Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-06-30
ANOTHER LErrIR rRoX THE MOUNTAINS.


PIckRXs DISTRICT, s. c., Juno %, 1853.
Mn. ED1ron:-Ths last month has not been worry
prolific Of in this part oftho country-nothing
unusual or startling has tranpred. And thank
Heaven that such is the case! This last assertion
may seem little strange coming, ss it docs, from
who is constantly the qpi .ire for something
novel thrilling with which 10 fill out shoot now
and then for tho benefit Of your readers. And why,
it may be asked should correspondent, or any one
eso, be thankful that there is no nows' 1t shoes
that all ia ren It might sometimes imply state of
things bordering stagnation. But at the sama
time it argues an absence of storm, and food and
conasgration; of pOsence, and desth, and grim
visagod war;" of robbery, and murder, and suicide.
Instead Of those ers so shocking to humanity, peace,
and hoalth, and all the sweet charities Of life
"Lovos intellectual law !"-roign supreme.
In 1854, the Columbia and Hamburg Railroad wa'
in agitation. This wss intended to constitute lini
in an AIRLINE Road between Now York and New
Orleans. The project, however, was failure. But
now strange to say the Same dea is about to be cur
ried out by an Air Line Railroad connecting Andor
son and Atlanta and crossing the Savannah, or the
Tugalo more than one hundred miles above Augusta
This line is to bo continued from Newberry, across
tho country in the direction of Chester and Charlotte
At the latter place, it will branch off towards Dan
ville w. whore it will intersect tho East Tennessee
and Virginia Railroad. By reference to the Map, il
will be that those throo links would onablo the
traveller to pass from tho great Northern Mart to its
rival at mouth of tho Mississippi without ever deva
ting very fur from bee line Now there arc thou.
sands Of people in the South West who are compelled
to sock summer quarters every season. Many OIL
these gay birds of passage would be induced to stop
at Anderson or Grcenrille, whence they would be
attracted to mountains, and there they would find
scenery and Mineral waters rivang, if not exceling
any of which the North ean boast Tho Bluo Ridge
Railroad would take thom within ton or twelve miles
of Taluah Falls where, according to impartial trav.
ellers may witness grandeurof cliff and cataracts
superior to that of Niagara, beauty of landscape
equal to any thing of tho sort beneath Italian skies
In short, all Of our watering places and summer
rcsorts together with the surrounding country, would
bc mado to flourish and prosper In few years.
much of our water power, now running to waste
would be made to tsrn an honest ponny by being
brought in contact with machinery Manufacturing
villages would spring up, as If by the enchanter'
wand and more general diffusion Of knowledge
would necessarily onsuo. The genial glow of this
prosperity in the "upcountry" would bc felt in Char
lesion, and in othcr portions Of the State.
By the way, a theory in connection with this same
Line Railroad has been advanced, which rather
fascinating to US back-woodsnon, and withal quite
plausible and original. It is briefly this. Nature
has designed that portion Of our Southern States
should supply tho world with cotton for all timc tc
como. In performing this Herculean task frought
rs it ever will bo, with 80 much Of profit to them
selves, and Of comfort to 'the rost Of mankind, it il
be expected that those States should raise stoc
and grain enough to answer all their spurposes.
process Of time when tho consumption of cotton in
croases, people will need markets, on scale com
mensurate with tho operations dependent thereon, in
which may bo purchased at all times, any quantit.
of -four, corn, and bacon,-apy number OF mules
cattle anu horses. Columbia, Atlanta and Montgome
ry are considered tho most suitable points for the
taLlshmcnt Of these great provision Marta. Let th
plan and policy be carried into operation, and thos
Towns of the interior would soon become magnifccn
eites-thc pride and the pecuniary advantage o
| Southern planters.
Harvest is now past, and the yield of wheat in tl
part Of tho country will not bo much moro than hal
as great ns it was last year. But thcro is old aou
enough yet on hand, it is thought, to last until h'
middle Of September. Oats spot by tho rust
Corn and cotton look green and Aourshing-
beautiful to behold. We have just about rain enossh
and tho weather is pleasant exceedingly.
Tho candidates up here asa matter Of course
very solicitous to make acquaintanccs, but thcro il
no excitement, no fun, no discussions and NO JarLa
Cues Treating seems to be undcr tho ban Of public
opinion And who would not rcjuicc at this Is i
not enough to cover Us with confusion to think
and TO know that vote,-the constituent elements o
aovcreignty-can be bought or in the slightest degre
Influenced, by cupful of mean whiskey7
Excuse this dull letter. I hope to dasbeter noxt
month. Yours, er amino, E. X.