Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-27
Yflistellameuns &eadiug.
Correspondence of the YorkvilIe Enquirer.
NOTES OF TRAVEL.

the beautiful Capital of the keystone State
then onward, day and night, without stopping
for even moment, as is the custom in our
Southern States, to partake of something to
satisfy the cravings of hunger, until the hour
of about half-past one at night when we rolled
into the beautiful little city Of Niagara. The
route leading from Washington that we tray-
eled to Niagara, ria Harrisburg, Williamsport,
Elmira, Canandagua, Rochester, etc., is the
most direct, and certainly no less attractive
than any other that can he taken by the trav-
eler
The soil from Washington to near Harris
burg was originally quite thin, except along
the margin of the Gun Powder River and
other streams, ahounding along the road.
Along these clear and beautiful streams thai
rapidly glide, apparently almost on the top OF
the ground, the soil appears to be quite fertile,
and produces grass and small grain to perfec-
tiOn, and in great abundance.
l was struck with one important fact or
characteristic pertaining to all these streams,
and that is that | saw neither log, chunk Of
wood, or other floating debris, nor limb, nor
brush of any kind whatever, in the waters of
any of these meanderipg but fowery streams.
They are not only kept free from all imped-
ments calculated to impede their progress, but
cultivated in the most admirable manner, to
the very verge of the water. So it is no un-
common thing to see, especially in the upper
part of Maryland, and through much Of Penn
sylvania, that the farmers build neat brick
cottages near the streams, and locate their
great barns and stock yards high up on the
hills above, but not opposite them.
One of the special delights of the owners of
these farms and households appears to be to
stand in the doors of their residences and see
the trains as they 60 flying past, as rapidly as
steam can carry them. Yet it appears to give
them all greater pleasure to turn their eyes
and gaze, for miles, upon the broad fields OF
green waving grass, and luXuriant crops of
wheat, barley, oats and rye. 1t is beautiful
sight for them to see, for a mile and more
away, the bright streams that flow hard by
their doors, come flashing down through liv-
ing carpet of green, with low, gurgling hum,
at the same time glimmering like silver rib
bon down to their very doors.
1t would require no small volume to contain
all thought in connection with farms, neat
little cottages, large barns, broad meadows,
luxuriant, waving fields of small grain, the
landscape heightened by the bright and beall-
tiful streams which I have so feebly and i'm
perfectly described. The contrast drew, as
compared with our Southern farms, when our
opportunities, in our favored sunny land, are
so much greater than those of the North, was
painful And how ardentry do wish that
could but have the privilege to exhibit to our
people some of these neat little farms and
their beautiful surroundings. They would
then be convinced, I am sure, that their farms
were originally better than were these farms
in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and that the
latter have been made what they are by perse-
verance, stimulated, it may be, by their prox-
unity to well-constructed railroads and large
cities.
But all railroads here are managed with such
consummate skill that the influence and ad-
vantage of these great cities is being felt and
seen for hundreds of miles away from them,
by the farmers of the country. Railroads in
our day, so far excel all other modes Of trans
portation and travel, that not one tthe OF the
freight that used to find it's way to market by
rivers, lakes, canals or turnpkes and other
roads, now goes in this way to our great com
mercial emporiums of trade that did some
twenty years ago.
A striking illustration of this fact is that
the costly Seneca Canal, in the State of New
York, like those of the great James River and
the Kanawha Canal, which cost quite twenty
millions of dollars, have been entirely aban
doned and railroads constructed along their
tow-pathS.
We have many miles of railroads in opera
ton in our own State, leading to all the great
centres and markets, both in the State and
abroad, and our soil, on an average, is as fer
tile as that of any other State in the Union.
Then, why should not our planters turn over
Il new leaf and 60 to work to improve and till
the soil to a greater profit? The day is not
far distant, hope, when this will be done by
all who engage in the tilling of the soil.
GUILFORD.
WILL IT BE HOLY WAR ?-The appalling
news from Egypt of the deliberate burning of
the second commercial city Of the Levant, of
the massacre of it's whole Christian population
and of the preparations of Arab and his fol-
lowers for further desperate enterprises, con-
has alluded-that the egyptian question may
be the prelude of holy war, the like of which
has not happened since the Crusades." "
OF all the Christian countries to be affected
by such war, England, whose guns perhaps
have opened it at Alexandria, has the most
critical consequences to apprehend from it to
her power and her people. The Empress of
India counts more disciples of Islam among
her subjects than any other monarch on the
globe. Forty million Mohammedans may not
remain tranquil under her Christian sway if
the heirs of the authority of the Prophet sum-
mon them to make common cause against the
inhdel.
For this reason policy is forced upon Eng
land to spare no endeavor to narrow the dis
turbance and restrict it to political limits,
eliminating from it the elements of religious
fanaticism, or, if that cannot be done, to crush
those elements by all overwhelming force be-
fore the whole Mohammedan world catches
fire from the Egyptian spark.
The reports of the reception of the tldngs
of the fire and massacre of Alexandra at
Constantinople are too scanty to warrant an
assertion of the effect upon the Conference OF
the Ministers of the great European powers
which is there in session. But it IS clear
enough by inference that it must be English
policy to strain every eXertion to procure the
cooperation of Turkey in her further proceed
ings against the Egyptians; and it is also
clear enough that in such field OF diplomacy
there are powers which are interested to coun-
teract her efforts.--NeW York HeraM
ORIGIN OF THE TERM LYNCH LAW.-Lynch
law is the intiction of punishment on persons
charged with heinous offenses by people not