The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-12-01


1 remember, some tE$ks years
ago, when the stage drSY ough
board shanty, the oaiy yeSsdation
put as a stage stand, W Gre eat break
fast, OH the farm of thd ReIl Fn DR..
Thompson. The Doctor sahis lot,
an acre, | believe, ,he,stspy, on
viii which doa a splendid hatsl IS gaupp5ff for
1 left a-AFais'ss>j stsbeang, at
Augusta, and one was inf fuplust at
Atlau,a--ti,cy seem to be ephic. I
found them anticipating gr things
from one they we're about fave in
Selma, and we tumbled, ASP, head
foremost into-ouc at-Jscks6S -
We were about starting NRomc,
Georgia, all Yads they Head to-
Rome;;:: this one certainly dids&e got
there in due time, and jude;it wise.
when in Rome, to do as thR Romans
did, we took dinner. Romaems to-
be built up of brick and stoy houses;
on the "Coosa" river, in aIA better
country than that about Allal, aud is
now in the track Of a throIgar trunk
road to Dalton, and so on Rs, south,
east and west, and will beklaco Of
some local trade.
asked mine host (T hsl ~ stay
there from one o'clock In ) day, to
one o'clock in the night or fbcr next
morning, as Rome'sroad ru9adepend.
emily in the interest of Rds proper
why it was called "Rome," fticular-
ly-supposiug some classic resablance,
seven hills or something QHsays he,
"it's -"Injun" great couhtfTor DIN
jun" names. "Coosa;" I'd know,
"Tallapoosa," "Etowah.9 .9'"Rde ,""In.
jun" "Dou't you like lnju4amcs 2"
Itold him 1 did, and as 'hehad eti
dently told me all he knew, slbeit, |,
was not much, I'troublcd LII no far
ther. ,a.'- .ss4 sd }.
So at one o'clock in the mains, we
left Rome and our host Of lie "Ten
nessee House," who had neEr hearc
of Romulus and Remus, and cxpec
knew moro about the Greek Iiubs thar
the Grecian worthless. And ) he drov'
along, skirtiug what I Supposed be tn
finest mining region (all thi1eseonsid
ered) In the oorld. | had nkconcep
tion. of it's extent and richn8; until
was informed Of it by unquesPpcd au
thority. The so-called New prlean
and Chattanooga Railroad bcliev
that is the title of it bcganing It
eastward course, (for it has afsstwar'
one as we'll, aiming for the sifc( a
New Orleans, running along s tul
to Mobile, from there to Sell tadd s
on through this region to CHI noog'
Iron and coal are in untold 4 bdanc
and richness. 1t is north ebams
Talladega and Jefferson count Th
road FROM Selma to Chattanooga has
force of 1900 Chinese at wort on it.
Major Peters, formerly Gcne Pelk
Quartermaster, showed me / bps an
of this county. H&lives I
Elyton, Jefferson Cog9tGa al in ii
heart of this region Wyion ;whcl
the two railroads arehe Cross, Rd tbc1
is to be, he says, the largest and eli
in the South. Here, he g ghe!
yy9, vi, Gee. zee thisss.ssax,ai Dr. .ss sI
I'D 1HH5FoKtn "sea n Of coal for forty mil
as explored, and right across it on Il
other bank, is parallel seam of ire
cropping out to the surface, the be
and toughest known in the world, II
Brown Hematilc. lie says the gul
made from it during tile war, at Stlm
could not be burstcd and the Yankc
sawed them into sections and carrie
them off. Every variety Of the mo
beautiful marbles abound, except II
black, or Egyptian. So | was rca!
impressed with the fact that it acas
most wonderful rcgion-and Yank,
generals and colonels seem to be ilnbut
with the same idea, as they are here
numbers my friend Major Pete
seemed fully competent to show the
the way they should go. The Maj
is by birth, North ,Carolinian- ---rau
steamboat on the Mississippi, in II
early part of his life, and was, fnall
that is, before he dipped into.the n
ming business, uuartcrmaster Of D
vision in our army, so he can 60 alon
if there is any thing in blood and trai
ing. ..e.,-
There are two thousand Chinese wor
ing now in the heart of these mountain
brought by a Mr.. Staunton,
northern contractor from the Pacit
r. r. They have the means, we ha'
the country, and with few suih mt
as Mujer Peters, to SEQ that some of
sticks, all will be well.
About eleven O. clock, we got,to 81
ma, where we had to stay unll MI
at night. / did not ask my hndlol
here why they called it Selma11tor
was drunk too early in the day to
examined on this or any other sqbjec
I have known Selma fora great mai
years from the river, and looked up to
tall bluff from the deck of river stcal
boat-those great institutions nmor
our Alabama friends for to go Mobile
Montgomery, as the case might be, Wi
their particular friend Captain Bust
.or n,ntoin Riler (snnntimps it, was