The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-04
G Z o 4 GA.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE or TINE HERALD.

FROM Kingston TO AtIanta-Thc Marietta Sol.
dicrs' Cemctery-The Destitute Poor OF that
acknowledgements of AtiantR--Yankce
Euterprisc-t;cneral Pope and Stnn-PeOple
Preparing for the June Registr alton, Sc.
ATLANTA, May rs, 1867.
Down from Kingston aud Rome TO Atlanta there Il
nothing much interest the traveller except the trail
and footprints OF Shermans army. Al Marietta they
getting up and rapidly lng till nearly full
tory for the remains OF the Union soldiers slain In the
bloody lights and around Konesaw Mountain, around
Atlanta, and thence 10 Jonesboro. With the capture OF
Atlanta shermans rough work in Georgia done,
and by the sht OF the depopulaed aud burning city
set out with his seventy thousand crusaders the
Christmas holiday frolic TO the
IL Is difficult to believe that the present Atlanta stands
where in December 1894 there nothing but chaos
Of ruins rubbish, broken walls, and heaps Of old ron
with here and there a church house left standing
monuments to mark the place where Atlanta But
tho ruins have boon cleared away, and the city has
up again in night ike Jonah's gourd Tho Yankees
have In aud TO- here again Atlanta neat little
inland city mostly OF brick and dwellings TO the
extent OF twelve thousand inhabitants, including the
frccdmen who are here the streets thick The
children Of the house Of Jacob around Chatham square
And enterprsng traders OF that house also here
awaiting, like everybody else the comns crops Of
wheat rice, cotton and corn.
The freight arrivals at Atlanta almost wholly
made Of Lumber, furniture corn, bacon aad provi
generally. Corn Is the great article OF import
from Baltimore and the North snd bacon from Tenncs.
soc Kentucky and the great Northwest The merchants
selling cora bacon, &c, 70 tho planters time
that "a the faith Of tho coming crop OF cotton
rce-and other shipments daily arriving for dsiri-
button 70 tho poor through the United states Army
and Frcedmens Bureau, and Governor jenkins and
other agencies; aud through highways and bywsys 10
the destitute cabins in the Georgia woods and among
the bills OF Northern Alabama these supplies have been
and are hndinE their way. And mark the eject Before
the Northern man In Georgia unsafe without
voucher from reliable pro-slayey man that sthe
bearer Is perfectly sound the goose. and may DO
trusted without the surveillance Of vigilancs commit
tee" Now, In most cases. TO say IN Georgia. ~ am
from the North is enough II has the magic OF that
omen sesame or the old Roman, ~ am Roman clizen'
The answer is. tYou are welcome: country IL open
20 you" Corn ~ c0nquering these people where the
bayonet failed. But while charitable Northern sup
niles are being distributed, let not the destitute among
the bills east OF Marietta, Georgia, be forgotten.
those 10 that poverty stricken section OF Rome,
Goorgis. over in Alabama
The blacks Of Atlanta proud OF their schools and
their Yankee school marms. 'How you gstting on
here uncle. with your colored schools ~ Mighty
we'll nassl 1s'e learnipg TO spell myself Wed,
spell dirt "Yas. sab D-u-r.t dirt" Now shirt
as-h-u.r.t shrt Oh, It's use talking sab, we are
learning what's In dc book. Dere r. de white mans
power and arc going 10 got IL We have day schools
and night schools and sunday schools schools all Dc
time running and all full, like do mills after harvest
And We sot college yes sah-a colored college, two
hundred scholars 1s De good Lord thats been doing
all this We are jast ike de children Of Israel coming
out OF De Red Sea-
General POps-a popular man among these people,