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VOL. 8.
ATLANTA. GA., SEPTEMBER 20, I860.
NO. 8
Truk.—A coleiuporary says nothing is
moroct niniou than to hear people talk ol
what thi y pay newspapers lor edvertising
&c., aa so much g'.vea iu charily,and copies
the following from s<miu exchange, every
wind ol which is true:
“Newspipota, by enhancing the value ol
proper'y in their ueiglib n h tod, and giving
the localities in which they arc published a
reputation abroad, bent lit all such, particu
larly ii they are merchant? or real estate
owner?, thrice Ihc amount yearly of the mea
gre sum they pay lor their support. Besides,
every public spirit* d citizen has a laudable
pride in having a paper of which ho is not
ashamed, even though he should pick it up
in New York or Washington. A good
looking, thriving sheet helps to sell proper
ty. gives diameter to the locality, and in all
respects is a desirable public convenience.
11 lrom ary cause, ihe mailer iu the local or
editorial columns shuuld not be quite up to
your standard, do not cast it aside and pro
nounce it of no account until you are satisfied
that there has been no more labor bestowed
upon it than is paid lor. If you want a
good readable sheet, it must be supported.
And it must not be supported in a spirit
ol charity, either, but because you feel a
ntci-s.-'ity to supp >rt it. The local pres? is
the power that moves the people.”
♦ •*. —■
Wk emr the following from the Augusta
Constitutionalist. It is from the pen of one
of its correspondents, anil shows what oth
ers, than curst 11, think and say of the “Gate
City
Atlanta is mending her way9 And she can
shortly claim again to be the Gate City of
the Slate, if not the great one. The sound
ing bauimrr, ihe grating saw, the metal
clang of the trowel, the “aye, aye,” of the
hod carrier, the screaming locomotive, the
moving cars, the raiding wagons, the busy,
moving, jostling crowd, the tumbling down
ot old walls to be"replaced Dy new, is a fair
picture of Atlanta to day. Those who saw
the city a month since would be astonished
to see it now. Houses are built iu thirty
days and opened for trade with large stocks
ol goods.
When war commenced, Atlanta contained
about twenty thousand inhabitants; when
Gen. Sherman entered wiih his army there
were he.e only six'y two males and a few
bund rid ti males; io-dsv, even with halt
her fair proportions marred and charred b>
fire, she must number over ten thousand cit
izen«. Atlanta has had her phases; but
she is a busy place, and like the tabled biid,
was only burned to be renewed, and in her
renewal will be greater than before.
(iOOI) NEWS FROOT MISSISSIPPI.
The following extract from a letter from
Major A. J. Donelson, who recently left
this place on a visit to his plantation in Mis
sissippi, is encouraging. Every day our
hopes of Southern redemption are bright
ened. The white people and the colored
people will yet do their duty towards each
other, and the South be more prosperous
than ever:—Nashville Union.
Mem rats, Sept. 5, 1SG5.
1 am here on my return from the planta
tion, where I found affairs in the best pos
sible condition. There is better discipline
on the place than there has ever been. No
grumbling, no disobedience, no disorder
among the negroes, and as good a crop as
could have been expected after so great an
overflow.
The people are greatly cheered up by the
good conduct of Gov. Sharkey and Presi
dent Jehasou. Uadr their instructions there
will be no collision with the Freedman’s Bu
leau. The negroes on my place say they
never wish to leave it. As a general rule
all the plantations will be profitably worked
and the n«groe9 will be compelled to lulfill
their contracts.
Companies are forming and paying as
high as $15 per acre rent tor open lands on
the Misshsippi. It is also believed negro
laborers will build up the hvee.
The following Ci'MFLiicKNT is paid to
a man who has ever been a steadfast friend
to the South, in a New York letter to the
Macon Telegraph:
But >n Mr. B. Wood, editor of the Netos*
I found a man who, by his appearance,
commands inspect, and, by bis manners,
wins esteem. He is affable,geDial, friendly,
and bears “genius” and “character”
stamped upon every lineament of his face.
