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U CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 8,1853. NUMBER C. /
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JHiscfllanfflus.
A Visit to the Cherokee Indians.
The Rev. Dr. Sehon, the corresponding Secretary
of the Missionary Society of the Jd. E.
Church South, has recently visited the Cherokces,
and writes to.the Nashville Advocate a
Inn** account*of his visit. We make the fol
o
lowing extract from the Dr.'s letter:
Talequah, Ciiekokee Nation*,
November 5th, 1852.
In my last I noticed my safe arrival at this
place. No one unacquainted with the country
can conceive of the beautiful scene which
breaks upon the eye of the traveller, as he !
ascends the mountain to the Illinois river, jThe
surrounding nfountains, the clear and beau
tiful river, and broad plains, are all spread out I
before him. The
Illinois river is a bold and rapid stream,
pure and clear. I am told fish are found in it
in large quantities?many resembling our mountain
trout, perch and bass.- Such as are'fond of
mud and live in muddy streams would not, I
think, seek as a home this pure and clear water.
After crossing the river we enter upon
the plain on which Talequah is located. It is
four miles from the river to the'town/ One of
the first objects seen is the large and well finished
Female Seminary, built by the nation ;
two miles farther is the Male Seminary, built
and finished in the same manner. .
These are truly indicative of the advancement
of this nation in regafd to education and
religion. But of them more hereafter. We
soon approach a most inviting looking mansion.
From its tasteful architecture, the beautiful
lawn, the large and tastefully laid out and
arranged garden, you can hardly believe you
are not approaching the suburbs of some one
of our riche^i cities in the States. But, no,
you arc in aid Indian territory, and tms is me
home and residence of the principal chief, John
Ross, E$q.,?who has been so long known in
weal and woe in the history ofthis people. -"A
short distance beyond and another and equally
inviting home is before you. Here the large
yard, filled with the trees and shrubbery, the
large garden,' the ieautiful or.Jiard, tjic fine and (
noble mansion, all things bring to miad our
homes and country Yar away. " (
This is the residence'of my friend, Geo. M.
Murrcll, Esq., formerly of Lynchburg, Va.
His amiable and worthy wife is the daughter
of Lewis Ross, Esq., and niece of the principal
chief. Here is my home, the word here re* ,
ceivitig the fullest meaning. It is a home indeed
for the wearied preacher. And if it were
not at once said I were clannish, I would 4fay
and where all the hospitality of a Virginia j
- ^ nobleman awaits you. Brother and sister Mur\ell
are both devoted members of the church.
x)n Wednesday, the 3d instant, I preached
in the Court House, by special invitation. The
National Council, then in session, adjourned,
and with the principal chief, were nearly all
present. We had a large, intelligent, and very (
attentive congregation. My sermon was in
English, in which language all the business of
the Council is also carried on. The services
were closed by the Rev. Mr. Downing, a native
Cherokee Baptist preacher, and a member of
the Council. The reader will remember I ,
mentioned in my first letter, that I met with
liiin and travelled with him on the boat from
< I.nuisvilla. Never shall the services of this
day be blotted from my memory. May God
_^rrant that good may be the result in a long
<id blessed eternity.
Taleqoah is a beautiful place?about 300 |
inhabitants?a beautiful square inclosed, in ,
which they have their council house. The
court house is a good, substantial building of
brick, two stories. There is a large brick hotel,
several fine stores, with a well assorted and
* large stock of goods. A good newspaper has
been printed here, called the Cherokee Advov
cate. On my way to the town we called at
the Male Seminary, and were delighted to find
in the superintendent, Rev. Mr. Vanhom, and
his good wife, friends from our old home in
Ohio. Truly this was to us a most happy
U meeting. Mr. Vanhom is a Baptist minister,
and is assisted by my young friend, Mr. Lyons,
with whom I had the pleasure to form an acquaintance
on my way to this country.
. fn this school they have about forty native
MSfcCl^rokce young men receiving instruction.
Greek and Latin languages, and all the
graRHranches of mathematics and a good Eulish
HBSBBwJfction are taught in the institution.
H and the femalo school are national inH^^^W^fons.
