The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-04-23
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Missouri RIVER. En- ROUTE TO THE PLAINS.
March lI.h, 80, {
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We started for Alaba ma south, crossed Sand
Mountain that takes its name from the char.
acIcr Of the SOL. 1t is one huge bulk of sand.
with but little interspe,sion of rock tie
horse sunk footlork deep at every step into
the loose pnIverzcd sand 1t was in Septcm.
bcr when went over, the day WAS warm.
and tie miles unusually long. The Indian
hdage of the country was verified at the
Mountain "llolf way House - measuring
the roads with a coon skin and throwing in
the tail each time inquired of the lad
who took my pony why they put such false
pegs on the ,oadl Now my son you oueh,
not 10 deceive travellers in that way. saw
] lad struck the spring to the secret and fol.
lowed it up. The youth explained the cause
" The old man, , he said, who used to keep
this house p NJ five quarters to mile when
he measured the ,cad: to make it uIear the
shortest way to cross the Mountain; by that
he got the passengers TO dine"
a little inquiry thereafter, with what had
sten convinced he the studiouS Economy of
the Scotch was carried out by these sou ,hern
hghlanders
Poverty is a companion of these Mountain
GERS, and their pIccariou> condition forces on
them parsimonlous habits. AlaLalni ms are
not the liberal people they arc counted to be
by no means They love to cxpend for ost,n
tauon-io appear lnportant-but beneath
all this arrogance and bumbast- in their real
character they are close as Yankees: and
equally as barren of honor. Climate makes
them impulslve aud love of slo. and for,u
ilous circumstances make them disposed TO
he lavish; yet it is ullelior, rather than pIiu-
cipal.
III cir gaantry is too much ofthc bravalo,
and their castcand difference is given irrcSpec
lively to wealth. In every true element Of
character they arc in no wise superior 10 the
New Highlander and in everything truly
ennobling long way behind him save, in
deed. the honorable exceptions.
N,lhing Of note trunsr,l on my dreary
road TO Jacksonville. Occasionally woulh
strike the forsaken half graded line of Rail.
road referred to, and at night gave the
SECLUDED settler with whom | lodged an
anti-Ruilroad fire side speech. Benton coun.
ty, recently changed TO Calhoun, t,om tlnI it.
teItd hate Of the free soil prociviueS of the
late statesman: by the AIahamians, has some
spots where it would seem person could
Eve-bLt the greater part Of 1t is broken, bar.
rcn and hoprts>ly unploductiye. The peo.
pie influenced by the circumstances that sur.
round them, arc as cold ana rugged as the
hills they own.
Talladteeo county spoken Of before is in
in point OF seliishntSs able TO cope with any
Yankee land in all Yankecdom. Once me,
their counterpart: landlord refused to have
made for me chicken soup when was really
i'll. This happened in New York State on
the head waters of the Delaware, and from
then til! now have never met two lands so
entirely matched. might lie 10Th TO ascIiLt
TO them so much detractive criticism did not
others corroborate my experience by theirs
also.
The most outrageous act of their inhospi-
tality was a stubborn refusal to allow me
shelter from the lain. an act of heather.
ism which no well bled Arab would be guilty
Of skip over the description Of all those
counties traverScd that would not care to
visit again, and from that omission the reader
may know pines arc the staple; and aside
from the song Of winds amongst them, and
the Illustration Of llager Prayer on Poverty,
there is nausht to interest, except the flag
mei.ts OF rich land on heavy water courSes.--
Shelby county has coal mines but not much
surplus bread for export.
Tallapcosa is too poor for language to &c
scribe. Gold is mined at Goldvllle. in ,ho
North tLd IF the county, the mining OF
which like Pike Peake, will ever he sink
Ing fund to those engaged in it.
The cane brake country is rich area en-
braced IN tier OF six or eight ai the Middle
counties in the state. The soil is black, con.
tains lime is very productive, growing 5 10
10 bales of cotton to the hand and seems in
capable Of exhaustion. Whether 1t is OF
not the owners will certainly know it is
Their fixed habit 10 find out.
Green is the weathlieSt in slaves, Dallas
next, Maraneo, think. has more extra land
Than either South Pckens, Southern Perry,
Shmp'er. Wilct x, portions Of Lowntl,s. STRIPS
OF Butler and the greater share of Mon,pou,-
cry counties, are the fat counties the grass
garden spots of Alabama.
The seven first named in order arc the
great cotton fields the three others are but
second in oicer. The plantations are large
owned by the few, who work from 40 to 100
slaves: sometimes even exceeding a hundred
Servants III Alabama are what bullion and
bank stock is in v all Street the social stand
ard OF CASTE The society may be divided
into four casscs-the very rich-the rich
the educated, and the illitcrate pJor.
The uncducattd indigtnt are ninions 9th.
rich or discarded from them and regarded as
inferior 10 the slave by both Master and
slave. The slaves despise the poor--lbey
love 10 boast of rich Master but hold them
selves superior to a working poor bukra
or sorry, low down poor white man. They
denouuce AL employee asa" Larhcr." Foul