Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-09-28
For the Standard.
A VISIT TO BEAUFORT.

MEssRs. EpITnRs: Having returned from most
delightful as well advantageous visit to Beaufort
and feeling under great obligations to the salnbrors
air, and many delights of that good old town, well
a. to the courtesy and kindness of the entcrprizng
proprietors of the Atlantic House. Messrs. Fender
4 Page, I wish, through your instrumcntalitv, to
acquaint my fellow.ctizens of this COOL old State
with the advantages which many Of them forcgo,
when they seek, beyond their own borders, health
or enjoyment.
It is melancholy to reflect, Messrs. Editors, how
little real patriotism Carolinians have nowith-
standing all our boasting and sectional indignation.
We sit at home in the winter. nursing our wrath
against the North and exhauSting our eloquence in
behalf of Southern rights and Southern wrongs yet,
at the approach of summer gather up our silver
and gold to lavish them on our arrogant and presn
ming neighbors, who pretend to cxalt themselves
above us, or those from whom we suppose we have
suffered wrongs while We abandon our own States
interests and leave it to jog in the old sad dull
way, without advantage or advance from our zeal or
patriotism. 1t is time We awoke from this apathy
and indifference to appreciation of the noble and
numerous advantages of our grand old State.
In an eminent degree Beaufort is of these, rs
a resort for health sca-ba,hing recreation, and en-
joyment.
l do not see why Beaufort is not equal to Old
Point, Newport. or Cape May. as place of summer
resort for health, sea air, and bathing. We Caro-
linians need selfrcspect and sefrcliancc Prompted
by these, we should soon realize the mistake We are
making when we abandon native priyi eyes
for those of our jealous neighors BIT let ME give
you brief sketch of our trip to Beaufort
1t was an easy journey Of about nine hours by
Railroad, from Raleigh to Morchead City on Shop
herds Point. Three miles before reaching the Point
We entered Carolina City, on Boguc Sound, AMI as
our iron horse drew up in front of the splendid hotel
of that place. band in the balcony Str;,ck up Hail
Columbia" sending thrill of pride and patriotism
through our hearts. Other inspiring strains re-
CALLED our hearing, while the train halted to dis
charge and receive passengers for and from this
place We then proceeded through Morchead City
to the extremity of Shepherds Point, where steam
boat waited to receive the passengers Cor Beaufort
1t was but step from the cars to the boat as they
almost touched each other. 1t was cloudy night
and as the wheels threw up the foaming waters,
brilliant was the phosphoric light therefrom, our
boat appeared moving along pathway of billowy
flame, not red but silvcrlke, amid the snowy FOAM
As we moved out into tire dark waters of the Sound
the stars appeared to have fled from the imprison-
ing clouds, and descending, ranged themselves
landmarks of the occan-god in groups here and
there on the dark horizon, along the shoals and
points, to light his coming votarics to his nvigora-
ting breath and health-givng DO om
In simple language, there were two lighthouses,
a beacon light on the coast throwing their radiance
across the sound, (embcms of hope) torches of MI
merous fishermen on the shoals and islands while
myriads of lights from either town. lent brilliancy
and magic to the scene
Beaufort and Morchead are only two miles apart,
in near view of each other. And here new and
novel scene awaited us. The boat was at the wharf,
when one of the polite proprietors of the Atlantic
House conducted us to a light sailing boat, which
of 1,J
our welcome along the way to that wavcgirt dwell
ling. We assembled the piazza from the boat, and
found ourselves at home literally encircled in the
arms and breathing the breath of the giant can
The breeze was perfectly delicious, and we could not
but realize that We had indeed arrived at the anti
podes of a burning rock covered SOIL beneath sum-
mer sun. when the leaden spirit of sultry air brood
ed in torIil languor over the abodes of fantng
mortals, hopelessy signing for one breath of cool,
refreshing air. "Oh! would that cur dear ones at
home were here" We cried "to breathe this life
giving, delicious air." 1t was very difficult to per
suade ourselves to exchange our seats in the piazza
for the couch of reposc But then came sopth;ngy
to our ears the lullaby of the ocean waves, as in
measured cadcnces they rolled around us. We slept
delightfully."- in the cradle of the Deep amid the whis
perinss of that "sweet south wind" and awoke re-
freshed and invigoratcd
The first impulse was to throw open the lattice
and gaze upon the most sublime of all earth's
scenes-the boundless ocean. There it was right
before US. There were the mountain waves rolling
up in perpetual succession, and bursting in snowy
wreaths upon the shadows of the Sound
The Inlet is between Fort Macon, on an island
distant some two miles from the opposite bank, and
here chain of upifted waves are moving perpetr,-
ally. like living creatures, in the distance; some
capped with snowy foam, and others dark as the
caves of the deep from whence they rolled
Now white sail appears, pursuing its way in
mldocean and now is lost in the distant, immeas-
urable cxpanse of waters Next comes bounding
barque across the towering waves then gliding calm
~ within the haven to its destined port. Steamboat
after steamboat is next behed throwing up its dark
columns of smoke in the calm, bright morning air,
while its merry bells proclaim its coming or depart
ure. Light sailing boats dart perpetually across the
view, glide in gentle gale to the enliveniny notes
Of lutte or horn They touch the steps of our piazza
with inviting almost irresistible, attractiveness
But now comes the breakfast bell to remind US Of
another sense of nature to he gratified beside
our spcllbound sight (now riveted on the beautiful
and enlivening scene before us.) We enter an Gle
giant and spacious reflection room and speedily real
lze that the sense of taste is layshly provided for
In short every delicacy of the teeming deep is spreac
before the guests provocative Of appetite Delicate
y fried fish Of various kinds oysters scalops crabs
and clans following from the fire in rapid success
sion, smoking hot, and vanishing before invalids o
every sort, among whom are dyspeptics who, be
fore scarcely partake of the simplest food Vial
and pill boxes are thrown aside, and the delicat
though luxurious fare of the Atlantic House is ran
idly, and much more surely and agreeaby, renoya
ting digestive organs and otherwise enfeehled con
stitutions The attentions of the proprictors are IN
RENTED while the amable lady of the first Of tn
Firm presides with the utmost courtesy, kindness
and oollgingness. so that every one who enters tn
Atlantic is at home, which is another word for har
piness or content.
A bathing house is attached to the piazza of tn
southeast wing of the hotel so that it is very COZ
venient Of access and every facility and attention
afforded for bathing, at no additional expense to tn
1oarders The ocean waves, at high tide, roll in d.
hc,ousy upon the bathers, inyigorating as we'll 8
delighting them. And what, with the salt air. Sc
bathing and delicate wholesome fair of the Atlant
House, invalids are rapidly restored and returned
Their homes, capable Of resuming their long suspe
ded duties, instead Of remaining listlcss Objects
care and anxiety as before their visit to Beaufort
The proprietors of this most commodious. cor
Portable and well conducted Hotel have sn,roj ,