Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-10-23
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, N. c., MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1857.

nag Getting back on the Manchester train this morn
ing from somewhat hurried trip to Charleston, we are
deeply impressed with the conviction that night spent
in the cars is not the best preparatve for day IN the
sanctum. But we must endeavor to get through WIN
the pressure " the best way we can
Visiting Charleston on purely private business we
had little time or opportunity to look around, and we
question if the result of exploration, had it been IN
Orr mower to make it, would have been sufficiently In
tereng pay for the trouble required The talk there
as here was about the banks and the money pressure
and eager groups might have been found at any time
during this week. in the neghbourhood Of Broad Street
and East Bay where most of the banking houses are
located Yesterday at noon some few of the banks still
held out but no questioned the fact that all must
eventually come into the measure of suspension.
The current of events in New York removes all doubt
on that score Business is merely name or at least no
sales could be effected without submitting to very heavy
sacrifices Some of the suspended banks were purchas
ing sterling exchange at low rates with their own bills,
thus relieving the market and providing for themselves
basis for future operations since the exchange will bring
the gold within ninety days In the present untixed
state of things there is counting upon anything as
certain but general SUSPENSION indeed we ought to say
universal, for it is general already.
But enough of this just Our readers are aware
that the much talked of North Eastern railroad has been
finished and is now in operation nomnay from Flor
ence on the Wilmington and Manchester railroad to
Charleston but really from Cheraw to Charleston the
North Eastern and the Cheraw and Darlington roads
being virtually the same, under the same management
The country from Florence down. is even less inviting
than that on any of Our low country North Carolina
roads They say that the best lands are of the road
However, the opening of the road shOrtens the dis
lance to be travelled between Wilmington and Char
lesion very decidedly. Being and unsettled, 1t
is still a hard road to travel at least rough one
It will take some freghtng business from the Manches-
ter as well as the South Carolina Road but to what ex
tent # NAV affect the former remains to be seennOt to
any great extent we think The bridge over the San
tee is on the same plan as that the Pee Dee On the
Manchester
good deal of building has been done in that part OF
Charleston formerly known as the Neck" and outside
of the old city mtsto the eye of stranger who sees
but the more central part of the city there but little
change The Mills House and the new Catholic Cathe-
dra are the most noticeable buildings that have been
put up within the last few years The Cathedral is
really noble Gothic sructure-much the finest IN the
city, and among the finest in the country, and the Mills
House is really elegant establishment and remarka-
bly, well kept by Mr. Nickerson
Uncle Sam is busy spending much money on new
white marble customhouSe on the bay about third OF
mile above the site of the present old affair. 1t will
be q very handsome building doubt, and an expensive
one certainly but will be away the water side among
sights and sounds and smells unhoy. The foundation
cost fifty thousand dollars.
The friezes of the Parthenon Ornamented with
the scuptured figures which appeared to march in pro
cession The friezes of the Charleston Market Houses
are ornamented with the figures of buzzards both ram
pant and couchant having certain grotesque architect
ura effect of their own.--Daay Journal, 18th INST.