Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-28

who have turned abolitionists. Every moth
er's son of them are disappointed politicians,
except the few who are deranged men-pseu-
do-philanthropists. Fortunately for the peace
and morals Of the South, when the minds Of
halt. crazy folks among them become 90 dis
eased as that they are restless and disorgan-
ising they wend their way North. % ind con-
genial communities, in Whose midst they may,
make fools of themselves, and yet meet with
sympathizers. Cassius NJ Clay is one of this
class. He has been crsIy man for full
twenty years past. Whenever he ventures to
put forth his idiosyncrasies at home he be-
comes the sport of all the little boys in his
vicinity. So he goes to the North when sur
charged with bile against the section Of the
Union that treats his cra.iness as it deserves
to be treated.
In this way he has recently made speech
in the New York city Tabernacle the place
where crazy preachers, foreign mountebanks,
fashionable jugglers, fortune tsllers, &C., hold
forth, if possessed of money sufficient to hire
its magnificent hall; and in that speech, by
way Of exalting the North at the expense of
the South, he has und ertaken to aver that but
single railroad in the slaveholding States
pays a dividend to the holders of its stock
some railroad iu Georgia. Now, take them
"by and large" the southern railroads are
quite as profitable conc erns as those at the
North, if not more so. At the North most of
the companies have foolishly reduced the prices
o. travel and freight to points that are noto-
riously in most instances ruinous to the stock
holders. The truth is, at the North such ia.
cilities for travel and business have progressed
ahead of the real requirements.of the times.
and ruinous rivalry exists there, which for
the last two years has destroyed all hopes of
profit on most Of their railway stocks. Not so
at the South, where nearly every railroad
stock has up to this time paid quite as much
as was expected of it; Mr.. Cassius M. Clay to
the contfSfy notwithstanding.
Where is there moro profitable railroad in
tho Union than that between this city and
Baltimore Where railroad stock more full
of promise than that of the Orange and Alex.
andria railroad, in Virginia? In two years
not fail to transact business quite as profitable
as that Of any other work of the kind in the
United States. As, while, with its extension,
it will be grand link in the shortest, surest
and most agreeable route between st Louis
and the Atlantic coast, it will be positively
without a rival for the whole trade -passen-
ger and freight properly belonging to scope
| Of country fifty miles north and one hun dred
| miles south Of its line. No northern railroad
is so happily situated in this respect; and in
| view of the facts, we may reasonably antici
| pate that it will not only command nearly all
the through travel from St. Eouis, East, but
all that coming up the Mississippi to Memphis
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Department. On yesterday, 9th of October
there were OF Treasury warrants entered on
the books of the Department.
| Texas debt warrants............ S46S 9;
For the redemption Of Stocks.... 244, IFS A;
For tho Treasury Department. A, $50 "A
For the Ipterior Department..... $500 OF
/ Ror Gocf0no A 7e2