Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-12-22
8 WEEKLY PER 1NzADvANoE.
CITY RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, MORNING

- INTERNAL IMPRoyEMENTs. lnterna' Improvement.
OF all sorts, shapes aud sizes. are ,he order III,
DAY throughout the couniry and in no Stale that =.
know Of is the feeling more strongly excited than
the good old North 'sate5 hieh seems at last anx
ious TO dispense with. and repudiae her unfortunate
sobriqaef of Rip Van Winkle. Perhaps tsdisplaYs
itself less noisy than with some others, but care:
ful examination of the proceedings Of recent Legs.
latnres, and some knowledge Of the views Of
pie of the interior, drained through the medium Of
the press, and by actual contact with them in repeated
visits TO the Western section, have convinced that
this spirit amounts to determination, and willnot
rest satisfied until very general system shall have
been perfected. The only difficulties TO be dreaded
are, that matters will be hurried on in Of the
available resources Of the State; and that local and
sectional interests may force through conf cling and
perhaps mutually injurious schemes, thus destroying
all idea of system. It will be the policy Of all
thoughtful friends of Internal Improvements and of
the State, to make haste slowly and cautiously. AL
ready we threatened with TWO main lines through
the State, competing with each other for the same
through travel, We mean, OF course, that by the Ra
eigh and CASTOR and Centfa Road, connecting with
the Charlotte and South Carolina Road, which will
travel between the North and the South, and still
again connection between the Central Road at
Greensborough and the Richmond and Danvie Road
is among the things 10 be dreaded in the uure being
another competitor for the same travel and forming
precisely the route contemplated by the friends Of
would seem that the idea of metropolitan Route,
from Raleigh TO the South Caroina Roads, via. Fay
ettevle, Cheraw, eic., has not been yet abandoned
but has revived by the contemplated construction of
the North Eastern Road from Charleston 10 point
on the line of the Manchester Road, and the Cheraw
and Darlington Road from that point to Cheraw, with
the avowed desire and intention the part of the
people of Charleston extend it to the North Caro-
lima Coal Mines in Chatham county, N. c.. From
the Mines to Raleigh is very short distance, and
hat hoip Gllod 6tlodi hs fhopn
talked of metropolitan route. another competitor for
the same through travel would be completed.
1t neither be the interest OF the State nor in ac-
cordance with any wise system or just policy 10
courage and foster the construction OF many lines,
which must necessarily prove mutually injurious in-
stead of mutually advantageous TO each other and
the State. WHAT'S done IS done, and we wifi not
say anything against it, but certainly it would seem
that Two routes through the State, the low by way
OF Wilmington and the: upper BY way of Charlotte
and Raleigh, are enough iii that way, without setting
up two others-the Charlotte and Danvie ard the
Metropolitan. New works should either be feeders
to those already constructed should open up new
channels of trade for themselves. We attach no
blame to the counties along the line of say, the Me-
opoitan route, for they OF course, want 10 placed
in communication with the rest OF mankind by Rail.
road and willing take with any project which
will afford then the facilities they require, but
ainiy It is the part Of the Legislature OF the Slate
while it affords them the facilities which their
due, that the works for that purpose plan
ned with regard to some just system and will not
have the effect of helping to Gu; the rsats Of works
already constructed and which the State is large
ssockholder.
So far as the Charleston project of reaching our
mines is concerned, it need give very little unea-
siness SO far, at least, competition in the coal
trade is concerned. Our people will never abandon
the Deep River Improvement. until it can be made
fully available, and If made, mode will be
devised to remove the difficulties between this point
and Fayetteville Or, even supposing that railroad
communication should be considered Indispensable,
we have still immeasurably the advantage Of Char.
lesion. The charter of the Wilmington aud Raleigh
Railroad gives it the power to construct branches
branch from Faison's depot would reach the mines
in distance ofa little half morethan the length
Of road from Fayetteville 10 that point, and The
branch could be built with the unsoid stock Of the
company, which is over million of dollars We
mention this merely as matter Of speculation, which
it may never be necessary to reduce into practice,
but which again it may, and which will be available
to guard against certain contingencies.
WilmingtO1 Journal.
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