Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-01

listed in Bladen in I847 was 675. 904s valuation
s7oe, 0s7 value per acre 49, value town proper
ty sic $685. The number of acres listed in Bruns-
wick in 1S47 was 358 1874; valuation $443, value
per acre 81 %; value of town property $31 BIB
The number of acres listed in Cumberland in ls47
SIT O76 valuation 81 O64 76O; value per acre 81 49,
value of town property $500. 765. The number OF
acres listed in Wake in 1S47 was 579, 1874; valuation
81 II $780, value per acre - 80; valuation o. town
property $4I6, 425.
The area If North Carolina is So 7o4 square miles,
| being 1853 per centuns Of the total area.
From the statement showing the amount Of taxes
upon Real Estate, Polls, &C., paid into the Public
Treasury, we find that the total amount paid by New
Hanover county, in the year 1850, was 1926 Oh.
Total amount in 1867, $24. S91 CO. Baden paid in
1850. 81 22525. In 1857, 81 346l2. Brunswick
paid in 1850, $9ss.66 In 1857, $3,236.sO Cum
berland paid in 1850 81 4S0 43. In 1857 Sl3 44O4e
Total amount Of Taxes paid by Wake in 1901 was
81, 1927. SO. In 1857, SEQ, 397.54 Total amount OF
taxes in the State on all subjects in the year 1850,
was Sl44, 74O54 In 1857, S467, 477.55.
Much other valuable information is contained in
this work, which should be in the hands Of every
one Wilmington Herald.
The ATLANTIC TELEGRApH-AN ENGLISH VIEW OF
Tive believe We are correct in stating that 5OO
miles of telegraph have never before been success
fully laid under water and yesterday we received
intelligence that communication is fully establish
ed beneath 1000 miles of stormy ocean, under su-
! perincumbent mass of water, the depth OF which
! NAV be calculated in miles. Only now when it has
succeeded able fully to realize the magnitude
| and the hardihood of the enterprise. Over what
Jagged mountain ranges is that slender thread fold
ed; in what deep oceanic valleys does it rest when
the fash that carries the thought of man from one
continent another darts along the wire; through
what strange and unknown regions, among things
uncouth and Wild must it thread its way! 1t brings
up tdings from the vast abyss, but not of the abyss
itself, but of men like ourselves who dwell beyond
Since the discovery of Columbus nothing has
been done in any degree comparable to the vast
largement which has thus been given to the sphere
of human activity We may now that this the
most difficult problem of all has been solved be just
flied in anticipating that there is portion OF the
earths surface which may not be placed in immedi-
ate communication with us. We know that we
have in our hands the means of practical ubiquty
Distance as ground of uncertainty will be elim;na-
ted from the calculation of the statesman and the
merchant. 1t is no violent presumption to suppose
that within very short period we shall be able to
present to our readers every morning intelligence
of what happened the day before in every quarter of
the globe. The admiralty will know to within a
few miles the position Of every ship in her Majcsty's
service. The intelligence of Caffre war an In
dian mutiny will reach US before the first blood that
has been shed is cold, and shall be able to
omize the whole time consumed by the ordinary We
hicles of intelligence.
We see with not unnatural satisfaction that the
advantage of the discovery will be the greatest to
those countries the possessions of which are the
most remote, and therefore that England has moro
to gain than any of her rivals. More was done yes
terday for the consolidation of our empire than the
wisdom of statesmen. the liberalty of our egis
lature, or the loyalty of our coonisss could ever
have effected. Distance between Canada and Eng
land is annihilated.> For the purpose Of mutual
communication and of good understanding the At
antic is dried up, and become in reality, well
in wish, country. Nor any regard
with Indifference the position in which the Atlantic
telegraph has placed US in regard to the great Amer
lean republic. 1t has half undone the Declaration
of 1776, and gone far 10 make eai, spite
of ourselves one people. To the ties of common
blood language and religion. to the intimate associa
ton in business, and complete sympathy so
many subjects, is added the faculty of instan
taneous communication, which must give to all
these tendencies to unity an intensity which they
never before could possess.
We are most happy that it has fallen to the lot of
this country to carry out an enterprise in which
human nature is so deeply interested, in concert with
the only other nation the globe in which the fame
of science is famed and kept alive by the breath of
freedom. Let those who assembled at Cher
bourg to celebrate another development in the art Of
destruction, and to tete the Inauguration of for
tress avowedly designed to threaten the indepen-
dence and prosperity of these islands, reflect the
true nature of the enterprise which has thus been
executed and turn from the contemplation of science
degraded into the handmade of slaughter and devas-
tation TO science applied to her legitimate Office
the concator, the benefactress, and the enghtener
of the whole human race A military monarchy
has created Cherbourg political freedom and com
mercal enterprise have made the Atlantic telegraph
and they have nothing to blush for in the compari-
! enn--Loadoz Times.