New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-02

of,he Populatiou-Mrs. Whitaker n
Furveyor-A Coy Naiden-Mr. Myers
on Holden slavery n Source OF
Proft-DcnesticP icfures-E mbarrnss.
mcnts of the Slave MarIset-Barclays-
ville-Crops and Fruit-Averysborough
and Fayetteville, and the Intervening
Country Cross Crcek-Widow Wnd.
deil,s Iotei-The Effect Of Rmmors-A
Dayuerreotype Of n Southern Town
Col. Kcrwin ns a Civil NIagistratc-An
| Oatrege by His Men-Compiaints.
| from Our Special Correspondent.
| FAYETTEVILLE, y. c., July 30 1900.
A hundred and twenty miles on horseback
through pne.barens sandy roads. with one meal
day. and the thermometer ranging 100 degrees III 'o
shade is not pleasure excursion one would WISH 70
undertake every week. Such has been the journey! o
most part from Raleigh 10 this place
Following Mr. Gays instructions 10 make tour mo
the interior 10 observe and report the condition Of a
fairs left Raleigh on Wednesday morning In company
with Lieut. Col. Towlc and Capt Hackins of Cen
Amess staff aud two orderlies for ride to this place
going by the lower telegraph road and returning by
the upper or Sammervillc route. Our route took US
through portion of Wake Sampson, Harriet and
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Cape Fear River. We shah return on the west side
crossing the Cape Fear about midway between this
place and the capital Of the State.
remarkable feature of our journey was the absence
of travellers Going out Of town just in the gray Of
morning we met few country people coming TO mar
ket With dimnutivc loads OF melons and early produce
Some drive mule, others horse steer. Their vo-
hices are of the udest kind generally consisting Of
g lorr. txhta oh nj faVm
body of the cart few rough boards for the bottom and
perhaps two sides and tail board bold the produce
the dried corn blades for the animals fodder, and the
driver sitting on top. in some cases nearly the whole
family come to town walking behind their humble car
riages, and sometimes going barefoot 10 save tlcr
shoes nnt they enter the place.
As Raleigh is the chief and nearly the only market,
the farmers come from long distances often forty and
fifty miles. Not unfrequcntly they camp for the night
outside during the warm season. and arrange 70 be in
at dayight. The character of their arrivals ezcites
commseraton FOR both the beast and the driver They
arc the refuse horses and mules left by the army In all
cases poor, and sometimes scarcely seeming 70 have
power of locomoiion. The Government animals loaned
TO the formers are sometimes used haul their scany
crops TO market, but generally these too poor.
Travelling southwark we pass beyond the red
clay and pebbly soil Immediately around Raleigh. and
reach The light sandy region peculiar TO this part Of the
State. One unaccu,tomed to farming in such soil,
wonders how such often nourishing crops Of corn lind
sustenance. A few good farms. well laid ont, and
always fenced for the army has not passed this way
are met within eight and miles of the town. Be-
yond this the houses on an average three and ionr
miles apart and shrink 20 the Dimensions OF small
fa.mcrs with few notable exceptions.
light miles from Raleigh halted to eat our fast
lunch breakfast. Mrs. WHITAKER sold Us butter
milk. She had seen 10 coffee except very scanty sup
ply given her by the soldiers. There was 10 meat in
the house. The snoke.ouse had been stripped OF ba-
conhe barn and crib Of fodder and corn. The soldiers
had left them nothing. She fright glad The war
over, and hoped never to hear OF war again while
she lived. Two sons had been dragged into tho army
one Of them never 10 return. coy damsel listened
through partly opened door 10 the conversation be
twecr her mother aud clos Yankee To escape OBJ
seryaiOn she lodged away passed ont. This shy
ness was common among the young madens along the
entire route. They always ran away like scared part
ridges upon approach, and never back 20 be
introduced 10 engage In conversation. Their strong
instructive curiosity however, always kept them within
earshOt Of any talk going on.
Mr.. Myers, fifteen miles from Raleigh with q wife as
hOspltabe as she is corpnent, detained 10 dinner
and gave US the only square meal" lad during our
journey. They have been wellto.do farmers aud the
owners Of some thirty slaves, nearly all Of whom had
gone away Mr. VI. had been an Old Line Wing; was
a strong unon man, and continued 80 until he was
made secessOnist by reading The North Carolina Jour
HaL Mr. Holden had led him into that scrapc, and he
now thought u wrong that he should turn round and
abuse bis own pupils. lie exhibited yellow scraps Of
me Journal ten or fifteen years old or other papers
showing that the present Provisional Governor was an
original Seccssionist, whatever he might be now He
dId not think him any or better than Other po
eaps; and since he has the confidence of the Govern
ment lie would probably make the best Governor for
tie State that could be got.
Gov HOldens celebrated pledge Of the last man and
the last dollar" to carry the war for the overthrow
Of the Union familiar to all the ipelipeut neon
we met. 4 plain workingman, with something Of the
wag in his composition, remarked that Mr. Holden had
fully redeemed his pledge for lie was the "last man.
to go into the fight and his dollar was the last one
contributed to the cause Myers says he had long fore
scon the doom Of Slavery and the war that has ended
1t. lie always believed it right 10 hold EN- (slayes),
but it was wrong TO abuse en- II must be confessed
he said that masters worked their slaves too
hard ard infused thcm-givinG them no meat. This
was wrong. and lie didn't think Just God would
always permit the evil to continue. lie had PIT
end to 1t TO punish for nbnse OF the system
The only blacks working in his place two
women one ofthem with a large family Of children,
and simple minded woman who could only earn her
board The support Of the children and herself all
lie thought the mother could ask for her labor but he
intended 10 give her something by and by.
The children or nonsuppoting population. noticed