The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-01

ming ORDER again, me rusa Of travellers
and mail matter is overwhelming. The
trains, station-houses, hotsls and way-
side homes are overlooked By the mighty
multitude. crowding and jostling each
other; and he is considered happy
mortal who secures standingroom in
box-car, or chair It hotel on which to
snatch little sleep. So much for the
ffeshet.
The injury done by Sherman to the
railway lines in Georgia has not yet been
repaired. The railways from Macon and
Montgomery to Atlanta will soon be in
running order again; but it will require
several months to restore the upper end
Of the line between this city and Atlanta.
No effort has been made thus far to relay
the. track Of the Georgia Central rail-
road between Gordon, q station twenty
miles below Macon, and Millep. Until
these gaps can be closed M tue Govern
ment is forced to rely upon trains,
which are doing all that could be ex--
pected at this rainy period Of the year.
But the heavy rains have embarrassed
the operationsof the enemy as we'll as Of
ourselves. The freshet which did so
much damage to bridges and railways in
the hill country, where the water WAS
confined to narrow channels, upon APPS
preaching the coast, spread out over wide
tracts Of level country, and rendered al
movements across the direction of the
water-course wholly impossible for some
time. For this reason there need be no
apprehensions Of an immediate raid from
Savannah into Southwestern Georgia,
the teeming granary of the Confederate
States. This enforced delay on the part
Of the enemy win give our authorities
time to prepare for q movement into that
part Of the State, which there is every
reason to believe will be undertaken as
soon as the waters Subside..
It were folly to attempt to disguise the
fact that there is very great discomfort
in this State and in South Carolina and
North Carolina. With trifing excep-
tons, there is no desire on the part Of
the people for reconstruction of the
Union; but candor compels me to say
there is wide and deep-seated dissatisfac,
ton at the management Of public affairs,
which, if not timely checked, threatens
to produce the gravest disasters. Ishall
not undel take to say whether this dis
content is the result Of unavoidable mill
tary reverses, 7or Of Encouragement by
our civil and military authorities, or Of
the teachings Of factious press, which.
thinks it q light affair to destroy thecon-
fidence Of tho people in their leaders, or
of the sordid spirit Of gain which hss
taken such hold upon the country. It
may be that all Of these causes have com.
bined to produce the deplorable state of
dissatisfaction, dependency and faction
in which / have found the people all
along my circuitous route from Rich
mond to Augusta. But that great dis
content does prevail, and that it threat
ems, like cloud oyercharged with cleo
tricity, to vent itself upon the nearest
object possibly upon the cause itself,
which now engages every patriot S heart
there is not the shadow Of s-doubt.
The opinion here expressed has not
been hastily formed It has been more
tksn : month since the writer left Rich
mond he has mingled freely with peo-
pie Of Ill shades Of opinion; with the
friends IS well IS with the opponents Of
the Administration and be IS painfully
convinced that he does not exaggerate
when he says that tho authorities ct