Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-11-22
STATE NEWS,
ISOWIES,

! QjALLA IONN--iL&lltTItAN1S- - ~ MI / TX
! Cherokee Indians Of this State have set
tied mostly OF QualIa Town, although they
are scattered over several counties. It lies
about fifteen miles from the State Turn
pike, ia q broken country. They have a
/ large church, and are quite respectful and
we'll behaved These sad and lonely look
| ing people enter church III a single file
! They sit very still, and rarely look up du-
| ring religious services.
| Their faces are painfully sad. They keep
very distinct from the white race, rarely
every intermarrying with them. 1t is moth
ing but the pure Indian, the copper color,
let black hair, and broad face and prOml-
nent check bones.
They dress mostly after the fashion Of
the plain, poor country people, o2ly cling
ing to the blanket and the moccasin shoes ;
the latter are made OF deer skin.
The word - Squaw" may carry some po-
etrv to the distance, but close at hand it
is very matter r-of-fact looking parsonage
Imagine low, medium sized loOElug, cop
per-colored woman, with very black, but
coarse. straight hair, matted, uncOmbed.
low down upon the forehead very broad
face, wide mouth wearing hOmespun
dress, stitches half an inch IN len 9Th, thread
coarse half covered with q blanket, u red
bandanna handkerchief over the shoulder,
dingy moccasins and, excuse me, DemOreSt,
no hoses, and you have Z Cherokee Squaw
before you ! [ know not what Pomatum
and Curling Irons might do for her, but
lust as she is there is precious little Of the
nymph about her.
! [ passed number Of movers from Davie
and other parts, on the way to Arkansas.
! If they would stay at homo and spend as
much time and money on their land III
| Davie county as they viii have to spend in
Arkansas, they would likely die as rich
/ here as there, and when they die friends
and relatives would bury them, instead of
strangers. But truth always has struggle
| before it gets to the light.
! [ have passed number Of CmigrantS on
! the road, returning from Texas. They
went out few years ago, but have come
| back far poorer than when they went
[ frequently see q handblu posted all
over this Western country, that think Is
of doubtful policy. 1t offers ali sorts Of
| inducements to emigrants from North Car
| olina to the Northwest. 1t is not patriotic.
| North Carolina suffers from no one thing
more, hardly, than from sparce popu-
| lation. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
would do much more for North Carolina
| if it would turn these bills up side down,
and make them read right the reYerse,
and give us people instead of taking them
| A gentleman in Waynesville offers for
sale three hundred thousand acres of Noun
tain land, ut one dollar an acre grazing
| land. Where are the people to fill up such
districts ?
! We have only to look to Europe for
| facts relative to the capacity of a square
mile for sustaining population. And whilst
the denseness OF population is carried to a
deleteriouS excess in Europe, it is never
| IL bot ha Ip n
sustaining more people than now occupy
our State.
With our advantages OF climate and soil,
over those of the Northern States, North
! Carolina could bear an increase of at least
three or four times her present popula
ton.
And what advantage would it be to US tc
have this increased ? Clearly the same ad
vantage that any country would reap from
having it's labor capacity and its capita
increased four fold. The loss of our labol
not only opens the way for new labor, bu
it is indispensable fiat we have it.
Many thousands of the present cleared
lands of North Carolina are now lying
waste for want OF labor, and they will con
tinue idle until there arises a vast increas
of force to till the soil.
Wolves, Bears and Deer still inger aloD:
this edge of civilization. l saw yesterda.
: the hide OF very large>black bear, kilie'
in the Mountains not far off. Wolves ar
more abundant. The Mountain trout /
qnite abundant but true to their wild in
: stinct, they are hardly to be found in thos
parts of the streams that border on the cul
tivated fields. they swim upwards to
wards the Mountains, and rather than hv
near the ploughman, even though the rive
, be wide and deep, they retreat to the sma
eddies OF the headwaters, and even ther
, seem very shy, ever darting away from til
. footsteps OF man.
l Pheasants abound on the ''Cowce" Mour
I tains. They seem not very shy. l &c
, near one before it flew. It grows near th
size of the old fashioned chicken-not th
Shanghai. It is brown, interspersed wit
= black
Deer are somewhat abundant and ven
son is no rarity, if one may judge by IL
l. number of hides he sees in some localltie
d The Indians bring in the skins to til
:" towns and trade them for dry goods, reser
i ingnotafew for their own shoes. They max
u the shoe first of one piece, with sea-
!" from the instep to the toe, and anoth'
down the heel; this is all. 1t is simp
bag with a hole to put the foot IN. Aft
II this shoe or moccasin gets somewhat set
the foot they then fasten on an outside so