SOUTHERN RAIL ROADS.
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HilPs New Hampshire Patriot is doubtless in
in some of its remarks in regard to Southern
Rail Roads. The Editors say:


From Philadelphia to Baltimore the traveller
will avoid as much of the rail roads as possible by
taking the bad accommodations of steam boats
whenever they can be had but south of Bati-
more and Washington through Virginia and
North and South Carolina the railways are as
hard and inconvcaient oftravcl as the stages were
wont to be through the roughest, most rocky and
most hily parts of New Eng land twenty-five years
ago. ......-


" The high passage prices over those southern
roads, above that of every other part of the Union
drives off the travel to any direction where water
communication can be had: thus to avoid the Snag
railroads through the interior, the great southern
mail IS SEM Out 10 sea from Charleston, S. G., to
Wilmington, N. c. and the journey is made in the
winter with great danger of fshipwreck of a SIN
gle fifteen hours passage as that of crossing the
Atlantic ocean in of the Cunard steamers" "


We admit that the Raleigh and Castor Rail
Road is somewhat I" hard and inconvenicnt of
travel" but this admission ought not to be made,
we believe, in relation to the Wilmington Road
and the South Carolina railways If our inform
alton becorrec:, might venture TO say that the
South Carolina Rail Roads would not lose much
by a comparison with the best at the North and
East while we believe the Wilmington Road is
not complained of by those who have occasion to
travel If