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BY F. M. TRIMMIER. Demoted to Education, Agricultural, Manufacturing and Mechanical Arte. $2.00 IN ADVANCE
VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S.C., THURSDAY, ^IJGUST 2, 1 866. NO. 87
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[From theChnrleston News.]
Cincinnati and Char lc*ton Rail
>na<1 vl? l'i<An?'li nunn>l
In view of the great interest which i
now being taken in having a communics
iion by railroad between the North wo.and
tho Atlantic seaboard, and on nccoun
of the urgent claims advanced by tli
friends of rival routes, we would respectfully
suggest to the fricuds of the variou
routes, and especially to the citizens o
p Cincinnati, Kentucky, Tennessee, Xortl
and South Carolina, that a Convention b
called, composed of delegates from Cincin
uati and the States named. The Conven
tiou to meet this summer or fall, at soun
convenient plnce?say Morristown, Knoxville
or Asheville?to consider the merit
of the various routes proposed ; dccidi
thereon, and see what may be done in tin
premises. Let Cincinnati name the pluc<
and time.
II it bo thought expedient, a corps o
engineers, in the meantime might make :
rcconuoisance of tho different routes, or ar
examination of the surveys th ercof, whicl
have already been made, so as to report ti
the proposed convention.
It is of the greatest importance to tlu
whole country, and especially to those whi
may bo interested as stockholders that tlu
contemplated railway should have the besl
possible location, the most direct route, tile
cheapest line, and should pass through s
nonntrv n.innliln no nrmluoimr t)i.? nrixitnol
j ~ t?; i' 1 l;~ o"
amount ot business. Other thing9 being
4 equal, any unprejudiced mind would be in
favor of such a proposition as sell"evident
Directness of route is now the leading; idea
I with Kug.ish railway builders, and t;^ gic...
importance is now being rtcognized by out
own people.
These advantages we claim for the route
extending from Cincinnati to Charleston,
S. O., via Cumberland Cap, Morristown
Tenn., l'aint ltock, Ashevillc, N.C., Spar
taburg and Columbia, S. 0 , which we sub
' mit, have been lully proved, are uuauswer
cd and unanswerable, by the able report o
Dr. M- Carriger, Secretary and Treasuroi
of Cincinnati, Cumberland Cap ant
Charleston Railroad, lately published it
the Cincinnati Cummrrcinl.
The only argument against this ropon
which wo have seen, used by the lion
Geo. A. Trcnholtn before the Charlcstoi
Board of Trade, at which lie is represented
r to have said : "Now, as regards the Spartanburg
extension, they have not got a
charter to enter the State ol Virginia, and
they cannot reach Cumberland Gap, which
is in Virginia, without one; and it is oui
of reason to suppose that in the prcseni
f condition of the public mind?it is contra
ry to any reasonable conjecture, that Vir
gia will grant a charter for a railroad whic!
is to tap her whole system of 1 cal am
State roads, and is calculated to divert hoi
commerce to another State. It is trui
li o i* o n r?li!irtnr 4 rr? in tliA .Sktut a <k
North Carolina, but such is the jealousy ol
that State in regard to its own seaports
and the value of its own cosily system o
railroads, that in that charter they liav<
reserved to themselves the right, when (hit
railroad shall have been completed by pri
vatc capital, to indemnify the corporator:
and take the road for the State of Nortli
Carolina."
The distinguished champion of the Bliu
Ridge route must think that cause strong
indeed, against which he urges no bcttei
arguments than these. Hums to the fact
Cumberland Gap is not exclusively in tin
State of Virginia; the principal part of i
is in the States of Tennessee and Kentucky
? The one or two hundred yards of Virgini:
passed through here, is a tunnel whicl
commences in Tennessee and terminates ii
Kentucky, which, wo are well informed
belongs to one individual, who is a stock
holder, and has given tho right of way t(
this projected line. .Besides, if his fact:
were true, it is difcficut to imagino how th<
passage of a road through this remote
mountainous, and very small slip of Vir
ginia, would so derange her "whole systcn
of local and Stato roads, and divert lici
commerce to tho support of another State.'
Her whole system of raiiroads would stil
bo left free and open, and with the contcm
plated road finished, she would save in dis
tance from Cincinnati to Norfolk via Cum
berland Gap, Morristown and Bristol, six
ty four miles over the lino from Cinciunat
to Norfolk via Knoxvillc. And in cas<
the Virginia and Kentucky Kail road shouh
be extended from Bristol to Cumberlant
Gap, aa is contemplated, she would save it
distance, from Ciucionati to Norfolk, on
-
hundred and neven miles over the line via
Danville and Ivnoxville.
