Memorial on Extension of the Central Rail 
 Road to the Town of Newborn 
 
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[Senate Doc. 81.] 
 
 MEMORIAL 
 
 TO THE 
 
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 ON THE 
 
 EXTENSION OF THE CENTRAL RAIL 
 
 TO THE 
 
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 RALEIGH : 
 
 Thos. J. Lemay, Printer to the State. 
 
 1850. 
 
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Senate, Dec. 0, 1860. Presented by Mr. WASHINGTON. Rend ami referred 
 to Committee on. Internal Improvements and ordered to be printed. 
 
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 MEMORIAL. 
 
 Tb Me Honorable, the Seyxate and House of Commons of the 
 State of North Carolina, in General Assembly convened. 
 
 The memorial of the undersigned citizens of the Counties of 
 Craven, Jones, Lenoir, Greene, and others, respectfully sheweth 
 unto your honorable body, that the town of Newbern is, and ever 
 has been, the principal market town and shipping port for the 
 produce of all that section of country embraced between the 
 waters of the Tar river on the north, and the Whittock river on 
 the south, and extending as far into the interior of the State as the 
 Counties of Wayne and Johnston — the population of which said 
 district numbers about 54,000 persons, and producing among other 
 things, 3,180,000 bushels of corn, 167,145 head of hogs, 3,650,- 
 000 pounds of cotton, 270,000 barrels of Turpentine, and lumber 
 to die value of 80,000 dollars; besides having $700,000 capital 
 invested in commerce, and $250,000 in manufactures, the greater 
 part of which said productions, has heretofore been shipped from 
 and through the port of Newbern. In addition to all which, the 
 trade of the said town with the Western counties of this State has 
 heretofore been carried on by means of wagons, <o a very large 
 and considerable extent. The merchant receiving the productions 
 of the West, consisting of flcur, lard, pork, bacon, Whiskey, to- 
 bacco, butter, &e,, in quantities sufficient to supply the home de- 
 mand, and leaving a large surplus for exportation; and exchanging 
 therefor the products of the West Indies and Northern markets. — 
 The Western trade demanding West India produce, and furnish- 
 ing the means to an extent which kept over sixty sail of vessels 
 actively and constantly employed in that branch of business alone. 
 The imports and exports of said town being some millions in val- 
 ^^ ue,and both the town and surrounding country exhibiting a degree 
 ^0 of prosperity and advancement, which was trulv cheering and en- 
 v* trauragmg to a patriotic bosom, 
 
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 And your memorialists further sh.e\v, that since the system of 
 Internal Improvements, adopted and prosecuted with so much en- 
 erg v and wis foresight by the State of Virginia on the north, and 
 Soutli Carolina on the south of us, opening up facilities and means 
 of communication to their own markets from the very bowels of 
 our own $iate, by the superior advantages of their Rail Roads and 
 other modes of transportation, our planters from the west, from the 
 north and from the south, have been induced bv the greater ease 
 with which they can reach the markets and ports of other States, 
 entirely to neglect and abandon our own towns and sea-ports, and 
 transfer their whole trade, with all the profits arising therefrom, to 
 the Commercial marts of other States, thereby depriving our own 
 citizens of the wealth arising from such commerce and traffic, and 
 almost entirely estranging citizen from citizen, and creating a feel- 
 ing of coldness and indifference between the Eastern and Western 
 sections of our State. In illustration of which facts, your memo- 
 rialists would cite your Honorable body to the single article of to- 
 bacco, of which, this State produces 17, 000,000 of pounds; scarce a 
 pound of which passes through our own poits, nor does the State 
 of North Carolina even get the credit abroad of producing a pound 
 of that valuable and highly important staple; Virginia manufac- 
 tures it, Virginia ships it, Virginia makes the profit on it, and Vir- 
 ginia receives all the credit for it. 
 
 And your memorialists further shew, that in consequence of said 
 Internal Improvements and other facilities possessed by neighbor- 
 ing States, and our own utter destitution of any other means of 
 transportation than the common wagon and carts of the country, 
 the great Commercial and Shipping interests, of this State are now in 
 a very precarious and languishing condition; the trade of the west 
 which heretofore bouyed up and sustained the same, has been 
 drawn off to swell the commerce and enrich the citizens of other 
 States; and instead now of receiving the bacon, lard, flour, tobac- 
 co, whiskey, butter. &c, from the west in an abundance, not only 
 .o supply the demand for home consumption., but with a largo sur- 
 plus for exportation, and thus using the productions of our own 
 State and contributing to the wealth of our own agriculturist, and 
 in return supplying him with the productions of other marts, wo 
 are now actually importing for home consumption of Northern pro-. 
 
