Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-10

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or by laying claim to degree of very cheap
patriotism. Were my election to the next
Congress then pending, I should still have
voted precisely as 1 did, instead of attempt
ing to make capital Of this sort in order to
achieve success.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ALABAMA.
MONTGOMERY, April 7, 1873.
The journey from Chicago to Montgomery
is now made with but one change ofcars, and
within forty hours. This is owing to the COM
pletion of the Louisville and Great Southern
road, which is an air line from Louisville here,
distance of about FIVE hundred miles.
If fany of the kind readers of the ENQUIRER
should have occasion to travel over the Great
Southern road, I beg of them to beware of
the dyspepsia shop at Decatur, Alabama,
called hotel The feed is about such as an
engineer would use to raise steam in his loco
motive, if coal and wood we're scarce. The
strongest engine, however, on regular diet,
would burn out Thegreatest privilege which
travellers enjoy who stop at the Decatur hotel,
is the privilege of leaving as soon as possible.
Fifty miles this side of Decatur is famous
watering place called Blount springs. The
springs are situated in wild and inhospita-
BILE country, but are of themselves great Gu
riosities Within the space of an acre, dozen
springs gush forth, and each different from
the rest. One is limestone, another free stone,
another magnesia, another white sulphur,
another red sulphur, another black sulphur,
and so on. Before the railroad era these springs
were hidden from the world, and but little
was known of them The natives claim for
the sulphur water great medicinal power.
The Indians, so tradition says, used the water
for most all diseases that beset them. Now
that they have been brought within range of
the world, it is thought their virtues will be-
come known, if they have any. Ifthe water is
as powerful in cases ofdyspepsia as is claimed,
it will be good news to the boarders of the
Decatur hotel, as weeks board at that con-
Germ will necessitate the vigorous use Of a
remedy for the disease.
South from the springs, the next place Of
Importance is Birmingham. A lot Of clever
fellows have bought an old cotton plantation
and are making city of it. This is no joke,
but serious fact. The place is now only two
years old, but has a population of four thou
sand. In the whole South I do not know an
instance of such rapid growth.
MONTGOMERY.
This easy-going, old-time Southern city is
rather pleasant at this time of year. The
grass is peeping up from the ground, the trees
are putting out their coverings of green, the
flowers beginning to appear, and all nature
smiles in Montgomery.
But still the city is not happy. Business
is dull, taxes are high, and on top of all comes
proposition from the Legislature to move
the Capitol to some other locality. The
honorable Solons and Solomons urge various
reasons why the Capitol should be elsewhere
but the main one they modestly keep to them
selves. That is, that whisky is twenty-five
cents drink! The article is little high in
Montgomery, admit, but it is not worth
while to move the capitol on that account un'
less some point can be found where it is cheap
er. Just now no place occurs to me but Chat
tanooga, Tennessee. Let the thirsty Solons
locate the Capitol Of Alabama there, and they
will always be assured of a square drink for
ten cents. The proceedings might be little
irregular, and the people might complain of
having their Capitol in another State, but in
these fine times it don't matter much what the
people like or what they do not ike. The
fashionable way with the politicians is to call
the masses of the people "howling mob, y
and let it go at that. The proposition to re-
move to Chattanooga, however, is merely
thrown out as suggestion. 1t always affords
me pleasure to throw out suggestions, as Oakes
Ames did Credit Mobilier stock, "where they
will do most good.
went up to the Capitol yesterday to see
the Legislature, but was not highly impressed.
Twenty.seven of the members of the House
are negroes. They are rather common ne
groes. With few exceptions, they look like
an average lot of plantation hands.
One of their acts the other day will indicate
the character of the body. They refused, by
vote of 33 to Al, to censure Congress for
stealing. The Radicals, to man, voted
against censure, five may judge from their
actions, they don't consider stealing much
crime anyway. 1t is getting rather common,
1 admit.
But the people will remember the action of
the Congressional thieves, and spot every one
of them who comes out for an Office. Having
been in the North some time, I know that it
is the feeling there, and hope it will be carried
out in the South as well. The people have
got to make stand against official stealing
some where, and they had as we'll begin now.
Coming through Indiana and Ohio, the other
day, found the people everywhere very much
exercised about the steal. In Trumbull coun-
ty, Ohio, they held meeting, and requested
General Garfield, their member, to resign.
Garfield has been member several times and
is one of the most popular men in Ohio, but,
in the language of an old farmer, he has "play-
ed the devil with himself now," and must get
out of the way. They are determined all over
the State to put every man forever out of public
life who voted for the steal in any shape. In
Cincinnati the ministers have taken up the cry,
and are preaching sermons on corruption, in
which the Congressional rascals are handled
without oloves