. i ii tmmpmt n i i miwimm??j??w?? Till J?( KML JOHN KERSHAW, iKditor and Proprietor. CAMDEN S. C., AUGUST 29,1872. * ?II??mmc?BPBMa??a?? FOR PRESIDENT FOR1CE GREELEY, OF NEW YORK' FOR VICE-PRESIDENT IS. GRATZ BROW1V, OF MISSOURI. Some Account of our Trip?Wliere we have been,?What we have seen. Leaving Catoosa Springs on Monday morning, we took the train for Chattanooga, where wc arrived at 5J o'clock, A. 31. Disembarking, we went to the Ilead llouso and then took a stroll over the city. The most attractive sight we encountered was a chicken which had only three feathers upon him, and those upon tho tail, thereby presenting a most lovely aspect. Looming up in the distance was Lookout Mountain, the goal of our journey, the 3Iecoa to which we were travelling. Our party, four in number, took a hack which was in waiting, and proceeded on'our journey, about 7 J o'clock. Even as early as that the sun shone with powerful fire in his rays, and we concluded that ^ 1. 3 Chattanooga was tiie warmest piacc we nua encountered. A drive .of two miles brought us to the foot of the mountain, aud we commenced the accent, which was very steep. Not desiring to weary our readers, with the narrative of the ascent, we will simply announce that in two hours we had arrived at Summit House and taken quarters at one of cottages. When the heat of the day was over, we commenced our explorations. Visiting "Saddle llock," we obtained the view from tlic^e and passed on towards the " Point." From that we had spread out before us, a most magnificent panorama. In the distance, the Alleghany Mountains are distinctly visible, and nearer is Missionary Ridge, Kinggold, Balton and Chickamauga, each the scene of a bloody struggle during the late war. The Tennessee River, a beautiful stream, can be traced for many miles, and adds much to the scenery. In the remote distance can be seen the Ivcnncsaw Mountains, and Stone Mountain is also visible on a clear day. From the Point, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina are each visible, and it is said that Alabama also is within the range of vision. An enterprising artist has erected a gallery immediately on the Point and drives a flourishing trade ill selling pictures of the various views about the Mountains. From the very summit of the mountain, and from behind breastworks, the troops under General Hooker, popularly .known as "Fighting Joe," drove the Confederate* during the war. This appears the more astonishing, when one considers the apparent inaccessibility of the mountain. The natives say the Confederates were surprised, the Union soldiers advancing under cover of a very thick fog, winch had settled down upon the mountain. Hut if a proper' look out had been preserved, it would have been impossible to surprise thorn, and a small force could have held the position against very heavy odds. The hotel on the mountain was burned sometime since, so that not more than seventy or eighty persons can be accommodated now, hut so attractive a spot can scarcely fail to command a numerous influx of visitors, and in a short tiuic, it is probable that another hotel will be erected. About a half mile from the hotel site, stands a large Female College, now unoccupied, and likely to remain so. "We suppose that the College was built there in order to be entirely secluded from the visits of men, but the sequel proves how impossible it is for the female sex to remain for any length of time from the baser (so called) sex, and the College is, consequently closed. It strikes us that it would be a good idea to turn this into n hotel, the only objection being that it is too far from the Point. About fivemiles from the hotel site is a waterfall of one hundred and fifteen feet, the stream from which falls into a lake, from which there is no visible outlet.? " Hock City" is, also, a curiosity. Large rocks form tlu houses, while the spaces befwiwi! 'irn rncml'ir and ttresent the UTJOCar , I X X ance of streets, whence the name. During the day, the thertnonictcr gels up to ab<*ut 8;??. but at night sleeping under a blanket is very comfortable, aud thereby u person is enabled to repair-the damage done by the heat of the day. The visitors are very sociable and quite a party from New Orleans arc visiting the mountain this year. AYe remained there but two days, the flight of time reminding us of the necessity of completing our journey, and then moved on to Sewanec, the site of the University of the South, an institution under the peculiar tutelage of the Episcopal Church at the i South, (jetting off the train on the Nash-j villo and Chattanooga railroad, at Cowan, we took the train which runs over the mountains to Tracy City, whence they transport coal in large quantities. The grade on this road is not less than two hundred feet to the / mile, and it is difficult to believe that such a steep ascent can be accomplished, but behind mi extremely powerful engine the distance % to the summit, seven miles, is accomplished ) in tlmty-fivo minutes. < The University is yet in its infancy, but i gives promise of great things and this year i there arc between two and three hundred students in attendance.