Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-18
FROM THE SOUTH.
FROM our own Correspondent

From our own Correspondent
GoLDsBoRoI, N. c.. Dec 10, 1865
Golds59ro and the Country around it-Prices Of Land
Of things since 1SGO-R -Raaroods s-CSndifion Of The
| Poorer Class Of Whites and the Fesd,ae1l-Schooi
!?r the freed PeopteT,PoitieaI Oliaioas-EmiVra-
ttoa Of Lolored People, DC.
Goldsboro is the capital Of Wayne county, and is
situated on elevated plain The soil here and in
the country around like all that part of the State
east and much of it south and north of this Mace is
| a sandy loan. in many place. fertile but for The
greater part not rch 10 say the NEST The best lands
can be bought for thirty dollars per acre and inferior
Tor prices ranging from four five dollars upwards
Cotton and tobacco in this neighborhood and west
ward, are the main staples. The cotton is of short
country between Goldsboro and the Atlantic spread
the large pine forests which produce the turpentpe
tar and rosn the great staples Of the coast part Of
this State In this pine section the land sells very
cheap-even so low in some parts, am told as from
two to three dollars. NJ any persons who do not own
land iarln these turpentne crops paying stipulated
price for each thousand trees. I remember meeting
IN car on the Weldon and Wilmington Railroad
boosted that he had made the year before. by his
crop from the trees, three hundred and fifty dollars
2ddng that he had 70 one 70 help higi but little boy
and he
Need. but little here 5eIo,o"
=, This farmer also informed me, in manner which
showed that he expected me to be very much i'm
pressed by his statement that the construction Of the
railroad had had the surprising effect Of raising the
Prlce OF the lands adjoining it to Ue d0Gys per
No doubt that man would have been much amazed
at the price per acre paid for our Druid Hin Park.
Goidsborc' contains about two thousand inhabi-
tants, and is regularly laid out in wide streets inter-
sectng each other alright angles Many of the streets
are are bordered with trees When was here in June,
lNU, the town presented very pretty appearance,
the trees being IN full leaf and the houses all looking
neat and many handsome Now the trees are leaaess
and the outward appearance OF the houses is ne
elected; everything has desolate and decaying look.
Every ybody whom here in that last visit before
the war seemed to have something to do; there was
an expression Of business less upon all faces
Now white idlers loter about the streets throngng
tho dooEways Of the hotel and drinking eaoonsi and
black dlers gather in and about the railway depot
day and night clustering around open fires. now and
then some one OF them picking upon the strings OF
while Others with no look Of neTrment, dance the
jig. Sadness appears to reign mcst supreme. There
are some exceptions however but hearty laugh is,
L assure you, u rather rare thing here.
The principal street of Goldsborough is very wide,
and some four or five railroad tracks pass through its
North Carolina and the Atlantic Railroads carry and
bring travel ers and freight to and from north,
SOUTH east and west. This town was in fact brought
into existence by the railroads, The old county
town, Waynesboro, about mile from this place, is
entirely deserted: not dwelling house is inhabited
statement published month or so ago in some
of the New York naDers enticinofed an awful win
ter for the poorer white people and the freedmen in
this ncighborhood. am glad to learn that the con-
dlon OF those classes has since that stat ement
published, been much ameliorated. | have thi. in
formation from many persons who arc well situated
l0r forming correct judgment IN the matter. DIR.
CLAWS. who has charge of the Frecdmen's Bureau
Office here has politely furnished with statistics
Nnlcn provo tHAt tne negro population, least,
much better OH than they were few months ago.
lie tells me that the average number of rations per
month issued from the establishment Of his Office here
to the end oi August. was about eighty thousand in
September, eight thousand; October seven thousand
November five thousand. Ho thinks that there will
be some but not much increase the winter advan-
ces. The suffering at time, the Doctor tells
me. very great. He mentioned a case where in one
house two negro women died Of starvation and two
others were discovered barely in time to be saved
There was aIsU, he said, much suffering, no doubt
among the whites but that they were mostly. he sup
poses too proud TO ask help considerable number
of rations were also issued by him TO needy Whtes.
The Doctor mentioned the of an old gentleman
who had once occupied position of considerable
social standing and was justice OF the pence. who he
learned had for days nothing for himself and large
family to eat.
DR.. CLAWS thinks that generally speaking the con-
dition OF the freedmen and the poorer class of whites
ia not so bad in the interior; he gives that
the floating population there is not SO large con
fess that cannot see the force Of this reason The
doctor says that the negroes very anxious to
ceiye the benefits of education. The first school
opened here for the freed people had but teacher
"a eOlored man-and yet three hundred pupils en-
tored at once. The same school has now three
teachers, and the number of pupils ha, been steadily
increasing. Evening classes for the colOred people
are also we'll attended.
] have cOnversed with number of intelligent gen.
tleIen from different parts of this State vino ar
dently supported the Confederate cause in council
and in battle; and they were, with but one excep-
tiun unanimously in favor of extending to the col
ored race the advantages of education and of con
teTTns them at once all the rights of citizenship
except the right of suffrage. have not yet met
Immediate conferrng upon the negro Of the right Of
suffrage
There appears to be butlittle disappointment the
refusal to admit to Congress the Southern members
eject. Every one seems TO have been prepared for
what has happened. Almost everybody has faith in
the honesty of the purpose o. President Johnson and
his desire TO temper this wind" TO the conquered
There seems to be an almost universal desire 10 get
back into the Union, under the state Of things
soon possible
| have heard but one opinion as To the Presidents
Message, from NUrtherners Dor there are many Of
them all through this part of the South and South
erners; ali highly approve of every part Of it. 1t is
undoubtedly of the most lucid and best written
State papers whrh have read.
The white and cOlOred population get along to-
gcther better than | had expected Prejudice, how
ever, are naturally greater between them than before
the abolition ofsayery and these will and then
show themselves in action. This moment, while | WAS
writing the last paragraph OF this letter, incident
Of this kind occurred at the railroad depot fronting
this hotel.
A riotous disposition exhibiting itself there among
negroes-s0me of the discharged soldiers-cath-
cred there the captain of police here nteTferr 10
preserve Order The negro soldiers resi- ted and drew
reyolvers; one of them even fired pistol. As the
police of GoldSbor0 consists of but eight members.
the aid Of tho white Federal soldiers stationed here
called in, and the two ringleaders among the
colOred soldiers were arrested and now in jail.
By the bye eolored people waiting for transporta
tioN crowd the railroad depot here every day. Their
beds boxes and various rOndescript articles Of bag
they gather to cook and eat their food. These
mostly making their way to the cities on the coast
some OF them aiming to go further North
Nv next letter will be from Raleigh DRIDSIS.