Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-06


N1- The Fayetteville Observer cannot forget lis
partizanship even for a moment, 1t says that our
remarks on the passage OF the Cheraw and Coal
Field Road charter are savage upon our Democratic
friends. Now the main spoke in the wheel 'ha'
rolled this thing was the former standard-be bearer
of the Observers own party General Dockery' "ho'
little over two years ago, had the honor OF being
defeated by Governor Bragg. General Dockery, The
standardbearer of Whiggery, and one OF the SHINING
lights of Know. NothiDgism. We think 1t all non
sense TO talk about party in this connection; but IT
our illustration should be adopted as suggestion
and really carried out, of the few members that
would escape deeapitatiOn, nearly all would be
Democrats.
nz- We publish to-day the amended chatter, or the
amendments to the charter of the Wilmington, Char
lotte and rutherford Railroad Company. 1t may oe
hereafter referred to- We don't know whether II VIII
ever any other purpose than that OF reference
1t will require cooler thought than we are yet able
to bestow upon the subject 10 enable us to go fully
or satisfactorily into the present position and pros
poets Of Wilmington, in the new posture In which
she has been placed by the passage of the Cheraw
and Coal Mine Road, the failure OF the schemes
tor getting North Carolina outlet for the products
of the Deep River.
we are assured that things are not so bad we
had thought they That there provisions
in the bill, imposing State tax on coal carried over
the road just chartered, etc, which will operate ad-
yanageously to the Charlotte Road and all that sort
of thing. May be so; we only wish We could see it
in that light, but as yet cannot. The coal fields
are so much nearer to Wilmington than 10 Charles
Do1x tbo
rying OF their products 10 this point if that proper
work be made but the fact will leman that, in eff
feet, rival through line must result from the con-
struction of this Cheraw Road, which will also drain
the great cotton region of North Carolna-tap the
w S. & r. r. R. striking fatal blow to that work.
The attention of our people is tuning, and must
fix upon something direct, feasible and certajp.-
Something that we can calculate on. In plain terms,
Wilmington connection with the Mines by branch
from one of great works-a branch taking a cen
trai route, not TO be tapped or tempered WITH or made
cats paw by neighbors-a road perpendicular
to the seaboard, connecting with the Wilmington
and Weldon Road at precisely that point that WI
able lis freight 10 be delivered at tidewater quickest
and cheapest. We have fooled and been fooled fol
nearly ten years, and are no nearer now than when
way forever. Thus has arisen this Che:aw projec
and its success.
We don't know what the Town can do or tina
she can do anything-but if she can DO anything
that is the direction TO do it in. There she can't bt
tapped and victimsed. Let all prejudices, squabbles
nonesenses be cast aside. If Fayetteville will NEE
us stra 5ht propose to meet her, let US go il
with her heart and hand but at any rate let us 60 in
| We speak of connection with the Wilmington 6
| Weldon in preference TO the Manchester simply be
cause OF the greater centray of the route rendering
ii more independent Of all maneuvres from over th,
border
These suggestions are hastily made--they are no
matured plans or The results of mature deiberation
Their object is to invite thought-to call for deber
alton daily Journal I'd inst,
o. The Legislature was to have ad lourned thi
morning. and we think that more than probably
did. We give the report up to the hour of recess
yesterday. I his morning we went to the telegraph
Office for the purpose of sending despatch of en-
quiry to Raleigh but found that the line was MOI
working 10 that point.
We learn that a strange error has occurred in tn
case of the Cheraw and Coal Fields Road, which, il
all probability, will prove fatal &c the bill The CAPT
tai of the company is fixed at two millions of dollars
and the intention was 10 allow the company to organ
ize as soon as two hund red thousand dollars shoulC
be paid in. Messrs. Dockery and Christian, the pa
rents and sponsors of the bill, saw TO its engrogs
men but On night before last they discovered that il
the engrossed BILL in all the places where two bun
dred thousand dollars intended, two million
have been inserted. The gentlemen having charg
of the bill also took charge of its engrossment, ant
they chargeabe with this blunder. AS it stands
the charter is totally unavailable, and the blunde
could only be rectifed by the passage of a supple
mentary bill, The passage of which looked apo
as mqracicable.
1t appeaIs hat the bill in regard to the Whining
ton, Charlotte & Rutherford Road had not passed a
the time when we published it, but that it subse
quenny did pass as pub ished The bill taxing rail
roads on through passengers and freight was recon
sidered and defeated - ailu Journal 18th inst
&C. The Editor of the Warrenton Meas, w. A
Walsh, Esqr., who has been reporting in the Hous
of Commons for the Standard during the presen
session and has acted the able and attentive col
respondent of the Journal during the session. give
the following just and correct account of the publ
business in the Legislature
i "PUBLIC BUSINESS IN THE Observation-Disclosures
of fUe hundred bills and resolutions have been entere
on the calender of the House of Commons this s. S
sion, besides others originating in the Senate and no
yet transmitted to the House Each and every on
of these bills had TO be read once and then submitted
to standing committee TO be reported on, befor
they could be again read in the House. The com
mittees upon whom devoye the important duly o
examining into the provisions of the various measure
proposed 10 be enacted into laws have Only the af
tenoon and night for that purpose, the rules of h
two Houses compelling the attendance of the member
at the morning sttings. 1t is the laborous attendance
required on the committees that prevents the Legsla
tue from having afternoon and night sttings at ar