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-in Tn.W,?W Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, LiteraftnTand General InteUigence. ?0L; 4. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1868. NO. 1. -^frT'H-OTT T fi W if lil? E E' TWO'*?dttllS ah?) ? half feb aj ? triiiT?D states' c?bbencx. -fC}!?" .' ?ssroJT?i "? v **j rv.'-. ::'*?::-? rates 1 of ada^r nsika. Advertisements inserted at the rates of Ot tar por, square ol twelve lines for the first ia find Fifty Cents- for each subs?quent ins ?.iberr.l deductions made to those who adver the yea*. :.... ? ? |?^Fj&sjwnpjir^^ ] tn advance. f . TM BUJE fiIDG? RAILi?O ^."Editor: Tour nsnti'kind net pq Muming whatever .will forward tl terests of the Bl oe Ridge Railroad duce? me again to call your attentif, fchi? - subject '[Heretofore, the fr?en this "enterprise have looked ? mainly i gffg^Xp?teXJL connejr^jQnji Jjr^itajpt pie business and income; not relyin any great extent,; npon- local populs ordocal trade. Rut the increasing ii esfcn??wt oit and manifested in the d< opnient of the mineral" arid- agncull resources of our mountain country, i dicat?v? of what the future of this pa: ourjgouiitry will .be. .1 send you 4;wo most interesting let o?^hfs subject, and will follow it up, i other, .abort- communications on the mat?/jnJnef?Fj agricultural and mani turing resources of Anderson and P eni^DiBtricts; and ?&bun County, Geor demonstrating the great necessity for immediate completion of this Railroad J W. HARRISON, . ; v Prea't B?u? Ridge Bailroat '^id^son, Jane 17th, 1868. X,: Walhalla, S. C., May 12,1865 - Gen. J*. IP.: Morrison, President of Blue Ridge("Railroad:?'./ Dear SiB>-^Wb:.le advocating the a ipletion of the Railroad hence to Knoxvi Tennv-I feel assured you will not-1 sight of the value Of the; diff?rent meta belts, thatnwiU be traversed in its Not westoourse. Haying bestowed much tention upoa. tlie iraineral belts of 4 county, the pt'actiwil developments ma authorize me to offer to you the assurai ttias they are both- rich -and -extensi fion'^apd lron ores are abundant'; I unless a cheap supply of coal cati be tai ried along th? line of road, cannot worked advantageously. Henee, we i tvbt' able, to reap any benefit from Uk vast, beds, although lime abounds iii th vicinity, until a carboniferous format! along.tbe.^lu?.Ridg?Rpa? can be reachi The/existence of copj)er rn this-pa rtof t State, as'well its in the adjoining count ofl,Kpj,tli..Caroli.pj\^ha8 bc?n weH jw?; tnined. The veins- are numerousj w defined, nndexplor?d to adeptlPof'rievei hundred-feet. Want of fuel,::prcvent their .being actively .worked f fdr" tli? cru ores; must- be smelted; ere the,regulus c be-sHipped. The traneportrtion overt mountain roads,from thc'-'mih'esto t lfailrond at Walhalla, -would' prove rho expensive than from, that pr0tnt to t smelting work?.at Baltimore. I have i expectation of finding coal in this Sectio but West of the Bine Ridge I bare c served -that the primary-formation1 is"ft qnently-overlaid by the secondary;;, at the indications ure, that the Railroad tnt be instrumcntaliti opening that valuab system. Our mining interest would tb< tieeome paramount to any other; wh? the carrying of ores and coal, in search each-other, would be a considerable i te in the revenue of the Road. Tho disco' erios and inventions of the day.- woul place another very- heavy income withi rtticbof the Railroad Company, by thei carrying the'gold ores, or rather the at riforons quartz, to points at which th now process of desulphurising them, an thoa" liberating' the minute particles c gold, Hs in operation. This auriferou quartz, along the line of Road, is ines hanatibje; arid much "wiir find its wa; ^Ortb, when you consider that shipment already made have yielded upward o 8500 per ton, while the reduction at th raines amounted toonly 675 per ton. Ou mountain roads are so difficult that th? transportation of engines, stamping works &c, is almost impossible; and, thus, tin full development of ali the mines, ii this section'of country, is dopondentupoi ?he completion of the Railroad. In Wbitt County, Georgia, a Mining Company art now'preparing a shipment of ten tons ol this quartz for New York, whence thej will receive some twenty tons of machine? ry. Walhalla is their nearest point oi ?Railroad ; and I ara convincod that the same belts, whence that quartz is obtain? ed,1 abound in the Counties of the three States, through which this road will pass. 1 have mado free to invite your attention briefly to a few of the minerals which, with a Railroad passing through their belts, will attract Northern enterprise, sustain the Road, and aid in the recupera? tion of the country. ? could speak to you of tho Galena belt, that passes through the countrj', yielding at a depth of 200 feet? an ore of 80 percent, lead, and 1 per cent, silver, had it an important bearing upon tho income of the Road. Yet, I must not forget to allude to tho immense beds of Manganese, of