Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I hrrtupondaire News and Qnu?or. .MONROVIA, LIBERIA, June 17. How the A tor left .Sierra Leone in tow of tlie British mail stearne cn the after noon of tlie 1st of June and arrived hrre before day on the morning of the 3d has sdready been told. On the evening of tbe 2d wc caught our first certain glimpse of Liberian soil in (IRANI) CAPE MOUNT, io which wc passed close enough to make out thc trees on it-, sides und top, it seemed densely wooded down to the very water's edge, though what the trees were we could not tell. After passing this point, which remained in sight ti long time, it being 1,000 feet high, we ?aw along tho Bat coast a continuous fringe of lofty tree-tops. Everybody bUiycd on deck and watched these until darkness shut out the "promised land." A few ofthe more enthusiastic pilgrims remained above, and nearly all night ?trained their eyes to seo something. Tbe more practical, however, consoled themselves with the reflection that the Continent would not run away before daylight, and "turne? W Finally wc stopped, the anchor \VRS let go, and we were At MONROVIA ! All we cc*i,rd see of Monrovia then was an exceedingly sickly looking light above mid r:;:\\j distance off, said to be on tho iitqj sw" Cape Mesurado. Then the cap tain of the steamer come aboard, collec tted bia ?150 for towing and his ?10 for itbe use of his hawser, went off, and soon -trained out and disappeared. "Little by little as daylight increased, Deepen inp tho roseate flash in thc east, Little by little did daylight reveal" the Cape rising above us (its height is given as 250 feet) with a flimsy looking light-houso, quite in keeping with the light, on top. About half-way up the hill a little house stood among the dark green trees. The Cape was covered on the sides that we could see and on the top with a thick growth of trees, bushes and vines, growing down to the low clitT which forms Its base, and against which the waves leap up and break in masses of white foam. To the left (westward) of tho cape was a wide bar, over which itho breakers were rushing, and to the Jeft of that again was a broad white beach fringed By trees stretching grad ually away an far as we could see. Be hind thc bar there was a glimpso of still water and a clump of trees. This was Monrovia, with its capo, tts first seen ihat morning. Some of the passengers began singing : "Land ahead, its fruits are waving, O'er its fields of endless green, And the living waters laving Shores where Heavenly forms arc seen." But tlie Heavenly forms were seen about then, and the singing stopped. They consisted of A FLEET OF "DUO-OOT" CANOES, each propelled by two or three gentle men in the aforementioned state of near nudity, with paddles shaped like a point ted spade, or a trowel bayonet. These individuals came paddling out through n>c n?rPHk* rrrer}. and soon res.'he? tuc ship's side to vb ?eh the emigrants eager ly crowded. Each cf the new arrivals had a dark blue line about an inch broad tattooed from the roots of his hair to the end of his nos??, and it was discovered that all bad on some clothes. Some had only a cloth, others a coat and cloth, (libers a coat jilly, others a shirt, one all I tiree. They hud each suspended about their necks a string or two of beads, and small bags of "medicine." Some had hats, some gaudily trimmed smoking caps, some ridiculous woollen-night caps, lt reminded one of tlie old Mother Goose melody: "Hark,. ark, the ddgs do bark, Bejnrnrs pom? to town, Some in rags, ?nd some in Tags, and sonic in velvet gown," except that there was nothing in the re motest degree suggestive of velvet gown. These fellows gabbled away among them selves in some heathenish and unknown dialect, with a great mauy "o's" and short and long 4la'a" in it. They occa sionally addressed us in some few words of imperfect English. I af once cdn ceived the idea that they wc- - the origi . nal intoners. Their whole language seemed to bo a series of intonations. Their words for "yes" is a sound some thing like a drunken man's utterance of the letter N, and they say it so much as a High Church Episcopalian does the last syllable of "amen," that thc resem blance is startling. BOARDED BV THE NATIVES. The emigrants were the most . gusted and crestfallen looking set .rat ever I saw. They wandered disconsolately nround inquiring anxiously of each other whother tuese were specimens of Libe rians. "Why." said tho passengers in dignantly, "they can't oven talk Eng lish." The mate stationed himself at the gangway and ordered ev??ry canoe to keep off, forbidding our visitors to fulfil their announced desire to come aboard. Tho rascals paddled around, however, and made a feint of climbing up. on the side, and when tho vigilant officer rushed ?around to drive them back, their com panions streamed in over tho gangway in such numbera and scattered about the ship so quickly that it waH impossible to get them off except by inaugurating a ?...wO. .>". -J.J? g?jj? ??hleh would have been unpleasant. The whole gaug therefore got aboard. Thc head mon immediately sought the cap tain, and produced their ''books," t. e. their yatton recommendation of^ood character and working ability, nrocured from various captains, and carried in water-tight tin tubes about twelve inches haig by two thick, suspended about their necks. It then transpired that our new friends were Krooineo, that is members of the Kroo Tribe of Africans. Detach ments of this tribe, wMch !? s verw lar^e ' .ne, aro scattered up and down the west const. They aro amphibious animals, and will do no work except on or in the water; Their perfect familiarity with that element, and their skill and endu rance in rowing and working about ?hips, render them afc indispensable auxiliary tn tho trader a'ong tho coast, especially ns ibero are few good harbors, the ports having generally, "like Monrovia, only open roadstead!, and vessels being lo?d ed or unloaded by small boats. These vuitors of ni?ra were desirous of pro curing work, and therefore the visit. Being disposed of by tho captain, they spread themselves ?bout tho vessel, and soon gave proof that at least Wo bumps were largely developed on their craniums -inquisitiveness and acquisitiveness. They are tho most whining, pcrrUtcut and shameless beggars I over saw. THE Kit OOM AN. A Krooman will beg until you givo him nineteen shilling?, then charge.you the odd one for a terrien worth a penny, and want his pAy in advance. If they, as n people, huvi? a ?ingle redeeming trait of character, I confesa I have never *<*n it manifested. They seem "vHliana by iiecessity ; fools by heavenly cotnpul rtATBS, OF 8VB8ORJPT10N.-r?qW Sh\LXJiti ann Vtvft ?jur? par anuura, in *5rl*c9. . Two DofXAsI ul' ot"v of year. HETMTY-FIV? CEJCTB for ?Ix tuontbs. ? , , . Subscriptions ate not taken for ft leas forlod th?n xl* month*. . " " j? , BATB* OF ADVHRTI8INQ.