The Republican journal., 1881-01-13
Our George on His Travels.


the fire and see if can start the frost out of nv
hands, and also wind up the thermometer, for the
mercury has gone down into the lower hold Yes.
| this is the sunny South-whew Steward stew
ard say bring in another hod of coal and see if
you cant warm up the cabin, 50 that the ink will
melt enough for me to write with. Sunny south
| land of flowers and bamy breezes orange bios
SONS and swinging hammocks Thunder, how my
teeth chatter they rattle if they were false.
| Cap-pp-p'n is it ALL ways as hott-t as this In
win win win winter down here? Sunny South A,
| another fraud brought to lght-bur-r-r,
| This morning, about seven, sighted pilot
and he saw us" and VIC 'called him little Sun
day school children will understand this He was
a young man and looked as if he was preaching a
mild sort OF religion at much month, ard be
longed 10 the good ship Of Zion, and pilotcd souls
into the heavenly port, instead Of ordinary vessels
into Charleston but he understood his business
and attended to it.
| We soon passed the light ship, ana then on the
right Sullivan's Island came in view. where our
prisoners were kept during the war but now a
summer resort, Southern Long Branch the
shore lined with cottages and beach Of clean
white sand stretching along the length Of the
| island, Next the ruins Of Fort Moultre
now nothing but pile Of rubbish Then long,
narrow strip of land, where Fort Wagner once
stood, now more, the land almost washed
away, and the spo- occupied as a pest house; and
away i'll the distance where Gen Gilmore
had the celebrated Swamp Angel planted, the
echoes Of whose voice are still remembered by
! tI,, rl,1
ter, once so Formidable but certainly to my eye
it did not look as if it would stand much Of a sege
1t is of roundish shape and built of heavy, coarse
red bri OK backed up with sand 1t has been re
paired since the war and there is now a light
house on it. AS gazed at il on that quiet Sab
bath morning, with the subdued peal of the dis
| tant church bell striking my ear and it peace
fully guarding the entrance Of Charleston Bay.
did my mind revert back to the bloody scenes Of
the rebellion and the horrors of the late war! Did
say to myself Oh historic pile but for YOU
should be 500 in. which paid out for a substi
tute Did | say Oh iea, old fort, dear to me
by the remembrance of the cotton cloth ! pur
chased at thirty cents yard DID say to my
| self these things Not BIT Of it. turned tt
the pilot and simply SAID Sumpter you say
we'll as one who knows what he Is talking about
| should think it would be d nice, quiet place tc
set hen. You will notice that am tall of Ten
uy sonian, romantic ideas
On We went, and passed the ruins Of Castle
Pinckney, now used by the Government as a store
house for buoys &c, and in few minutes came
the order to let 90 the spanker" and the rest o
| the cotton fabric, and the Welaka swung around
the anchor dropped, and were i'll the docb
at Charleston.
The first man | saw as stood leaning over tho
rail, woman. She had every sail set and
was running under good breeze for a [ 5 Rev
enue cutter Never since the day they began tC
wean me. had been out of sight OF a woman St
| long. and am nee to confess that she was the
finest sight | ever saw. Talk about Your SUE sets
and your ships under full sail, give me a gooC
looking well dressed woman, every time
oh woman in our hours of ease,
When you are round us thick as tleas.
When YOU are taken from our sight
How brightest day, seems darkest night
Note Ladies sending me slippers will please
| send number hyes, and mark them To my address
express paid, care Of the journal
VI tpHIoc tuc ulSt tliuS ll4dt u!u Va =CtttIIS
into port was to take bath and ensconce mysel
in clean linen Of course did this, all travellers
do. You never read book in your life but what
they did it, Well did not do anything Of the
| kind. | clean when | started and was clear
when arrived, and my linen, and the frs
| thing did, was to 60 ashore AMI buy nOrnln2
paper | am that the bath was the correc
n ,,,t Nh, Ma
andered up the dock and invested nickel in
Charleston News and Courier, and returned TO The
vessel and read the news.
In my other letters, written at sea, one beina
near to dispute them, had a glorious opportunity
to exaggerite if So inclined but with Spartan
courage, | think it is Spartan, resisted But now
it is different So many Of my readers have JeeI
to Charleston, that am aware that must be very
cautious what write, and fully realizing the act
have spent one whole day in reading that faith
full friend Of the travelling stranger, the City Dl
rectory, and | can Giye you minute and detaileC
description OF this city without leaving the vessel
and the beauty of it will be- that my letter will be
unimpcachable Now how is this for starter
Beautiful as a dream, tinged with romance con
secraed by tradition, gloriGed by history, rising
from the very bosom Of the waves, ike fairy
city created by the euchanters wand, Charleston
affords fit theme for poets, noveists, historians
| and tourists"
Now there is plain statement Of facts, uuvar
nished and uncolored, with no flop doddle abou
it. Id give a good deal if | could write like that
plainly and simply. but can't fly off, and &c
poetical and wander into dreamlaud. it were
have sometimes thought of stripping myself bare
to the waist when | write and hiring a man to
larrup me with hide, and if it wolfe
not keep me from soaring SO much.
Charleston has find. fifty sin churches. and
only one baseball club Think Of tina, Is it {
wonder that she is behind the age Until she re
verses that thing, she need not expect 10 assume
proud and enviabe position in the history Of the
nation. The city is built on d bit Of land, thai
runs out like finger, between the Ashley anC
Cooper rivers she has large and yet land locked
BAY The harbor has shifting bottom, like
| baby that is learning to creep. She claims to be
the only city Oh the continent from which the
ocean can be seen, but it is as hard for to swa
low that AS it is 10 get down pill however, that
is what she SAYS. The bay is three miles wide
and at the city forty feet deep. Within ten miles
Of the rear Of the city, truck farms from which
they take four crops year Cotton is the chief
feature of the trade though naval stores, rice
sugar and fertilizers play conspicuous part in the
exports Knowing that my readers would like to
know about how much cotton comes into Charles
ton, took part OF q day and counted this years
crop and there were over 100000 bales. besides
enc that was broken open, which did not reckon.
Last year the receipts were 4o7, 432 bales, and the
year before sol 81 bales, 50 that any who
contemplates laying in lot of cotton cloth foI
shirts feeling that there may be scarcity in the
market, can rest assured that there is cotton
enough now in the city to make all a set Of
shirts, and still have enough left, so that our wo
men can still retain their shapely figures
The population OF the city is 3,SlS, divided as
follows: Whites, 26,994, and colored 26S24; il