Chronium, so much more deserving of attention, when tho Pennsylvania bods display evident symp? toms ot exhaustion, and to an immense deposits of silicate, worth $200 to $300 a j f ton, At tba Sevres Porcelain Works now of no value for want of transp ti?n. ! I trust you will pardon these crud marks, and charge them to the fact i in the construction of tho Bailroad al I can perceive a return to prosperity. With much esteem, ' H. W. KUHTMAN Franklin, ?fc C., May 12, 186 Gsn. J. W- Harrison?My pear / , Tour esteemed favor of April has 1 received, in which you request me make to you.some statements in. ref to "the Geology, Mineral resources, mate, Flora and adaptation of the and climate of Western North Caro to fruit culture/' through which the ] Ridge Railroad passes. Although time is alr?ady heavily taxed, I n cheerfully comply in furnishing yo few brief statements of facts which ci to my knowledge while engaged as assistant; in the North Carolina Gool cal survey. To make anything like a fair reporl the geology of this section would far ceed the limits of a letter, such as thi designed to be, and you must accept c mere sectional statement of the geo!? aa it occursroh the line of the survev the Railroad. In the Gap of the Blue Ridge We li: Granite, and thence Northward, and derlying the Granite, we have a hes belt of Gneeie, cut by a regular rangt Serpentine ; then we have, dipping der the Gri?eis, very heavy bods of luminous Mica Slate. Then wo have Taconic series, consisting of drabcolo: Talco, Mi?acious Slates, Quartzite ? primitive Limestone, which, at this poi consists of marble of superior quali I We then pass into Clay Slates, congk ?crates and a* 'sort of Argilacious '*hal finally reaching the old Silurian Lir stones at the.northern base of theSmo Mountain chain. Immediately beyo ?the : point where -; the line of surv emerges from the Smoky Mountai there is a mass of Sandstone, (the Ch leebowce Mountain.) in which there < exist strong indications of Bituminc [Coal ".1 ? . :,.:'r.Z^. . These respective siratn aro highly m ?amorphic, and heavily ohurged with n talic sulphurets and oxides. For exa p?e, in this valley wc have Magnetic lr Ore in workable .quantity, Copp Pyrites, or yellow Copper, rich in its ji cent, of metal, which, though not t ploted in its frequent deposites* to ai great depth, promises to make valual mines. Indeed, the real mining value this belt is not yet understood or appr ciatod. ' At Webster, twenty miles ea of this place, in the County of Jaekso there is a bed of Chromic Iron, or Chron Ore, and the Copper Mines of Jacksc County are capable of yielding a larj amount of metalic Copper. On the Na teyalee, in this County, and Yaller Rivo in Cherokee County, immediately wee there is a remarkable grouping of valu; ble minerals.. The valley of the Nant yalee is a mere mountain trough, an the Valley River valley is not exceedin a mile in width. In these vallie i there i immense wealth grouped into a narro-1 belt. We have there inexhaustible bed of Heamilitic Iron Ore for a distance c thirty miles. These ore beds are wor d?rful in.their extent, are generally nea good water power, and are accompanie with every facility for fluxing and smell ing. Immediately alongside of these Iroi beds are white, clouded, gray and flesh colored Marbles, of superior quality, compared, some years sinco, specimens o these marbles with the finest quality worked in the marble-yardB at the Capi toi grounds in Columbia, and found thea equal to the best. These marbles, more over, burn into excellent Lime, and wil be valuable as a flux for the Iron ores In these strata of Marble there are vein! of Argentiferous, Galena and Gold. J have seen specimens of this ore very ricli in Gold. The veins, however, have nol been explored to any great depth, for thc want of capital and machinery. In this same range, and grouped with these other minerals, we have large, mas? sive beds of Agalmatolito, which is iden? tical in tho elements of its composition with the Chin?se Figure Stone, a materi? al largely worked in the European Porce? lain factories, and when properly used makes an excellent firebrick. Indeed, it is wagoned to Duck Town and used in the Copper furnaces. It could bo used upon the ground in the construction of Iron furnaces, which would be of great durability. Besides this, with railroad facilities, Porcelain factories might bo erected upon the grounds, where tho finest ware ooold be manufactured in any desirable quantity. There is, a few miles from this place, a-?ne bed of Porce Clay. In this same Nanteyalee range, tl are fine outcrops of Rooffing Sh Scythe Stono and Grind Stone G which, with a railroad, might be ir valuable. The climate of this section is sall ons and bracing. I have seldom seen mercury in the thermometer mark hig than ninety, and seldom lower than z There is a remarkable elasticity freshness in the atmosphere arnot these mountains. Add to this the cl est crystal waters, coming out from der these