Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-07-22

Gillian, where, be it said, he fares sump1nouslysl
and can go up the Mountain at his leisure
How high the Pilot is above the level Of the sea- or
even of the Yadkin River, we do not ezactfy know
Ii is probably close on to two thousand feet above
the Yadkin, but its chief popularity consists ~
rising abruptly up from comparatively level coun-
try, in which it stands perfectly isolated Fromtne
little river which washes its base to the top OF the
pinnacle is sixteen hundred and fifty feet perpendicu
lar The ascent is very laburious, but there is no
danger at all until the pnaces are reached, the
highest of which is perfectly perpendicular mass OF
rock rising one hundred and sixty feet above the
ground between the pinacles. The rocky portion:
however, is only about one hundred and twenty feet
Here the ascent is made by winding around the face
of the rock and by of ladders, fixed IN rs
sures with common GOODNESS, no danger need be
apprehended, even by ladies, many OF whom visit
the top as did some on the day we were there
The Bloomer is the appropriate costume, as long
skirts are nightly in the way in climbing. From
the top of the pinace the view is magnificent, boun
ded only by the Blue Ridge and the horizon LOOK
ing towards the Southwest, the Yadkin is seen like
silver thread, winding down from its sources IN the
Black Mountain, belonging to the Blue RIDGE ana
then, after making its extreme Northern oeno' near
" opposite the Pilot, stretching away to the lar
Southwest till its last lighter is lost IN the distant
horizon and it hastens to its gloomy quarters IN
the swamps of South Carolina, where the muddy
and malarious Pee Dee would never be recognized
as the same river, with the cearand laughing fad-
kin of Western North Carolina.
The top of the pinacle is nearly fiat. and covered
with stunted trees and underground, among the
rest blackberries@ and whortleberries- equal,
however, to the "Big Blues,' for which Sampson is
famous. Some enthusiastic person once preached
on the pinnacle to small but select audience The
Saura Town Mountains some fifteen twenty
miles off at their nearest point look within stones
throw It is said by some that one of these. Cooks
Peak is higher than the Pilot whereat old Mr.. Mat
tbieu-Mr. Gillams father-in-law-is much dis
pleased. The old gentleman is nnety-one years OF
age vet active lively, and conversible with mark
ed French accent-although he came to the coun-
try about the time of the Revolution
About four miles from Giam's the traveller takes
the Wytheville stage, running past to Salem, from
which the stopping house. kept by gentleman
named Nichols, is distant twenty-five miles The
view from this point, which is to the Northeast OF
the Mountain, shows only the main pinnacle and IS
that generally given in pictures. Nichols is man
of multifarious avocations, carrying on farming,
manufacturing tobacco, having large force making
fine boots and shoes, keeping house of entertain
ment having postofice, carrying on blacksmithing
and occasionally taking hand at preaching
Crops in Yadkin, Surry, Stokes, Forsythe, Davidson,
and Rowan have suffered considerably ,-the high
ridges cannot recover
Salisbury maintains its ground the great dstri-
butng market of the Western part of the State and is
busy bustling place. although Charlotte, by means
of its railroad is gaining rapidly upon it. Gold Hill.
some ID miles distant is of the great seats of the
! gold mining. 1t may number eight to ten hundred
people, but has no look OF permanence. End no good
buildings. The stage route from Salisbury TO Cheraw
is unquestionaby of the lines about which, re-
CARDS coaches horses drivers. or general arrangements
the less said the better. 1t would be hard 10 how
f any of them could be made worse
very pretty village has grown up at the Carroll
ma Female College, in Arson county, ten miles from
= Wadesboro'. The number of pupils at the College
y is l05 From Wadesboro' to Cheraw, there is a
Plank Road, very we'll laid, but rather imperfecly
= graded the ascents and descents being much toe
steep. Cheraw is rather the decline, & has been
, for years. From Cheraw, the stage runs to Flor
ence Depot, on the Wilmington & Manchester Road
some forty miles, for which four dollars and hal
is charged, altogether too muchthree dollars would
IS be great plenty. The Manchester Road is made
up to within three miles of the West side OF the PEI
d Dee. The stages run down to the River and stop
l. and the passengers and baggage are ferried over
and take other stages for thirty miles, to the Lum
i Der River, to which point the road runs up on th
end, making the staging in all 33 miles The coache
j. horses very good The crops in the portion of
J. Caralina through which we passed look very we'll
= although heard they had suffered greatly in thu
d upper districts The and machinery on tn
o Manchester road are new and in excellent order
T. and the running will bear favorable comparison
with the Wilmington& Raleigh Road, which is thu
same as saying that it equals any in the country
d The way travel is very considerable on the road
# nothing on the stages.
BSFBy the arrival of the schooner Tennessee, a
= Baltimore, with dates from Rio to the 18th ut, W,
learn that political affairs are still in an unsettled
at Buenos Ayres, and the city continues under
blockade without any material change in aspect O
: affairs since previous accounts.
Advces from the River to the 5th, state.
L that the market for imports and exports is firm
The supply of American produce was fair, and pri
. ces changed but little from previous accounts
" There was fair demand from the up river country
{ Coffee had not materially changed Exchange %
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vs. we have just seen very popular and infuen
tia democratic gentleman of Franklin County, wht