Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-04-19
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
North Carolina viewed by n New Yorker.


One of the editors of the New York Express wri tes
from Raleigh to his paper, among other things, the o
lowing views of
THINGS IN NORTH CAROLINA:
The good old North State is such staid State that
it is delight to look at land and people that have
not all run to seed like the poppy and that has really
some of the old stamina left. The have not reached
here, nor the oL0geS, the eS They hang mani or
murder and they whip thieves and robbers and put les
ser rogues In stocks and pories did our English fore
iathers or as did before we invented Pententiares
and Sing Sings to lock rogues up in. What is wonder
tu to say all men here of all parties while they boast
OF their lunatic asyums their deaf and dumb nstitu-
tlons &c, boast not less that they have not Penien-
tiary in the State! The rogues and rascals thew tell
u.s. quit them, that s quit the State after public ex-
pOsure in the pillory and stocks. Even New York
shun the practice of their profession in the
old North State, because no gentlemen like them
would wish to have broadcOth thus soed in the face of
everybody These relics of antiquity-these stocks
this plory-the thirtynne ashes laid on thefs back,
they reason, and ALL better Inventions not on y
for the correction but for the prevention Of crme than
all the penentares and prisons in all the other States
Are they right are we wrong? Have we pro-
gr"ssed backwards or do they need going ahead
PRIMITIVE STATE.
After few days tarry in Raleigh have come to the
conclusion that this is the only really fresh new
virgin State in the Union. mean not that its soil is
virgin that it is fresh like California or Min
nesotabut mean that it is novel, new, fresh, virgin
in its very antiquity. Progress has not got here
that s that Progress which turns things upside down
and inside out, and that poughs deep to turn all
the loan under and all the sand that loam The
politicians are not thieves robbers yet They do
not enter into politics just now to make money but
strange to say and this shows their vrginty for pleas
ure or for glory" The locomotive here, sputterng
all about, and putting his into the venerable
and 1ar-renoWned mountain region OF Buncombe,-but
the locomotive is not yet politician The State suot
Gridironed New York city fashion. Iftwenty Nol n
Carolina Senators, slavehodng rascas they are
to do what 20 New York saveholder-hating Senators
did in night and day session. all of them would go into
the stocks or the pory and receive 80 ashes in addi
tion-no such behind the age these Paris Con-
script of Buncombe! Every thing thus runs in this
od-fashioned, primitive way. The people speak the
Englsh-al of them,-that we in New England spoke
in our earlier days, as defined in old Perrys now aboI
ished dictionary, set forth in Websters A B G
spelling book, where the old found the rude boy"
&c. Stealing means stealing here yet! And lieing,
Icing A robber is robber whether dressed in broad
cloth Or rags! When lady is "out,' she is OUT"
not at the head of the stairs listening to hear who rang
the bell or who knocked at the door Blessed people!
Whatfa pity it is that on the railroads will sooner or
later come " the spirit of the age!"