The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-06-25

| RAILROAD DIPFICULTIES.--There appears to
be very bad feeling existing between the Colum-
bia and Augusta Railroad Company (Which road
is now being constructed) and the South Carolina
Railroad Company. The Road from Columbia
to Augusta. when completed, on account of being
shorter and more direct between the two cities,
will be successful competitor of the S. c. Rail-
road for travel and freight. Therefore the S. c.
Railroad. after failing to prevent the building of
its rival by legal means, has resorted to tearing
up the track of the Columbia and Augusta Road
where it crosses the s. c. Road The crossing
was torn up last week by the employees of the
S. c. Road. pretty bold and outrageous pro-
ceeding. we think. Where is Gen. Sckles boys
cant they make people behave in our neig h-
boring State
= Gen. Burton. who recently commanded at
Fortress Monroe while Mr. Davis was prisoner,
has been put in command of the Post of Columbia,
S. C.
THE POVERTY AND MISERY OF A NORTHERN
CITY.-The editor of the N. Y. Independent has
been inspecting some Of the dens of vice, poverty
and misery in the city of New York, and his des-
cr:pton of what he ought to cause Northern
people who have been denouncing the South as
heathenish to cover their faces in shame at their
own inconsistency. Instead of employing mis-
sionaries to preach down South" our Northern
friends had better devote more of their attention
to the heather at their own doors. Here is what
the New York editor says:
.'In company with several we'll known public
men. and under the guidance of the police.
made tour last Saturday, through the neither
most haunts of misery. vice and crime in the City
of New York. This is exploration which every
or by editorial duty, ought if possible, to m AXE
at least once in his life. Born in New York, and
having always either resided or labored within it.
never knew our own city until last
Saturday night Never until then had any
conception of its poverty of its squaldness, of it's
villainy, of its debauchery, or its leprosy! The
sight can never be forgotten The story even
if we had tbs heart to tell it. must, for decencys
sake. remain untold. We only say that none
of the familiar descriptions had adequately pre-
pared US for the actual scenes. We were shock ed,
COMPOUNDED, sickened And as we now look
back upon the awful revelation of that nights
descent into hell. we can hardly persuade
selves that what we saw reality; it seems
a hideous dream
And yet, with all these horrors right under his
proboscis, this philanthropst has spent the better
portion Of his life in bewalling the moral condition
of the poor negroes of the South. Compared with
the lower class or whlte people at the North, the
negro of the South have always lived ars-
tocr ats
THE WESTERN n. G. RAILROAD.-The States
vile American, speaking of the late meeting of
the Stockholders of this Road, says:
1.-THE resolutions adopted, look to early
completion of the road, and pleased to
learn that vigorous work. under the superinten-
dence of Maj Wilson aud his assistant Engineers.
is going forward on both sides of the Blue Ridge.
The energy of Col. S. Med. Tate. President of
the Road is guaranty that the Road will be
completed and the trains running to Ducktown,
Tenn. at an early day-thus opening direct com
munication between the seaboard and Missouri
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