-On? Dollar per1 square ol one inch for the Ant Insertion,?nd V?fty Cants per square for subsequent lnscrtionsless than tiireo mouths. Ko advertisements couuleless (Usu a bouaro. ... Ubers!coutracts wlllbe made withtho^wUhJne fco advertise for. tb reo, als or t weiro months. Ad vertising by contract must be confined to tho ltn modlato business of tho firm or Individual contrae Obiuiaiy Notices exceeding five lines, Tributes 'Of itespcot, and all personal communication or matters of individual interest, will be chaifV for 'at advertising rates. Announcements of wartages nnd deaths, and notices of? religious character, aro respectfully solicited, and wilt bo Inserted yatla FARMING AND THE SCIENCE*! I Editor Anderson Inidlujencer : Several indications have recoutly Up come prominent to show that the 8tudjy of thc Sciences is becoming a necessify foriour people, especially those of theijp who have a more intimate connection with farming. - I I wish to have a familiar talk s Uli my brother farmers, and show them, if i can,- how perfectly dependent ever,/| farmer is upon tho knowledge of tin1 Sciences by Bo.uebody who can make that kncwlcdge known ; and how impos-l aiblo it is for fanning to make progresa) without tho knowledgo in somebody of) the lawa whl ifc a kind Creator has pro vided for the benofit of his creature*. To ahow iu a familiar way how com pletely dependent mankind is for their livinj . on somebody knowing and ex plaining the Sciences, I assort this, and defy contradiction, that a man who does not use that knowledgo derived from those Jaws bf God called Sciences, cannot perform ono single act, except talking, that a horse cannot do. Ho can without science draw his breath and eat euch fruit as God has made grow wild. Thin being a fact, I am anxious to dull the edge of that prejudice which many good farmers have even of talking on the subject of the Sciences, by making it so plnin that any one who can read will understand mo. First, then, what is the meaning of the word Scionce? The word itself sim ply meatis "to know." But it has been further applied to a collection of the lending truths relating to any of the laws of God, properly arranged and sys tematized. Thus: Tho leading truths relating to that law of God which treats of the internal structure I of the earth, its various conten tn, ita various elements, put there for food for plants and trees, all arranged and systematized, ia called the Science of Geometry. Tho leading truths of that law which treats of the properties of mineral substances, all ar ranged and systematized, is called the Science of Mineralogy. Tho leading truths relating to that law which treats of all mattera calculated by figures, and of whatever can be measured and num bered, all arranged and systematized, is called tho Science of - Mathematics. Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, &c, are branches of this. .. The Science of Chem istry has for ita object to discover the nature and properties of all bodies, which is done by decomposition and combination. By it tho elements of food which ?ny plant has taken, from tho soil can be exactly ascertained, and by it tbe soil can be analized, and whatever food it has. for plants can be also discovered. It would seem that every farmer must see how important this knowledge of this Science would be to farmers. Men who have studied the lawa relating to Geometry and Chemistry tell usthf>.?Gou bas placed in the Boil fourteen elements or ingredients for food for plants. Now, if a farmer can bo told what the corn he plants takes up by Us roots, and also ex t.ctly what the soil ho plants tho corn in has of the . food the corn wants, then when he knows what tho soil lacks,.ho will know what to apply. Hydrology is the Science which ar rangea and systematizes all the proper ties and laws which are contained in and govern water. Mechanics is that soienco which investigates tho forces by which al. bodies aro to bo kept still or put in motion, and put in a particular form or ahapo. Tho .powers which it uses are the Idver, pulley, screw,'axle, inclined plano and wedge. Botany ia tho science which treats of the structure of planta, the function of their parts, the latitude in which they grow, and their classifica tion and names. Metallurgy io more of an art than a science, and comprehends tho whole procesa of separating the ore from other matten?, and smelting and re fining the meta). Natural History ar ranges and systematizes a description of the earth and all its productions, and in cludes Zoology, Botany, Geology, Miner alogy and uah culturo* The foregoing contains a description ?,of those Sciences.which have a more in timate bearing on the advancement ol Scientific Agriculture, and by which all farmlntr - ohnratlnni? ara ^owlaJ on, in many cases the farmer not being aware of it, as I,Will now proceed to illustrate ; Snpp'csf a beginner to commence farm ing. Hojmust havo laud, and that clear ed aud fenced, a horse and plow ready ? for "fork/ Now, think how many of these Schncesi must be known by somebody before the plow can be started. To make . the irani God han modo a law there should bo placed in the earth the oro of iron ; s raiacrsiegbt then first finds the ore; then chemistry must find the composl tion ipt will make a crucible to statu beat enough to melt the ore ; tho metal .* lufgiA must bo at hand to smelt and separate the oro from earthy and othei mattera; then mathematica must ahovi how?the machinery must be made to beal it ?ito bara ; then the scionce <5f me chuica muet Bhow how to ahape lt intx "a inWahare, and mathematica muai a*in how lo make the atock to suit th< pjpw. Hero, then, somebody must knott tils whole array of' sciences before J r&w can be made and started to work ? ad still more of them must be koowr, ?fore a fence or a house can .be built flion get your eora aeed and start U ?,_? . u/i.ere at? y .vi i tn nat tn groin fn the ground or on top ? Ask the geo! LrM ?ud ue t,lu y?a that aU lho cl* /menu which God has made for food fa f plants are placed in the soil. Thet I there ia another law that talla os tba f God na? given to eeod a vitality tba / when placed in tho ground and bavt J moisture and heat? will aend o0* wt LEGAL A. DVttaf?SlNQ.-.We ..ocompeHcd (? require cub /ment? for edrerllsing ordered by Eaccutor?, At ?.nlstrator? ?cd other flduclarieo. sad herewith append th? rate? for the ordinary notice?, which will onlr be tewrted when tb? money comear -with f Je ?rrtkr I Citation!, tero Inaertloae, . SS.w Eatato Notices, thieeltiMrtloha, -, - SJg? Final SeltlcaeaUjJite Inaeriloi? - -i S.OO 710 MRRBHpOlWBltlS^ln order to ?ecol?? attention, communications mort be accompanied by tho true nama and address of the writer. Ke J ec tod manuscripts will not lie returned, nnleaa tba necessary stamp* are furnished to repay the postage thereon. ? tar Wo are not reapo tl tibie for the views aaa opinion? of our correspondent?. All communications should be addressed to"Ed ttora Intelligencer," and all check?, dralle, rooney orders, Ac., abivld bo made payable to the order of K. Ii. MUBIIAY A CO., Anderson, 8. C. cinlly io the evening*. I lound it neces sary to sleep under mro heavy comforts every night while there, notwithstanding I occupied a close room. I made a cal culation aa to the aversgo temperature of the heat for twenty-one days, from the 4th to tho 2?th of July inclusive, from n record kept by one of the inmates of the house. The boors when the tempera ture was recorded were 7 a. m., 2 p. m., and 9 p. m., and showed the following av erage for the time designated above, viz : nt 7^-68J, ?t 2-84], at 0-73. This fa bailly- a fair test of the temperature of the weather, however, as the thermome ter hangs on a plnKza, ?nd is consequent' ly afTected to a considerable estent by the reflection from the yard in front of tho house. Tho temp?rature of the wa ter, freestone, is 63 degrees-seven de ?rees colder than Keys' spring. ?Irv 'hompson'a residence is situated nt the foot of a small mountain, and directly in front of a very tall one, "Bleak Hock" by name, about u mile distant. The low lands lying between these mountains is