Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-13
of The Yorkyille Enquirer
LETTER FROM NEW ENGLAND.

a native South Carolinian in the Nutmeg
State" of Old New England, write for the
perusal of the readers Of yOureXcellent jour
nal? The motive which should prompt all
correspondence for the press, answers some
thing which shall either edify or amuse.
Your readers may congratulate themselves
upon the fact that | have deferred writing
SO long, as the length of a descriptive letter
depends very much upon the length of time
one has been amid the scenes and circum-
stances Of which he writes. l read, a few
weeks since, the espOndence-nOt less
than three ordinary columns-of young
awyer-tOurist, from New Haven, through
South Carolina. He wrote much about the
novel sights. am now satisfied that have
seen and heard quite as much that hasstruck
me as being new, and that | could have
written, four weeks ago, not less than three
columns of novelties. But, from that facul-
ty of human nature by which we not only
become reconciled but accustomed to what
at first seems even an innovation, l have
come to regard the country, with its people
and their habits of life, after the manner of
a son of Connecticut soil. So that points
which l, at first, regarded almost indispen-
sable to this letter seem hardly capable OF
eliciting any attention from friends in York
vile. What then shall | write: Shall l
make my first head
NOTES OF TRAVEL?
The comfortable "Pullman sleeper"
which took us through, from Chester, $. c.,
to Washington, without change, and the
schedule, which put us in New York twen-
ty-SiX hours after leaving Chester, via the
Virginia Midland route, were heartily ac-
ceptable to one anxious to make his destina-
p,,f flnr .,e4tn -fS,iI 1nf.fIn on
of the unpleasant experience at Charlotte.
Though Chester has some reason to boast of
her railroad facilities, yet we could purchase
no through ticket there; but the traveller
must wait for ticket and the checking of bag
gage until his arrival at Charlotte, where
the arrangement is just about as disagreed
bic as the fertility of invention Of all the
railroad Solons, working to that end, could
make it. Fancy perfect stranger rushing
out of the car, in the darkness of night,
across three tracks, where there stands as
many trains impatiently steaming, search
ing for the ticket Office, returning to find his
sleeper has been attached to another train,
jumping on a train Of cars alreadyin in motion
baggage left behind, and, after this, finding
that he has only been allowed ten minutes,
instead Of twenty, for the work Of half an
hour. In such a situation was your cores
pondent at Charlotte. Though breathing
out threatnings against the corporation,
which would thus impose upon an ineXpe-
rienced traveller, l still enjoyed, with my
kind friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Dickson, return
ing to Brooklyn from their visit to York
vile, our possible predicament from leaving
our baggage behind. TO my mind there
was a serious probability that the baggage
masters, whose knowledge of their work
Il Il ~ To hnI
would so arrange, that, when Mrs. ID. began
to attire herself for "the reception" the fol-
lowing evening, she would find herself in
possession of the ecclesiastical wardrobe,
and when the parson should prepare himself
for q New Haven pulpit on Sunday, he
would have naught but the articles necessa-
nv to the success Of the reception. The fates,
not the railroads, be thanked that the dlem-
ma was avoided. Under notes of travel
shall not impose upon you my impressions
as we were hurried along over the memora-
BILE hills and valleys around Charlottesville,
Manassas and Fairfax; as we looked upon
the braZen star, which marks the spot where
Garfield fell, on the carpet in the ladies'
waiting room of the great depot at Wash
ington; and as we passed through the prin-
cipal apartments of the capitol, but leave
these to comment on
THE WEATHER.
Before leaving South Carolina l was much
comforted by assurances, from the weather.
wise, that, while mutability characterized
Southern weather, there was perfect uni
formity in the north-the cold promising to
stay, and in no way aydisappointing the inhab-
itant. BE it said, again and again, that
there never was greater mistake. | have
yet to find climate subject to more sud-
den, or more extensive fluctuations, than
that of New England. For example about
four weeks ago, Sunday night closed i de-