New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-14
FROM RICHMOND TO CHARLES
TON.

ION.
| from Or spccia. Correspondent.
CHAMELEON Noveuaher a. ls65.
/ The train leaves Petersburg for Charleston at
an early hour 10 lie sure of passage slept at Tar
rcits Hotel over night and there obtained my FIRST
practical knogledec Of the high u charges which
distinguish every subsequent point. \ dollar is the
least sum that they seem 10 be familiar with cxcertng
as saw IN relation 20 the item OF segaTs which my
felow.pnssenccrs INDUCED in at the moderate cost Of
TWENTY-FIVE cents a piece for the decent article
| CHIvAfRY BLUsHISG 10 FfSD ITsELF FAME.
ASH was registering ny name eomrade OF one OF
the clerks was telling on him. to the great amuse-
ment Of the hearers story which illustrates alike the
morals and the manners Of the chivay 1t seems that
one or two coored ladies came 10 the hotel, aud that
the book keeper. IN bis department them, exceeded
the proyerbial polteness Of the gcntlemany clerk
whom hotel putting correspondents have made known
10 fame. He waited on them with distinguished con
sheraton lie booked them Tor the best room. lie
escorted then thither in Bis person. instead Of con
signing them 20 boy" lie notified them Of tie meal
hours and took them under his clerky protection from
their chamber 20 the dining hail. Waters were spe'
ciay charged be attentive TO them. He was knighty
in his bchavor lie conduct would have caused skepcs
10 believe that the spirit Of chivalry does exist in the
Soah IN spite Of tue fact that one never sees II mani
fest itself anywhere as he travels. Oh. horrors
After tho ladies lett the hotel found out that they
were not u pure Caucasian descent. I'D" said the
prg II chiyaIy be laushngly tainted the blushng
clerk ID II they wdrn't BIggeB z! To be sure,
ey were white that 10 one suspected thsr tali TO
De- SIRE ihcy were ladies' handsome sud OF good be-
hny Or and wholly uuproectcd-enongh. one would
thng 10 have not Justified merely but compelled any
gentleman 20 De courteous and attentive 20 thcm but
Tie tarbarism Of Nreinis-iis seventeenth century
-. Ian Oh NJ no NF aud.
crs ami b.ossomed in tie blush Of tie clerk alike
TRACES OF WAR.
Slowly We pulled out Of Petersburg passing earth
works brcastw0rks chevandeireeze deserted qnaTtefr
and other lingering signs 81 our Titanic struggles ard
then snurtng II q had the asthma, and running NJ
speed which suggested rheumatisn' our wheesy en-,
CINE passed through country Nat and fenceless where
the eli ured remains of depos and solitary ohmneys,
standing with Pompes 0dierlikc fidelity 70 show
where hey were on duty before the deuge OF fire came
where Everything one saw, and everything one dd NOT
see showed plainly that some strong hand had either
piHonod the OF labor and plralyled the soil Tor
twenty ~ thirty miles there traces Of war % be seen
here au ,here but after that until YOU reach the Ro
anoke there are noue-and after that, at the san
and the Pee Dee Rivers there are none Al these
three rivers bridges burned down by the Rebel
general. az Roanoke bv Baker believes at Pee Dee
nnd at sa1lee by lardee on bis re,rea, Sm Charles
ton when his conduct illustrated the Biblical maxim
that the wicked fee when no man pursueth.
TRACES OF sLAviRY.
These are the only traces OF Warbut you never get
ont Of sight Of the traces Of greater, more deathy
of hearing OF r. unless you keep beyond ear shot OF
your fellow passengers On the right hand and on The
lett ar far the eye reach ahead, far the tel
escOpe can travel 10 tho rear-eveywhere, IN every
thing you the blightng traces OF Slavery. From
forty or If miles south Of Petersburg 10 Charleston
the country mas be briefly described as desert. Long
long stretches Of pine; here and there slightly cult
waited patch scabby With mean huts or rude farm |
houses leagues aud leagues and leagues OF forest land
again; depots with municipal name. whose riRe con.
ssts of tank and wood sled of " pile OF fire.
wood without tie she'd swanps covering miles after
miles black tangled, and foul with pools OF green or
copper colored densely Opaque water now, semi
Of cultivation once morei then, 70 make up or IT,
and II savage az the imperncnce OF the hoe another
sweep OF swamp with ARCHAEOLOGICAL and creamy
cOorcd staguant pools. inter pcFscd with tall coarse
weeds ard trees lealess aud seemingly dead looking
Ike the ghosts of untimely killed forests here and
there maple. in its Autumnal robes attended by
aroup of bright many hucd Young undcrwOodall tins
side 10y side with still lower expansos OF fostering ooy
soil whose fallen, rOting logs or trees hung heavily
with moss seemed 20 indicate that the effects of Noahs
water cure bad not yet been overcome ant was highly
a POOR corSTRY.'
From Wilmington, south. the swamp lands abound
norm. all that the country needs 10 blossom like old
England or New England or Holland. Is for the same
race OF people TO buy II and t II. The Southerners
apologize for the aspect OF the country by saying that
the soil is poor. Poorl What was England Not "A
gardcn-unil made it one. Poor VIVA. was
Sc0tiandi d" \ land of brown heather Poor What
was Holland swamp, and not fertile one either.
Poor What was New England Its only natural
products were granite and Ice ~
A POOR PEOPLE.
Poor my friends, II you who poor and not this
glorious Southern land Poor. ye are-in arms. For u
laz.er set OF folks | never met. IL Is appalling. At
every little shadow OF depot one lot Of able
bodied Young men loatngi and, II You talk 20 them,
they viii soon swear at the lazy nggcrs, who are the
only working persons sees. Abbott Sambo no more
| Hills himself by labor than Johnny. Yankee could
whip both in day with one hand tied behind him
Iut whatever work Is done, the black man does H. as
fur "a can from raroad ear. Poor, We are
In brain What does your country needf Men, Wo'A'
lug men, Aud what ls yonr present nope avg lpI,.i
10 Danish your laborng class We fools ana phl' II is
the negro alone who keeps you nom the poornousei
who makes your land worth more than dlh,e an acr,
whose presence among You gives us orr sole security
for the moneys lent you and the goods win "Llth
we credit you. IL is the negro VINO DSi, theS1 ran
rnods who saved Won from the crocodile, and who
turned the fostering fonlaesses OF your low hds nt"
silyefy grains of rice Who changed your pn'lles INTO
iosn your red soil into upland cotton, ail your 10"
muddy islands into the long feeSy hsers "Rl,h al the
oh cray people end, insead 0f TIC Yankee, Who Voa