Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-09
Macon and Knoxville Railroad.
BRUNSWICK. ca. Eel. 1.

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BRUNSWICK. Ga, Feb. 1, 1871.
Correspondents Of the chronielal = Fffst
Your readers scarcely appreciate how inl-
pOrtant TO them will soon be the flourish
| ing young seaport city in which reside
A corps of able engineers is now In the
field surveying the route of the proposed
direct railway from Macon to your city
among the mountains. No sane man can
doubt, If he knew the circumstances, that
the road will be speedily built. Knoxville,
Tenn, will then be only about $50 miles
from Macon, Ga. Already an elegant new
railway connects Macon with this young
city, the distance between them being 1S6
miles.
And what is Brunswick? We answer
that it Is the future city of the Southern
Atlantic seaboard. It is situated on the
finest harbor on the Atlantic coast south of
Norfolk. The bar will admit vessels from
"a to % feet of depth, and the harbor is
perfectly secure, and of a capacity to hold
place now has two railways-one, already
mentioned, to Macon, the other, in pro-
gress of construction, to Albany, in South
western Georgia. Of the latter road, 113
miles are completed, and only about 90
are unfinished. Ere the Year 1871 expires,
the whole road will be built.
Brunswick already contains about 1900
inhabitants; but new buildings are GO
ing up in every direction, and population
is rapidly pouring it. The place enjoys
one facility for increase in an eminent
degree-that OF abundance of excellent
lumber. The city abounds with saw-mills,
and the unequaled yellow pine OF the
South (pi',,ts paIustTiS of botany furnishes
inexhaustible material. The lumber ex
port from Brunswick is very heavy, and
must constitute permanent source of
wealth, these magnificent pine forests be-
ing vast and inexhaustible.
Besides the arrival and departure of fire.
quent trains on the two railways mention
ed, and the coming and going of sail ves-
sells belonging TO every country on the
globe, three steamers doing heavy bust
ness in travel and freight going South. and
three going North, make their regular
calls per week at the Brunswick wharves
The place is remarkably healthy. The
fine bay on which it is situated is wholly
salt without adnlixture of fresh water, and
no malarious diseases are known here. No
yellow fever, or cholera has ever visited
Brunswick. The climate is delightful.
We gather to-day spring flowers growing
in the open air-the sweet violet, and the
fragrant native Jasmine LQeIseasinu1e SEM
perrireasl-and the wild mocking bird
trills his wondrous song in yonder tall
magnolia tree. And yet, in summer, the
sea breeze is so refreshing that the sultri-
ness Is less oppressive than that of many
an August day in Eastern Tennessee.
Even astronomy here has her peculiar
claim. The brilliant star Campus, of the
constellation of Argo NoUis, invisible in
Northern ATTITUDES, here wrinkles for an
hour every evening on the Southern hori>
zon. 2t1 sES2Es
We go hence up the ST. lila river
to Jefferson, thence to st. Mary's again by
the sea side,J on the Florida border.
Perhaps you may hear from me again
from st. Mary's. Now I must devour q
dish of fine Brunswick Bay oysters.
", G. NJ