Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-06-14


/ one of the few from New England that voted WITT
| the South, will be elected. This would be glorl
GUS triumph for truth and prove that the Nortn Wert
not insensible to principle and merit. The electoI
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Correspondence of the North Carolina Standard
SAN FRANCISCO, April 80, 1854.
Ed STANDARD: In my last-on account OF its
leneth--I omitted any reference to the state OF ou-
siness matters in this city For six months prior to
nv last date mercantile affairs had worn most IN
favorable aspect. Few of the numerous departments
of trade had realized amount OF proht more than
sufficient to meet their monthly expenses And the
effect of excessive shipments seriously felt in
all branches not only of trade, but in the various
| mechanic arts, and IN the agricultural and Produc-
ing interests of the State
The enormous and continued shipment OF every
variety of goods to market already glutted, was
most surprising and amounted to infatuation in
dealers at home, for it was kept up in defiance OF
the entreates and aoarangs and in full view OF the
most disastrous returns or accounts OF sales ana
charges from factors here. For instead OF prompt
returns of sales easily effected, and exhibiting a
large margin of net profit the shipper has been con-
santly met with reports of mo safes, Storage at ~
per ton per month, money hired at three per cent per
month, to pay that and other charges.
And for long time the appearance, in our noble
bay, of merchant clipper, instead OF attracting
crowds 10 the wharves and being hailed with pleas
ure by mercantile community as afordlng an
opportunity repenish their exhausted stoc:s and
surety for further profit, created rather feeling
of regret and disgust.
But during the past month, financial and business
matters here have put on more promising phase.
SHIPMENTS from the home States and Europe have
materially decreased and prices have advanced, In
some instances, fifty per cent.
Traders who have come down from the Sierra Ne
vada and the plains of Oregon with the expectation
of making large purchases, at their own prices are
obliged to curtail their bills, or buy credit, as
their supply of slugs is inadequate to meet the large
advance in prices over their last advices.
oAv has
a corresponding demand but it is in part owing to
the falling off in shipments, and more especially, to
the war-like tone of European affairs, per dates
by last three mails And if the steamers due to-
morrow bring news that the torch of general con-
tnental war has been ignited on the Danube, the
effect will be to impart additional frmness to pres
ent, or induce higher rates. But if Nicholas backs
1o,on those SPECTATORS will grin most CHASTITY smiles.
Speaking of theatricals, to a list already number
ing Bishop, Thrillon and Sinclair, we have Laura
Keene from New York, of high artistic celebrity,
and Cate Hayes and Clarine Cailly, from Lima and
Valparaiso, via Panama, who have just completed
brilliant engagements along the Pacific sea-board-
These, with the former and Miss DENNIS, Heron and
the Batemans, form galaxy of hstronic talent and
reputation, rarely gathered within the limits OF
single city.
Our CITY is to-day in the hustle and hurry of the
departure on the morrow of the steamers of three
lines with passengers for home, many OF them sue
cessful miners. Fares are low and many embrace
the opportunity. The Independent line bears
the palm Even the Nicaragua, so plethorc with
patronage the past year, much more the lethargic
and drowsy mail line, is obliged to succumb to
tide Of popularity which seems to be bearing the
other to high niche in the public favor. People
like low fares and great speed, and both appear
be combined in eminent degree, in the new line.
The quickest time to New York, claimed by the
mail line is % days, Nicaragua p, whilst the indie
pendent steaners-last trip-made it in 81.
Commodore Vanderbilt, who, in his beautiful
North Star, couldn't humor the tardines3 of Aut0
CRITIC movements, has now in these Pacific waters
the Yankee Blade and Uncle Sam, both well ap-
pointed and fast steamers; and though not profess
sing be it in such matters, they appear to my
mind to be most beautiful and faultess models and
they certainly have proved, in point of speed, most
successful and triumphant specimens of marine ar
chitecture. This company also furnish transit tick
cts in this and n. Y. city, which completes the chain
of through tickets and, udincumbered by large
amount of mail matter, they offer unusual facilities
for speedy and uninterrupted passage between
this and the Atlantic cities.
Since my last in making the trip to Panama and
back we passed in full view of the mournful wreck
of the Nicaragua steamer Independence. Two hun
dred of the passengers by that Inflated vessel were
Sin the deep bosom of the ocean buried" And
their bodies many of Them have since been washed
upon the beach, to feed the buzzard to leach
and perish the lonely and desolate sands of Mai
guenta island. An old wreck or dismantled vessel
S a melancholy and unsightly object any where
They may be found in all ATTITUDES scattered along
the Atlantic coast, from Halifax to the Equator
some times upon rock bound shore, and some times
upon the shelving beach, where the sands and the
shells rise daily higher around the shattered bark
as if emulous to yield her fitting burial There is
mute eoquence in wreck, which appeals to every |
nature, telling of hopes bghted, power and energy
crushed peril encountered and fierce struggles end
ing mayhap in the death of some brave man.
The white wings that swclled to the ocean breeze, |
and the cordage through which it whisted are gone
and decay and rust and the barnace mar the proud
est ships that delighted the heart of true sal
or. TELLIAMED.