Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-05-30
From Knoxville to New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, May %, 1871.

After hard trip of more than forty
hours from Chattanooga, this evening
finds US in the Crescent City. We left
Chattanooga on Tuesday evening, over the
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, i'm
one of the elegant Pullman palace sleeping
cars now running on the road. Owing to
the rough condition of the southwestern
division of the road, the sleeping car is
left at Tuscaloosa. We had made arrange
ments with the conductor of the sleeping
car to call US in time to go on with the
train, which he did-just in time to be too
late. We went to the door just as the
train moved off at the rate of twenty miles
per hour, leaving us i'll not very pleasant
frame of mind. We could have INDUCED
i'm some hard words about that sleeping
car conductor, and it still requires strong
effort on our part to feel amiable towards
him. We vote him 49,, but we refrain
from saying anything further, from the
fact that we can't do the subject Justice. =
But our disappointment has been atonei
for, to great extent, by getting to come
over the most interesting part of the
road in daylight. We had to wait only
two houts for the accommodation train,
that runs from Tuscaloosa to Meridian,
Miss. The road between these two points
passes through an uninteresting country,
covered with swamps, and producing little
else than 'alligators and mosquitoes. The
former may be seen occasionally, moving
sluggishly from their chosen resting place
III the sun, while myriads of the latter in
fest the atmosphere, coming into the cars
and dining from the passengers. A con-
tinual fight with them serves to keep one
awake, if nothing else. But there are inn
mense forests of the finest pine timber i'm
the land contiguous to- this road, and
number of mills have already been erected
for manufacturing it into lumber. The
manufacture of and traffic i'm lumber will
become quite business in large scope of
country that has heretofore been barren
waste. aa.- r.fsy fae-s sdf r- i.4s
We arrived at Meridian at o'clock p.
NJ, and were detained there twelve hours,
leaving there at 2 A., NJ, on Thursday
morning. We were aroused from our bed
at an unreasonable hour, and tried sleep
ing on the seat of a car from that till day,
but found that with ones feet elevated at
an angle of forty-five degrees, is not par
ticularly conducive to rest. III OH , =
The country from Meridian to Mobile is
fine country, and almost the entire bust
ness done immediately along the line of
the road is in lumber. We only passed
through Mobile, and have nothing to say
of that city,. There is nothing proposes
sing about it, judging from the hasty
glance afforded us. 80 s,-ses5 ss.as
The road from Mobile to this place is one
of the best equipped in the South. 1t
passes through highly interesting coun-
| try, and it Is well worth visiting. One
moment you are dashing through pine
forest, then through graves of magnolia
tress with their immense flowers, and next
| you are gliding over some one of the nu-
merous bayous that extend in from the
gulf, the gulf itself Speeding out an APP
parently bOuudleSS waste of waters far TO
| the South. The coast is dotted over, here
and there, with handsome and picturesque
villas, where the heat-oppressed denizens
of this goodly city are wont to retire for
| health and recreation. A large portion of
| this road is constructed across these inlets,
some of them being two or three miles
wide, SPAWNED by trestle-work. We saw
where four cars were precipitated into one
of them few days ago. A portion of the
cars are yet visible, the water not being
| deep enough to cover them. Such sights
are not calculated to inspire pleasant
| thoughts in the mind of traveller. These
trestle bridges appear, however, to be well
constructed, and with ordinary care there
need be no more than the ordinary dam
gers. ,,.....-
We arrived here safe and sound yester-
| day evening at four o'clock, and to-day
propose to see something of the city, after
attending to business.
| We notice in market here green corn,
tomatoes, apples, plums, &C., all this years
growth. We saw fields of corn yesterday
silking and tasseling. NA
| We met yesterday with Mr.. Geo. M.
Southworth, of Jackson, Mississippi, and
his brother from Northern Illinois, whom
we find to be pleasant travelling compan-
ions. More anon. w. r.