Of
common mould infer Of course that some Of
them are burning. But iio--tlieJ are al
on the anvil precisely when they are hot
all sttHck at the right moment--all produc.
tive. Some men are so constituted that
they can do much work, better than lit
tie, and can heter do nothing. He is one
of that sort. The Institution is in admira-
bic order-att right-every one at lis post.
and every thing done, and done well.E
Staunton cannot surpass it, and that is say:
ing good deal. Outside of this, or rather
connected with it, he has 4 Steem.pfsss;
the only one, believe, IN North Cafoliha;
book -bindery, lone Of the Best rniscelIa-
neous weekly papers any Where published
either at the North or South, called the
".Southern Weekly Post" He has publishs
ed and bound some Of the "best got up
books" that have seen this season., He
"helps but" the State Printer whenever his
hand-presS lags behind his contract. he
furnishes, pith .Nsi5 York speed, all job
printing to order. Whatever can be done
in New York in this way, is Gone IN Ra-
leigh. By the way, he manufactures the
paper, too, on which he comes SO credita:
bly, before the public, and he is receiving
orders from leading newspapers in New
York for supplies of the same sort, for their
use. This is evidence that paper can be
Manufactured better and cheaper at the
South than at the North.-We ought to
work up our own rags. Little do some
fiieR think; wher-passing by the home
staple-they send their money to pay ford
New York newspaper, that the pery paper
on irhich ii IS printed a0as mani factured in
North Carolina. Perhaps it is best they
should not know ii, or they might stop the
paper, and go farther .'down Eoe" for their
intelligence. But, Messrs Editors, must
stop, or shall not be read. Willyoh please
TO publish, and send copy TO the Chaif::
man of the Committee on Finance-and
oblIge yours, In TKANSIIu.