what is called tho "Cove," cove being a term used by the mountaineers to cx Sress a numil valley. Tbs Cove is about ,200 feet above the level of the sea. Among tho distinguished visitors to> this resort this season, are Judge IR eek - ley, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and Hov. Hugh Miller Thompson, D.D., rector of Trinity church in New Orleans. Tho first named gen tleman is a brother of Mr. 8. Weekley, of Anderson, and is a very sociable, Eleasant and agreeable gentleman. Judge Hedi ley spent only two nights and a day at this place, and then went on to Cash ier's Valley, accompanied by our towns man, Capt. J. J. Fretwell. Dr. Thomp son is likewise a very pleasant gentle man, and is here for the purpose of im proving his failing health. Dr. T. also owns an extensive tract.of land in this immediate vicinity, which he proposes to utilize in the conreo of u few years. Adjoining the place of Mr. J. R. Thompson "three raw Englishmen have bought and settled, and are engaged in farming, or at least mailing an attempt in that direction. They propose enga ging in sheep husbandry: however, no the principal means of making a fortune, and have already began to buy up ti stock, aomo of which are improved breeds. While conversing with a gentleman who has always lived In the mountains, and who bas engaged in farming, mining, diatiliini* and sheep raising, hu said to me: "lhere is nothing that we can do up hero that pays baif so well as Bheep husbandry. All a man needs is a small patch of land on which to pen bia stock at night and a house in which to live, j He need net buy pasture lands, for nil theso mountains around here are freo to to any man's stock that choose to range on them. A man with capital can easily make a hundred per cent, on bis invest ment." From the character of tho range I saw on the road and on the mouutains over which I tramped in this neighborhood, I see no causo for doubt ing the correctness of his remark. Bheep will prosper where everything else in the animal kingdom would perish. More over, the lands in this portion of the mountrins are not well suited for farm ing. They arc either very poor, or have been greatly abused. I did not see what might bo termed a good crop of corn be tween Walhalla and tho Highlands, a place of which \ will speak presently, aud yot corn is the principal crop grown. The soil in the bottom lands hos a very rich, dark color, and apparently very fer tile, but the growing crops afford suffi cient evidence to tho contrary. Thia may be the fault of tho farmers, but I am not inclined to that opinion since their millet, herds' grass and other hay crops givo unmistakable evidence of progress in tho science of farming. I was gratified to seo these favorable signs, and think that in this respect?t least the farmers lower down in the State might follow their example. The farmers here have another advantage over tbose in the cotton belt. They live as well (some .i_t-_?.-_i. -J . .. . % . ut mem treuer,; aun nura uiuy au?;;; five or BIX months in the year. Proba LI- .1-_. -C .1.""_ i." r..._i j_ . i. _ VIJ bUQ DWIUV V. ?Ufo v-i.ll *V 4 uv. 1 ii my remark made to your corres^-: odont by a mountaineer, that they "let cotton and politics alone, and are happy." Not every mountaineer you meet who is a fool or an ignoramus, and he who goes to the mountains with such ideas will have them materially modified before he is there very long. There is one other advantage this section has above the other portions of tho South, or at least I considered it an advantage. There are no freedmen hore. I kindly offered to ship them a few, but they were as kindly declined. A 8ETTXEMEN? OP YANKEES. Four miles west of Horse Cove is a small settlement of Yankees. The placo is known as Highlands, and up io the {.resent time about ten or a dozen fann ies have Buiiied ibero, and ? waa told that there were about as many more who had bought lands preparatory io moving there this fall and winter. I paid tho place a visit, and was pleased with its appearance. The first settlers came hero about two years ago, and tho place has been gradually improving and filling up ever since. I felt more like I was in Yankeedom than North Carolina while conversing with these people. They are all young mon with families, and are doubtless in earnest about developing this portion^ of tho South. Highland!? is situated immediately on tho summit of the Blue Ridge mountains, and is about 8,900 feet abovo the level of tho atm. Th? lamb; iii tliiu IsnmaAiat* tion Beem to be considerably better than in tho Cove, while tho water is equally as good, and tho temperature of tho air is somewhat coolor. The place has a postoflice aud two stores, but is not in corporated. STOOI.Y MOUNTAIN. I cannot close this article without making mention of thia mountain, which i'.es about a milo and a half south of Highton*4-!, and probably the mott acces sible of ?il tho prominent joints from which <;oud views can be obtained. A gentleman who is thoroughly acquainted with all the high points of tho Blue Ridge range says that there aro none which com maud a botter view than Stooly. Tho country for a distanco of seventy-five or a hundred miles around eau bo seen, and with tho towns and villages dotting the laudscapo hero and there, thc sceno is simply grand, and in spires one with a feeling of mingled awe and admiration indescribable. This point is about 4,800 foot above tho sea's lovel, ?nd is six feet lower than ^0 highest point of Wbilealdca. Ita surn I itt ia covered willi a growth of ferns, Huckleberry and scrubby pines, tho lat ter not more than six or eight feet high, and yet they look to be at least a thou sand years old. Our party aro undor many obligations to both Bf east?. Thompson and Charles Hill for tifrny kindnesses received al their hands while in thc Cbvs, . . Th ero aro pointe of interest thai / wished to mention in thia communica tion, but ic is already too long, sud f viii chrso by editing all thone who coft emplftto taking a similar trip to besoro o' take Horse Covo And Highland; hoir route, You wiil not regret I - SHH moa ; kuaves, thieves and treacherous by spherical predominance i drunkards, liars and adulterers by art enforced obe dience to planetary influence." Their inordinate inquisitiveness is unfettered by any conventional delicacy. The first oue I ever spoko to stuck his head In the cabin, and wanted to khoto where was I from? Was America fi, big place? Were my father and moth RI* ther**-? What did they do for a living? Waa I married? Wasn't I "co'tin*?" Why wasn't I ? How old was I, and so on? ad infinitum, until it wound up-~hnd I an old coat, hat, shirt, handkerchief, knife or piece of chewiug tobacco to give him ? No Krooniau ever asks for pantaloons, and I think they begin to chow tobacco whon about 4 years ol?. I will have more to UH ot the gentry further on. Tho cause of the blue marks on their noac6 is, however, curious euough lo be recorded here. It seems that lu the time when tho ?lava trade flourished, the Kroos were as useful watermen as now. Tho slavers would, therefore, never pur chose oue, or only did so to set hito at liberty, fearing to incur the hostility of the tribe, and the Kroos adopted the blue mark as ? sign of their nationality, which always protected tbem from pur chase by the white men. They are very proud of having nevir bceu slaves, and frequently twit tho Liberians with the fact, when a quarrel occurs. About 0 o'clock oiWhe morning of our arrival, a large row boat, manued by eight Kroo