The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-02-10
Our George on His Travels.
LETTER NUMBER SEVEN.

have an opportunity to scoop n free gratis,
cert by party of very pronounced brunettes, on
my last evening at Charleston. On arriving at the
depot, about half an hour before the train left
l found some seventy-fve hundred darkies of
all kinds of sexes, half of whom were going into
No Carolina to spend Christmas, and the balance
of them friends, who had come to the cars to give
them a send off The Southern darkey is not de-
pressed individual by any means. When conver-
saton lags, he can always fill in the spare time
with laughter, singing and dancing, the dryness Of
the throat being occasionally moistcned, with
yellowish brown fluid, which goes by the name of
'suthin;' and is inducted into the system by
placing the nose of a bottle to the mouth, throw
ing back the head, giving swallow, at the same
time closing the eyes, then throwing the head for
ward again, till the bottle assumes perpendicular
position, when it is removed from the lips, eorked
mp and placed in the pocket of the invalid who
owns it, who then draws about nine inches of his
coat sleeve across his lips, shoves his hat little
further on the back of his head, and proceeds with
his part of the singing or dancing
On the platform of ear stood darkey with
| a banjo one leg holding the balance Of power and
the other keeping time to the music. His mouth
open, eyes shut and head thrown back totally
oblivious to all around him, he was carrying the
burden of the song, while the rest coming in
every second line and helping out on the chorus
all OF them in MOTION. Some pattng their head
with one hand and their thigh with the other
others rising on the toe and coming back on the
heel in time to the music, gradually turning in a
circle. while some passing from to the
other shaking hands and embracing while one,
,Il, Al, +l- tbo
his hands and knees, keeping time to the music by
beating his head on the floor
The conductor touched me on the arm and told
me as the car would be crowded had better goin
and get a seat but told MIN that preferred to
stand there in the cold, and soak up that music, to
securing seat, and | did and stood up for three
quarters Of an hour afterwards in the car being
fire. rom one side to the other by the motion of
the tram but could hear all the time that darkeys
song, only one verse of which caught, sang to the
tune Of In dc mornin by de bright light" the
words running
'Dar was Cain an Abe a hoein' of de corn,
II want de little chilluu all to follow me.
when bimeby de debil coined pokin' along
"Oh! halle, halle, halle, hallelujah.
} IN he tempted Cain, g you all Well know
Till he hit his bruidcr Abel on de he'd wild hoe,
"Oh! halle, halle, halle, halleuJah.
About an hours ride from the city. | took d
Pullman sleeping ear Now am a good sleeper
generally. | pride myself being able to sleep
= most anywhere under all conditions. | can sleep
in bed Just well as can in church. should
not attempt it in the latter place, but fortunately
for me land others) l don't talk in my sleep with
my nose but must say, that | did not snatch
two dollars worth of sleep out of that bed. 1t was
the toughest night l ever experienced. | wished
many times that l were out in a sou wester, in
the Weaka 1t was nearly as rough as being un-
Justly insulted by drunken man in the presence
Of party of ladies and gentlemen; l know, for |
have tried both The road understood was in the
hands Of receivers and if they will receive sug-
geston would suggest that they put on a gravel
train, and fix up that road bed, and put on some
section men who are not cross eyed, and let them
straighten the track As there is one thing that |
ctn say IN favor of the railroads South, let say
it before it slips my mind. From Charleston to
Baltimore, did not see, nor did there into
the car
The assorted candy fend
The book and magazine tend.
The mustard sandwich iend
The apple and orange tend
Or the hard boiled egg tiend
The country through which rides the
cars through South and North Carolina, is most
- monotonous Nothing but pine swamps and fiat
land, dotted here and there with negro shanties,
about big paper collar boxes, built of logs.
5 with the chimney of wooden cob work on the out
f side This building a chimney outside the house,
d always looks odd to me. | always smile when
. rlling through New Jersey. to see those chmneys
. |
bottom part finished off into brick oven with a
+ rounded end l have tried to look at them many
e times. and not be reminded of large woman with
a a red and white checkercd gown on, bending over
n the sill and looking INTO back window, but |
t never could, the resemblance is too strong
E Nearly all the pine trees in sight from the cars,
are ''slvered for rosin aud turpentine. A portion
Of the bark is cut off, and the pieh orrosin eXudes
= from the tree, and is scraped off. The forests
through the Carolinas, have been drawn upon
for roSn, that those who do large business in this
article, 20 into the Georgia Swamps, where 1t is
now abundant met old gentleman on the
Y ears, who said he bringing his boys home
L from down in Georgia up to Wilmington, y c, to
t spend Christmas. He said they in the next
t train behind us, and | enquired of him, How
! about a hundred and fifty of them" gazed at
e him moment be was benevolent looking white
5 haired old gentleman, and then said, lis your
i name Brigham Young Z" and then ! remembered
t that Brigham dead but | could not think Of
any one else that would be likely to have $50 boys
4 and | asked him how many girls he had and if his
4 wife was living. and if she enjoyed good heath
but before he got over his asonishment enough to
answer me, the conductor had taken out
side and explained to me that be was wealthy
gentleman who had gang of negroes at work in
Georgia, and was bringing them home | believe
+ said "Oh and sal down feeling that there
q few things that could learn yet Every
aud then find myself making terrible mistake,
and am beginning to think that possibly the
Pope may not be quite infable in small things,
2 such not being liable to get cheated when he
= trades horses Just the same as you or | would
and may be he would as soon put more eggs under
hen than she could cover as some of his subjects,
who do not draw half the pay he does atu find
ing out that when one man knows everything that
he has not got much time to attend to anything
else.
| have had occasion to mention the beef and
meats down here before, and wish to alude to it
again, IN the matter of restaurants Inc dehnI-
ton of railroad restaurant, is place where a
hungry pays seventy five cents for the privi-
ege Of starving. | got breakfast at Wilmington,
n. {. A piece of ebonized humanity leaned over
my shoulder and said, Boss we's ham an sausage,
an bacon, an pigs feet an hogs head cheese an
pigs liver, an - here interrupted him by
quirng if he could not contrive TO get me piece
, of pork, in some form another, | was not par
+ ticular what, only did enjoy the flesh of the