Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-10-24
City of Morehend...Great Sale of Lots.

an THE ELEVENTH QlTH) DAY OF NOVEMBER
u next, ut the City OF Morehead, will be sold at public
auction, the lots of said city.
This is the new city laid off by The "Sbepards Point
Land Company at the terminus Of the Aan and North
Carolina Railroads.&c. Beaufort Harbor N c., Immediately
at the Atlantic Ocean.
The various Reports of the u S Coast Survey establish
the great excelences Of this urbor for facility Ofent.rnce,
depth of and security wind and wave, whist
Fort Macon completely commands the entrance.
The interior communications by water and land must
make this great commercial city, The vast productions
the fertile valleys of the Roanoke Tar and Neuse Rivers,
and the commerce Of those gieat inland seas-the Abe
mare Currituck Croaan and Pamlico Sounds will reach
this fine harbor through Core Sound the north, whilst
Bogue Sound will bear its bosom the agricultural pro-
ducts lumber, naval stores and fine ship timber Of the
The A. ( N. G. Railroad which will be ready for use by
the first of January next passes through the entire length
of the city to its wharf in Is feet at low tide aud
meets with the great n g. Railroad (of which il is
tinuaton) at GoidsborOugh.
The N. Q. Railroad, among the best in the Union, 1928
miles long, is completed TO Charlotte where 1t connects
through The South Carolina and Georgia Railroads with At
lanta and the southwest; ard by lis western extension
in rapid progress is contemplated to reach the trade of
Memphis and the Mississippi Valley by the network of all
the railways that connect at Atlanta Chattanooga, with
the East-Tennessee Raruad.
The port Of Beaufort Chattanooga, Memphis and st D
ego the Pacific about the parallel Of latitude
and if that parallel be extended across the Pacific il will
reach Shanghai the nearest great port on the eastern
nent therefore If the Pacific Railroad be construct
ed, land that should be done iorhwh why may this
city become the Atlantic mart for the commerce ofthe
East Indiesr
Two short railroads will connect the two great Coaeds
of the State lying the north and south Of the North
Carolina Railroad, with that road and IL is confidently ex
pected that vast coal trade will be carried through the
city, " SO, may not Beaufort become great coaing
port not only for purposes of but TO furnish the
supplies to steamers passing the entrance going
north and south and may not the city become thai
great entire depot between the north aud south to which
our able ard distinguished couniryman icnt Maury re.
fers in his unrvaled s,aesanke paper the commerce
of the Amazon, South America and the Gulf of Mexico?
The city OF Morchead is situated on beautiful neck of
land or dry plain almost entirely surrounded with salt wa
ter its climate salubrous its breeze and seabahng
deghtm its drinking water good and its fine ch beate
spring strongly impregnaed with sulphur, will make it
pleasant watering place.
AS not single lot has been will be sold until thc ay
OF sale all will have equal chance &c, the best lois
and 10 suit themselves.
will be the first instance of entire new city on the
Atlantic coast being brought into market at once and can
asts may have again such an opportunity for pooa
place.
]. NJ MOREHEAD
August IS, 1857 ll99-wts.