The tuition and boarding is free
of charge to the pupils, and the students all
board in the several buildings, having a good
steward for each. This is truly a feature in
the history of this people, worthy of imitation
by the States around them, who have for so
long a time been in possession of all the ad- ,
vantages of the gospel of Christ. ,
These academies depend for their supply for
students upon the neighboring schools, which,
like the common schools with us, are spread
throughout their whole country. The principal
chief, John Koss, Esq., has given his most
devoted attention to the subject of education
in tho nation. To his zeal and perseverance 1
are they plainly indebted for the origin, growth,
and present prosperity of their schools. He is
extremely anxious that the blessings of education
shall be widely diffused and fully secured
to his people. God grant success, full and 1
complete, to his efforts. What patriotic christian
and philanthropic heart, will not join in
the prayer ?
For this purpose he is anxious to effect an
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arrangement with the Government of the Uni- j
ted States in which they shall take back a large
body of land heretofore granted the nation,
and with which they were charged ?500,000.
He,asks, and the nation through him, that it
be taken back at the price the Government
themselves fixed upon it at the time, and the
interest which would naturally have accrued
on that sum since. This money would be
funded for the support of education forever in
the nation. I think the demand a perfectly
reasonable and fair one, and one to which our
Government ought to accede. I most sincerely
hope and believe they will do so.
Before I came on here,.not then knowing I
should do so, I procured a copy of the annual
message of the chief, which I intended then to
take home for publication. 1 now send it to
you, and hope, in the same paper you publish
this letter, you may find it convenient to publish
the message, to show our people what is
dm nor and nnssinir here in these far ends of the
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earth, and the bold stand taken in favor of
morals and religion by their principal men and
the nation. 1
The National Council yesterday confirmed
the nomination of the annual deputation to
Washington, consisting of Dr. Ross, (son of
Lewis Ross, Esq.,) Judge Adair, and Judge
Pegg. Dr. Ross is finely educated, a graduate
of Princeton, and also of the Medical College
in Philadelphia. I have had the pleasure of
forming his acquaintance and that of his interesting
wife. I spent, in company with the kind
family where I staj7, a most delightful evening
with John Ross and family. His wife is a
worthy member of our church ; her sister, also,
who resides with her. Then my friend Murrell,
and the* different members of Mr. Ross'
family, tho hours passed very pleasantly and
hastily. Near Talequah is also the mission of
Dr. Worcester, of the Presbyterian Church.
He has long been identified with the mission.
Thov have at the establishment a press ai.d a
flourishing school. 1 regret that I did not feel
able to comply with his kind invitation to
preach for them, as also that of my friend, Rev.
Mr. Vanhom. Indeed I wish my circumstances
would permitme to remain much longer among
and with this people, but ? cannot.
The Falling Leaf.?It has been a fancy,
born of our chiy-dreams, that for every leaf that
fails, a human soul ascends; for every leaf that
unfolds, a spirit glides from the dim past into
the active present?and thickly as fall the decaying
leaves, do forms of human mould drop
into the soil..
We watch the yellow leaf, as it struggles with
its downward tendency, essayingin vain to hang
in mid air, shrinking from the cold resting place,
and buoyed up with a momentary hopc-as a
stray -breeze wafts it up again, only to.. dwTccnd
more rapidly. I:'seems to wail, to shriek, as it
settles nearer and nearer to the (lefested soil.?
As it lies worn out and dead'upon the chill
?arth, the spirit whispers: Another has gone to
the tomb J Mature drops a leaf for everv one
who falls as the nun drops a bead for every sin
die thinks.
As we stand beside the spent leaf, so stands
iiAif,morlA lfl?nvn All *
weeping OHCS HIUUI1U tliv: ncn-mnu^giH'v. ?... .
ns tlicy embalm their dead in team and undying
memories, so will we embalm thee, thou
Lvpifyer of human frailty. Thus between the
leaves of the boqk of books the sickly leaf is laid
as a memento mori. As I gaze on the skeleton
form, I follow the decay of the one for whom it
fell, and turn thoughtfully away, gaze up to the
myriad of leaves, and ask, "which one shall fall
for me ?"
Power of a Mother's Name.?A correspondent
thus describes a visit to the penitentiary at
Philadelphia, and gives the following particulars
of an interview between Mr. Scatterwood, the
humane warden of the prisoiij and a young man
who was about to enter "on bis imprisonment.
Few will read it without deep emotion.
