The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-17
FROM THE SOUTH.
Some Further NOIes in Regard TO the
Alabama Country.


To the Editor of the 1nteligenceI:
enclose YOU some additional notes
touching the recent trip South OF
friend and myself. might Till several
Journey, Ior such little things accumu-
late very last even during short
suiourn, were it worth while to do so,
but | fear they would not materially
interest the majority of your readers.
To begin at the beginning, our route
was from Wheeling to Cincinnati 80
miles; thence to Louisville by boat loo
miles from there to Nashville by rail
lS5 miles thence to Chattanooga l5l
miles from there to Kingston, Georgia,
II miles thence to Rome 20 miles, and
from there, via the Rome ana Selma
railroad to MontevallO in Shelby coun-
~. Ala, lGJ miles, the place from which
We took horses and mules TO ride over to
tho iron regions. You can make the
trip from Wheeling to Montevallo in
three days if not detained, as we were,
Mt Kingston for the best part OF day,
and its total expenses need not be above
fifty dollars. Contrary TO travellers
over this route by piece meal for
about the same price as on n
through ticket. In the South tho rail-
roads charge about of five cents per
mile. and at nearly all the meal sta
tions you pay one dollar. Everything g
is high at the South, Notwithstanding
currency is relatively SO much scarcSr
two dollars per day, which, with its
feeding amounts to about three. The
fare YOU get at the railroad stations IS
generally good anough. Tho hotels, so
far as we tried them, seem to be rather
Indifferent specimens OF high priced IN
stitutions, especially as respects their
rooms and beds and their general sit
ting accommodations below stairs.
Tobacco iuice and smoke, and evidences
of had whisky, assert themselves lit
tle too prominently for tastes not tully
educated up TO the Southern standard.
The farther you get South the more
pork and the less beef you meet with
on the tables Boiled bacon, fried ham
lin largo sliCes) and sausage, are 10 pe
seen at the same meal, but no beet.
| This is reversing the order OF nature,
as the traveller should rather expect to
meet an increasing supply OF such diet
| in going to colder instead OF warmer
climate. I asked man why they
didn't raise more cattle and have peer.
HRacause the niggers would steal the
stock" :" said he. "But you have plenty
of hogs" l remarked. "Yes," he an
swered, "they are cheaper. BESIDE
our grass is too scant for cattle. we
| haven't the Northern pastures inns
latter is probably good reason Tor me
lack of good cattle, even were tne naDtse D.e
Of the negroes unexceptlonahIe. 1ne
fa,y cattle YOU meet with look scrawny
and stunted, We never once saw a good
staor The oxen looked like yearllnG 6
caIvas Apparently little or no care IS
taken of stock in the region we Vlslteu.
The climate is so mild that houslnG
stock, as in this country, Is neglected.
even though there IS so lttle pas di3 lUt ''t
them to nibble. Some persons told US
of a new and better kind OF grass that
| is springine up in Alabama since the
war, and that promises to root ou'
the inevitable and universal broom
sedge. II this is reliable the fact VIII
be worth millions of money TO tna'
country.
The quality of land varies as 1t does
in our own section here. Close to rail-
roads and along navigable waters you
can hear 1t quoted at prices familiar tc
our Short Creek farmers. On the up
lands and farther in the interior you
can buy fair quality OF land at ten
hfifteen and twenty dollars, according tc
location. These uplands grow bott
cotton and corn, even though the sol
10 LIGHT. and would be the very
Paradise of Peach growers II
market proportioned to their yield was
bnI0se at hand. WHAT for instance, dc
Uon think of being told that five hun
SSred bushels of peaches went to waste
~ ono nlantation last season. Whe1
the the coming man" gets hold Of tha
nIantation You will not hear OF such
sinful waste. He will have the negF' 9p'
women to pare and dry them ,S}n on In m
shares. and ship them to 9 LoplsHlitgb theu baV sH
Cincinnati, where, am tolu, LneJ Rn
what are peaches, even at that price e
when cotton, so long Worshlppeu q
King, also brings thirty cents per Poun.'
in New York; John Smith wfos