New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-29
SOUTHERN TRAVEL AND SOUTHERN
TRADE.


SOUTHERN TRAVEL AND SOUTHERN
TRADE.
Many eminent gentlemen, including Mr.. L.
Fitzgerald TasstrO, of the theater, and the Rev.
Nehemiah Adams, Doct. Diyin., of some Conge-
gatiOnal Church in Boston, the number of which
is to us unknown, have given us the ripe results
of travel and observation in the Southern States
not indeed, as they may be in the present state
of dislocaton and discomfort, but as they were
in former periods of peace and prosperity. Upon
the whole, we should suppose that even in the
halycon days. now temporarily vanished, the slave
keeping regions must have been eligible tracts for
enterprising voyogers, reduced to enDui by the
tame levels of civilization, in search of new
sensation, yet unable to follow the footsteps of Dr.
Livingstone, or to eat bears in the GOlO villages
of the Lower Amoor, and that now they must be
thousand times more so. There are parts Of the
world in which one may be plundered; there are
others in which one may be broiled and tha
boted by epcures; there are still others in which
one may be elevated to godship, and have tenn
pie and ten pretty priestesses of ones own; but
in no part of this terraqueOus bulb, save in our
Southern States, can man arrive at the ultimate
human dignity of tar and feathers. In an the
world there is probably no country, if we except
China, in which sojOurner may receive so sud
den summons to "yamose the rancho" as in
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, or Ms
sissppi. II anything can add to the delights
of travel, it must be the sweet cOurtesies
of Vigilance Committee, waiting upon q
man just as he has entered upon the ease of bis
inn, and compelling him to put on his still damp
boots and to travel therein. 1t is not every
where that private person can suddenly become
of so much public Importance; it is not every
where that the humblest individual can dignity
himself and his whole posterity by committing
high treason; it is not everywhere that your man
ner of taking drink may be regarded as indi-
catiye of revolutionary purposes. Bears and buff
faloes may be all well enough in Rocky Mountain
regions; the alligator. the centipede, the Bengal
tiger, the anaconda. or the yulture, may have
charms; but we know a creature fit for Gordon
Cumming, stated of leOnine adventure, to encoun-
ter-a creature with his belly full of whisky, with
his mouth full of tobacco, with his hands full OF
deadly weapons and his pockets full OF ammun-
tion-a creature at which Waterton or Captain
Henry Shakespear would have turned pale, and
from which either would have ANONYMOUSLY re-
treated.
We should suppose that any gentleman in pur.
suit of knowledge touching the habits of this ami
NAL in its most animated and imposing condition,
might derive the same from conversation with
Mr.. Dodge, who, poor fellow, was lately expelled
from Charleston on suspicion of having written
to THE TRIBUNE, and who has since taken
refuge amid the duller beings and more monoto-
nous scenes of this metropolis; but to those
who are simply desirous of seeing the amman
in the natural state We can conhoehH!
recommend Mr.. W. AIrin Loyd's Southern Steam
boat and Railroad Gaids, a production OF the Pc
Rod Just before the war, but nevertheless pos
sessing even yet too many merits 10 Dc con-
sdered in detail We shall therefore, CONNIE
ourselves principally TO Mr.. W. ALVIN Lioyd'
:. Rules for Railroad Travellers" which, as Laws
for the guidance of q perambalating existence
ought TO give Mr. Lloyd position IN the nior~
world second only to that Of Pythhgoras. MI
Lloyd's first rule shoVs him at once TO Do aver
disnterested person, for ths ioi'o""s'
BUY copy of W. Alvin LlOyds sOu'nern
.. sts.mba.. and Railroad Guide, before you
" start on your journey" Rochei0acaaia evu''
no., h.r. bean more sententaiOus or shrewd INN
this. We trust that when Dodge goes OaeA 70
the shade of the Palmetto he ALI not ,o's''
10 take with him complete copy Of Lloya'
The Third Rule of Mr.. Lloyd hled US '.
must confess with establishment We eopsn "
SLOWS, with typographical accuracy;
~ ,h. BE polite to your fellow passenger -.
W. certainly have no objection 10 VIC
mont Of this didactic injunction; hut having hN
our tsnderest years been informed thai Tue s.
bred nothing-sxclusive Of nlgger'-na' n,
and Chesterfelds, We are surprised tna' Il,
| Lloyd should think it necessary 10 re"S 80.
fellow.crea.arcs of the duty OF civihiy. No'
we less startled by Mr.. Loyds Ninth do'0e NJ -
tence which is this: s.a
"nyoa ... {. lady unsse0np'niea do not '''''''
| spon Ter notice"
Again: ... ~, .,.r.sse,sl While
,a,sias Ia the company Of southern .,,,ss.iye
! There is something so exceedingly '''p'