The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-08-04
July so, lS47.

July so, l647. A srEcrAroR'
9EIuE GREENviLLE RAIL RoAD.-A Corps
1fEngneers and surveyors, consisting of
Mcssrs. Brown, Walker, and Griffin, arc
now engaged on q survey of the route upon
the ridge between Broad and Saluda Rivers.
On Saturday evening last, they had pro-
aressed as far as fifteen miles from Colum.
bia. We bcspcall for these gentlemen the
attention of our Lexington and Newberry
friends, in whose vicinity they may pass.
They are opening Il road of wealth and con-
venicncc for you, and you should show them
real up country hospilality.-SouM Cor:,
"PRosrEcTs OF CHAHLEsToN."--The
Savannah Republican give an extract from
letter received by merchant in that city
from friend in the Cherokee country. 1t
is gratifying to perceive the reputation
which Charleston has already attained
throughout the Up-Country, and VIC venture
TO predict that longer and better acquaint-
ancc will but increase that favorable opinion.
With superior facilities Of access with the
highest prices for produce, with liberal and
accommodating merchants, whose stocks OF
goods arc unsurpassed in variety and cheap
ness, Charleston cannot fail to be the great
point of attraction for the produce of the
interior, as we'll as its source Of supply for
the goods received in exchange therefor.
This is our ':incvitablc destiny"
But to the letter in the Republican:
cit is perfectly disgusting to see how low
Savannah stands in comparison withCharies-
ton; where one man in Cherokee is in ia
vor of the former, you will find a score in
favor of the latter. The stockholders of the
Central Rail Road will sleep on until they
loose trade which they will never be able
to turn. 1t is truly notifying to citizen
of the former to see the upper part of our
State completely tributary to the latter,
and that resulting, in great measure, from
incrtness and a want of enlarged views.
How can j. be possible for Savannah to get
grain from this section of the Stale, when
the Georgia Rail Road cars alone infest the
State Road they show their enterprise,
whilst we exhibit anything else? If the
\ Central Rail Road intends to leave the
matter alone to the Macon Road, be 1t so
>it,.1cH loU late. Nf1di1e5re,Iy -. wake xss
the cry. A man can ship produce there
and get his returns, whilst poor urrfortu-
nate patron OF Savannah may have his w.
ing at the Depot for chance to ship"
ORIGIN OF THE GULF STREAM.-A writer
IN the Knickerbocker for April throws out
the annexed bold and original ideas regard.
ing the origin of the Gulf Stream:
Some of the pecuiarities of that great
and powerful current known as the Gulf
Stream, are its temperature and color. Its
color is the blue of the PaciGo, and hot the
green of the Atlantic. lis temperature is
higher than that Of the other tropicalseas.
The color is not that Of the turbid Mississippi
and the other large rivers flowing into the
Gdf of Mexico, out of the fathomless depths
the Gulf Stream fiowa.5sIts temne.
ratnre is not that of the neighboring waters.
whence, then, are the color and tcmpera-
ture derlvedY According to this correspon-
dent, the color is derived, with the stream it.
sell, from the Pacific He affirms to be far
down beneath the Great Isthmus separating
the ocean from the Gulf He maintains
that the isthms,s was tunneled by the action
ssot ssot the volcanic fires; still maintained in that
Vicinity; that the stream is of higher tenn
Perature because it has been charged with
the heat Of volcanic fires raging beneath
the tunnel of their own construction; that
the waters are made to rush through this
greaftunnel and form the Gulf Stream by
inc reVolutlonsof the earth uron its axis, and
the ever existing fact that the water ofthe
facif1c, resting against the Western side
OF the lsthmus, are frontyelye to eighteen
feet higher than those of the of Mexico:
that the reason why thesstream ~ 0f 8 high
temperature about w est, is that.there
the great curE ir6m the Pacific and
through the Gulf frst emerges to the. sur
face and has mixed less with tie coldenwa.
|ers throughWhich it is projected.
Achild was born astsweelA, abopfS miles
north of this piace jcth had two, well
ormed heads; bothlsef BODY. The ,
aces of each Of these two heads were per- t
ectly natural, and even quite handsome. {
The spinal bones of the neck united little I
'eiow @ low the shoulders, The Two: windpipes t
'nlted in, one, in the breast, where they I
anne together Ia all other respects excent I
he head; the child was naturally formed
died in,the act Of being born IS and caused 4