The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-03
MORE ABOUT AIKEN.
A Detailed Statement Of It's Sanitary
Advantages by u Northern Visitor.

:. ga yaletudil.arian" writes to tho New York
World from Aiken, S. c., unler date OF the
18th ultimo:
ssWhither shall go?" is a question which
-itates the minds OF thousands OF lnvailas III
Septe begin to tingc the forests WITH eor-
geous hues. Perhaps gu acute lilness mas so
Te,Inced :he vitality Of tho patient that, al
ibonob from disease he dare not encounter
The rudc blasts OF Northern winter; or con-
sumpti n, IN some of its multitorm gulses, has
laid It's cold band upon vital organ, chLlns
every fibre of his belne-reduc ng strength,
obstructiIg breath, disturbing circulation, I'M
pairing digestion, irritating nerves, pros
tratinc strength, aud a. the same time,
in strange contra iction, ir,adlating, the
whole iu,ure with hope. My own condltlon
was briefly this: One hot night IN june
(and last June you remember was hot slept
beside all open widow. During the night
cold in set in, and I awoke chilly ana
sore: from this cnsued cold with trihng
cough; then pneumonia in both lungs, Wiiicn
=. for many weeks kept me vibrating between ifo
and death, and finally left ME with a "shsht
dIficuli,"ln in my lungs, which repeated atlscul-
tatlon, by various professors, at length decl-
ded was occasloned by ''tubercular deposit" 10
the right lung. Medication, they told me, was
of no use, but exercise In the open ar wouid
do much to restore my strength. But now
can an invalid exercise out doors IN New YORK
during the winter 'Whither shall 90 I"
became nv inquiry. The professional re-
sponse Wis that there was not such probable;
ty OF benefit from change OF climate as would
warrant ph! slcian in pl escrlbing that course
still, as was bent on going. somewhere, and II
did not go would probably feel that had
neglected to do what might have been OF ser
vice" why, under these circumstances. medi-
cal assenl-n, tadvIce-was given that l c1ight
90 South; ard Aiken was indicate as the place
most likely 10 provo beneficial. AT this time
was extremely att :nuated and feeble walk
OF quarter OF mile exhausted me, my pulse
exceeded one hundred, my cough was rdcktng
and frequent. with constant night sweats, aGd
srratic chills followed by fever.
reso!ute Will, however, was left to mo, and
started for this place. l arrived here du1ln,
an unusually cold SPELL, and for lew days rny
symptoms were aggrayated; yet spent a.. Tue
time out doors that my strength would permit;
and at the end of>a fortnight begap 70 I'M
prove and that Improvement has Continued,
with one or two intervals OF retrogresSion.
slowly, very slowly, until now. AT present
can. ns o daily exercise, walk three or lOur
miles; and sallop on horseback frt M ten to
twenty miles more, besides playing cro4uet TWO
or three hours, remaining outdoors troal
breakfast TO sundown, without any sense OF
exhaustion. I have had neither chill, fever,
nor nlght-sweat for two mouths; my pulse
beats from seventy to eighty, my cough Is less
frequent aud severe. and my weight increased
five pounds. Whether the progress OF disease
in my lulgs is arrested am not able to decide;
can only say that my symptoms are ailevlated
in the manner and to the degree nave set
. forth.
WHERE AIKEN IS.
Although Aiken has been known OF the
South for twenty years and more as deslrae 9
resort III winter for those suffering uom pull
monarS complaints, aud as summer resort
for those who desired to escape the mllaflous
influences which prevail so extensively IN tue
South 1t has ~ general iepa'e az Tue No,.n'
Many of those now here did not know oil 1t un-
til they reached the South. Aiken is In the
western purlou OF South Carolina, ono hull
dred and twenty miles from Charleston, elerat-
ed six hundred and fifty feet above. the level OF
that city, and three hundred and fifty feet
above Augusta, Georgia, from which 1t Is
seventeen miles distant. It is upon the "water-
shed" which divides the streams emptylnS
into the ocean at Savannah through the river
of the same name, and those reaching the At
lantic at Charleston through the EGlsto River.
The village Les directly upon tue South Caro-
lima Rairold. and the station ls less than two
hundred feet frum the hotel where l am writ
ing. There are from one hundred to one hun
dred and fifty DWELLINGS,, and as each building
lot is from two to three acres IN extent, and
the rectangular streets are all ono hundred and
fifty feet wide, it is almost a village OF mag
nifcent distances" havenot been aole Iuliy
to decide whether the village is IN tho woods
or the woods in the village, so numerous are
the trees. Many of the grounds are prettily
laid out and nicely kept.
THE CLIMATE.
The climate is not SO warm as to be debilita-
ting, nor IS it so cold as to interfere with the
fullest enjoyment Of outdoor exercise and
amusement. have taken pains to preserve
record of the thermometer since the middle OF
December, ut the hour of 2 A. NJ, as follows