New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-31
RAMBLEs ABONG TEE RECON.
sTSUCTED.
Delights of Southern Travei-The Palmetto
Sinte and iis Sacred soii--Charlesion
and its AppenrnDce-Dccay OF the
"Cbivairy "-st. Patrick secessiouized
ReOnte.
PLEASURES OF SOUTHERN TRAv
P How / envy the lot Of those who rev
end who have no adventures 10 recordl"

: PLEASURES or SOUTHERN TRAVEL.
Journeyinc in this 20 non i, dious and fatguing to
HE last degree; and would advise any one contem.
plating Southern trip to abandon it, unless, fortified
against sea,sckuess he ca trust himself aud his di
restion to old Allanic's bilowy keeping. The rail.
Way trains are generally Of the most announcement,
shattered and uncleany character and DO not make at
kher maximum speed than ten miles an hOur, for
fFhch you pay six 10 ten cents per mile
\ After every ten or twelve miles Of jotng you are
compelled to lie over. for the day or night at some
wretched village. and defy dyspepsia by melancholy
ATTACK on corn.bread and bacon. whose weight aud
strength only daring hunger would give You courage to
Invade On my way hitler did not lie down for four
nights, and my physical lie was perpetual spasm be-
Tween starvation and the Indignation of an outraged
stomach.
Beautiful faith that ensble one TO believe the South
the land of delights ard hone of uxuryi and better
otin the instinct which prompts him to remain at home
snd cherish his delusion still
I have been doomed by some malignant deity 70
WANDER through the South for before and durin
md since the war: and have ever found 1t what II
NOW is-an unsettled and semicivilized section Tor
which much may be hoped, since everything Is yet 70
be done for its DEVELOPMENT and enlightenment
THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF sIMPLETONs.
The fortunate many who have never been In South
carolina not wonder at toe intensity with which It's
Hhose who been Ia PalmettodOm viii never cease
10 marvel theTeat The sacred SOIL indeed glowing
and gded expression for sand and caEebrake ana pine
Forest and eypTessswamp, which. milo after MILE DIS
Hric after district present themselves In unbrOken aud
6reary mOnotony to the weary and beauty hungry eye
South Carolina n devoid Of physical loyeness and
geographical attraction can readily be imagined No
Stale D the Union that is not lis superior 10 those par
fculars and State wherein proportion 10 Its popula
Sion, there is much deorabie ignorance aud ire
pressibe concert
In some sections there is good deal Of literary and
political culture. but il is culture only IN one direcoi
devoid OF argeness profnndityhs cultivation that
began in belief in the divinity Of Slavery and ended
IN the diabOlls1n Of Secession.
In and abont Charleston Columbia and Beaufort-the
chosen hones OF the sOtdisent chyaryheTe were men
and of fine understanding and olished manners
but they were never more than cultivated simpletons;
tor ttey reasoned from Slavery 10 Notification and ad'
hered to the wretched fallscy that Cotton was king
TIE PALMETTO CITY.
~ Charleston which have not visited before since the
Ear looks drearer and dnller than have ever before
seen it, Half Of ITS business portion s in ruins it
Rocks like an American Palmyra. With its cotton ZeDo-
6a buried beneath its sands. Everything in the city
reminds me Of past civilization. and there Is hardly
building anywhere that does not appear more than a
reptory old Quaint melancholy place, with lis steep,
Billed roofs its crumbng succeed walls us ineiosed
gardens and high gates its decayed portlcoes II re-
minds me Of the ruined IN Spain and the de-
Saying habatons OF Southern FraLce 1t is not diff
cut 70 fancy yourself standing amid tho exhumed re.
enains Of Hercuaneum and Pompeii IN many parts o.
khe burned district dead and departed Is the appear
If were firm believer In Special Proyidences az
Ill genuine Southeners assume 10 be- Ishoud hold that
ehe Charlestonians had offended the Almighty and that
he had punished them for their pride. With more
phosophic because larger faith believe that, mis-
BAKING the spirit OF the age, and blind 10 the progress
f events they violated reason and common sense, and
have paid the natural penalty thereof
DECAY OF THE OLD REGIME.
The Palmetto City--so called, 1 presume. because
Where palmetto trees in its extremely dull,
bommercialy aud socially. at present. Money Is very
scarce and business vapd and there is not place Of
amusement in the entire town You very few Of the
original inhabitants here. Many OF the private dwell
Epgs are empty and their former residents gone
ot where. The persons you meet at the hotels the
harves. In the streets are Notherners induced hher
by mercantile or speculative considerations. The old
poccty of Charleston which the naiives here fond
Efdecarng the most exclusive aud aristocratic the
DOrtincD Is broken mp and has become thing OF the
Gast % casionay You encounter a sal!ow, slender.
oyspeptcOOking man WbO shows by lis Intense dis.
gust with the exisiing Or Of things that he Is sur
kiFof Of the fallen ehiyalv wandering ghost IL this