mcn, pulled out with tho harbormaster and emigration commissioner, Who came aboard. They being THE FI HUT AMERICO-LIBERIAN8 that we had seen, were watched with much interest. The harbormaster is a young man, a quadroon, and was attired in a dark blue co?t, brilliant with tar nished gold shoulder straps and trim mings and buttons, while Iiis head was ornamented with a white cork hat, from the back of which depended a "pugarce" (a ?cari' or veil of white cloth worn around the bat, and much affected by the bloods of the tropics.) The rest of his dress was that of an ordinary civiliao. The commissioner is also acting Secre tary of State. He is a^out the same coloras his companion, bu', taller and apparently ?overa! years older ; and was made very sick by tho swell. The ap pearance of these two well dressed and intelligent specimens of thc- inhabitants of tho "Black Republic" wats a great comfort to the emigrants, giving them aasurunco that there were at least some clothed and civilized beings ashore. Just here A SURPRISING DISCOVERY was made. It was found, from the state ments of the visitors, thai the Liberian government had received no notification whatever of the departure of the emi grants, or of auy of the proceedings ol the Liberian Exodus Association, or the Steamship Association. Nothing wat known in Monrovia of the emigration except what had been gathered from stray copies of and extracts from thc Newt ana Courier. This was not encour aging newB to begin with, by any means Another discovery vms also msdc-. whiei tended still further to lower our opiniot of British steamship captains. This wat that the commander of the stearne! which bad towed ub nad quietly dropped us about three miles further out to ses than we Bhould have been, leaving ui anchored probably four miles from th? Cape. Capt. Holmes having never visit ed this port before was to a certain de gree at tho Englishman's mercy, and hac -ocepted hiB statement that we were or the usual anchorage as true, whereas ii was totally false. Tho wishes for a pros perons voyage for the Britisher were uoi very fervent after that. About 10 o'cloc! .several of us went ashore in tho harbor master's boat. On the way we passed i small schooner, anchored just off thi head of the Cape, bearing tho name A Lincoln, and were informed that she wai a Liberian craft owned in Monrovia Wo also learned that the denso greet foliage which covered the Capo wa? tin coffee tree, tho hill being a coffee planta tion belonging to the estate of cx-Presi dent Roberta. A German bark also a anchor composed the remainder of th shipping in the roadstead. Wo pullet over the ber with ro V oubie, the Bur being light. Now '.ve were inside th Cape, and on the Mesurado River, whicl hero is about half a mile wide. On th left the beach stretches away, with i landscape of wooded country extendin; back from it. On the right a bit o white beach comes out, and behind it i a small extent of flat land, lying betweci the foot of tho hill and tue watei Among tho trees and bushes ol thin litll plain are to bo seen tho 'Latch boone composing tho village where the Kroc live, while on the beach aro generally ; few sleek looking little cattle, Kroo mei and women, and a number of canoes, th latter drawn out of tho water and reatta bottom up. A little further up past- thi beach the green trees and wild Indi; rubber vines again come down to tb wnter, which hero is placid and clea: bending over and almost sweeping i Under tho roots of the trees the waU has worn away thc soil, leaving the rec dish looking stones bare. Some of thea trees are valuable, among them bein cam wood. Post this, and a few yan further up,'the water runs in again, ibm ing a shallow little bay, and we see THE TOWN OF MONROVIA, looking picturesque and pretty, straj gling up the hills, and- tho sc?tterio bouses only half seen through trees au undergrowth. Along the waterside ai a fow i?rgo oU.no .,..u..,,,(., ?pp&re&w warehouses. In the shallow water moored a cutter of probably twAty ton bearing tho n~me of tho "Enterprise But her hull gapes in unseemly eeam her mant looks dry and decayed, and few ropes hang rotting about her. SI is secured by a rusty chain to the d cayed and ar?- '-en stem of a craft i about her ?I."J size, tho remainder which is out of sight. Another simili craft lies just above anchored by anoth rusty chain. On tho shore are ono i IWO large tun u\'ow uvttUiu "p, cii?\??u li.'., half in and half out of the wau and on another, mounted on tre?tl( a black man is sleepily hammering. ? iron wharf runs out from one landin and from another is built oue of stone both with weeds and grass growing ov and about them. There is hardly sound of Hie, and wo seo no movii th?iifif exocnt a cow or two. a few Kr children, and the inevitable and ubiqi tous mongrel dog. We pull up to small landing and disembark. On o right here is u dark, empty-looking ?to warehouse, and tho ground is trodd bare, except a fow desultory grt patches. To tho lett of this house stan a huge cotton tree, around whoso root wrapped a few coila of rusty chain. ( either aide the landing is a shalb muddy ?lin in which rest two or *.> boato aimilar to the one we cam Under the cotton treo stands a group four or five tolerably weil dressed m and boys who regard us curiously, few stops up tho landing, and we rea (bur heavy partially dismantled aUi walla, thc remnants of a burned wa bouse. Then, walking single file ir. narrow path through tho thickly clust ing wild vcrbcua growing from thrco I six feet high, We climb the hill over Iposc (.tones, and through occasional streaks of wet mud, caused by thc trick ling of some tiny stream. On top of tho hill wo find a oroad street grown over with grass, with cattlo grining in it, through which runs another narrow path,just wide enough for one manto .walk in. As wo went on, I noticed the kousec-generally etcno-=Grt either side. Many of them had windows broken arid gaping, and all showed und need of rta pairs. Nearly every yard, like the utreet, was grown up in ra ik vegetation. On every side wa* the very * DOMINATION OF DESOLATION. We did not meet a soul in the streets. Then we went to breakfast with dark forebodings of the chnractel: of the ?o?h try. At thin breakfast 1 repeated that novel experience of silting at the table With colored folks, it fitr?ck mb as cu rious that in a country wilone vegetation is PO exuberant that it is impossible to keep il out of thc streets, (that being the reason assigned in answer to my inqui ries as to the existence of the previously mcutioned condition of "no thorough fare,") that everything composing the first meal I saw there should bo import ed. So it was, however. A piece o! fresh fish, and the coffee Were the only Liberian products on tho tahlc? The meat, the oysters and the vegetables were all canned goods from England. More of this too, hereafter. Aller breakfast, through the same patliB, through the same streets and by the same dilapidated houses, wo visited tho American Consul, Tho position is held here by Mr. M. A. Aenmy, a Hollander, who fulfils its du ties pending the appointment of a suc cessor to J. Milton Turner, colored, the former consul, who has resigned and gone home. Our next expedition was tc the customhouse, the entrance to whicl: is on the main st. eel. This "NO THOROUGHFARE" could he mado a very handsome one bj thc expenditure of a little time, Ioho; and looney. It ia broad and straight and runs through the i-jwn to the Light house on tho Cape. Monrovia, in fact seems to have, been quite well laid ol originally. The streets are all broad anc appear to intersect each other at thi proper angles and distances. The origi nal Bettlers Becm to bavo had a caro io that decency which Addison tells us i BO nearly akin to virtue, for nearly all o thc old houses are two story ones, wei built of stone or brick, and arranged witl an eye to architectural beauty, and abou most of them were once neat stone fence surrounding large yarda and gurdeui Tiieau uuiiuiuga ure, LiOncVci, fool gum to rack und ruin, and tho more moden though hardly less dilapidated, edifice aro of wood, and look what I woul imagino to be an artistic architect nightmare. Tho present condition < the streets I have already told yoi Monrovia has between 2,000 and 3,0(J inhabitants, and straggles over about mile from the head of tho Cape inlaut extending about half way across (aboi half a mile) on the Bide opposite < which we landed. The town stops dow in thc woods somewhere. 