- The boys are the best behaved set we have ever seen, and their behavior shows the effect of the excellent discipline which is brought to bear upon them. There is, in point of situation, no place Superior to Sewanec, as the health of 1 the boys is excellent and many persons visit j it annually for the benefit of their health. 11 Ml flia Ii.iva hfion thoroughly ortran-11 V"W "Vtwv... " * O * O izcd and there is every prospect of the University proving a thorough success. Unfortunately, our stay here was short, and we did not see all that wc desired, but we saw enough to recommend the institution to any one who desires to give his children a first rate education, under excellent moral influences. To shew how inconvenient travelling sometimes, is we will narrate our experience, in returning home. Leaving Cowan at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, we reached Chattanooga at 4 15 and leaving there at 4 30, we reached Atlanta at 12 20, p. m., and remained there, until 8 30 o'clock, next morning, whence we arrived at Augusta at 5 15 that afternoon and reached Columbia at 10 30 o'clock that night, where we had to remain until two o'clock the next day. Making the entire trip of more than five hundred miles inside of fifty-Jour hours; we laid over twenty four of them. We conclude our narrative by recounting an incident which was related to us by a gentleman near Sewaneo: During the terrible fights around Chattanooga, two large trains of wounded soldiers of the enemy were going from that point to Nashville ? About two miles tliis side of Cowan, ia a milft ??% InnrvfL o r? rl lmnn TVQCCl n CT bUllliCi ili UliiW All ivn^vu j uuu u \J\Jit |/huh(U|^ through a steep down-grade, is reached. The engineer of the rear train was not well acquainted with the road, so that he let his engine out as he passed the.tunnel. Whtte running round a curve, he saw just in his front, the other train. Seeing that.a collision was inevitable, he leuped from his engine, leaving the train to its fate. Kushing on, the trains collided on a high embankment, and nearly every car in both trains^ i was thrown from the track down the precipice, killing more than two hundred of the unfortunate soldiers. What a fate for those who had escaped the death of the battle-field ! The lVork of the Con veil Horn*. The so-called regular Republican Convention in Columbia has finished its work. The following are its nominations: For Governor?F J Moses, jr. (white) Lieutenant Governor?It H Gleaves, Secretary of State?II E Hayne, Treasurer?F L Cardoza Attorney General?S W Mellon, (w.) Comptroller General?S L Hoge, (w.) Adjutant and Inspector Gen.?II W Purvis, Superin't. of Education?JKJiilson, (w) Congressman from 2d District?A J ltansier Third District?It B Eiliott, Fourth District?A S Wallace (w.) Congressman at Large?It II Cain, Solicitor jttrst Circuit?L, W Jiutts, (yt.) Second Circuit?P L Wiggin, (w.) Fifth Circuit?J II Kunklc, (w.) Sixth Circuit?W H Brawley, (w.) Seventh Circuit?W McGill Fleming, (w.) Eitjhth Circuit?A B Blythc, (w.) The nomination of Moses was procured by open and exposed bribery, but drunk and blind with the lust of gain as the Convention was, it halted at nothing, but rather gave praise to Mosesfor his fraudulent practices. Judge Melton has seen fit to ally himself with such a leader. Can the Judge believe that corruption will cease now, or if Moses is elected, the most notoriously corrupt inan in the State? Some of the bloated ring have been turned out, but these fellows know that the best pickings and stealings have been exhausted. Moses and the pny certificates nearly wound up the means of operating. In * tne Doner's convention, tne nominations arc, as follows. For Governor?Reuben Tomlinson. (w.) Lieutenant Governor?J. N. Haync. Attorney General?J. T. Green, (w.) Secretary of State?M aeon R. Allen, Treasurer?Edwin F. Gary, (w.) Comptroller General?J. Scott Murray, (w.) Superintendent of Education?B L Roberts. Adjutant General?Philij Ezekicl. Congressman at Large?Joseph Quash. Our policy for the present is,- to have no- ' thing whatever to do with either of the tickj cts. The platform of* the Bolters is an- excellent one in many respects. Both parties ; support Grant and Wilson. Next week, wc j will give our readers a full account of the doings at the Conventions. Tlic Graut Democracy. Mr. E. F. Stokes, chairman of the so-called Kxccutivo Committee of the Democratic Party of South Carolina, gives public notice that during the remainder of tho campaign, liis head quarters will be in the city of Columbia, and all- Democrats of his way of thinking are invited to send him their names to be inscribed upon a roll of " patriots," which he intends to keep. ( Mr. Stokes may be a.man of honor; very ] likely lie is, but wlien he undertakes to op- \ pose Greeley, lie certainly aids Graut.? , Grant will' furnish him all the money he j and his coadjutors need, and since it lias j been made public that the Baltimore Bolter's j Convention was gotten up aud run by the j Now York Day Book, and since it^ foum t