Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-04-04


We are requested to state that there will be rail-
road meeting held at Onslow Court House on the hrs
Monday in April-Monday next. full attendance
of the citizens of the county is earnestly desired
A friend in Onslow County, who forwards US the
above notice for publication, informs US that similar
notice has already been posted at various P0i,'''
throughout the county 1t IS feared lna' '1"' w.,
for a road through that county is virtually oeau
letter The amount necessary to carry 'le foau CHAR
tered by the last legislature through Onslo" County,
would be fully three hundred thousand dolarS' eSt
mating the cost at only ten thousand dollars per mlle
which is below the amount which experience has
shown TO be necessary The real estate of the coun
ty is estimated at six hundred and eighty one thou
sand four hundred and fifty-sx dollars the number
of taxable polls black and white, at Z,O9A 10
build the road would require 80 per cent OF all The
real estate and S45 on each taxable poll-such, at
least is the calculation made and from which the In
ference is drawn that individuals in Onsow County
cannot build the road without assistance from the
State.
Our correspondent requests us 10 state the amount
Of capital stock owned by the State in each railroad
in the State. We have not now before us all the
data necessary to enable us to make such statement
more especially with regard 10 the amounts author
lied by the action of the last Session In the finish
ed roads, we believe the State stakeholder to the
amount of three millions in The Central Road four or
five hundred thousand in the Raleigh & CASTOR; four
hundred thousand in the Wilmington and Weldon
and two hundred thousand in the Wilmington and
Manchester Road. She will be a stockholdef 10
the amount of twothrds of the Eeastern and Yves
tern extensions of the Central road. The eastern
extension is put at sixteen hundred thousand dol
lars, we believe, and is in course OF rapid con-
struction The western extension Is in sections,
and the State comes in certain amount is
done on each section. The precise terms of the
charter we cannot give, but it will amount in the
end to the State being a 1wo.thirds stakeholder.
There is hardly any probability that the western ex-
tension will be carried beyond the base of the noun
tains for very long time, and is therefore mpossi
BILE to say what amount the State may be brought in
for. To take the road across the mountains from
Salisbury to the Tennessee line, would, no doubt,
cost at least Ten millions, if not more. Under the
charter of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
Railroad Company, the State is not to take stock;
she is, under certain circumstances, 10 endorse the
bonds OF the Company 10 the amount of some sixteen
hundred thousand dollars AS yet she is not in for
q dollar, and we fear it will take hard pull 10 raise
the means necessary 10 do the work required before
her endorsement can be asked for.
We have thus endeavored to comply with the re-
quest of our correspondent but without any preten-
sons to accuracy, as we have no documents before
Acts Of Congress comparatively easy to get
a-those of our own Legislature are not. So far as
the general view is concerned, we think we near
about correct at least sufficiently so to give pretty
fair idea of things.
Dc Shakespeare is SO often quoted and misquOted,
that we generally let him alone in that way, but it
strikes that it Shakespear who said &c there is
tide in the affairs of men that taken at the flood
leads TO fortune and that it Louis Napoleon
who took the tide at the flood, and it keeps leading
him on, and if the truth must be told, he rather
keeps making it lead him We hear people fire..
quently say, when anything goes wrong-lts all my
luck WE'LL after much fuss, or, as would be said
on this side the Atlantic, noise and confusion" a
child is born unto him, and, in answer to all his
wishes, it is a People say naturally as any
thing in the world, that it's all his luck.
Seen from religious point of view, all occuren-
ces even to the falling of sparrow, guided by
that Providence which knows no such thing as acct
dent, but to the common ken many things appear as
the result of lucky chances,-the naturalist and the
ODSeINeF Ol SdllSClCS Oh WOulu say lnaC
the chances were about equal for boy or girl,
and the world in general says that with Louis Napo-
Icons usual good fortune the chance turned out
he desired it. Whether or not the Salic Law exclu-
ding females from the succession TO the throne oil
France be still in force, we are unable to say, but il
might as we'll be, for mmemoria prescriptions as well
the genius OF the French people have than
the force of law, and son alone could be regar
dedEas an heir to the crown hence the earnest wish
for a son and the reoicngs over the accomplishment
of that wish.
Poor little fellow how amazed he would be- if HI
were capable of amaZement 10 notice the eXcitemen
his arrival has ocCasioned There he is little eigh
nine FOUNDER, with only sort of animal instinc
prompting him to seek the " maternal fount" am
round black eyes " in fine phrensy rolling " when h
sees candle-and that little spot of creature
King of Algeria and elsewhere. This, we suppose
is what people mean when they talk about bein
born with silver spoon in his mouth.
And all around the world, where floats the prou
ensign of France, over her egions or her fleets til
roar of cannon announces the birth of "Son
France"
This is the opening scene. Who can foretel tn
close Can that cold and silent man at the Tuille
res, who in the ordinary course of events can hardI
expect to live 10 see his grown mans estate 2?
and no boy can hold the reins of government
France. The ruler there must be man in the full
est sense of the word. The history OF monarchy i
France for the last seventy years is painful on
and augurs little for npaceful succpsSiOns for ovs