Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-12-23
Senator Dietrich B!emsDn.

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GERMAN PIONEER IN SOUTH cAnoLINA--
WHAT INDUSTRY AND ENERGY MAY
&C HIEy E--7WALH ALHALLA---INTEREsTlNu
hEalINIscENUEs OF ITS GROWTH.
Merits car. ueither be measured 10y results
hor by The influence which man may cxer.
else upon his Immediate SURROUNDINGS, nor
by tho estccm bestowed by his grateful fel.
lowctizcns The trials aud difficulties Which
he had to overcome, and the opposition he
had to encounter III tho combat Of life, should
re taken into consideration. While we GER
tainly shall not withhold our homage from the
man who was born under the most favorable
nuspiccs, who from his position ard birth has
lind every means afforded him for thorough
education and culture, our admiration is due
in q much greater degree to the man who, bv
himself, alone, without any extrancous assist.
nncc, md under unfavornLle circumstances,
has achieved 40 acknowledged position aud
rxcrciSed bcnetcent influence upon his
fellow citizens
From this standpoint should be viewed tic
subject OF tho present biogmplicnI sketch,
Senator Dietrich Blcmann, of Walhallu
Ocoucc County, g. G. lie has achieved for
himself an honorable and cDviuble position
md this, too, upon n path not strcwn with
flowers. The grcutcr the struggle, the greater
the merit lIis eary years wcrc not ilumin.
cd by the sunshine of fortune. lie was born
IN 1878, in ThedinelIauscn, in tho Dnchv
of Brunswick. His parents, honest, although
poor, were able to give him but a very limited
education. After lie left school he was ap.
prenticcd to a butcher. but young Dietrich
lad little tasis for this pursuit. lie was de-
slrous of seeing the world. and accordingly
shipped before the mast on board the Euro.
pn,' packet slip running at that time from
Bremen to the United States. The harsh
and unjust treatment, however, vhich lie re.
cclvcd at tic hands of the tyrannical and pas.
sionate captain, forced him to leave the vcs.
sci upon its arrival in Baltimcra in 1913, and
not hnding suitable employment in that c,ty,
lie came to Charleston, where he met friends
who assisted aud enabled linn to 20 into busi.
ness. "A fey years afterwards, when General
>. a. fFngcner founded German society for
the purpose of establishing II purely Gorman
town in the mountains Of South Cnralna, NIr.
t'emnnn bccamc one of its members, with Il
capital Of $4,000 The society purchased in
what was then Pickens District, Il tract Of 90
600 acres, and in lS4D General Wnecncr
tfor many years president Of the socicty)
made the first cut iuto the pine tree which
WIS to mark the centre Of the future town.
Where ut that time stood nothing hnt yer.
dant forests, now houriShes the German Wal
hala OF 500 souls, and the present terminus
of the Blue Ridge Railroad. 1t has strndilv
grown III commerce, and during the past year
shipped nc less than 1900 bales nf cntton.
The country around is one Of the finest and
most salubrious in mcrica-tlc Italy of the
New World in respect to climate, water ami
soil. The little town has brilliant future,
although most Of its industrial resources still
Tic dormant Splendid wine and cxcellen
fruit are produced in ,s orchards and vine
yards. Tho fertile soil returns rich CROP
OF grain. Hops there grow wild in great
'luxuriancc. A barley field, last summer,
yielded eighty. ght bushels per acre What
n tcmrntion for speculative disciple of
nGambrini to choose Wn!halla for his abode
especially us it is still without brewery, and
must qucnch it's thirst with imported beer.
Mr. Bcimann moved to this place in 1850,
md built the first house, the WalhalIa Hotel
with eight rooms, General Wagcncr and few
,German builders were the first guests but the
town grew so rapidly, that MIR. Bciu,ann
soon found himself obliged to enlarge his
house, and to day it contains forty two com
Portable rooms, and he seldom seats less than
fifty guests at his table. Mr. Bicmann also
carries on large genera! mercantile business,
BESIDES conducting large farm in the vicni-
W of the town.
Possessing foresight. md being prudent
and frugal, and assist ID by his industrial and
indefntignbe wife, we need not be surprised
tthat his wealth increased vsibly yc"r by year.
lie is now rich, bnt his riches nre tho fruit
Of hard labor and honest industry It need
not he said that he is generous and lends -
helping hand when lie has reason to believe
assistance will bc well bestowed. lie is puh.
lie spirited and never slrinks from making
,rvcn the largest sacrifices when culcd upon
aor work Of public utility.
1t is no wonder that under these circnn,.
stances his German tcllow-citizcns as well as
native Americans living in the vicinity, have
'eycr.dclightcd IN bcstowng upon him Offices
Of trust aud honor. With bis clear and far
seeing common sense, and his disintcrcsted
AJchcvolence, he has become the head Of the
German population of Oconcc County, and
they did know how to honor him moro worth.
lis than by electing him to the office Of senator
l1o has also long bccn the president Of the
German Lutheran corporation Of Wulhalla.-
Charleston Ncps.
IEDHlELE CARNAuE.--Thc story Of the
capture of Orleans reads like page from, the
history of the Crusadcs. The French, dcsti
tutc Of artillery md fearfuIly outnnmbcred
we're forced to defend tho city by individual
bravery. and made the victory dear one to
the Germans. During the night before the
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