Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-11-18
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State. It's principal strsSt9 and eqeFalk4 ore yell
paved, and the baildhss son u lhoronghfares Of
tradeare eomp.ctly c6nstrusted sEdcroxded aHely
together. Further up from the river there are many
handsome residences, some Of them, We learned,
quite costly. The rssidence Of John A. Taylor,
Esq, is Of marble and brick, and cost some thirty
thousand dollars. That of John Dawson, Esq, in
the same quarter Of the town. win be, when finished,
. model of architectural taste and, skill We saw
several handsome and imposing church ediHces;
alse the new City Hail. large building, and which,
WHEN completed, will be at an ornament to the
town and credable to the berality and public spirit
Of its citizens Its estimated cost fomirst to last
including iron railing for enclosure and Improvement
Of the grounds is about SIS, 600. ,ssa5<os i
The town is lighted with gas, giving ita cheerful
and business-like appearance at night Its hotels
are well conducted. and while we were there they
were crowded by persons in attendance on the meet
ing of the stockholders Of the Wilmington and Wei
don Road. We stopped at Holmes Hotel, where we
found good room, we'll furnished table, and
gentlemanly and attentive landlord and clerk. 81
Our Wilmington friends are feeling to some extent
the effects of the existing monetary prsssnre.i Bu-
sness of all kinds is dull We observed a number
Of vessels in pOrt but owing to the decline in priceo
and the unwil!ingness of holders Of produce to sell
just now the owners of vessels do not obtain such
cargoes as they did month or twoisince The
pressure, however, cannot continue long.
We saw with our own eyes that Of which we have
SO often heard. to wit cabbages. onions, apples,
irish potatoes hay and the like in large quantities in
the Wilmington market not from the interior Of
North Carolina, but from the Northern States. No
uvill no nptOn
for this. o. the contrary, we know they are anx-
ious to trade extensively than they do with the
people of their own State west of them, and way
for this trade has been opened as far west as Char
lotte yet they still dependent to large extent
the Northern States for their vegetables, their
hay, their butter, and other articles of daily domes
tic use. Ho! ye agriculturiss, We farmers and gar.
deners Of the interior and western portions of the
State lido ye wish 10 make money? Are ye alive
to your oson interests? If SO, produce surplus of
these things and send them to Wilmington. Go
there and trade. Sell for money, exchange your
products for groceries and dry goods Wilmington
is said to be the cheapest market in the South in
the way of groceries and West India products gen.
orally. Her merchants enterprising and honest,
and her citizens have labored for years. and still
laboring to build up commercial City worthy of
the State. If you cannot do quite we'll by going
there to trade, which we do not admit nevertheless
60, for 1t Is IN your oun State. What Wilmington
exports she gets the specie for, its equivalent;
and this specie, or its equivalent. is just much
added to the wealth of North. Carolina But il you
send carry your produce to markets out of the
State you compelled to take bank paper for it
the bank paper Of other States; and thus it is that
other States not only export but bank for US to a
large ertent Is not that so?
While absent we had the qualification of meeting
and spending some pleasant hours with cotem-
poraries of the Journal, the Commercial. and the
Herald Wilmington, and of the Independent, Gin
ton. We wanted to know of Burr where he got the
humor for his Editorials, when he soIemnly pointed
by way of reply to a row of Patent Office Reports
and Cong ressonal Globes. Going into the Journal
Office and walking through it with Fulton, We were
at loss to account for the thoughtful character of
his writings seeing that his Editorial chair is placed
directly the boiler of the steam engine which
turns his presses. And for our venerable cotem-
porary of the COMMERCIAL his patience is tried and
made perfect by his having to ascend two or three
fights of steps before he reach his Office and
when up there his wits are constantly envened
and sharpened by the music of one of Hoes cylin-
dar presses which rotates within few feet of him.
May these our contemporaries always make as good
Impressions on others as they made on US and
may they all, collectively and individually, escape
that great lock up" prepared for Editors and other
bad people down below"
The Register Caught.
The last Register shows painful consciousness of
being caught in its attempt to dictate to its party
what sort Of political nondescrpt it has to support
for Governor next year; and in the anguish of its
writings it calls as names, and charges us with an
attempt to dictate, &c. Now we know our ground
and in this respect have the advantage Of the
editor of the Register for he has ground 70 stand
on We took the old Democratic position-noth-
inx more nor less-and had we taken different one
we should have deserved and received the condem-
nation of our party. We should have been regard
ed as an enemy, and treated accordingly.
Happily for the country the old Democratic party
has not sunk SO low that it has to seek its candi-
dates from the disorganizers Of an opposite party.
When it gets to that condition we shall prefer fall.
ing in open conflict, with feet placed firmly on
the old platform, to resortng to such a doubtful
means Of obtaining doubtful victory. The Demo
cratic party holds forth the bow Of promise to the
faithful but for disorganzers has iron heel 1t
gives up none of it's cherished principles in defer
ence to any one man and it yields nothing merely
for the purpose of endeavoring to injure an oppo-
sing party. The K. Ms may sink their intense
American feelings" their opposition to foreigners
and catholics and all their cherished and much and
loudly Wanted principles for what they conceive to
be erpediency. The Democratic party acts on no
such principle-or rather, want Of principle 1t
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