bold and huge mountains, you have a climate of the greatest ex lencies. As to the Floral, I must confine I self to that which is of the greatest i ity. The timbers of which our for are composed, constitute the most va ble features. "We. have black, Span white and post Oaks in the rallies, i Chosnut Oak upon the ridges and mo tains. These timbers yield thc best h for tanning purposes. But we also b; the Spruce or Hemlock as yielding a i uab?e bark in tanneries. We also hi Chesnut in great abundance; and, a valuable timber, we have the Hickc which is largo, and grows to perfecti I This timbor, with a railroad, would valuable for the manufacture of wh carriages. Wo also have the White Pi and in Haywood, the Fir Tree, used bucket factories. In some of our mo tain coves, we have the finest of Blt Locust in great abundance. Our fut ture timbers are, however, of the gre est value. We have the Wild Cherry, 1 Black Walnut, the Maplo, and Bia Birch. I measured a Wild Cherry, ? ring my survey, that was thirteen feet tho girth, and about seventy feet to 1 first limb, with a remarkably strait trunk. I also measured a Black Wah twelve feet in the girth, and abovo sovi ty-five feet to the first limb. I have se very large Maples, of which I did r tako the dimension. The Birch also tains good size for lumher. With a n road, cabinet shops might bo erected the road. I cannot, however, dwell lor er upon this topic. In regard to tho adaptation of the s< and climate of this section to fruit gro ing, I could say much, but must noces; rily con ii nc myself to a few facts willi appear as practical results of tho adapt tion to which you refer. I must sa however, that the generality of our u lands aro either composed of or rest up< stiff, allumin?us clays, and I have nev seen a section in which thc soil upon tl mountains was so rich and fertilo to tl very summits. This soil, with our pee liar climate, produces tho Apple Tree great luxuriance. I measured in Ha wood County, a row of Apple trees th? averaged about five and a half feet in ci cu ni fe re nee. The apple fruit in this el mate attains great perfection, and whic in point of quality and flavor I have ne' or seen excelled. Some of our best vari ties are seedlings, tho peculiar offsprin of the soil and climate, and are not on I superior in quality, but large and elcgar in appearance. But some of the best vi rioties, being of recent origin, havo not a yet been gonorally introduced into ou orchards. Those living in our Souther cities seldom have an opportunity c judging of the quality of our fruits, a they are carried lo market in road wajj ons, and much bruised before they read the market. Oar people wagon then mostly to Athens, Ga., and even as far a Atlanta and Augusta. Tho Peach is no much cultivated, and the Pear but se! dom. Pears, would, however, do wei here; but next to the Apple tho Grapi would be the most economical and remu nerative. The soil and climate are bot! singularly adapted to the culture of th< Grape. Here we can got any desired clo vation for vineyards, and obtain locali ties where the humidity is neither toe groat nor tho fruit likely to be injured by tho late frosts. An experiment was made some years since, by a Frenchman, in the Cahutta Mountain, on a locality at an elevation of nine hundred feet above the level of tho Ocoeo River, where his fruit never had mildew, and for a number of years was never injured but once or twice with frost. Moreovor, the rocky strata ot this country, and tho steopnoss of the surface, aro superior for draining the soil to any tile drains that art oan construct; and by cutting into these steep acclivities; wine cellars can bo construct? ed so as to securo uniformity of any de? sired temperature. This ?b ossentiul in proper vinous fermentation, and the pro? duction of the best quality of wino. If your BIuo Ridge Road was built, there aro tens of thousands of acres now in wdd forests that would soon be convert i ed into fruitful vineyards, and settle up the country with a frugal and prospei population. There is one other view of this sec worthy of remark. The whole line, n ly, abounds with the grandest wa power I ever saw. Numerous mills factories can be placed immediately the track of the Road, and receive ship material without any cost for ei transportation. Again, many of tl rich mountains may be converted i pastures, either for wool-growing or i ry purposes. Indeed, cheese facto might bo established here, and ; amount of superior cheese produced the Southern market. You will see,' mjr dear sir, that brief statements which I have made to show that the North Carolina sect of your Road does not, by any met paso through mere barren mou n ta without the hope of any business swell the immense freight that must p over it when completed. Timo and spaco forbid me to alludo our cereals, potato crop, hay, &c. I hi said enough, however, to give a bir eyo view of this wonderful and delig ful counliy, whose fresh, in vigora t climate?whose