Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-04
For the VERMONT FARHER.
A Rustic Vacation.

Lynchbury is not an inviting place. Only
one or two streets are paved the remainder
are almost impossible aud when muddy, a
condition they are usually in, it is all mule
can do to draw au empty cart through them.
This is one of the largest if not the largest,
tobacco market in the South. Beside the
james river a canal of the same name is
constructed. doubt this being any advan-
tage to Lynchbnrg owing to the ample and
swifter transportation offered by the rail-
roads.
Here we discovered the first true Southern
STENCIL for there is an odor pervading the
streets of a Southern city nearly as strong
and repulsive as the periumcry of skunk.
Whether this is caused by a superabundanoe
of negroes or decaying matter, am unable
to say In the streets the hogs were busy
at their occupation. IL Northern breeder
of swine should fnd one Of these in his pen,
he would think he had caught one of the
hogs OF old that plunged into the sea.
At Salisbury we interviewed a lady on the
subject Of refreshments, and she would sell a
'snack" for twenty-five or fifty cents. We
purchased fright smart snack" for fifty
cents, and found it to be an unpalatable
compound of Southern cookery. Near this
quiet village men had been starved and
murdered in defence of liberty.
We reached the beautiful city of Augusta
on the morning Of January 8. Around thi'
quiet, peaceful city cluster many important
historical events connected with the Revolu'
tionary war. The streets are broad ant
shaded with magnificent live oaks. Dowr
the center of one street | noticed a double
row OF evergreen trees and by the side Of
each walk were single rows Of live oaks
forming beautiful shaded sidewalk ant
street. This street was over one hundred aud
sixty feet wide, A granite monument hal
been erected on it to the memory Of thu
GeOrgans who signed the Declaration o
Independence.
At Gainesville there is a cotton factor
employing five hundred hands This be
lieve to be the true policy for the South
There would be an annual saving of thou
sands of dollars in transportation to and fror
. Northern factories, and employment would b.
furnished to those willing to work.
There were many log tobacco dry house
in view from the cars. The planters dea
extensively in commercial fertilizers for th
purpose of manuring their tobacco. The
, make no account Of yard manure, their cattl
running at large during tho winter month";
0 as we'll as in the summer. Savannah is si
:. uated on the Savannah river, about twent,
miles from its mouth. This is one {
o the largest, and perhaps the large
) port for shipment Of cotton 10 the South, an
is destined to be one OF the largest CONNER
), cial centers in the Southern states il has 3s
o miles of water communication reaching bac
q through fertile country, and its railroad
o branching through rich and growing Se'
d ton Of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina at
the West. There are four lines of steame
!. to northern ports. In 1870 it had pop
|, lation of 2S, 235, about half of which we
. blacks. In 1873 the exports amounted
/. $50, 900, 900, making il rank third as an e
n porting port in the United States.
.. Savannah occupies quite an importa
It position in our cOuntry's history. 1t was