Year: 1869

mitted within the corporate limits of said city
| CityOf Wilmington Us. Ddufs, at thus term. 1he
power of the Judge Of said Special Court to issue
write OF hdbeds corpus, conferred by ACT OF 1903
chap II. sec. II, confined to criminal cases
within his jurisdiction. and cannot be extenneu
by implication to cases which he cannot hear
and determine. He has no jurisdiction in cases
of larceny. State vs. Haughton, at this term
His Honor therefore had no power to issue the
writ of h0Heas corpus in this caee. and the pro-
ceedings are dismissed.


! Teste, W. II. BAGLEY. Clerk.
| Per Johnston Jones, ID. q.


Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
| Railroad.


| We cannot say that we envy the self-sat-
isfactory manner in which our Charlotte
exchanges chuckle over the result OF the
reorganization of the Wilmington, Char
lotte and Rutherford Railroad, nor can we
altogether approve of the sectional bias
which some of them attempt to give to it.
Everybody is more or less selfish. and In
their triumph, even at great sacrifice, we
suppose they should be entirely welcome
to the satisfaction and the advantage which
it affords So far as it is sectional mat
ter, they owe their triumph to the favor OF
Governor Holden and his implacable ha
tired to our section of the State, and not,
as We honestly believe, to what is for the
best welfare of the road.


# our Charlotte friends had confined
themselves to harmless expressions OF Joy
over the result, we would have nothing to
say, but intoxicated at their triumph, their
insinuations, more than than their out
spoken expressions, are, to say the least,
calculated to offend.


The old charge which we have SO often
repeated. that the road west of Charlotte
has been neglected by the former officers,
| is repeated more or less directly by all.
The present insinuations are that it has
been the fault of Colonel COwAN thas the
western end of the road has not been
pushed forward. From these insinuations
no one is better prepared or more willing
to defend that gentleman than Mr.. GUIoN,
who has heretofore had charge of the Wes-
tern Division as Superintendent, and has
now been promoted to the General Super
intendency of the entire road An exami-
nation of the Reports of this Company
will show that all has been done for that
end of the line which the Board of Direc
tors could do. 1t has received its full
share of the proceeds from the sale of
bonds, and also cash has been sent from his
end 0f tie line 10 assist tie other. The true
cause of the mistake which the western
friends of the Road have made is to be
| found in the fact that the eastern end of
the road has been making from one hun
drel to one hundred and twenty five tLod
sand dollars per dtnunn, while the other
end was not paying its expenses. We do
not desire, in making this statement, to
detract from the compliment paid to Mr..
GU1oN We believe he has devoted to his
work the full measure of efficiency and
energy; but it could not be expected that
short piece of railroad, like that which
he had charge of, could possibly pay it's
way in our sparsely settled country.


We must deny that there Was any strug
gle between Wilmington and Charlotto as
stated by our friend Of the TINES. TO be
sure the extracts which We copied from the
| Democrat and Observer in advance OF the
election of DIR. Sloan as President showed
sectional question, and announced in ad =
vance the removal of headquarters, shops,
&c, to Charlotte. This, in addition to the
unaccountable prejudice of Governor Hol-
den to our entire section Of the State, as
evidenced in his appointment OF Directors,
gave, indeed, some color to the idea, which
We now have authoritatively from our
Charlotte cotemporaries. We had no such
feelings in the matter, for if it had gone
off on that question. DIR. Sloan and his
Directors would never have been recog
nized as such until they mad established
their claims before legal tribunal. The
IcOuf1ict here was between the Governor
and the Superintendent of Public Works.
The majority of Stockholders most as
suredly believed that the power of making
the appointments is vested in the Snperin-
ltendent of Public Works, but their vote
was determined by the conviction that
they were not competent to decide, and
had no right to decide. a purely legal





Courts only. In the meantime they be-
llieved that the Directors appointed by the
lGovernor were de tt1cto the representatives
of the State, and that they were bound SO
to recognize them. Not one single word
was said in the whole discussion concern
ling the interests of either Charlotte or
Wilmington, and but for the efforts of a
Wilmington man there is no question OF
the fact that the Directors appointed 10y
the Governor and the Directors ap-
pointed by the Superintendent of Public
Works would have all been rejected, and
the meeting would have adjourned to
await the action of the Courts. The init
nation by the Democrat that the Stock
holders were frightened into an acknowl-
edgmcnt of the authority of the Governor
by the silly bravado of Major Smith in
announcing that the Directors appointed
by the Governor would meet, without re-
gard to the action of the Convention, and
lprOceed to elect officers is unworthy of the