bold, dashing mount streams crowded with Trout?pur? cr tal waters, and untainted atmosphe will one day attract a thrifty and inte gent population. Yours truly, C. D. SMITH Gen. J. W. Harrison, President B Ridge Railroad, Anderson, S. C. -o The Tramp of the Despot. Across the narrow stream which divii the States of Georgia and South Carolii comes the deep thud of the Tyrant's tran as he moves on to new de*?ds of despotis and set his foot more firmly and nu heavily upon the necks of a gallant I weak and powerless people. Ah ! how t blood boils in the veins, the teeth gna together, the hands clinch, as the rod the Despot waves over a noble but eush ed State! Intelligent, proud, hospitable, in peac brave, heroic, gallant, in war, the peot of South Carolina are now suffering una a tyranny more galling ami terrible th those of her Southern sister Stales?ga ing and terrible as they aie. But a ft days ago, a number of citizens of Hambu were dragged from their homes, and mai to perform the most menial and degradii services, simply because they would n let a political party have the use of church which was under their control. They had a right to refuse the use of tl edifice for the orgies of the enemies their country; and, in exercising this rigl they violated no law, no military order. - But the Gesler of South Carolina, cann hrook the cold contempt which the peop there feel for him, and are too proud, t( candid, to even wish to conceal ; and i must needs vent his wrath upon the inn cent and unoffending. And yet the bitter cup of woe is not ful Carolina, thy humiliation is not complet The vultures who are battering upon th chained and lacerated limbs are not sati lied. You will not bow to Gesler's cap? you pass it in the streets, and you mab no genuflexions to shoulder-straps, or t "flaunting lies," as they wave over yoi desolated land. And so your humiliatio is not complete. ThoBe who were one slaves?those, who now, as then, are yoi inferiors?must be placed over you, an sit in your council chambers to make law for you, and complete your galling list e woes. Seven negroes in the Council Chan ber of Charleston !?Seven negroes by 01 der ot" Gesler! And yet you bend not th knee, thou stifFnecked people of Sont! Carolina. And yet you point to Gesle with the finger of scorn, and sigh for ; Tell, a Gofer, to rid you of his tyranny O ! be firm! he patient! Thc day of dc liverance is at hand, and the sun of justic will soon, we hope, light you on lo free dora, peace and prosperity once more.? The people of the North, we are told, an awakening "to the sin and failure" of Re construction, and arc preparing to hur from power the minions of tyranny. B( patient. The days of Nero, of Dyonisius of Gesler, are numbered. Be patient.? The galling chains of tyranny will, ere long, be stricken from your limbs, and the fetters now prepared for you bc fastened upon your oppressors. Be patient, be firm ?preserve your manhood and your digni? ty ; the God of Justice will right the suf fering South yet ; and, though wc have no faith ?li man, yet let us not lose faith in God?but, trusting in Him, yielding no principle of right or justice, ever maintain? ing a strict and patriotic integrity, we must and will pass safely through this fiery ordeal, while the bitter cup of woe prepar? ed for us will be forced upon those who have so prepared it.? Banner of the South. -0 ?Butler's silence in regard to the Grant nomination is attracting great attention from the Radical press. They hope he will take an early opportunity of giving in his adhesion to the nominees, anti protest mildly against his persistency in distract? ing the attention of Congress from its le? gitimate business, by continuing the post? mortem examination of impeachment.? Even the New York Times calls for a speech from him, in order "to put all these doubts and imputations at rest." "We can not conceive what he is up to, but know it to be mischief. Like the cobra, the the quieter he is tho more deadly. Butler will cost more to watch than he will prove worth to the party. We wish them joy I at the prospect.?1?. O. Tim?*. Platforms. We invite the earnest attention of < readers to tho annexed article from i National Intelligencer. It presents I issue, tho paramount issue, of the impe: ing campaign, and is the bugle note tl will lead the hosts ol Democracy to glorious triumph. The Intelligencer saj "The convention which met the ol? day at Chicago undertook to frame a put forth to the country a platform. Su a work was naturally evasive, but it vi also gratuitous and impertinent. The r platform of the Republican party, by whi it will and ought to be judged, are acts and deeds of violence and usurpath of cruelty, malice and fraud, which, l three yeais past, have stained its care In that time it has dominated by tv thirds majorities in Congress, and tl power it has used virtually to abrogt the executive and judicial branches oft Government. By its infamous statut j by its general history