The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-04-07
WILMINGTON, March l6, 1886.

WILMINGTON, March Is, 1886
North CGroiinG-ns Resowrces- Isype~tixe Resin,
Pitch aud Tar Wilnsington-A Lucky Editor
Success to Talent An Heiress- Matrimowy.
The stranger who enters North Carolina, either
from the North or the South, will be struck with
the wilderness appearance it almost everywhere
presents. Its sandy, sterile soil offers little to
tempt the I'D, enturer emigrant to settle down, and
where there few people, there is little to interest the
sentimental or enquirng traveller.
Passing from the easy, auent, arstocratic city Of
Charleston whose very atmosphere is fragrant Of re-
dnement, come next, in steamboat journey of enc
night to Wilmington the commercial capital Of North
Carolina For this We pay six dollars to the captain and
one dollar for dinner and tea the distance being about
Ro win Il. Asns dsSnps 's u u %.ds
angles, and about 7eoo whites and 1000 coorsd sss
been peculiarly unfortunate, having had several fires
In many places the black ruins Of once stately blocks
are to BIO seem The timber used In their buildings be-
ing all charged with turpeDtne, pitch and rosn there
il no saving house when once II catches nre. The
more and the higher il blazes away.
The city ID built quite down to the water the river
Cape Fear, which z navigable from the sea to this
point Us mes for the largest ships The river stretch
it, away back through the State for three or four
hundred miles, until becomes lost in rvvlets In the
parts of the year for steamboats, a. far q Fayctevle
about one hundred and twenty miles back in the interior
On walking slong.ths banks Of the river,
scattered down and up many steam mills receiving
in logs from the raftsmen on one side and on
the other rafting them out in boards to ships bound to
to be seen here some twenty turpsntine distlsrss,
most Of them lately set up and oil doing very profit
This turpsntins business has become, within the last
two years very lucrative one, indeed The boundlsss
forests Of DR. which North Carolina offer material
These forests can be purchassd for dollar an acre.
some farms have been sold for ten cents acre and
the highest have heard Of did not exceed two dollars
The soil yields little nothing for the feed Of man or
beast except in the immediate Of rivers
One may travel entire day on the stage, without
mark sPpliss to the region Of country from wilmington
to Raleigh, large breadth of about zoe miles.
Many specnaiors have latterly entered into this tur
pentine manufacture One negro man will collect 400
barrels in season. which will sell for about 600 dollars;
about 100 dollars will feed and clohs the negro; thus
barksd IN the land and nssross il better By far than
cotton raising cotton planters going into it,
and tn: expansion OF manufactures and arts home and
abroad keeps with tho increased number Of those
who are entering into this profitable business
For the benefit Of those who have never been in
srinG and dstID1 this subtle spirit The trees are cup
bar. = peeled the suH9os made By %: 9. two
summer and fall the turpentine out through this
vent. The negro comes round from tree to tree and
gathers this matter into his bucket The trees are
continually sxuding during the season. The ensuing
year they are cut little higher than before when
crop oDtanod process may be repeated Tor i've
six years, cutting higher up the trunk each yssr after
which the trees cut down ard chopped into short
logs and piled together in peculiar heaps called
"kns" whom slow IRE put under the heap and thus
pitch and TAR are obtained from the heated pie.
The fatty matter or turpentne packed into bar
re brought to the dstlleries boiled and evsporated in
the common way in which spirit extracted In the alco.
hol diseries, the steam, passing through large
or refrigerator which 10 set IN immense vat Of cold
water The surface Of the water icing the passes
Of, while the attendant keeps pumping cold water
ough pipe, that forces to the bottom causing the
hot water, created the surface to pass or The steam
comes out in spirits Of urp sntine below and barrslsd
tightly and sent to all the markets Of the world and the
residue ID rosin.
North Csroina sends out an immense quantity Of In
dian corn, slaves turpentine PITCH tar and ron, be-
sides which she Is beginning 10 manufacture cotton and
woollens Of which shall further inform you in my
next. TRAvELLKR
r. s-There are two newspapers published in viii
ming ON, wing and dsmccrst--a second whig paper IL
talked off, The editor Of the Democrat has been but
few years in this lucky city and has already struck his
roots deep into the earth He u young talented and
brave Cesar end leads to the hymsnial alter At Eas
ter Catholic hsiress worth forty thousand dollars in
sods The democratic folks think this II capital addi-
uon to their cause, and the Wing ladies' are spsful
enough In their remarks about the happy coupls but NJ
iwpsts, our democratic brother" can afford 70 bear
little bsdinass.