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THE WEEKLY UHIOH TllEg. gquotqd to i^qiqnltorq, ijortiqnlturq, ?omqstiq (fjqouomjj, VOL. X?NEW Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA,7&L? 18, !S79. * NUMBER 29. GRAND RAILROAD MEETING AT HENDERSON VILLE. North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia Represented-? connection with the great IKes/ Rallied by only #1*25,000?all hands 2'ronotince far the Completion of the great Route. tVo arrived at Spartanburg at 3.30 P. St. Leaving Spartauburg at -A P. M., with four coaches and au ordinary road engine, wo dashed away for the "Laud of the Sky." We utado a delightful trip to the fool of the uiouataiu pass and started up the steep grade at a slow pico and crept along one curve after another, when our iron horse upishcd Pf and after a "shaw I" 4'shaw !" "shawl" we canio to a stand still. Two of the coaches wore theu chocked and the engine took up tho two others quickly to the top of the grade at Saluda and returned for us, when wo were soon switched along side and were off at a dashing speed fur Heudersonvillo, where we arrived some minutes before 8 o'clock P. M. Lot it be understood here that we had uot the 11. Y. Me Aden, the engine used for heavy work, or tlicro would have been no detention whatever. Wo hoard but one expression iu connection with this feat of engineering in climbing the Blue Ridge. It is pro nounced on all sides a wonderful success. Whenever tho transportation and travel ucuds it a fresh cugiue, kept at the foot of tho grade, will enable any traiu to climb the grade with perfect ease in fifteen or twenty miuutcs. With this exception, or for G5 miles of the rout from Spartanburg, there is uo rcasou why 30 miles per hour for express traius cannot bo uiado as safely as 15. Tho irou is heavy, tho trestles are all short, and the work substantial, so that when through travel calls for it three hours is all the time that need be consumed to make the rua from Spartanburg to Asheville. The South Carolina Road by making connection from Columbia to Orangeburg, as the crow flies, over the best of road beds, makes a saving of at least 15 miles, thus avoiding the long and expensive trestle through the Santee swamp, and cutting the distance between this city aud Charleston to 115 miles. Next connecting, by a most admirable route, the Spartanburg and Union lload with Colombia, this can be reduced to 85 miles, making the distanco from /M I t t< .i v/iitii luaum tu cpuriauuurg exactly -SUU 'utiles. Tltis ruute, then, ,vould require lrout Charleston fours hours to Columbia, anil thcuce three to Ashcvillo?making in all tcu hours. Adding two hours for stoppages ou route makes twelve hours in all that will possibly bo required iu tho ruu from Charleston to Ashcville. Lcaviug Charleston, then, at 7 A. M. we would arrive at Ashcville at 7 1'. M., with a distance of 209 utiles from the sea. Fortytwo utiles more carries us to Paint Rook, and 42 miles nioro of cv.'j.lotod road, requiring live hours, i.tcludiug stoppages, puts us at Morristown, 353 utiles from Charleston, at 12 o'clock at night. At this point we are 39 utiles from Knoxvillo by tho 12ast?Tonnesscc Road and 40 utiles front Cumberland Gap7 where all the WflltHQi roads will make connection with the great North Carolina route to the Hea. There is no reason, then, leaving Charleston at 7 A. 31., why Kuoxvillc and Cumberland Cap should not be made by 2.30 the next morning, and Louisville and Cincinnati at 12.30 P. M. the next day. Through to Louisville or Cincinnati in 29 hours and 30 utiuutes! This is what this great route means; this is what the 'gicat meeting in llcndcrsonville ui;,unt; this is the high hope that pulsates now from Charleston to Ku.Oxville, Ciuciuuati and Louisville am], onward still to St. Louis, Evausvilie dntJ Chicago. The great dream of H'Vync is rushing to u reality, and. oulv Oi25,000 is wauting to foot f-he bso as wo aro cnnenrnml. anil ^pc? tho way from tho Ohio to tbo ?ca, which, all told, will stand thus : Charleston to Columbia 115 miles Columbia to Spartanburg 85 44 200 Spartanburg to Ashcville 00 miles Asheville to Morristown 84 41 Morristown to Kuoxvillo 30 44 1054 Charleston to Knoxvillc 302 Or to Cumberland Gap : Charleston to Spartanburg 200 Spartanburg to Moristowu 153 Morristown to Cumberland Gap 40 303 Cumberland G ip to Louisville and Cincinnati 105 Charleston to Louisville and Cincinnati 588 What does this mean when compared with the present route Savannah to Macon 100 miles. Hnoifi-to Atlanta 105 44 Chattanooga to Nushvillo " 582 " Thus, showing Nashville, by the present route, ouly six miles nearer than the Cumberland and French Broad route to the Ohio! J)ocs this not literally move the Ohio to tho Cumberland with the saving of the distance between Nashville and Louisville ? fc'o much, then, for the purpose of this groat meeting. ifondcisouvillo is a very pretty little town of 000 to 800 iuhabititnts. It ia, in fact, oniy a part of the famous Flat Rock settlement. The hotel accommodations were limited for such a crowd an rushed on the little town, but the people did all they Could under the circumstances to meet the emergency, aud the accomodatious at the private houses were all that could be wished. The morning of the 4th was ushered iu with the pomp aud display of an occasiou never before witnessed iu Hendcrsonville. People cauie througiug iu from every direction and by every method, from a four-ini i -i i uuuu iu aimuusmaro. j. ue yeomanry ot tne mountain region, accompuined by tlicir bonnic lasses of Polk and Trausylvania and Buncombe, flocked to the town. On reaching tbc ground, a beautiful shady hill m??r the railroad station, wo found already gathered a large assemblage of people. As the special train from Spartanburg aud the truiu from Charlotte approached a salute was tired from a small piece on the ground whilst the cheers of the assembled multitude rang aloft, bespeaking the kiudly wel- i come of the assembled thousands. ! As soou as the visitors left the cars, Mr. i Ewart, the Mayor of Hendersonville, re- i ceived them with a kindly, graceful, spir- ' ited welcome, and was replied to by Col. < It. Y. McAddeu in his own hearty, iuimitable way. ] The procession then formed under the 1 leud of T. \V. Taylor, chief marshal of the 1 J -1 - I * . . uay, ana uiarcnca to trie stirring notes ot" I the town baud, tlio flag of the Union flap- I ping to the breeze as the really imposiug l array wended its way to the speakers' stand, , ou a shady knob within sight of the stn- j tion. Here long tables had been prepared i for the barbecue, aud the multitude were i invited to liro away aud full back all aloug * the line. This was done with a gusto, and : roasted sheep and shoat went the way of < such flesh faster than we have sceu it in < all our experience. I The barbecue dispatched, Col. McAden s welcomed the visitors present. Marshal i Taylor then introduced < UK.N. T. L. CtlXCJIAN. ' The General made a brief but telling address, which began with a glowing com- ( pliment to the ladies, lie said that Jacob ^ served seven weary years for a wife, but { that those who had been interested in the opening of ^iis great route to theJIVcst ! luiil been called upon to exercise ee^en times the patience of the patriarch. The y gront Robert Y. Ilayuo lbrty-two years ago had bcut all his energies to accomplish this ' great work. Eight millions of dollars had been expended to achieve the results at a former day. After the most strenuous offorts ever made by man from 1836, Gen. Ilayue, in June, 18-12, made a report look- 1 iag to its abaudouineut. lie (Cliugman) ' had attended the sessiou of the Legislature in 1812 and urged with all his might that the great scheme should not be abandoned, and it was with sud heart lie returned < to his mountain home after the conclusion reached by the Legislature at that time to make no further efforts for the prosecutiou of the work. He hud continued to hope, however, for better things, and hence today, after forty-two years, l?e had come, again to joiu heart and huud iu the work 1 of carrying to a full consummation the t dream of his young days. il0 confidently ' believed that the co'mplctiou of his route ' would make Charleston a groat city, which ! she w^uid have been years ago had her own liaync lived to carry out the groat dream ' of his life. Clinguiun gracefully retired with the announcement that thu honored \ Govonor of North Carolina, would address the usseuiblage. GOVERNOR JAR VIS I Came forward amidst much applause. He ; said it was with peculiar pleasure and gratitude he witnessed the enthusiasm of the i vast assemblage before him, connected as ( it was with the birthday of American lib- i city. We had assembled, however, not i only from the promptings of proud patriotism, but also, with one heart and mind, to cive a helping hand to llie completion of u great connection with the wide and fruitful i West, which now stood so uear completion as to leave no further doubt as to the practical character of the great undertaking. 