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

! 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 shipment which the
| specuator knows to be probable, has likewise
Il depressing influence. We heard Of Il few
sales in the vicinity of Macon, Miss, Of mid
ding at 80 cents, but 40 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 in 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 seats so
| constructed that an easy reclining position is
impossible; the delights of the journey itself
fail to make any very lasting impression on
the mind The effect on the bones, however,
will be long remembered; we can't at present
| forget it if we would. In no spirit of fault.
finding or disparagement is this spoken. The
Mobile s Ohio Road has far more comfurtab e
| cars than any other Southern road how running
| it makes as good time, and the publicans by
the way-side 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, entertaining volume,
you may be, while daylight prevails, indepen-
dent and contented; but at night begins a
| tedious, weary season OF utter dullness unless
the fortune of the ears has given you All intelli-
| gent and communicative seat-mate. Conyer-
sation is the only relief of stupid wakcfulness,
| for to sleep you may not be able. The next
! best company to the man who can commuui.
cate some thing Of interest is the man who de-
clines to talk God help you if you get beside
the man maudlin drunk, who prates to no pur-
| pose. and continually begs your pardon for Of
! fenses 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 can
be found to laugh. This amusing C) company,
you may depend, Will insult every weak Or
friendless person who comes ID their way.
Their bullying bravado and audaclty in making
the newsboy and the negro vince under their
sharp iusolence inv okes the detesta,ion of any
passenger who has not the elements of a bully
in his own character.
There is one feature Of railroad travelling III
the West and South III striking contrast wltli'
the custom prevailing at the East. Hero one
car is reserved fer ladies and those travelling
! with them, while the remainder of the train is
| given up to gentlemen, aud men who are not
! gentlemen, who occupy, smoke, spit, swear
! and rnisdemean themselves at will-and if there
/ be on the train any gentleman to whom these
practices, or any of them, are dstastetul and
! abhorrent. lie has no retreat and no refuge
| of escape. At the East on the contrary, any
Individual who desires to smoke or otherwise
| indulge himself in a 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 o
being sickeaed and so seldom is there any
exhibition of rudeness or vulgarity that pei
sons of refinement of either sex upon taking
seats in the cars, no more expect to be lnsulted
or outraged in their sense of propriety and
purity than in their own drawing rooms. Sure
ly there can DE no man Of gentlemanly in
stincts who does not admit the Eastern prac'
tce TO be, 10y far, the more agreeable and more
desirable one. VIII any one say that 1t ls mo-
| practicable here ?-and if not practicable, lei
him. il he can, say why not, without rejecting
sadly on the degree aud character of our civil.
iAation.
1t seems to us that Mobile has all the natura
advantages Necessary in order to become the
first commercial city of the South and this
with the proper enterprise and forecast on the
part OF her citizens, she may accom-
pl ish. Her facilities for an extensive coast
wise commerce are excellent and direct ocea,
communication with the princi pal marts of th'
world Is practicable. At the head of the Ba,
into which two largen avgabe rivers, tn
natural highways Of a country Astounding il
fertility and agricultural wealth yet but par
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 fix the Location
and govern the growth OF metropolitan cities
Tho condition of the city AT present may b
, | described as that of Il convalescent. 1t is il
&" ,he stage Of recovering from long and cx
hausting fever which Frustrated the Who'll
system. But the life blood of industry, Oxygen
lied by free labor aud impelled by a health
enterprise, will soon reiuvigorate every mem
: Der, aud restore to tho whole body a highe
Il activity, energy and power than it ever kue'
s before Already the stranger in its street
'' discovers no indications Of ilangor. On tn
!, contrary, everything betokens prosperity IN
"a growth. To be sure, there are some evidence
in the outward aspect of the city of the tcrrb
( trial, but none which will not soon entirely u
;, oOGtcratcd.
l. We shall have more to say respecting u
:, city another day. Let this suffice for the prt
: sent.
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