The North-Carolina standard., 1847-08-18

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An intelligent CoFfespondent OF the Boston
Statesman, writing from shis civ under date Of
August :, ls47, says: = s2ss % sst5f
by the way, Inoiice siha, q Boston company
has the railroad from Norfolk, OF Ports
mouth Va. to Weldon, in this State and also an
interest In the Weldon aud CASTOR railroad towards
thl. city tRalsigh.1 They are now engaged 10
laying down an entire new track with heavy r vail
and inlend 10 60 on the low price system. Thef
intendto have the fare from Baltimore TO Weldon
nve dollars, and then one can travel from Baltimore
TO Charleston, some SIX hundred miles, for thirteen
dollars. They mean also to Increase the rate OF
speed, and run the distance from Portsmouth 70
CASTOR nalhree hours and. ha|f and from Ports
mouth, through Castor, TO Raleigh in six hours
and a half 'Thenlthe' route from Raleietto BaIti-
more can be run in sixteen hours and q half.
Now, if this same Boston company will reap
the greatest proht from their stock they viii inter
est themselves and assist in getting railroad from
Raleigh 10 Camden, 8. c., through Fayetteville
and Cheraw. The distance is about one hundred
and eighty miles. If this railroad is built, II will
shorten the route between New York aud New Or
leans nearly one hundred miles, and consequently
take nearly all through travel between north and
south. Unless this road is hnilt, the railroad from
here 70 CASTOR, and one from CASTOR TO w eldon
will not be very valuable, but, if buill,lhe stock o
these roads will be above par, and IL will al the
same time move than double The business ON lht
road from Weldon TO Portsmonth. The North
kCarolinians are interesting tIt mseives in thi.
scheme, and, wiki some help from abroad, would
carry il out. II has been tried out and out-shorl
railroads from point ef country 10 ano,her .Di
Eaot pay unless conneeted Win s6me long main
travelled route. ~ = - @57,gt
Raleigh i sbeaaiilul place. In summer aEi
winter il IL healthy rs any place in the Union
Al Isl as you know Gle capital Of North Caroline
The State House erected b few years since il
place Of the one thai vas burnt is, think, the bes
Estate House III Che Union; and have seen then
nearly all II il bniIt Of SORT Of white granite o.
Hreestone but litlla darker than, Vermont marble
] The hnildipg i very laFge, supported by pillars or
two sides and is ehlphatica.ly 6re-proof. Raleigt
/ i well provided with schools. The female Semi
nary unGerihe charge Of the Rev. Albert Smede:
and his lady, has about one hundred students
gndging from the elegant building spacious grounds
Libraries and apparatus, its high reputation, il mus
be one of the first institutions in the country. Pa
and guardians generally, in this country, pre-
fer to palronise the schools near home to sending
their children and youth to the north. BY the way
the majority oc teachers and professors are from
the north and east. Mr.. and Mrs. Smedes ar.
! New Workers. 81. a.s.sr... tt.1sss 4- ..'.s-
"The Classical and Military Academy in Ra
leigh, under the SuPeriniendence of MIR. Lovejoy
! is the first school in the State. The military ar
rangements are similar to those at West Point ani
in the classical department full collegiate course
is taught. The, academy al this time number.
about ninety boys" -...5