4lI proclaim," said the Governor,'-that so xt a. n i:_- ? ? jai i\a l^unu v^aruiuiii is concerned, nor course shall be onward. (Great applause.) Long and patiently have we waited lor this the day of commercial deliverance, and now that we are in a stono's throw of the prize, North Caroliua and North Caroliniians will nob stay the helping hand to the great work. (Applause.) This is an occasion in which North Carolina, South Caroliua, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia arc united, and it was with peculiar pleasure I dischargo tho duty as Governor of North '' ynlinn to exteui for her the most cordial welcome to tUo sister/States fore me. The reign of peace I trust is at hand when we shall win great and lasting victories and choose that better part which shall not bo taken from us." II is Excellency then, with much warmth, extended the welcome of the State to Gov. Simpson, of South Carolina. After the performance of the lleiidersnnvilln nt>/J a;i " ? jjnlaiiuur^ ouver uorncl Haiitls, which was greatly enjoyed l?y the multitude, GOV. SIMPSON Stepped to the front and waa received with a most responsive cheer from the assembly aud the platform, lie said : When Moses reached the banks of the Jordan he scut out spies into the land of promise, that they should behold the fatness thereof. We have not come, fellow-citizcus of North Carolina, to spy out your land to possess it as did the Israelites of old, but to r.ejoicc with you iu beholding your beautiful aud bountiful mountain region, where your healthful climate blushes on your checks and the abuudauce of your lauds is displayed iu the wido hospitality which has spread these far stretching tables around us und covered them with the rich aud juicy flesh of your owu flocks and the broad of your own 'hillsi^gs apd vailev$. 1 Cfttpo Uet?, fellow* citizens, rather atf 4"?peot*for? t*'*$eno1d and enjoy all this fuirsceue before me, thau participate in the proceedings of tho day, but your committee of arrangements thought otherwise, aud as 1 always have made it a rule in life to do, I uuswer as best I can the dctnaud made upou uic as a fdlow-citizetis of a common eohntry and as the Governor of South Carolina, your nearest sister across the border, i have no filtiug words with which to respond to tho warm welcome af your justly honored Chief Magistrate, l'his day is oue, f llow-citizeus, on which North Carolinians may justly and proudly ccall the past. Tho sigucrs of tho Meckouburg declaration have the right to claim .he honors of this day. It can never be forgotten that tho mcu of Meckleuburg led he way in the glorious path of duty which Amcricuu Irecmcn can aeverA will never, forego. [Applause and cheers.j So we icioss the border celebrate our 28th of Juno, when the British mcu-of-war retired before jur rccliug ramparts ^blaze with resistless irdor of Carolina freeman. So, again, we celebrate the 22d of Fcbuury, tho birthday )t'our first aud still our greatest President, the Father of his Couutry. Thcso days thould never be forgotten. It is wise, it is good fur us all that we should couio together with oue mind and heart ou such jeeasions aud learn to dwell together as jrethreu ofouo fold. Peace has its triumphs as well as war, aud his work, which is opcuing a gre.