The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-04
For the Western Democrat.

Mr. EDITOR: Will you in your next issue
request the Town Authorities at their next
meeting to invite Mr. Fulton, of the Will
mington Journal, to repeat his visit to
Charlotte; and we would suggest that they
instruct their Marshal, Mr. S. A. Harris, to
receive him and show him around and
through Charlotte until he obtains better
knowledge of its geography than his COM
plimentary notice of his late visit indicates.
Friend Fulton talks of our " four story
buildings" and "costly blocks of buildings
worthy of Broadway" and gives us credit
for having two streets, or rather one street,
"Tryon," and one of somewhat doubtful
character, college," which he calls a
"Street or Avenue" ''The others are mere
alleys between yards, narrow and unim-
proved" His observations seems to have
been made from the "point where these
two streets intersect." We have been en-
deavoring to walk round with friend
Jenny, and the best we can make out of
him is that he was terribly lost while here,
and that he did not get into our "vilage"
at all. Tryon and College streets run par
allel with each other, the latter is next to
the Railroad Depot, and we must suppose
that in his approach to the ''village," after
leaving the cars, that he confined his walk
ing to College "Street or Avenue" and
that he has mistaken the crossing of Col
lege and Trade streets, for the crossing of
Trade and Tryon streets, and consequently
saw nothing of the Broadway or Chestnut
of our village" We are led to this con-
clusion from the fact that we have but one
four story building within our corporate
limits-Mr Leroy Springs FIGURING Mil, l..
and that it is visible from that point, and
not from the crossing of or principal
streets; and further, because near that point
there is a "mere alley" which Maj. Kerr,
the accommodating host of the " High
posted Tavern" has made for the con-
venience of his barn-yard Pigs.
But our ancient friend of the Journal
must have been swapping spectacles with
some bachelor even more antique than
himself, or his vision has got awfully wrong
somehow, to have seen such sights from
that point as he describes. What! "costly
blocks Of lofty buildings worthy Of Broad
way" at this point Q They certainly would
have been wanting in "harmony with their
location" Why the buildings winch there
surrounded him are only on two corners;
and indeed, we suspect him of being an
Irishman to have felt himself surrounded
at that point; ard ifso he ought to be made
to account for his presence there, for one of
these two buildings is the Know-nothing
printing office, and the other grocery.
Mr. Editor, please ask friend Fulton,
privately, whether it was the effect of his
glasses-we mean his spectacles-that gave
him his phantasmagorial visions of Char
lotto, or whether he was here at all And
if our town authorities cannot show him
public Inequalities, and Mr. Harris cannot
get hold of him to show him the main
streets of the town, tell him that when he
comes back that on the other side of Tryon
street he can find yet another street, or
'alIey," running parallel with Tryon, and
corresponding to College, with one termi-
nus in California, and the other in Kansas;
and that we hope before he writes another
history of our Village" he will explore the
entire length Of it, before he gives US his
illusions. PATRICK