Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-26

average one per acre, yet the total crop will
not exceed the estimate made while it was
growing. Most of the Government cotton has
been removed to market, and what remains is
in private hands, This too, will doubtless seek
the great markets as soon as the railroad can
supply facilities for the purpose. The transac.
tons in cotton are at present very light, hold.
ers demanding more than buyers are willing to
give in the present unsettled condition of the
market The delay IN shi pment which the
Spectator knows to be probable, has likewise
q depressing Influence. We heard of few
sales IN the vicinity Of Macon, Miss, of mid
ding at 50 cents, but 10 cents was in most
cases demanded.
Railroad travelling has its unavoidable dis
comforts under the most favorable conditions,
and when the average rate of speed is but ten
miles per hour, when the cars by long usage
are badly worn i'll the most comfortable spots
when you get but Indifferent meals, in shabby
hotels, at exorbitant prices; and when you are
obliged to take your nights nap on seats SO
constructed that an easy reclining position is
impossible; the delights Of the journey itself
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the mind. The effect on the bones, however,
will be long remembered we can't at present
forget tiff we would. In no spirit of fault
finding or disparagement is this spoken. The
Mobile & Ohio Road has far more comfortable
cars than eny other Southern road how running
it makes as good time, and the publicans by
the wav-side are no more exorbitant. All we
mean to say is, that there is precious little plea
sure to be experienced in car ride to or
from Mobile. If by thoughtfulness, you have
provided for solace. an entertaining volume,
you may be, while daylight prevails, indepen-
dent and ccntented; but at night begins a
tedious. weary season of utter dullness, unless
the fortune of the ears has given you an intell-
gent and communicative seat-mate. CONVEX
sation is the only relief Of stupid wakefulness
| for to sleep you may not be able. The next
! best company TO the man who can communi-
cate some thing of interest is the man who de-
clines to talk. God help you if you get beside
the man mauilin drunk, who PIRATES to no pur
| pose, and continually begs your pardon for Of
| lenses he has not committed
There is a crowd invariably to be found on
| every car, between whom and yourself
you will seek to put a wide space
This is the knot Of loud-mouthed young men
having more vanity than sense of propriety,
who feel called upon to play the clown to an
! audience which cannot escape, and will pro-
long the exhibition while another clown
be found to laugh. This amusing e. company,
you may depend, will insult every weak or
frendless person who comes in their way.
Their bullying bravado and audacity in making
the newsboy and the negro vince under their
sharp insolence, invokes the detestation of any
passenger who has not the elements of bully
in his own character.
There is one feature Of railroad travelling in
the West and South IN striking contrast with
the custom prevailing at the East. Hero one
car is reserved for ladies and those travelling
with them, while the remainder of the train is
given up to gentlemen. and men who are not
! gentlemen, who occupy, smoke, spit, swear
! and misdemean themselves at will-and if there
| be on the train any gentleman to whom these
practices, or any of them, are distasteml and
abhorrent, he has no retreat and no refuge.
Of escape. At the East, on the contrary, any
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indulge himself in manner liable to be Often
sive to any gentleman or lady on the train, is
expected to withdraw to the smoking car,
which is especially provided and furnished for
the accommodation Of such, or, in case where
there be no smoking car, to the baggage car.
Thus it happens that, in the rest of the train,
ladies and gentlemen may ride without risk 0
being sickeaed and so seldom is there any
exhibition of rudeness or vulgarity, that pei
sons of refinement of either sex upon taking
seats ia the cars, no more expect to be insulted
or outraged in their sense OF proprlety and
purity than in their own drawing rooms. Sure
" there can be no man of gentlemanly in
st;ncts, who does not admit the Eastern prac
tice to be- by far the more agreeable and more
desirable one Will any one say that it is no
practicable here land if not practicable, le
: him, if he can, say why not, without rejecting
sadly on the degree and character Of our civil
ixation
1t seems to us that Mobile has all the na.ura
: advantages Necessary in order to become th'
first commercial city of the South and this
with the proper enterprise and forecast on the
part OF her citizens, She may accom-
ish. Her facilities for an extensive coast
wise commerce are excellent, and direct oceal
communication with the principal marts of tn
$ world IS practicable. At the head Of the Ba
into which two largen avigable rivers, tn
natural highways of a country Astounding il
fertility and agricultural wealth yet but par
e TALLY developed; the terminus of q line of rail
road destined TO be one of the most importan
arteries of travel and traffic on the continent
Mobile cannot, il she would escape the opera
| ton Of inevitable laws which Tx the Location
and govern the growth of metropolitan cities
The condition of the city at present may ID
) described us that OF !, convalescent. 1t is il
&c the stage of recovering from a long and ez
lausting fever which Frustrated the Who'll
system. But the life blood of industry, Oxygen
lied 10y free labor and impelled by health
enterprise. will soon reinyigorats every men
Der, and restore to the whole body Il highe
# activity, energy and power than it ever kne
8 before. Already the stranger in its stree
>. discovers no indications OF Hanger. On I'll
t, contrary, everything betokens prosperity an
- growth To be sure, there are some evidence
i'm the outward aspect of the city OF the terrib
g tr,al but none which will not soon entirely i
r, obliterated.
J. We shall have more to Say respecting tt
" city another day. Let this suffice for the pr
: sent