Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-10-02
Correspondence YOrkvillc Enquirer.
he Germans i'm Upper South Carolina

WALHALLA,S. C. Sept. I.
We hail this week from the extreme north-
west corner of South Carolina-a locality
where one hears foreign language habitual-
ly spoken-an elevated, stony, broken re-
,gion, where the air is as pure and as free
fr m malaria as arc the most favored spots Of
Germany, Scotland, Spain or SwitzeTlsnd.
II is one Of South Carolina's heathy-re sorts,
when the miasma and mosquitoes of summit
render the lower lands untenabe. Every
thing is favorable to heal;h-pure water,
mountain cir, abundant and wholesome food,
aud any number of novelties for sight-sesrs.
VINO have never been here before.
When We state that The soil is stony and
broken we do not desire to be understood as
implying that it isnot available for agrlcul-
lura purposes. 1t requires little extra Gaze
in its Pre- paration-somc fertilizing (of which
the material is most handy and abundaDtl
AID, in some cases, subsoil blowing. With
these attentions the soil responds to the III
ler's toll with luxlriaut crops. To illustrate
Oar lost OF the Wa!hala Hotel, supplies his
house abundant!y with vegetables OF every
variety, from garden adjacent to his preml'
ses. One section Of that garden, not over
quarter OF an acre, we estimate has this year
Welded hundred bushels Of Irish potatoes /;
aud has now fine crop of autumnal bcars
as second crop. This you will observe, is
four hundred bushels to the acre. Corn plant
ed in July is now over twelve feet high ard
we'll cared.
The crops of this whole section-eorn es-
pccially, but all grain and a little cotton
are finer than they have been in many years,
and as for ourselves, we have never seen finer
crops grown anywhere.
Gold miningis just now exciting large
Share of attention. Several strangers, either
representing interest elsewhere or upon pli
vate speculation, are here examining the hills,
valleys, and streams for gold, aud they find
iteverywhere in quantities greater or less.
Some arc conidcu:, and from conversations
we have had with certain welintorlned par
ties. we are satisfied that mining, will ere
long, be rendered valuable hereabouts.
The town Of Walhalla, you remember, is
built upon purchase Of lands, made by a
company OF Germans from Charleston, in
1850, and is inhabited almost entirely by that
industrious, thrifty ard conservative people.
The town is about mile in length, but is
very thinly peopicd. The Blue Ridge Rail
Road stops two miles short of the town, and
the intervening space must be done by omni-
bus.
a considerable trade has sprung up here
during the last year, nroo;s and drugs, gath,
cred by the country people ard bought by
the merchants in town, who send them TO The
New York market. Though Only one year
old, and the place, not an extensive one, the
present year will export thousand Or fifteen
hundred dollars worth Of these drugs. The
principle articles thus dealt are: Ginseng
Seneca Snake Root, Ladies' Slipper Pink
Root, Puccoon Root, May Apple, Liver Wort
Sumac, Yellow Dock, Blackberry, Worm
wood. Spitcnard, Black Snake Root, Button
Snake Root, Samson Snake Root, White
Snake Root, Sarssparilla, Silk Weed, Queens
Delight. Queen of the Meadow, sOlOmon's
Seal, Colts Foot, Devils Bit, Indian Turnip
! Bolumbo, Butterfly Root, Rattleweed Root
Poke Berry and Root, Slippery Elm Bark,
Mountain Birch Bark, Sassafras Pith, ant
Golden Rod.
We mention these items of industry tt
show the thrift of this people /; and to indicate
to other portions of the State a means o
making money and getting along in thu
world, hardly dreamed of by thousands al
over tho State, around whom are growing
some or all these roots, bsrks and berries, will
hundreds of others that are equally available
for market.
Tie Registration has closed here. All tn
whites have not registered; but still the re