The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30

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who distinguished religion from its counterfeits
with more universally or correctness.
How they live i'm the South.
We take the following picture of southern life
from letter written by "Ostego' to the Cleveland
Herald:
There is not between Wilmington and Wash
ington n single depot house at the terminus of the
railway lines, nor single station house on the road
At Richmond you are landed in the street. drawn
IN omnibuses one mile and dropped in the street ;
and at Petersburgh the same thing; the distance
between the two roads being about mile. At
Petersburgh the mails and baggage are drawn
from road to the other by contract and the day
l came along. two negroes with ..spke team''
were just one hour and fifty minutes in doing the
JoD' while the passengers were patiently waiting.
It was cold, rainy day, and all the passengers
were crammed into an old dIapidated two-horse
omnibus, and hauled along at slow walk. This
was the express mail train, and to see two nggers
taking their own time 10 transport the mails and
trunks, none OF the conductors Or railway employ
ees Offering to "lend hand" or expedite the
work. was leetle vexatious to man of Yankee
habits and bottoms.
| Well, we reach Weldon near the northern line
OF North Carolina and here you 6nd two taverns
and h'e or SIX hus. At the tavern you get good
ham and greens, hoe-cake, shad, fat oysters, and
enough that is good to eat and drink From We'll
don to Wilmington (162 miles) there is good r
railway, on which you average about TWENTY-FIVE
miles an honr, but the entire distance, with scarce
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barren waste-yes, 'pilch pine barren waste" L
had heard and read of this ''turpentne and tarr
region, but to justly appreciate it, it must be seen
! Last Wednesday traversed pitch pine section.
two hundred miles in extent-for the yellow pine
1 lands commence before you reach Wedon--and
along 'hls whole distance not solitary water saw
or steam saw-mi is TO be seen, while the tall and
straight yellow pines line each side of the road the
entire distance, tficky as do the naples in anv
sugar orchard grove in the Northern States. For
two hundred miles, very few dwellings are to be
| seen, and these few are made of hewn pine logs.
| resting upon blocks of timber two or three feet
from the ground, affordng shelter for hogs, hens,
and other unclean things. The chimnevs are in .
Variaoly made OF clay and sticks, and the people
that burrow in these habitatons look very unlike
human beings. The land is too poor to raise
white beans or buckwbeat,' and | saw no attempt
even at this lowest attempt of the agricuturalst-
The labor and enterprise of the people uiopg this
extended region of two hundred miles, are dsvo
ted to the getting of turpentne and the making of
tar and rosin. -.- -,-
The tall straight pines, averaging about eight
cen inches through, for miles and miles stand with
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from the entire body of the trses save narrow
strip of three four inches, and some six or eight
feet from the roots the turpentine oozes out upon
this barkless surface and is scraued off boiled and
made into spirits of turpentine, resn, &c. The
| ''fat" pine knots are burned yielding rich pro-
duct of tar. The pine trees, thus nearly girdled,
live five or years, yielding turpenlipe from the
same sold sore' each year, and then are replaced
by second crop of pines, of equal size and mum
bers. in about ten years. This is the main busi-
ness of the people of this portion of North Carroll
ma. There roads, carriages stage coaches
or vehicle of any sort. save few rickety horse
carts of domestic manufacture. The few horses
and cattle to be very sorry looking quad
rupeds, and the hogs are so thin that two would
hardly make shadow. In all my wanderings over
earth's surface, l have nowhere seen such appar
rently co,nforiless, wretched and dirty looking
"God-forsaken'' people who claim to be civilized
Between Weldon and Wpshington,,he only pa.
ces that indicate the presence of civilized humani-
ty, Halifax and Goldsboro. Only one pas
senger was received the whole dstance--no en-
CINE or station houses-no lamps at the turn -outs
and water tanks, but big niggers upholdiug 81 bla-
zing pine knots" --,-=l
Wilmington is pretty town of some 10 600 in
habtants there are many very elegant residences,
churches, stores, steam saw mills, turpenIine and
rosin manufactures, two taverns and rich rice
plantations upon the Cape Fear river. 1t is town
of the largest business in the State. The rnarke,
is fair index to the surrounding country and the
people thereof and l would that you had been
with me last Thursday morning in the market O.
the commercial capitol of the sold North S;ate >
Here were gaunt raw boned men and womsr
who had come in from the country twenty, thirty
and forty miles, with one horse carts. mostly un-
tired, and all made with dull axe The horses,
small. and TOO poor for turkey buzzards the harnes
ses made of hits of straps and ropee and horse col
lnrs made of two crooked sticks with moss and
raps tied round with strings, These carts are coy.
:, ered with sheet hanket' and'cont3an chtckens
,prkess, butter eggs peanuts, vegetables Sc. but
tbs entire load of 10 cart is worth over five
8 doIlars-the average bring nbout three dollars
The man and wife RE generally together, bring a
long feed for themselves and beast, and sleep IL
L their own cart. Chickens were thirty cent
apiece, eggs twenty cents dozen, milk ten cent
quart, and yet these shiftless people would only
have from four tc six chickens, dozen or two o
eggs, two or three pounds of dirty butter aud
8 few pea nuts. OF course, eating in such coun
try. at a table furnished from such a market and b,
, such people, is matter of necessity and not q
9 choice.