Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-11-09
Abuse of our Rail Road Line.

We had determined to al1ude to some OF the SIAN
ders upon our Railroad Ine which we find going the
rounds of the press having their origin generally in
the Georgia papers. But as we find that one of our
town contemporaries has anticipated in this NATTER
we content ourselves with cutting the following art
Gle from Tuesdays Commercial, to every word of
which we say amen:
The CRoAKERs AGAN.-Among the many efforts to magni
fly the accidents which the management of
every Railroad in the Union found to transcend the
reckegsness pernacy with which the Wilmington and
Weldon Road and the Boats of the Lne assailed The
Augusta Chronicle emulous to oustrp its contemporary
traducers in the following, which appears in that paper
These frequent failures unnecessary they in
furious to the public So long the people Of the South sub
init quietly to the impostons of Railroad Companies they
three % several times on the Road to help push
them ascending grades owing to fracture in the steam
fore starting As the result Of this delay SO passengers
and the great Southern mail, detained "a hours in
the mail and passengers day at Peterburgh The
steamers that ply between Wilmington and Charleston
at is dsgracefu to the country that better and
of exists between the Northern and
Southern portions of the United States At two cents mile
passengers through Railroad from New Orleans to New
York would pay handsome dividend on the sum it would
We believe the English language contains, in the
number of words greater amount of unbluhing mis-
representations than the above. When confne their
complaints within the range probability they may hope to
be credited But the above attempts to prove too much
and, therefore, proves nothing.
sold dirty steamboats, and pushing the cars, is
ing pretty strong the creduy of the public The fact
is those who rail line have other interests to and
choose resort to bel promote their designs Honor and
j truth will not answer their purposes.
The people of Augusta and Columbia demonstrated with
Col GADsDEN because he did not start earlier, Boats
always before TO o'clock A. NJ And yet the Augusta
Editors berae line while the Charleston Courier COM
mends puncuay The fact is the Southern mail
often detained "a hours in Charleston.
The New Picayune and the Daily Advertiser have
both published account of the departure Of the Cars from
Charleston at 10 A. NJ thus aording ground for complaint
where none legitimateiy exists.
AS pushing the Cars along the Road such thing might
happen any Road, through misadvenure and we'll
meaning person would in such But we are
sred that happen stated by the Augusta Editors
would be little strange such thing to take place
and 70 one here know anything of the matter w.
the Augusta people anxious for Through Rail-
road York to New Orleans, they may learn that
thbooks for subscription to the stock Of the Wilmington and
Manchester Road open and the world would be glad to
evidence of their sincerity by noting the amount they
subscribe to that project. The Wilmington and Weldon
Road in progress being read with Iron of the best SORT
and the connection will all the purposes required by
them So there is necessity for any undertaking. Be-
Sides when the Manchester Road completed the " dirty
Boats will be dispensed WITH and the garments of the Angus
ia nobility no longer soiled by these vulgar things.
The facts of the that the Wilmington and Weldon
Railroad Company have done than any other Company
the Union facilitate travel and minister the comfort
the traveller in proportion to their and the patron
age they receive That much has not been done il
part owing to vile and unprnciped croakers like these
der consideration, whose hostility arises from selfish and
cenary motiveWho would destroy this line to build mp 9th
ers-and who so far from instuting manly opposition
cherishng honorable enterprise petty devices
conrivances, and show that truth by al
essential ingredient in the composition of their hostility
Aur 1oo1~
they might find some such little items as the follow
ing: -
= RAIL ROAD Acc1DENT-Loss OF L1FE.-About dusl
" Saturday evening" the " Picayune with the passen
"a ger for Belar attached in collision with
4 wood train on the Georgia Rail Road, just four miles
from the city. When they discovered each other al
effort made by the Engineers to avoid collision
y but as the wood train was down grade, they die
~ not succeed, and we regret to say, that a woman
: named Smith, living some ten or twelve miles from
y the city, who in the fright jumped out, run owe
u and Instantly killed. The other passengers who re
ID NAMED in the uniniured The Picayun
% and her tender sustained some slight damage.
augusta Chronicle, Noe. 5.
ID STEAMBOAT ACcIDENT.-The steamer De Ka1b, Cap
y tain j. A. Moody left Augusta Tuesday mornin,
is for Savannah About O'clock In the evening one
her boilers burst by which negro hand was instant
y killed. another severely scaded that hedied il
ID about three hours. One of the engineers was con
sderably scalded and several of the handssghty in
Of jured The passengers board escaped unframed
u We are informed there was defect in the iron Q
/ the boiler The passengers were Drought down b
- the steamer Metcalf-Sauannah Georgian, Noy. 8.
r So it would seem that Rail Road accidents occu
in the neghborhood of Augusta, and Steamboat
I'd blow up and kill people the Savannah river. PEI
haps it would be as well for these croakers to pluc
n the beam out of their eye, before they spy tn
at moat in their neighbours.
re Col. STEVENSON, Of the n Y Regiment, at presen
st in California, is worth over two millions of dollars
y and as he large tracts of land, and many lo
Foi in San Francisco he will probably be worth muc
more in few years.