The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-18
VOL. XIV---NO.

encountetinB tno lIgLt Wlnub BeueFaity
prevailing there.
On Monday the log showed sixty.cae
miles. Total In twenty-five days 3,177
miles, being just fraction shead Of the
required average. All hands had by this
time begun 60 look forward to the speedy
termination Of the journey. and calcula-
be reached by Thursday. These bright
hopes we're daAhed, however, by the cap.
tain, who, in .nswer 70 eager Inquiries,
informed the passengers that the vessel
had been driven so far, and kept 80 tong,
northward Of her course by the almost
continual head winds that she was still o
full thousand miles from the "the haven
where she would be-" aud could not be
reasonable expected to reach that point
before Saturday. From this point I be-
lieye the passengers were
COUNTING THE MINUTES.
The longing for the sight Of some
green thing; s5r some break in the weary
monotony Of "sea and sky, aky and sea |;
the dreary sea and sky again." for some
thing thing selid cn sshich 70 res Tho ffoo:,
seemed TO be most intense. Some graft
ing themselves up in the bow, sitting
eyes before them TO catch the firnt
glimpse of the shore. On Tuesday the
log showed 125 miles. ABOUT noon,
however, the wind came in briskly, al
most abeam, and the bark responded
we'll, skimming smoothly along with all
her sails we'll filled. The Azor, by tho
way, 10 remarkably easy runner, pitch.
ing very little, and going through the
waves with motion that can only be
described by the word "sliding.n The
weather was now becoming decidedly
warm again, and the stearage was un-
pleasantly close. While Che passengers
had "waked up" on some subjects, their
indifference on others was discouraging
in the extreme. Some of them, 90 said
before, would persist in lying around be-
low, and keeping their children there,
thus making the atmosphere continually
close and diBagreeable, instead cs going
on deck aud allowing the air 10 be puri-
lied against the inevitable pollutions of
the night. The captain had disinfectants
and Various substances o. fninigating
;:s.:; distributed shc..s in the s.eeraes
quarters several times during each day
nnd night, thus keeping the atmosphere
what seemed to me to IL barely endu-
rable, but which many of tbs passengers
seemed to fiEd very comfortable. Not
even the glorious tropical moon, which
made US seem to bs floating down en-
endless track of mellow, sparkling, liquid
light, could tempt these people from the
dark, sitting quarters below. The very
demon of perversity seemed to have
taken possession of them. Then again,
none of them seemed to have the eight
est desire for or appreciation of exercise.
Tha,y nnarnoI IN vouord r,v be- ~, n 1aoT,
az caused either by terrible restless and
uneasy conscience, or O. mild fern of lu-
nsey. Thsy couida': andsE5:s..6 Il. +.
never saw, of all that 800, single one
higher N the rigging than the foot Of the
ratiinee, ana only one or two there. ex-
cept one young man whose leg became
entangled in rope, causing his elevation
about twenty feet up the foremast. Some
luvty yelling proclaimed the sitnation OF
this nniucky emigrant, and he was re-
leased, while his fellow passengers fairly
fell down and rolled over and over in
their apasIn5 of laughter at the mishap.
Interviewed the emigrants quite gene
rally on
THE OBJECTS OF EMIGRATION 5
rs soon as they were streng enough to
undergo the process. NY conciusion is
that there is no cause or E.aaon which
can be called general. The grievances
comp isiieil "a and the iUpU5 uiItrf t.iuU1
were almost invariably of local or per-
sonal nature. Some were going because /;
they thought they would have better
chance to "rise in the world" with gen
efous and chesply procured soil and per
feet aocial equality with their neEghbCEg; 4
others were tired Of renting" or s'worlr-
ing out" and wanted to be th5ir own l
masters; others compliance that the 1
farmers were banding rncTe AID more l
firmly together to keep down the wages |
of the laborer; others could give no good 4
reason for going, falling baUk on the c d 4
talk "Ku-Klux," might Hawks" and !
political persecutions.h Some assigned
nearly all of these reasona, others some,
Others one. Ona ofthe most intelligent 4
of the Georgia emigrants said that it wes
becoming such ageneral practice for far
mers in that State to avail themselves of
the homestead exemption laws, that the /
lahnrar had no security for his earnings,
and, therefore, no inducement to work.
To other persons with whufi wihiui til5y talked,
much mnra freaiy. One eF s!!..s:i, =hsiii5 s==hsiiii5l
in Charleston, implored Capt. Holmes 10
give mp contemplated trip To Columbia,
assuring him that If he went there tbs i
white men would find out Hho he was. 4
and certainly murder him. Il have ofssh 4
thought that these people, tell such lis3t
go frequently that they get to believe
them themselves, ana Shia instance helpa
TO confirm nae In that belief. i 5haYa /
heard them tell what knew to be most
infamous falsehoods IN matter Of. .face. 1
eimple manner that wonld almost CON-
vince man against the Dvidence, OF s9his