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Show NORTH CAROLINA. Tliu State and Har People. Their Ignorance, Honesty, Peculiarities Peculiar-ities and Poverty. BKAfisrowH. N. 0., Ftb. 6:h, 79. Editors Herald: Stretching out on either eido of tbe main chain of mou'itaiua called the Blue Ridge, lies a aectioo ol coun try so rough and rugged that railroad engineers have never had tbe temerity to make an eQort to croae tbe continuous con-tinuous chains that well merit tbe name of mountains; especially ia this true ot that eeclion of country lying weatot tbe Blue Ridge, nkiititig North Georgia, East Tennessee and embracing embrac-ing West North Carolina. Tbe mountain moun-tain raDges run nortb-eaBt and southwest, south-west, divided by narrow irrpgular valleys of good Uud, well watered and limbered. The atone ia principally aaod stone, with an abundance ol alale. With aDy chance for communication com-munication with lhe outside world, their elate quarries would be valuable. Copper veins are being worked to advantage in some localitiea, while the eouthern incline of tbe range produces gold in paying quantities. The native growth ot timber consists ol oak, beech, poplar, tpruce and wbite pine, chestnut and hickory witn a plentiful growth of laurel, holly and ivy for tvergreea. The mountain eidea ftad valleys are or have been covered with a deosegrowth of tbia limber, and it Btili exiotj in great abundance, much oi it inao ceBstble on account of tbe rugged character of tho mountain Bided. AppleB, peaches and plums grow and do well, especially the two former whioh are produced in great abund ance, and variety. Corn, potatoes, ewect and Irish; peae, beans and vegetables generally grow to fiooi advantage, ad-vantage, and the largest, fintst ears of corn 1 have met with in tha south, have been grown on the bill aide farms of ihis niouniam country, where tho continual washing ot nature's deposit from the tops of tbe mountains tortus good aoil that pro duces (air wheat and excellent corn. The character of tbe Block ia not the best, neither the worat. There are Borne gocd horses and mulee with but i taw eontl cattle. Quite a tiadeia car-1 ried on driving horseB and mulea lo South Georgia and Florida, where a market is found for them od tho extensive ex-tensive cotton plantations of those sec- lion?, but king cotton bus suffered bo Eeverely of late years, from the j general depreesiou of bueiness.that hie subjects are not so flush of money oa1 in former years aud cannot ullord tol buy the tine Btock that once carried j the planter across biB plantation, and j as a result I bear the cry ol bard times J away here, Uoluted from the great marts of trade and tiie buay bum of metropolitan life. Tbe farms are not large aud possibly I not more than an acre iu four isj Busceplible of cultivation, aod very ! much of that is, figuratively spe.ikiug, j on tdge. The farmers live in hewed1 log bouses, generally epcakinp, with 1 slack chimneys, containing nlmost; euough stone to build a lair siz-dl i house, if properly laid up a large1 operj fireplace taking in a four-foot' stick of wood, doep and capacious, I 1 lhat on a cola winter's night throws1 out beat, like tbe open dcor of a great furnace, the wood crackling and poppirjg, the flames roaring up the open moulhed chimney, and the good wife cookmg com pone.1, boiling colTee and frying meat iu the corner. The people are primitive aud plain iu their Btyle of drtss and living lo an extent that wouid nonplus a hightoned citi- zen of conveulional eotiety. Free I and easy munusra all around are the order of the day, aud, "are you otout to-day?" is the common, salutation from both sexes us they meet aud greel each other patsiug to and fro. There eeema to he but little chance from the good old way our fathers trod among these people. They Beetn kinder and more charitable one to another, Bocially, politically and re lieicusly, than any others I have traveled among in the stales, diflerent denominatioDB holdiug service together to-gether under tbe same roof, aud the rather novel eight was witnessed a day or two ago, a couple of Baptist ministers minis-ters uniting with a minister of lhe Methodist church in inviiiog a ''Mormon" ''Mor-mon" elder to preach to their cougre-galion, cougre-galion, at a union appointment, the Caivinist, the Method ist aud the Latter day Saint ail moving along harmoniously together, paitiLg with good feelings and wishing each other well. No new (angled notions of modern religious iduas have fouud a foot- bold here. A eemi - spiritualist spirit-ualist passed through here some years ago, aod to-d-y, the people only know him as the "Rubbing Doctor," who by Borne magic incantations, like unto Simon Magus of old, worked cures and doue magic works. Darwin, Huxley, atd Tyndall are as litt'o known as the the fabled man of the moon, and their theories are unexplored unex-plored ground to the average North Carolinian.while honeety, square dealing deal-ing and sociability are the grand ttBla oi a good man. J. M. |