The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-10-26
Letter From Washington.
METROPOLITAN ltoTET.,
WAsHINGTnN, Oct. lG. 1871.


What your correspondent does not
know is of small consequence. What
/ he has seen induces him to think less
of himself, and freely admit he does not
know much, and think of the country
the more. For the last several days the
country has been under high state of
excitement, aud l could not iot down
anything but Fire Fire! The great
calamity of Chicago has absorbed every
department, and the spirits and man
hood Of the American people have been
fully shown, by the response in the hour
OF need | have witnessed the beating
OF the pulse in Washington, Philadcl-
phia and New York, and tho prompti-
tude of such men as i. Il. Stuart, Clullin
and others, makes one feel proud that
they are Americans, when sums of fifty
thousand 90 ut dash, for the relief Of
the distressed, Chicago is unlike any
other city or people in the world, The
fire is hardly ont, before the citizens are
digging foundations for the erection of
new buldings, and merchants who had
lost every dollar, telcgraphing to know
what they should do, us they could not
pay the New York merchant what they
already owed; but asked timo And the
response of the Great Heart of the cred
itor: "Send on your orders for new
stock This is American manhood and
makes one lovehis country as the Home
Of the Brave
l was mt Plymouth Church on last
Sabbath, to hear H. ". Bccchcr on the
"Chicugo Calamity" Congregation,
$500, Text from Psalms, SSth chapter,
9th verse, Thou hast laid me in the
lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
| need not say that Beccher was master
Of the situation, and that [ felt ''it was
good to be there The piles of green
backs was evidence of the appreciation.
| have put in time, and have seen and
heard much to make me think well of
the land of my adoption, Fast Tennes-
see, us it is better known abroad than
it is at home, Our people are sleeping
so far us their interests IRE concerned.
Certain things can be done, notwith-
Standing we may be poor and weakly,
We can plow little deeper, apply more
fertilizers, improve our soil improve our
roads, raise less dogs and more hogs,
and work little harder. These appli-
ances, like "bood, will tell My time
and opportunities have been well spent,
aud many specimens Of fine sheep, cat
tie and hogs have been examined, as well
as some large pumpkins l spent halfG
day i'll the Fair Of the American Insti-
tute in New York, ms well as exhibitions
OF Stock ON Long Island, Agricultural
implements, and especially sub-soil cul-
tivntiOn. Have carefully examined the
present system of education, and its
adaptation to practical uses-such us
agriculture and the mechanic arts--;tlso,
the system Of road-making OF which il
practice we do not succeed. Even less
labor than we use, ii more judiciousIy
applied, would add materially to the
value of Our hands. | find much said
of the fine climate and the fine soil of
the valley of East Tennessee, rs well as
our Mineral wealth, undevelopcd They
do not say We are lazy, oh, no; but they
say we have got II magnificent climate
and soil, and do not know it. When | .
examine myself by the stand point of
the industry | see here, | feel humili-
ated; and am ready to admit Il am
i'll the balance and found want |
ing" "Enterprisc," there is much for
us to do, for nothing but enterprise will |
bring us ont of the slough OF deSpond- .
nncy. We are in need of better roads, |
the main thoroughfares to
We want more permanent
road beds, and our roads carefully laid
out, graded, and then remain SO, that
we do not lose the labor of ears. Asa
general thing We are devoting more
time to new departures, i'll politics as
well us i'll crecds, than is profitable.
What we want is 'more bread from the
lcre more reliance upon Divine Prov
dence by obcyin% the law, 'worli, work,
sweat, sweat, if you believe my COM
W. II. Seward SAYS, "to
be idle is to rust" Divine law admon-
shes lis, ::'as we SOW, so shall we reap"
Let us educate our children, take the
newspapers, encourage agriculture, and
BRING up our boys and girls to be prac-
.ical and working, and not so much pro-
'cSsionnl. Let us sustain our live men
who have great hearts and display man
lood by saying, come, not go--men like
Il. b. Iearwood, who hay, the ring of the
rue metal; who are energetic and come
Up in times of our need, and say, come, let
IS work together for good to old Monroe
Your correspondent may iot too much,
t so, cut him off. If time permits, he
nay jot down some more that he has
seen, and felt may be acceptable for pro-
yress NJ.
The Difference Between Men.
The great difference between mcn-be-
ween the feeble and powerful, the great
md uCiU,uit Il can't Il, ounrr,,. ir,irril,ln /