Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-22
LETTER FROM OXFORD.
Railroads, POIitIes. Etc. I'm Missis
efppt.

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OXFORD. Mss. November 10, 1871.
70 the Editor of the Public Ledger:
Your correspondent reached this place
4 day or two ago after little pleasant
md unpleasant travel over three rail-
roads. He left Memphis via the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad at ll:l5 |
i. m, and reached Corinth at A pm. the
same day. Desiring TO go down the
Mobile and Ohio road he was informed
that there would be no train on that road
before 3 p M the next day He was
somewhat surprised to find, after leaving
a road that runs train almost every
hour in the day, that the great Mobile
and Ohio road could afford but one train
a day. was informed, however, that
freight train would go down in a few
hours, aud concluded to take that. |
found, detained here by the slow pro-
cess, two young gentlemen who were on
their way South to be married, and as
the appointed time was near at hand,
they were not little uneasy at the I'M
expected delay. Immediately set
about making inquiries of the freight
train that it was said would pass down
soon. Entering the office of the Mobile
and Ohio road, / inquired what time
the freight train wonld pass Corlnth.
" At six o clock" said voice that might
have come from the ceiling, or the floor,
or elsewhere, for aught / knew to the
contrary. II can take this train sup
pose" asked of the official. The same
voice answered, 81 suppose you can, If
you try very hard. This prolonged
Sentence enabled us to locate the sound
about the region Of the vocal organs of a
most polite and accommodating looking
gentleman. We ventured q few more
queries, but q raised digit and exasper-
ated air pointed me TO the rear wall
Stepping few PAGES toward the object
indicatedNwe ventured to ask at what
station we should get off to reach Aber-
deem. A rumbling sound CAME from
mysterious depths. There was no WISH
bic motion of the object on whose back
we gazed, and it was with awe and
trembling that | proponnded the next
inquiry, Twill you let us have ticket,
that we may take the freight train. i
will, sir, as soon as | get ready, and not
a minute sooner" ooh, beg pardon;
won bother you, sir, sorry, stammered
the wandering Bohemian as he retreated
towards the door, and hastened to make
himself scarce.
Fastening back to the hotel your cor
respondent, overcome by this interview,
retired to a sleepless couch, but the two
more impatient travellers sat up all the
live long night, awaiting the arrival OF
that queer train, which only reached
Corinth at noon the next day
HOW DIFFERENT.
He could not help contrasting the
manners of the attaches of this road
with those of our own Memphis and
Charleston road no more than he could
the vastly dissimilar accommodations of
the two roads He ventured to draw the
distinction. He called the attention to
the number of trains run daily on the
Memphis and Charleston road, the i'm
mense amount of freight carried over its
line and the fourishing villages that had
sprung up along its line. lie was an
swered that one train on the Mobile and
Ohio road did the business of all the
trains on the Memphis and Charleston
road; but when he saw the CHASTITY array
Of empty seats on that one train, he
claimed the right to entertain a some
what different opinion. And when he
looked upon the dred-uP towns along the
line of the Mobile and Ohio road,
whose inhabitants were scarcely able 10
enjoy any local advantages Of travel
from this road, he could but exclaim,
"What a blessing it is to have railroad
Differed by men who understand their
business aud their patrons interests"
Arriving at
OXFORD,
we stopped at theDelbridge Hotel, where
we found three bridal couples sojourning
and two more expected in few days.
In fact wherever we went we found the
matrimonial fever raging as never be-
fore. of the bridal couples already at
the hotel there we're Rev S. II. Brewer
and lady, nee Miss Mollie Sullivan Of
Sardis; Mr.. Buck Dslbridge and lady,
nee Miss Eva Nelson of Oxford and
Mr.. II. NJ. Sullivan and lady, nee Miss
Lena Whitfield Of Aberdeen, Miss. An
other couple, Colonel Shoupe and wife,
were expected in few days.
Through the courtesy Of Mr.. John 5.
Collins, OF Memphis, one oil the most
promising young men Of the South, we
we're shown through
THE UNIVERSITY.
buildings, the museum, the laboratory,
the observatory, etc etc., and also made
acquainted with many Of the students
Of the University The buildings and
grounds are not in the best possible re-
pair, but they promise every necessary
convenience for students. The faculty
is acknowledged to be the best in the
South, and the students, so far as we
saw, are the most aiable and agreeable
Young gentlemen we ever met. We can
cheerfully recommend the University Of
Mississippi to the young men Of our
country.
The people all over the State are ju-
bilant, since the election, over the de-
feat Of the Radicals and scalawags.
There is in some few counties a heavy
Radical majority, but the opinion is
very general that another election will
see the whole army Of thieves and plum
derers hurled from power, and Missis-
sippi entirely released from their de-
spelling grasp. Tenderly,