He would be taken for a man of mark any
where, and appears just the person to take
and maintain the bold stand he has, in pol
itics.
AN INTERESTING LETTER.
Wk ahr PKasiiTTBO to lay before our
readers ihe following interesting letter, ad
dressed to our fellovci'iz n, Col. R A.
Alston, in response to the one recently ad
dressed by him to Mr. Crec'y of the New
York Tribune, and which was copied ioto
this journal a few da?9 ago. The name of
the writer we withhold. It is to his experi
ence in the South, the scnUmenis he utteis
the conclusions at which he arrives—tl e
justice that he does our people—we invite
the attention of all c>nsei votive Northern
men. We aiso ste much in ibis lentr to en
courage our ow.i people; to sati3:y tienn
that they have friei.da in the N>>rih ; and to
subdue, as it should, that spirit ol hostility
to Northern men—“ Yankees”—which long
years of heated political controversy origi
nated, aud which war and its desolations fo
rneuted. Perhaps, iu days pas’, we have
indulged in this hostile feeling as much as
any one. In honest sincerity, we affirm that
the time is past lor its further indulgence.—
Honor, duty, interest, patriotism, alike for
bid it. In the new era that, has dawned,
new responsibilities devolve upon us, and
upon each individual ci;iz;:n of the South
Let all meet and bear them as mbn, not as
children 1 Then peace will come; ibeu law
and order will prevail—then the Federal
bayouet will disappear from our view—then
jusiice will be done us by the North, and
the South will once more be a land of plen»
ty. There is strength enough in the North-
to save the South from the degraded condi
tion to which radical fmat cism would re
duce her. Northern men—‘Yankees”—
who feel as the writer of thu following let
ter does, need have no fears a9 to their re
ception in Geoigia; it will be one ot such
welcome, as they would give to m —
Nay, we g> farther and say, notwith
standing they may slander and misrep
resent; mdign and persecute; ilie most
venomous black republican in the North
may pass from one end of our State to the
other, and none will attempt to make him
afraid, to molest his person, or to interfere
with his constitutional, political, or legal
rights. Such is the spirit that n >w prevails
among our masses—ninety nine out of every
hundred—of our people.
Below, the reader will find the letter to
which we refer:
Albany, N. Y., Sept. 4th, 1865
R. A j Alston, Esq :
Sir:—I have read your letter in the New
York Tribune with the most profound satis
faction. Two years in the South during the
war convinced me that, could it be* rightly
touched, there is a chord in the Southern
heart which would render the people thor
oughly, enthusiastically loyal to the Union
and the new order of things. Although
Northern in my sentiments, with the Tribune
for my organ, and Mr. Greely for my friend,
became enamoured of the Southern soil,
climate, and people. With small farms and
free labor, the South can be made to excel
the North in everything that goes to make
the wealth of a State; the soil and climate
combine to this end. We have long believed
what has proved to be a mistake, that North
ern men could not go South without the al
most certainty of losing their health. Sta
tistics will show that Northern troops in the
extreme South have suffered less mortality
from sickness than those serving in any
other section of the country. As to the peo
ple, I have never in my life met any who,
aside from their political notions, pleased
me so much ; my stay among them was the
happiest portion of my life; I have no lan
guage to express my delight. As command
ing officer of a District, I made myself per
sonally acquainted with the people, and my
inflexible rule was to treat them kindly,
justly, generously, Srmly ; saying to them
all—“ I recognise you as political enemies,
Southern and secession in sentiment, but I
will persecute no one for mere opinion’s
sake; no one shall be annoyed for his
thoughts or hisbelief; so long asjou are within
my lines I expect you to keep quiet, afford
ing neither aid nor comfort to the enemies of
the Union by word or deed; go to work;
cultivate your plantations; I will aid and
protect you.” They did go to work, and I
protected them To me and my authority I
believe they were in thought, word, and deed,
loyal from the crown of their heads to the
sole of their leet. They said to me often—
“If this were the Union, we could be con
teuted, happy, and loyal.”
