Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1871-11-09

list, and is engaged in looking alter the
education of his children, in the Quaker
city.
As the cars were slowly passing from
the Wilmington terminus, to the Balti-
more and Ohio Depot, being drawn acssro
the city by horses, we heard an unmistak-
ably down Eastern voice asking one of the
railroad employees eff this amt Pratt St.
where your fellows tried to scare our boys
from Boston, when they was goinj down
to Washinton?'' The answer was equal
ly provincial. Vas, tits Pratt St. an'its a
pity we didn't kill MORN we did, Ireck'n.' y
The Massachusetts, man settled himself
fora talk, but the employee had other
matters to attend to, and left him without
opportunity for argument. p" 70,
The train halted in the shadow of the
great dome of the Capitol, just at sunset,
leaving us an hour of leisure in which to
see sights or friends as we might elect
before embarking for the short trip by the
Potomac boat, to Acquia Creek. 1t was
too late for the forner, and the latter
meeting us at the Depot in the persons'of
! several who are well known to your read
ers, gave us. such unexpected pleasure
that the hour ended much too soon for us
all. Gen. r. Saxton and his Brother Ma
jor s. w., together with the wife OF the
latter, Mrs. S. G. Milett and her venerable
father, all of whom were in Washington,
and gave us cordial greeting, almost
brought home to US, at least gave US an
agreeable reminder Of its aforetime sur
roundings and society, and ins de enjoy
ments. General SaXton is the same genial
warm-hearted officer that he was when as
Military Governor here he sought to do
all he could for the new "wards of the
Government" / doubt not he is remem-
bered affectionately by very many of your
readers, as he certainly ought to be by
every emancipated citizen of South Caro-
lima. He is to remain in Washington Tor
the winter. Major Saxton is an employee
of the Treasury Department, and has
pretty house near the residence ofGeneral
Howard. .., -
The transit from Acquia Creek to Rich,
mond, Weldon, Wilmington, Charleston,
Is monotous, and exceedingly tiresome;
and just now the aspect of Charleston is
not Of the most reviving character, even
in the fairest and freshest hours of the
morning. AS we rode through the streets
had we been strangers merely, we could
not have failed to observe the air of quiet,
not to say of desolation that prevails, or
that the busy aspect of last winter and
spring had disappeared. Few pedestrians
and fewer carriages were out upon such
streets as Meeting and King, and the
wharves seemed disused, and going to de-
cav. 1t must be sad blow to the "city
by the sea, y this her wonderful experience
of sickness and death. And it is so much
more difficult for Southern city to recu-
perate; the boundless energy which re-
builds Portland or Chicago in marve-
lously short space of time, or drive rail-
road across the Continent in three years,
seems to have certain parallels Of latitude
in which it develops, and we fear that the
Southernmost limit of such resistless ener-
py fails to embrace either of the Carolinas;
certain it is that our own railroad makes
no such rapid progress toward completion,
though to the great credit of one Northern
man about forty miles of road has at last
been opened for use. .r.
And this brings US down to the 2nd inst.
when through the kindness of Mr.. Millett,
the energetic gentleman referred to, we
had the qualification of riding the last
twenty. five miles of our journey one
hour, in the first passenger car on. the first
trip ever made upon the Port Royal Rail
road. And it was something coming all
the way from New York to do, while the
presence of Mrs. Millett and her Port
ROYAL Baby added greatly to the delight
someness of the finale to our long journey.
OF what the road already is, and its prom
Use of future Importance some abler pen
| than mine will doubtless tell you after the
coming Excursion shall have taken place;
that we shall all come to take deeper in
terest in its welfare, as closely interviewer
with our own, L have no manner OF doubt,
apv more than have Of its ultimate en-
| tire success.
And now we have once more come to
the dear precincts of Home. If it is de-
light to the school-boy to reach his sum-
! n IL Of hno