The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-08-06


TO peruse them.
SUGAR MiLLs AND KErTLEs-Persons in
want of Sugar Mills and Boiling Kettles, will
find an excellent article of both at the Athens
Foundry and Machine Shop. See advertise
ment mex: page.
RiTrEsHoUsE AcADEMY.--The Winter
Session OF this Institution is advertised 10
commence on the 9Th day of September
Kingston is pleasant location, the School
Is under the charge ofan accomplished Prn-
cipal and Assistants and We are gratifed 10
learn that it is in furnishing condition.
"RAILRoAD MAsAGEMssr."--The reader
who takes any special interest in such mat
tiers, will find, in another part of this paper,
q letter from Knoxville or Railroad Man.
agement. We are not right certain that we
understand precisely what the writer of that
letter is driving at, rs we have been within
the last few days in n slightly depressed
condition" ourself, the natural result perhaps
VI ptCNOuo CICNattubs uut u uC WcuHS WNut
he says, that the Railroad (or Railroads) was
built expressly TO benefit Knoxville, or the
interests Of any particular portion or class of
the citizens thereof, we beg leave to dissent
from the conclusion in toto. We have al
ways understood that railroads were de.
signed to open up facilities for travel,
furnish outlets to markets and afford opportu-
mites for commerce, induce spirit ofmanu-
featuring and develope the natural resources
of the country--and when towns along lines
of transit are benefited, rs they always are,
through the benefits conferred upon the coun-
try generally, that Is all they have n right to
cxpect-and If men who wish 10 realize
fortunes by rapid and wild speculation
overcrop themselves, the fault locates not
with the railroads nor the policy that directs
and controls them. We pitched our camp in
ahis county ten years ago and commenced
the publication Of paper mainly to advocate
the building Of the East Tennessee and
Georgia Railroad; and all we have said on
the subject was induced by the belief that
the enterprise would result, not to the bene.
fit Of Dalton, Cleveland, Charleston, Athens,
Loudon, or Knoxville particularly, but to
The whole country penetrated and contiguous
10 the line. But il we had believed that
Knoxville was to be the sole beneficiary Of
the Road, Us some Of our friends up that
way seem TO think, we should have left the
work Of advocating and defending altogether
with the "City Editors" some of whom have
sopported il with much zeal and ability, and
others Of them fought it with the fist Of
wickedness from the word 60, down to the
present time, aud perhaps not done yet
The efforts Of the last, however, have amount
ed to nothing. The road has been built in
despite of such efforts and in the face Of
greater difficulties and under more embarrass.
ing circumstances than those who now as.
sail its management could have overcome. -
II is an important link in the great chain
reaching from New York to New Orleans, ria
Knoxville, and without il even the large
speculations in real estate would never been
made, land Knoxville would now be what il
was fifteen years ago, a respectable little vii
lage, of twelve hundred Inhabitants, with not
even Custom-House in it. II now boasts
m aggregate Of six thousand Inhabitants
And yet the Railroad has done nothing for
Knoxville! But why say any thing more!--
Every one must see at n glance that Knox
vile has been more largely benefited than
all the towns on the Road, and if u has Grip.
pied itself by wild system of speculation
and IN unnatural expansion, in the name of
justice don't hold the railroad management
responsible for the result! Again, if there
had been no railroad, where would the Gas
Works be nows 'Answer us that, Master
Brcoksr' or forever hold your peace.
But after all il may be that our Knoxville
letfer-writer lie not In earnest, but only prac-
tcipg upon our simplicity. u is hard to be-
lieve that any sane man would require pas
sengers to be brought there at shutdown and
detained until next morning, in order tina,
they might have IN opportunity to visit the
city and its beautiful environs. But whether
serious OF not, II Is too absurd to merit dis
eussion, and we therefore drop Il, rs learned
lawyer of this peishborhoOd did his case af-
ter he had been talking on II two hours and
three quarters, with infinite disgust
WELL Posrsp.-The New York Herald
HAS psblislicd twice within the last two
weeks that Tennessee was 10 have an election
In August for members TO- che Legislature
Tennessee held an election last August, and
her Legislature only meets once In two years