Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-04-30
For heJournal.
CoLUMBgs, Gxo.,
April 20th, 1865.
HessrS. Fulton & Pries-

Nessrs Fulton & Pries-
Dear Sirs: We have very weather just now. This
place perfect nest of workshops and factories
There least 5000 people here living under govern
ment employment. The Naval Iron Works employ near
200 hands representing perhaps 100 families. They build
engines for the boats from Savannah to Mobile and at this
time erecting still larger rolling mill to roll the heavy
almost formidable the Herrimac-bu of light draft.
Everybody here is trying get rch and many
a little she'd making and mending swords. Now,
under Government patronage and contracts he IL
making large quantities Of rifles and preparing all kinds Of
ordnance stores The Shoe Shops also
almost exactly like Richmond, and the water power from
tas falls almost as good The large cotton and WOODEN
nearly s the other establishments by steam Provisions,
&C. perhaps not high in Wilmington, except -four
peas sas White do to 81 per busbel some writer
has said that Atlanta city ar Macon one
This emphaticay working city The population larger
betore-the Single rooms,
per month board from IS dollars per mouth beef
from so to so cents river sucker about the size
cents to one dollar each. Three daily papers are
published here and all to thrive. Most Of our
wsslty men are taors and other working men who came
young command from $500 $3.50. Tobacco from
s3 to Sc per ID. smoking tobacco $3.50 1t went up an
hundred per cent week before last.
There good churches here, Rev. Mr.. Hawks
brother to Dr. Hawks of New York. of Baltimore is
the Ep acopal minister The Catholics have good church
end large congregation schools-they have no real
first class ones male or female. The morals Of the
place bad and public spirit weak that decent
of energy and talent afraid to venture The city
is perfect nest OF mechanics, specuators, and gamblers
famarly called SpcTtse here. There are hundreds and
thousands of dollars bet and lost and at faro every
night, and they the conscrpt officers of not enroll
ing the "sportsmen." Marylander, exempt though
living Virginia last 10 Is years. has been flourish
ing around here reliably informed that be has
furnishing substitutes Of under Is whom he
nves with nasmuch they have to anyway to put
slip Of in their shoes when they swear they are
49, with the words IS years of age &C.. written on it.
some people think there is devil. There ought to be
one and gslows too, for that man.
This town has GEO. people, There are several Mil
lions of dollars worth of cotton stored here singular
feature that they have market house. and to do
marketing requires all day to look up the carts and wag
ons You will see passing all the city with
stack up the end of stick, SO per bnshe The
bread you read about in this town. passed all of the
provision plumber dry goods store,
dispersed. AS yet there danger of suffer
ing here sthan before the The factory population
natives, dirty, hlhy, mean, low down in morals ant
everything ese They fare better than ever too They
get large wages and the factories sell hemhoes at -
pair and bacon 40 cents h. To preserve mora
and keep clear of sms and anacsm the South had better
remain in the long run what shs naturally is sgricui
tura people-so appears to Excuse my osspping
Very respectfully, yours in haste, q. A. W.