Wilmington journal., 1873-08-08
Hon. G. T. Shepley.
From the Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
North Carolina and Her Crops
Wilmington and Her People
HOW il Looks to an Outsider.

From the Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
North Carolina and Her Crops
Wilmington and Her People
HOW il Looks to an Outsider.
The writer took run as far north
as Wilmington this week, and saw
from the car window fine crop prom
ises for the intervening country. Cot
ton is small but healthy, and it sur
prises us to find it larger and better in
the Carolinas than below. Yes! We
saw cotton in North Carolina, larger,
more uniform and better cultivated
than any to be seen from the track
south of the Savannah river to Macon,
and if that is the way they are doing
generally, the Old North State will
beat Middle Georgia III the yield per
acre. Corn, too, was better between
the Savannah and Cape Fear rivers
than any to be seen in the same way
south Of the Savannah. Both are right
good crops for such land, and no
doubt have been literally fertilized.
There is another thing to be said
equally as cross and disagreeable. The
little towns on the roads above the
Savannah showed far more life and
Improvement than any below that
stream. New buildings could be
counted by the dozen in each one of
them. Tho fact is, Georgia has got to
wake up or be distanced by these I'M
| fortunate carpet-hag States. We hate
to say it, but ii is nevertheless true
that country don't look SO rusty and
ont ut the elbows as We do.
Wilmington is 20 be joyful" The
city is improving. The people have
got kind of progressive swagger,
7 1 T.,
| sively to big and little Chicagoans-to
the lucky holders of capital prize lot
| tery tickets or the heirs of venerable
aunts just about gone with pulmonary
consumption. They all look as though
they were making their pile or held it
| i'll certain prospect The city is going
ahead; has taken to iron fronts and
| four stories and boasts of a heavy
population.
Glow much ?" inquired I of Colonel
Davis, OF the Purcell House. "Why,
sir, saidIhe, Il reckon thetpopulation Of
| Wilmington at fifteen thousand dogs,
ten thousand whites, and thirty to six
| ty thousand niggers, according to the
season" ..How's that ?" "Why, sir,
when voting time comes, our negro
population is limited only by the ca
pacity for enumeration. If the day
was twenty times as long, there would
be million of them.
| Wilmington is said to receive forty
thousand bags of cotton, from the trib-
utary country, and what with the tar
and turpentine crop which still sticks
| to her, she is good for longer busi-
| ness season than these One-crop towns
like ours, which go to sleep as soon as
the crop is measured and sent off. She
has two crops and probably more
counting the herrings and sturgeors.
At all events, she is going ahead-this
side up with care.
And by the way, speaking of Col.
Davis, of the Purcell House, he is one
of those neil born to command q
line packet ship OF keep a hotel. His
hostelrie is as clean and immaculate
as Shaker church, and his bright
cozy dining-room evokes blessings
from the hungry regularly three times
a day. He is, as we said, ''to the
manor born" but he gained expert.
ence and reputation at the Mills House
| in Charleston, when that establish.
ment was in it's prime.
The old Wilmington & Weldon roaG
appears to be doing very heavy bust
ness, and is running the handsomest
and longest trains of bright, new pas
senger cars we have seen South of the
line.
Macon is now pretty much tabooeo
from the outside world. Going Nortl
or coming South you wait at least five
hours for purification, purgation, o.
whatever process may be necessary to
fit one to enter this region of country
Old McToodle, of the firm of Nc
Toodle, Blindeye & Hoinbritche:
(you know McToodle) well, McToodle
says the only chance for Macon now is
a series of balloon lines, located Al
surrounding points, and as soon as
the Graphic balloon is off for Europe
he will contract with the artists for {
requisite number to re-establish out
side connections.