Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-04-16

hetter from ChariOtte, North Carolina.
Tothc Editor ofHe Belmont Chronicle:
Thinking some of your readers might
be interested in knowing the condition
of things in this part of the "Old North
State, as seen by a Belmonter; / place
the following notes at your disposal.
Charlotte, situated about thirteen miles
from the South Carolina line, contains
about eight thousand inhabitants, and is
one OF the most euterprising cities in
the South. 1t is the terminus of three
Railroads; the N. g. Central, S. G. and
Charlotte, and Charlotte and Lincolnton
Railroads; making it the central point
of trade for n. & >. Carolina.
The country surrounding it ia broken,
but they can't raise as ''big' hills here
as we have in Belmont" until they get
about thirty miles Southwest, where the
Blue Ridge Mountains begin to tower
their heads "above the common level. -
The soil which has been worked to
death" is naturally good, and needs but
the attention of some enterprising "Yan
KEGS" to make it a "garden spot.n One
half mile Westward are the "Rudesill
Gold Mines" winch are in the hands OF
Northern men. There is at present one
shaft being sunk now over 200 it. down.
with good indications!p There are
several surface washers scattered about.
who are making from two to We dollars
per day. Six miles distant is another
mine, said to be more productive.
The ignorance of Southern peel lie i,
notorious, and it is plainly evinced IN
the lack of expression in the counten-
ancss of nearly all you meet; and this
applies to all classes, high and low, rich
and poor, white and black.
A Unite man who lives near us, seeing
the thermometer, and havinea a vague
idea that it was in some manner con-
nected with the weather, asked if "that
thing did really make il colder or warm
er." Moses" Children, having but
lately been permitted to taste of the
fruit OF the tree Of knowledge" think
the acme Of learning is to "study the
DictiOnary;" while their use and mis-
use of words is ludicrous in the extreme
One man having entered school to pre-
pare for preacher or teacher, had
"never experienced thealphabet,u - while
poor old woman was further advanced,
she having had ''information of the
liver"
On the 18th of February, had the
pleasure of hearing a portion of Gov.
Holdeh's address to the citizens of this
vicinity. The evening before he had
been burnt in effigy in hestreet; bu: at
the close OF his speaking he read note
ioih phO huyoi vi Vic Clty StutlUS LIaC
the act had not the sanction of the good
citizens of Charlotte, but "must have
been done by thoughtless boys" In '6I,
he was hung in effigy for his Union sen.
timents. Gov. Holden was followed by
Thomas Settle, Esq, whose speech told
well upon the people, as was plainly
evinced by the hearty cheers which fol-
lowed his good points and witty anec-
dotes. .ll H,j..i-.r.. I.
On The 25th, at three p. NJ, Sergeant
Bates entered the city with the "dear old
flag unfurled, on his, thus far, triu;n-
.phant pilgrimage. He was received with
hearty cheers for Sergeant Bates and a
white mans government" and was i'm
Ihcdiately conducted to his room. OF
course the Sergeant's uninterrupted
march will do fer bunkum, but it will
not show the general feeling of the eSouth
towards the North, which Is and will be
pltter 10 tne emo" ru G. d. b.