Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-21

and Tennessee railroad, we had the
pleasure Of an excursion TO Grenada aud
return last night, which was an ex'
tremely pleasant trip to all concerned.
Colonel White, the highly esteemed and
business like President Of the road, A. s.
Liyermore, the agreeable and gentle
manly General Superintendent Q. 7.
Oakley, the active and energetic General
Freight and Ticket Agent were on
board, with Captain Lenov, Colonel
Hough, B. Pullen, Of Pullen 4 Ham
mock, State Directors, Harry Beck, Esq,
of the Memphis Appeal, aud S. A. Wells,
the Napoleonic newsman, who has his
stand at the Memphis depot, fitted up in
superb style, and supplied with cigars,
confectionaries, tobacco, fruit, etc, and
all the news Of the world, He hangs out
the cards Of business houses on the cars,
and is ready to supply alike the outer
and the inner man. he was the doctor
of the party, and, our friend OF the
Appeal says, the life Of it, as to be sure
the doctor ought to be and was.
With Colonel White as conductor, and
Captain Treague on the footboard, every
thing was well conducted and safe. All
along the line OF the road everything is
iD apple pie order The crossties having
been renewed, the track is now unusually
smooth aud in excellent condition
through its whole length of ninety eight
miles. The bridge and trestle work
twelve hundred feet long-spauning the
bottom and river Coldwater, which for its
boys and bottomless bayous used to be
the horror Of all travellers, is an excellent
structure, and as safe as solid embank-
ment; and the bridges over the ITALIA
hatchie, Youckanapatafa and Yalobusha
are all sound, strong, and firstclass
structures. The management of this road
deserve great praise for having done so
much and placed their road in the best
condition with the very greatest economy
and the smallest practicable means 1t
is invaluable to Memphis and, to the
country through which it runs, it will be
hereafter, as it has been heretofore-a
boor, SO soon as good government can
be assured and it is possible for recu-
peration to take place-ihe paralysis of
industry being overcome.
We should not forget the fine hotel at
Sardis, kept by Mr.. Charles Richards, as
a halfway house for the road, where we
we're sumptuously entertained going and
returning. Having eaten at that house
before under ordinary circumstances, we
know that really good meal is always
ready at that table, instead of a very
scanty and i'll prepared board, as is too
often the case with railroad hotels.
AT fernando and Sardis we were
Joined by Gen. Robinson, and Col. j. E.
Heath, formerly of this city, and now
doing business at Sardis. At Como we
were greeted with kindness by Col.
Sledge, and all along the route met
welcome and kindness. The towns
on the line of the road, Sardis and Bates.
vile, especially, are growing to be places
of importance, and Grenada, at the ter
minus, is improving to an extent But
the people are depressed to the extreme
In the present condition of things they
see no ransom and no promise. The me-
groes are quitting work and going to the
towns to beg of the Bureau, or loaf on
the whites, sleep in their kitchens, eat
their bread, burn their wood, and steal
their poultry and stock, to take which in
the small towns of Mississippi is to
starve their people. The whole country
will be deserted as soon as the citizens
can get the little necessary to get OIL
with, without speedy change in the
administration of public affairs. 1t is
impossible for the whites TO endure long
the state of things as they are. Exis-
tence will be necessarily brief with nine
tenths of the population idle, while
the whole consume. There is no
law in Mississippi except the will of
the Military Chief The habeas corpus is
disregarded, and persons frequently taken
from the hands of the civil authorities,
who are on trial for offences against the
State laws, on the pretence that
juries will not do justice to suit the
views of the military commandant Of the
kingdom of Mississippi. We confess to
deep and heartfelt sympathy with our
friends there. Would that we could find
some solution of the situation, and de-
scry some end to their troubles, which
they will be unable to endure much
longer. Our railroads are with them in
tho same boat, and must get on but
poorly, depending on an Africanized
country for support But we hope yet to
see an end, and revival of business, so
that all may begin to live again. We
return our thanks for the pleasure of this
trip, in all which, though running forty
miles an hour some of the way, we felt
secure, because the track is in fine order,
and sober, skillful and vigilant officers.
always at their posts.
Our stock of silks, silk poplins, and
r -. ,.ood, u,,lI