The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-21

allow TO reach Tomassee before q smart
shower caught us in its embrace This
was not so pleasant, bat was attended
=!:A no Z hurtfuIE copsequ quences. Dry
clothes, agreeable, company, good cheer
aud the resourcesof we'll lf.stofed libra.
~. made ample amends for the tempo.
fary inccayenienne S3ggz't
Next day We made another trip to
Little River Shoals, about two miles
East from Mr.. Jones' residence. Here
the river has attained a volume OF
twenty-five feet in width by five feet
depth at low water. And here nature
has constructed an immense natural
dem q solid grants, eyer whsoh :5e
neyer-failing stream is preoipitsted
thirty feet. The land is 80 situated i'm
mediately below the full as to present
admirable sites for factory buildings,
and the water can be led easily along d
slope, doing duty at available points for
several hundred yards. The natural
rock dam is twenty: five feet broad on
top and level, stretching at right angles
across the bed OF the stream for $50
feet. A gentleman OF experience and
judgment in manufacturing has de-
scribed the place and its advantages
with fine effect, saying ths. there is
power enough here to run all the mills
at Holyoke or Chicopee, Massach usetts.
Standing" he says, "in the centre Of
this rock dam. you Gun dip your hand
into the stream above. while you can
drop pebble into the river below, n
height of thirty feet; the face of the
fall is not perpendicular, but abounds
in numerous cascades, bounding, dash,
ing and foaming among the rocks be-
low, where sudden bend in the river
takes its further course out of view.
On your right hand, just below the
abntment rock, the land gsutly slopes
OF to near level. and no ono could
doubt that this is the spot for factory
buildings. The break in the dam, with
its central pier, could be locked with u
food-gate, or could be walled up with
rock and cement in a few days, placing
the entire stream under human control,
by opening fume or race bohind and
around the rocky abutmeut before men
toned. And hero would mention that
if On additional height of fall were re-
quired, this could be readily increased
to fifty feet by building upon the natural
dam from abutment to abutmsnt"
What magnificent property! All
That is needed to make it mine Of
wealth to its owners, and q source Of
comfortable subsistence to hundreds,
and perhaps thousands, of operatives, is
for man to adapt his machinery to it,
and to construct ten miles 81 narrow
gauge railway to Seneca City. Mr..
Jones. who owns it and u large body Of
land contiguous to it, has made some
liberal offers to any responsible company
or Individual who will properly improve
it. He will give the site and 100 acres
of land upon this condition. He will
further guarantee them abundance of
good building stone. rock, lime and
timber. Surely, in the awakening era
OF manufacturing in this State, this
valuable site will not be much longer
neglected. And, by-the-way, it is Il
noteworthy fact, which we learn from
the Commercial and Financial Chronicle,
New York. that South Carolina is the
second of the Southern States in the
number of bales and pounds of cotton
manufactured within her borders. Geor-
gia leads. and South CAROLINA follows
next. When we get liberal man ufaotur-
ing laws, and the exemption of manu-
featuring capital, which we 80 much
need to inspire new life in the business
here. as they have done in the State of
Georgia. We will go forward more ra-
pidly and rival her more closely.
OF other visits to the tunnel and the
beautiful Issaquena Falls. you may hear
another time. The air is perfection
here now, and it is luxury to breathe
it. No local news, except that cotton is
beginning to come in, and G. P. Kirk
land has been appointed Auditor, in
place Of l.. B. Johnson. Other officers
are trembling in their shoes. it is said.
The league meets tonight, and the fif-
teenth amendments are assembling at
the Post Office. That is the place where
they do most oongregate. [Query-Is it
the reason of the chronic scarcity OF
stamps at the Walhalla Post Ofice?I
DR.. Smeltzer is to deliver sermon be.
fore tho Bible Society next Sunday. and
u camp meeting is to bs held near Pen.
dieton. beginning tomorrow.
Andersen is still reported as sickly.
from bilious intermittent fever. Send
one of your balloons this way to test
the Northerly current, care of D. Bic.
man. and it enclose representation OF
tho action of the Legislature aud State
Administration on the bonded debt
question, Tor our private meditation.
new bale of cotton was bought to-day,