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It will be observed by comparing the products of the different States, that in one article, Turpentine, (Naval Stores,) this State produces two-thirds of the total made in the United States.
Of course many of these annual products have been greatly reduced by the late war. And a large number of manufactures for domestic consumption are not specified— manufactures in wood, iron, leather, &c., as of buggies, wagons, agricultural implements, railroad machinery and rolling stock, shoes and many others.
MARKETS.
The distance to New York from the termini of the railroads and canals and from the navigable waters of the east, is about the same as that of the western part of New York State, and the facilities for reaching that mart are much greater—by railroad, by Chesapeake Bay and by the ocean route—lines of steamers from Norfolk and the other eastern ports. And there are lines of steamers from Norfolk to Europe direct.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The State had a complete system of public education before the war and a school fund of $2,500,000. A new system has been inaugurated within two years, supported by taxation, and is gradually getting into working order again, and no doubt in a few years will be in full operation.
RELIGION.
The people of North Carolina are almost entirely Protestant, of various denominations ; but all sects are equally free before the law and at the ballot, whether Protestant or Papist.