The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-04
co,,s.,op,spee oi the Richmond Dispatch

| Correspondence IA tuc htNHhi'Hu DtspdtSn.
! A Trip Dorm thf Senbonrd- lfti7alagtoa
| Caarission, SaraHnah, and AggHsta-- Poi,-
| ftcS. &c.
| AUGUSTA, GA, July ~, 1860.
| ooe sees many beautiful cities In the South
| Wilmington n g.. found very beautifui
little city, ana oJd OF the reverse had expect
| ed and contains many very exquisite resi-
| dances. Ii enjoys an annual coastwise trade
| of 5000 DVso or Sd0o0,000, and some West In
| disa and South Il American trade II is the he,d
quarters of the Wilmington N and Weldon rail-
| way Hon. W III. =. Ashe, President; Captaln
| Farment, Superintendent, and Mr Wright.
| Master Car-buildsr. The road has its own
| workshops, and in true Southern nolicy
builds its own cars, dc. Opposite the town.
also, is the headquarters of the Wilmington
and Manchester road, which, Also has its own
workshops, which are new and quite extern
| siYe. This road is partly the route To Charles
| ton, which | passed over on the night fol-
lowing, and found speedy and comfortable.
| Charleston, IN my eye, is one of the funniest
and dearest old places to be found anywhere.
| 80 ie peeallarity In the climate, l was told.
| would give an AIR of "ancient respectabIity''
| to house OF only few summers. Every
house In the city, too,was not unlike each other
honse, but unlike everything else ever saw,
| unless l could fad a fancied resem biance to
| some OF the old cities of Europe. The Charle
| tonians have always been placed peculiar,
| and each man seemed determined TO keep up
| the ensign OF this character by making has
| house different from everybody elses. Yet,
| with all this dissimilarity in every other
| respect, every house agrees with every other
| mouse Ia having more or less piazzas, in which,
| in this soft. mild climate, the family passes
far the greater proportion CT its time, from early
spring to late autumn. Yet. old as IL looks,
Charleston is comparatively ReT and grow
| ing 3pidly.
The route to Savannah found an interest
| ing one to me, from the popularity of is
Southern scenery. The latter end of it-by
| steam boat four teen miles down the Savannah
| river, to the city of that name led us through
| haar n q nTa-
| sented not only a landscape of remarkable Pc
| euliarity, but exquisite beauty. The fields
| stretched out on every side, for fifteen or
| twenty miles, "fat as board and as bril-
| iiantiy green as green could be. The beauty
| OF the scene was heightened by a score or two
| OF "nigger villages" made up of large 'Tice
| quarters" ali freshly white, and generally
| surrounding the proprietor's mansion; now,
! however, deserted, as no white family can re-
| main on this lovely Savannah from Iay 20
| October. splendid view OF this vast ptGz a
can also be had from the bluff at Savannah.
| Savannah is also somewhat queer looking
city, but seems TO flourish and certainly, both
| in the present, and especially in the early fu-
| ture has a large concentration of tho elements
| OF pros perity They have equal to daily
| steamship service to New York, and three rail-
| ways 10 Charleston aud Columbia-the Sa-
| vannah, Albany and Cult, and the Georgia
| Central. The depois OF the latter are immense
| covering nearly thirty acres. The road runs
| to Macon, and has large number Of branches
| 1t last year divided an equivalent of % per
cen. among its kholders-a part of which
| however, IN accum alaton of previous years
| in various stocks. The stock OF he road now
| sells at Sl27, and ii has q revenue iund OF
| SlC0,U00 besides some S&G0GGO last year in
| vested in steamships. The Hon. Il. *. Cuyler
| is President, George w. Adams Esq Super
| intendent, and g. &. Miller Esq, master of
the car department t.of which the company has
| nearly 100. The Savannah and Gulf road is Il
| comparatively new road running ljS miles OF
! which los miles have been built the last year,
! and now progressing with the same rapidily.
! 1t will strike the Gulf at Pen nsacCia or Mobile
| and when completed, will be one of the mos |
| important roads South. 1t was The great
idea " OF Dr. J. T. ScIeyen, its first PreSideu t.,
| who died last year at the Virginia Springs
| greatly lalnen ted, and who was succeeded by
his son. Aa extensive ear factory is just g0in <
| into operation here.
| Angus ia, from which / write, is q comDara-
| lively new city, of Is 900 people, laid out on
| natural plaza and is three miles long by about
| one and half wide. Its main streets run
| entirely through the city-the principal ap-
| propTiately named Broad being some 80
| feet wide. Every street has It's two rows OF
| shade trees aad one of them has four rows
! running from cad to end, which have great
| tendency TO make the place DO In beautiful and
| comfortable. l find politics raging here with
| intense tcrociiy-ncthiEg else practical or
| valuable being talked Of, except the Sou thern
| Pacific Railroad, which every body claims
| should be made, and that speedily.
| TRAVELLER.