"NVe passed the ante-room again, where we
encountered a new comer, who had just reached
the prison as we entered. He had been sent'up
for five years on a charge of embezzlement
He was attired in the latest style of fashion,
and possessed of all the nonclialencc and careI?
.. 4* /%???/!ir TTn tu'ir1n/-l
ttjJJJUillttiiCC ui a tcci iv" v jlav t.....vvi
his watch chain, looked particularly knowing at
a couplo of young ladies who chanced to be present,
ami seemed utterly indifferent about himself
or the predicament ho was placed in. The
warden read his commitment and addressed him
with? - .
4 Charles, I am sorry to sec thee here.'
4 It can't be helped, old fellow.1
4 What is thy age, Charles ?'
4 Twenty-three.1
4 A Philadelphia!) V.
4 Well, kinder, and kinder not'
4 Thee has disgraced,thyself sadly.1
Well, I ain't troubled, old stick.1
4 Thee looks not like a rogue.1
4 Matter of opinion.1
4 Thee was well situated V
4 Yes, well enough.1
4 In good emplov V
4 Well, so so.'
4 And thee lias parents V
4 Yes.1
4 Perhaps thee lias a mother, Charles V
The couvict had been standing during this
brief dialogue perfectly unconcerned and reckless,
until the last interrogatory was put by the
warden. Had a thunderbolt struck him ho
could not have fallen more suddenly than he did
when the name of 4* mother" fell on his oars!
He sank into a chair?a torrent of tears gushed
from his eyes?the very fountains of his heart
seemed to have burst o^<the instant! lie recovered
partially, aniMid imploringly to the
warden?
1 Don't you, sir, for God's sake, don't call her
name in this dreadful place! 1 )o what you may
with uiCjirtit don't mention that name to me ?'
Thenrwero tears in other eyes beside the pri
soner'flf and an aching silence pervaded the group
which surrounded the convict.
A man should never put a fence of words
afound his ideas, because many who would otherwise
give him a fair hearing lack resolution to
climb ewer such a rugged enclosure.
Why is the letter D. like a squalling brat ??
Because it makes Ma nud.
" Sowing Wild Oats."
We often hear the excesses of young mei
excused on the plea that they are " only sow
ing their wild oats j" as if a life cf virtue mus
necessarily be preceded by a wild and viciou.1
career. A good writer-well remarks, that then
is many a young man just entering the world
who would avoid those actions which give ris<
to the saying, if it were not for the veil whicl
this very saying throws over their hideousness
But as he hears the lips of beauty apologeti
cally muttering, " he is only sowing his wil<
oats," when some instance of vile profligacy i;
told, or some tale of innocence undermined
related, he begins to look upon such actions ai
the natural and excusable effects of arden
youth; he thinks that he, too, maybe pardonec
for scattering similar seeds on the highway oi
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life; and is, perhaps, unconscious mat me sui
in which they will take the firmest and deepes
root is his own mind. " Nemo repcnte fui
turpissimvs"?no man becomes vicious on i
sudden. The appetite for vice increases witl
what it feeds on ; like the taste for olives, ii
may be nauseous at first, but by repetition w<
come to like it, and at length it becomes s
fixed desire of the mind; we have sown th(
seeds, and, unfortunately, we must reap the
fruits. We need not sow these wild oats, bul
once having so done, we must take t|ie conse
quences.
An old French writer has said, that "dis
gust stands at the door of all bad places." 11
may be so ; but it is to be feared that we toe
often put her behind the door as we enter; and
it is only when we come out that we meet hei
face to face. We cover up her form with all
kinds of disguises; we endeavor to cheat ourselves
into the belief that disgust is not hei
real name, and that it is not the door of vice
at which she stands sentinel; and as we pass
her by, and enter, we console ourselves with
the thought that we.are only having a bit of a
spree! ihat we are in for a lark! or at an31
rate, that wo "must sow some of our'wild
oats." We are confident in ourselves, have
great reliance on our own correct principles
and right intentions, and delude ourselves in.c
the belief that we are only gaining a little
knowledge of the world, and showing ourselves
to be youths ol spirit. And a most miserable
delusion this is?fostered and encouraged by
the wretched fallacy we are illustrating; and
by the pernicious habit of glossing over vile
things with eulogistic names. We begin, perhaps,
by sowing our seeds with a careful hand,
scattering a few here, and a few there, with
long intervals between them; we are nol
alarmed by any very great expenditure of seed:
we hardly fancy that the correct principles on
which we rely, are disturbed or shocked by
their slight deviations, from the strict rule ol
right; we still keep in the common routine ol
our duties, while we are imperceptibly being
led into temptations that, by degrees, cause in
to scatter the seeds more thickly, and with
fewer intervals between them. And we go 011
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youth are past, and when a miserable and premature
old age draws on, we find that the till
age is not yet complete; it is only when in
firmities have rendered it impossible to pursue
our former course, that the seed time is over;
and the harvest comes upon us at once in the
shape of pains and penalties grievous to bear
We forsake nowjthe sdwing until the power to
sow is departed?we forsake not the sin until
the sin forsakes us.
