The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-02
G E o r G A +.
Our Atlanta correspondence.
ATLANTA, Ga, August "a, 1866.
LEFT FOR ROME


after tedious ride for the twenty -four hours from
Knoxville, Tennessee, aud a scany supper Of bis
cult and cold ham We boarded train at four o'clock
p NJ yesterday bid friends hasty adieu and were
soon on the wing for Dalton As our ride from Knox
vile 10 Dalton in the night had opportunity OF
observing the country but from that place to Rome
noticed that it almost wilderness Here and
there we found corn field but did not SEQ single
stalk of cotton The country is very romantic abound
ing in hills and dales rocks precipces and murmurng.
hurting streams-arge numbers Of ''sherman monu-
ments, rife pits, forts, &c At every station we vera
beseged With ragged vendors OF melous peaches
&C., who cried out their articles Justify as though
It were a matter Of life aud death with them So
eager they to exchange their uxuries for green
backs that they would push each other aside and fight
for position the train. II was no novel sight
to see white Of the chivairy and black
boy engaged in pugIistic exercises contesng for posi-
ton They were motley crew, consisting OF men,
women and children of all shades aud coors Of
them before the in comfortable II not easy
circumstances but the has reduced them to the next
thing to beggary and starvation. Women who a few
years ago sat in their silks and satns with their diamond
pins and rings and up their the sight Of
Northern mudsi, glad to scanty sub
sistence by peddng fruit to them as they pass through
their country and by their houses in especial trans
''Sich is life" SWAY down South IN Dixie. 1"
WHAT ROME
The railroad leading from Kingston TO Rome, dis.
Of eighteen miles has only been in operation few
days, aud engine to which is attached old, rckey
car, that looks though might have been built stimuli
taneously with Noahs Ark, it whenever the
superintendent and directors ut to send it, There is
telegraph wire, and had to flag way, which
consumed good portion of the forenoon speak
not of
Rome, that sat upon her seven hills,
And from her throne Of beauty
Ruled the world;
but Rome, Georgia, of the meanes secession holes
in the late ''conthioveracy Rome, whose wrote
to their knights in the army requesting them TO send
home Yankee skulls with which to ornament the what
nos in their boudors Rome, upon which General Sher
placed an indeibe stamp that ages will hardly ef
face As rode into the city the first thing that met our
eyes the ruins consisting of piles OF brick and mortar
chmneys. broken machinery, &C. Unwashed and un
shaven men, bear.eyed dusky women aud dirty chill
dreu black and whe) almost nude the day they
born, stared at with much of wonder as did
Mexicans upon Spanish soldery under fernando
Conez We met a few Northern mcn-soldiers and
speculatorsat the depot who could give idea Of
the present condition of things From what could
the country round about there is in what might be
called chrysac condition, there being signs OF an
endeavor lift it from its ashes and inaugurate
system of things "What your people doing; are
they asleepg' said to intelligent looking citizen
whom rightly guessed was wag eyes sir; they are
as dormant Egyptian mummies and believe they will
sleep as long old Rip Van Wrinkle some Of you Yankees
don't come down here aud stir them up with sharp
stick. What want now is Yankee enterprise Yankee
ingenuity and Yankee go aheadveness there are for
tunes to be made, but people have no ambition left
Are there not men the North who contemplate emigra-
ting Souh? Eyes SIR bu, there other points the
South that offer better Inducements and Yankees will
dig where the mines are the richest Besides sir the
onnta init
that they would have to work with one hand and hold
pistol the other 81 admit that such has been the
some serious lessons recently, aud they are now
| looking anxously for Yankee faces. think
| being offered" 'What are theys' asked Well,
sir many Of us own large quantities OF land but we
hare not the whcrewitha TO cultivate IT properly. We
would sell portions Of it low figures in order to raise
money. We are also in need OF manufactures, and In
fact most any kind Of business would thrive" do not
OF the feeling generally for am satisfied that the gentle
only represented the more intelligent portion OF the
| community. He Is Pennsylvanian Dy BIRTH but re
moved to Georgia just twenty years ago. and the owner
of two large plantations He did own also, thirty
! negroes He did not know OF single field or cotton In
county, and says the grain crop will be inadequate to
their necessities They have little corn on hand and
the commander Of the post informed that no
pecting twenty thousand bushels to be loaned the
people by the government There is but little cotton In
the vicinity probably Ave hundred bales in the county,
but considerable quantities being brought TO Rome
from the border counties Of Alabama for sale The cur
price Is from twenty two to twenty-six cents per
|
| had failed to notify the slaves that they were
Free and still working them on the old system
| They yet cling, like drowning men to straws, 70 the
hope that slavery is not extinct and that, with the
aid OF the Northern copperheads the Southern members
Of Congress will be able to rekindie the dying emp RS
and by kind of chicancry breathe life INTO the
nostrls of the dead carcass was much astonshed tc
this and told them that the sooner they made up
their minds accept the stern logic oil events the better
They might well look for the resurrection of the thou
sands soldiers they lost in the war as FOR the resusc
tation of the 'pecuar institution"
ATLANTA
every inch OF ground is historic by the gaan
army of General sherman on Its march to the sea Chin
neys loom up like grim spcctres forts frown down from
every hill top, and miles of nrcnchmcnts stretch ou
either hand while the graves of thousands Of heroes
gone their final greet the eye Some are marked
rude headboards but over the greater majority the,
| Carved not a line, they raised not stone,
But left them alone In their glory
The town of Marietta still snoulderiug in its ruins
| II was ut one time beautiful village OF about tire
thou sand Inhabitants and boosted Of the best Stat
military schools tho coucderncy There seems to b.
no business OF consequence going on but the people
like those OF Rome have settled down into the Slough
Dcspond, and making efforts " oxtricate them
selves few whiskey shops Chose indispensable insii
whose only occupation seems to be to put demon II
their nelshbors' mouths to steal away their brains
| ATLANTA
Is rising phoenix like. from her ashes New buildings ar
being by Northern men, and large stocks OF good
are being received daily The Gate City Hotel-the onl
| one of consequence In the cty-is filled to overfowin
with strangers who pay four dollars per day for sub
and sleep either three 10 bed OF on tne 100.
1
the poor victims have chance snatch little rest
slcep-f the mosquitoes will let them Atlanta seem
70 be the great centre Of attraction for emgrans from
the North and hundreds Of them hocking In daily
| with no object view but TO look for location
Ground sells here for one.half than IL did befor
the war. One piece OF ground, upon which stood arg
hotel which offered, building aud all for bfty thou
sand dollars before the war; now held by the
! eighty thousand dollars, with building 1t havinl
shared the fate Of many others when Sherman paid nj
respects the place think there Is no doubt but
will be the metropolis Of the seaboard States In shor
time though il seems they crowding Il it'll
too fast Most OF the buildings erected are upon lease
ground and per only temporary structures
should we remain here Ia. morrow will tell 20
| more OF Atlanta after | have looked about
| TIE RAILROADS
over which We travelled generally In good con
dtion and trains at about twenty miles per hour
Many OF the bridges temporary aud not safe by an
! means; but they will DO rebuilt The Prosden
1 and some OF the directors of the Ohio and MississipI
Railroad are now here, being tour OF inspection
the roads, but what their object Is am not informed