Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-21
From The Beaufort Halcron.

MEssRs. EpIroRs: You can have but faint ide,
of the great and growing interest which is bengfel
and manifested, both within and out OF the state o
North Carolina upon the subject of the extension
Of the North Carolina Central Rail Road to the wa:
| tiers of Beaufort Harbour 1t is gratifying to hno
that this feeling is not confined to any particular
section of the State but that all the prominent ana
influential citizens of both parties in the West, as
we'll as in the East concur in opinion as to the ex
| pediency and necessity of this great work IL is
truly fortunate for the great interests OF the STATE
that both parties in the late election, were commit
ted to this important work. 1t may now De Deemed
as It emphatically is, a Stateso0rk The determine.
| ton, find is expressed by both parties to extend
the Central Railroad East and West. and to place
the entire line upon the same footing, oy making
the State subscriber to two-thirds OF the Capital
Stock. Every assurance is given that this VIII pc
done at the Session of the Legislature, and the
extension Of the Road from Goldsboro. GA NeWoern
to the waters of Beaufort Harbor may now be re-
garded as "a fixed fact" 1t was but meet and right
that Railroad from the mountains to the Seashore
traversng the entire central part OF the State shoud
be regarded and foStered State work. The whole
State is interested in this great Central highway or
trunk Of communication with its extremes; ana no
scheme of Internal Improvement could have oeen
devised which could have reconciled more e1ectuay
all Earring interests, local jealousies and dscordanG
elements than this. For if Legislative aid were with
held from the tiers of Counties lying on the North
and South of this great Central line OF Railroad the
eligibility Of its location, and the shortness OF the
distance would enable these Counties, at all points,
to construct with their own means Il Tcauy
ncation and conneSion by Railroad with this trunk
thereby uniting the State in lone harmonious whoie,
and feeding as it were the great Central hallfoaa
with the entire products of the whole State, and
building up within her limits great Commercial
mart The extension OF the Central Railroad East
and West is but justice long delayed, and more par
tcularly to the East. North Carolina has not been
very kind and fostering mother the Eastern sec
ton of the State-fcr smiles and tayors have been
very fen and 'far between" The whole section of
Country, East of the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail
road has received no aid whatever from the State
by way of appropriations of money, or endorsement
and guaranty of bonds for the last forty or HIty
years if except the appropriations of forty thou
sand dollars for the Improvement OF the Neuse NV
err and twenty five thousand dollars in aid Of the
improvement OF Tar River. We do not consider the
appropriations for the draining &c, of the Swamp
Lands as being made for the benefit of the Eastern
section Of the State for these lands belong to the
Literary Fund Of North Carolina, and no one por-
ton of the State is more interested in them than an
other-they are pro bono pu6lic0 Let US see how
the account stands in this particular, and what is
the present debt of the State, and also whether we
are justified in saying that this injustice has been
done to the Eastern section OF the State The pres
eut debt of the State, incurred by appropriations
and the Endorsement of bonds, Is as follows VIZ:
For the Raleigh and CASTOR
Railroad, 100000
For the Wilmington and Ra-
leigh Railroad, 100000
For the North Carolina Rail-
road 2,OuO,OOO
The Cape Fear and d. River
Navigation Company, 100000
The Fayetteville and Western
Plank Road, 10000
The Roanoke Navigation Com
pany, 10000
The Cape Fear Navigation
Company, $4,000
The Neuse River Navigation
Company, 10000
The Tar River Navigation
Company, $4,000 |
Appropriations for Turnpike
Companies in the West, 10000 |!
Bonds endorsed for the Will
mington and Raleigh
Railroad, 100000 |