The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-07-26
Correspondence OF the Spartan.
PLEASANT MOUND, S. G.,

June 25, 1860.
DEAR SPARTAN: L confess that it is not
without some reluctance that undertake
70 give you and your readers the dark side
of the 'struthful narration" commenced
last week This reluctance does not arise
from any aversion have to finishing tina,
picture, but from f cling Of Inability
realization of inadequatencss bring it out
in such bold relief that you can form true
estimate of the value and merit of the origi-
nal. Yet, notwithstanding my unskilful-
ness in the imner's art, l think may be
able to impart some features to the canvass
that will be easily recognised by the old ac-
quaintance, and which will enable the
stranger to form at least general idea
Whenl am done, / flatter myself that every
Texan, who has not allowed large crops of
corn and cotton to give him a kind of stra
bismus, will acknowledge the trS.hfuncss
of what now mean to write.
And first, one of the chief objections /
have to urge against the county, is its eli
mate. In the summcrit is too opprcssively
hot, and in the winter too bitterly, bitingly,
cuttingly, and killingly cold; aud at all
times too variable and uncertain. Every
one who possesses five grains of common
sense knows that sudden changes are un-
wholesome. Where the climate is uni
forn,ly cold or hot, one may become used
10 it-that is, his system becomes adapted
TO the surrounding state of things, and this
may be, and probably is SO, but i'll Il less de-
gree even. where changes come about, bat
yet slowly, allowing the adaptation to be
made and keep race with tie variation of
the weather. But it is coat1sry to reason
aud the experience of mankind 10 assume
that man, who is So wonderfully and fear
fully made" and so easily provoked to take
'On disease, can keep his system in per-
fcety healthy e0ndition while living in "A
climate as obnoxious to change as modern
politicians and ofice-secI Iers With as mach
reason one might expect to be free from
disease, who lived one hour in a stoyc-heat-
ed close room, the ext in an ice house.
Now there's no use talking, for | know
these things arc so in Texas, and fopr-ft,Ls
of the people. are candid enough to confess
at, and displeascd enough to comrl,in, and
loudly, Whom i was there in May, the
days in the latter part Of The forenoon and
the entire afteru, On was intSleraby hot, not
30 much as a gentle breeze in motion; but
the nights compelled us to have Qails,
while the mornings were positively cold.
But are told that such is not unfrequently
the case in this best ofall States forgetting
that they are at least SIX weeks in advance
'0f our season; and, to make us eaaal, the
cold weather must be with us in the middle
of July.
j alluded to the "northers" in my last
communication. 1t must be desperate, in
deed, when it is so warm that a man is on.
on his farm with coat of, collar unbuttoned,
sleeves rolled up, and in fact every means
adopted to invite little air, and procure
some. relief from the oppressive sultriness
of the sun, and all in moment, almost he
fore it could be said, 1the Philistines be
upon thee, Sampson" cold, freezing north
Wild should fall upon him, and ere he eau
reach his home and build him fire, his
lood is iced within him. This lasts from:
day to several days, and as sudden as it
HpaSs its advent, just SO it takes its depar-
f.ure, leaving the poor fellow wcltcring in
Lnis own perspiratien.
Ii not misinformed by the great lovers
.of the country, these are plain, unvarnished
facts, stubborn as mules. Last wintor tllou-
sands Of ca. .e and horses froze to death,
and hogs ley scattered in every direction,
and not only that, but stout, hearty, sober
men '.ed on the .prairies. They we're
caught out, and they soon grew SO benumb-
ed they could rot travel, but had to fall
down by the May-side, in the howling, frig-
id blasts and die. Don't be appalled,, my
dear reader, this may be new and horrid
news to you, but it is not, by any means,
strange to the Texans / know that it but
occasionally occurs that human beings thus
perish, but such desperate deaths do hap
pen; and it is as notorious as any fact can
be that animals die by hundreds during
these north winds.
If these be'new things 10 you, you may
pc sure that your Intelligence from Texas
has been onesided, you've only had the
fair page read to you. So much for Texas
climate
Now as TO the water, and what / have to
say Of II, will be compressed in a few words.
IL a not t;t for a camel to drink. i not only
object TO the taste, but everything connect