How often do we hear it said, both by parents
and friends, that it is right for a young
man to know the world, and that he will avoid
jfice all the more for having tasted it, and found
what it is like. Bad judges of human nature
and of human appetites, are these! And lei
such parents beware lest the future growth
from their maxim come home to them to torment
them.?A7". Y. Organ.
Sabbath Keeping.
Hugh Wilier, in his First Impressions of Eng
land, makes the following just and importanl
remarks on the mode of Sabbath keeping recommended
by our modern refiner}':
"Among the exciting varieties of the genus
philanthropist?benevolent men bent on bettering
the condition of the masses?there is a varie
ty who would faiu send out our working people
tn flip r.oiintrv nil tbft Sabbath, to become hanOV
and innocent in smelling primroses, and stringing
daisies on grass stalks. An excellent scheme
theirs, if they but knew it, for sinking a people
into ignorance and brutality, for filling a country
with gloomy work-houses, and the work house?
with unhappy paupers. 'Tis pity rather that the
institution of the Sabbath in its economic bearings
should not be better understood by the unitarian.
The problem which it furnishes is nol
particularly difficult, if one could be made to un
derstaud, as a first step in the process, that it is
really worth solving. The mere animal, thai
has to pass six days of the week in hard labor
benefits greatly by a seventh day of mere nnima
cost and enjoyment. The repose, according U
its nature, proves of signal use to it, just becaus<
it is repose according to its nature. Hufiman i?
not a mere animal; what is best lbr therox anc
the as, is not best for him; and in order to de
grade him into a poor unintclleofcual slave, ovei
whom tyranny in its caprice may gamplc rougl
shod, it is but necessary to tic hiqj down ; animal
like, during his six working days, to hard
engrossing labor, and to couvert the seventh intt
.a day of frivolous, unthinking relaxation. His
tory sneaks with much emphasis on the point
The old despotic Stuarts were tolerable, adept?
in the art of kingcraft, and knew well what thc\
were doing, when they backed with their authority
the Hook of Spotls. The many unthink
p ?i - t-- j /n i r
lug sens, wno cany 111 uiu reign 01 v/iiane? i.
danced on Sabbath round the Maypole, wen
afterwards the ready tools of despotism, am
fought that England might he enslaved. The
Ironsides, who in the cause of civil and religious
freedom, love their crown, were staunch Sabba
tarians.
" In no history, however, is the value of the
Sabbath more strikingly illustrated, than in thai
of the Scotch people, during the seventeenth, and
the larger portion of the eighteenth centuries
Religious and the Sabbath were their sole instructors
and this in times so little favorable tc
the cultivation of mind, so darkened by the persecution
and stained with blood, that, in at least
the earlier of these centuries, we derive our
knowledge of the character and amount of pop
ular intelligence, mainly from the death testii
monies of our humble martyrs, here and there
- corroborated by the incidental evidence, of writ
ters, such as Burnet.
s " In these addresses from prison and scaffold-^i
the composition of men drafted by opposition'
, almost at random from the general mass?we
3 see how vigorously our Presbyterian people had 1
i learned to think, and how well to give their '<
. thinking expression. In the quieter times which i
- followed the Revolution, the Scottish peasantry f
1 existed as at once the most provident and'intel-; J
s lcctnal iu Europe; and as a moral and instructed ;
, people, pressed outward beyond the narrow
3 bou .ids of their.'country and rose into offices of
t trust and importance, in all the nations of the ,
1 world. There were no societies "for the diffusion ;
f of useful knowledge in those days. But the Sab1
1-ath was kept holy; it was a day ot which every
t dissipating frivolity was excluded by a stern
t sense of dutv. The popular mind, with weight
i imparted to it by tlie pulpit addresses of the day, <
i expatiated on matters of,grave import, of which
t -Uic tendency was to concentrate and strengthen, .
j not scatter and weaken the faculties ; and cogi- ;
t taiotis of the week came to bear in consequence ;
> a Sabbath-day stamp of depth and solidity. The 1
? one in the seven struck ttie tone for the other >'
t six. Our modern apostles of popular instruction
. rear up no such men among the masses as were ]
developed under the Sabbatarian systenrin Scotland.