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 ducc; Flour to the amount of 7000 barrels; lime 4000 barrels; 
 pork 3100 barrels; butter 37,500 pounds; whiskey 1921 barrels; hay 
 94,200 pounds; coal 300 tons; potatoes 4200 barrels; cheese 25,- 
 000 pounds: tobacco 10,000 pounds; buckwheat, vinegar, &c, 
 &c, besides larger quantities of such dry goods and wares, as are 
 now being manufactured in the west and within the borders of our 
 own State; and instead of sixty vessels and more being engaged 
 in supplying the demands of our trade with the West Indies, the 
 sailing of a vessel for those Islands is but an occasional thing; and 
 the produce of those places which we now consume, actually 
 reaches us by way of and through the port of New York. To so 
 low an ebb has our once flourishing trade and commerce sunk in 
 consequence af the want of adequate facilities for intereommun j- 
 cation with our own citizens of the interior, 
 
 In consideration of the premises, and forasmuch as the only 
 remedy for these eyils which the experience of your memorialists 
 suggests should be devised, is, the construction and building of a 
 Rail Road in connexion with the Central Rail Road, and from the 
 terminus of the same, to the said port of Newbern, thereby affording 
 those facilities for internal commerce, communication and exchange, 
 of which we are now entirely destitute, and of which we so se- 
 verely feel the need, enabling us again to build up our depressed 
 trade, commerce and manufactures, and developing those resour- 
 ces of our native Slate which should place us foremost in the 
 rank of wealth, power and improvement amid our sister States, 
 and to the sustaining and perfecting this work of most obvious ne- 
 cessity, we confidently look to the fostering care and patriotic de- 
 votion of your Honorable body, and to aid and assist them in car- 
 rying out this most laudable work, your memorialists do humbly 
 pray your honorable body to grant them a Charter for a Rail Road 
 10 extend from the terminus of the Central Rail Road to the town 
 of Newbern, with' the privileges, immunities and restraints, and 
 upon the same terms and conditions as the charter granted by your 
 honorable body to the said Central Rail Road Company; and that 
 the State may become interested to the same extent in the Stock 
 thereof, and that your honorable body will grant such other and 
 further aid and relief in the premises as the nature and circumstan. 
 ees of this case may lequire, and as to your honorable body shall 
 seem meet. 
 
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 And your memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray, &c. 
 
 John Blackwell, 
 J. R. Justice, 
 Richard N. Taylor, 
 E. K. Stanly, 
 Wm. H. Mayhew, 
 Emmet Cuthbert, 
 Wm. II. Pearce, 
 Charles Kelley, 
 Isham Jackson, 
 J. R. Allen, 
 Sebastian Bangert, 
 Bryan Jones, 
 J. Graham 'full, 
 John S. Winthrop, Jim., 
 Rufus W. Bell, 
 J. E. Morris, 
 W. Gray, 
 Jos. J. Roberson, 
 Isaac \V. Hughes, 
 M. W. H.Surnell, 
 John S. Gaskill, 
 Thomas C. Willis, 
 Wm. B. Darling, 
 John Hutchinson, 
 Alex. Justice, 
 John A. Crispin, 
 Chas. C Clark, 
 Moses W. Jarvis, 
 Thos. Fairbairn, 
 George F. Fisher, 
 W. \V. Fife, 
 J. N. Stevenson, 
 Lewis Phelps, 
 James Hancock, 
 George P. Young, 
 Elijah Lovet, 
 L. B. Hutson, 
 John II. Hutson, 
 Amous Squirrs, 
 Bathnobuell, 
 Wm. Dunn, 
 G. W. Street, 
 Gilford Warren, 
 II. C. Lucas, 
 James Muse, 
 Parker J. Siuilh, 
 John F. Jones, 
 
 William H. Oliver, 
 James B. Emery, 
 Jas. W. Carmer, 
 J. M. F. Harrison, 
 J. D. Flanner, 
 Joseph W. Jones, 
 Robt. D. Dunn, 
 II. D. Whitehurst, 
 John Gilbnrn, 
 L. B. Huggins, 
 John D. Mayo, 
 J. S. Woodbridge, 
 Henry Covert, 
 Anion Joyuer, 
 Cicero M. Davis, 
 
