Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-29

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Salisbury 81 400 ,00O-making a total of near,
ly S7,OOO,OO0. Col. Gwynns location was
through the Swannanoa GAP. [ do not know
that tho extension which is in progress of CON
structlon will cross that Gap. But the figures
I nave shown must be & near approximation
OF the cost OF the several natural divisions of
the road from Salisbury to Ashevlle, which
Is In progress. With what assurance can YOU
affirm that the people of North Carolina will
construct the road across the mountains? DO
you believe that they will? The undcrtaking
of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company to build
a road across the same Blue RIDGE mountains
to Knoxville, you characterize as one of the
vcrlcSt humbugs that ever engaged the atten
tion OF a sensible but deluded people" You
must presume largely, and would have the
people of Edgcfcld District to presume large
y, on the folly and dclusion of the people of
North Carolina, when you hold out the com
plctlon of their road as substitute for the
Blue fudge road; and by the offer of this sub
stltutc, cndcavor to induce the people of South
Carolina to abandon the Blue Ridge road If
| your opinion respecting the Blue Ridge road
be correct, must not you, and all the people of
South Carolina, have reason to fear that the
light of your wisdom may shine upor the pco-
pie of North Carolina, and that they may adopt
your opinion that their undertaking is one of
the vcrlcSt humbugs that ever engaged tho
attention of a sensible but drlud ID people?
| Int If we may depend on tn" continued de-
luson OF the North Cnroliuians until that yer
icSt humbug, their road across the nIo,ntans
/ to ASheviIc shall b. co"plctad, at this point
two routes present themselves. about which.
to sy the least, the people of North Carolina
are divided. One dcsccnds the French Broad
to Paint Rock, having Morristown for its ter
minus aud forms your Statewide connection
with Knoxville; the other route proceeds.
southwardly, to Ducktown. The latter would
seem to be the route preferred, because tho
engineers arc now engaged in the survey and
location of it. Should this route be adopted.
| it may be a long time before the French Broad
| Route is completed.
Ii the French Broad route should be chosen,
| your difficulties arc not then cndcd How shall
the road from Paint Rock to Morristown be
made l. know from the o,th of the Prcsi,
dent OF that Company to creditors bill! filed
agn'nSt the Stockholders for payment of their
JuIg"cntS, that the tonpany is insolvcnt.
Under these circumstances and with the
| opinion you have Expressed respecting the
! Blue Ridge road, is it not n dcus;on worse
even than you think the Blue Ridge road to
be, to depend on the Statewide connection as
Il substitute for the Blue Ridge road, and to
urge the availability and sutlicicncy of the
former, as an argument for abandoning the
| latter?
The last of your objections which I will
notice, is expressed by intcrcctons of amaze
mcrt
You advise the people of Edgcfcd District
not to waste their energies upon one OF the
vcrest humbugs that ever engaged the atton-
ton of sensible but dcludcd p"opc;" and
thus close the paragraph: " Was there ever
before so monstrouS a toly attempted Lo,bc
pcrpctratel by sensible peoplcn'
The Blue Ridge Ka,iro,d Company have
undertaken to connect. by railroad (thc only
practicable c1nncetion) the State Of South
Carolina with the navigabIc waters and system
of railroads in the Mississippi valley. The
states OF Maryland, Virgim. atiI Georgia, at
cost manifold greater than what is solicited
from South Carolina, have effected that con
nection. I'm every instance the completion of
the roads have been followed by overnowinp
prosperity. The entire population of those
States, high and low, rich and poor, wise and
SIMPLE, commend the wisdom of those under
taklnSS which experience of their benefits has
made manifest to all. Statesmen and patriots,
whose virtue and wisdom are canonzcd in the
memory of the people of South Carolina, de-
' W. '''n'' '''' S'cS twenty HVc years ago to
the accomplishment of the great national work
If the authority OF the multitude of wise
and vlrtuous men, who nave exhausted their
energies in cifrcting, on in the attempt to cf
tect, connection between the Atlantic and
the " cStcrn States b. rairoads-thc univcr.
sal commentator of such n connection when
1t has been cOmplctcd-thc experience of its
benefit which has forced conviction to the
most stubborn adversarics-if all these things
cannot persuade you, nothing can. Tt nav
be that you arc visor than all the wisdom col
lectcd OF those who carried through the
Southern Atlantic Railroads across the noun
talns: You may be wiser than expcrcnce,--
But let me make suggestion Whatever
you may th'uk, do not proclaim it so publicly.
EDWARD Frost.
GONE NORTH. We clip the following
pointed and sensible article from the Rock
Till Chr0nictc, and refer it to the snocial
attention of those whom it may concern:
9 Merchants in our State who kicked up
such dust. at the time of the John Brown
rad IN Virginia, about dhect importation
and Southern trande, are now going North to
lay in full supplies. We are ashamed to tell
1t, but it is so. The night travel on the Char.
ottc road is now very considerable, and
among the passengers no class are more nu-
morous than merchants on their way to New
York. Gentlemen, don't write any more
resolutions about the importance and neces.
sity of direct trade. Your preaching is vain
unless you practice your doctrine"
DAwKINs married lady for her money,
hut cannot fouCh - all oba d;oa orJ 4 t.ooto