American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-04-07

son, the first notable difference be-
tween a real city and a little $50
called" city, like Canton, is in the
number of porters who beset You, all
anxious to take you to some House,
(the good old name of hotel has
become obsolete-eyerything now is
house, except a private house, and
that S 'residence),-the number of
porters and the number of carriages
and cabs, ready, waiting and willing
to take you to any part OF the city
for valuable consideration. Fer
ladies, old men and crippleS, this is
great convenience, and we are de
cidedly in favor of sustaining the
enterpriSing proprietors of these cab
and carriage lines but seldom ear
ny our theory into practice, for the
reason, that after sitting two hours
in the cars, we feel very much stretch
ing our limbs a little, and generally
make the trip from the depot to the
capitol in pedestrian style. We OBJ
served one man on Tuesday, howey-l
er, who evidently walked from the
depot up town for the money that
was in it-purely to save the fifty
cents. He carried valise as large
as common sized trunk, and pulled
and blowed, and Travelled and rested
alternately, somewhat to the amuse-
ment OF the cOlOred cab-driyeTS who
passed him ever and anon on lis
winding and weariS0me way with
their empty cabs. Verify, thought
we, " there goes one who is working
his passage" .-
Having business with several of
the State officials, we called at their
several Offices, and found them bust
ly engaged in the discharge of their
duties. The busiest man we saw,
however, was the State Treasurer,
1Ir. John II. Echols, who seemed to
be taking in "c0tt0n money" by the
package. We learned that he already
had on hand something less than a
cart load, OF which he would proba-
bly, make a bonfire in few days.
Sic transit gloria mundi ~
From what we saw i'll the several
public offices in the capitol, we I'M
heSitatingly say that no State officer
holds a sinecure position, and those
who were defeated for these offices
need not specially envy their success
trli rivals.
During on stay in the city we did
ourselves the pleasure Of calling on
our several capitalism contemporaries
or the News, Clarion and Standard.
We found them all with coat off.
with pen, ink, scissors and paste at
hand. busily engaged in the daily
drudgery OF endeavOling to get up
am interesting and spicy morning
paper for their readers in these ''dull
piping times Of peace. As We looked
am their long, broad pages, and re
Elected upon the hot, dry, dusty, dull
summer before us, how we blessed
OFT stars that we we're not in the
same category-that we were not en-
gagged in the publication of a DAILY
paper. OH the mental and physical
labor it requires, this editing a morn
ing paper! Better be dray horse
or work a treadmil!. .
We were pleased to note quite
spirit of improvement in Jackson.
The sound of the hammer, the plane
and the trowel saluted the ear on
all hands. The bricks and mortar
and debris of every description were
being removed from the burnt dis
trictS, and new buildings going up,
and preparations for Others. The
hiotgs, the gap, in buildings on Cap
itol street, however, from the capitol
to the Southern railroad depot, is
most painful to behold. A glance ut
the site woere once stood the magnlli-
cent Bowman House, and in that di-
rection, is also sickening to the heart.
But from these painful "reminiscences
we turn to a pleasant subject, one
we cannot re-press, and vet upon
which we caanOt hope TO express all
we feel, but still hoping to make 2
slight impression
We were glad 10 perceive, how
ever. that all our Jackson cOtemp0-
raricS were furnishing like SO many
green bay trees" Their broad and
ample pages are filed up to the
VERY editorial column with advertise
ments, while their job Offices seem
to have no lack OF business.
What "a contrast in the printing
business does jackson now present
To what it was before the war Then,
the Mississippian, the News, the True
Witness and Mississippi Baptist were
the only papers published there, the
former semi-weekly and weekly, only
Except during the sessions of the