Their aptest pupils prove but the loquaL
ciotts gabblers of the respective worships?shali
low superticialists, that bear on the surface of
I their minds a thin diffusion of ill-remembered
facts and crude theories, and scarcely, indeed, do. (
I we see them rising in the scale of society; they }
become Socialists by hundreds, and Chartists by j
thousands, and get no higher. The dissemina- j
i tor of more useful knowledge takes aim at the ]
i popular ignorance; but his inapt and scientific,
i j gunnery docs not include in its calculations the ]
l I parabolic course of man's spiritual-nature; and--;
- so, aiming cfirect at the mark, he aims too-low, "j
I and the charge falls short." ' " I
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i Ruth and Naomi. *
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1 In consequence of a /amine which happened
s in Canaan, Naomi and her husband, Elimelech, j
> retired to the country of Moab. They took with ,
them their two sons, Malhon and Chilion, whMj
married in that land two Moabitish young^jP ]
1 men, namely, Orpah and Ruth. They jgfSed
about ten years in the country of Mordjffaring ^
which time Elimelech and his sons dieywithout
. leaving any children behind them.?Bus Naomi |
i was left an aged and desolate widoaap But not ,
i desolate in the spiritual sense of t^eword. Her
; Maker was her husband?the L<ffi of Hosts is
i his name. Blessed are those jJpcws to whom
' God saith, " I have betrothedunto me in
f righteousness. u I have bet^^d thee unto me (
f forever." MJr
; Since her husband andJr beloved sons were
i dead, Naomi felt a stroiMHesire to return to Ca- j
i naan, her native landprHer daughters-in-law
i expressed an earnest .'Inclination to accompany '
her. This proves the- jwrrovful a(ft'T.tion which
reigned among them, and speaks loudly iu favor '
both of Naomi and the surviving widows of her !
departed sons. Atjir they had accompanied ,
i their mothcr-in-lawraprt of the way, she en1
treated them to ret^ftj each of them to their '
! mother's house. iv1 s^? blessed them, and
. kissed thorn ; and tJjry lifted up their voice and '
> wept ? They arc s^Cdeterniined to accompany '
1 her. She continulKeasoning with them, in '
strains of simple huJBnelting eloquence. Again 1
they lifted up tlwF voice and wept. Orpah !
; kissed her mother-law, but Ruth clave unto *
I her. Mark thedjBrence betwixt the two: Or- 1
I pah kissed her m^fcr-in-law, that is, took leave 1
i of her, left her, ^H^eturnod to her own home.
t Ruth clave to hSRnth such affection, that uoth '
i ing but death com separate her from the dear !
object of her rcg?. Orpah resembles the outward
professor, whowas a little love and respect
for Christ's cause aaa kingdom and ordinances, 1
but not a sufficient: Jbf love to prevent hint from '
. leaving Christ in tlmday of difficulty and of '
; trial. When OrpalKent back, Naomi tries to j
. persuade Ruth to reSp. Nothing can persuade
her. Oh, no! her ?ve was too strong to listen I
s for a moment to suc^persuasions. She puts an '
. end to the debate, by giving utterance to the j
: following rcmarkabl&exgrassion: " And Ruth '
, said, Entreat me nlTreo Have thee, or return j
r from following after thee: for whither thou goest,
. I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge;
. thy people shaltUe ray people, and thy God my
? God.?Where tjiou dicst will I die, and there ^
r will I bo bimedT'the Lord do so to me and
j more also, if aught but death part tlice and
) me." Then Naomi submitted, and under the (
. protectirigcare of Heaven they proceeded on- '
. ward in their journey, and at last arrived safely
t I in -Bethlehem.?Is not Ruth a blessed figure of <
. {he genuine believer, cleaving to Jesus ? j
, ? <
t God intended all women to bo beautiful, 1
, just as nVhch as he did morning-glories and
I roses; what he intended they should become '
) they would, if they would only obey his laws, !