I firmly believe there is a way to win the
heads and hearts of the South so that they
shall, if possible, be more loyal to the new
order than the North itself. I read it in
your letter; I kuow it lrom personal txpeii-
erce. Yet my faith has at times almost
for. ook me through the reports of the news
papers, whose informants and correspon
dents, I verily beliva, sine? reading your
letter, are false and bast. While serving in
the South I resolved to h cjte there after the
war, but have been alraid that “Yankees”
and “Yankee * Ulcers” would not ba well
received. Sj I have been studying the
newspapers, only to be more and more dis
couraged, and waiting replies to letters ask
ing for"intormation.
Your letter ’.o the Tr.bune is in the tine,
noble Southtrn spirit, as I experienced it.—
You are most happy in your expiessions,
and your lelttr cannot fail U> do good in the
right direction. And, radical as he is, Mr.
Grrely is the best friend the South has got
at the North. He has the ability, the power,
and the will, to do more for the real, lasting
good of the South/han any other man at the
Noith. Yon and be are both imbned with
the same spirit, and working to the same
end. The final, successful, and happy pa
cification of the South,will owe more to Mr.
Greely and the Tribune than to all others.
In writing yon, it was my intention to
have said more of a personal, and less of a
general nature. Being out of the service and
out of business, I am looking a new home,
with my inclination all toward the South.
Through the reported disturbances in nearly
every Sjuthern State, I wai about to aban
don my Southern preferences, when your
lei’er met ray eye in the Tribune, of which
1 m ii a daily reader—though I do not adopt
all ns notions. Mr. G. is a great and good
man, as the 'Tribune is one of the best and
ablest paper?. Your letter sounded like a
meesage from the friends I made in the
South. So kind, noble, and patriotic, were
its sentiments, I rtsolved at once to address
yon. Pi ay pardon and indulge the fretdom.
May I presume upon the spirit ot your let
ter, as it comes to me, to seek infoimatiou
and advice lrom you? I would be glad to
know something of your section and its
prospects. Whether purely’ agricultural or
varied, industrial pursuits are open ?—
For wha’ price lands can be purchased
compared with 1860? Are there streams
and water power, limber and farming lands
for9Hle? are there minerals ? Otcours
large capital has advantages, but are there
chanc ;s lor men of moderate means? and in
what business? Can plantations be had to
work on shares? Can partnerships be
lormed iu other Uiuds of business? Have
you uianuirtcturing hy water power? What
is the soil, limber ? <£e, &c.,
I might refer you to Guv. Fenton of N
Y.; Senator Harris of N. Y., and Mr.
Greely ot N. Y. If desirable can procure
honorable testimonials. A reply will greatly
obl'ge Your ob’i s’v’t,
N. B. I might mention numerous instan
ces like the ease ot your nearest neighbor.
In Louisiana I received calls from fami
lies who, before the war, had rolled in
wealth and luxuries—having horses and
carriages—coming to me now in a cart
drawn by a mule, so poor as to be unfit to
steal. Thus came refined and educated la
dies, with the same ease and elegance of
manners of their better days, saying to me
“they might as well laugh as cry, though it
w r as hard to bear.”
In both Louisiana and Virginia, I saw the
same class of ladies without servants, doing
their own work—many having learned to
spin and weave, and moke garments—and
actually spinning yarn, weaving cloth, and
making clothing for their families. Those
wno had never lifted a finger to labor,doing
it njw, however, with a grace and buoyan
cy altogether indescribable. This is cer
tainly a noble spirit; a spirit to be admired
and worshipped, however much we dislike
the cause. Such heroic conduct deserves
respect; and turned in the right channel by
wise counsels will make a country richer,
nobler, and more united than the world has
yet seen. So mote it be.
W. H. Watson, Assessor Internal Reve
nue 4’h District ot Georgia, has made the
following appointments as Assistant Assess
ors of his district:
1st Division, consisting of Troup, Heard,
and Meriwether counties, Henry Hodges, As
sistant Assessor—head quarters at LaGrange
Georgia.