dation has been broken up by the desertion fi of its founder, is it not time that all sensible T mep should cease to bolieVe that this great, original and only pure Democratic party arrangement is aincoro ? It if a fraud and . swindle. (Our Foreign Correspondence.) Hamburg,?Hanover?,Berlin?Polsduiu,?The Rhine,?Domes Ac. H'amburq, July 23,1872. Dear Journal: Leaving Paris, tlfe Country does not prosent so fine an appearance, until about forty miles are passed, but there one strikes a most interesting locality. The railroad runs up a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains, with numerous canals crossing it, reminding one of the many railroads in London, for they seem to ran above and below the track, one upon the other.? Upon tho surrounding mountains are grown the vineyards which produce the delightful wines of France, and it is principally from these rocky peaks that the French government draws its millions to pay Germany. In the vineyards are numbers of men, women and children at work, and indeed, the women are more numerously employed in tho fields than men. Somewhat different from the style of our cdlored aristocracy. Strausburg was tho 'first city I stopped at after leaving Paris, and a very unpleasant contrast it presented, being vary old and ugly, nothing to be Been except the Cathedral Dome, which is said to be the oldest in the world. Wherever you go, you are invited to stop and see "the oldest and largest dome in the world," and upon a moderate calculation there must be at least two hundred and fifty of them on the Rhine alone. To me, they all look alike, and.black and old enough to rote if they were only in South Carolina. I left Strausburg fbr a trip up the Rhine, which river, so neble and majestic are its surroundings. I am ablo to pronounce grand! The scenery on the Hudson cannot compare with it. The Rhine has numerous bends in it, formed by the ourront sweeping round mountains sixteen or seventeen hundred feet in height, and before you roach them you begin to to think that it is necessary to run through the mountain, but as you ap proacb, the rocky fortresses recede and close again as you pw3 on. The sun never reaches these dark bends on account of the high mountains on each Bide, and it seems that you scareely pass one before you arrive at another of theso many bends- Finally, the "Seven Mountains" are reaohed, still higher than any before roached, presenting a scene of grandeur and boauty which delights the eye and kindles the imagination. Upon those steep and seemingly barren rocky mountains, the man who'drinks -the lager has cropt up step by step, and planted the grape which produces the delicious Rhine Wines, the finest that the world consumes. As in London and Paris, so on tho steamer. I had the good fortune to make acquaintances, one of whom I have visited and was very much pleased with his. family. Arriving at Cologne, my newly-made friends at once proceeded to visit the Dome?of course, again the largest and oldest in tha world, and this time the chargo is true, for it is not yet finished, has thousands of turrets and towers and is the finest I have yet seen. But I had made ^ip my mind never to look at another AAirin n*?/1 T linwA l-nnf mtr wnwl fni? Trllf*r? UUUIV UUU JL. ltd 1 V ?V|/V UJJ IIVIU^ ,IV4 ( liwu ever afterwards I arrived at a new place and. was directed to bo certain and see "the dome," I ran away and wo^ld'not look at one a mile off. From Cologne I went to Berlin The country through which we passed, I cannot call pretty oxccpt a portion of Westphalia. Of Berlin I have little to say, as I have no Hking for it, as it is the ugliest and dirtiest city I have ever seen. The Beer Gardens and some other buildings are .handsome, but Potsdam, a few miles from Berlin, the summer residence of the King and nobles, is a beautiful place. Potsdam is a small city of ten thousand inhabitants and is not iu itself anything remarkable, but iho palaces are situated in the midst of a glorious park. Nature and Art together havo mada it tho richest looking park I have yet seen. You enter Potsdam on level ground, but very soon hills spring up, growing to mountains, each one crested with a palace. "Sans Souoi" where the Queen resides, has the handsomest park of them all and is approaohed by marble steps, three hundred or more in number.?Fountains throwing their cooling spray into the air, tropical trees and flowers, beautiful hills and vales, birds flitting through the air rendering the placo musical with their twitterings, combine to make the surroundings of "Sans SoUci" a most delightful spectacle. A - J Ka n VA?1 foirr lnn/1 o rv X UlSUilUl IVCUiO IV uo ' i ! ' . SASHJEUBBOMS,. 1' VELVET RIBBONS, NEOiC .TIES, > ' f? ! r, ? Bonnet Si 1!.;, Satins. Velvets Sc Crapes, Flowers, Feathers, Ornaments, Frames, fee. ST5MW ROXTETW, ANT) Ladies' and Children's Hats, TUT*' MED AND UNT11I11MED. AND IX COXNEIIXNO WAKEllOOMS, "Wiiite CrO()(i,s5 LINENS, EMBROIDERIES, Lacc.?, Net::, Collars. Setts, Handkerchiefs, Veilir.gj Ilcad Nets, iv;c. &c. 237&23G Ealt'mire st. 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