The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-03


struck the Mississippi river, and to day there.
are ten thousand miles Of road constructed
west of the Mississippi, which is moro than
all in tile United States in 1850. Two thou
sand miles of railroads have heen built west
of the Mississippi since the close OF the war,
and towns are built up as if by magic Let
us go for these roads and they would bring
US out of our poverty. s,.s.sa. s.
.ls 1t cost $l2 to transport forty bushels OF
corn over fifty miles Of. road by teamsss'
-Four dollars would pay railroad well. leay-
ing eight dollars to the farmer, equivalent
to twenty cents a bushel. Allowing twenty
bushels of corn per acre makes a saving of
four dollars per acre. The railroad will af
feet equally about five miles each side of
the road. AT four dollars per acre, that
would be two and half millions annually,
which is enough to build a railroad 100
miles. He believed this House would 90
for internal improvements; and when the
internal improvements already commenced
were finished, this State would take her
place beside the West in progress.
Mr.. French was glad the two mountains
had labored They had not brought forth
+ even a mouse These gentlemen, Messrs.
Pou and Seymour, had railroads, and they
cared nothing for their brethren who had
none The farmer without money to buy
tools or employ hands may use his credit to
buy tools and raise crop, for he knows he
will have enough to support his family and
pay his debts ten fold. The money which
we propose to borrow amounts to a similar
investment for the people of the State He
hoped we should hear no more old woman's
croaking; but we should have confidence
enough in ourselve to go fearlessly forward
to build up this old North State and make
her rank among the foremost of this Union.
These gentlemen wanted to say they opposed
it to their weak kneed constituents, and
thatlwas the sum of their remarks. 81
Mr. INGRAM said this was one of the most
important railroad bills before the House.
One reason why his county urged the pas
sage of the bill was because it had done over
sf30,O wofth of work on that road, and
never received one cent. Union county was
in the same position; to that extent they had
aided the State and received not one cent
from the State. He did about one-tenth of
that work and had received nothing
Mr. SEYMOUR said if every man of his con-
stituents was against him, he should oppose
these bills
Mr.. DURHAM moved an amendment to pre-
vent discrimination on the rates of freight
and passengers in favor of any line of road.
Adopted.
Mr.. MALONE offered the following amend
ment, which was adopted:
"SEC T. That the directors in this company
shall have power to receive subscriptions to stock
in said company in lands, moneys, bonds, stocks
or any other property. And il case land be SUBJ
sereed as stock, the directors may provide the
mode in which the value of the same NAV be as
certaned and consequences thereof executed"
The bill passed third reading by the fol-
lowing vote:
YEAs-Messrs Ames Argo Ashworth Banner, Bar
nett, Barnes, Bowman Gambler Carson Carey, Cherry
Clayton of Transylvania, Crawford Davidson, Down.
ing Durham, Ellington Estes, For>ner Foster, French
Gah Ia Sailing Gilbert Graham Green Grie, Har
Hudgings, Ingram, Justus of Henderson, Justice of
Rutherford, Kelly OF Davie Kelly of Moore, Latin
Me aness Moring, Morrill,. Morris, Painter Pearson,
Price Proctor prefitt Ragland. Renfrow, Robbins,
Sweat Sykes. Vestai Vest. Waldrop WEIGH. White
4 williamson, Wilson and Wiswall- 40.
NAYs-Messrs Allison, Armstrong, Blair Ellis, Fere-
bee, Gibson, Hawkins, Hicks High, Ilnnant, Hodg,n,
Hodneh; Hoffman, Humphres. Jarvis, Kinney, Nc
MILAN, Moore, Parker, Pou, Rea Seymour, Shaver,
liams of Harnett, and Williams of Sampson-26.
On motion of Mr.. LAFL1N, Senate bill No.
% amendatory of the act to incorporate the
Western N. c. Railroad Company, ratified
the 18th day of February, 1855, and of all
other acts amendatory thereof was taken
up. ls1 tf t+ts
On motion of Mr.. LAFLIN the proviso of
Mr.. ESTES. to secure the payment of the in
terest, was added to this BILL
Mr.. ELLIS moved to amend by inserting
the branch road to the town of Newton, Ca
tawba county. H
Messrs. Bowman, GAMBLER and WEIGH,
opposed the amendment
The amendment was not adopted.
The bill passed third reading by the fol-
lowing vote: s
YEAs-Messrs. Ames, Argo. Ashworth, Ban
ner, Barnett. Bowman, Gambler, Carson, Carey,
Cherry, Clayton of Pennsylvania, Davidson,
Downing, Durham, Ellington, Estes, Forkner,
Foster, Franklin, French, Gahagan. Calling,
Graham. Harris of Wake, Hayes. Hendricks,
Hicks, Hoffman, Hudgings Ingram. Justus of
Henderson, Justice, of Rutherford, Kelly,
of Davie. Kelly of Moore, Latin, Leary,
Long of Richmond, Malone. Matheson,
Mayo, McCmless, Morris, Nicholson,
Painter, Pearson, Peck Price, Proctor, Profit,
Ragland, Renfrow, Robbins, Robinson, Siegrist,
Sinclair Simonds, Stilley, Sweat, VestBl, Vest,
Waldrop, WEIGH, White, Williamson and Wilson.
&C. ,--.---. I'D.
NAYs-Messrs. Allison, Armstrong, Ferebee,
Gibson, Hawkins, High, Hinnant. Hodgin, Hod-
nett, Humphries, Jarvis, Mcmillan, Parker lPou,
Rea, Seymour, Shaver, Smith of Allegheny,
Stanton, Sykes, Thompson, Williams of Harnet,
and Williams of SamDSOn.-22