Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-23
Wake County Court.

On Thursday, the free negroes engaged in the
late riot and resistance in this County to the PATROL
in which Mr.. Hinton and others were injured, were
examined before the Court and Joseph Wilson,
white man, also involved, was brought up. H."
Wilson was bound over to the Superior Court in
the sum of 81 0oo and failing to give bail, was
mtted. Henry Mimms, William Robertson, John
Mills, and William Mills, free negroes, were also
bound to the Superior Court, and committed to
prison. Sidney Robertson, Jim Mills, Marshall Wal
dron, Allen Monaghan, and Alfred Stuart, free
negroes were discharged.
The County Attorney, j. X. Marriott Esq, and
H. w. Miller, ESQ.,, appeared for the State; Messrs.
Battle and Rogers for Joseph Wilson, charged with
perjury and Mr.. Rogers for William Mills and John
Mills and also for those named above as discharged.
The County Attorney has evinced commenda-
BILE zeal in ferreting out and binding the par
ties supposed to be guilty to the Superior Court.
One of the witnesses examined-a free negro wo-
man-testiied that she saw Henry Mmms strike
Mr.. Hinton with the spade used as fire shovel
He fell in the fire. and she pulled him out At the
former examination, it will be remembered Marion
Keith also swore that he saw Mimms strike the blow
Mmms is large, black drty-looking negro, and
evidently desperate character.
GREAT RAnRoAD.-The senior Editor of the
Fayetteville Observer writing from Charleston, S.
c., under date May 16, says:
injecting South Carolina acquaintance at Kings
vle he introduced me to the President of this great
corporation the South Carolina railroad, which
tends from Charleston to Augusta with branches to
Kingsville to Columbia and to Camden. The main
road was built about 80 years ago, and at that
time was the longest road s7 miles, in the world.
1t was originally laid with fiat iron bars and we'll
remember how I was startled 20 years ago,
when riding it for the first time by of those
bars being forced through the bottom Of the car
snake-head as it was caed-and spending its force
just as it touched my person. 1t was narrow es-
cape. There snake-heads now. People have
quit building rail roads of such cheap iron-far more
costly in the end. The road is now in admirable
order. Its income is million and half of dollars,
and expenses half that sum- 1t pays interest on a
considerable debt and dividends of 10 per cent
year to it's stockholders It's average dividends from
the commencement have, however, been only per
cent.
l learned a fact from another South Carolina gen.
tleman to whom had the pleasure of an introduce
ton. which deserves to be known The President
Of the Road gets a salary of $1,000 year. He
thought it too high salary and he thought the ex
traordnary qualities of his General Superintendent
were worth more than the $4,000 .shich the Company
allowed to that officer and he voluntarily set apart
one thousand of his seven to make the Superinten-
dents three thousand four. Such rare instance of
unse6shness added to the respect which his good
sense had inspired. He is wealthy man, ard has
been large contributor to the public works Of South
Carolina His Superintendent raised in the
workshops ofthe Company, and must be man ofex-
traordnary capacity and integrity to merit the praise
WHICH heard awarded to him by both the gentle
men have mentioned. I suppose he will one day
be himself President of the Company
We have heard this Superintendent spoken Of
before. He is self-made, practical man. The
South needs just such men in all her public works
men who know what labor is by experience, and
who are we'll acquainted with business matters and
with human nature. Labor, aoork, energy. derelop-
ment these are what the South must look for in
all who serve her in places of importance.