The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-30

New Orleans, is for this year stricken from the
list of Southern cities to which the Northerner
or European may safely travel; and that which
is true of New Orleans is, in the same manner,
true of Mobile. This latter city has not es-
capped, and deaths from cholera are re-
ported every day. Strangers are afraid to go
to Mobile. They know that, seeking life, they
may find death; and Mobile also must be taken
from the roll.
Florida and Charleston, however, remain;
and both State and city retain advantages
which are not enjoyed in the same degree by
any other city or State of the South. Charles
ton itself has one of the finest climates in the
world. There has been no fever here for
years, the deaths among the white adult popu-
lation, from all causes, do not exceed ten per
week, statistical tables show that the yearly
mortality in Charleston has always been less
than in London, Paris, Edinburgh, or any
city of her own size in the United States. The
air is warm and balmy, the city is well cleaned
and policed, the community is orderly and law
abiding.
Then, again, Charleston is an inexpensive
city in which to live. Rents are low, the mar
kets are good, there are excellent and reasona-
BILE hotels for the who do not keep house.
There is no large theatre in the city; but our
60ou theatre at the Hibernian Hall is seldom
vacant, and not a week passes that some 'star"
company, or travelling exhibition does not
give both visitor and resident the means Of
pleasantly passing their time. There is excel
lent sport ion the huntsman,-in the woods
there are deer, in the marshes and low-lands
are found waterfowl and small game in album
dance. The angler need never be idle for the
harbor and rivers contain nearly every kind Of
fish. There are churches and chapels Of all
denominations, whose pulpits are filled by
learned and eloquent preachers. There are
public institutions which, in even these times,
are worthy of examination and notice. There
is ruined Sumter, and Battery Wagner, and
Moultrie, and Sullivan's Island, and the his
torical church of st. Michaels, and o hundred
other spots that will interest the tourist, from
whatever place he may come.
Above all, Florida and Charleston can be
easily, safely, and cheaply reached. From the
North there is the Anamessic route Oa Ports
mouth and Weldon and the Northeastern Rail-
road, as we'll as the direct land line by Wash
ington, Richmond, Petersburg and the North
- Dol-ooJ Thara 10 o1oo n line of
steamships from Boston, another from Balti-
more, 8 third from Philadelphia, as well as
three regular lines from New York City. In
leaving Charleston there is the South Carolina
Railroad, to Columbia and Augusta connecting
with all points East, West, North and South,
and the Northeastern Railroad for Wilmington
and Weldon, and the North and East, direct.
For Florida and Savannah there are three lines
of steamers, and regular steamers leave at
stated times for Georgetown and the islands.
Charleston, then, is the one Southern city in
which the tourist or invalid can find the COM
forts and pleasures of a metropolis, as well as
a climate as balmy as that of Madeira, and
more healthy in this season than the hills and
valleys of Virginia. Florida is almost at our
doors and offers a warm welcome to every
stranger, tempting the traveller by the per-
fumes of her orange groves, the purity of her
atmosphere, and the ripping of her pellucid
streams. The ocean is in front with its fresh
and invigorating breezes. Georgia and North
Carolina are at our backs with their claims for
patronage and support.
Let these things be made known, let Charles
ton emerge from her solitude and tell the world
what she is, let Florida raise her voice in be-
half of her own lovely land. If this be done,-
and done at oncc,-travellers will pour in upon
us, money will circulate more freely, trade
will improve, and every man will feel the ia
vorable influence of an influx of fresh faces
and the outlay of new capital.