-^f link villi the affluent West, is just one of the riutnphs sufficient to awaken tho prido aud ;laddeu the heart of any people. A half A hat these men of generous atfjlrdjuruing latriotisui failed to achieijF dky IMU gkiiuiutiuii uui i.'uuvmi non and McAden, and troofglMMpFbetdU-, md Union aud Spartanbarg, iHp&erean uul Buncombe, have glono^ffli, aecotndished in our day ! [Groat sdflLrtpeatcd ippluuse.] For surely, surely, <Spow*cifci!0ii3, what is so nearly dono uowfyHh eve y '1:fficulty and doubt put behjBiiS, yrill lot now bo deserted iu the DKMfi^E of final riuuiph. Your Governor ha^Bid that N'orth Carolina will not deseflBjhc good vork, and South Carolina will JBKig^fiMlud vautiug. [Great applause.] IbflHoveruor hen dwelt at some length on putUr nl sources of progress agricnit^^fi^uieroe ll".l 11 ; uieehanical <;rts, Midffc^lttted that here could t>6 fl>1 llilii KnM|l>f^ffll'iii jTn|iii hroo factors of national streugfli moved lot harmonious together. He then eonjludod in a line appeal to the blessings of peace?saying with hue voice and much fervor : If I had the voieo of an archangel ind could reach over these swelling mountain ranges billowing up arouud us, I would proclaim it to all my countrymen in every section of this wide Union, 011 this the birthday of American liberty, peace 011 earth aud good will to man, as the one good thing above all others needful amongst the >ons of this great land, where it is only to will it for our people to bo free aud happy to their remotest posterity, aud where it is only necessary to pursue the peaceful industries of life^with the ardor our people have ever exhibited in the field to make us the riehest as well as the freest people ever tr> 1,/1 j rnuvnu uvuijf. 1UU UUVU1UUI &Ut UUWIJ iu a burst of applause, and bis remarks seemed to have beeu uuivtrsally admired. EX-GOVERNOR SENTER, OF TENNESSEE was then introduced and made a most business-like, sensible aud able speech, lie said he had come GOO miles to reach llctidersonville, a little over eighty utiles from where he resided. He had come from the daughter of North Carolina to join with the mother on this auspicious occasion, when the men who had shouldered this great work were castiug about lor the ready means to push the whole matter to a fiual consummation. The speaker said : As the daughter of the Old North State we want you to take us back to the bosom of our old mother. (Applause.) And we waut you to do it now. It is useless to tell tho men who have flehioved what I saw, in coming here through the mountain passes, how to do it. They will tind tlt-w out of the present suap. They will not consent to stand still now, almost iu sight of tho great objective point of all their efforts. I came to tell you (ho said) that we will meet you at tho border of Tennessee, and that you may rely upou this as au accomplished fact. When you tap the graneriesof the great West and make this, as it is, the natural line of transportation and travel between tho South uud the West, a new day aud a new life shall have couio to you aud to us. We are here to-day to show our sympathy in the groat work and to assure you from Tennessee that our purt shall be doue to meet you as you couic to us, and that you may accept this assurance with perfect confidence. JUDGE (}. D. POWf.ES r? J? NnnTir rimuivi Was introduced and uiadu an ornate address, iu which ho paid a handsome coinplinrent to Vance, Ransom, Hampton and Butlor. lie concluded with a remark which was cheered to the echo that R. Y. McAdea might go to bed to-night conscious of having achieved a groat work. PRESIDENT 8. Y. TUPPKR, of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, i|as then introduoed.- He wee handsomely | received, add listened'to with great attention. Ho said : I liavo come among you for the first time to breath your mountain air, and gladly would I catch inspiration from your bracing air and beautiful scenery to speak iu fitting terms of the woudcrful work you havo performed. Wheu you raise au obelisk upou the mouutaiu to the memory of Hay no, McDuflic aud Gadsdcu, Charleston claims the privilege of contributing a block in honor of tho living heroes Duncan aud McAdeu, who aro pushiug on the work they so nobly begau. (Immense applause.) We aro told that all Frouohmou, when they die, go straight to Paris. As a Charlestouian, I may us well ossumo, therefore, that all your roads, when completed, lead straight to Charleston.? (Laughter and applause.) Charleston has much ut stake in this enterprise. I regret that under her present embarrassments she can offer hut littlo pocuuiury assistance at this tiuio. Tho