Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-07
From Memphis to Niagara~-Editorial Cor
respondence.
IHTKRNATI0NAL HorEL,
NIAGARA, October 2.

INTERNATIONAL HOTEL,
NIkoARA, October 2.
The Railroad Convention met here
and was organized this morning. The
session is private, though, suppose, the
proceedings will be known to morrow.
A large body of delegates is present, and
there seems to be great harmony. THERE'S
a good number of visitors for this time Of
the season, and the hotels are we'll filled.
From Chicago to this point we came on
sleeping car which is said to have cost
some S95, 1000, froia which you may judge
its magni6cence Our train was spe-
cial one for the occasion, and the whole
cost here $l25,O0O These sixteen.
wheeled cars so divide and distribute the
Jar among them that it is hardly felt;
and the fatigue from Memphis, by river,
to St. Louis, and via the Chicago and
Alton, Michigan Central and Great West
ern railroads to this point is hardly so
great as a ride of hundred miles on the
Southern roads. s0ur roads may be too
poor ct present 10 furnish such luxury,
but an officer of the Nashville and Chat
tanooga road says be is determined to
test whether it will pay, and to have a
car or two of this description on his
road. Some railroad men seem to think
it will do well to try the experiment
And / confess to the impression that
they would induce more travel, at the
game time that they would return fares at
increased rates 4 few dollars addi'
tional expense per mile would never be
grudged by a traveller who had tested
the difference. You may whirl along at
the rate of forty miles on these cars
With less fatigue than at ten with the Or
binary cars. The difference is almost
wholly in the improved ear, and in the
prevention of jolts by the great distTibu
ton Of supporta. and not in the superb
ority of the road beds which are little,
if any, better than those in our section
The roads running out of Memphis ought
to try the experiment, which is so salts
factory here as to cause much attentien
These cara aye noS running for the first
time, and have attracted crowds of visi
tors. All the additional expense actually
required is in doubling the wheels, aud
some increase of power to drive their
weight. The friction is, of course, ma
terially diminished TO each by doubling
the number of wheels The chief cost
Of the cars for our train was for orna-
ment, the seats and sides of one of them
being inlaid and finished off like the top
of lsdy's work box. 1t is complete
house, with tables, looking glasses,
washing and cooking apparatus, beds,
carpets, and large and fine melodeon,
and you may eat, drink, sleep and ride
at will, almost without fatigue,
We have a grand ball here tomorrow
night, and Memphis will be we'll rep
resented. There will be three or
four hundred present; and ! hope
ell will reap much pleasure from
their health giving and innocent
recreation. All Of our party who could
be so have been happy with music and
dancing, euchre, ETC., etc, the entire
trip. There are sometimes secret and
sacred griefs which prevent persons from
enjoying themselves under any circum-
stances. And cannot pronounce that
every smiling face is without its own
inward distress But when all is as it
should be, it is we'll to make the most Of
what is given in benevolenee to make us
happy as we may be.
The political cauldron is seething,
toll aud trouble, FIRE burn aud cauldron
bubble" The radicals are sore pressed
to meet the democratic conservative ar
guments against negro domination and
their financial Encouragement, extrav
agance and criminal waste, for which,
as controlling the policy Of the country
more than Mr. johnson, who is regarded
as only severely feeble, they are held
responsible. They dare not defend the
present negro policy by anything but
theory, which they put in their platforms,
but refuse to carry out, iu practice. The
State Republican Convention Of New
York has thus just slammed the thing.
They have passed resolutions in favor Of
negro equality. But they dare not sub
nit the issue Of negro suffrage to a vote
Of the people Of their own State; and
bave not doneit amusing little fare
up took place lately in Warren county,
Ohio They bad resolved in town meet.
ing that the negro was as good as the
white man, and little better doubtless
be msy finally become than themselves.
SO they got seventeen darkies into one
school. with about az equal sprinkle Of
whites But q few Of the phsrisees,
thinking their own precious children a
little better than the seventeen, raised a
musL The majority say, II you don't
ike il, just get a private school Of your
own. And 80 al the public funds there
sbouis are TO BE- appropriated for the
benefit Of the negroes, and the whites,