Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-01-20
FOr the OlanudTU
A WORD FOR DEEP-RIVER.

such railroads.
the Standard.
A WORD FOR DEEP-RIVER.
Mr.. Editor: The present Legislature seems much
disposed to deal literally with the subject of Intern
al lmprovements-its action so far has been marked
by disposition 20 do something for all parts of the
State where the improvement promises to be useful
to that section, and thus indirectly TO add to the
general prosperity of The State
Amid number of works proposed and re-
commended to public favor there is one old one de-
serving our SERIOUS attcnton and although 1t is Old,
and although it has several times been before the
Legislature orad it has lost none of its Importance,
and none OF its promise oi future usefulness. There
q be doubts to the value of other works, when
completed, even ill the most promising sections but
to tne utility of this, when properly finished,
have better means Of judging than ever have mad
in regard to aug work attempted or proposed.
Lights from every source have been brought to
bear on the Subect-men of experience from all
parts of tine United Statesmen of science, men of
skill in all branches OF business -geoogiStS cnSin
GERS dealers in COAL &c. &c have ultcd in opln-
ion, this after the subject has been thoroughly
examined and discussed for years.
Ii there is any truth in engineering science, we
ought to believe that the WORK be finished and
made available for the purposes intended and we
have the experience Of all the world to satisfy
that it will be- when completed, the best paying
internal improvement stock in the State, while IN
five years ii will add to the general wealth OF
than all the other improvements in it. Of
course this is said without the least disparagemcnt
of the others-on the contrary their great impor-
lance is fully appreciated by the writer.
But know how immensely the Development
of good coal field adds to the permanent value OF
country, and allowing all the calculations of men of
skill and experience this subject to be too thirds
eXaggrration and still the Development of the Deep
River coal, by means of sack-water navigation,
will add 25 per cent to the gross value of all the
land in the Statc
The capital invested in the River will yield large
per cent of profit and the amount of stock requlr-
!,
misfortune is that the original estimate much
too low, and it is also misfortune that the Compa
ny have been several times before the Assembly,
asking sums which have proved to be insufficient.
This however, does not have the least to do with
the intrinsic merits of the matter, and granting
double the now asked for will not make the
whole cost heavy one, while the profit is sure and
large.
Snail we then hesitate? Here is deposite of i'm
treasure, needing little outlay to make it as
important State California is TO the Union,
and it is reduced certainty that if the small
appropriation now asked from the State, and to be
well secured is not granted all the hopes that have
been awakened byi this bounty of Nature for fifty
years extinguised. The cannot break
hurt the State The want of it may and probably
will cause to slip from grasp golden prize
which far-seeing men have looked 10 with eager
interest since the days of Harman Husband, before
the Revolution.
The writer has no stock in the Deep River I'm
provemcnt, but considering every thing, and not
withstauding any previous errors bad calculations
he would grant tnice the sum asked rather than see
the treasures of the Deep River coal field locked up
from the reach of the enterprise and capital coming
thitiIer from all parts of the country. Besides the
failure to realize the great results which will certain
y follow the opening of the River, the State would
be Inundated, and her name still more clouded be-
fore the world. Perhaps the Deep River men have
been afraid ever to ask enough at one time. What
the motive the whole cost so far Is very ncon-
siderable when remember that it is to add many
millions to the value Of the State. Let play the
Stafn of IfS
resources and feeling and approaching the necessity
of exertion to secure their Development. A. Is.
Thomas Bragg Esq, took the oath of office on
the LIST of January, and was duly installed Govern
or of North Carolina for the next two years.
We present to our readers this week his inaugur-
al address, which will be read with admiration and
pleasure by all. We particularly pleased with
his views upon Internal improvements and the
Southern question" 1t will be seen, that while
he deprecAtes wasteful appropriations on the part
of the State for wild, visionary and impracticable
schemes of Internal Improvement, he approves of a
I" liberal system" This is the same ground he took
last summer while canvassing the State and
hope Wing friends, being heartily ashamed
of the certificate business" will come forward and
do him a sheer act of justice by acknowledging that
their suspicious and fears, well their charges
ungrounded. -Ch0rLotte Democrat.
NORTH CAROLINA. We have before noticed very
particularly the Governors message and other doc
uments of North Carolina, upon the occasion of the
recent meeting of her Legislature; but we have be-
fore the able and explicit report of Danl w.
Courts, Treasurer of the State to which we think
an additional paragraph is due. This report pre-
sents fully the condition of the State. At the close
of the fiscal year the debt of the State $292S,
663 So Since that other additions have been made
and others about to be made will increase the debt
to 81, 409, 6G3 so.
This is a moderate debt; and when come, to
consider that North Carolina has recently made con-
siderable advances in Internal Improvement, we
must conccde that she has managed her enterprises
with much economy. The expenditures and the
progress of the State in this way have taken place
under uncommonly low taxes. Mr.. Courts states
that the levies only 20 cents upon the poll and
cents on the hundred dollars valuation of real
tate We wish the old State succcss-easy access
to markets. moderate taxes and general prosperity.
Richmond Despatch.
81 Gen. Scott, it is stated, apprehends q trouble