Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1860-03-20
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Our amiable contemporary of the Beautort Jour-
nal has ignored the subject of Deep water and
Small Briggs and has commenced the old tune OF
g harp of thousand strings tho "Newbern
Observation-Disclosures to Beaufort Harbor,' &c.
Now every child that has ever read the Journal
is familiar with all these things, set forth by
that paper, and though the Deep Water" is a
shauou subject we preferred it infinitely to the
..h harp of a thousand strings '-alias, the New
Directory" All that gasconade was met refnted
and buried at the Stockholders meeting last June
the ibellous petitions and communications to
the Internal Improvement Board and to the Gov
ernor included. But the Journal says:
Had the editor confined himsefto statement of
his opinion might have permitted 1T to pass with
out comment leaving to him the unenviable dstInc
ton of discarding the views of u Caldwell, Matht
q Ciwynn Hawks and host of other men OF intel
lgence who had given to this har6or careful e1-
animation and who had attested their appreciation
Of its capacity and eligibility, and of substituting
therefor the pref judiced assumptions OF few by whom
the editor found himself surrounded"
For some of the above names we have much
respect and yeneration, however firmly convinced
we may be that the State would have been better
off had the foot of ga Gwynn never been set
upon its soil. As an evidence of the soundness
of our position refer to the crcuitous location of
the n G.. Railroad But these venerable men are
all mortal and all fallibe, for nearly two years ago
we heard one of them predict the speedy concen-
tration Of a vast amount of capital, from other
States at tile eastern terminus of this road which
Drediction has not and never will be verified.
AS to the revenue from the lower part of the
road we answer that our information is based
tirely almost on observation. We know from
what we sec that there is but very little travel
on the Road East of New bern during s or months
voor aud yxa know too that frpirht trains
frequently pass up and down the entire 50 miles
without freight enough to pay for the wood con
sunled by the engine which leads the train.
These things We know to be so for they come un-
der our eyes. We have not called upon the Of
ficers of the road for statistical nformation pre-
ferring to leave meddlesome interference with
their business to the editor of the Journal and
others who were disappointed at the turn things
took last June, and who have not yet recovered
from the chagrin produced by that result Pro
bably if thew could secure Goltlsboro President
and Morehead City Directory they could man
age the road better suit themselves. But the
people of Craven and Lenoir will continue to il =
sist on having something to say in these matters
We still insist that ''the Legislature made a
great blunder ia investing a cent of the States
money in a road East of New bern " and we doubt
not but that body will take steps to remedy that
blunder as far as possible, at an early day, espe-
cialiy AS there can be no hope that the business
that portion of the road be increased,
When the Legislature meets are confident this
whole matter will be discussed, and then, if
spared we expect to perform, far possible,
our duty to our section and to the State as pub
lie journalist. For the present have done with
the subject if the editor of the Journal is fond of
the music of his own "organ " he can grind on.
We shall continue to publish the freight re-
ceipts from the East at this point; will the Jour
nal publish the rece pts of freight at the terminus
In that way the public may form some idea to
the business of the Eastern end of the road
News from the Pimt.''
For Is months have tried to get some gen
tleman to give occasional letter from More
head City that our readers might know what is
going in that locality. but we have never been
able to succeed, and consequently about the only
news we can get from there is from the gentle
manly conductors the road, and then even
give items of news sometimes with the almost
certainty of our informant and ourself being round
ly cursed for it I" Love thy neighbor as thyself'
is wholesome maxim and one which that people
ought to learn. We find the following news item
in the last Salisbury Watchman:
"A fire broke out in Morehead City. few days
ago and owing to the lack OF ladders and other ap
piances for combating flames must have resulted il
serious loss of property; but negro man succeeded
in way, of getting on the roof of the building
and smothered the fumes with his clothing. More
head City is improving, not rapidly, but steadily
About a dozen families have settled there since tie
lst of january last. They have "a church (Metho
DIST and regular services, and d growing Sabbath
School. ~ -
We suppose the above refers to Morehead
City-it can hardly be that another has been es
tabshed this soon on the contemplated road from
High Point through Rockingham. 1t must have
referred to our q City, and then only to think il
takes so long to learn that I" dozen =" families
have moved in Why don't they establish paper
SwINDLED.-Wm Lewis, manager ofthe Lew.
is negro Opera Troupe which has been recently
playing in Portsmouth, has managed to swindle
the Ocean House and the Transcript office out o
considerable bills The Troupe advertised te
play one night last week in Norfolk and the same
afternoon took a steamer for New York. The
Transcript gives them a capital notice.
q
LOCKED UP.-A woman named Armstrong living
in the vicinity of the Old County Wharf fred a gun
at some other woman in the neighborhood on Wed
nesday hast but fortunately the shot did not take
effect. Late yesterday evening Mrs. Armstrong was
being carted up Craven street when enquiring
We We're told she was being taken to Jail.
FREIGHT THE WEsr-The freight trains OF
the A. &. N. G. Railroad are taking away immense
quantities of freight. The last two trains carried
& away about 5Oor CD tons of merchandise for the
= West.
B Cooley FOR APRIL.-Godey's Lady.s Book fo
April is already on our table It is an elegan
number and keeps the lead in the matter of fash
ion plates.