Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-07-22
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tbev ,te. NAV not be totally without interest-atl
any rae, we give them for what they are wortn'
and briefly.
AS ar route lay through Raleigh. we of course
went do the Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad as lar
as Weldon, where connection is made between the
eiht o'clock train from this place, and the tram
running from Weldon to Raleigh on the Raleigh q
lGston Road which leaves Weldon at about halt
rast three, P NJ and arrives in Raleigh rather be-
6re nine, P NJ We would advise every person
rom this part of the State having any business IN
br beyond Raleigh to take this route in preference
Ito that by the stage long and tedious night ira
gel by stage is avoided and the expense is very lit
Tile greater The last time we had passed over the
Raleigh CASTOR Road was in 1047, and certainly
a greater contrast could scarcely be conceived than
between that Road in it's present perfect condition.
and it's previous horrible state. At Weldon, we met
the popular and gentlemany President OF the Road
Mr. Branch 1t seems that there is quite a contro-
versy between the Direction and the Post Once De-
partment about the mails, of which we cannot say
much since we have not had time to inquire into all
the merits of the case. At Weldon, also, we saw
Mr. Peterson, the best-natured and jolliest of Rail-
road agents. He wakes fat, as he ought to do
The crops along the line of both Roads struck US
as being in better condition than had been led to
expect and no doubt, under the influence of the
recent rains, will produce fully an average yield
Why don't Weldon grow even little AS a ter
minus for four Railroads and canal, one would
think it ought to make some progress but it don't
Raleigh is very pretty city, and holds its own, but
lacks great deal of that ''go-ahead air observa-
BILE in Wilmington. There is much wealth in the
place, however, and Messrs Venable and Lewis
seem to make it their grand stamping ground-be-
ing there every week, almost Arriving at night,
and leaving in the morning, we but few per-
sons-among them was the Giraffe man, who seems
to be very clever fellow. Gen. Mckay was in the
city, and is particularly out with scaly Democrats
in which category he places the advocates of land
distribution.
= From Raleigh West, the traveller has to encoun-
ter long and tiresome staging, the night after
y leaving Raleigh being spent on the road between
that place and Greensboro and as luck would have
it, an aged female woman Of peculiar appearance,
got into the stage at Raleigh bound she said to
" to the Alabama which she appeared to consider
n some unexplored country little way West of Sails
bury. 1t is delicate SUBJ ect to approach, but we
y have Shakspearian precedent for saying that her
q offence was rank, it smelled-the Lord knows how
far. 1t is now full two weeks since, but would
i not give chew of tobacco for the dog that could
not even yet start Raleigh and follow the trail
d clear out to & the Alabaam." There being two Ia
dies and two children with servants in the stage
n the expenditure of cologne runous At Green's
. boro', concerted effort made, and the nuisance
e somewhat abated. Poor old soul-no fears of her
8 getting lost.
O The crops in Wake Orange and Guilford, seemed
IS to have suffered greatly, having made progress
e for weeks past, but the opinion seemed to prevail
:; that the rains would bring them out,-especially
the later corn and cotton. The wheat crop has
s. been throughout excellent; oats pretty generally
f. cut off In Greensboro, everybody almost talks O
n copper. They have the fever very decidedly, and
n certainly there appears very good foundations fol
most of the favorable antcipatons on that score
Some, perhaps may not be realized but very many
t. will
N Salem, and Winston, which is in fact continue
ID ton of Salem, make together the best built village
re in the State; everything is done up thoroughly
and the great majority of the buildings public anc
ID private, are of brick The population to b.
oe some fifteen to eighteen hundred The Female Sem
re mary there has reputation far beyond the limit
Of of the State. Salem is, originally, Moravan set
ID Element, and that element still predominates anc
gives character to the place and surrounding coun
lie try. the inhabitants Of which, even where the
families have been settled in the country for
1t generations, speak with strong German accent
n They an Industrious prudent and vrtuous PEG
Pile; but, like all other restricted communities rath
er iiberal and narrow in their views Manufactur
Of ing carried extensively and the Fayetteville anc
Western Plank Road is made up to Salem and is t.
h, be extended West to Mt. Airy, in Surry county
ID some thirty-fve OR forty miles West.
"a Taking private conveyance at Salem, en- route fo
our destination, in the Southwestern portion of ole
Surry, but now forming part of the new County O
s 7adkin, crossed the Yadkin River at Shallow
Ford, where the stream, winding down some hun
u dred and fifty miles from its source in the Blacl
It Mountain, peak of the Blue Ridge rolls as clear
" as crystal over pebbled bed as smooth and mucf
:" harder than road The scenery around is beauti
full in the extreme,-the quiet River rolling gently
e over its pebbled bed-its waters, fed by Mountain
springs, clear crystal-bounded on one side b,
$, bold bluffs, heavily wooded, while the other waves
with luxurant vegetation, promising abundant crops
short distance on the Western side is the little
- village of Huntsville in Yadkin county, the NATIVE
= place ofHon. T. L. Clingman, near which Dr. Cling
man. his brother, now lives Nearly opposite to TIT
lie Hotel is the house, an ancient looking building il
g which he was born. Here. on Friday the 9Th, W,
first heard of the death of Hon. Joseph P Caldwell
MIR. g. had his faults, and was never a remarka hi,
~ brilliant politician but he was better-he was a,