1 ..ulkc across once, and found thu dense growl of banana, cocoanut, mango, cotton an other trees, and undergrowth, which termed here "tho bush," term i nat ii abruptly at the ragged back fences of tl neighborhood. THE CUSTOMHOUSE waa originally intended to bc quito handsome building, being of brick, wi' a deep porch, having high pillara su porting nn upper portico, and boil neatly divided off into tho various office Nuture hero bas done her best to concc the original ugliness, and tho neglec fathered increase thereof, of man's hunt] work, and at a distance this structu looks very well. Going frou the ma street through PU opening in a low sto. wall, which surrounds a park about tl ???e of a block in ono of our Amo.-iei cities, the visitor approaches the Custer, house on what waa a long, narrow bri? wall, but ia now a mere succession stumbling-blocks and pitfalls. On i. right, ut the corner of tho park stan the Courthouse, a square brick buildin about twenty by twenty, with nambi, less panes out of ita windows, weathe stained and generally indigent lookin as if the firm formerly doing busim there under tho nnmo and stylo of Li & Equity had gone into bankruptcy a left the property in the banda of a ne lectful assignee. Tho visitor umbi over tho "walk" aforesaid, ("..tumbi would bc a moro appropriate namo 1 it,) and bas timo to cast n moralizing e on tbe weeds and gross on either side him. Some handsome trees branch os his hoad, and drip cold drona of ra water down tho back of his shirt coll Passing another opening ho crosses open space and reaches tho Cuatcrahou As he has already learned to auspc h? finds tho brick floors of tho port! sunken or projecting, the plastering fa ing and the glass broken. The bi'sin is all transacted in ono room, jd quickly gotten through with, tho onie being of average intelligence,, and ap] rcntly disposed to bo accommodating o business-like, which is a wonder, ct sideling how little business there ia do. Then thc official business diapot of, we stumbled back dowu hill to I water side, there being neither rest; rant nor hotel in Monrovia. I forgot chronicle that half way up the stum which leads through tho park there ii plain neat marblo slab to tho memory some Liberian hero, which stands in j such a position that tho unwary way la may Para: ms s tn na and sinr.su bis 1 tures there against. I beg leave to ar ogise to the leaders of the u\ewa und C ncr for omitting to wind np this deaci tion of Monrovia "Hh a quotation fi "the deserted vi Hag s." T ho fact ?H, hi over, that there are no books of "faini quotations" or copies of Goldsmith net sible here. Besides that it is imposai to imagine Monrovia aa having ever b the loveliest village of the plain pocially as it is built on a hill. Aprt of this absence of Goldsmith, I would mark here a lamentable fact. In n of the many houses that I visited in beria did I seo a book worthy of namo except tho Bible. It is liter true that, with the exception of that, a few school books, a hymn book , a small medical library, and a coup.? those familiar Sunday Behool no' (those cowardly introducers of a very grains of flabby morality in as inte sugar coating of flabbier sentiment diluted sensation,) I did not see a tn or au apology for a book, of any cort, THE LITERARY TASTE OP THE BER IANS seems to bavo expended itself in ph ?raph albums, ot which there are tw< iree or four or five to bo found on e parlor table, the spaces intended for tures gaping like open mouths. I rt believe that much of tho wonderful ertness of tho people proceeds from utter iack of intellectual food. It st as though no book at all were worse ! the bad one, than which, Lord Bi says, there is no wr-rao robber. T aro very few books from which some or information msy uot be cxlrai I noticed that tho supply of nevrsps was also very limited. There were ? copies of the London napersj but A mer ion seemed td most erttlrelV represented bjr the Washington Republican, tho To ledo Blade, and tho Nexcs and Cattier, which proves that ionic other thinr0 be sides poverty make strange bcd-fell'* vs. We learned ashore, much to our t ?lief, that having some ten days' notice cf UH. arrival of the emigrant* through the newspapers, the Liberian gOVefOmeot had made arrangements to receive them. 1 Will say for tho Monrovians that they seem to have actively aided the govern ment in this matter So, more by the mercy of Providence than good manage ment on tho part of the L. E. A. thc emi grants were &8S?B?U OK ? SHEtTTEB for a time at least. This was especially welcome.as tho ralhe.y sensbh has just set hi. If these poor people had been left to the tender mercies of the mana gers in Charleston, they would have ar rived hero unannounced, unexpected and unprovided for, and many of them without means, and their condition would have been deplorable indeed. When we returned lo tho Azor we were, of course, eagerly plied with questions, the kindest t)osslble answers to Which were that We md as yet seen nothing, and judge of hothittg. t confess thal in my4own inind I had grave misgivings. From what I could sec, the land seemed anything but a Cannan. George Curtis bad also goue ashore, and retun rd with glowing ac counts of thc feed he had had. Before ho went bc bad set on foot A PLOT to hamper aud injure the L. E. A., by whom ho waB sent out; He, ex-Betint?t Gaillard. Clemcnl Irons, Hov. B. E. Fleg^ 1er and Jackson Clark had been appoint cd a board of commissioners to altem: to all thc affairs of the steamship com ?any and ita emigrations oh this side 'he oX-ScUalor was elected chairman o: the board, and on arrival here Curtis who had anticipated the chairmanship seceded, and formed a new board amone, the steerage passengers, of which he hat himself elected chirman. Hastening ashore, ho announced himself as th< head of tho immigration by virtue of hil chairmanship, and on thc strength of hi suppositions official capacity was invitee to sundry "feeds," and regaled upon thi fat of the lamb. Ho went ashore agaii before night, with his wife. Before tak ing tho reader ashore again, I will giv some general information regarding itt? NEW "LAND OF PROMISE." Liberia lies on the west cost of Afric between the 4th and 7th parallels of lati tude. and the 7th and 12lh meridi OIB c longitude. Her territory runs along th coast for about 600 miles, at a dept varying from 45 to 150 miles, the lan having been generally acquired by pm chase from the natives. Ihe inhabitant consist of colored immigrate from Amer ca and their discendants, variously est mated in number from 8,000 to 