Steamboat Wilmington
(near Charleston Harbour,
Thursday Morning) , 27 Feb. 1845.
Dear Cobb, According
to promise I drop you a line, though I write on the boat where I am rocked and
shaken so I fear you can not read it. I have had a fine and comfortable travel
so far, and expect soon to take leave of the sea and its dangers. I never had a
smoother passage from Wilmington to Charleston. The wind was perfectly calm and
the sea at rest. Touching the stages, I ascertained that there is a daily line
from Raleigh to Columbia — two horse, I was told. It leaves Raleigh at 2 p. m.,
and after being out two nights arrives at Columbia at 8 p. m. the third
night. Another line leaves the Wilmington railroad at the breakfast house
Warsaw, for Fayetteville and Columbia. That is the best route, and it gives you
an opportunity of judging of the probable state of the weather — as you can pay
to that place, and then if the weather threatens to be bad you can take that
line. It leaves the railroad 45 miles from Wilmington; is a four horse coach,
but did not look to me as if it could carry more than six. It is a small and
slender looking North Carolina affair. But I can say no more.
SOURCE: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Editor, The Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1911, Volume 2: The
Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb, p.
68
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