2 1 Division, consisting ot Coweta, Fay
ette and Clayton counties, Hillsbury R^Har-
rison, Assistant Assessor, headquarters at
Newnan, Georgia.
3i Division, consisting of Carroll, Haral
son, Polk, Paulding, Ca r s and Floyd ct un
ties, J< bn J. Armstrong, Assistant Assessor,
headquarters Rome, Ga.
4 h Division, consisting ol Fulton, De-
Kalb and Henry counties, Daniel Snyder,
Assistant Assessor, headquarters Atlanta,
Georgia.
5 h Division, consisting of Cbattooca,
Walker, Dade, Cato* si, Whitfield, Gordon*
and Murray counties, George W. Selvidge-
A^sisiant Assessor, headquarters Dilton t
Georgia.
7 h Division, consisting of Towns, Rabun,
White, Habersham, Hall and Banks coun
ties, Aurelius M. Willoughby, Assistant As
sessor, headquarters Clarkesville, Georgia
8 h Division, consisting of Walton, Clark,
Madison, Hart, Franklin, Gwinnett and
Jackson counties, Henry R. Sanfoid, Assist
ant Assessor, headquarters Athens, Geor
gia
9 h Division, consisting of Cobb, Camp
bell, Cherokee, Forsyth and Milton counties,
William F. Dura, Assistant Assessor, head
quarters Maiietta, Georgia.
No appointment yet made for the 6 h Di
vision.
[communicated ]
The following pla, ful tribute to General
L“e may be justly cited in proof of the en
thusiastic devotion with which he inspired
the men whom he commanded.
At a dinner party, in January last, at the
Headquarleis of the Second Army Corps, it
was asked by one of General Lee’s staff of
ficers, if we had ever noted the care which
the General habitually exhibited in the ar
rangement of his hair behind—bestowing
greater pains there than in the front? To
which it wa9 replied by one of the officers
of the Corps’ staff, that the habit was exclu
sively appropriate in General Lee, tor, said
he, all the world's behind h ’m ! J. M. p.
Sympathetic, possibly with the ladies, or
rather in advance ol them, the General culti
vated the waterfall. Our repugnance to this
adornment, must henceforth cease, a gallant
man, even in the opinion of his enemies,
should be imitated in his virtues, and tolera
ted in his caprices.—[Ed. Int,]
From the New York Round Table.
TIIE FfTCJRE OF THE NEGttO.
In discuaiug the future condition of the
negro race |n this country, we beg leave to
say that w*j advance no opions that we are
not ready to abandon or modity under the
teachings of observation and experience.—
For the problem is so vast, it involves so
many new elements, that very different con
clusions miy well be reached by minds
equally dehrous, in good faith, to come at
the truth. fHe who has thought most upon
the subject will be the least positive and dog
matical in ?4s tone.
That slavery is now practically extinct in
this country is a fact which we assume as
beyond coEpoversy, and it is a result which
no well-organized mind can contemplate
without tiie greatest satisfaction. Nor
should, this satisfaction be confined by any
means to those who, for the sake of destroy
ing slavery, were willing to assume the per
ils and burAsus of a civil war. Men might
differ as t*rthe expediency of the means
used, they may differ now a3 to the cost of
the experiment, but all good men must re
joice that tjie land is free from the curse of
slavery. f
But the extinction of slavery does not
put an end to the relation of white men and
black men Sving together in the same com
munity, an<i refusing to coalesce or amalga
mate, and from this relation there arises a
new class ;*Hke ot duties and of dangers.—
As Anthony Trollope well says in his excel
lent work, “The West Indies and the Span
ish Main“The discontinuance of a sin is
always the commencement of a struggle.”
The hatred of slavery so general in the Nor
thern States, was a vehement sentiment,
and, like all such sentiments, it was undis-
criminating in its regards. It did not dis
tinguish the evils ot slavery proper from the
evils which spring from the lact of two
races livingon the same soil and separated
socially by the impassable barrier of color.
