Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-27
iCoMPARISoN INsTITuTED.

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edin the House of Representatives, on the ith OF
July, the subject Of the assault on Sumner, has
the following, which we commend to the attention
of our readers-not only the remarks of MIR. W.,
but the statistics which he so eoquenty introduces
to the public notice
: "Sir, we ought to save this Union. The Hottest
motives press upon the nobest incentives infu-
ence US our reverence for our ancestors demands
it; our own future fame invokes it. Throughout
the civilized world strong nerves tremble and stout
hearts quake, for the final result of this last expert
ment of mans capacity for selfgovcrnment. Age
after age, in the dim vista of the shadowy future,
gaze at with anxiety and solictude. If the Union
be worth preserving it is worth taking pains to pre-
profess idolatrous love for it; cherish
it for the good it has done, and for the good it may
do. 1t has given peace at home, unexampled
prosperity, and name among the nations. 1t has
gained us respect abroad, and assured US security
from aggression. have never yielded to that SEN
tment springng from mawksh sensi bility, that We
should not calculate its value. think we can new.
er too often 60 into the reckoning it will bear in
vestigation. l was much impressed with some sta
tstics with regard to my own honored State and the
State of Massachusetts which met my eye in the co..
umns of an able political Journal showing the great
to both ofthe Union of these
States. Twill read them. The Richmond Enquirer
says of Massachusetts, and North Carolina:
1--WE think every sensible man in Massachusetts,
after comparing the census of his own State with
selfish policy or enlarged philanthropy, will arise
from the comparison a warm friend of the Union as
it is. The statistics which shall cite might, OF
themselves induce the belief that the Bay State was
only productive of criminals and paupers But it
is well known that despite her fanaticism, she is
wealthy, enlightened, Industrious and energetic
Her commerce aud manufactures supply her with
the products of agriculture. DiSunion would GRIP
pie those resources and probably expel her indus
try, skill, and capital to better markets and more
congcnial climes The population of Massachusetts
in 1850 was Gin round numbers) 100000, that OF
North Carolina $4,000. Massachusetts, produced
81, 900 bushels of wheat, 2,345.OoO bushels of In
dian corn and 1855 900 bushels of potatoes, 81
900 hogs ~ 900 horses and mules, and EGO 600 cat
tie. The productions of North Carolina, in proper
ton to population, were arout ten times as great
They produced 100000 bushels of wheat, 81
OOO, 900 bushels of Indian corn, 100000 bushels
of potatoes, 100000 hogs, ia. 400 horses and
mules, and 693,0CO cattle. What field she ex-
exhibits for Massachusetts commerce and manutac-
lures! Yet she would fare better in of a dis
union than Massachusetts, for she. produces all the
necesSarcs of life, and might produce its luxures
within herself
The statistics of crime and pauperism exhibit quite
as startling difference in favor Of North Carolina
and prove that she and does attend to the moral
and physical condition Of her people, and needs no
foreign prompting or interference. Before quoting
those Statistics would remark, that fuel, so dear
and so much needed in Massachusetts,, is at every
mans door in North Carolina without money and
without price-for there are few towns in that State
In Massachusetts,, in 1850, there were 300 pau
pers in North Carolina, 1900 In Massachusetts,,
criminals convicted in 1850, 1000; in North Caro-
lima. GOO In prisons, in Massachusetts, 1000; in
North Carolina, Al. In jais in Massachusetts, l.
900; in North Carolina, 81 In penitentaries in
Massachusetts 431; in North Carolina, IA. Odd
Fellows charities in Massachusetts,, $264, 900; in
North Carolina, $4,000.
Al ~. -, ,k,ksc fpnc
study of every Christian patriot, and philanthropst
in the Union
Sir, cannot help thinking that if the energies of
our politicians devoted to the compilation of
statistics like these, in good Ango-SaXon, and to
their circulation in New England among the class of
people who have everything to lose and nothing to
gain by disunion who will have to bear the burdens
without sharing in the honors of Confederacy,
it would be much patriotic and profitable than
the translation into rich German of speeches upon
Kansas rejecting upon the institutions OF the South
and their circulation in the prairie States of the
Northwest"
NORTH CAROLINA CoAL-Wc published the fol-
lowing paragraph yesterday, but we have cor
roborativc evidence of its truth, take pleasure in
it:
NORTH CAROLINA CoAL.-The Philadelphia En-
quirer gives the result of the analysis of sundry
Gas Goals, by which it is apparent that the Btum
nous Coal from Deep River, Chatham county, North
Carolina is very nearly 90 per cent richer in Gas
than any Coal discovered in America and indeed it
yields more Gas of superior quality than the En-
glish Goals, with which our cities are generally
lighted. We hear that the New York Gas Compa-
MES importing English Goals at a cost of 50 70
per ton.
A gentleman of this town has politely handed
a letter received by him from Philadelphia, dated
the 10th instant, from which we make the follow
ing extract
(of Omrgc) for the last hour, and was glad to be
informed both by him ard the papers, that after a
NEST searching and sklllul test coal brought from
our Deep River Coal Fields has proven to be of the
most superior quality erer get discovered either in
England or in This country. Five pounds of this
coal produced twenty -four cubic feet of gas whilst
hitherto no coal has been found to produce more
than twenty cubic feet of gas making difference
of twenty per cent. in our favor. North Carolina
forevcr!'
In view of this most gratifying fact, and in view
also of the rich prospective advantages which must
enure to our State from the possession of these
mines, which vast in extent and almost incalcu-
liable in the wealth of the deposit, would urge
the necessity of those works of Improvement now
in progress and in contemplation, and which are
designed to afford facilities for getting this mineral
to market. We would especially aude to the rail-
road proposed to be built between Fayetteville and
the mines, for the purpose of expressing the wish
that the Legislature, at its approaching session,
will give this important enterprise liberal State aid.
We think that in fairness and justice it is
entitled to it. Fayetteville given the goby en-
trey at the last session, and the injustice should
be repaired as far it is possible In thus express
ing a wish for the of this road, we do not
mean to cast slur upon the River improvement,
which is work striving at somewhat similar
suit with the road, preferring to wait yet little
while longer ere we abandon all hope of its future
usefulness. VaL Herald.
The committee amounted by the citizens of Che