The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-23
LETTER FROM MR.. GRAVES.

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= We copy from the last Hornets Nest the follow.
ing letter from the Hon. Calvin Graves, addressed
to his friend, DR.. J. E. Williamson, Of Caswe Thu
Nest is requested BY Mr.. Graves say that he has
very little time left from his present engagements
TO answer many correspondents whom it would afford
him pleasure reply to separately; and that this let
ter contains information which will perhaps be graft.
flying to them:
CHARLOTTE, Mecklenburg Co..
January 9Th, 1850.
DEAR SlR: We reached this town last evening on
our Western tour to solicit subscriptions of Stool h
the North Carolina Rail Road company. Up to this
time we have formed Fifteen companies pledged to
take Fifteen of the Hundred shares of unsubscribS
stock, according to the plan suggested at the Green's
borough Convention, and estimated at $l2O 900: IN
these add the Fiftyone taken at the convention and
the Four taken at our meeting in Raleigh, and Wa
have Seventy of the Hundred Shares taken and We
are encouraged by the hope that Judge Saunders who
is operating in the East, will be able to make good
report from that region. The chief difficulty which
we have had to encounter on the entire line of our
route, has grown ont of the impression which went
abroad from the Greensborough Convention, towt
that the Stock was sure to be taken. The friends Of
this great enterprise seem not to know that that pre-
diction was based upon the presumption that those
who are deeply interested in this matter, and who
profess to be friendly to it, will do their whole duty:
this being done, we are sure of success.
am gratifed to perceive that the spirit which
animated people in this region in the days of the
Revolution is still to be found here, and hope that
on this day and at this place we shall have second
demonstration of the indomiable courage of those re-
siding in the region of the Hornets Nest.
! Could you have passed along this line (as have
done) through the rich lands Of the Uharie the val
lies Of the Yadkin and Rocky River and viewed the
fine farms and fertile lands you would be prepared
to put to shame those who maintain that we cannot
raise produce enough to sustain Rail Road.
Indeed all that is necessary to success is to put our
people to thinking and calculating upon the subject.
When we look around and see what the other States
of this Union have done and are doing-to little Mas.
sachusetts with her s44 miles of Rail Road at cost
of 424 millions of dollars-to New York with her
$40 miles cost of 81 millions of dollars to say
nothing of her canals-to Pennsylvania with her
thirty-fye Rail Roads in successful operation-to
Maryland-to Virginia on the North and to South
Carolina with her Rail Roads which have cost 81
millions of dollars, and to Georgia with her Rail
Roads which have cost six millions of dollars-and
find them making dividends of from six to fourteen
per cent upon their capital Stock and all still press
ing forward in extension of their systems how can We
stand still and refuse to enter upon the great work be-
fore US, without bringing poverty and dshonor upon
our State!
Governor Morehead is making what he calls the
second Declaration of Independence with great pow.
er and J. A. Gilmer, Esq. is doing yeomans service
In haste, time fails me to say more.
CALVIN GRAVES.
| DR.. J. e. WILLIAMSON.
P. S. MI. Gilmer and our friend Ham. Jones Wis
tied that sterling congregation, Rocky River, in Ca
barrus, to-day and made up t,Oo of the Hundred
making 70 in all; fine prospect for several more il
that county.