For the terrible fact in American slavery is
not that the slaves are slaves, but that they
are blacks. The emancipated slave trans-
>rnits to his remotest descendants the stigma
of slavery in the color of his skin. The ex
tinction of slavery gives new significance to
the question of race. The slave has ceased
to exist, but the black man remains. What
is to become of him ?
We assume it as a fact that God has cre
ated different races of men, and bestowed
upon them different degrets of capacity for
mental growth and material progress. He
has made white men and yellow men and
red men and black men. And he has im
planted in every human being certain sym
pathies and antipathies of race, which make
him prefer those of his own race to others ;.
and to this extent a repugnance of race must
be admitted to exist. That the white man
is superior to the black man iu intelltc ual
power, in force ot temperament, in rapacity
for progressive civilization, we presume no
one, nof, the most zealous abolitionist ,
will deny. The degree or extent of that
superiority it is unnecessary to discuss.—
Whenever a higher or a lower race meet to
gether on the samesoil, the testimony of his
tory is uniform as to the result, The lower
race either voluntarily assumes a position of
inferiority and subjection, or it disappears,
either by removal or extermination. Two
such races do not and will not blend to
gether so as to produce a third race, partak
ing of the characteristics of the other two.—
In England the aboriginal race has been ex
terminated, aud such must be the late ol the
aboriginal red man of North America. But
in Barbadocs, in India, in Cuba, and in the
Southern States, we see too Tacts livihg to
gether in acknowledged relations of superi
ority and inferiority, of domination and de
pendeuce. The elements are not identical
in these several countries, but they agree in
the one great lact or law above stated.
We trust that we shall not be set down as
an advocate of slavery when we say that
the condition of the black man in the South
ern States will not, for the present at least,
be in all respects improved by emancipation,
especially by emancipation imposed by, su
perior force, and coming at the close cf a
devastating war. For slavery, and the per
sonal familiarity to which it led, did some
thing toward modifying the repugnance of
race. The white child who was tended in
inlancy by an Afriean nurse, never recoils
in after life from a black face with the re
pugnance felt, though it may be overcome,
by one who perhaps never saw a negro till
the impressible period of childhood was
passed Beside?, the white man in a slave
holding community can venture to treat a
black man with condescenaing kindness, by
reason of the impassable social barrier that
lies between them. The black man can
never presume upon or take any advantage
ol the familiarity which the white man may
extend to him. The idea of rivalry between
the two races is as impossible as between a
man and his horse, or his doe-. But make
the black man the social, and, still more, the
political equal of the white man, and the
latter will constantly, by his manners, re
mind the former of the natural inequality
which exists between them. The EogHsh
civilian or officer in India treats his Hindoo
servants more distantly, more haughtily,
than the slave-owner in the Souih treated
his slaves. For the statement that theexiinc
tion of slavery does nQt lessen the repugnance
of race, we have the high autority of De Toc-
queville, who says: “Whoever has inhabit-
ed the United states must have perceived
that in those parts of the Union in which
the negroes are no longer slaves, they have
in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On
the contrary, the prejudice of the race ap
pears to be stronger in the States which
have abolished slavery than in those where
it still exists; and nowhere is it so intolerant
as iu those States where servitude has never
been known.” Again; “If I were called
upon to predict what will probably occur at
some future time, I should say that the abo
lition of slavery in the South will, in the
common course of things, increase the re
pugnance of the white population for the
men of color.”
