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

dressed, our new conner stopped over
and woke her NTH kiss. She started
,ap with guitea e:ty1zeopfusisn, asd !
their hurried greeting for fslifaih was
moving off showed an intima;e rela-
lion of some kind. As:I was puzzhng
my miud;as to,cxactly Shat the relation
was, she said to the lady NTH whom
she was travelling, "that's my-my-
my younger brother" and then in cx-
PLANTATION to the look Of unqualified sur
prise.with which the information was
received by her friend. for the man was
seven or eight years her senior, "that:
is, he is my sisters husbands broth
er.n--5Aftcr that, all we're satished.-'
There are a; good many5ways of ex'
planning a kiss, and that was one
But it added another to the list Of some:!
what curious claims, 10 relationship,
have known set up on an emergency,
making her sisters husbands brother
her younger brother. s!s,
At. nine o'clock we left Selma :,
drums beating all over the town, for; o
Radical meeting, mixed up with, yclls
and howls with which the, newly born
asserted the fact that one man is better
than "anothet nan," THERE'S no doubt
about that-,hey have asserted the fact
let US see who is going to be the
n,,, Onr whistle out yelled the mob,
and VIC drove out into the night and
left it all behind Us. ...- ,.o a,.
This road, some eighty miles long to
where it meets tho Chattanooga road,
is the neanest in the whole country
takes ten hours to run eighty miles and
then just made connection.
Tie other road is good one, and runs
on by Meridian to Jackson and Vicks-
burg: At Meridian, we stopped to
I breakfast, and Meridian is the greatest
marvel yet-a handsome town has
sprung up here in the last two Or three
! years W out Of the woods; fine brick build
inrs, brick kiln. on one corner of the
street; and stately hotel on the other
as han dsome and well appointed an hotc
what as there is out of N: Orleans, and
is pleasing in all this is, that the mos
, of the movement is in the hands OF ou
own people: r,
The Keeper of the hotel where we so
m excellent breakfast is Firglnian
as I found out by his calling homin,
agrits"-but Meridian has got th'
!, ssrits' in more ways than at the hote
buildings going up every where, o.
carts and wagons loaded with. cotton, il !
| the streets SO crowded that our "omnl
bus could scarcely make way anon;
t them, and all seemed prosperous au'
. promising. - -. =,
We arrived at Jackson about fiv
6 o'clock, and found the town conplctel
j, filed, and what was worse, as far as "
e were concerned, the cars for New Or
a leans as we'll, with the good people
Mississippi, their wives and daughter
s who had been to the fair. The prospec
d of standing up all night after trasellin
t thousand miles. seemed So poor a jok
e that said tothe conductor, woul
e get off at the FIRST station and wait ic
C the midnight train, as l did not inten
y going int, New Orleans before day vi
e der any circumstances, but intended
asi 1sisi = 8 4 qaa !.
IS into New Orleans ID the daytime. "I
e not change your Plan," said he, ether
n will bo plenty Of room in an hour
st two; all these people are excursions
C and will get of by that time" So
's made seat of my bag, squattcd on II
4, floor, and made the best Of it, as
IS turned out L was glad remained
d four or five coaches were crowded ;
st they used to lie during the war, with
le pleased, happy and we'll behaved crow
y Of all sorts and classes, for the most,
a not entirely country people, but amid
&C all, not one rude speech or mi
d proper action. A collection Of mo
N thorougly well.bred mon and women
rs never was thrown with, though the m
N jority were our country homespun
Or l was struck with the great similar
ty between these people and our ov
'c 1t seemed 10 me, l could have fillt
y, these cars in our own district and To-,
i ing through tlicm,. they would be Il
Is same manner Of expression, style
e, thought, dress and the rameless som
o. thing that makes the clanshiDs of a pc
pic. With ali those who crowded arou'
(. me, I found I could converse with
Is common interest," they understood n
and them as though they lived
ic "Grauny's Quarter" or on Twenty f
,e Mile Creek, and if or any oth
N of our well known "stumpers" had bet
it there and made them speech, tn,
would have listened as attentiTel
!. and when he made his "big llcks' al
,e the torrent of his eloquence foamed u
d and he gave in his srandest style, 4"
- airy nolhings, local hubitatlon aud
~ 70 namc," they would have " holl"rcd
: Just as loud and understood just as mue
y about it as any crowd we could get
y gcthcr in oil Kershaw.
Is Verify, VIC Of the South are one pc!
j. u pie, and, as l trust, tho future W
9 prove, great and good people, boun
1r d together by common suffering and
u u common wrong and kindred blood u
II shed in vain; such blood never yet h;