The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-14
4 TRIP TO SATANN.IH.
TrRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT
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SAyANNAlI February $.
If the Charleston and Savannah line of
steamers is generally as successful in its pas
senger and freight lists as was the. Pilot Boy
last Sunday, that company must be doing
having business, and well do they deserve it,
for the accommodations are very complete,
despite the querulorts, hard-te-pleasc Yankee
that almost every trip finds the hrst seat at the
table and sleeps in the best berth.
The Pilot Boy on Sunday was crowded, and
East" pleasure seeking, travelling for health,
and nosing around generally. Aboard was
the flr-faned Henry Sanford, of whom
know you must have heard, as he has
figured in every political capacity, from
extreme Radical TO fire-cating Democrat.
Well do remember him as long ago as 1881.
when. as secretary of legation, at Paris, he
refused to Uise my passport, because OF some
little technical infOrmality upon its face. Said
Sanford has been charge lie a1direS at Paris.
Berlin and other places. government agent
for the purchase of arms, and general public
plunderer, and withal a purchaser of rice lands
on our coast. And though such a chcckered
life should have learned hlm practlcai common
sense. he had the insanity to ask me if the
nhosphate beds near Charleston did not under
lie the whole State of South Carolina? Here
is a aoiSe-acre !nr you.
Harper's Magazine was, too, represented on
the Pilot Boy bya travelling correspondent,
and, strange to say, he had "done up Ch9Sles-
TOM and never heard anything oil the phos-
phate deposits. When shall we be known by
our friends
Arriving at Beaufort, o party OF us perambu-
lated that once atfiuent, but now dllapidated
town, and was much amused at the eXcla-
nations of the Yanks. One old gentleman re-
marked, ~ shouldn't wonder property might
be bought cheap here; by Jeve it's the incest
climate and most attractive looking country
see since left Boston. nWould he be good cti-
zen? thought he might, and advised him to
come and settle there He replied, 81 shouldn't
wonder should" On cur return to the boat he
stoppr me in crowd ofnegroes, Ut was Sun-
day. ...I the wharf was crowded with them,)
and said, Look here, If lived here you know
what I'd do right here? I'd kick every Id one
OF these lazy niggers into the water, or Off this
wharf" That man had told me lie was work
ing abolitonist long ago, and would now, II nc
were living at the South, be quite as active in
abolishing the race as he had been in abolish
ing their chains. ''Would some power the
gilt" &c.
OF course am at the Scrcven House, kept by
Nlckerson, formerly Of the Mills House in your
city. It seems like Charleston to see him..
and he is the owner OF his servants, If one Of
them is to be believed, who, this morning,
startled from doZe rs touched him. as he
nodded on the office lounge, to make an in
aulry, and looking ne In the face, said: . |.
belong 10 Nckcrson, SIR This is good
house, and always full to overfowinS. The
through travel from points north seem to
monopolize the good things which he always
has for his guests.
Savannah is a bustling city, and as the bulk
of her exporting trade is done on the Bay, or
Bay street. which is very wide and generally
thronged with drays, wagons, &C., an idea OF
her business can better be appreciated than
that of Charleston at n single glance. This
trade, however, 90 not think, from puDllshed
statistics, revcrts TO her pccuniary and sub
slantial growth. The Savannah News OF this
morning publishes Savannah as the third largest
city of eGportdtion in the Union, but there are
nearly twenty ahead of her on the subject OF
imDortatiOn. l don't know what Sam Smith
ct al, &C., would say of this, but to my
mind all outgo and no income Is poor
road to wealth. The statistics, however,
arc much more favorable to Savannah than
Charleston. 1t strikes me here, too, these
statistics are cayro1, for the expectations
TO the interior from Charleston are so
superior to those of most Southern cities, she
should get credit for that in the statistical re-
ports. The amount of fertilizers shipped from
Charleston alone must reach from quarter TO
halt million dollars this season, and Is clear
and independent shipment not peculiar to
other cities The Yankee clement though, IN
Savannah is very strong. and must be met en-
crgctically, or our Charleston merchants Will
find their sister city an undesirable compell-
tor. ~.