Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-03


made on the Southern railroads now Is
quite as good rs on the express trains
between Pittsburg and Chicago. with
Atlanta, the Gate city of the South.
brought within less than days journey of |
the federal capital, the fare only sli 5O
and the accommodation by the way Just
as good as on the ordinary Northern rail
roads, there is no reason why tourists or
capitalists should fail to view tho laud that
lies below the old dividing limo of North
aud South.
There are two main routes from Wash
iugton to Atlanta, divsrgiug at Lyuchburg,
whence one follows the kenesaw line
through Eastern Tennessee, the other by |
the Virginia Midland, Richmond II Dan
vile and the Piedmont Air Line, traverses
North Carolina and ths nor thwesiern |
corner of the Palmetto state.
Sterile, poorly improved aud uuproduc-
tive enough looking are most of the |
Virginia lands that lie by the way. They |
we're cultivated for years with the
ploughshare OF war, aud such names as
Fairfax, Culpeppcr, Bethel Warrenton,
Manassas aud Lynchburg, which now fall
gently and peaoeably from the brakoman's
lips, figured conspicuJusly on the pages
Of Virginia's part in the great struggle.
! Another reason given for the poverty
stricken appearance OF most of the lands
| along the southern railroads is that their
routes run mostly on the ridges and over
| thin lands. In their construction the
course of streams, eutSiiiug bridging, has
been generally avoided. From Atlanta to
Macon there is run of over 100 miles
that does not cross drop OF water.
y
| While you are break lasting at Dlnville,
Va, going south, the Pullman oars are
side tracked, their bodies lifted from the
trucks with hydraulic jacks and replaced
on trucks ttted to the gauge of the South.
ern roads. Northern bound cars are sub
jeot to the same change here, Of course,
where the Virginia Midland joins the Il Il
d. The lightest sleeper IN his berth, oI
the invalid traveller in his chair is not dis.
turbed by the operation.
Uncle Toms c8yin eau be seen nearly
every mile of the road. The characteristic
Southern mansion, with its white board
walls, high front pillars, verandas and
ciim birg vines is very seldom noticed from
the car windows. The soil is mostly red
shale the cedar trees appear too offer
for good land, and the patches of corn hert
aud there baye produced slim crops. From
the time you leave the limestone lands D
Virginia until you have crossed two states
there are few signs of good farming
or of laLd worth energetic cultivation
Right picturesque are the groups of ne
groes, clustered at the cabins scatteret
among the hills. Here is Dinah, with he
, red or white turban twisted around he
head, the pickaninnies in their long frock
, or under great big hats, sometimes bare
| fnntoA hn trnirrjpf, ha n
with long club for staff, lounginl
, around the railway station or driving
! little steer 10 single harness, with rop
4 lines, In q shsckly cart, driver mounte
high on bale or tTo of cotton On its wa
q to market.
q Here and there iu North Carolina Is t
a be seen a cotton field with few tufts G
i the snowy crop hanging 30 the bushes
Q The cotton has been gathered, ginned an
. is ready for the buyer or the warehouse
d They will tell you frankly that cotto
A raising is not very profitable businei
II here bale to two aore3, yielding les
than forty dollars, is q good average re
'e per pOuni for his cotton he rueiull
,e thinks of the days during tho war when
r could have sold it at two dollars.
h -
ri Senator Vance tells me that the Pen
la sylvania Germans who came to Mort
AZ Carolina many years ago, did not settle G
Ie the best lauds, but they have long az
10 made them such aud that Catawt
"a county, particularly Pennsylvania settl
IN ment, Is the richest and most pre-
ID ductive in the state. There, as her
ID they have shown a characteristic raC
n tenacity of the soil. The Highlander
hn IA ba Of r,,lI,J a
1s aud came to North Carolina under FlOl
I MacDCnslds S leadership settled in II
10 lowlands, aud no inducements have move
"A them to the mountains. It was cOuntG
Z singular that In the Revolution the
"a should have taken up arms 30 readily (,
,r the usurping house OF Hanover, again
which they battled at home, but it is 1
h reproach to their posterity that they lo
q. fortune and their cause in the war fl
,s Liberty, and the descendants of thel
~ Scots are reckoned among the wortbieI
: people of North Carolina day.
" Greensboro, N. c. Is the home of Ho
AZ A. NJ. Scales. He is member of Co
"a gress and was triumphantly elected go
al ernor in the late state elections. 1t vi
m he who had the romantic campaign adve
,s ture, IN which his runaway horse we
', rider was saved only by being caught
,r the branches of tree. Senator Vanc
by the way, will be reelected Unit
States Senator without material opp poi
tion. He is an able and popular ma
full Of state pride ard good stories, al
J. not too proud to share both with q fello
traveller. He was "war governor"
the old North state and knows it's poop
its history and its resources better perha
q than any other man in the COL
monwealth. To hear his talk
life on the mountains, along the GOA
'' aud in the,turpentine forest is like reading
y it Is very much better than reading
u volume of character sketches. Too arde
study of the Westminster cateohism in b
q youth has divorced him from the dOctri
u OF election.
a Vance has lately bought tract of 10
u cores of mountain land, hundred mil
or more from his home, and has started
u clear enough of it for pasture lands al
]; grazing ground for little fine stock whit
~ he will take up there to add to the cres
< ture comforts OF summer lodge. The
VI are trout streams aud wealth of timbe
The owner tells me that he has five sticI
of wild cherry on the place which, la
down in New York, would alone pay f
# the whole tract. There is ash timber the
n eleven feet in the butt, birch, black walnu
J. in abundance and hickory trees three fe
Il in diameter. Cleared, the land is dee
10 | with the mould of the virgin forest, bI