Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-10-14
r CAROLINA ITEMS.
Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad.

~ III Ahio SAuJ Ol u6Sud9 dSb-HTHS6nb, /
DIR. w. j. Hawkins, President, and Messrs.
Alfred Jones, Geo. w. Mordecai, G. II. Will.
der, John G. King, Thomas Miller, and Al
len G. Perry.
We learn, says the Standard, that a divi-
dend of six per cent. was declared for the
past year, amounting to about S58.00O, of
which the State will receive about $4,000.
The sum of Sc 1000 was also carried to the
sinking fund of the Road, which is now about
$4,000, This fund is accommodating for the
purpose of discharging the debt of the Com
pany Of 100000. The debt of the Company
at this time is, therefore, really only $4,000.
We learn that the current expenses of the
Road for the past year were 1913 900, and the
extraordinary expenses, on account of repairs
between CASTOR and Weldon and the Castor
bridge, 500, 900. TIE income of the Road
the past year was S204,00O, being an in
crease of about $4,000 over the preceding
year.
But for the extraordinary expenses referred
to, a dividend of six per cent. would no doubt
have been declared for the fiscal year prece-
ding the one which has Just expired.
The road is now in excellent order-the
freights and travel are increasing and its
marked prosperity furnishes the best evi.
dence OF the able and energetic manner in
which its affairs have been conducted.
We learn that the CASTOR bridge has been
so far completed that the cars are passing
over it, meeting the Petersburg cars. The
understanding was that the old Greenville
Road was to be repaired and laid with heavy
iron as soon thereafter as practicable but
there are no indications yet, we learn, of the
contemplated and much needed improvement
In the Greenville Road.
The $4,000 above referred to as the States
portion of the Raleigh and CASTOR dividend,
: will be the first item of income of the Sink
ing Fund authorized by the last Legislature.
Ii the North Carolina Road should declare a
dividend, during the ensuing winter or spring,
OF SIX per cent. on the States million of pre-
terred stock in that Road-and the general
impression seems to be that it will do this.
and probably more-the Sinking Fund will
amount, by the meeting of the next Legisla.
ture, to between one hundred and twenty and
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
t PAYMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA CoUPoNs IN
ADvANcE.-.We are requested by the Public
3 Treasurer, Mr.. Courts, to say that he will
l take up now, or at anytime hereafter, at par,
the coupons ON the bonds of the State that
fall due the 1st of January next.
He requests those who cannot present them
d in person, to endorse them to c. H. Brogden,
d Esq, Comptroller, and forward them to Mr..
e B., and he, the Treasurer, will give checks
for them on the Bank of the State, or the
Bank Of Cape Fear.
= AT the election held in the County OF
Mecklenburg on the 1st inst, the proposition
= = to subscribe 100000 to the Wilmington,
Charlotte and Rutherford rail road, was car.
ried by 298 majority The vote stands,
yeas sec nays, 273.
AMOUNT OF STATE TAXES FOR 1857.-We
are indebted TO the faithful and efficient State
Comptroller, Gen. c.. H. Brogden, for a state
n. ment by Counties of the State taxes for 1857
N which we will publish in full in our next
The aggregate amount for 1857 from al
a. sources, the tax on bank shares excepted, il
$500, l68 "a, being an increase over 1856 o
rs $l09, 730 IS. The bank tax is $50, 1888 rs
making the total revenue of 1857, 1924, Is
az 6O.-StandGrd.
ne Our OF TowN.-A number OF our citizen
nd left town on the special train Sunday morn
be ing, to attend the Association being held a
ire Warsaw. We did not 60, but a friend say
~. that a large crowd was present. He assure
us, us that Warsaw is a temperance town-nc
a drop to be found anywhere, but still, tx
ee- wards night he thought some of the youn
IN men acted Singularly! One gentleman /
ust saw, who by the way was formerly q citize
the of Goldsboro', late in the evening in friendl
,di- embrace with a tree, with his unmention
rts bles not in a very p~resentable condition. L
Rugged the tree in a very feeling manner, ar
declared to some ladies passing that tt
meeting was decidedly a great one.
!, GOldsboro' Tribune.
Yes the old serpent is to be found at
gatherings, ecclesiastical or otherwise. Al
t,itS yet how few of the preachers are helping
to " bruise his head t"-ED. AGE.
the u,
TRUE AS ANYTHING CAN BE.-The Cayu
Of Chief thus speaks of the aid thus usua,
cee- given to the temperance press:
200 In no direction, while humbly labori
tho for the advancement of this reform, have
dc encountered so much to discourage as in t
ann widespread apathy of the temperance peol
in the support of the temperance press, a
sont temperance lecturer too, we may as we'll az
1;od We need not here repeat what the most ca
less will admit-that the press is the gre
.bo+ engine of all advancement in every depa
fine ment Of human enterprise. 1t Is the sun
the religious, scientific, commercial and
: ~ erary world. But for its learning, the wo
would sink into the night of barbarism
? And yet the mass of temperance people ne
lift a finger toward supporting the temp
ance press. Its history is a history of str
giles, ineficiency, and failures. For the W
,e' OF this encouragement, the majority OF u
lay,) perance newspapers have failed, many
little having a very sickly existence, anda few o
one maintain a commanding position by t
day nerve and labor which in any other avocat
anne, would yield a fortune
bout -
man ALL FAIR IN LovE.-The Selma =
lome Era states that a fascinating young wido
the in Talipoosa county, in that State, had b
nm courted by two brothers, and had acceE
put both and appointed q day for marriag.
MIN Both suitors attempted to out-wlt the OIL
MN and the youngest brother getting her
! ne sent to q clandestine marriage, started
kill Dodav;Ila to ont q license. While he was
,arsE sent the elder brother persuaded the WI
&. to slope, and married her on the 18th ms
Oglethrope House in Selma, leaving
peak younger to weep over ''blasted hopes
BANK Sharp practice for anybody but a widow
SOLEMN THoUGHT.-We see not in this
Up the end of human actions their int1u'
W. never dies in overwhelming circles, 1t re
- es beyond the grave. Death removes
: !" from this to an eternal world time Of
u ~ mines what shall be our condition In
We world. Every morning when we 60 IL
pc we lay the Wondering hand on our dest
d and every evening when we have done
have left a deathless impress upon our c
lys OF acter. We touch not a wire but vlbratt
e are eternity. -NelCt0n'S Express.