Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-02-06
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CHEER FOR PORT ROYAL.


paraging statements about each other
aud unite to depreciate Port Royal 1t is
GOOD sign for us. The Charleston Ne'os
is wild over the bill to charter narrow
guage road from the Ohio river to Port
ROYAL, via Anderson, Ahbevil!e, Edge
field and Barnwel connecting with orr
road at or near Allendale, thence to the
ga by third rail on the Port Royal
railroad. 1t strikes the Neos apparent
", with amazament that any one shonld
demand the right to build a railroad IN
South Carolina without the permission
of the South Carolina railroad and the
c;.v Of Charleston. The very existence
OF these two old fogy frauds makes evil
dent the necessity for new city and
new road.
No city in the United States presents
such evidences of decay as Charleston.
This strikes every one except the silly
proyincials who speak of King street as
if it were littl. less than Broadway or
the Strand, and think the TombS.!iSe
front of the Charleston hotel IS the per-
fection of architecture
1t ought to be called the CITY of the
Dead" Ride over the S. q C.; cross
the Ashley in the Fannie; jolt up the
long, bleak mud bank which hedges III
the oyster beds; pass over the miles
which intervene between you and the \.
+. or S. c. depot, and if you do not
think you have hit upon a Spanish
American town. commenced and finished
three hundred years ago, it will be be-
cause you determine that it Is a row OF
plantation niger houses, or that you
don't know where you are. Kip Van
Wrinkle himself was not more the wreck
Of a handsome young imam than Is
Charleston the wreck Of what was once
a city. The beastly roads; the wooden,
painless houses, weary of their dowiy
condition, lean against each other at
different angles for support. The so'lta-
ry street car passes slowly by, while the
lonely conductor sleeps calmly on his
perch. The only evidence Of business
energy will be furni,helby the peripatetic
merchant treasured by the idle citizens,
who startles the ear Of day as he ye!is out
Raw Shrimps," or a fine fat hen
goin' by
The Ne,cs is now singing peans to the
once execrated Gilmore because he
promises them fifteen feet of water in
Beech channel. They abandon the
natural entrance and vainly hope for the
formation of new one. Bat the song
is old and will charm no one. Zach re-
curing year has brought some ncw plan
to do by art for Charleston what nature
has done for us. The government is eX-
pected to aid this last attempt by lavish
subsidies, but why it should extend favor
that city, whose headstrong folly cost Us
al so dear, is more than we can tell.
Burdened with an enormous debt, m
CURED in equally silly attempts to alter
the DEGREES of fate; with it, heavy taHez,
It's wide reaches Of moss grown ruins; II
mouldy wooden houses; It's fever breeding
drains; its license laws rrpciling bnSlA!:,;
its shallow harbor; its bad government
whether in the hanlS of one party or the
other; its bitter hatred Of all save is lit
tie clique of poor, proud traders; it most
valuable property he'd By corPoratlon'
exempt from taxation; It's press vcnaI or
moribund. with all these and more to de-
press and impoverish its citizens We sec
no reason why public money should be
spert to prolong the agomies OF Il certain
dissolution, still less are or Legislators re-
uuircd to listen to the walls OF the
mouriers in advance. Every I'll!
brought forward to develop th2 stat
which doe, not di:ecoy yJ;Hs to Chrr!e<-
ton, or the monster monopoly which con
trols its press, is met by a howl OF oppo-
sition.
The Port Royal road, whose trains now
run to within twelve miles Of Augusta.
along the line of which towns are Spring-
ing up like magic which has stimulated
every interest in Beaufort and BanwcH;
caused twenty sawmili> to be bull, with
in a year; whose trains are rHGn!nc
night and day, loaded with lumber, cot
ton, phosphates and naval stores; which
has converted wilderness OF pine bar
rens into busy, thriving country; which
has added five millions Of dollars to the
taxable property of the state; which Will
continue thus to bless and build up onr
commonwealth in the years to come; thi'
enterprise was deridcd, traduced, how!cd
at by Charleston press. Even now they
do not mention it if it can be avoided,
and the scanty readers Of those. sheets
are surprised when told by some chance
traveller that new market has been
opened to the city.
The day has we trust, passed for such
selfish, greedy appeals to be needed
by the rest of the state. Nature points
tn Port Royal harbor as the future port