The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-31
Special Report.
CoNDIrIox OF sOurHERN RAILROADS.

CONDITIONS OF SOUTHERN RAILROADS.
NEW York, July 30.
The Herald publishes a statement of the
present condition of AZ different lines of
ennthern railroads. On some of these trains
are again running through the entire
length; many are being rapidly repaired
and will soon be ready for through trains
while to still others the rsiding operations
of the war have inflicted such extensive
damages that many weeks, and perhaps
months will pass before they can be made
completely available.
SAILED.
Twenty ocean steamships sailed from
here yesterday. of these five were for
Europe, four for New Orleans, two for
Charleston, one for Savannah, one for each
of the ports of Wilmington, Eewbern, and
Beaufort North Carolina and others for
different places on the Atlantic coast.
CLEARANCKs.
Seventy-three vessels altogether, of all
classes, cleared at this port yesterday.
LICENSES GRANTED.
About nine hundred persons in Rich
mond hsve obtained license to transact
business, comprising onesixth of the entire
number engaged in business. The amount
paid thus far into the U. S. Treasury by
business men of Richmond and Henrico
county, cannot fall far short of 5000, 900.
The officers have been at work only six
weeks.
GEN. DICK TAYLOR.
The Herald's Washington special says
the statements in the evening papers, that
Dick Taylor has left here for New York,
is untrue. he is out of the city, but is
much more likely to be in Fortress Mon
roe than New York.
CROPS IN THE SOUTH.
The Times Vicksburg correspondent has
visited the interior of Mississippi, and gives
the following result of his observations:
Except in the vicinity of Vicksburg,
saw almost no cotton growing throughout
my travels. Between jackson and Gran
ada saw but enc cotton field of any ex-
tent. The war closed too late in the season
to allow of any considerable attempts in
this line. The terrible catastrophe was al
together unlocked for. It was expected
that the war would continue throughout
this wear at least So they planted little or
no cotton; only some corn. More corn
was planted after the surrender, as it can
be planted q month later than cotton, with
the promise of q crop.
1t was great misfortune to the material
interests of the South that the war did not
close two months earlier. There can be
little danger of suffering for want of food
when so much corn is growing, and when,
consequently, 80 much bacon is sure to be
made. There is no growth of products that
will bring much money to the State, and
mere fruit patches of cotton will be raised
about Holly Springs. In Madison county
alone, that once raised 100, 900 bales, not
100 will be raised this year.
The people are subjected and Illuminated
and SO accept the situation, simply because
they must Their spirit is as bitter as ever
The stress of this venOmous hatred OF the
Yankees is found among the women and
Young men. Older men have more regard
for their interests, and those who are IN
business are generally better stocked with
good sense. The constant tendency TO go
back and fight the battle over again is
everywhere encountered
You can hardly talk five minutes with .
Southern man but that he will try and
convince you that, if they had done differ
ently,the results would have been changed.
One young woman on the cars wished that
not another bit of cotton would ever
grow, and said she would rather wear
woolen In the hottest days of August than
contribute anything to Yankee msnufsc-
lures.
Another woman sfter censuring the lack
of spirit among the men wished the wo'
men of the South could fight the women
of the North. She was sure they could
whip them. He Observed that ell such ex'
pressien of violence were commonly 70