man .k. ?:i? i - - III1U uuiutaiu KIII1UUU iippropriUUUUS 111' that city, in the face of heavy taxation, a large municipal debt aud the millions we have sunk already ia railroad enterprises, must encouutcr some obloquy, and the opposition of small politicians and office-seekers. But 1 will venture against that sort of censure. I will go back to Charleston and toll the peoplo of this majestic spectacle among tho mountains to day; of the thousands that have assembled to cheer on ' this work by which Charleston is to be quickened and built up. And I will thcu 1 ask them to make some sacrifice, and oveu part with some of their possessions, if nec- ' .?wary r to comply this connection " Wist. <4But ihrtag you now the hopes aud greetings of a kindred people, bound to you ! by tics of blood aud a cauiuion destiuy; a peoplo so lately impoverished by war, and but slowly advanciug towards picspcrity.? They oommeud your cucrgy aud pray that this connecting link between the West and i South Atlantic may be speedily accomplished. I v.... i i?r ? 1UU uciure you 01)0 ilt 10081 WHO HUB advocated your causo nnd believed in the consummation of it. It is now the only practicable route by which tbo soaboard aud Vho West cau bo uuitcd, aud so impress ;d upon mo was this beliof that a year ago I referred to it iu the communication which I had tho honor to make to the eomuiittoe On commerco of tho United States Senate when urging the appropriation for Charlcsi toftjk^rbor. We are preparing in Charlestou To meet yduv natural, outlet to the sea. Our railroad will shortly bo extended to the water's edge and its freight will be brought within the reach of the ship's tackles; and as the general goveru. incut is now at wurk in earnest, deepening our bar and harbor, the largest merchantmen aud steamers iu the world will soou Lo able to enter our port in safety. About 830,000,000 have been invested iu Charleston iu presses, warehouses, bauks and railroads for tho accommodation of commerce. MAJOR D. R. DUNCAN Was then introduced, and said that he would be untruo to himself did lie fail to acknowledge tho gratitude aud appreciation which swelled his bosom on the occasiou. lie would be still more uutruc as a man did he fail to acknowledge where tho chief honors of this achievement belonged. It wus to he remembered to the enduring honor of Uuiou County, though no part of the Spartanburg aud Ashcville lload would touch her border, yet sho initiated the work with a subscription of 8150,000. It is true Spartanburg, Henderson and Ruucombe have done nobly, but all uiust yield the palm to Uuion. (Applause.) Again it must he said but for Major Coleman, whose genius sealed the mountains, the road would never have reached success.? Therefore, to this great, earnest, modest child of genius, the son of your own soil, we come to do honor according to his uu questioned merits. (Wild cheers for Coleman, and much applause.) . TIIE HON. J. M. LEACH Here came forward and made ono of those lich, ready and rare addresses peculiar to him and very satisfactory to largo assmiblics. lie said his uautc was attached to every bill for internal improvements that had ever passed a North Carolina Legislature, and he had sustained this road with all his might. Now he was prepared to say that it must go on. There was no other thing to say ab >ut it, and be was reminded of the little boy who was found gouging in a gopher hill with a sharp stick. Times and again ' - ?-b?g' be was advised of the fruitlessness of his task. At last, whcu he had beeu many times exhorted to desist, he said; ''I'll bo sure to get him ; I uiust get hiui; by thunder, I must get hiui; for if I dou't, we wou't have auv uioat at home." ( Hnr?.r ?. ' laughter.) Now, this is just the way it stuuds with the matter of finishing this road. We must do it or thero will be uo meat iu the family. (Much laughter aud applause.) Aud wheu you see McAdcu at the cod of a sharp stick scratehiug for tho means to do it, you uiay be sure, uiy fellow citizens, that the gopher meat is suro to oome. [Laughter. aud applause.] The General went on, making telling bits, mil uicauiog business as woll as fun all tho time, and at times couplod with pathos and* ejo^aafcbm^u, which roused agplftUM