Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-09-01

North -Carolinan. We gratiied to see our peo.
pie turning their attention to their own watering
places Three excellent places of resort are open to
them on the sea, to wit, Beaufort Nag's Head. and
Smithvle; while in the interior, and hundreds of
miles from the sea, mineral waters of the highest
virtue and mountain scenery surpassed nowhere on
the continent invite them to recreation and enjoy
ment Our ocean breezes are as pleasant and in
our mineral waters are as abundant as
varied in their qualities and as full of life and our
are as grand and imposing as those of
other States and superadded to this is the consid
Grafton that wherever we wander in good old
State WE ARE AT HOME, grasping brothers hand,
and mngling with as fair women, as constant, as
gentle, and as pure as the sun shines on. We
are not so fashionable 1t is true, as people in
other latitudes but worship of fashion repays with
the heartache, with blunted sensblites, and with
purse. North Carolinians choose ye
between the two. Continue to resort to Virginia,
to Saratoga, to Newport, and your own watering
places will langush, and your internal improve
ments deprived Of the revenue from travel which is
thus bestowed upon other communities, will barely
continue to 60 forward but be true to yourselves
and to your State-resort to your own seacoasts to
observe change for the better in the accommoda.
tions furnished-the hand of enterprise, sustained
by capital, will provide for US all that we seek else.
where, while at the same time we shall bring TO-
gether distant and different portions of the State,
thereby increasing the interest which we feel for
each other, and retain among ourselves for the ben
eft of our own lines of travel the large amounts
now poured out in the laps of other States.
We did not tarry long enough in Newbern to OBJ
serve the improvements which have been made, but
We noticed some shipping in the harbor, and learned
that the business of the place is increasing. The
greater portion of the freight which goes down from
Goldsborough is purchased and shipped from New
BERN The Atlantic Road is doing better business
than was expected. The travel on it the present
season is considerable.
We arrived at home on Tuesday evening last
feeling better every way than have for years. and
ready for the duties that await in the future On
our way home, some three miles below Newbern,
the passengers the train had a narrow escape
from serious injury. A cuvert about ten feet wide
was unfinished, the rails being sustained by wood.
work. Our impression is that the freight train,
heavily laden, which passed down the evening be-
fore, had depressed the rails over this culvert; and
as the train came up Tuesday, morning, the
plunge occasioned by the depression threw a part
of it off the track. We felt the plunge, the train
proceeding at the time about twenty miles an hour.
The descended and assembled, and when fairly
the culvert the baggage and passenger were
thrown partially from the track. The passenger car
dragged thirty forty yards over the sills
and rails but fortunately the tender broke from the
baggage car, and the latter from the passenger car
leaving the latter nearly on the point of turning
over. Ten feet more would most probably have up.
set the passenger car in which event the passen.
gers must have been injured Considerable alarm
was of course manifested, but beyond few slgh,
knocks and bruises no one was hurt.
NATIONAL FOUNDRY ON DEEP RIvER-We had the
pleasure Thursday morning of meeting Prof
Emmons, State Geologst, who had Just returned
from conference with the Commissioners appointed
by the Navy Department to examine and report up
on the expediency of establishing national foundry
on Deep River, in this State.
! The examination had been pretty thorough ant
! the Commissioners appeared to be pleased with th
iron Ores the coal, and the timber. A new iron BET
had just been exposed at Buckhorn belonging t.
Mr. Harrington, with the ore of which the Conn. is
sioners were mnch pleased This is the richest be,
! on the river, and contains more ore than any othe
| in one body. Mr. Evander McIver had also opened
near Egypt, seam of very fine coal, twelve inche
at the outcrop, and thickeniug to two feet. Eleve
inches at the outcrop will pay for working.
1t is impossible to anticipate the report of Com
Wilkes to the Navy Department. OF course tn
Commissioners will thoroughly explore the country
carefully consider the advantages, and the dsadvan
ages, if any, which will result from the establishment
of foundry at this point and then whatever repol
they may determine to make, they will in the NEAR
time keep their own counsel. We have the fulle:
confidence that the Deep River site will compar
favorably with any sites in Pennsylvania Virgins
or Maryland; and without intimating even tn
shadow of thought that either the very able boar
of Commissioners appointed to make this survey, {
the Secretary of the Navy, or any other departmel
of the government which may be charged with {
have control in this business, would Intentional
slight or overlook the advantages presented for tt
foundry by this State, still We trust we shall lo
nothing by the fact that we have uniformly claim.
less at the hands of the general government than tt
States referred to. People nowadays and Stat
days. as well as people, are apt to be heal
and to be proited by reason of much speaking
North Carolina does not belong to that peculiar or
er of States and while she will assail other Sta
interested in this location she at the time
poets justice for herself whatever may be said els
where against the advantages she presents for tt
} foundry.
The CRoPs.-The crops in Wayne, Lenoir, job
ston, Craven and Carteret, at one time very prom
ing, have been injured by the drought, but not
the extent which the crops have further west, whe
there has been less rain The dry weather still co
tinues with US, with little prospect Of rain. sor
four weeks ago our farming friends expected to gat