The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-11-06

ravishment must be paid for sooner or
later. And Rome's penalty was to see
her she wolf at the door Of the tomb, her
population reduced to $500, her place on
the map of the world nothing, for nearly
a thousand years.
/ witnessed year after year g more
recent example. We denuded the foot.
hills of California, swept the mountains
into our great river, and deluged and
ruined half State. Our capital is to.
day 10 or 20 feet below dirty stream of
disease that was once like silver, its bosom
q tower of health.
And 80, with some knowledge on this
subject, I was summoned before Italy to
testify as to this, and was sent with
Garibaldi to look at Ostia, 20 feet under
the earth or the mouth of the Tiber.
Briefly, this city of the Mexican seas
here by the great river, this flower town,
this Magnolia land, this city where you
plant and gather the orange and the fig
and all the sweet fruits that grow under
the face of the sun, is only another Ostia.
It is a dismal thing to say. But there
are duties that must not be run away
from. True, this wondrous river here is
q thousand Tibers tied together. You
say, and may believe, that it is strong
enough to sweep its way forever. to the
sea. Not so. The soft, loose soil of
twenty States contributes every hour to
choke it up. The sand of Illinois 6lls its
mouth. Go on denuding, destroying,
defying nature; and a thousand years
will bury rot only this city, this State,
but many States.
And the remedy is so cheap and simple.
Sell no more lands up yonder in the
North to be pillaged of all that nature
planted here. Turn it back into forests.
Nature knew what she was about. Set
trees along the banks of every stream:
Keep out the fires, make parks, places Of
pleasure, turn your loo, 900 old pensioned
tramps in there to take care of these
parks. And that, my neighbors of the
North, will be Saving the Union" to
some purpose.
COMING TO THE CRESCENT CITY.
All the way from Montgomery and
down through Alabama and the State of
Mississippi pines and lagoons, and
lagoons and pines; so level, green and
grassyl wanted all the time, when we
struck the pines, to get out and walk
the trim, slim and open trees.
The lagoons remind one of the approach
es in Venice. No sign of life for hum
dreds of miles, save now and then yoke
of oxen drawing o creaking wagon with
its dozen barrels Of resin and a "darky"
asleep on the top; only a little cotton
field dotted down here and there tight
among the pines, little "darkies" standing
there among the black stumps, bag at
side, the white cotton in the black hand,
still as the stumps about them,
staring at the train as it dashed past. A
barrels of resin at each of the
wide-apartdepots, the creaking OK wagons
with their barrels of resin, or the bales
Of cotton; the smell Of pine forests in
the air and all along as we dashed
through Alabama and Mississippi.
Then we come upon the home of the
Hon. Jefferson Davis, of unhappy histo-
ry.
Here we gel a.glimpse of the Mexican
seas to the left. The great broad sun has
caught fire and is rushing down into the
sea beneath him. And we are dashing
on right 'gainst the sun as it falls into
the sea. The Crescent City and the
great river are fifty, forty, thirty miles
away. Lagoons behind US and bayous
before US and right and left of us. Little
clumps of oak and ash and beech are
spripging up right and left from out the
vast brown levels of marsh; and men
hunt here for deer, thirty miles from the
city, and shoot Canvas backs" by the
ship load.
On, on in the face of the falling sun.
The sun is in the sea. But there is a
confagration of earth and of air. The
heavens are Illuminated. They know we
are coming. There is a scene Of con-
quest, of discovery as we come near this
olden city by the great river, all in the
face of the burning heavens. All, don't
you know that if this sunset, this scene,
this water and this land, this air and
were in Europe, the writers
there, upheld, countenanced, encouraged
by the country, would lift them up in
glory, so that all the world should be
compelled to come and see? Yet you
money.mad Americans, because you are
looking in the mud for money and see no
beauty, starve your scribes to death, and
even deride them for daring to look ma.
ture in the face-for daring to love her
and fall at her feet and call her beautiful.
LANDING" IN NEW ORLEANS.
1t is not pleasant-too much like New
York. Yet it is something to know that
if the cabmen are as numerous and as
insolent as up North they are not so
large, and you can lick them if necessary
and it is necessary. This evil p.lst be
curbed before the people come journey.
ing down from the North. / demand
this, as much for the sake of the poor
cabman, who no doubt has his babes to
feed and clothe, even as we'll as the rest
of us. And he ought not to be put to
the trouble of entering the cars and drag
ging his victims out by the hair or heels
in order to get his load. That is too
much to ask of any set of hacl,men in
the world.
THE HOTELS.
They are not very great, with one or
two exceptions, or very good. But the
private places of accommodation are said
to be excellent and almost limitless.
This is city of homes, remember. The
thousands of families who were ruined
here by the war still have there houses,
and many of them, I am told, are open
for the accommodation of the coming so.
journers.
As for prices, pay s28 week in what
is called the best hotel here, or So day,
aud am liable to be "6red out" at days
notice any time, to give place to some one
who has already engaged this little bed
room which is indeed too small for a
bedroom, but little too big for coffin.
I see tackled up all about the house,
"Beware of Thieves" and the whole
hotel has a sort of down -at.the. heel
atmosphere about it which makes one
want to get back into the Alabama pines
we passed through the other day. Still I