AVe have a better opinion of the liberality
and generosity of the Old Dominion,
even if it were necessary to appeal to her.
It is rather absurd to presume that a company
of stockholders would be so foolish as
to undertake to build a railroad without
first having obtained an indisputable right
to build ; and yet the Cincinnati, Cumberland
Gap and Charleston Hailroad was bciug
successfully and rapidly built when the
lt war broke out. The honorable gentleman
admits the prospect of nioro business for
tlio "Spartanburg extension," than we ha?f
supposed he was willing to acknowledge.
|. Now, as to his other ad captandum argument.
Suppose the road completed from
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J I V<<<V1IIMUII UI .IKII1 istUWII 1(1 AMIICVIIIO, IN.
k C., and the State of North Carolina should
j i conclude to take that portion lying between
j J Ashcvillc atnf the Slate hnrt near Paint
e i Rock (and her reservation only applies to
this portion) indemnifying the corporators,
3 what does it amount to? Simply to a
I change of stockholders, and by lull com,
! pensation. Wo would bo surprised if
\ i many of the ctockholders of the Blue Hidgc
I lloud would not sell their stock upon terms
much more favorable to the purchaser.
B Hut admitting that the State of North
Carolina should take this portion of the
road, it would be her interest to bring to
, i Ashcvillc as much freight and as many
' passengers as possible. Then would com~
j nicnec the competition between the lines
" i ruuning from this point to Norfolk, Va ,
j j Beaufort and Wilmington, N. C., and
j Charleston, S. C. So much the better for
j I the citizens of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tcni
ncssco.
) The road running this line would reach
Charleston, through the centre of South
, Carolina, in almost an air line, passing by
' Columbia, where there is a water power
t superior to Lowell. There would be no
t ! diversion lram this line, at lea?t from Ashc;
ville, N. C., south. But suppose ti c 1 >luc
' | Hidgc Koad completed to Anderson, what
^ j guarantee is there that the Savannah Yult
i Icy Railroad, or the road to Port Royal.
| I will nut be built, thus diveiling the road
j and business front the centre of the State,
' ! and adding immensely to the cost of this |
6X?~?Ui*AArt.* V.'M. ..
| completed to Ashcvillc, the great products
of the West would seek the shortest route
to a seaport, which is Chailestou, S. C.<
where, in the language of Mr. Memminger,
1 "there is tin emt.netitinn !<<-< mnvl-nt ?
' clear, and (he proximity of the sea, and of j
the West Indies particularly, furnishes an
open door to the produce which will come
here for sale or shipment." It would thus
pass through different parallels of latitude,
j and bring products to be exchanged lor
those of a different kind.
The Legislature of South Carolina, in
1835, appointed the lamented Uayne,
| A brain lilauding, Governor Koble, and
* i others, commissioners "to cause cxaminaj
tions, surveys, and estimates to be made for
a railroad between Charleston and Cineiu
nati " They applied to the then Secretary
I J ol War and obtained the services ol a dis
tinguished curj > of United States Topo^
graphical Engineers The engineers re
^ ported to the convention which met at
Knoxvillc, Tennessee. .July 4, lsdti, com
posed of 880 delegates from nine different
States, to wit: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
I .Tennessee, \ irginia, Alabama, North t' rolina,
South Carolina and Georgia. The
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committee to prepare business, say, in re
j. lation to this report, that it is found to le
|. entitled to entire confidtmeo, as well on account
of the able manner in which it lias
j been drawn up, as the skill and accuracy
of the engineers who have assisted in making
the surveys.
"From this report it will appear that
, within the chartered limits of the compa,
nv there is no in act i cable nass tlironoh the
Aliouhnny Mountains, but th valley of
; | tlie French Broad lliver; and, most 1'or.
| tunatcly lor tho undertaking, the general
J. direction of this river within the mountain
region coincides with a straight line,
drawn Irotu Charleston to the branching
t point in Kentucky; and what recommends
it more strongly lor adoption, is the fact
t that its head waters rise in a level plain,
, which begins at the summit of the Blue
, Ilidge and stretches to the northwest in an
open valley without any descent, percepti
I hie to the eye, for 30 miles, to a short dis,
! tancc below Ashevillc, in North Carolina,
s ! and for the next <10 miles, it has a very
j ! regular descent to the point where it issues
; from the mountains; which descent ir? the
. j whole distance averages only 13 feet to the
, > mile, and in only one mile is there a de
r I scent of 45 l'ect. This committee have no
hesitation, therefore, in declaring tliut litis
1 must bo udopted as a purt of the line of
. our road, and that it is pcrlcctly practi.
cable."
