The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-31
Notes from our Travelling Partner
ST, NICHOLAS HOTEL,
New YORK, May 81, 1867.


Dear Clarion: My only apology for mol
writing oftener is my feeble health, which
has for the last few weeks rendered me unfit
to execute any business transactions will
satisfaction to myself, or write letter
suitable forpublic inspection.
/ arrived ut this place on the 14th, and
was glad to find at this Hotel my excellent
friend Gen. A. M. West, President of the
Mississippi Central Railroad, who has sue
ceeded in raisinga considerable amount OF
money for the use of his road !; and also, as
the representative of cotton and wooden
manufacturing company to be established at
Water Valley, he has arranged to purchase
all the machinery necessary to put in full
operation, this much needed establishment
Gen. w. is a gentleman of energy and
.roll p.-1---i~.as his duties--carries Sc
honest face that even strangers on Wal
street "shell out" when he requests it, with
out further enquiry.
l also met Hon. Abram Murdoch, Pres
ident of the Mobile & Ohio, and Hon. Sam
Tate, President of the Memphis & Charles
ton, who have been very successful in ne
gotiating for the benefit of their respective
roads. The Mobile & Ohio is peculiarly for
tunate in securing the services of Mr.. Muir
dock. His peculiar financial skill, coupled
with his known reputation for honesty and
fair dealing, have won for him in this city the
respect and confidence of the "monied men, I"
and will, of course, be of great advantage to
his road and our State. also met Mr. Ha-
zlehurst, representing Georgia road MI.
Prtchard, of the Meridian and Selma road,
Maj. w. j. Anderson, formerly of Column
bus, who has recently been elected President
of the Southern Pacific road from Shreve-
port West, Mr.. Fleming of the Mobile road,
and Mr.. Carey of the Central, and Mr.. A. ID.
Sheldon, of the Central and New Orleans
road, who are here buying more sleeping
cars, which are necessary in consequence of
the double daily trains recently put on these
roads. All working industriously for the
interest of their respective enterprises.
1t gives me great pleasure to see such
active preparations being made for the
completion of our great thOroughiares of
travel and for the erection of manufacturing
establishments in our State. And while Oh
this subject, l will mention with pleasure
that Professor Horn, of Brookhaven, is here,
and is to close contract to-day, with
company at Patterson, New Jersey, for the
delivery of the machinery within sixty days,
which is necessary to put in complete opera
ton u large cotton and wooden factory near
on the New Orleans Railroad.
He intends grinding corn, ginning cotton,
carding wool, and manufacturing cotton
yarns, etc, etc. l
These enterprises, of course, could not be
were it not for the generosity |
and confidence the capitalists OF the North |
have in our professed intentions of restoring
the Union in accordance with the reconstrnc-
zion plan as laid down by Congress. They
ire universal i'll their advice to us to accept
jhe situation at once, and when once in the
Union, we can get any amount of money,
men and machinery on terms to suit our
depressed situation.
Our old friend Foute, of the firm of Foute
& Loring, Bankers of Wall street, had
engthy conversation with your correspon-
lent yesterday evening, in which he urged
hat our people should at once accept the
Misunderstanding that he would find no
lifticulty IN negotiating for as much money
nd machinery as they would need, if we
we're only in the Union, and rid of the Mill
airy rule which now hangs over us like a
ark cloud, ready to carry our pecuniary
nd industrial interests to ruin and bank
lptcy.
| have taken occasion to talk with Repub- :
cans here as to whether they regarded the
construction measure as now presented to ,
le people, as finality, and have not found
ne yet who is not ready to answer in the q
firmativc. No thought is entertained for |
of confiScatiOn, unless we refuse to
iopt the measures, and in that event, l
Onestly believe that the Congress, in July, l
ould pass laws which would forever blast e
le hopes of our people and bankrupt them Il
} thoroughly that our age would not be !
Efficient time to regain the rights which y
c could obtain by the adoption of these Ii
easurcs. q
The merchants of this city are looking h
rward with great solicitude to the pros :.
acts of the crops this year, and thus far Ii
ave good reports from the South. q
1t has been my pleasure to have the oppor- n
nifty to see the Hon. Jefferson Davis, who ~
rived III this city a few days ago. He was y
opping at the New York Hotel, until two q
lys since he accepted the kind invitation @
Hon. Charles O'CoEnor to his private H
Sidence Mrs. Davis and family remain aft
c hotel Mr.. Davis health is very feeble u
id fear it will be many months before he I'll
fully restored to health. He will leave re
+ Canada to see his three children soon, NJ
no are there at school. l will see him ~
ain to-day. IN
Business here is very dull Money scarce al
lltary rule i'll the South seems to be the of
eat stumbling block to every enterprise.
have not been able since here to visit
y place of amusement except on Sunday W
ening, with some friends we took car. by
ge drive over the Central Park, which is til
beautiful place of recreation. / under hi
md there is about 1000 acres 1t is inter-
ersed with rocks, hills, lakes, waterfalls, IN
1nels, acqueducts, reservoirs, fountains. BE
tues, monuments, beautiful Shrubbery be
enals and houses of revolutionary renOyn mr.
Q old frame house in which Gen. Wash
ton had his headquarters is still standing NE
re the same as when "the father of his flu
lntry" occupied it. The old rock maya We
e which kept our powder dry" is vet m,
nding on the high eminence on which il -'',
originally built. 1t was splendid
nt TO see the hundreds of fine large deer, is
faloes, swans and other animals. and al,
is, and fishes, which have been placed III
9 for the amusement of the visitors. The ms
ter which supplies the city is conveyed he'
for forty miles from the Harlan lie
sr, and empties in n reservoir of ninety do,
&c acres, 40 feet deep, and is as pure and e
II as our spring water Take it all in all, lor
Central Park oftNew York, comes nearer the
ng my idea of paradise than any place sha
I'VE ever visited. 80.
he weather here is very cold and rainy. ~
re has been but one clear pleasant day I'LL
2 since my arrival
am glad 20 see that the Clarion, during 1
long absence, is still improving in an, a f
rance and Patronage; and l will close 81,
the hope that the people of Mississippi "a"
at once embrace the opportunity which tiers
low presented to repair their fallen for. the
IS and enter into a new life of prosperity. eve
Very Truly,