The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-31

as characterizes it from Augusta to Washington The
land Is more fertile here and cultivation advanced
but the same external natural marks and wood aora
variety are observable here as there.
MEMORIALS OF THE WAR
The breastwork lines and rife pits Of shcrman's ad
Atlanta and the counter works and pits cross
your route frequently For miles upon miles the fused
and confused metal work of the road ID hung all along
the track You often pass stout oak tree, with dozen
or two monster iron rails twisted around its trunk
though they had been 80 many bars Of flexible wire
You often pass pile Of rails curled and conorted into
the most fantastic shapes
II used be the CUSTOM when these railway RAIDS were
initiated TO pluck up the track and push the rails ASIDE
But that found TO be only an interruption whcn was
Of comparatively easy and speedy remedy. 80 TINS
method devised which, by the action OF intense
heat rendered the utterly unfit for proximate USE
Not mile of the road from Palmetto station to Atlanta is
without mountaineering memorials OF that new deVce
THE PALMETTO STATION
have just named is ON the road from West Point TO
Atlanta It was the headquarters Of General J. B. Hood
when he advenured his overreachng march into Ten
nessee and this cleared the coast for Shermans tactics
There are but three houses at the station the
principal one Of these having clump Of dwarash pal
mettoes in front-whence the name of the place. 1t was
behind these pametoes that Hood and Davis and Bragg
planned the campaign which dug their last ditch
THE pEsoLAnoN OF ATLANTA COMPLETE.
1 have seldom behed desolaton more complete than
the first sight Of Atlanta presented coming from the
south side For many miles the track Of ruin prepared
one for culmination-yet the shock was great
II is not my purpose describe what in Atlanta,
for has been often done already. only wish to in
dictate my own Impressions When had previously
visited the Cyss Georgians proudly called Allan
ta-only three years BEFORE it alive with all which
n I,.,;tI ;r~o H. ,o
whole country surpassed those then covering acres Of
the scene now heaped over with broken bricks and
burned timber and all other description of architectural
ruin The extensive hotels the stately stores and every
familiar Landmark of three years ago. gone-shrveled
up into heaps of unsighty rubbish
One has sensation Of melancholy who views fompeii
or Hcrcuaneum for the first time. Such thing one
might have too If the colossal form OF some immured
city OF the past unveiled for the contemplation OF
the present But who that fever saw Atlanta In the iu
flush of life can look with more melancholy at Atlanta,
thus manged in her shroud the CHASTITY semblanco
of tortured corpse and yet not corpse The spectacle
enforces not melancholy merely; but
pang and then grief void, dark and drear;
sti1ed drowsy, unimpassloned grlei,
Which finds natural outlet, no RELIEF
In word, or sigh, or tear
SIGNIFICANT CoILOoUY
ssCome," said friend who met me at the depot-oe-
pot, did sayP 1t should have been at place whero
once depot had been--"Come, said he, "cease con-
tempating this havoc and let me show you what shocks
me more-shocks me in my honor as q Southern man.
ssWhat other fright skeleton have you heref'
ssce it yonder-there, where those crowds press on
each other"
ssThoy are soldiers Confederates, too What do you
meanf"
"Dont You observe with what eagerncssthey crowd
all those doors and windows, and jam up the street
That's the place for their parade. Now, one-tenh OF
these crowds have been skukng the Georgia thickcs
Had il been the drum and 1fo sounding ITO arms! to
arms for the of that which has become the
ruin around u.s. these fellows would scatter as from
threatened shower Of grape. SEQ the men, and under
stand mo-"
IRISH ny REBEL SOLDIERS FOR IMAGINARY PAY
1t certainly pleasant sight for true secessionis
soldier Al least two thousand showed and shout
dered each other to get chance OF obtaining 'pay
rol-for 30 they all pronounced t. seldom witnessed
more eagerncss the pursuit Of any prize And the
crowd OF that day only repetition OF the crowds
every day for week before and foreokeDng OF those
that daily followed for several weeks subsequently, AL
or nearly ALL Of the stay stamp of soldiers
those thus canorous for this talismanic 'pay roll"
xxcrs OF PAaoLED REBEL soLD,ERs IN TIL
Think Il would be both curious and instructive TO give
the numbers Of paroled at different stations as d
Atlanta OF course do not mean the mon whose com
mands being duty in the vicinity at the time OF sur
render we're paroed with their commands ut these sta
tons mean the who, ON one pretencs or other
| got their paroles apart from their commands.
Ir the numbers could be given, think you would nn'
more paroed prvates the South than were In tn
field at any time or under any circumstances Indeed
have beard Of one Georgia regiment, which had mus
tcrcd fighting strength of one hundred and hfy men
having paroled strength OF one thousand two hlndre
and eighteen men! am inclined to think that half th
rebel regiments exhibited equally marvellou
plentitude when 1t was known that the light was over
II the rebel recruiting officer enrolling officer coul
have only OWNED scheme like these paroles the fecun
dity of solderism in the South would have kept tn
! thinned army ranks well replenished
POVERTY ATLANTA.
General Upton, whom had left in Augusta week o
no before was now in command at Atlanta, General Mol
| lneux having succeeded him at the former place.
The three great troubles IN the Atlantic comman
poverty Of the people, which had to be minis
tered to by the authorities far as possible; the lis
essncss OF the negroes and the dsordery state Of th
surrounding country where dcpredatons were OF hourl
occurrence That the authorities did their utmost al
persuaded that with the means ut hand II was not po'
sible TO do all that was necessary am equally well pei
suaded.
| LOCOMOTIVE HC1S
Near Atlanta and on the road all the way to Rusledg
discovered "a very peculiar people" The Chimes
have their river populations who live In boats ohs
countries too not SO far OF China have curiostes
abnormal living equally incongruous. But here wei
railroad people, car people" who lived for years
the cars ON sidelings," and here were other peopi
oxies, who had lived for months running TO and fro Q
these cars They had box cars furnished like huts
| rather like Irish cabins. will give you specimen
the inmates Of one Of these huts which visited about
mile from Atlanta
| HAPPY CLEAN FAMILY.
The cars put asde-thcrc were four together
an OF track, condemned, . year ago. Instantly TO-
families occupied them. One family will answer for a
| II consisted Of q mother three grown daughters III
eldest twenty and the youngest sevcnteen) and a.
little children, whom you have to distribute among
, three daughters, for each . mother. They had
, brother and had lost their father They had no hu