Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-03-16

Correspondence OF the Macon (6a) Messenger
The footprints Of wal and vandalism
are fast being efFaeed by the indomitable
energy and perseverance, Of this goodly
city. The buildings now being erected
are not temporary structures, but real
fixtures and ornaments. Il Is the Won
der Of all travellers that such a heap of
ruins as was visible ten months ago,
should be so strangely and 80 sOon trans
formed into Il beautiful city-that 80
desolate looking spot should now rank
among the first business marts Of the
country.
Trade has fallen off to a considerable
extent upon last months transactions,
yet a good business has been going on.
Some spring goods have arrived and are
meeting with ready sale. Large stocks
are coming, and the market will be well
supplied within a week. I also notice a
great many goods for Macon and South
ern Georgia. The depot is blocked up
with goods for the low country.
The Western and Atlantic railroad is
o doing the heaviest freight business
ever transacted since its construction.
On yesterday the aggregate amount of
freight brought over the road was l,552,-
900 pounds. Under the judicious man
agement Of Col. Baugh, this piece of
property has been of great value to the
state, yielding an immense revenue.
And If our Legislature had only
consulted the true interests Of the
people, and granted the request of
the Superintendent, of the loan
of S2OO,OO0, 30 that the iron necessary to
repair the road could have been obtained,
thisroad wouldhave yielded at leastS400,-
OOOprottt to the State, asidefrom meeting
the ordinary current expenses. Instead
OF that they have been laboring TO reg
ulate the freights and other business Of
the road, and if the action of the House
had been concurred by the Senate,
the people would have suffered an
other great burden. The bill contempla-
ted restricting the rates of freight to fifty
cents per hundred, which would have
made corn cost about forty-three cents
per bushei, when the people are now re-
ceiying it over this road for about LA
cents. During the last month the Su-
perintendent has turned over to the
State $4,000, and will, in a few days,
turn owe $4,000 more. The total de-
struction of the road, and depots, and
machine shops, has subjected the Super
intendent to untold embarrassments
yet he has labOred patieRtly through
them ali, and if let alone a little while
longer, he will have everything in fine
running order.
The recent developments at Washing
ton is the theme of conversation in pO-
litical circles. President JOhnsOn's late
speech has given more hope and cheer Of
a speedy reconciliation between the
North and South than anything which
has yet appeared upon the political no
riZOn.
A Coop WIFE.-A good wife is one
who puts her husband in at the side Of
the bed next TO the wall, and tucks him
in TO keep him warm in the winter
makes the fire in the morning, washes
her husbands face and draws on his
boots for him, never suffers a rent to re-
main in her husbands small clothes,
keeps her shoes up at the heels and her
stockings darned, never wonders what
her husband sees interesting in the young
woman who lives across the way, ave
slams the door when her husband is
speaking, and always reproves the chill
dren when they eat up their fathers
supper.
eG5~ The Rockingham Register tells of
a Methodist clergyman in that section
who received all-tOld in currency and
produce, twenty-one dollars for his last
years labor. Toward the close of the
year he was so unfortunate as to have
sickness in his family, and he employed
a brother preacher, who was also a ply
stefan, who charged him fifteen dollars
for his services. The itinerant was una
bic to pay, when the reverend doctor
took the only bedstead he had in the
world as an ottSettO the debt. That nan
will 20 to-hpa ven. h