Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-11-02
Greenville Correspondence.

GREENv1LLE, S. c., Oct. 9th, 1871.
Mr.. EDIToR:-As your recent visit to
this place was one fraught with so much
pleasure, judging from your letters, I
presume you still have pleasant remin-
iscences of the place and people, and
would not object to few items concern
ing them.
Greenvilles gay season is about at an
end; and the crowded hotels and board
ing houses are begging to look rather
lonely, though there are still quite
number of Charleston people here, wait
ing, as they say, for "black frost, be-
fore venturing to the city again. Sum-
mer residents of Flat Rock and C@sars
Head are slowly returning, seeking gent
ler breezes than the piercing blasts of
those mountain regions; but even here,
it is now becoming quite cold, and L
think the low country people will soon
have the desired "black FROST" and go
home stated with the pleasures and enjoy
ments of mountain life.
The gay season has passed, but Green
Vile is by TO means dull; quite the con-
trary. 1t is full of life, but of business
life. All the merchants have purchased
larger stocks of goods than they have
ever done before, and all day long they
are hammering away, opening them.
However, that part Of the work is almost
done now; but they are kept busy dis
playing them to the ladies. You
know ladies are not like men, easily
pleased, and quick to make up their mind
as to what they prefer. The ladies must
have every thing on the counter before
they think of choosing anything; and
then examine, and deliberate, and think
whether to get this or that. and wonder
if Miss Somebody else wont get such and
such thing if they leave it, and make
finer show at Church Sunday, and fire.
quently depart having bought nothing
leaving the weary clerk "cursing and
ripping because he pulled down all his
goods just to be looked at, not bought.
And SO it goes! The ladies' are shopping
all day, and the men-well they have
quite variety of employments.
There are still to be seen few gentle
men of leisure lounging around the Man.
sion House, but by far the majority have
something to engage their attention.
Some are merchandising, others are en-
gagged in agriculture around the outskirts
of the city, while others still, are in their
rooms poring over Latin or Greek, OF
sweating over some mathematical prob
lem which they cannot solve. And o,
what heavy time this class does have f!
often wonder if our old friends, Thucid-
ides and Herodotus, Cicero and Horace,
ever imagined, that so many apoor fel-
low would grow pale over the midnight
lamp looking out words, and thinking
out constructions for some perpleXing
sentence oftheir's, knowing that "a Zero
will be the result OF all unpreparcd les
son. But all this is not Greenvillc news.
Iexpect you would like to hear some
thing from the popular City Club. Well,
it is still hourishing, though its balls are
not so frequent as they were during the
summer months. There was one few
weeks since, to which / was honored
with an invitation and of course attended.
Who could keep away? There was quite
display of beauty from all parts of the
State, and, as is always the case at the e.
C. c. balls, every body had most de
lightful time.
The schools here are progressing very
well, but have small numbers of stu
dents; itfuch too small for the people OF
the State to allow. The University has
most competent corps of Professors, and
lacks only patronage to make it one OF
the first institutions of the South.
The Baptist Theological Seminary, the
moving of which has been so much dis
cussed recently, will certainly be con-
tinued here during the balance of this
session. 1t has recently lost one of its
most esteemed professors, DIR. Manly,
who has accepted the presidency of some
college in KY. It still has however four
very able divines as Professors, with
about forty students.
The Female College is in operation,
with Prof. Judson at its head, and is bet
ter patronized than either of the others.
sincerely hope they will all soon rank
among the first schools of the country.
Respectfully, Yours,
D.