 A. C. Blount, 
 Solomon Witherington, 
 Lacy Phillips, 
 
 M. Mathews, 
 Rigdon Moore, 
 Otis Porter, 
 Joshua Bessee, 
 Alex. Miller, 
 John F. Hauff, 
 Daniel W. Hurt, 
 Wm. T. Willis, 
 Asa Brooks, 
 Titus Carr, 
 Henry I. Green. 
 E. Ferguson, 
 John S. McCottcr, 
 John Dibble, 
 Samuel G. Duffy, 
 William Laylort, 
 Michael Linton, 
 John D. Homebluc, 
 T. C. Foreman, 
 Jamer Hayward, 
 Charles Slover, 
 Wm. L. Sears, 
 T.C. Smith, 
 Thomas Wilborn, 
 H. C. Wood, 
 
 B. Oliver, 
 
 Jas. S. Wallace, 
 Jas. W. Gastili, 
 S. S, Willis, 
 
7. 
 
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 W illiam Jones, 
 Samuel Oliver, 
 Alex. Mitchell, 
 D. T. Oarrawcy. 
 F. A. Carrawav. 
 Miles Brothers, 
 Chas. S. Allen, 
 Jns. F. Nelson. 
 John Parrit, 
 V. Dixon, 
 J. M. C Brinson, 
 C. H. Hurt, 
 A. Seans, 
 Thomas J. Hyson, 
 Thomas S. Goodh.g, 
 M. Street, 
 George W. Blaney, 
 John N. Hyman, 
 Robert S, Kershaw. 
 S. F. Street, 
 (4. W. Howard, .Tun. 
 Win. Williams. 
 C. Hancock, 
 Benj.M. Cook. esq.. 
 Wallace Piver, 
 George Smith, 
 A. Sampson, 
 John Smith, 
 Frances Fulcher, 
 Caleb Broten, 
 Pharo Lewis, 
 John Willson, 
 Abel Howard. 
 Deaml Jackson, 
 Noa Baretl, 
 George Smith, 
 Gilfurd Gakins, 
 George Allen, 
 Samuel Mastins, 
 J. A Meadows, 
 J. M. Gooding, 
 Zachcus Brown, 
 ]>. B. Lane, 
 James W. Cox. 
 W, C White. 
 Wm. Simmons, 
 /,. Slade. 
 
 George' W. Nance, 
 William Wilson, 
 
 Jesse D. Beall, 
 John Charlotte, 
 Alex. II. Stanly. 
 
 E. Osborne, 
 John Harvey, 
 Nelson Wbitlord, 
 John S. Ilnnter, 
 John C. Coart, 
 A. II. Barrow, 
 Geo. W. Dixon, Jr., 
 William Hay, 
 Jacob Gooding, Jr. 
 J. B. Oxby. 
 
 H. E. French, 
 Thomas Gray, 
 
 F. Hover, 
 Jerry Merret, 
 Robert Harvey, 
 J. Cicero Justice, 
 "Wm. H. Harvey, 
 John Taylor, 
 Rile Lathinghonse, 
 Lemuel Da}-. 
 James Smith. 
 John Allen, 
 
 John Howard, 
 A. H. Richardson, 
 L. R. M. White, 
 M. Phillips, 
 H. Brinson, 
 Joseph A. Williams, 
 John Sears, 
 E. Abramandeleer, 
 Samuel W. Morris, 
 Ww. B. W T ood, 
 Parson Pittman, 
 S. B. Forbes,. 
 John C. Comcron 
 John Danes, 
 William C. Willis, 
 George Sal ten, 
 Joseph Gaskill, 
 Daniel Lockharr. 
 Samuel S. Smith, 
 Ossian Hanks, 
 James J. Howard, 
 Wm. P. Roberson. 
 Thomas J. Howard, 
 Wm. P. Moore, 
 
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 8. 
 
 James A. Seydara, 
 Henry Creekman, 
 John Creekman, 
 John L. Stranbury, 
 Frederick A. Moore, 
 John B. Lane, 
 Benjamin B Brooks, 
 John Kershaw, 
 Charles D. Fulcher. 
 W. G. Singleton, 
 Henry M. Allen, 
 N. S. Brown, 
 Joseph Gaskin, 
 Win, C. Whitford, 
 Jesse Gaskins 
 John D. Whitford, 
 E. Harvey, 
 John Bryant, 
 John Creekman, Jr., 
 W. H. Jones, 
 William G. Brvan, Jr., 
 
 D. W. Gosby," 
 John L. Dulaud, 
 J. M. Agostine. 
 J. Disosway, 
 John B. Waltar, 
 B. W. Brown, 
 J. S. Cu minings, 
 W. D. Hutchins, 
 
