Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-12-02
The Ail.Important Railroad Matter.

OF The great highway froin New orleans TO
New York. The, great highway, We repeat,
for it iss tho most direct routo-the shortest
by fifty or sixty miles, and the;cheapest by five
or six dollars-between the Crescent City and the
American Metropolis.
Our Districtisalso interseoted by The South Caro-
lima Railroad and tho GreeAvilo aud Columbia
Railroad and yet, strange to say, Edss6ed Village
is still six or seven miles from thcusarsst Depot
on any one of these three Roads. sad condi-
tion for our once fourishing town, hid d shame
fnl commentary upon the enterpriss of our Cor
porate Citizens. Si hin: III 80
We do not, in this article, intend; to disguise
the truth, nor to conceal cur feelings by an art
full dressing Of fappurent satisfaction nj the sue
cess which has attended that portion Of old Edge
field lying along the routes of the railways within
lcr borders. However much we may rejoice with
the fortunate in such localities, andFpsrtako of
their benefits and prosperity, still we mustsay
out of an honest heart that our District has been
almoat and our town entirely, q stranger to any
thing like material aid in tho construction Of the
very works which are now causing our hills and
valleys to blossom like the rose. We know that
the ruin and disaster entailed upon uaby the late
war, still hang oyer our fnir fields anafest upon
vur most prosperous yales; but wo muAtremember
that, after all, EdgeGeld escaped comparatively
unscathed and that it is now common talk that
EdgeGeld District was less injured i.bsIthe war
than, any o,Ser District, in the Stats, asnd Tint
t. ,eis more gold and moro moneyswithn ii.s-
borders than can be found within The limits Of
perhaps any. two of her neishbors. .t
Three times, within our limited knowledge, the
town Of Edgefold has been offered tho most aat-
tering termsby those who controlled the routes of
Railways, for Depot within its corporate limits
and thrice have these terms been refused. 1t is
scarcely necessary to allude to tho result. A
simple comparison will tell the talss Aiken;
Nowberry and Abbevlc, formerly our vcake.
and poorer neighbors, have far outshtppedSua in
the great march Of advancement, psssperity and
Improvement; insomuch, that whils town proper-
ty in those places is ssteadiy approaching, popa,
lation increasing, and wealth difasiIg, the very
opposite is found in our midsssoA And, shut our
eyes to the fac. as we may;ysdeh depreciation and
decline will certainly continuc, unless we arouse
ourselves fgomJOur present torpor. Unless We
soon be up and doing, inevitable ruin must fall
upon real estate within the limits of our town..
Fortunately for us, another, and we believe n
last, chance is offered to Edgefeld Villag. in this
regard. A Road is in contemplation, audwill un-
doubtedly be soon built, from Lofts or the Pine
House on the Columbia & Augusta Road, to New
Market or Ninety Six on the Greenville Columbia
Road. Two routes have been already surveyed the
one running from Lofts along the ridge six or
eight miles from this town. and the other directly
through our corporate limits.
T We are informed that subscriptions on the
part of our town Of the comparatively small Gum
of twenty thousand dollars will secure the last
named route, and place us Immediately on one
of the greatest Railroads in America Jas the
contemplated route will finally be o portion of
the Blue Ridge Road, admitted, by all, to be,
when completed, among the most important and
extended highways of the world.
We honestly and persistently direct the atten-
tion of our townsmen, and especially Of those
who own our town property, to this proposed
road. We know that there is both intelligence
and capital enough in out midst to contribute
800, COO TO tho great work without the slightest
inconvenience; and We believe that our citizens
need only to be aroused from their slurnbers to
the great Importance of the undertaking.
The practical rasults to our town, to our Dis
trict, and, above all to those who own lands,along
or within five or six miles on either side. .Ns.hiS
rvutv, are evident; and this is beyond doubt the
very best investment for money now offered to
our capitalists That stock in the great Railroad
from the Soaboard to tho mighty Mississippi al
10y must be in few years aborc par, no intelli.
gent man can reasonably question. The natural
land marks, which the great Geologist of Britain
terms the footprints of creation, teach us that
this Valley, central as it is and forming recep-
taclc for the great rivers from the North, South,
East and West, must, in time, be the richest and
lost prosperous section of the habitable globe.
And experience together with the enterprise Of
the age point to the fact that very shortly thi,
natural outlet from the West to the Atlantic must
be made. And when it is made, tho Grecnville
4 Columbia Railroad, already built, will of course
be portion of it; and the proposed route from
New Market or Ninety Six to Lofts or the Pine
House will be continuation.
If then we can succeed by. q little energy and
the subscribing of q little money, in placing our
town directly on this great Road, does it not be-
come us as citizens, as men, MS reasonable, prac-
ticasi, aspiring inhabitants of the fair country
which God has given us, to be up and doing?
Montesquieu says we'll and wisely, show me
tho highways of coutry, and will tell you of
its civilizations" The Appia Via was powerfully
instrumental in making Rome the mistress Of the
world the wonderful military road of Napoleon
over Mount Gents rendered him tho Dictator of
Europe,,aand VIC verify believe that the great
Road from tho 0esan to the West, intersectins Mt
right angler, az twill The equally great ROad
from Now York to New orsans will mako our
country the richest and most powerful of the
world. ~ r
Let us then rise without further delay, and dd
our utmost in this all-impor,ant mattcr. q
The Marion Crescent.
On tie llh Nov, our honored contemporary
ahoro uuln,d closed, its third volume. The
Crescent is mn able and dignifOd DemocraticIpa-
per. We offer i. on .his occasion our kindest con-
gratulutions, and hope to motto from year to year
its continued prosperity and usefulness.