Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-04-06
from the GrecnsboI ough Patriot
REAIJFORT HARBOR.

The following communication was intended for
our last weeks ISSUE but was not received in time.
We will be pleased to hear from Beaufort" fire.
quently:
MoREHEAD CRY, March 10, 1859.
EDITORS PATRIOT: As you are among the few Ed
itors of the State who have always endeavorcd to
give the Port of Beaufort the Importance it deserves
will give you what have this day witnessed. The
wharf as you know, is built upon iron screw piles
novelty in this country well as in Europe-and
is Just finished And the warehouse built thereon
and the whole structure for enclosing the wharf are
raised and will be under by the last of next
week. The arrangements here for loading and I'M
loading vessels and cars are superior to any thing
have ever witnessed, either North or South The
warehouses, being some ffty-fve feet narrower
than the wharf, and placed nearer one side of the
same the railroad track forks before reaching the
warehouse and a track runs on each side OF the
same and between it and the vessels lying at the
side of the wharf; that if the cars are ready, the
goods taken directly from the vessel and put d.
rectly on board the cars without any delay or cost
If cars are not ready, the goods which are valuable
and need locking up, are carried across the tracks
and put in the warehouse until the cars arrive
Those more bulky left outside the tracks on the
wharf, though not exposed to the weather, as the
whole is under cover, and enclosed by large sliding
doors running entirely round the wharf.
Here the steamer drawing twenty feet water, and
the locomotive weighing twenty thirty tons, with
its whole train may be along side each otter; and
this, too each side of the wharf at the time,
while in front other vessels may be loading or dis
charging cargocs.
For admirable arrangement Ihave never seen any
thing to compare to it. And it reflects great credit
on the Engineers who planned it and superintendent
its construction; on the Railroad authorities whose
wisdom and libcraty have done so much to facili-
tate commerce, and to the contractors for the admit
rable execution of the work.
Three vessels are lying at the wharf loading and
dscharging cargoeS to wit:
Schr. John Clark, Capt Sull from N. Y, with
merchandise. Cargo discharged and loading with
Naval Stores and wheat for New York.
Schr. E. j. Talbot Capt Pegram, from Boston,
/ loaded with lime; return cargo naval stores.
Schr. George D., Capt. Dill from Charleston,
loaded with salt, and to load with naval stores for
Baltimore. This vessel ran, l am informed, from
Charleston to Morehcad City in about 30 hours.
The above vessels arc lying at the wharf, loading
and discharging cargoes
\ barque of some eight hundred tons is expected
here tomorrow from Baltimore, chartered to take
five thousand barrels rosin direct to Liverpool a
portion of the cargo being now on the wlnlf
Schr. Oliver ii. Lea expected here in day or
two with merchandise from New York for western
merchants
\ fret ght train arrived this evening with fourteen
loaded cars and to load back with merchandise salt
and lime. Salt at 80 cents per sack, and lime at So
cents per barrel from vessels
| see a number of good houses going up, and the
population is rapidly increasing; indeed, there are
few places more changed than this since saw i,
some twelve months ago
found your townSlnan, Gov. Morehead here, tho
founder Of this city, the builder of the wharf ant
warehouse at the Eastern end of the Railroad. IIe
was giving direction and instruction to his work
men, some thirty in number, in his usual quiet way
lie is evidently gratitie, with this contamination o.
his wishes, the connection of the mountains with
the ocean by railway.
| shall be deceived if brilliant future docs moi
await this place.
saw various other vessels lying in the harbor at
distance; but learned particulars as to them.
! If remain here few days | may write to you
again. Yours truly,
! BEAUFORT