The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-06-18

TRAvEL.-As was predicted, the through
travel is increasing rapidly, and our railroads
are bound to do an immense business in car
rying passengers. NiEe years ago when this
paper commenced advocating the conslrue-
:ion of the East Tennessee and Georgia rail-
road, the enterprise met not only with OPP
position, but storm of ridicule greeted all
who favored it. The proposition to "bulld
a railroad parallel with the broad and maj S.
tic Tennessee" was treated as preposterous.
Well, We have lived to see, not only that
road built, but an entire line of roads COM
pleted, connecting New York and New Or
leans and bringing those hitherto remote
points in daily intercourse. Though in the
prime and vigOr of life, we can recollect
when the commercial marts Of the Union
were long weary weeks apart, and when a
man LEFT his cold Northern home for the
sunny South he generally made his will and
called in all his friends and acquaintance,
and babe them farewell in a solemn manner,
like one closing up his earthly affairs, or
starting on n pilgrimage fraught with immi-
nent periIs on every hand. Now, thanks to
the genius and perseverance of few enter
prsing and sef-sacificing men, lie may take
the cars at New York on the first day of the
week, visit New Orleans and reach home the
following Sunday in time for Church, ira
versing the length Of the Union to and fro.
Should our valuable existence be spared TO
the country and our friends ten or dozen
years longer, we have no doubt we shall be
able to make the trip to California and back
by rail in half the time il used to consume
in going from any of the Eastern cities 10
New Orleans. What has already been ac-
complshed under almost insurmountable
difficulties, gives us an earnest of what the
genius and enterprise of the country will
achieve in the next decade.
Not appropriately we annex the follow
ing paragraph, which we find afloat
"The trial of Aaron Burr was going on in
Richmond, Va, June 8, 1907, and the Court
was detained by the nOn-arriYal of Gen. Will
kinson from New Orleans. Mr.. Kay, the
United States Attorney said" We have
looked at the map, and find the distance from
New Orleans to Richmond, 1870 miles. II
he comes by land, he must travel on horse
back. lie could probably ride so miles per
day, and by this data, he would require 45
days from New Orleans to this city"
IRELAND.-A fund of one hundred thou
sand dollars has been raised in New York to
proselyte the poor Papists in Ireland and win
them over to the Protestant faith-in other
words to open n new field for missionary
speculation. Meanwhile the Papish Church
in America is winning over hundreds of Pro-
testants to the Catholic faith, and in the very
precincts where the hundred thousand dol
lars was raised for this purpose Of question
able practicability, squalid poverty holds its
cheerless home, and widows and orphans dali
ly cry for bread. The ways of man are mys-
terious beyond finding out.
KASsAs-H. A. Defriese advertises in the
Cleveland Banner for one hundred volunteers
TO 60 to Kansas. He says he wants men who
are "not afraid of the smell of gunpowdcr
or tho glitter of steel" A good many of
that sort have already gone TO Kansas-some
of whom have settled down into quiet citi-
zens, and the balance are now outlaws and
brigands, pIundering and numbering wherever
they can do so. If Mr.. Defriese will take
our advice, he will stay "to home" There
is neither honor or glory to be CLEANED in the
fields of Kansas Just now.