and character, the mischiefs, uneasiness, prostration,a discontent it has brought upon the coi try, it will be judged and condemn* General Grant is simply the mouth-piei or rather the puppet, of the present Cr gress, and to take the one is to perpetus the other. It is, therefore, on Congrt that tho popular judgment is to be pass? and that body cannot deny or evade own record. ''Considering the general reaction agair this Radical party, abd the number of j triotic, able, and true men presented i the Conservative nomination, each ai all worthy of enthusiastic support, wea not sure that the preparation of a platfoi at New York may not bo of more irapi tanco than even the choice of the prop candidates. This view is cogently su gestcd by the consideration that sor ambitious persons are now undertakii to speak ex cathedra on this subject, ai to suggest gross departures from sout principles. Fortunately, there is no re son to distrust the integrity or wisdom the delegates when they shall comet gether at Now York. Any propositio; lor a half-way house between Eadicalis and Conservatism will bo scouted wi the contempt they deserve. Under til head may fairly be classed all suggestio: looking to negro suffrage in any form i shape. The votes of* Ohio and Michigr repudiating negro suffrage altogether 1 forty thousand majority ?ach, form tl key-note to the real feelings and convi tion8 of tho people, which politicians wi only tamper with at their peril. "The positive affirmations of the pla form, in our judgment, should bo directe to the living and vital issues of tho da; We have to deal with the present and tl future in a spirit of truth, statesmanshi: and a reverence for the Constitution. Bi we may not ignore thc past wholly. Tl great Conservative movement is essei tinily a protest against Radicalism, an the manifold crimes and outrages of th; last party must bo sternly denouncet More especially do we refer to the si called reconstruction acts, by which n< gro suffrage has been forced upon th South. Those acts are the most shumt less acts of tyranny and atrocity eve perpetrated by men claiming to be bivi ized, and are void in law as in right. Th Conservative party is pledged to the ovei throw of this great wrong, and this fait must be re-affirmed in language that sha not fail either in emphasis or in point. "The general principle that suflrag shall and should be left to the States i well enough ; it is constitutional an sound. But to rest hore would, unde present circumstances, be vain and ilk sive. The general declaration answer very well for Kew York, Ohio, and Fenn sylvania; for there we havo government under the control of the white race, ant it is for each to say whether they will ad mit the few blacks among them to th< ballot or not, and under what conditions But if we come to thc South we no longei find the white race in control of thc powei of th j States. That control has been violently wrested from them by Congres sinnal despotism, and, by a system of dis franchisements and frauds combined, the whites have been consigned to an almost hopeless negro 3-oke. Tho governments shortly to be recognized by Congress, re? quire each voter to swear to "accept"" for all time the doctrine of the political equal? ity of tho two races, and by this test oath the whites are shut out from the polls. And this is what Congress has done in nearly all tho Southern States. In all save Virginia and Texas the negro gov? ernments are in force and able to perpet? uate themselves. To tell tho whites of tho States that suffrage is to be left to the Stales to regulate, without declaring these negro governments to be a t3'ranny and usurpation, is to trifle with and evade a great issue. It is to turn our eyes away from a great crirao, to ignore thc senti I mcnts of tho Northern masses as evinced in every election whoro the issue has been presented to them, and would bo an aban? donment of principle, aliko disgraceful and impolitic. In short it would be a dissolution of tho Conservative party." ''We propose, therefore, manfully and earnestly to grapple with the many out? rages and atrocities of Radicalism, and, when we shall have power to blot them all out. It is for this that the people are rising as one man from tho Atlantic to the Pacific. Here wo have a clno to tho coldness and apathy with which tho nom? inations of Grant and Colfax have been received. If wo desire a like fate for our nominees, all we have to do is to send thom forth with a doubtful and uncertain utterance to tho masses, who long for de? liverance and a constitutional government under tho control of the white race in all the States. In this sign only may we concruor." The Intelligencer Job Office. Having recently made considerable additlona t<J this department, we ore pre-partd io execute JJdDS W(DXK ?IP IM? Wm ?fi the neatest style and on the most reasonabls terms. Legal Blanks, Bill Heads, Posters, Cards, Handbills. 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