Year: 1860

The morning is TRANQUIL and serens-the birds
in every tree and in every cluster of shrubbery
chant their early lays; are serene and tranquil
too, and feel at peace with the whole world
and the rest of mankind " including the Direc-
tors of the A & N. C. r. Road, and having no
unkindness, personally, towards single one of
them we shall do the work set before with
due regard to their feelings.


Our friend, the editor of the american Adro-
cate, Kinston, reviews our first article the pro-
posed change of schedule, in his last paper and
defends the Directory in a long string of facts
about the mails, which were as familiar to us and
others as himself. We shall quote occasionally
from our friends article. He says:


CATER a careful investigation of the matter we
have come to the conclusion that our neigh Dor of
the Progress is altogether wrong, and that instead
of the proposed change in the schedule being
draw back, it will be decided advantage not only
to the Stockhoders Whose interest 1t is the duty of
the Directors first and foremost to protect but also
to those persons who are more immediately interest
ed in the mail arrangements


We contend also that the Directors should look


first and foremost to the interest of the Stock
holders; but every of them, As far as heard
from, in this community oppose the change. A
Lenoir Stakeholder has entered his protest and
says that he knows of no one who desires
change. It seems to that the Directors are
the representatives of the Stockholders, and
should, as far possible, consult their wishes in
the management of the Road.


The editor of the Adrocate speaks of a freight
train with passenger attached" and the &C
commodation it will afford to passengers Now
does he not very we'll know that this " freight
train with passenger pttached :" is slo,o
coach, that it takes it from ten to fifteen hours to
go over the Road and that no one ever travels by
it who can possibly avoid it? Unless that freight
train with passenger attached can increase
its speed it is no accommodation to travellers


Again the Adrocate says:


"By the proposed schedule persons can leave
Goldsboro' in the morning for Newbern spend six
hours there, which would give them ample time to
transact their business, and return to Godsboro on
the same day, which would be a saving of both time
and expense


Suppose part of the business which our
friends from above should have to transact should
be banking business land such is not an i'm
probable suppostion, for our Wayne, Green and
Lenoir friends sometimes borrow money and
sometimes receive dividends from our banks
the new schedule will put them down at the New
bern depot just the banks are closing, and of
course they must wait till 9 o'clock next day be-
fore they enter of the institutions.


There is another advantage which our
friends from above would have by the proposed
change land one they will not surely overlook The
train will leave here going west at o'clock, P.
NJ, and persons getting off at Core Creek, Tusca-
rora, Union Mills, Kinston, Mosely Hall and 9th
places will be put down on the road side way
in the night to grope their way home in darkness
the best way they This is an ' advantage
that feel will be fully appreciated by
CL-
Wayne


But the Ad0ocate says:


g But by the proposed schedule, letters reaching
leave GodsbOro at 10 o'ci0ck and arrive at More
head City at 81 o'clock NJ and the cars leaving
give every person on the line opportunity of
plying by that (Tuesdayl evenings mail


We have already shown that business men of
Newbern, uHage of some Importance on the
line, could not answer their letters by the return
mail. Only having three hours and that in the
most busy part of the whole day their correspond
ence would have to lie over until the next day.
But the Adrocate seems to think Morehead City
of great Importance, and says that the cars would
remain there one hour and quarter and that
they could answer by the return mail. We grant
it, for do not suppose that yet there is much
correspondence carried on by the citizens of that
place. We would have Morehead City enjoy the
same facilities that other points on the Roal do
no more, no less. But how will the new sched-
ule affect the people of the respectable old town of
Beaufort, people who stood up to and assisted
in the construction of the Road before Morehead
City existed? Are they to be cut off! Is no
thought to be given to them in the management
of the Road The Adrocate tells us that the cars
will remain at Morehead City one hour and a
quarter, and of course in this time the mail must
be carried to Beaufort and the Beaufort mail
brought back, distance going and coming of
six miles or more, by water. When will the
people of Beaufort, who do some business and
W no have some correspondence, answer their
letters? Certainly not by the return mail.


We quote another paragraph from the AdUocate ::


From this view of the case, the correctness of
which, it seems to rational man can doubt for
a moment submit, that the acrimonious article
in the Progress was entirely uncaled for-that the
proposed change is the very best arrangement th at
can be made as it will not only benefit the stock
holders-whose interest, said above, it is the
imperative duty of the Directors to consut-but in
a very great degree, facilitate the mails


Now, though the editor may not have meant it,
the above reflects very severely upon the Directo-
ry for if it is so papable that the proposed sched
ule will materially advance the interest Of the
stockholders and facilitate to such a great extent
the transmission of the mails, why in the name of
all that is reasonable have twelve sensible men
been ever since last July, ten long months, find
ing it out and only now, six weeks before their
term of office expires, do that which, according to
the Adcocate they should have done soon as
they received their commissions This is ques-
ton that should be answered to the satisfaction
of the Stockholders and the public. Will the
Adrocate or the Directors answer?


They tried a new schedule last fall, which was