North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-06
CITY AFFAIRS.

CITY AFFAIRS.
Our CITY authorities seem disposed to keep pace
with the improvements by our citizens. On Satur-
day night last at the regular meeting of the Board
Commissioners, one thousand dollars appropri-
uted for street purposes during the present year.
Stone pasements will be laid down at various points
in the Eastern and Western Wards like those already
completed in the Middle Ward and the Streets in
all the Wards will be put in better condition.
The City finances, gratifed to state, are in
a sound condition. The amount of taxes is on the
increase and it is expected that at least thousand
dollars of the City debt will be discharged during
the year, The amount raised by taxation this
year will be about $3,70o. The assessed value of
real estate in the town is over 100000; and this
must go up at least 800, 700 in the course of the
next two years. We predicate this assumption, as
matter of course, upon the certainty that the Central
Road will be built and the Castor Road recon-
structed. atreF s.! aai7
There are persons in town and in the vicinity,
whose property is to be greatly benefited by these
Roads, who have subscribed but little if any thing
to them. The CASTOR Road, well as the Central
Road, s-of great importance to this place, and, We
may say, Indispensable to its continued prosperity;
and so far as the City is concerned, we should be
willing, citizen, if the Charter would permit it,
TO vote for subscription 10 the former work of $685..
ing the cash. The people of Wilmington have bor-
rowed 800 900, through their authorities, pied ging
their properly for the debt for the purpose of
ing the completion of the Manchester Road and the
people of Petersburg have recently subscribed very
largely, and in the same way, we believe, to the
South Side Rail Road. II, Iy possibility, the Cen
trail and CASTOR Roads should fail, real estate in this
place would fall at hundred thousand dollars.
Let the people of Ralegh-the property holders
think Of that.
RALEIGH AND CASTOR ROAD.
! Are the people of Warren and Granville at work,
they should be. procuring subscriptions to this
Road, have their quota ready by the 18th in
slant! No time is to be lost. The day is close at
hand, and now is the time to subscribe. The other
Counties have thus far done their duty, and the peo
pie of Petersburg have done theirs; must the enter
prise fail from the backwardness of Warren and
Granville We cannot believe it. The people of
these Counties know their true interests too well to
! permit any such result
| There is consideration which has heretofore
operated as drawback in procuring subscriptions to
Rail Roads in this State. 1t is this The people
fear, no matter how promising the prospect of divi-
dends may be, that the work will be mismanaged, or
managed feeby and nefcientlY. and therefore yield
but little if any thing But the day for INDUCING such
fear is over. The people-the stockholders in our
public works are now determined that these works
shall be properly ard energetically conducted and
have doubt that, for the future, they will make
good this determination. Rail Road officers, from
Presidents down, will be hereafter required labor
for the public and for the stockholders they would
for themselves and failing in this, they will be
promptly discharged and better officers put in their
places. How is it that Rail Roads have succeeded
-
ed and ,OeA managed; to the regions through
which they and their points of termination, they
possess no advantages over our Roads. Good Roads
and efficient management is the great secret of
cess in that Siate it must and will be in this.
We entertain not the shadow of a doubt that the
CASTOR Road will pay six per cent the $500, 900.
This will place $24 900 per in the State Treas
ury, and the amount in the pockets of the stock
holders. 1t may pay more; but is not six per cent
enough, especially FIR persons in this place and along
the line, whose property is to be materially beneu
ed TN uaie by its reconstruction The truth is, the
counties of Warren and Granville alone might take the
remaining one hundred thousand dollars, after max
ing up their present quota, and not lose by in the
end. They would receive fair dividends their in
lvestment; and what is more important, secu re to
themselves and their posterity Road by which they
are saving annually not less than twenty thou
do this They only asked to take $50, 900 each
and have this amount subscribed by the 18th in
stant We repeat, believe they will do it; but if
they GO beyond these figures, much the better
Now that the Congressional cam pagn is over we
shall devote attention to the news and miscella
neous departments of our paper. We shall endeavor
to print newspaper, which will contain something
for the edihcation and instruction of all.
The people, who have been excited about political
matters for some time past, will now have breath
ing spell. Congress will meet, however, in Deem
Der next, when the excitement will necessarily be to
extent renewed all will look with interest
the proceedings of that body.
By the first of the ensuing year the Presidential
question will be tie prominent subject of discussion
in the newspapers; and next Spring the Conven-
tons will be held and the campaign opened. We
expect TO be found in the thickes of the fight, con-
tending for principles in former campaigns and
serving readers and friends to the best of our
humble ability.
North Carolina is pretty well supplied about this
time, with " Union men % apparently of the first
water. They make great noise and one would
Think to listen to them, that but for them the Union
would be Immediately dissolved. We shall see these
people in their true coors, after the election. They
are Wings, all of them. They have only been play