Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-24
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RA1EIcH, SATURDAY. SEPT. %. 1853.
MN NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD:

ILL., craonsborough PatrloC enarSee eAioS w. 80
- md its Correspondent Stockholoer "eie
.,,ated-in making suggeetonst to the STATE Difeo
ns IN this Road--by wish to prevent tne ioc'A'io
of the workshops at Greensborough. ms chais.
mo scarcely need say, is unfounded Inc conlniun-
cotton of "a Stakeholder" was directed enVreiy "
+bo establishment Of one leading point which was 'a'
n the present condition of the work 1t was not "u-
disable to take steps for building the workSnoP'
That communication was from the pen Oh se,i'-
man well informed on the subject and VINO l"0 wv
&c much for the cause of improvements as any o,
living or dead 1t was well-consldered' anu
confident its suggestions were OF dlsnt
meter. No attack was made on GreensOoi0ueN'- ",
any other locality; and, so far as we are
we can truly declare that we are gra'lleu d. JIG
nerity of that place. and would 90 mourning ~ uhii
isb or circumscribe its prosperity Inc tnri' en>
terprise and public spirit OF the clazens VI 'n'''
Mace are deserving of all praise; and it shall never
he said with any show of TRUTH that we have put
forth hand to cripple their energies to reard their
efforts for improvement-and especially, as we have
the Patriots word for it that they not in favor OF
the "Danvile connexion but desire to see the Cen
tral Road completed IN oil ats parts so as to obtain
means of access to the markets OF their own state
A man who is untrue to his own home is "worse
have preferred to have seen the workshops establish
ed here; but as an Editor and public man ace hat
no chocwe desired to see the shops located at the
best point for the interests of the State and the
Stockholders. But we honestly thought the time
had not arrived for locating them, and we so express
ed ourselves. The Road, as we were told in Maj.
Gwynns first Report, will of itself cost something
like three millions four hundred thousand dollars;
in fall tO MR.
the iron for the remaining 1870 miles, has most proba-
bly added some five hundred thousand dollars to this
amount-making in all nearly four millions for COM
pleting the RoadI This purchase the President was
authorized to make but from some cause or other
he neglected to do so. We learn that he gives two
reasons for this neglect-rst that the means could
not be commanded and second, the belief that lron
instead of rising, would fall in price.
Now so far as the means concerned, 1T was
we'll known that the State would become interested
in the Road to the extent of two millions as soon as
the Board of Internal improvements should be as
sured of the fact that million had been subscrlb-
ed and this being the case, if the money was not
in hand at the time Gov. Morehead made his first
purchase, the Company, thus sustained by the
States subscription would have found no difficulty
in making an advantageous bargain. AS to the iron
falling
we have to express our regret that the President
was in this instance, SO very wide of the mark Un-
der these circumstances, we repeat could not
perceive that it good policy to go forward with
expenditures for the workshops But we have
sailed no one in connection with this matter-we
have impeached mans integrity or motives. We
have uttered our own opinions, and what we know
to be the opinions of Others and for this we have
Al DoEr
and its Correspondents
The Patriot denies that Gov Morchead is in favor
of the Danvle connexion, for we so understand the
remarks of that paper of the 10th instant The
Patriot must be mistaken, or Gov. IL must have been
grossly misrepresented.
The Patriot admits but with evident reluctance,
that the salary of Maj. Gwynn, the Chief Engineer,
is too high but it charges what is not true that
have made " an onslaught upon the salaries allowed
to tile officers and engineers" We referred only to
the salary of Maj. Gwynn, and that we characteriz-
ed as much too high No complaints have been
heard certainly we have made none-as to the sal
aries of the other officers.
Maj. Gwynn receives So, 600 as Chief Engineer,
and then $3OOOmore for experimenting the surveys
of the Eastern and Western extensions. We insist
ed, as we still do that the $4,000 salary ought to
have been made to cover all his expenses; it is as
much as he will earn, and as much as he ought to
have. 1t is twice the amount paid to Supreme
Court Judge, and thousand dollars more than twice
the salary paid the Governor of the State. But Maj
Gwynn, we learn, has at length consented to
his office from Richmond and reside in North Caro-
llna This is we'll Last year, or the year before,
he reported we believe, to the Virginia Assembly,
that he had lost but eighteen days from the service
OF that State in attending to his engagements in this
State for which he was paid So DOC! We know that
up to late period contractors and others have been
required to wait upon Maj. Gwynn in Richmond for
instructions, &C.. and we hope we shall be pardoned
the expression of qualification that the Office of
the Chief Engineer of great North Carolina work
has at length been removed from the capital of SIS
ter State, and that we shall have no more such re-
ports OF only eighteen days absence as the one re-
ferred to.
1t affords US no pleasure to refer to these things
but our duty must be performed, whether pleasant
or not We know what it was that brought failure |
and bankruptcy on the old CASTOR Road-to wit.
ideness, nattenton, and lack of qualifications on the
part OF engineers and subordnateS extravagant sala
RES, high prices, &c. 1t would be well if the MANA
gers OF our present public works would look more
10 the'experience of the past and profit by it.
Inc Patriots Correspondent, g One that Knows"
states falsehood when he says the Standard has |
virtually taken ground against the Eastern and |
western extensions Our fault in the estimation of
the Patriot and its Correspondents is that we have
thought proper to speak ont in relation 70 tho ,oor