The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-04
The Southern States.

SENTIMENT OF THE PEOPLE IN TENNESSEE, GEORGIA,
ALABAMA, AND Observation-Disclosures AsQUIEs-
cENoE IN THE RESULT OF THE Wharf.-The PRAYER
OF THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE FOR PEACE IN THE
uNIoN-coNDITIoN OF THE CROPS, &C.
correspondent OF the New York World who
has journeyed from the city Of Gotham to Natchez'
Miss, by rail, through Virginia, Georgia, Ala
bama, Tennessee and Mississippi, writes the fol-
lowing truthful account, which will be found unu-
sually interesting
THE PEOPLE
At every station, and everywhere I have
travelled and conversed among them, their faces,
their words and the very tone OF their voices con
e SsSs of
expression among them, or to see single evil
dence of a thought OF ever again appealing to
arms. Charles Sumner and his fanatical con-
stituents may blatantly thunder the contrary from
the halls of the national Capitol and try, with the
theatrical flourish in which they are 30 much
more accomplished than in the use of the sword,
to fire the Northern heart with q belief that the
South are medItating deeds of dire and atrucious
vengeance. If they know OF what they speak in
these representations, they know that they are
uttering the most absurd and monstrous false.
hoods that ever disgraced the councils Of the
ton, with the hope Of irritating the South to mad
seclusion upon the spoils Of unutterable mseries
and devastations. The universal feeling here is
tive accepted the issue in good faith; we were
then and are now anxious for the complete resto-
ration of the Union we give up forever everything
we have fought for, without a reservations; we
only beg to be permitted to live in peace and try
to recover from the ruin and desolation that war
has brought to our cities, our plantations and
tiresides."
THE CROPS.
The corn promises well, but tho wheat that has
been gathered has not proved so good as usual,
Oh account OF the very heavy rains in the earlier
season. The cotton crop in Tennessee, Northern
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, is almost, a
complete failure from the same cause, and the
usual coldness of the season. The plants are
scattered and dwarfed many of the fields in bloom
where the cotton, which should be three or four
feet high, il not much moro than foot. Many
Northern men who invested in working the plan
tatons will not recover the money expended, and
| very many will lose nearly the full amount.
THE RAILROADS.
Through the entire route, from Alexandria, Va,
| to Memphis, the roads generally were torn up,
stations burned, and cars, engines and bridges
| destroyed during the war. In many places pieces
OF railroad were subsequently repaired. to make
them available for military purposes, but gene
| rally left at the close or the war in dilapidated
condition. To repair them and open them again
to the travelling pnbic has been work Of no
small magnitude, and requiring no small amount
of capital and energy. To say that the roads 4 ON
Eastern Tennessee west are yet in wretched II not
dangerous condition comes short of the truth.
] MONUMENTS OF WAR.
All along the ntire line Of which I write are
visible evidences OF the great conflict. Here q
| long chain OF crumbing earthworks and forts
| with decaying abattis, where the fierce tide o
battle ragged for days, anu left the ground thlckly
| strewn with slaughter; here, thicklt dotting the
sides of the way, high stocka des pierced for mus
kerry, where many skirmish has taken place
here bridge erected upon charred timbers thai
totter and Groan as the train slowly passes over
| and give one an involuntary shutder as he casts
his eye down to the rocky channel OF the stream
far beneath; there, scorched and crumbling chin
| neys, the naked monumen nts of buildings thai
| have been swept away in the flames of wars kin
ding; and there a hillside thickly dotted Will
mounds where Federal and Confederate sleel
side by side on the very spot where they struggled
] and fell.