"This report was "unanimously agreed
- to by the whole Convention, and ordered
i j to be published to the world in their name
s j and behalf." At a subsequent meeting,
1 { the stockholders cuino unanimously to the
1 { conclusion, after patient investigation, that
i I the passage of tho Blue Ridge at the Butt
?I Mountain Osp, via the French B-oad
! River, "was decidedly superior to every
! other to be found within the limits of their
, charter, or indeed in the whole extent of
the mountain ranges dividitfl^thc Atlantic
from the Western States."
McNeil and Williams, distinguisiicd topographical
engineers, who "were almost
continually occupied during an entire pe
riod of four years'" in surveying this mountain
region, decided in favor of its superi
ority over all others.
(governor Unync, in his address before
the Knoxvillc Convention, says: Now we
' would ask whether the m.rc ristence cf
1 surh a passage through the mountains, in
the general direction of a line drawn from
Charleston through the centro of South
Cni-Illinn null ......-1.. ? ' *
, ?..? itauu.- uuai tj in u suui^ni
course across an interesting and valuanlo
portion of North Carolina, and through the
very centre of Fast Tennessee to Losing
ton, and from thence to the Ohio River,
does not mark out, as with thet unerring
hand ot nature, this as the irrcat channel
of communication between the South and
the West." There i* a difference in dis
tance of 91 miles in lavor of the "Spartanburg
extension" via French Broad and
Cumberland (Jap to Cincinnati over the
. Blue ltulge route via Knoxville.
The difference in cost is proportionately
greater, and according to the report of J)r.
M. Carriger it is shown that the cost of
the Blue Ridge and Knnxville and Kentucky
Roads to more, or
over double the cost of the Cincinnati,
Cumberland Cap and (diarieston, and the
Greenville and the French Broad Railroads,
extending from Cumberland Gap to Spartanburg
C. II.
The total amount of unfinished road is
greater on the former than the latter by
forty six miles.
With such superior advantages in favor
of the French Broad route, the inquiry
very naturally occurs to every one, how
the Blue Ridge road obtained such prominence.
"In 1852 there was a vexatious I
controversy between the South Carolina !
Railroad Company and the City Council
of Augusta, Georgia, about the right of
the former to establish a depot -within the
corporate limits ot the latter." it was
su^g -sted to build a railroad "tout Ander
i __ !> . . i. A ?.
supjq,used unjust discriininati. il-. .'.u engineer
was appointed, who it ade a recoil
nois-inco of the route. In his icp.irt h<>ays
: ' 'i'he distance of the new roa 1 i ro
jcetcd will be about one hundred and fifty
miles?forty-eight miles lying in South
Carolina, twenty-five miles in Georgia, fiftv
mi Irs in North Carolina, anil twenty seven '
miles in Tennessee. These distances may t
not be exactly apportioned, the total, how
ever, can he relied on. I have no hesitation
in estimating that $1,750,000 will j
build this road in a permanent furm, with
a rail weighing not less than titty five
pounds per yard ; but it will be entirely '
safe to assume $2,000,000."
With this estimate, the city of Charleston
entered heartily into the enterprise,
and subscribed a million of dollars. Kx
traordinaiT influences were bmn.-ht to bear
upon ihe Legislature, and ?Ti.* State was
committed to the enterprise in the amount
of several millions.
When wc consider the great exertions ;
which have been made to induce corporations
and States to subscribe, and the magnitude
of the enterpsise, we arc surprised at
the comparatively small amount of in-livid !
ual subscriptions.
According to the report of the President
of the Blue Kidge Railroad, made to the j
Legislature of South Carolina in 1>0H, the i
amount subscribed by individuals
is $278,700.00
Contracts for work done . . 177,200.00
i o'ni length oi roatt constructed
>-> miles, and total cost
of road. . . $2,02 4.110.00 1
According to the report of Major K. ('.
Met'alia, Chief Knginr.or of ( i ciinia i,
Cumberland Cap and Charleston Railroad,
made August, 1SG0, the entire eo*t ol the
road, exclusive of et|uipinoi t, from Spar- J
: tanburg C 11., S. to Morristown, on
. the Fast Tennessee and Virginia Railroad,
j a distance ol 11?1 miles, is $2,7.'>r>,OltO.Ul,
and from Spartanburg O. II. to I'aint
, Rock, a distance of 117 miles, 82,2111,102.
j 04. The State having already spent two .
millions and a half of dollars on the lllue
: Ridgo lload, decided not to assist the
! French llroad Road, but to "husband her
resources." The Committee on Railroads 1
(not a corps of engineers) reported that '
, "the estimates ol the French Rroad Rail i
road, through the mountains, are so much
j under the cost of all other railroads over j
the same range of mountains, that your
Committee cannot regard them as altogeth- '
cr nccuratc, and believe that, should the ,
work ever be completed, they will fall far
short ot the cost." Yet this samo range
' of mountains can ho passed by this lin? ot
road without u single tunnel.
