Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-10


large gathering of treeneaa present, the band, con-
Quoted by an Englishman played Yankee Doodle
and Hail Columbia And never did l hear those
stirring national airs with such glow of pride and
love for my native land when listening to
their performance at sunset by band of blacks
on foreign so-under the segis of the British Ii
on and amid the symbols and results of monarchi-
cal rule every side.
Leaving Kingston at midnight three days or less
over a turbulent sea, carry to San Juan Del
Norte.
The passage of the Isthmus of Nicaragua is but a
brief and varied episode in the journey. The &x-
hilaratng and exciting passage up the San Juan
river, the quiet trip Virgin Bay in those ee-
CANT lake boats, and the hour scamper over the
McAdamzed road in Concord coach into San Juan
Del Sur, the Pacific port, are exceedingly pleasant
phases in the trip and help to break the edium and
languor of the long days at
The Pacific portion of my trip made in the
fleet and superbly equipped steamer, Uncle Sam,
of the fastest and best appointed steamships in
the Pacific waters. Her commander is not only a
thorough scientific and practical navigator, but a
humane and kind hearted officer, and gentleman
from crown to sole and the purser was courteous
and obhging, not only to the occupant of an upper
saloon state room, but to the poor hOn6res of the
steerage. The writer is thus particular this head
because too often commanders tyrants, and pur-
sers Doors or cocknies, generally both
The entire coast from San Juan to San Francisco
bears unmisakeable evidence of its volcanic nature
Mountains so lofty that their SUBMITS cloud
capped and between deep dark assures and ravines
never penetrated by the sunlight.
Touching at Acapulco for coal and water, the
passengers amuse themselves with throwing dimes
into the bay the little native imps
dive and regain them, which feat performed in ut
ter nudity, seems not uninteresting to of
our lady passengers.
On the side of Marguerite island we saw the
mournful wreck of the old steamer Independence.
An old wreck, disnanted vessel is melan-
choly and unsightly object any where. They may
be found in all ATTITUDES, scattered along the Allan
fIR rnD Hal he ofItrNoc
upon rock-bound shore, and sometimes upon the
shelving beach where the sands and the shells rise
daily higher around the shattered bark, if emu
lous to yield her a fitting burial.
There is a mute eloQuence in wreck which ap-
peals to the strong nature-telling of hopes blight
ed-power and energy crushed-peril encountered
and fierce struggles, ending, may hap, in the death
of many a brave man.
The white wings that sweed to the ocean breeze,
and the cerdage through which it whistled, are gone
and rust, decay, and the barnacle the proudest
ships that delighted the heart of true sailor.
Below San Diego, in Lower California saw at
distance of $50 miles, mountains of altitude of
900 feet whose towering and majestic heads hoary
with the frosts, ana covered with the of ages
and bathed in the light of just sinking to
rest aohere has islands Of retresAment Ae," in the
calm but mighty western sea, presented scene of
indescribable Sublimity and grandeur.
But we are now entering the Golden Gate, the
perspective of many sanguine youth looming with
piles of glitterng or0 Spanish for dust ore) which
proachable heaps of dust and coin in the banking
houses of Drescl Sather and Church ct ID Oanne &c
nus, as in the results of his earnings and good
fortune.
This the quickest trip, by twenty -four hours,
from New York to San Francisco made by any
steamship line, being accomplished a trihe
20 days, and it establishes beyond cavil the superb
GRITTY of this line in point Of speed. This line long
ago made the quickest hOmeacGrd passage, but has
now gained another more brilliant triumph in an
outward run, which must give it the palm of supre-
macy for dispatch until Pacific Railroad is built or
another shorter steamship route is established
The Pacific agency of the Nicaragua Company is
in the hands of our worthy Ex-Mayor Hon c. K
Garrison, who during his incumbency of the May
orality did more to establish and maintain the cred
it OF San Francisco than any other man since its
settlement. He interposed his influence and his
vote to thwart and defeat schemes which had for
their real object only the pecuniary ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
of reckless and unprinciped SPECTATORS who would
have saddled the city with immense debt, and
consequently, heavy taxation. He promptly stepped
forward with his own private resources, and paid
bills in large amounts which, with then depleted
treasury, but for his intervention must have been
dishonored. And to crown ALL he distributed every
dollar $4,000 of his years salary in public and pri
vate charities. Mr.. q. was candidate for re-eec-
ton last autumn, but was borne down by that tide
of prejudice, fanatcism and prescription which was
then sweeping like food over the entire North
but which, thanks to the eloquent and gallant Wise,
and the indomitable and unquailing Democracy of
the "Old Dominion, so splenddly supported by
the Democrats of the Old North State, has at last
encountered power that say, "thus Jar shalt
thou come and no farther and here shall thy proud
0hd iptOLeTdnt 2cGreS be stayed :"
This Know Nothingism will prove Whig-Abo.
ton engine, though under the guise of Amercansm.
Immediately after the election of Mr.. Polk the
New York Tribune attributed the defeat of the
great Clay to the strength given to the native Ame-
rican movement in that city and Philadelphia from
the ranks of the Wings, and bitterly asked if the
election of Harper, Mayor, in the former city, and
Lewis c. Levin to Congress from the latter, compen
stated for the political immoation of that unrivaled
statesman and orator? predict that after the cleo
ton of so similar plant will be heard and SINH
lar requiem chanted over another defeated Wing
candidate for the Presidency
TELLIAMED.
Rail Road House, San Francisco,
August 81, 1856