equal freedom under the same government,
so insurmountable are the barriers which
nature, habit, and opinion have established
between them.” De ToequeviUe himself dis
cusses the future of the three races which
inhabit the territory of the United States in
a chapter which bears strong marks of his
penetrating and sagacious genius, and he
evidently considers the extermination of the
black race as a possible event in the future
Among other things be says: “When I con
template the condition of the South, I can
only discover two alternatives which may
be adopted by the white inhabitants of those
States; namely, either to 1 emancipate the
negroes and to intermingle with them, or,
remaining isolated'from them, to keep them
in a state of slavery as long as possible. All
intermediate measures seem to me unlikely
to terminate, and that shortly, in the most
horrible of civil wars, and perhaps in the
extirpation of one or the other of the two
races. ”
These are melancholly anticipations, and
yet history is not without teachings to con
firm them; and upon our own soil this les
son has been taught with peculiar force.—
We have seen, we ate seeing, the gradual
disappearance of a remarkable race, once iu
full and undisputed possession ot the whole
continent, and a race in some respects sit
perior to the African. That the Indian will
at some time or other utterly disappear
from the land, is a result which may be
predicted with as much confidence as any
thing in the future. Aud why, it may be
said, should not the fate of the negro be
like that ol the Indian ? The law is inexo
rable, that the, weaker race must wither and
die in the blighting shadow of the stronger.
At this day {he same process is going on in
the Sandwich islands, in New Zealand, and
in Minnesota. Everywhere the weak is
sacrificed to the strong. The Indian is of a
tougher and more tenacious fiber than the
African, but the white man’s stronger na
ture has bent and broken him. The poet
may lament, the sentimentalist may sigh
over the extinction of a race of such mark
ed and unique characteristics; but nature
is not governed by sentimental laws, nor is
the world carried on exactly as poets wonld
have it Outalissi and Chactas are fine fig
ures upon the poet’s canvass; but the earth
can better dispense with them than with the
homely, prosaic man who plants corn'and
weaves cloth. When the negro ceases to be
the white man’s slave he beginE to be the
white man’s rival, and the cutting edge of
the white mah’s rivalry will mow him down
like grass before the scythe.
Men who are no longer young, whose
temperament is not hopeful, who, in short,
are pessimists—to use a doubtful word oi
ri cent origin—will he inclined, to adopt aud
maintain the above views. But we are not
prepared to assent to them—certainly not
entirely and to their whole extent. They
seem to us the growth of & sweeping gener
alization which overlooks some of the mod
ifying elements of the problem. The ex
tinction of slavery may arrest the increase
of the black population? in the* Southern
State?, but we do not believe that it will
lead to their final, absolute disappearance—
We do not believe that the fate of the Afri
can on our continent is to be exactly parral-
lei to that of theTndian r and in another ar
tide we propose to state some of the grounds
on which that opinion rests.
There are not a few persons who are of
the opinion that the disappearance of the
negro begins with4.be extinction of slavery,
and that the time will surely come, though
no one now on earth may live to see it,
when a negro will he as strange a spectacle
upon the soil of the United States a3 an In
dian is in one of our Atlantic cities. “Noth
ing,” says Jefferson, as quoted by De Toc-
qHeville, “is more clearly written in the
book of destiny than the emancipation of the
blacks, and it is equally certain that
the two races will never live in a state of
Fr.m the Lexington Gazette.
GEN. R. E. LEE PRESIDENT OF
THE WASHINGTON COLLEGE,
LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA.
The gratifying duty of announcing to tbe
country the acceptance by General Robeit
E Lee cf the presidency of Washington
College has been devolved upon the under
signed by the Board ef Trustees of that In
stitution. The accession of this distinguish'
ed gentleman to the Faculty of this venera
ble College, and as Its honored Chief, is des
tined, we trust, to mark the commencement
ot a new era in its history, and most cor
dially do we congratulate its numerous
friends on this most auspicious event. The
high noble, and patriotic motives which im
pelled our beloved Chief, in accepting the
honorable, but comparatively humble posi
tion tendered to him by the authorities of
the College, must win for him a new title to
the admiration and love of his countrymen.
The College, under the administration and
supervision oi General Lee, will resume its
exercises on the 4th instant.