A committee of fifteen gentlemen of am- i
pie means had already agreed, in writing, ,
to build the road from Spartanburg 0. 11.
to Ashevillc, N. C. entiro, at the estimates
niado by Major MoCalla, and according to
' the plans and specifications of the cornpa
ny's engineer, nnd take one-eighth of tho
amount in the stock of the company, and
three-eighths in well secured bonds, and
one-halt in cash. They also proposed to
build that part north ol Ashcville to Paint
ltoek upon the same terms. Two of this
committee, with one other gentleman, were
subsequently awarded the contract to build
the road from Morristown, Tonn., to Paint
ltoek, 441 miles. They took the entire
road ut the estimates of Major McCalla,
gave bond and security, and with a force
ot 400 hands were pngrcssing satisfaetori
ly to ail parties, when they were toroed to
quit by the events of the luto war.
We would be sorry, and would not in
tentionally do the ltlue Ridge Road any
inineflrt" W-- ??'J * 1
ii u wuuiu ue glad to see each
road built; for we think there would bo
burincss sufficient to sustain both. Yet
we xuust do justice to our own route, and
if "the comparison should seetn invidious,"
the fault is not ours, but of natural causes.
In conclusion, we contend that we have on
uninterrupted chartered line from Spartan
burg (J. li. to Cincinnati; that lrom Cincinnati
via this route to Charleston, S. 0 ,
is nearer by many uiiles than by any other
route to the same seaport, or to any other
seaport; that it is cheaper by several millions;
that it passes the whole way through
a country capable of affording much business,
and right on the banks of u river (the
Trench Bread), just between the provision
and cotton growing regions, which can
afford power sufficient to do all the manulacturinsr
rcquircd|by the contiguous States.
Wc believe that nature has marked out
this route ns the way in which the South
and the great Northwest are to be brought
together in social and business intercourse.
The way is so plain that, 9ooner or later,
capitalists will take hold of it and carry it
to a suecesslul completion and a prosperous
future. It is for this generation to decide
whether we are to iuld our hands aud lose
the goldcu lruits, or move forward and
build up an enterprise which will not only
bo ? blessing tc us but to future gOueT??
lions. "FRENCH BROAD."
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Utiles Tar Se?ie?iaiy Pcupie.
II. T. Tuckerman, in one of his essays,
*>- ^ > u>, t.. it,; ? ,1 y._
uionui, in the course of which Tuckcrman
spoke of the difficulty of combining mental
toil with health. To this Sismondi
said :
There is vast error on this subject. Be
assured that we wore intended for intel
leetual labor, and that there is a way of
making it subservient to health. I will toll
you a few rules founded on experience:
Vary the kind of work?let it he research
one hour, meditation another; collation today,
and revision to morrow. Do this on
sy-tenj : give the first part of the day to
the hardest study, the afternoon to exercise,
and the evening to social intercourse;
let the mind be tusked when the brain is
most vigorous, that is, after sleep; and woo
the latter blessing not in the feverish
hours of thought and emotion, but after
the "ontle exercise of the mind which
cntiics from passtinie and friendliness.
lie considered occasional travel and
prudent habits the best hygiene for a man
of sedentary pursuits; and the great secret,
both ol health and successful industry,
tlu> absolute yielding up of one's conscious
noss to the business and diversion of the
hour, never permitting the one to infringe
in the least degree upon the other.
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Family Prayer.?Robert llall, hearing
souie worldly-minded persona object to
family prayer as taking up too much time,
said that what might seem a loss will be
more than compensated by that spirit ?>f
order and regularity which the stated observance
of this duty tends to produce. It
serves as an edge and border, to preserve
the web of Hie from unraveling. "The
curse of the Ford is in the house of the
wicked; but lie blcsscth the habitation of
the just."
^1 ?
Gen. John li Maorudf.r.?This gentleman
is the editor of the Mexican Times,
the American journal started in the city of
.Mexico by the late ex-Governor Allen.
To every American desirous of being posted
on Mexican affairs, the Times will be a
valuable paper. Its terms are one dollar
per month, or ten dollars per year, in ad
vance.
