The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-08-31
Chattanooga Correspondence.
CHATTANOOGA, August %, 1871

ohtiSit'hNiVhS oiaSASu tht pio"h w tbS
four corners of creation. We feel to-
day that Chattanooga is the one grand
Eldorado for which we have SO long
sought, and tomorrow think the pre-
dictiou of Rush Montgomery, that this
would eventually be the grand focal
point through which the commerce of
the outside world must pour into the
South, was incorrect and stands for
nausht. The ways of man are dark,
and as that great literary nocumen-
tum, Brete Harte. said of All Sin, his
tricks are vain, since life has resolved
itself into a stern determination to
gouge your neighbor and yet avoid his
gouging. You are aware of the fact
that the population of this city is not
only somewhat but considerably mixed,
and that no one here trusts his fellow
man further than he could throw the
animal by the tail. Neither do they
extend the helping hand nor assist one
another as men travelling the same road.
through the same generation, should
This was never more aptly illustrated
than in a local election here last Satur-
day. II was simply contest for Con-
stable, though the emolumcnts of the
place are pretty good-about $500
and yet there were, | believe. six white
men in the race, and one colored man.
Each man, of course, had his friends
every man Of any responsibility at all
has friends-but none had enough sup
porters to couuter5alance the colored
vote, for here are collected and live a
goodly number of the nations wards.
Well, the duskyhued gentleman step
ped in list as easy" and left his pale
faced opponents to wonder and ponder
over the mutability Of human hopes and
affairs. a lesson they have really had
given them by this same successful
Morgan Fryar, and may they profit by
it, grow wiser, and be more prudent in
the future.
Perhaps, your readers expect and
would like to hear something of STAN
ton, for he has figured rather more than
prominently in Chattanooga matters for
some time past. Your correspondent
knows very little about him, or his flu
ture aims and purposes, and the balance
Of this community seem to he about
equally as wise. We know that he is in
New York. or Boston, or some other
place besides Chattanooga. Word is re-
ceived, ostensibly from him, almost ev-
cry day, and each message says, eve
are coming, Father Abraham, with six
hundred thousand more" But there are
very few here who have any faith in
this "sweet song of the SIREN" and they
do not believe Stanton is coming, nor
will they until they SEQ his footprints
in the sands of the Mountain City.
You understand that the troubles of
the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
have at last found a solution. or arc to
find it, in the Courts of the States di-
recty interested in the enterprise. The
counsel for these States met at Knox
vile the other day and agreed to settle
all difficulties connected with the Road,
as stated above, by instituting proceed
ings in the different Courts, thus bring
ing the whole thing to the doors of those
who are daily losers by the suspension.
BY this mode of proceeding it is hoped
the Road will soon be put into opera
ton, so that business. now stagnant, in
fact dead, will be resuscitated, traffic
along it's line resumed, and a general
satisfaction disseminated throughout its
entire length.
Improvement continues here, and al
though our financial misrortunes have
hurt, and are hurting yet, stranger
"can't see it," Look Out Mountain has
been a successful scene of attraction this
season. Crowds from all parts of the
South-among them beautiful girls, the
"fairest flowers that ever bloomed
meath southern sun or on gay savanna"
have f1ocked there, and the hotels
have been overrunn since the season
opened.
By the way, paid, in company with
our young Athenian friend, Hu. NJ. Nc
Keldin, my first visit to the Stanton Ho-
tel the other day. 1t is truly grand
and magnificent work, and it is great
pity that structure so stately should
stand idle on the hilltop, though, mas
much as it is predicted that Look Out
Mountain will have to be set back lit
tie in order TO make room for the ex-
banding city, we expect to see the hotel
soon occupied and in operation, and
that, too, in the very heart of Chatta-
nooga. HUI. says it "beats the world"
and as the boy has been to Belfast, Ire
land, and consequently to several other
places of note-including Sweetwater,
New Market and White Cliff, not for
getting Ricevillc, Mouse Creek, and per-
haps Knoxville-we must grant that his
sayings are good. HUI. is kind-heart-
ed, whole-soulcd, jolly good fellow, Gin
whom there is no guile" and if any one