At a.meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the College, convened in Lexington, on
Thursday, the 31st ult., the following reso
lution was unanimously passed, the publica
tion of which is demanded as an act of jus
tice alike to General Lee and themselves:
Resolved, That the Board heartily concurs
iu and fully endorses the sentiments so well
expressed by Gen. Lee, in his letter of ac
ceptance of the Presidency of Washington
College, that ‘fit is the duty ot every citizen,
in the present condition of the country, to
do all in his power to aid in the restoration
of peace and harmony, and in no way to
oppose the policy of the State or General
Government directed to that objectand
that “it is particularly incumbent on those
charged with the instruction of the young
to set an example of submission to aulhorU
ty:” sentiments that cannot fail to com
mend themselves to the approval of the
President of the United States, and to the
unqualified assent of all sensible and virtu
ous citizens.”
la dedicatiog his future life .to the holy
work of educating the youth of his country,
General Lee presents a new and interesting
phase of bis grand and heroic character, a
character than which no more perfect mode)
exists among living men. “ ’Tis a model
fabric and will well tnpport the lanrels that
adorn it.” L t the young men of tbe cono-
try, North as web as South, be wise, and
profir, not less by bis precepts, than by his
example. John W. Brockbnbrough.
Rr-ctor ot Washington College.
Lexington, Va m Sept. 1st, 1865.
Thr feat of breaking the bank was again
achieved on the 12ih* at Baden-Baden, and
this time by three players, one of whom
was the Maltese millionaire who performed
it alone exactly a month before. Another
was a Russian prince, who played very high.
The three champions chose the black.—
There are at present at Baden Baden seve
ral.individuals who are noted for their ex*
iraordinary luck, and it is given out that
the bank is in danger of losing this year —
Nothing is said, however, about those unfor
tunate individuals who are broken by the
bonk. That teat ii not so eXlraordioaiy.
— .
Thz London Times speaks of Gladstone
as “ discrowned and disrobed of his aca
demic encumbrances,” and as having “gone
into the ranks of industry and retrieved his
disaster.”
ltTC«Jf.
Tbe (oft ctlna days of miltanin once agists
Have brought that lovely melancholy Welt \ .
Which bind* the hearts of thinking, dreaming men
With that mysterfona lingering ken
Which, tf It has no fature tale to tell.
May tarn into forgotten past and dwell
On all it* scenes of happinets and pleasure then.
And while theaun is struggling to diffuse .. .
IU bright effulgence through the soft dfm air,
It Is not aU within our power to choose
The many subjects .of our though ta v but muse—
In memory freed trom every care—
In thought to wander—scarcely knowing where
Wtile subject to this changing, mystic, Autumn ruse.
Who has not stro'led along some aylvl ,n stream,
To h?ai the genUe whispering of the tide,
When leaves were falling through the sun’s pale beam,
And watched alone till aU was like a dream f
And in that dream how many to our side
Have come again, with genUe words to cMde,
By saying, '*Ah, how cold we aU, in absence seem ?”
How oft I’ve asked the future if ’twere mine •
To live so good, so upright, and so pure,
That, when this life was sinking In decline,
The Ught of Heaven would as softly shine
As this to-day, and calmly thus allure
Tbe chastened soul to realms that .hall endure ;
Where all is like the God who made It—alt divine.
Louisville Freight Controversy Set
tled.—The controversy which has been
going on recently between the Louisville,
(Ky.) merchants, the Express Companies,
and Railroad, the Nashville Press & Times
pronounces settled, and publishes the fol
lowing correspondence, which will be found
interesting to the merchauts of Atlanta and
the South:
Louisville, Sep. 7, 1865.
To the President and Directors of the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad.
Gentlemen In compliance with a res
olution of the Board of Trade, and repre
senting the business interests of the city,
the undersigned committee desire respect-
folly to Invoke the prompt action of yonr
Board in making the necessary negotiations
with the managers of the different railroad
companies connecting with yom road at
Nashville, which will insure to our mer
chants and manufacturers, at an early day
through bills of lading for freight at fair
rates to all the important cities and towns
connected with ns by railroad and trading
with this city.
In addition to the regular freight line, the
business interests of the city would be great
ly promoted by the establishment of a fast
or time freight line, with through bills of
lading from yonr company at tair rates of
freight, and extending to the cities and towns
above indicated.
