The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-02-24
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Thursday Morning, Feb.24. 1883.
correspondence of the Dispatch.

correspondence of the Dispatch.
CHARLESTON, Feb. Is.
mi DEAR DisfATcH Being on a visit TO
this old Atlantic city. canno, avoid the dispo.
sit'on to drop You line just TO LET YOU know
have not forgotten you.
fnst' must speak of my voyage thi,her.-
The Petersburg and Roanoke and Weldon and
" ilmington Railroads are both laid with the
heavy iron rail, and in excellent order and
make very fine time. They both appear tn be
we'll managed, and are, perhaps, as free from
danger and accident as any road extant. From
Wilmington came in the steamer Vanderbilt,
TO this place. Like the boats of this line, she
does not present the neat and orderly appear.
ance of northern boats, but is of excellent mo-
del for sea-boat and rides the waves admi.
rably. The fare on the Vanderbilt, as also
that on the Governor Dudley, is Indifferent
often bad. When the road to Manchester, s.
c., is completed, this sea voyage to Charleston
will be avoided. The Company are at work at
both ends of the line and have s5me 80 miles
finished. The road, as you know, is TO fill up
the gap between the Wilmington and South
den branch. A continuous railroad line will
greatly promote the comfort and rapidity of ira
| vel.
Wilmington is considerable town, sustain
| ed chiefly by the trade in turpentine. Almost
| the entire district through which the Whining
| surpentine-getting and distiling. There are
| one or two counties on the line which have 9TH
er staples. Old Nash county, for instance,
makes great deal of apple brandy, while 9TH
er localities have some fame for peach brandy.
But the old Nash brandy is dearly priced by
a soporifc influence, if we take remnscence
| touching one OF the most famous old men that
made 1t. The story was told by an old man in
the cais. very devou, divine stopping at
the house of the venerable distiller, invited all
to evening prayers. He had hardly begun,
before mine host began to snore. Our infor
mant said he raised his head to see what effect
the snoring had but all seemed to be attend
ing 10 the preacher except the sleeper and a
young gentleman who had seized the opporiu. =.
nifty TO carry on a little love making to a very
pretty girl, by signs. However the proneness
of old people to sleeping, and young ones to
making love, is not peculiar to Nash county.
The hotels in Wilmington m US, be very bad
ly kept, if was rightly informed that the Ca
rolina Hotel was the best. l do not believe
ever stopped at one so uncleanly, and where
| there was SO much confusion and so little COM
fort. The rooms are neglected, the servants
are awkward and slovenly, and the cooking is
miserably bad. The weights to the doors are
black bottles, filled with sand, or something
else. The yard is filthy in the extreme so,
that a gentleman, just from the breakfast table,
if his stomach was at all delicate, would be
most likely forced to vomit on entering it,
Tlere were, perhaps, $50 people to breakfast,
and there were enough servants to have waited
on double the number; yet, from the want OF
system, they were not attended to. Confusion
prevailed, and the wonder is the waters did
not knock out each others brains. Ii the Ce.
rolina is the best hotel in Wilmington,
should, from mere curiosity, like to see how
bad the worst is.
At Enfield, N. c., saw a frightened horse.
He was q scrub-with pestie.tail and a
crooked blazed face-tied to rack. The trains
NEE; there. Our train was first. 1t struck
terror to the scrub. He glared wildly and
snorted-he turned to the right and the left,
and lifted his tail aloft. UneasTy did he shift
from side TO side, the full length of his bride.
By and by came on the second train. The
horse snuifed il in the breeze, and his excite
meRt increased as it came on. wish | could
describe this terrified animal as faithfully as
old lob did the horse that turned not back from
the sword, and said hal ha! to the trumpets.
Butt cannot do justice to this excited animal.
1t was evident his alarm was about to burst out
in some mad caper. With lifted tail, fiery
| eyes aud disended nostri!s, he beheld the ad-
vance of the second terrible iron horse-he
stood until the engine got between US, and l
saw no fnore of that horse. When the train
passed. there remained about three inches of
| bride around the pin to which he had been
tied
The Cape Fear river is raviga5le fof coast.
| ing vessels TO Wilmington but at its mouth
there are shoals which make it's entrance some
what troublesome TO the mariner, especially as
| the shoals are ever shifting. new inlet was
| pointed out TO me as having been made not
very long since through Smiths Island, which
lies at the mouth of Cape Fear river. There
is light and fort at Cape Fear. There
seems TO be world of sand there. The waves
Of the ocean, beating against the shore, have
thrown up vast bodies Of white sand in the
| most fantastical shapes. They glisten in ibe
Gun like hills of snow. On the river, below
Wilmington, there are several fine rice planta-
| tons
| have written long letter without saying
any thing about Charleston. This must de-
| fer to another short letter. ID.
Correspondence eff the Dispatch.
CHARLEsTos, Feb. -.
My DEAR DISPATCH The city ofCharles.
| ton is one of the Oldest ofthe Atlantic cities
II is intimately blended with the history Of the