20,001 there being no reliable census. Froi the best information I can get, I nm ii dined to think that they uumber froi 12,000 to 15,000, and that thev ha\ about held their own with probably veiy slight increase. Besides these thei area few native Africans taken fro: captured slaveships and brought hei uncivilized detachments of various nat'p tribes, a number of civilized and sem civilized natives scattered about arnot the Auierico-Liberians, and about a di zen white men, generally traders. Tl Government is called a Republic, and in ita general feature, about in the for of our State Governments, there being president, vice-president, secretary ofSta ditto of the treasury, attorncy-generr comptroller and auditor. These office compose the Cabinet, like our Nation: one. The Republic is divided into foi counties-Montserrado, of which Monn via is the capital ; Grand lia- a, of whit Biuhauan is the capital ; Sinoe, of whit greenville is the capital, and Marylan of which Harper is the capital-eat having ita own" local government. Tl towns are governed by municipaljofficei just as ours are. Monrovia, which named after ex-president of the UniU States Monroe, is tho captital of tl country, although Grand Bassa, which situated south of it on the coa: is said to greatly surpass it in the amou of business done. Each county elec four delegates to tho National Legisl turo, and two senators, except Montserr do, which elects three of tho lotti The Congress or Legislature therefore, composed of sixteen 1 preventatives and nine senators. Tl vice-President presides over the Sena' and the lower house elects its own cha man. Every head of a family is giv by tho Government twenty-fvo acres land, and each male adult ten acr selected frcm any unallotted lands. C ly property holders can vote, after '.aki thc oath of allegiance. There is no pr< cribed term of residence before becomi a voter. .Vb whUe man can hold proper' and that razo is, therefore, disfranchise which is a practical satire on the univ >ial auffrage dogma to which tho Ame can negro and nis particular friends ha ever been so especially devoted. Ea on the day noxt after our arrival, Juno THE TWENTY-THIRD DEATH occurred, bting that of an infant child Cajsar White, wi* Edgeficld County, S. Later on, during the day, a child of Ku Clark, of Clarendon, which had bc born and hud lost its mother on the p sage, died. The death was not annum cd to the captain, the relatives taki the body ashore with them with I face concealed. This brought the to number of deaths aboard to twonr.y-fn Goin? on deck after breakfast * tl morning, I met a strange colored n with whom I entered into conversant Ho had. he sa'ri. vome out from Lyn burg, Va., just after the war. In ansi1 to my inquiries, he expressed bimscll being delighted with tho country, some years, he said, he mad? from *? to $2,000 clear. I was much pk^-V', ing interested ic the fate of tho ci grants. Herc was a man, who, from own accounts, had como out with li or no capital, and generally very mi in tho condition of the components of present emigration, mid yet nellie competen, J .ind attained l?o hig* ti to wealth. I wan inexpressibly gratil and relieved. One moro qucsti "What is your occupation?" 1 ask "An undertaker," was tho cheerful i ponse. Now this is no fancy incid put in herc for fan's sake, bot it is an mai occurrence. That day THE EMIGRANTS BEGAN TO DI8EMBJ ip largo tow boats furnished by Government. Each family gencri took willi it its immediate personal fects, such as bedding, etc. Most them arrayed themselves in their S day best to go ashore in, although a adhered to the somewhat dilapida and, frequently, uncleanly hab?tame in which they had made the voyage; Total number of souls binded 252. Born during voyage 2, died 24. T< number started 274. I have always had u vaguo idea t an organization of itn-aue tailors ex somewhere, the especial object ofwb is to furnish clothing for the South country darkey, and 1 know of no ot hypothesis to account for thu astound } resulta in the matter of fit and cut, * which tlie colored brother ?H wont to adorn himself on festival and high days. As I before hinted, the emigrants brought out such specimens of autcde luvian preparatory to ASTONISHING THE NATIVES, hy ocvcfnl neat tacks, the Asor bcd been broitght close" into sboro, alni one by one her passengers went over the sides which had confmcd them so long, disposing themselves ss snugly ns possi ble among tho baggage in tho boats, amid a vast deni of vociferous swearing and gabbling from tho Kroomen. Thc Liberians had somehow I .como posses sed With thc idea that the Ator's people were generally independent canitalisu?; coming out.to invest their limos in the coll ri try. Consequently there was some disappointment at the appearance of thc emigrants, which, to put it mildly, waa not suggestive of wealth. They were well received aud welcomed at tho land ing, however, and immediately conduct ed to the houses proparcd for their recep tion indifferent parts of town, what fur niture they had nlong being borne on the bends ofKroo boys. Whatever else may be said of the Monrovintls, they cer tainly displayed gteat kindliest to the strangers, who were in mauy instances utterly destitu?a of provisions, sending them cooked meals and delicacies for Hie sick liberally nnd continuously. In this woy only was suffering avoided. During Tuesday and Wednesday tho emigrants wore being transported from tho Azor, the last leaving Wednesday afternoon, except ex-Senator Gallard, whoso family remulued aboard In consequence of one of his children being down with the measles. He and his th tee loyal com missioners had, however, not been idle, having been hard at work assisting the Liberian commissioner itt arranging for the tim (grants, and COUNTERMINING GEORGE CURTIS. This later was so successfully done thnt that ancient reprobate was shortly left without "a leg to stand upon," his adh?rants deserting him in a body. A general visit among tho emigrants on Wednesday showed that they wero tolera bly Comfortable. None of their provi sions had yet como ashore, but thc kind ness of tho Monrovia people kept them supplied. This was no light matter by tho way, as provisions aro fearfully high and hard to get. The people in the country seem never to think of produc ing anything to eat beyond their own immediate wants, and hardly that. Al though there seems to bo plenty of cat tle, they are usually owned by the na tives, who never kill them unless they arc obliged tc do so, as cattle, wives, brass kettle* and iron bars serve them just as bonds, stocks and real estate do European or American moneyed men, os permanent investments aud outward and visible signs of wealth. Cassada, thc great sample of the country, sells at ?uc. per bushel, a bushel of tho roots being about equal to a bushel of sweet potatoes; yams sell at the same price. Fresh meat is almost impossible to get. Even chick ens are exceedingly Bcarce, and very small one3 sell at 25c. each. Eggs are 3c apiece by the dozen. American flour is $14 per barrel. American pork is $28 per barrel. English canned meat: and vegetables are 50c. per can. Onions (English) bring 12c. per pound. That is about all tho Monrovinn hill offa.e, ' and it ie largely procured from English mail steamers* which nominally pass twice a week. Even in the country they live largely on IMPORTED fio?. In answer to inquiries on the subject I was told that it was supposed thut beets, carrots, parsnips, ouions, peas, beans, fiotatoes, etc., would