Leisure.?Employ thy time well if
thou meanest to gain leisure; and since
thou art not sure of a minute, throw not
away an hour. Leisure is timo lor doing
something useful : this leisure tho diligent
will obtain, but the lazy man never; lor a
life ol leisure and a life of laziness are two
things?Franklin.
A missionary asked an Indiac, "IIow
do you know there is a God?' Pointing
to footsteps in the sand, the savage answered,
"llow do you know that mou havo
been here?'
Jjjm
KImi.
[We publish by request the following emend*
ed copy of the ode written by Mr. Timkob for
tho lute ccremouiul coronation of the Confederate
graves at Magnolia.]
Sleep sweetly hi your humble graves,
Sleep martyrs of a fallen cause I?
Though yet no marble column Craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In 3ecds of laurels in tho earth,
The garlands of your fame are sown ;
And, somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in tho stone.
Meanwhile, your sisters lor the years
Which hold in trust your storied tombs.
Bring all they now can give you?tears,
And theso memorial blooms.
Small tributes, but your shades will smile
As proudly on those wreaths to-day.
As when some cannon-moulded pile
Shall overlook this Bay.
Stoop angels hither froui the skies i
There is no holier epot of ground.
Than where defeated valor lies
Uy mourning beauty crowned.
The Difference for Sambo.?Mr.
OHphant, an Englishman, who has written
some true and many amusing things about
the events of our civil war, shows tho nature
of the change wrought in thcoondition
of the negro, by the following anecdote :
"I invariably asked every negro I conversed
with, whether he thought himself
better or worse off than formerly, and as
invariably received for answer, that he was
in some respects better, and in some worse.
One fellow on board a steamer illustrated
tho difference thus : "If, when I was
slave, I had tumbled overboard, the boat
would have been stopped, I should have
been picked up and put by the fire to dry,
because 1 was properly, aud then given a
hundred lashes for falling overboard. But
now, if I fall overboard, 'Oh, it's only m
cur.-cd nigger, go ahead,' and I should
never be picked up at all. In a word, tho
negro used to be a dog with a master, now
he is a dog without cue."
Important ip True.?Tho editor of
the American Uuiuu, published at Sheiby!
viile, Tcnnossoe, ha9 been shown the modrr'
" ?l lu! r.r: -*>*1 * ?
collisions and other accidents on railroads.
Tho advantages of the invention are thus
given by the Union :
' From its simplicity, T7o feel confident
thai when once adopted, it will becomo a
general thing, as it will do away with all
other kinds of signals, as by this invention
any official on the road can stop any train,
when desired, at any distance. Ho can
shut off tho steam of a running engine at
u distance of five miles as well aa if ho
were on the engine. At the same time,
the conductor of any train may bo stopped
on any part of the road, can prevent any
other train from coming nearer than onehalf
mile, by stopping the approaching
engine."
j The Secret.?"I noticed," said Frank*
lin, "n mechanic, among a number of others
at work on a house erecting, but a little
way from rny office, who always appeared
to he in a merry humor, who had a kind
word and a cheerful smile for every oue he
met. Let the day bo ever so cold, gloomy
or sunless, a happy smilo danced like a
sunbeam on his cheerful countenance.
Meeting him one morning I asked him to
tell me the secret of his constant and hap*
py flow of spirits."
"So secret, doctor," he replied. "I have
got one of tho best wires, and when I go
to work she always has a kind word of encouragement
for mc, and when I go home
hlio meets nn> witli ? cmiU ?? ! ? J
.. ...VM . UIMMU uuu U f ttUU
then the tea is sure to be ready, and she
has done so in any little things through tho
day to please inc, that I cannot find it in
my heart to speak nn unkind word to any.
body."
A disloyal paper down in Louisiana,
tno having the fear ot Sumner's scrap*
book before it, and not standing in awe
of Thad. Steven's "penitentiary of hell'*
perpetrates the following:
A Topekn, Kansas, paper nominates
Charles Sumner for President, and ThacL
deus Stevens for Vice President. Why
not put a few millions tons of nitroglycerine
under the country and be dene with*
it?
The little tax of ono por cent, upon every
box cf matches, netted the government
81,500,000 l ist year. According to that
estimate, 150,000,000 bunches or boxes of
matches must havo been used in this oountry
during tho year, or five bunchee 1
equal to five hundred matches-?-for every
man, woman and child.
Blushing.?Blushing is said to be ft
sign that something of tho angel is loft, in \
woman, beautiful to the eye and bespeaking
the inward purity of the heart. When
a woman ocases to blush, she has lost bar
greatest charm.