jnfc,. ATTORNEY GENERAL YOUMAN8, ' ^ v-* Of South Carolina, was then introduced,and made a beautiful address, in which ho recounted the triumphs of physical science, lie spoke of liayno as a martyr to tho great work, dying at Ashevillc just before the schome was abandoned. He said South Carolina had spent millions for roads aud Charleston hud spout her treasure like water for connections with the interior.? Whatever the groat West may uow do, thcu, iu completing the work so nobly beguu with us?whatever ot rich products she might send to our shores?wo shull give back to the Northwest a uioro precious dowrvlU.i U.U.., ? .j .uouvuwmiii gu*v unuujjruuui?a uroau aud beautiful harbor. EXCUVKHNOR BON HAM, When introduced, said briefly ho had not oonio to iudulgo in a speech. lie wished asm ply to bo present on tho interesting occasiou. Uc was glad to bo here aud to kuow that {South Carolina had douo her duty iu this matter. Chicago had promised, it' wo would build tho road to Cumberland Gup, to meet us there. COL. R. Y. M'ADEN Was iutroduccd and welcomed with cheers, lie said it was hardly fair to make him build the roud aud then put double duty on him iu specch-uiukiug besides. Colomau, by his genius, had not only brought us over tho mountains, but he hud udvuuccd his piofes?iou twenty yours by the work. When they had uudertakon this work it was a very doubtful achievement from every poiut of ligx.. .. iu.luia than liveyofurs tkejUudina*. -- tercd every dijfioulty, und all was now plain sailing. Ouly $125,000 was wautiug tp.gCK to Abbeville, ouly 9 J miles of grading wtfcft- ^ necessary und thut over thp smoothest Be^*^' ' tiou of road. The cry now was: Shallthe road go ou f What says North Carolina '{ What says South Carolina ? What says Charleston ? Theso uro questions which must now bo uuswered. There was uo timo to lose. Wo must go ou, aud for oue he was prepared to suy it must and shall go ou. [Great cheering aud applause.] N. II. BUSBKE, ESQ., Of llaloigh, N. C., was then introduced and spoko at some length in u spirited address, touching the day and tho occasion. MR. JOHN W. It. I'OI'E, Of tho Retjultry was introduced by Gen. Gliugtnau, and spoko briefly, as follows: Ho did not consider this an occasiou for rhetoric or Quo talking at all. It was an occasiou for fa?ts~-nnd business. Facts always meant what they said aud said what they meant. Wo arc at Houdersouville today, 271 miles from Charleston, directly on the way to tho great West. We have becu told OJ miles ot grading is all wo have to do, aud thu rest of tho gap, some -12 utiles, would be done?indeed was provided lor by North Carolina. Wo have to deal with the 21 utiles to Ashcvillc, with only 'JJ miles of grading to do, aud that ?125,000 will finish the road aud iron it. Let us, then, keep a steady eye ou this ?125,000, and ask ourselves iu Nort n Carolina audSouth Caroliua what we cau do to secure this deflcieucy. That wus the live issue uow ? Tho glorious past is u great matter ; the pressing demands of the present greater. What cau you do in this matter? That's the question now, uud "that's what's tho matter with Hannah," now. Gen. Clingtuau thanked tho audieuco' for their attention aud decorum, and thu uiecliug was amoug tho things that were. We cau ouly add that it was a grcut success, aud that uo less than 3,500 people were present. What One Lemon Will Do.?A piece of lemon upon a corn will relieve it in a day or so ; it should he renewed night aud morning. The free use of lemon juieo and sugar will always relieve a cough. A lemon eaten before breakfast every day for a week or two will entirely prevent the feeling of lassitude peculiar to the approach of spring. Perhaps its most valuable property is its absolute power of detecting any of tho injurious and oven dangerous ingredients entering into the composition of so very many of tho cosmetics aud fuco powders iu the market. Every lady should subjoct her toilet powder to this test.? Place a tcaspoouful of the suspected powder in a glass and add the juice of lemon, if effervescence takes place it is an infallible proof that the powder is dungcrous, and its use should be avoided, as it will ultimately injure the skin and destroy lhe beauty ot?" the complexion.