Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-01-16

Cape Fear Improvement. 10 which he devotes nearly
four columns.
The Carolinian falls into few slight mistakes
which we feel called upon to point out. 1t fails to
draw the distinction between the attempt on our part
to forward the interest of great work by exposing
or trying TO expose the nefhoiency and mismanage-
ment by which the completion of that work has been
delayed, and the attempt its part to remove, not
the abuses under which We think the work has suf
fered but the very work itself We want 10 get clear
of the disease-it wants to kill the patient.
We fear also that it fails TO draw the distinction
between hostility to this work. and zeal for the in
erests of the Stale. 1t purports to speak for the
people near Fayetteville who have never been friend
ly to the work 1t expresses its hostility to per Sc
and irrespective of circumstances However honest
in its Intentions and we concede everything to it in
that respect, cannot admit that it is dspasson-
ate or unpreiudicel witness. Indeed the tone Of it's
article would be fatal to such admission.
! We agree with the Carolinidn about one thing
Things haze been kept cloaked up-smotherel up
| hocus Focused up, too much. We here-those at
least who own stock, are about badly in the dark
az any body else. We hear that such a company of
contractors has taken such O work, 10 be done at
such time, and in such manner, giving bond, etc
The work is neither done in time manner sPeci-
fed vet some how the contractors get paid, and no
man ever yet heard of Eond being sued out. But
that We feel that The thing may be and will be mend
ed, we 100, would 60 for ending it. We have no
doubt the thing can be made to progress properly
and to a favourable conclusion We have no doubt
ALSO but that the main difficulty is now fully under
stood, and aso the manner of overcoming 1t. At the
point where certain dams are located, there on one
side OF the river short space interval of aluvial
formation, the product of river deposit and beyond
this, higher ground of original formation. At these
points it will be necessary to extend the abuments 10
this solid or primitive EARTH and then all danger of
cutting round the only real engineering difficulty,
will be removed. This we believe is generally un-
derstood and admitted, as well the fact that this
cutting around has been the chief obstacle and
of detention.
Another thing we would allude to-namely, the
paving up of individual subscriptions That has been
brought about pretty efeetually down here. The
agents of the Company showed no axiiy in collect
ing from the Wilmington Stockholders certainly
We could show receipt in full for very small
amount to be sure, but dating back about the begin
ing of this decade We have no doubt that The same
thing has been done throughout
We admit that the Stale has gone into this work
some four hundred thousand dollars in capital sub
scribed and bonds endorsed We don't think if the
work is put through promptly that the interest on
these bonds will ever fall on the State Treasury, nor
have any fear of the works failing to pay fair dvi'
dend upon the investment made or 10 be made This
is money cnsiderabe money, but it is very small
sum compared with other sums for which the State
, is or will be liable for other works which cannot
promise as fair and full remuneration. Other
works we do not attack-the unfortunate manage
ment Ct this we do rot defend, although we neither
feel called up nor justified in mpugning the motives
of individuals. The Cape Fear Improvement We be-
lieye to be practcable-when made we believe it will
advantage US and the State more than any work be-
fore the public. We therefore 60 for it, but in going
for it we neither feel nor avow hostility to othe
works 10 which we are already repeatedly committed
We hope that assistance may be given to a road from
Fayetteville TO the mines, and we also hope little
more strongly that the river improvement may bt
# completed. .r
u In what we may have felt called upon. at different
times to say about this matter, we have never pre-
tended to speak for the people of Wilmington TIT
Stockholders here, although we believe that they
have generally coinciled in the views expressed by
u.s. One thing we can say as oy au'noII'y' anu 'na
is, that at no time has any hostility existed here
against a Railroad from Fayetteville to the mines
but the reverse-neher will any hostility the par
o of Fayetteville towards work in which Wilmington
takes deep interest, the people of Wilmington
10 act or feel unustly towards work in which Fay
: etevilIe takes deep interest as is natural and pro
D per that she should. We say emphatcally that any
idea of ealously or unfriendlness here is totally
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