The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-04-07
Correspondence
From Chattanooga.
CHATTNooGA, TENN,,
April 4, 1870.

ton county, except so far as it includes
the ratification Of the New Constitution.
A large number of Conservatives, who
voted for the Constitution, supported the
radical candidates for Sheriff, Tax Collec-
tor, &C., on personal grounds. Our new
Neglected Sheriff has been barring a good
deal Of the party prOscriptiveness-a con-
sistant Radical, and Il am afraid to say
but is a highly. esteemed and popular
gentleman. The outgoing Sheriff, R. G.
Campbell, Esq, has made a faithful and
efficient officer, but a slight faint Of fish,
iness having made itself apparent in his
political composition, he was deserted in
the hour of trial by many Ofhis old friends,
while he failed to secure q sufficient num-
Der Of new ones to make up the loss.
There are numbers, however, who voted
against him and against the grain" at
the same time, knowing that they were
helping to deprive the county of the SER
vices Of a man, wES,S far as he had been
tested, had proved himself to be officially
capable and honest.
l congratulate you on the result in
Monroe county. Don't the whirligig Of
time make wonderful changesl 1 am not
surprised that Monroe has voted the Con-
sentative ticket; but who would have
thought twelve months ago of seeing a le-
gal notice in your paper from under the
very fist of Sheriff Crippini Then, he
would have expended much of his valua-
Bile time aud all of his talent in the adorn-
meut of post-ofice doors and crossroads
guide posts, rather than have so comprO-
missed his character for answering loyalty.
Since | last wrote to you, this ambitious
cluster of %shanties, known as the great ''To
Be-" is several weeks nearer its destiny
although it is by no means visible to the
naked eye that any very gigantic strides
have been made, within that time, toward
the immense fulflment. The Knoxville
papers have been predicting for us anoth-
er baptism one to which the food of
1867 is to have been q mere s~prinkling.
But, Notwithstanding the interest express.
ed by them, particularly by the Press and
Herald, in the welfare of Chattanooga, il
is very evident that in this case the wish
is father to the thought. Despite oul
rough by-ways, ragged houses, dilapidated
darkieS and their apparent evidences Of
being on the high road TO the devil, gen.
orally, Knoxville sees that the future o.
Chattanooga will eclipse her own in every
desirable point, and she is naturally in.
dignaot and jealous thereat. Other people
see it too, and say it, and Knoxville gets
mad enough to wish Chattanooga drown
ed out. Should the watery visitation come
close enough on the heels of a huge fire tC
save a dozen houses in Market Street, ]
don't know that in the end that this city
would be the loser. But there is not the
slightest probability of an inundation, and
although it is possible a few 6rst-clas;
funerals might expedite matters and prove
even more beneficial than the fire and the
food, it is to be hoped that the Knoxvil.
lains will be denied the temporary tri.
umph of seeing any of these disasters &C.
cur in our midst.
If you ask me why, if the prospective
prosperity of Chattanooga is SO certain
she does not give more signs of vitality
now, you have me at a disadvantage. !
could not explain the matter without be-
ing personal, and people get shot at foi
doing that sort of thing here. "Arte,
awhile" it will all come right, and you
will see one of the graetest cities south o
Gods country, with railroads leading Il
all of the most favored marts in that mos
favored region and its name, if its no
changed by Congress, will be Chattanooga
Did you read the article in Friday
Times, copied from a Boston paper, head
ed "Miss Lee," and signed "Charles j
Woodburyw With some little founda
ton in fact for his communication, Mr.
Woodbury. makes quite a sensational sto
ry Of the arrest of a Mrs. Durham in thi
city a few weeks ago. The author as mucl
as tells the people of Boston that Mrs
Durham, a quadroon, is the daughter o
the present post mistress of Richmond
who still r%ejoices in the appellation o
"Miss," and who was a glorious loyalis
during the war. Whether such is the fac
or whether "Mrs. Durham" has imposed
on his ~credulity for purposes Of her own
it is impossible to say. But Mr.. Wood
bury's letter is we'll written and will at
tract much attention from those at tn
North who are disposed to look on us a
} barbarians of the first water.
A new weekly will probably be started
! here in a short time. It will be radica
in politics. just now the Times has ev
erything its W way, but there is a man
ifest desire on the part of a good many t.
"stir up" its editor once in a while, il
such a way as can only be done througI
the columns of an opposing paper. Gu
ex- City-Attorney tried to stir him up il
another way a few days since, on Marke
Street, but the bullet missed its mark an,
stirred up an innocent African who hap
pened to be passing.
And now let me ask you, in conclusion
why you do not send some of the surplu
butter and eggs in your section to Chat
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