New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-01

LIFE IN NORTH CARoLINA.-Rev. WIN.
S. BALcn of this City has just been down
in North Carolina preaching, and has writ
ten home to the Christian Messenger some
notes of his travels. The following is his
account of his first days wheeling through
the heart of the State, after leaving the
Railroad at Goldsborough:
"After breakfast started in open buggy for
Kinston / saw by the map it lay in the line TO
this place No body at Godsboro. nor the Con
ductor or Superintendent Of the Railroad, who
was along could tell the distance, nor the
way 10 get here. So had to start at hazard,
with boy" which means here slave, ana
small miserable looking horse. GOldsboro mas
little Court House, and a dozen or two dwellings
and slave huts, scattered among the pine trees In
the widest imaginable confusion. little way
out saw a small, dingy building, the "boy" said
il was school house. We passed on, and such
a road, and such country, and such houses, and
such people, and such day On heavens l
did not expect to see all this in the sunny and
and chvalrous South These scattered planta-
tions. with few wretched log huts, dropped down
in the edge of the woods, all open, and dirty, and
comfortless cabins! Ireland why, Irish mud
bowels are palaces of comfort compared with many
of them, for they are dry and warm. Their thick
mates from the chill night and drenching rains
These do neither But these are negroes No,
not eli of them; for | saw some whites IN as
wretched plight as | ever saw in Ireland or Italy
one family few miles out from doldsboro,
which for destituton surpassed any thing ever
beheld or dreamed Of inmy life. The " boy" stop
ned TO water bis horse. For an excuse | stepped
10 the door to borrow cup for some drink. Two
faxen haired boys about the door, one, it might
be, FIVE the other three, with what were shirts
o1cc banging on their shoulders, and stringing In
rags down to their hips constituted all their cloth
ing, and the day was chill and wet Inside was
an infant or months old, dressed as the others,
and lying on the nasty floor. On the bench Of q
loom standing near the FIRE, was sitting the tail
figure, or rather shadow, OF woman. She left
her loom and went to the dresser and took down
the only tea-cup and handed TO me. regarded
her PALE cadaverous visage, as she lifted her sun
ken eyes 10 me, for an instant with snndder oil
horror as when one sees unexpectedly human
skeleton stand up before him and sbrunk from
her with similar feelings ! could not speak.
took the cupfrom her attenuated fingers, and went
10 the wells hole dug in the ground, ak or eight
feet Deep with no stick or stone TO curb IT, except
above the ground. As returned 1t, noticed
young woman sitting in the corner otthe hre place.
close down TO the Gre as il shaking with the ague
Such picture OF restitution and misery did not
see in Kerry, Clare, or Galway The nearest APP
Droach TO il saw in Tivoli near Rome.
have no. time TO describe other scenes, but
pass on through holes Of shallow mud, from one 10
ten rods long, ford small streams. meeting once IN
a long distance. some pale sckly, ragged, wretch
ed looking man, and now and then negro some
an the backs OF small, poor horses, which are
bsrnessed into old carts botched up OF round pine
sticks. on which are single barrels Of pitch. In
acme cases met similar carts with a single OK
harnessed n--not cows as are seen Ia Germany.
In few cases saw men on horseback but met
but two carriages, and the stage, Win one pas
senger in it, in all day, and q journey oi'' mne''