grow there, but they md never tried. Everybody coincided in my expressions of wondor, and every body re-echoed the set phrase, "Yes, it ought to be done, but you see what we lack hero is enterprise ; enterprise, sir, new blood and capital would make this country one of thc greatest in the world. Our resources, sir,"-. It seems to me I've heard something of that sort down South in Dixie. Tho contrast bet ..cen Liberia and Sierra Leone strikes one forcibly and hourly, but in nothing more than in the matter of food. In the latter place V" 3 procured an abundance of all fresh meats, fruit? and vegetables cheap ly. There is a tare, brisk looking market, and nice crisp looking loaves of bread sell on the streets at a penny. In Libe ria there is no fresh meat (denominated "fresh.") Hard raking for two weeks pro cured us about four dozen chickens (mar vels of lankness.) which the stewart al ways dispatched with trembling eager ness to prevent dissolution from inani tion, as they always seemed on tho very verge of it when brought aboard. Mon rovia sends sixty miles down the coast to Grand Bassa for fowls 1 Vegetables it was impossible lo gel, and although man goes, delicious pineapples, oranges, ban anas, lemons, limes, cocoanuts, bread fruit, butter pear, soursaps, and other fr jiu may be had for the gathering al LOO&t anywhere, they were scarce and high. Under theso conditions, and as few of 'ho emigrants had any means to speak ot, and many were entirely with out funds, ii will bc seen that they ran a great risk of being without food altogeth er. Poople moro poorly provisioned and fitted out for a struggle with thc difficul ties of a strange couutry it would bo hard to imagine. Many of them had abso lutely no money at all, except the IOU notes, stock and receipts of ihe "Steam ship" Company, which aro not worth their paper here. When at last the pro visions were gotten ashore and divided, (a work which uy nccaiess delays in transportation was spun out over u week's time,) it was found that there were BARELY THREE WEEKS* PROVISIONS around. Every passenger of tho Azor had paid, besides his or her passage money, for provisions aftor arrival here. After a forty-two days' journey, with tho replenishing at Sierra Leone, there were barely three weeks' scanty provisions left, including all of the ship's stores, which Capt. Holmes turned over to them and thc stores belonging to those put ashore in Charleston. There hos been foul play somewhere. Tho money that these people paid to buy food with, for which they have receipts, generally signed by tne Rev. II. F. Porter,lias been misappropriated. In fact, it has been difficult to conceive what has been done with the funds, which seem to havef been wrung from them by all imaginable de vices. I will give an instance of this, ns showing tho modus operandi. In looking over tho papers held by tho Williams family from liurk County, Ga., ono of tho heads of which died on tho voyage, I find the following receipts : Mitchell Williams, (deceased,) Provisions.jj 70 00 Provisions. 60 00 Provisions.. CO 00 Provisions. 90 00 Share in grist mill. 83 20 Dry gfWlda. 120 00 Duo bill. 6 00 Due bill. 10 00 Stock .. 110 00 Total.:.(..'..4668 20 For this tho widow bas the stock, tho dry goods, about fifteen dollars' worth of Cravisions, and the papes. There has ecu no sign of any grist mill. This is but a fair ?amble of many similar in stances. This Williams family paid in and have receipts for $1,441 G5 in cash for the bringing over of thirty-six per sons, many being children, and would bc itt a Ptarvina condition hud they not somo other liltl? ttlcans; The "Steam ship company" seems to have EEMORSELY DRAINED these people, having actually started some of them off i ti a penniless condition. This, with the criminal neglect which allow the emigrant* to come over at the beginning or the rainy season, for all the* knew tit.announced, without phy sician or shelter, makes matters look very black. It tiny on strongly of criminal misappropriation iit fluids and breach of trust, or of more criminal carelessness j rigarding tho lives and welfare of a band I of helpless people who relied on them, ! by the olliccrs of the "Steamship com pany." Many of the bi?'.klings occupied by the passangcrs were dwellings which had apparnntfy been long vacant, and had becomo leaky, exposing the occu pante to tho rain, which in this season ; pours down almost every day. After the 1 first day or two, however, tho roofB were patched up so as tb . render them toler ! abty w?ter-tight: The health bf most I of the sick begittt to improve aa Soon as they got free from the rolling and lion I finement of tho Bhip. Some of those, however, who had suffered from measles, now became subject to a general swelling up of their limbs, which was annoying and painful. There is only one reculai physician in thin part of Liberia, and hit practice ia extended certainly in point ol space, as h? visita from twenty miles nj the St. Paul's rivet abd down to his place Ho is a yoUng colored mab, a graduate, J think, of Harvard, tttld displayed mud kindness in sending medicines, food, etc. gratuitously, to tho strangers, and ii visiting them whenever called. All dur ing Wednesday -r.d Thursday, and fo several day? thereafter, the emigrant (now immigrants) were busily engage at the landing identifying their ftirnitur and other effects, and sUnerintc-ndin their transportation by tho moo boys t their houses. There are NO HORRES IN LIBERIA, although I am informed that they ar abundant and cheap in the interior. Th Azor'a people turned up their noses (figi rativcly speaking) at tho statement tin horses will notlive hore, nnd declare their belief that they only lacked prope attention. Inquiry on tho subject leai mc to coincide somewhat in their opii ion. From what 1 cnn learn, what fo equines were here in years gone by wei left to shift for themselves about tl strectsjust ?LS the cattle and hogs aro no?. What seems to be the universal princ plc obtaining in regard to them-"a thii that won't grow itself, and take care itself, is'nt wnnted." Tho cnttlo Bbc the effects of this system, being nil u deisizcd, and although sleek and fr having tasteless flesh, the result of fee ing on coarse grass and weeds aud not else. A. Ii. WILLIAMS. A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS. Editor Anderson Intelligencer : On tho morning of the 22d ult. I li Anderson, in company with a few othe for the mountains. We were well equi ped for the trip, and weut prepared camp out, preferring this style of Li vi for the time to that o. depending up country lintels and boardinghouses. \ took precaution to lay in a full supj of provisions, cooking utensils, bcddii firearms, ammunition, etc., end with good team of mules, a atout wagon wi good frame and cover, flattered ourseh with thc thought thal few bad ever go better fitted up than we. Our objecti point was the Highlands in North Cai lina, and our route thither lay by Ear! Bridge, Seneca City and Walhalla. T route we adopted to Walhalla is not t most direct, but certainly the most c sirable, on account of the good roads. SENECA CITY. We reached this point about 3} o'clo iu the afternoon of our first day's joi ney. It was my first visit to this pla and 1 was very favorably impressed w: its general appearance. I did not < peet to find it quito ao well improved a settled. The place is gradually filli up with good and reliable citizens fr all sections of tho country, North as w BB South. Business is also increasi with each su eec-Vi ve season, and Seui City bids fair somo day to be a place considerable magnitude. When tho B Railroad is completed (and every m woman and child south of thc B Riego mountains pray that it may bc a few years moro) .Seneca City will como the general distributing point all this vast section of country ly south of this mountain range, wb will naturally give it prominence i attract to it bu: inc ?