Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-01-22
RALEIGH, SATURDAY, JAN. %, 1889
A BETTER DAY AHEAD.

having fully embarked in judlcIous system Oh III
ternaI improvements and for the first time IN her
history. her public works are beginning to yield
IN income 70 her Treasury. The Plank Roads are
all do;no we'll. and charters were granted, at the
late session. for more. These are to be the result
Of individual enterprise; but the State must be a
aner rs we'll as the stockholders for these improve
ments not only bring more land into cultivation by
sording increased facilities for getting to market
but they enhance the value of property in the re-
rions through which they run, and thus add to
the public income The Wilmington Railroad Is
Of lenrth in most fourishing condition-the stock
has rapidly gone up in the market, and handsome
dividends are declared, portion OF which contrib
utes to swell the amount annually distributed for
Common Schools The line to Manchester will
soon be finished, and a wealthy and important re-
oiou will thus be opened TO the enterprising peo-
ME of Wilmington; and in addition to this, this
line when completed, must add greatly to the
amount of travel on the Wilmington Road. The
Raleigh and CASTOR Road, too, has just been re-
constructed and laid down with heavy IRON us
now one of the best Roads in the Southern coun-
fry. and when farly under way, it will pay at least
six per cent per annum (S24, OOO) into the pubic
Treasury The Cape Fear and Deep River improve
ment, which was materially aided at the late ses-
sion of the Assembly, is now in a fair way to be
completed at early day but, above ALL we re-
fer with feeling OF satisfaction and pride to the
lyrat Central Railroad, which, when completed,
as it doubtless will be during the next twelve
months will throw open to the markets OF the
world so large portion of the State. The success
Of this work is now placed beyond al doubt. Its
advantages and benefits, we sincerely believe, will
: prove to be incalculable.
At the late session of the Legislature appropria-
tons we're made for survey for a Railroad from
(ioldsborough to Beaufort and for one from Sails
bury west to the Tennessee line; and these sur
veys, We predict, will be followed by something
more tangible and enduring.
There are other Improvements in progress or IN
contemplation to which we have not referred in so
many words but We arc the friend of each and all
of them, and We wish them we'll.
The State has also in her employment learned
and competent Geoogist and assistants, who have
been and are now engaged in turning up and ex-
aiming her soils, in pointing out her mineral
treasures, and in bringing to light the eriden-
ces of the power she possesses-by means of her
water-power her iron, her gold her lead, her mar
be- her granite, her lime, her mari, her coal, and
her capacity generally to produce from the earth
of becoming one of the first States in all the sis
terhood.
In addition to this, a General Superintendent of
Common Schools has been appointed-the mind
u Me State is to be cared for more hereafter than
at any former period. This is the capstone the
monument-it crowns all with the light of KNowL-
EDGE.
\ better day is, indeed, ahead. Let rouse
up, one and ALL and be ready for it. Let lis take
active, stirring part in it. 1t comes up in the
presence of all, as it will shine for all. Courage,
then We patriots who have looked for it long--the
whole horizon is ilIumined by the brightness of
its rising. At time like this, when the old State
gets up from her prolonged slumber and puts on
the garb of enterprise and the frontlet of inte-
gence-when her sons instead of leaving her, are
concluding to abide with her, to join in the gene
raj hope Tor her reg"neraton: they Will rejoice
that regeneration when it comes-at a time like
this, we say, there is for faut-fnding, for
censure, for elimination. Internal improvements
md Common Schools haze become the settled pol
'ey Of the State. Many of those who opposed
Internal Improvements have already perceived their
advantages and realized their benefits and those
who still oppose them, if dealt with in that gener-
Gus spirit which enlightened men know to exhib-
IT, Will IN due time cease their opposition or
unite as co-workers with the friends of the system
The better day is for ALL and not for those ONLY,
who labored fer it, or who were first to see it in
the distance.
re- The Raleigh Register exuIts over the de-
'sat Of Free Suffrage in the late Assembly, and
adds; 1--WE are unwilling to believe there is
Austlng in the State, from which any one, who be-