> and cut indolence and corset strings and indulge :
I
5 in freedom and fresh air. For a girl to ex1
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I pect to be handsome with the' action of her
- lungs depending upon the expansive nature of '
r a cent's worth of tape, is as foolish as to look *
i lor tulips in a snow bank, or a grown oak tree 1
in a flower pot.
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} When we hear men and women speak lightly
of the industrious part of the community, j
we feel just like tracing back their genealogy, j
' We have done so in several instances and
you would be surprised at what we have learned.
The most aristocratic man of our acqnain- s
tance is the grand son of a fuller; the proudest *
nf n. tailor. It betrays j
' wum.lll lilt uaugiiivi ?
1 a lack of good sense to condemn or to look
' with contempt on any virtuous person, howev51
er poor lie or she may be. The wise and good
' respect and love goodness wherever it may be
" found, in all its beauty and elfulgcnce.
Whenever an Irish attorney loses a suit, lie
considers the matter a personal insult, and challenges
the whole jurv to mortal combat. In
the vicinity of Cork, when a decision is appealed
from, it is not from one court to another, but
from the court house to the pistol gallery.
^
It is curious with what moral fortitude men ^
I can bear with tlio misfortunes of others. 1
Central Hems.
From the Southern Standard.
The South Carolina Railroad.
vThe published report of the President arit
Directors of.the South Carolina Railroad^ foi
the year 1852, shows" an increase of $125,00(
over the receipts of 1851,'and of $225,000 ovei
those of 1850. Accompanying the report h
the following statement, showing nett profi
for the year 1852 /.
Income from Freight, $*(80,041 82
Do. Passage, 294,787 00
Do. Mails, . '41,843 04
^ Do. Minor sources, 8,4G2 90-1,125,198 41
Applied as follows::
[n ordinary current expen- "J ' "
scs, 39 per cent., 4 439,092 47.
Extraordinary current ex-V' pcuscs,
14,876 26- 453,968 71
071,229 01
Other expenses chargeable
p to income previous to declaring
Dividends, viz:
interest on sterling bonds, 109,347 71 .... - ..
Interest General, 45,878 05 '
Exchange, ' 574 30 7
Property damaged and lost, 9,118 90
Stock mutilated and killed, 1,038 92- 105,958 4!
Nott Income, 505,271 2!
Deduct first Dividend, 135,800 00
; second Do. 135,800 00- 271,600 0(
6944 RT1 91
. i^iU(UltUj ' w a a.
This balance has been appropriated to the property
recount, consisting of the following items, to wit: '
Purchase of Negroes, $ 45,484 34
Charleston, New Work shops, 1,439 60
Building touvoid In. Plane, 31,546 79
Rebuilding Road -- 3,501 10 Charleston
Depot, . 3108
Rebuilding Camden Branch, 2,152 70
Property in materials and Machinery,
, 2,947 33- 4,3618 5?
Property in Cars, 54,002 00
Property in Locomotives, 92,477 55
Re-rolling old Iron,
Crossing Savannah River,
Additional Track^^fc^jjpP?4,521 91-316,b96 74
Typlffarge investments for the last year
Mjpplncreased the indebtedness of the compa
by ?19-1,300 55, which increase is more
than covered by the purchase of negroes ant
the advantages of crossing the Savannah, ever
if the additional track, new work shops, anc
the work around the incline plane at Aiken it
entirely left out. The following extracts froir
the reports of the President and the Superin.
tendents, will be found to contain a sufficient
account of the condition of the road and outfit
EXTRACT FROM MR. CONNER'S REPORT.
In July last a satisfactory arrangement was
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made witn me uity uouncu 01 Augusta, ior uu
Company's throwing a Railroad Bridge acrosj
the Savannah river, and locating two depoU
within the city of Augusta?one to be located
between Bay and Reynolds street, to be ap
proached by steam, and to be used for city bu
siness only. The other to be located withii
anc square of lb? Georgia Railroad depot ant
to be used exclusively for through business, 01
business to and from points beyond Augusta
This depot to be connected with the other, i
Rstance of about three quarters of a mile, will
the main track across the Bridge, by a Railroad
track, to be worked by horse or mult
power. The price agreed to be paid for these
privileges was $ 150,000 ; of which the Gfory\n
Railroad paid 530,000, and the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad Company have assumed
to pay ?25,000; and we have assurances
that the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company will assume a further amount.
