The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-06-22
Letter from Charlotte.


Leaving Union on Thursday morning we
reached Yorkvilc the same evening about sun
down, quarterng for the night at the Kings
Mountain Hotel, under the management of Mr..
Rawlinson, who "knows how to keep Hotel"
The fare is excellent and the rooms scrupulously
clean and neat. 1t was first visit to York
since the war, aud We were rprised to find such
little improvement in the place. On tho York
side of Broad River We found tho crops rather
in advance Of those in Union, especially so as
we neared Yorkville-both corn and cotton look
ing healthy and fne and wheat excellent.
At eight o'clock next morning we took q run
down to Chester, on the Chester & Lenoir narrow
gauge Railroad. 1t was the first Narrow gauge
road we had ever seen and was quite curios-
ity. The passenger Coach is neat and comforta-
BILE, with the advantage of single and double
seats, as one may prefer. The road bed is in
good order and the ride delightfully."- easy and
comtortable-frce from jolts and jumps. The
Engine is quito curiosity, being so very d.
minutivc, thavihg more the appearance Of q little
toy than II Railroad locomotive. 1t is much small
ler than the little "Tom Thumb Of tho s. e. u.
Road, famous for its track. jumping, which many
much greater would have been the advantage to
the Merchants and Farmers of Union, had the
ono hundred and fifty thousand dollars voted to
the Spartanburg and Ashevillc road been appro-
priated to building, with the aid of Chester, q
Marrow Gauge road to the latter town, where we
would have been placed in open communication
with the outside world and in competition of
frsights via. Norfolk, Wilmington and Charles
ton.
1n Chester We found more Of the life stir and
hustle of City, and apparently moro business
doing than in Union and York combined. Lsav-
ing Chester at half past two o'clock P. NJ wo
reached Charlotte. the culture London of the
South" at six o'clock, under the care of our
polite friend Capt Briggs Green, Of Columbia,
who is now Conductor on the C. C. s. A. Rail-
road. Let me here mention that we passed
through portion of Mscklenburg County, N.
c., where the stock law is in force, and as tho
train stopped at tho different stations l took
particular pains to inquire of White and Black
as to how they liked the change, and have vet
to meet the first one who is not moro th.n we'll
pleased. was particularly DESTROYS of finding
some Of those who objected to the law and voted
~S"'""t i' '""e "iSuI get tnclr views now that
it is in force. found such Of both celors, who
are now among its strongest adhercnts. Ono
colored man said he had bitterly opposed il,
voted against tho stock law and against the Dem
ocrats and found that he was wrong cvcry.time,
and hcnccforth he would act with the true whites
as they were his best friends and advisers
The people in that portion of York County
north Of the Catawta River, joining Mecklen-
burg-I believe tho section is known as Catawba
Township-all fence their stock by unanimous
consent. Charlotte, like all other places, feels
the strinGency of the times, and is now almost
at stand still. Trade is dull compared to tho
rush and hustle of two years ago yet the city
has not entirely ceased to grow, as some mag
nihccnt residences recently completed testify
For its size Charlotte can boast of as much
wealth. culture and enterprise as any similar
city in America, and i, even in advance of some
cities more prctcntions. With her six Railroads.
magnificent Hotel accommodations, the energy
OF the Merchants, coupled with the probability
of the early reopening of he u. s. Mint for
coinage-now only an assay oficc-will SOON
place Charlotte rs city of no mean significance.
N. ". j.