 E. Colbnt, 
 R. B. Brown, 
 R. A. Davis, 
 H. B Sam, Jr., 
 W. J. Williams, 
 J. Mildrum, 
 
 B. Bentmyen, 
 John Hill, 
 L. R. Clank, 
 Silas Shatham, 
 Alozo D. Willis, 
 M A. W. Elmer, 
 J Burrow, 
 W Hamilton, 
 J A Smith, 
 J M Roberts, 
 W Foy, 
 D Strutten, 
 J J Streets, 
 F C Metis, 
 
 George G. Smith, 
 John Osgood, 
 Isaac Lewis, 
 John M.' W r ebster, 
 Geo. Cooper, 
 Edward Hardy, 
 
 C. J. White, 
 
 D. W. Dudley, 
 D. D. Sirmoud, 
 Joseph P. Cosey, 
 Jonathan R. Baiiy, 
 William Baily, 
 
 R. A. Richardson, 
 
 H. W Jones, 
 
 John W. Giftbrd, 
 
 R. Castix, 
 
 C. F. McLeod, 
 
 Hizer V. Richardson, 
 
 W. Anderson, 
 
 Jno. Good, 
 
 F Muse, 
 
 J H Muse, 
 
 J Hamontree. 
 
 A Bynan, 
 
 B Benun 
 
 A Cummings, 
 
 J A Cummings, 
 
 L C Robus, 
 
 G S Smith, 
 
 J Elves, 
 
 George Smith 
 
 Charles Netherod, 
 
 R Speakman, 
 
 J Ball, 
 
 T Higley, 
 
 Richard Burk, 
 
 S Adams, 
 
 James Mucr, 
 
 J Miller, 
 
 Edward Perrciss 
 
 J T Borott, 
 
 Edward H Satter, 
 
 D Hollus, 
 
 D W Hawter, 
 
 E Stanly, 
 
 R J Jones, 
 
 D Hancock 
 
 T Jerkins, 
 
 N S Riehardson. 
 
[ST8] 
 
 D Marter, 
 N A Bray, 
 J Goody, 
 J A Gnion, 
 J Scott, 
 N T Gooding 
 S Bishop, 
 F J Gardner, 
 T S Jennings*. 
 T M Smith, 
 G Gasking, 
 
 C Pratt, 
 T Wilson, 
 J Henry, 
 
 J B Moore, 
 J W Collins, 
 T W May hew, 
 J Haven 
 R Primrose, 
 J W Hancock, 
 F. Lane, 
 A Ireland, 
 
 1 Tavlor, 
 A G Bell, 
 T Simpon, 
 T Sparrow, 
 J Foster' 
 
 L Trott, 
 
 T G Foster*. 
 
 J Stanly, 
 
 B. Jones, 
 
 H Russell, 
 
 L Phife, 
 
 J Priest, 
 
 D H Bell, 
 
 S Conoway, 
 
 B. Trott, 
 
 L B Herritage, 
 
 G Allen, 
 
 H B Smith, 
 
 W Jones, 
 
 Edward Hill, 
 
 James W Watson, 
 
 Jonn Saulter, 
 
 D F Arthur, 
 
 James Rose, 
 
 J Pittman, 
 
 B Ethridge, 
 
 J M Arthur. 
 
 T M Stevenson 
 D W Gaskill, 
 J B Huggins, 
 S A Dunn, 
 J H Lane, 
 H B Lane, 
 J. Carter, 
 J Sincard 
 T Wallace, 
 J Pitmon, 
 J Gooding, Sr, 
 G Buley,. 
 P Sins, 
 J W Russell, 
 A W Fentress, 
 J. C Cole, 
 E B Ritter, 
 L S R-y, 
 J B G Barron, 
 G W Conoway, 
 J W Oliver, 
 D Hasket 
 R Hill. 
 O M Pittoi, 
 J A Charlotte, 
 S Rin, 
 L Stern. 
 J Curtis, 
 E H Curtis, 
 T Green, 
 A Green, 
 W R Street, 
 R Moore, 
 B F Tucker, 
 E G Davis, 
 L C Bishop, 
 J Ball, 
 
 James Swhing, 
 Solomon Hove^, 
 William Hill, 
 John Rose, 
 E Piver, 
 Stephen Jones, 
 Th^rp-'^ T '"' 
 Edward G Hall, 
 Walter Duffy, 
 R N Duffy, 
 S M Missellier. 
 A L Simmons. . 
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 P Lepper, 
 J Lestis, 
 R Smith, 
 J Gooding, 
 E Rodrick, 
 W H Gooding, 
 
 A N Armanie 
 J S Ives, 
 E Baul, 
 C Pittman, 
 E Jones. 
 Benjamin Ellis.. 
 
 
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