The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-08
Correspondence of the Phenix.
WALHALI.A, s. O., =
September g. 1857

WALHALLA, y. o.,
September g., 1857.
This locality enjoys the perfection
of climate. A medical gentleman
who has travelled extensively in Eu-
rope, expressed to us. in conyersa-
ton few days ago, the opinion
that the air Of Walhalla is purer and
more health-inducing than that OF
the most famous health resorts Of
Germany, Spain, Switzerland or
Italy. The atmosphere is dry, pure
and active. The temperature is as
delightful as the breezy and bracing
presence of the mountains can make
it. Invalids from the lower and damp
er latitudes find themselveschere ra-
pidly restored to health, whether the
cause of suffering were pulmonary,
hepatic or general-whether the suf-
ferers be dyspeptic, bilious, or hypo-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES their ills be
febrile, nervous or imaginary. The
secret of this health-restoring charac-
ter of the place is to be found in the
fact that the perfectly pure atmos-
phere allows nature to restore her
proper functions-does not impede
restoration by any local causes, such
as malaria and excessive heat--allows
the els medicdtric nature to have q
fair chance in restoring exhausted
powers.
Walhalla, as everybody knows. is q
German settlement, made by u COM
pany Of immigrants from Charleston,
in 1850. The town has extended in
size, giving ample room, without
crowding the population. The sue
cessful operation Of the Blue Ridge
Railroad will, no doubt, contribute
largely to the material prosperity of
the town. The communication is
daily with the Southern routes of
travel.
A number Of practical miners are
probing for gold. Their operations
are active, and some with whom we
have conversed arc in high hopes of
abundant success. That gold exists
everywhere-on every hill, and in
the sands of every branch and creek
is abundantly evident. The problem
for the miner is to find the grand
deposits.
The soil hereabouts is stony, and
not very fertile, except in the valleys,
where the fertility is equal to that
of bottom lands anywhere in the
world. But yet, these stony hills,
by little care and manuring, can
be made fertile beyond the richest
lands upon the coast or anywhere
else. We can illustrate with an ex-
ample: Mr.. Biemann, of the Wal
halla Hotel, has q section Of his vege-
table garden that measures quarter
of an acre. This piece of ground
has produced this year hundred 6u-
shels of Irish potatoes, and there is
now growing on it a luxurious crop
of fall beans This yield of potatoes,
you will observe, is four hundred bu-
shels 10 The acre. This was accom-.
plished at very slight expense, no.
thing but common stable manure
being used.
There is O growing trade here in
herbs and roots for medicinal uses.
The articles most bought here and
sent to the New York market are
ginseng, pink root, spikenard, sarsa-
parilla, queens delight, Indian tur-
nip, Columbo, slippery elm, golden
rod, the various kinds of snake root,
and in all over thirty kinds of native
growth. This trade commenced only
last year, and already amounts to at
least S1,000a year. In few years,
it will become an important branch
of business and trade.
The population of this place is al
most entirely German, and the people
have brought with them many of the
peculiarities of the Fatherland-pe-
culiarities that make them, as O peo-
pie, different from our American
folks. They are very slightly, if at
all, corrupted by any villainous tricks,
and honesty, if it. yet fingers any
where in our unhappy country, lin
gers here among these thrifty Teu-
tons. More again. D.
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