The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-10-20
THE DEMOCRAT.
WEDNEsDA Y::=:;oeToBER 20.
A. MeGREGOR, Editor.
From n Travelling COrresPOn-
dent Down South.
BkRNARiS 5LASDIEG, !
MEAN GRAND LAKE. ARK.
Oct. 9th 1869.

dent. Down South
---- BkRNARi8 sLASDING,
MEAN GRAND LAKE. ARK.
-----. 49, Oct. 9th 1869.
FRIEND Mac: promised to
drop you an occasionsI lire during
my trip among the. reconstructed,
but so far nothing OF great interest
has occurred, or have seen anything
that is hardly worth wiring about.
I have crspt slowly up the river from
Cincinnati, stopping at many places
on the Indiana, and Kentucky side
Of the river, Ohio, consuming over
three weeks time, reaching Cairo,
Ill. on "Wednesday Sept, 22nd. at
midnight. All along the river the
towns look dull, and the people COM
plain of hard times-the promised
good times, have not as yet put in
an appearance. I noticed Evansville
Ind, more particularly, city of {, ,OoO
fuha Ditants, and on Tuesday Sept,
22nd, 1 dOnt4hinE for the entire
lngth Cftt Q principal business street,
that you Gould see a vehicle of any
description, and a stranger In these
parts, when I met at the Hotel
wondered v ith me, how in the
world the business people Iived-yet
this same pIl c. is admitted to be the
most prosperous? city on the Ohio
river South Of Cincinnati. Well as
( said before, we reached Cairo
about midnight, and was piloted by
an employees to one Of these miserS-
Bile hotels, that Cairo Is noted for,
Situated on the IeVee. We registered
our names, and retired for the bal
sncs Of the night, to get If possible n
little sleep. Did you ever see g
Cairo HosquitoF We retired, and
as we crswled under the shelter of
the dilapidated mOsqui obar We could
not forget the old story Of
unsupported Stranger. quietly slumber,
Cairo Mosquitoes guard thy head,
Fleas and bed bugs without number
Gently Swarm around thy ''head"
Thursday morning we made q
survey of the place to see II any
changes had been made since our last
visit-And / must say there was
many. Cairo is to-day one of the
most dilspidsted old towns, in the
country, nothing doing and nothing
expected. This town or city con-
tsins about 1900 inAabitants, one
half daTkeys, Is situated at the
mouth Of the Ohio river, and Is the
Southern terminus Of the great Hi
nOis Central Railroad. ALI the
boats on the Ohio or dississippiriverE
stop here and it is q great wondei
why it is SO dull. Cairo has two
daily papers, the BtlIIHtiSl, democrat
ic and the Times, republican, the
Times Wevefsuspends publication
In few days, and will remove to the
city Of Chicago, the prOprietors hav
lug lost money here for the past Eve
years. The Bulletin Is very
sprightly paper and as the city md
county are strongly democratic il is
very probable that Egypt" vii
have its daily. .fE. III }F
Thursday evening I took passsg'
on the city Of Cairo, q Memphis ana
ST. Louis packet Tor Memphis. Sh'
ls a very large craft, and had Al
immense load OF freight and passen
gers for the southland from th,
Captain / have learned that Their
never was before such an. amount o
Southern bound freight in st Loui
| for the South. To give you an ide'
OF the boats size and capacity, sh'
lett O,iFo with Eleven hundred ton
OF freight, an amount sufficient d
load oxeE@oue hundred 0Rdinar.
freight cara G we landed at COlum
bus and -Pu&=oG for the Mohile ant
OhiG RaiIEORa two hunired and hft.
tons, and at Hickman three tboul
and five hunred sacks Of corn, ant
two hundred and fifty barrells 9
-four. II 3eqpired sizty rOpsfabOnt
seven hours to put on this treiGhi
Hickman Is the Western. terminu
of the Nashville and Northwestern
Railroad and the freight put on her
Is bound for Atlanta Ga and point
in the interior. This route is IL
miles In length and was built durini
the war as asn1ilitGTy necessity, And!
johnson being largely Interested
Well, we arrived safely at Memphis
saturday at u O'Clock. Memphis is
hourishing city situated on q higl
bluff two Hundred and fffy tw
miles South Of Cairo and seven hun
dred and thirty nine miles abov
New Orleans. Memphis at present
presents a very lively appearance
the cotton coming Ia very freely an
} everything looks as prosperous q
before the war, The cOIored folk
have worked hard thiS summer an
: have as general thing all mad
money and are quite Independent
; not saucy. There has been man
} improvements sInce my last visit
the most soIiceahle Is the NichOlSo
payement-the principal streets b
ing .paVed with this nateTiaL Tn
city has expended over one millio
' of dollars, and the streets are th
cleanest and fnesE L ever saw, Th
c people are in.this part OF Tennesse
recovering very rapidly from th
!. faYages of the late 'iOnptsrsan'.es'
{ Memphis has four daily and nun
i Der of weekly papers. The daMS
are large and furnish h'ample eviden'
9 OF dsA proaherDuG eOnditiOHef tn
e growing city. Fine Steamers leaI
! nthis part alnsost isEArS h6Hr In a
day f6sahs NOFths SOptha and Wes
On Friday evening Sept srd, 1 too
the new and elegant steamer, D.
AKA Whita.EiyeE packet for Hel
ma Ark, and on Saturday morning.
IA. n. we landed at this famous Ol
town, and througha drizzling raj
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