Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-04-21
CORRESPONDENCE of the KeoweeI Courier. \

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DEAR THOMSON: Having been some five,
days aboard of this excellent Boat, am becom-
ing little weary, aud to break the nlonotonyI
have concluded that lean change no more agree
ably to myself than to hold a cUnf;,b with you
Eight days ago took the cars OH the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, about 40 miles above
Atlantn, en-, and arrived same evening at Chat.
tan99Ga a. o'clock, p, m, stopping at CrGtch-
Heid House On Tuesday, 3 o'clock. n. m, left
FIR New Orleans, paying passage ($lO50) to
Grand junction, Miss. 237 miles; arrived there
qhout9 o'clock p. NJ, passed Stevenson Ala 35
miles irum G. Here is the Ashvlle branch
Rai!road. From Grand junction paid fare t$l5)
to n. O, 206 miles. On the Central Mississippi
Railroad at this place. is tho junction of the
Charleston and Memphis Railroad, hence the
name. From Chattanooga to Bridgeport, IS
miles is poor. hilly and limestone country
and much coal is now being taken out of these
hitherto useless knobs. The Railroad for miles
is made Immediately on tie bank Of the restless
Tennessee. and,
The rocks that tower on either side, .
Build up wild fantastic scene"
We crossed the Tennessee River at Bridgeport
3S miles and again at Decatur. Ala. u. is an
ancient looking place, and rather an important
trading port. At this place the Athens Ala
Railroad connects with the C. and NJ. From d.
to Huntsville We find some good farming lands
but generally much worn. III is place of some
5000 inhabitants. fine and fashionable, some of
the residences built in real pnlatiNl style. From
III. to Grenada Miss, We find generally fine
cotton lands. From g. to Jackson. Miss, the
State Capitol, is some excellent lands especially
that on and neart the Big Back River
Jackson is u considerable city, deserving to
he tho place where The assembled wisdom of the
great State of Mississippi assemble annually to
make her Wholesome laws, We stopped for
dinner and remained here two hours then went
aboard the Jackson and New Orleans and Great
Northern Route Railroad. Arrived in New
Orleans at II O'Clock, at nights went to City
Hotel, on ST. Charles street, one of the finest
| hotels have ever seen, and everything goes on
with system and ia>tc-rcmained in New Or
leans till p. m, on Thursday. | neglected to
say that twas on Wednesday night, -, M.
that we reached here then left on this BIat for
Shreveport, about GOO miles above n. and
100 from the mouth Of the Mississippi River
We arrived at mouth of Rcd River about
o'clock, Frid,.y morning delayed little time
in discharging freight When we left LIDO not
know. as | had been for several days and nights
on the Annihiator space route" | went
to my state room, and was soon asleep, when
4" Reason was ilethroncd and fancy at plny," in
dreams OF home and friends Fur away. Whom j.
awoke we had our " Boat hung upon the will
lows" thunder stOrm rain and darkness had
caused tic cautious pilot to "hold"
" After my rich restorative, balmy. bath,
That supplies, lubricatcs and keeps in play
TLeNHriCts 'rcNomcntS of that machine
Which asks such fiagtant periods of repose,"
! / felt like new person, reihviGoratcd and
prepared for any emergency, for, you know that
health and slccp maintain cOcxistcnte and
community"
We will now 90 back to New Orleans little.
From the limited time | spent there, did not
have time to visit the statue of Jackson, in
Jackson Square. 1t was some distance from
whore | stopped in French, tour. The Battle
Ground did not 50 to; it is some two milcs or
more below Canal street, the general boat-land.
ings. i had no conception of the amount of
business done here, till saw the place day and
night you hardly know the difference If it !
was not that night threw his sable mnntlc
around the city. Ills all go ahead push along,
keep moving. The population is. believe.
about 35O,OO0. | would guess more, whom /
see the place.
From New Orleans up the Mississippi Won
find nothing but the richest kind of sugar lands.
The plantations and dwelling and negro houses
all near the bank, The lands. of course. are
all lcvcod to obsruct the water in tic annual
riso, on this stream The river is now high in
some places nearly looking over the banks
You will find plantations here working from 100
to 500 negroes, 'TiS here that many of the no
groes so, that we sec sold from our and adjnin-
ing States. | saw Of these places near the
mouth Of Rod River, that was sold few davs
ago had coo acres land, and 3j hands. brought
$4,000 These lands along the Mississippi
and Red River. to this place, rate high Thcv
as rich az lands can he, it seems to me.
But who can live here? "ris said that any but
Il native coming and settling here, cannot hope
to have his life longer than six years
We arc now in a cotton region, and to sec tho
Boats now going down, loaded with it, would
seem that it would keep the world in clothes
long time !; but when VIC reflect at the amount of
acres covered, and boats discharging in New
Orleans all the time, now, we cannot mistrust
stretch OF the Imagination. Conceive what is
to he done with it.
We find many going wcStwards to ''locate,"
hunting there, habitat0n and home" |
do not know tha, | am one of the latter
think not. mpartly in search of knowledge
You know it has its two-fnld advantages: "It
is nm inestimnblc treasure to its possessor and
never failing in solitude to reserve in the world
OF dignity" And we read IN the inspired word
that " Wisdom is good with an Inheritance"
Planting is going on rapidly in this region
fnd Tic corn about five inches high, in some
places. On Friday night Inst there was frost
with us To-day cold. find that March re-
| tains, in this remote region, his character as a
/" biuSterer."
find wild duck, eagles. and the water tur.
key, sea,sul, &c, on these rivers. G,
EUnopENN .Ngws,-Thc Persia brings in
the Mouiteur the text of the treaty between
France and Sardinia It's in accordance with
the summary pul 'islred some time since and
has the following additional articles: A mixed
commission will determine what Savoy and
Nice shall contribute to the public debt of
Sardinia, and to the execution of several pub
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