Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-08-28
Our Georgia Correspondence.


Our Georgia Correspondence.
PoTTERsvILLE, Jackson Co., Ga,
August 81, 1873. J
Dear 4 AduertiSer, Thinking perhaps
letter from Northeast Georgia might
interest your readers, will endeavor to
gve you few items from "thesc parts"
Taking the train on the G.. G. & A. K.
R.. Mt the Pine House Depot, on Monday,
the 18th, at IL NJ, ride of about two
hours, including the stop at Graniteville
for dinner, brought us to the City of Au-
gusta. at GraniteAille we found that
the "strikers' were still obstinately
holding out, and no prospects of either
side yielding.
Arriving in Augusta we stopped at the
Globe Hotel, at present kept by thatgen-
tlemanly and polite landlord, D. G.
Murphy, Esq, and who has for his chief
clerk our old and former fellow-citizen
of Edgefeld, F. M. Nicholas, Esq, whose
genial countenance and entertaining
manners make your stay at the Globe so
pleasant. At present the Globe is second
to no Hotel in the city. It's tables are
supplied with the best the market at
fords, and with It's attentive ard polite
servants, renders tia place of rest for
the weary traveller-and entities 1t to
the patronage of the travelling public.
On Tuesday morning we took the S
o'clock train on the Georgia Road for
Union Point, about Is miles from Au-
gusta, which is the.dinner house OH the
Georgia Boad The crops along the route,
as could be seen from the car window,
looked very promising-especially the
Cotton. But saw none that would COM
pare with the cotton of our young and
enterprising planter, A. A. G., in and
around Edgetield Village. also saw at
every station along the route that the
"Marble Mania was raging as bad in
Georgia as in Edgefield, for at every De-
pot you could SEQ old men and boys en-
joying that pleasant summers pastirne,
and one old man especially attracted
my attention, who with an ejaculation of
"Jy diags," pumped the "middle man.
three times in succession.
At Union Point we changed cars for
Athens, which place we reached mt P.
NJ. The evening being clear and pleas
ant (although rainy all the morning,) we
hired buggy drawn. bya beautiful span
of bays, and took ride over the City.
The city of Athens, with a population Of
nearly 1000 inhabitants, is situated ut the
terminus Of the Athens branch Of the
Georgia Railroad, distanced about 12O
miles from Augusta-located upon one
of those beautiful and picturesque hills
so peculiar to North Georgia, looks from
ar elevation Of nearly 1000 feet from the
level of the sea, upon the winding
Oconee," which, in its restive course,
nearly encirclcs the city.
Athons with health and climate unsur
passed, with pure and delightful water,
-attording not only exemptions, but
even relief to the diseases familiar to les
favorite localities,-witht the beauties and
advantages Of nature thus so bountifully
bestowed, with a people ever jeolous of
their far famed reputation for intelli-
gence, hospitality and morality,-well
and justly may the Athcnian be proud
Of his lovely and beautiful Southern
Home.
There are some of the finest and most
handsome residences i'll Athens that
ever saw. The most magnificent OF
which is tile homo of that gifted son of
Georgia, the Hon. Ben. II. Hill, whose
beautiful and tasteful mansion and sur
roundings, will compare favorably with
the "Preston Mansion" of Columbia
C. s.
Athens can certainly boast of her edu-
cational advantages, being the seat of the
State University and The State agricultu-
raj College, and also the Lucy Cobb"
Institute, with is one of the hest Female
Colleges in the whole South; besides
many other schools of q smaller grade,
both male and female, which make the
city place unsurpassed in the South for
the education and training of her sons
and daughters. The State University.
which now for nearly three-fourths of a
century has done so much valuable work
for the State, annually sending out
corps of young men, equipped for the
battle of life, who have at the Bar, in the
Pulpit, in the. Halls of Congress, on the
Battlefield-who by their eloquence, and
learning-their piety-and their valor-
nobly illustrated the old Empire State"
of the South.
Athens has also many very fine Church
es, and am told that all oil the religious
denominations are well represented.
Athens is also alive on Railroads. By
means of the Athens branch of the Geor-
ria Railroad, she is in quick and easy
communication with the cities of Macon,
Augusta and Atlanta-with the North
Eastern Railroad leading from Athens to
Rabun Gap, which is being speedily
pushed to completion, and which is al
ready finished, with the exception of II
few miles of heavy grading near the
Gap. This Road will tap the great Air
Line at the Gap, and which, upon the
building of the Knoxville and Rabun
Gap will give the people of Athens direct
connection with the Great West. There
is also an interrtion upon the part of the
people of Athens to build at no distant
5ay Railroad from Athens to Eatonton,
via Madison, which will afford direct
communication with. Savannah and the
sea-board.
Athens has also many manufactures,
among which are the "Athens Manufac-
turing Company" on tho oconee, and
running spindles the Georgia Fac
tory" with 5000 spindles and 12o looms;
the "Princeton Factory" "the Shoe
and Leather Factory" "Athens Foun-
dry and Machine Works." besides many