Contracts were immediately made, upon the
consummation of this arrangement, for the construction
of our Bridge, Depots, &c., and it
was then hoped and expected that our trains
would have been deliveringand receiving goods
ind produce in Augusta before this time ; but
:he fresht ts, which compelled us to withdraw
jur piling force and apply it to the repairs ol
;he Agusta Bridge, and the high waters and
Dad weather that have prevailed since, will
prevent our crossing before March. The whole
cost for crossing the river, and locating in Aujusta,
will be about as follows :
Lands purchased for two depots, 840,50G
Contract for building two depots, 13,500
Fnr nlntforma. fences. &e.. sav 6.000
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$06,000
Bridges and tracks, say 25,000
$91,000
:o which may be added the Company's proper.ion
of the l ight of way.
With a view to carrying into effect the recommendation
of the Committee at the last
meeting of the Stockholders, with regard to a
Jouble track to Ilranehville, fifty young negro
fellows, practiced and experienced in railroad
work, were purchased early in the summer,
lnd a favorable contract was made about the
same time with a highly respectable and responsible
Iron Company, in Trenton, N.J., for
re-rolling the old flange iron the Company had
jn hand, supposed to amount to about four
ihousaiul tons, into new rails, for this track,
uid a part of it has already been returned to
is in its new form.
In consequence, however, of the necessary
ipplicalion of this force to repairs after the
reshet it is only recently that they have been
ilaced on the line of road. The greater part
)f litem are now at work near the Thirty-mile
L'ost, grading or preparing to grade, for the
lew track, but with this force alone, and the
neans now at our disposal, the process of con
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itruction musi necessarily oe ? i.w muiv
;o, it is submitted, than is consistent with the
nterest of the Company, or requirements of
,hc community, looking to the rapidly extcndng
K.'iilrond connections with us in every di*
eetion, and with a view to prepare in due time
or the great increase of business, which it is
low so apparent must follow. The Board of
Directors have concurred, with great unanimty,
in the propriety of the Company's proceedng
to build a double track from Charleston
o Branchville, with the least delay in which
t can be done consistently with a due regard
,o a proper economy ; and I am directed to
submit to the stockholders, at their present
neeting, tho expeciency of authorising the
Joard to raise the necessary funds for the pnr>os?,
by the issue of bonds or new stock, as
iiiiiy appear must nuTauui^f;yua? mc
the work, including the iron, and graded'in U)?< }
' manner contemplated by Mr. Lythgoe, witl;be
. about one million and fifty thousand dollars. " -7
V Tbe siibject is respectfullybut ^earnestly com- ,7
1 mended to the immediate consideration of the _ %
stockholders. /
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% Within the last six months of the year, the.. *
5 Company has, as all are a ware, sustained heavy
t losses in its business, both from the prevalence /tijm
of fever in Charleston, and from the^fTecfi5iw8 "
the great freshets of 20th and 30th" AugtMnH?p?
which swept away a'part of the Augusta hridg^^^p
the whole of.tlie Congaree bridge, besides1'de?
. stroying tho Wateree bridge, the effect of which
" was for a'time to cut off all comynuni^ition
eutircdy_ between Charleston and th'e*jyfer><?r>
and to greatly .obstruct it,for some ttmejfcfefc
' the communication was partially openedBHfc^
) 'Yet it will be seen that, .notwithstanding
these 'adverse circumstances, the business'braM8|
the Road shows an increase over the previ^^H" ^
year, in both freights and passage, and amount^; a
. ing in the aggregate to $124,460 44. J*
What the increase would have been under
favorable, or even under ordinary circumstan- M.
