Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-08-28


not fashionable, It Is true, is people are in
other attitudes; but worship Of fashion repays with
the heartache, with bluntsd sensbilities, and with
an-empty purse. North olroIinisns, choose ye
between the two. Continue to resort to Virginia,
to Saratoga, to Newport and your own watering
places will languish. and your internal improve
nents, deprived of the from travel which is
thus bestowed upon other communities, will barely
continue to 60 forward but be true to yourselves
and to your State to your own seacoasts, to
your own valleys and mountains, and we shall soon
observe a change for the better in the accommoda.
tons furnished-the hand of enterprise, sustained
by capital will provide for all that we seek else
where, while at the same time we shall bring to-
gether distant and different portions of the State
thereby increasing the interest which we feel for
each other, and retain among ourselves for the ben
eft of our own lines Of travel the large amounts
now poured out in the laps of other States.
We did not tarry long enough in Newbern to OBJ
serve the improvements which have been made but
we noticed some shipping in the harbor and learned
that the business of the place is increasing The
greater portion of the freight which goes down from
Goldsborough is purchased and shipped from New.
bern. The Atlantic Road is doing better business
than was expected The travel on it the present
season is considerable.
We arrived at home on Tuesday evening last
feeling better every way than have for years. and
ready for the duties that await US in the future On
our way home, some three miles below Newborn,
the passengers on the train had a narrow escape
from serious injury. culvert about ten feet wide
was unfinished, the rails being sustained by wood.
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heavily laden, which passed down the evening be-
FORE had depressed the rails over this culvert and
as the train came up on Tuesday morning, the
plunge occasioned by the depression threw a part
of it off the track. We felt the plunge the train
proceeding at the time about twenty miles an hour.
The descended and assembled, and when fairly
over the cuvert the baggage and passenger car
thrown partially from the track. The passenger car
was dragged some thirty or forty yards over the ss
and rails; but fortunately the tender broke from the
baggage car and the latter from the passenger car,
leaving the latter nearly on the point of turning
over. Ten feet more would most probably have up.
set the passenger car, in which event the passen-
gers must have been injured Considerable alarm
was of course manifested, but beyond few slight
knocks and bruises no one was hurt
NATIONAL FOUNDRY ON DEEP RIvER.-We had the
pleasure Thursday morning of meeting Prof
Emmons, State Geologist, who had just returned
from conference with the Commissioners appointed
by the Navy Department to examine and report up
the expediency of establishing national foundry
on Deep River, in this State
The examination had been pretty thorough and
the Commissioners appeared to be pleased with the
it,
had just been exposed at Buckhorn, belonging to
Mr.. Harrington, with the ore of which the Commits
sioners were mnch pleased. This is the richest bed
on the river, and contains more than any other
in one body. Mr.. Evander McIver had also opened,
near Egypt, seam Of very fine coal, twelve inches
at the outcrop, and thickeniug two feet. Eleven
inches at the outcrop will pay for working.
1t is impossible to anticipate the report of Com.
Wilkes to the Navy Department. Of course the
Commissioners will thoroughly explore the country,
carefully consider the advantages and the disadvant
ages if any, which will result from the establishment
of foundry at this point and then, whatever report
they may determine to make, they will in the
time keep their counsel We have the fullest
confidence that the Deep River site will compare
favorably with any sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia,
or Maryland; and without intimating even the
shadow of thought that either the very able board
of Commissioners appointed to make this survey, or
the Secretary of the Navy or any other department
of the government which may be charged with or
have control in this business, would Intentionally
slight or overlook the advantages presented for the
foundry by this State, still trust We shall lose
nothing by the fact that we have uniformly claimed
less at the hands of the general government than the
States referred to. People nowadays, and States
nowadays, as we'll as people, are apt to be heard
and to be profted by reason of much speaking"
North Carolina does not belong to that peculiar ord
Of States and while she will assaiI no other State
interested in this location, she at the time ex-
poets justice for herself whatever may be said else
where against the advantages she presents for this
| foundry.