Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-08-28
A Trip to Beaufort.

Trip to Beaufort.
Persons going from Raleigh to Beaufort leave in
tbe nine o'clock train in the morning. reach Colds
borough at half past eleven get dinner, and remain
,bout one hour and half Departing in the At
,,nt;c cars they reach Newbern about four o'clock,
where they remain fifty minutes. Thence for Caro-
In. Civ, which is reached about six o'clock. More
ho.d City, about two miles further on, is the point
from which the steamer plies with passengers for
Beaufort, the distance being two miles in straight
line and four miles by water from Morehead to Beau
hrt Carolina City is on Bogue Sound, seven miles
from Beaufort by water.
Beaufort fronts upon the sea, the inlet being but
i. few miles off in a southeast direction. Directly
in front of Beaufort is Fort Macon, across the main
channel. Beaufort contains from twelve to fifteen
hundred inhabitants.
There are few small houses at Morehead City,
formerly Shepard's Point The Atlantic Road ter
inmates at this point having been built out to deep
water about quarter of mile. The Railroad Com
pany is constructing wharf at the terminus of the
Road from which vessels can be loaded at once and
with the least inconvenience
at Carolina City, kept by Messrs. PARROT & Bright,
who spare neither attention nor expense to render
their guests comfortable. There is turnout on the
Railroad from Carolina City to the Company's wharf
on Bogue Sound, and also landing place opposite
the Hotel for passengers from Morehead City and
Beaufort. Two vessels lying at the wharf while
we're there. receiving cargo of rosn for
New York, and the other having just arrived with
CARGO we believe, of Railroad cars, &c.
There are three Hotels in Beaufort, the Front
Street House, the Carteret House, and the Ocean
House. The two former are kept by Messrs. Pen
der & Whitfield, and the latter by Mr.. G. W. Taylor.
We stopped at the Carteret House, where the rooms
are for the most part Indifferent, but the table
cellent The rooms at the Front Street House
generally good with the advantage over the Carteret
House Of fine sea breeze, the Front Street House
being situated Immediately on the water, within
thirty feet of high tide. The Ocean House is also on
the water and is well conducted. There are bathing
houses near the Hotels, where those who desire it
can plunge unseen into the briny and refreshing
flood; or they can repair to the Fort beach or to
Shackelford's banks and enjoy the surf, which thun
ders continually on the shore.
The people of Beaufort are hosptable and nteli-
gent and omit efforts to render visitors comfort
able. By the next season it is expected that a
Hotel on large scale, fronting the sea, will have
been erected, capable of accommodating from four
to five hundred persons.
There is provision for the accommodation of
visitors at Morehead City; but this place and Caro-
lima City afford all the advantages enjoyed at Beau
fort Of sea breeze and bathing The exertions of
Messrs. Parrot Bright to render their guests
comfortable, cannot be too highly commended but
We think it probable that while their house will con-
hnue to be well patronized, the main stream of Wis
hors will still tend for time, if not always, to
Beaufort
Every "delicacy of the season was on the table
While We were there. Fish of all kinds, oysters,
crabs, together with dishes, condiments, and fruits
Of all kinds which we have in the interior, served
up In manner to tempt and satisfy the appetite.
Nothing can be more refreshing or invgorating than
Inc sea-breeze in the evening, especially after day
spent IN active sports by land or water. At times
our'ng the day, owing to the heat, one is languid
and inclined to sleep, and a very comfortable nap
may be obtained, if the room be open to the admis-
o'SS0S1
mas FULLY set in, so invgoratng is the sense of it
and so light the spirits that sleep is secondary
consideration. We met young friend, of exem-
plary habits by the way, who assured US that he
got along comfortably with only four hours sleep
per night We thought we perceived "a lady in the
case but he assured we were mistaken, and OF
course We admitted the mistake.
Ihe average number of visitors at Beaufort and
.arolna City we reckoned at about three hundred;
Outn ey are continually arriving and departing, and
'anglng from place to place, that it is not easy
10 ascertain the precise number. At times during
sae season we presume there hsye been as many as
1--WE hundred at the two places. The steamer Pamp-
.'0 runs regularly between Washington and Beau.
'or1 and while we were there the steamer Curlew
arrived from Nag's Head with some sixty passengers
we saw persons at Beaufort and Carolina City from
"e counties Of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Wake, Edge.
s0moe, Wilson, Cumberland, New Hanover, Beau
wi. craven, Lenoir, Wayne, Greene, Johnston. Pitt
v"slo~' and Hyde. Nearly every visitor was a
IO''n-Carolinian. We are gratifed to see our PEG.
p,e turning their attention to their own watering
aces Three excellent places of resort are open ia
g saen on the sea- to wit Beaufort, Nag's Head and
N%'hVllle; while in the interior. and hundreds Of
A.'es from the sea, mineral waters of the highest
=, "'ue and mountain scenery surpassed nowhere on
'e continent, invite them to recreation and enjoy.
'"' Our ocean breezes are as pleasant and in.
"soratng, our mineral waters are as abundant, Al
ed in their qualities and a. full of life, and on,
=, are as grand and imposing as those o.
'"er states; and superadded to this is the consid
s ,a.0n that wherever we wander in our good OLD
.ns We ARE AT HOME, grasping . brothers hand
,aO N "ngl'ng with as fair women, Is constant, a,
e"s' and as pure as the son shines on. W,