The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-10-10
Rocky Mount.

we cAtract tner louOWlnS Para9 rapn& lECn
one:of a series Of papers in the Fairfield Her:
aid, on the /" "reminiscences Of Fairfield Dis
trct," which appear to be written by an intel
lgent and well-informed citizen Of that Dis.
trict As it refers to several notable points in
our District, it will doubtless be interesting to
our readers - =. -,
+" Having spoken ofMontieelIo, It is per-
haps right to msption Rocky. Mount or. Grim
'keTYe; in the North east corner OF the District,
as another small village OF this place, Mr..
Mills IN his Statistics of South Carolina, pub
lishea in 1926, says it must be consdera-
bic place some day This prediction is now
at the commencement of realization. Our es-
timable and energetic fellow-citizen Daniel
Mccullough Esq, has within the last few years
erected cottoIEfnctory at or near there and
is | understand working the same to advantage.
His abofcrs too arc negroes-thus demonstra-
ting the praclcabilty of .proftably employing
slaves as operators in factories, the opinion of
several semi-abdlitionists to tue contrary not.
withstanding. AtRocly Mount.the United
States Government once had military estab.
lshment, but it has. long since been abandoned,
and fdcn into complete decay, even if thes
material has not been removed, and applied to
a better purpose, than having a station Of the
kind in the heart of sovereign State Here,
too reposc in aspot which was once his gar
den, the remains of Col. Seuf, Engineer both
of the Santeesahd Catawba canals Col. Seuf
was ;8inilitary engineer of considerable repu
tatioh, and devoted to the cause Of liberty in
the days of the revolution. Yet no stone
marks therestng place Of the honored dead.
But itmatters not for heztrumpet shall sound
and the dead shall arise" Near this point and
in sight, is one of the grandcst curiosites in
the United States, the falls of thesCatawba.
These falls are in Chester District,and well
worth visit from all lovers Of the grand and
terrible immature. Here the river is contract.
ed into onc.third of its usual width, and is
forced through gorge insthe hills, over about
twenty falls, to the depth of near one hundred
and fifty feet Mr.. Mills remarks ofsthis:-
!" the wilderness of the steep and ruggid rocks
the gloomy horrors of the clifs--the water
falls, which are heard pouring down in differ
ent places of the precipice, with various sounds,
in proportior to their respective distances and
descents; the hoarse hollow murmuring Of the
river, running far below the summit of the
rocks, and Of the adjacent surface Of the earth,,
are objects well calculated to excite emotions
Of wonder and admiration in the minds of
spectators. TIE sceney here is sufficiently
grand and curious to attract the visits of the
most distant inhabitant of Carolina" And
yet sir, this grandest of all water scenes, Tai
lalulah and Niagaraalone excepted, is unknown
and unvisited, except by the immediate deni'
zens Of its locality. Were it in New York, or
among the red mouthed Yankees of Connect.
cut orVermont, thousands of our fashionables
and would be fashonables, would make year.
ly pill 5rimage thereto, Alas for poor South
Carolina, when such is the spirit of the people"
Chester Standard.