> mon of the I qualifications. I have but ono object to make against tho place: the bu inga, dwellings as well as business hou hr o a temporary rather than pormati iinnfiQrnnM *l'l%w I- gC..Cr?li, Wit few exceptions. WALHALLA was reached about ti o'clock p. m., wi wo stopped for tho night. From all pcarances (aud this is ono portion of hiter that gives mo pain rather t pleasure to write,) Walhalla is on asti still, if not ou tho decline. I not several business houses with doors eli aud windows barred for tho want, I su mc, of business men to occupy tl: Tho people of Walhalla, however, not to be blamed for this stato of af): Walhalla, like Anderson, has been posed upon by tho Grceuvillo & Col bia Railroad by high charges iu frcif Consequently, tho trado that Wall once enjoyed hs* gone to other and ch cr markets. There are at least two deeming attractions in this up-cou town, however: an oxcellcnteducati institute and good society. I belie am safe in saying that thcro is not a i hospitable people within the limit South Carolina than those of Walh Among tho enterprising merchant tho place aro Messrs. S. 1.. Dendy C. L. Reid & Co. Mr. Reid ia a ni of -Audvi .-un CuUiiijr, r.l'.d BOD Of T. L. Reid, of Pendleton township, has mado Walhalla his home since war. Mr. John Kaufman's brewer] tracts considerable attention of visit as well as citizens of the place. It nice resort foi- pleasure'seeker?, and s considerably to the attractions of Wal halla, lie deserves' cfcdii for the enter prise nnd public spirit manifested If? his efforts to add to the attractions of his town. AN KNTKKI'll 18?NO FARMER. I must stop hero to notice the farm of Mr. Stiog?ll, on the road from Seneca City td Walh?li?. One of our party who is accustomed to travel this road re marked as wo passed his place on Mon day that ho had never passed this farm without seeing something attractive and interesting. It is without a doubt the best kept farm between Anderson and Walhalla, either by Pendleton or Earle's Bridge. Ue certainly understands the science,' and is vigorously and success fully applying it. Ho is one of the few Southern farmers who fhaho their own manure, or nt least a very great portion of it. His entire area of stubble land is now covered with a luxurious growth of pea-vines, while his corn, cotton, po tato patch and garden all give abundant evidence of thorough and superior culti vation. FROM WALHALLA TO UOM? COVE, K. C. Bright and early Tuesday morning we wero on our w?y to Horse Cove, distant from Walhalla about 2U milo?, but whon you undertake the trip make up yoUr mind to travel nt least 35, for if gentle men of veracity had not told us it ? aa only 20, would bavo willingly made affi davit that it was fully 85. Tho road is very good for about 13 miles. There yoi: strike what is kuown as Kellie Moun tain, and fbf abolit H miles if you are not thoroughly bumped and Jolted, then my experience argues nothing. The pull up Stump iloufc Mountain is long and continuous, being a grade of about one foot in eight or nine. But you aro fully paid after you reach its top for tho hard work, for then you have two miles of excellent road, equal to any for a pleas ant drive in any put of Anderson Coun ty. On the western side of Stump House wo stopped long enough to visit tho west end of the tunnel of the B. lt. H. it. which ls about two hundred yards from the road. Six of our party, among j whom was your correspondent, went ur. io its mouth, reached after no little amount of alternately climbing up anc swinging down-sometimes by bushes then by rocks, and then by briars-tb< steep embankments of the cut leading t( it. I felt fully repaid for my trouble however, ufter it was reached. Th) mouth of tho tunnel at this end is almos closed, from tho great amount of caril that has been washed into it from tb high embankments un either side, am immediately over it. Originally it wa about twenty feet in height, bat now 1 is not exceeding four. Members of ou party made tho surroundings hideous fe n white by whooping and yelling iut the opening. A very cold and hoi stream issues from the tunnel, und dow off through tho cut in the direction c the vulley quarter of a milo distant. Al tor being refreshed by bathing our fae and hands in this cold, pure element, an also taking n hearty draught of it, w joined tho solitary occupant of ourwago aud moved on towards our destinatior yet 19 miles distant. We had by tin time fairly entered into the mountcini and began to experience in all its differ ?ni nh SSC* inn hnnlnhii? of moU??a?i travel. At 12 o'clock we crossed tb Chatiooga Uiver, tho divining ?ino bc '.ween South Carolina and Georgia, an certainly the most beautiful stream ever saw. The water is very clear, ens bling you to see tho smallest objects s tho depth of five or six feet. On tb western bank we stopped for dinner an un hour's rest, during which time lavai ed myself of tho opportunity of a bat io the limped waters of this murmurio mountain stream. It was after we orosi ed this river that we struck the won roads. They were exceedingly rough an hilly, and there was very little comfo or satisfaction in riding, not with bandin our wagon was provided with sprir seats. About 4 o'clock p. m. wo crosse tho line between Georgia and Nort Carolina, and were then about thn miles from HORSE COVE, our destination, which we :?uclied abo an hour and a half later. We foul sovorul of our Walhalla and Anders) friends here, spending a few days hunting, fishing, etc., one of the mc desirable localities in the whole mou tain rango for such sport ; in fact, o who has visited tho mo'jntains regular every summer fe: the past ten yeai ....... . I. .. Al_ t-_?--?.__ _?_. . ?MfcjS-...val. ?a Itu I/CIICI jlltiCU ... found for such sport than Horso Coi I must not fail to mention, however, tb ono of tho young men from Anders found moro pleasant and agreeable ei ployment than either hunting or ?shir at least, his comrades say so, inasmuch ho abandoned each of these for tho po tion of assistant teacher in a neighbor! school, presided over by au accomplish and intelligent young lady, whose ? quaintance he was so fortunate to ma after bis arrival in this section. If t public school fund of Macon Colin N. C., becomes exhausted earlier th usual, tho fault is chargeable to tl young man, and no othor. Horso Cove is nr.t only a desiral hunting and fishing locality, huwev but is equally as attractive as a suinn resort for those in quest of a quiet pla cool climate, cold freestone or minc water, and grand scenery. It is nol town but simply tho residence of A J. B. Thompson, a western gentlerc who settled here about four mouths sj and at which a post office has been ) tablishcd, with a tri-wcokly mail frc Walhalla, S. C., and Franklin, N. Mr. Thompson is prepared to entorta ?1*1 tor?, and bs* been crowded fur ral weeks, giving entire satisfaction toi of his patrons. As a resort for eitb invalids or pleasure seekers, I can heart ly recommend the place. Kw? in Jul palm-leaf fans and ice-water a?. Hon Covo would bo regarded aa nuisance wbile shawls and overcoats are locke upon ss necessary to ono'* comfort, esp<