Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-17

months; it is about fifteen miles from here:
This place is about 1850 feet above the
sea. 1 went up to town fifteen miles above
here; it contains, $4,000 inhabitants,
nineteen run of mill.stones, three or four
fine Touring mills, and large cotton fac
tory with $4,000 spindles and 800 looms.
It is in valley, amidst the mountains, and
one Of the most wealthy places I ever saw.
The city has fourteen fountains spouting
up in every quarter of the city, and COD
stant running stream in the middle of the
street, and the streets are all finely paved.
would rather live here than any place I
ever saw if there was American society,
but it has but four or FIVE American fami-
lies. This is 1000 feet above the sea, and
has all the tropical fruits; this is the land
of fruits and flowers. Horses and COWS are
used here all the year, eating nothing but
grass. Taking all together, this is the
straugest and most beautiful country I ever
saw one can work out here with pleasure
morning and evening, but bot in the middle
of the day; no flies or mosquitoes as I
have seen, and not many insects or reptiles.
H's surveying has taken him into a very
wild country, fifteen or twenty miles from
here, where be had the tiger, panther and
wolves around their camp; they were near
to camp of Liberals, and were afraid to
fire their guns for fear they would be taken
for French spies. We take no part in poll
tics, and the Liberals do net object to our
coming here We have not had any difficult
ty with any of them there. are some rob-
berries committed on the roads sometimes
There is plenty of deer and partridges and
different kinds of game here A person can
live here (eat) for thirty-fve..cents per day.
Hotels charge one dollar and fifty cents per
day. If man will work he ought to make
1000 dollars year. am sure it can be
done.
Now, for the objections to the country.
These people are as mean as they can be as
general thing, and as lazy as they can be-.
Nine-tenths of the people are Indians and
look like the Indians you see about Pende-
ton. You have to learn the language of the
country. You can have no association with
the natives their religion does not suit us.
The fear of the instability of the Govern
ment, but I do not fear much on that &C.
count, for let what Government there may
be, with au American colony, We will be
able to have vast influence and can pro.
tect ourselves. am of opinion that there
will be one thousand families here before
eighteen months. Many persons are disap.
pointed because their preconcieved notions
are not fulfilled; I expected to see large and
extensive valleys, such as We have in the
States, with large and finely cultivated
fields, but there is nothing of the king; the
country is table land, as level as any one
would desire, but only opened and cultivated
in patches great deal ofstone on that land
but not sufficient to interfere with plowing.
Gen. Wade Hampton's Letter.
The following is Gen. Wade Hampton 8
letter to Senator Reverdy johnson, which he
caused to be read in the United States Sen.
ate as already stated:
WILD WOODS, Miss, April 2l, 1866.
To the Hon. Reverdy johnson,
United States Senate
SIR "A few days ago | saw in the pub.
lished proceedings of Congress thata petition
from Benjamin Rawls, of Columbia, 8. c.,
asking compensation for the destruction of
his home by the Federal army in February,
1865, had been presented to the Senate,
accompanied by letter from MajorGener.
al Sherman. In this letter General 8. used
the following language: "They"-the
citizens of Columbia fire to thousands
of bales of cotton rolled out into the streets,
and which were burning before entered
Columbia. I myself was in the city as ear
ly as nine, and I saw these fires and knew
efforts had been made to extinguish them !;
but high and strong wind kept them alive.
gave no orders for the burning of your
city, but, on the contrary, the reverse, and
believe the conAagration resulted from the
great imprudence of cutting the cotton bales,
whereby the contents we're spread to the
winds so that it became an impossibility to
arrest the fire. I saw in your Columbia
newspapers the printed order of General
Wade Hampton, that on the approach of the
Yankee army all the cotton should be burn-
ed, and, from what I saw myself, L have no
hesitation in saying that be was the cause
of the destruction of your city"
This grave charge made against me by
General Sherman having been brought be-
fore the Senate of the United States, I
am naturally most solicitous to vindicate
myself before the same tribunal. But my
State has no representative in that city
Those who should be there are debarred the
right of entrance. In those Halls there
are none to speak for the South ; none to
participate in the legislation which governs
her; none to impose the taxes she is called
on to pay, and none to defend her or vindI-
cate her sons from Misrepresentation, injus-
tice, or SANDER. Under these circumstan-
ces 1 appeal to you, in the confident hope
that you will use every effort to see that
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