All the principal Eastern railroad compa
nies have a regular freight line and a fast or
time freight line under their own manage
ment; this is all we ask.
We have fall confidence in the ability of
year road successfully to make Buch ar
rangements as will ultimately result, not
only in greatly promoting the business of
our city, but also in greatly increasing the
trade and travel of all the roads forming
such a combination.
We are aware that in the present disturb
ed state of affairs in the Southern States,
you will have difficulties to encounter, but
they cannot be insurmountable, since, not
withstanding the military occupation of the
roads South of Nashville, there is a monop
oly obnoxious to our business men, and also
to the bnsiness men South of ub, and having
no community of interests either with our
city or State, is now giving through bills of
lading at enormous rates of freight to the
points named.
With the Southernj’ailroada alJ.rcstored to
their respective companies, there can be no
serious difficulty in accomplishing an ar
rangement so essential to the business and
prosperity of our city and advantageous to
all concerned.
Asking your favorable consideration of
this important matter, with an earnest de
sire to procure from you such a response to
this appeal as will give to those we repre
sent the strongest assurances that you will
carry out their wishes as indicated in this
communica' ion, we remain,, very respect
fully. Yotir obedient servants;
W. B. Hamilton
James Bridgfobd.
R. A. Robinson.
Louisville, Sept. 9,1865.
W. R Hamilton, James Bridgeford, R A.
Robinson, Committee:
Gentlemen:’Your letter: of the 8th baa
been reqeived and laid before our Board of
Directors. I am re qnested, in reply, to say
that the Louisville and Nash tf lie railroad is
in possession of au equipmentJully sufficient,
as they believe, to do promptly and to the
satisfaction of shippers, all the freight busi
ness between Louisville and Nashville, and
on their branches, and as soon: as the rail
roads South of Nashville are restored to the
control of their stockholders; the Directors
of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to
all points connected with them by rail, and
as soon as they, can safety do so, will arrange
for through bills of lad.ng^ in encourage
ment of the busineas ot the road; they will
also endeavor to secure 8 tariff of rates over
all the roads which wijl be tair and just to.
the shippers and stockholders.
The fretgnt business of the road has been
confined to regular freight at the same tariff
and time to all shippers. Until now there
has been, no call for a fast time freight line
on their road, and a fast time freight line
with other roads can’t be made;without the
concurrent action of the connecting roads.
The Directois are prepared to give such a
line, with the concurrence and in conjunc
tion with other roads, a fair consideration
and trial, so that shippers shall have the ad
vantage of such a line over the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, and Southern con
necting roads.
Fast time will always require a greater
expenditure thau slow time, and tor that
reason requires a higher tariff. If such a
line is a separate organization front that of
the regular freight Hue, the cost of the or-,
ganizatioa must he paid • for, and that will
enhance the tariff. If the se parate organi
zation must have a profit, that will also en
hance the tariff.
The Directors will .investigate how fast
freight lines are organized and operated by
Eastern railroad companies, separate from
their regular freight lines, and how the joint
organizations are arranged, with every dit-i
position tp give shippers over-the Louisville
and Nashville railroad all the advantages of
such fast freight line?. The objects to be
obtained are well expressed by the commit.-'
tee, but might not result from £ fast freight
line organized for profit,yet might from one
organized by connecting roads. The Direc
tors desire that shippers should acqUa£at
themselves with the tariff and regulations
of the company and make known their ob
jections and their suggestions for-improve
ment. They will give them.a fair conside
ration and act according to their best judg
ment for the interest confided to their irnsL
Very respectfully,
JamksGuthrie, Pres.
New Spangled Things.—Mrs. Partington
says she can’t conceive why people now.-a-
days are continually getting up so many * 1
new spangled things. Digby, Who was pre*
sent, wished to know to what she ’ particu
larly alluded. The old lady laid, down the
newspaper she was reading, and gravely, re
plied: •; . -ur
“Why, la! T see they have got to mafang
trout preserves,^ jest as though people didn t
have .enough, things to make preserves od^
without making ’em ef fish.” . . _
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