Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-09-28
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THE NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.


The Greensborough Patriot charges that the STAN
dard and its Correspondent " A Stakeholder" were
actuated-in making suggestions to the State Direct
ors in this Road-by wish to prevent the location
of the workshops at Greensborough. This charge,
we scarcely need say is unfounded The communi-
cation of GA Stakeholder" was directed entirely to
the establishment of leading point which was that
in the present condition of the work it was not ad
visable to take steps for building the workshops.
That communication was from the pen of gentle
man we'll informed on the subject, and who has done
as much for the cause of improvements as any one,
living or dead It was well-considered, and feel
confident its suggestions were of disinterested char
acter. No attack was made on Greensborough
any other locality; and, so far as are concerned,
truly declare that we gratied at the pros
perity of that place. and would do nothing to dimin
ish circumscribe its prosperity. The thrift,
terpriseUand public spirit of the citizens of that
place are deserving of all praise; and it shall
be said, with any show of truth, that we have put
forth hand to cripple their energies to retard their
efforts for improvement-and especially, we have
the Patriots word for it that they not in favor of
the Danyle conaexion but desire to see the Cen
tral Road completed all its parts, to obtain
means of access to the markets of their State.
A man who is untrue to his own home is "worse
than an infdel y and therefore, citizen should
have preferred to have the workshops establish
ed here; but as an Editor and public man zee had
choicewe desired to 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 express
ed ourselves. The Road, were told in Maj.
Gwynns first Report, will of itself cost something
like three millions four hundred thousand dollars;
and the President of the Road in failing to purchase
the iron for the remaining 130 miles, has most proba
bly, added some five hundred thousand dollars to this
amount-making in all nearly four millions for com
pleting the Road 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-frs that the means could
not be commanded and second the belief that iron,
instead Of rising, would fall in price
Now, so far as the means concerned it was
in the Road to the extent of two millions,
the Board of Internal improvements should be as
sured of the fact that one million had been subscrib
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 advantageous bargain. As to the iron
falling in price, that question of sagacty and
we have to express regret that the President
was, in this instance very wide of the mark Un-
der these circumstances, we repeat, we could not
perceive that it good policy to 60 forward with
expenditures for the workshops. But we have as
sailed no one in conncxion with this matter-we
have impeached no mans integrity or motives We
have uttered our opinions, and what we know
to be the opinions of others, and for this we have
been misrepresented and denounced by the Patriot
and its Correspondents
The Patriot denies that Gov. Morehead is in favor
of the Danville connexon for we SO understand the
remarks of that paper of the 10th instant. The
Patriot must be mistaken, or Gov. NJ must have been
grossly misrepresented.
The Patriot admits but with evident reluctance
that the salary of Maj. Gwynn, the Chief Engineer
is TOO mgh but it charges what is not true that VIC
have made "an onslaught upon the salaries allowed
to the c6Scers 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-certainy we have made none-as to the sal.
aries of the other officers.
maj 0"yhn receives @o,oUo as Chief Engineer,
and then $3,OOOmore for experimenting the SURVEYS
OF the Eastern and Western extensions. We insist
ed, as we still do, that the $4,000 salary ought to
nave been made to cover all his expenses; it is as
much as he will earn, and as much as he ought to
nave 1t is twice the amount paid to Supreme
Oourt Judge and thousand dollars more than twice
tae salary paid the Governor of the State But Maj
wynn, we learn has at length consented tn remove
AID olilee from Richmond and reside in North Caro-