3 ces, may be readily inferred. t
* . The repairs of damages by the freshet having \
been done almost exclusively by our own
) hands, and the Rohd force, (for we could get ^
- no others that would undergo the risk and ex- * ' A
1 posure of working at tl&t season in the water
anu. orrail*.]fcJ Ul? WOI III Ui"utj f'a>y vui uuc.-? ' t
[ npt appear large. In fact, when all is done and j.
complete, and the Road stands
before the.freshet, the
ME. LYTTTGOE.
| from the late freshets, as oth*
er parts of the Road, no damage of consequence
being sustained, except in the immedil
ate vicinity of Hamburg. The Colombia di
vision, I regret to say, is not so good, the fresh5
et on that branch being unprecedented, as re,
gards damage, in the whole history of the
- Road. In the immediate vicinity of the Con- -l;
s garee river, between the Trestle work and \ >
Uamden Junction, nincaitterent oreacnes were ?
made in the embankment from one to four hundred
feet long, besides sweeping away the 1
bridges across the river. These different J,
breaches have, as yet, only been partially re- V;
paired, in consequence* of the unfavorable state 1 j
of the weather, together with the great scarci- ^ I
ty of laborers, and the enormous high price to Nj
be paid for the same. VVe are progressing, \
however, with the repairs as rapidly as circum- \
stances will admit, and expect during the pre-' P
sent year to put this Road in the best possible f_^
order. A temporary bridge was erected with f <
the least delay possible across* the Congaree j
river, until a permament bridge could be con- /
structed and put up. This will be done iu the*
course of three months at farthest, as the super/
structivc for the same b to a great extent com
pleted, and only waiting the opportunity for
driving piles and putting up the same.
The Camden division of Road also had itk
difficulties to contend with at the Wateree Ri>f
er, from the abutment 011 the north side being
undermined, and the piles driven to suppor^
s the draw washed out. This has only beeji
. partially repaired, it will be necessary to build
> a new bridge sooner or later across this stream
. as well as to rebuild or embank the whole fopr
! miles of swamp. The Road generally on this
I division, from the river to Camden requires Jk
general and thorough repair. The casualties^
! to which we have been subjected have proven- v.
ted our doing anything of consequence with >
; building the double track, as recommended by
i the Stockholders at their last annual meeting,
i Indeed such have been our difficulties that had j
i it not been we had recourse to the Company's
own hands, my opinion is it would have scarcef
ly been possible, for us to keep the Roads, in J
I working order. '
[ The new road for avoiding the inclined plane
( at Aiken was completed, according to the origi.
nal design in May last pud has been working
successfully and satisfactorily since that time.
I No accident or damage, or injury of any kind
I has happened during all the rains and freshets :
I that have occurred, except the slide or caving
. in of a mass of earth at the Aiken cut, and a
i force of hards is now employed widening the
I cut, and filling up with the earth the plane h(
i low. **' I
I The new road to avoid the plane lias in all *
. respects, worked up to all our expectations.
We are rapidly progressing with the Railroad
MrMirn nomas tho Savannah River at Ausiusta.
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Four of the eight spans are now up, and the
last pier of piles is now being driven and tlio
, Bridge will more than probably be completed
before the first day of March next. The depot's
and tracks are al>o in a state of forwardness,
! and will be completed as soon as the bridge.?
| The cost of the bridge and tracks will not ex.
ceed ?25,000. The piling machine and forco
now employed on the last pier of the Augusta,
. bridge will be transferred to the Cangarce, to
piling for the bridge there which will lie done,
I in full time for the structure now in progress
of construction at the Company's \aids in
| Charleston.
The survey of the line for the double track
I to Branchville, with a profile and estimate of ^
! the same, will be laid before you in time for
1 the meeting of the Stockholders. My object
! will be, if practicable, and 1 am confident it is, i
to predicate the double track upon a dcccudiiig
' grade all the way from Branchville to Charles
ton ; so (lint an engine may bring from Uramliville
nearly if not quite, what tw o of the same
power will bring to Hranchvillc. 'I lie c? st of
sucli a track so graded will be, according to a
rough estimate 1 have made one million and
fifty thousand dollars (SI,050,000) including '
iron and all contingencies.
EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF MR. l'KTSCII.
Of the 38 engines contained in the Report
for 31st, Dec. 1851, two second class passen1
ger and two third class freight engines have
been condemned, leaving in the service on 31st
Dee. 1852, only 34 of the 38 engines mentioned
in the Report for 1851 as fit for service,
i To which have been added during the past
; year, live passenger and seven freight engines,
1 making total number of engines in the service
J of the Company on the 31st Dec. 1852. forty T
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