Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-06
THE U
The Great Southern Mail Line from
Memphis 20 Norfolk.
Chattanooga and Other Thriving Towns
Along this Improving Route Of
Travel.

From our Special Correspondent
CHATTANOOGA, September 3.-After
| considerable jogging owe railroads
some fourteen hundred miles-I am in
this most promising town again. IL is
no eXaggeration to say that it is by far
the most ambitious place between Mem
phis and Norfolk. The most hopeful,
thorough-going. spirited, enterprising
and adventurous Of any Southern town
except Memphis. How on earth the
spirit of gO-aheadism got into the place
must remain a mystery but that il Is
here is SO palpable, s. evident TO every
sense that it would require q condition
Of mental alteration seldom found to
enable one to deny il. A certain amount
Of external iniQuity is s. characteristic
of prosperity in American rising towns
that il has come almost to be looked
upon as a criterion Of prosperity in raw
places. The neWnes of the place is
seen in this-that there is a certain air
of rude and reckless d~are-deTiltry about
everything. The ladies wear the most
iauntv and reckless hats; the men affect
every style of hirsute o-rnamentation
from the frosty and long beard of Rip
Van Wrinkle to the plump, a~ristOcratic,
soft, captivating fullness of the Dukes
whisker. Then, if a fellow arrives from
some Distant job on arailroad, half-made,
he is Just as likely TO lay out the bulk Of
bis s'piie" on a pair of patent-leather
boots or a silk hat as purchase a decent
and uniform covering for his whole per-
son. Such people feel that there is no
pressing necessity for providing against
the future. They argue within them
selves that Everything must come out
all right" The coal and iron beds seem
TO be a guarantee to them Of prospective
full stomachs for several ages.
THE PROJECTS
that are on foot, that are talked of and
dreamed ofhy the mighty men of Chat
tanooga are gigantic in dimension and
countless in number. Every bOot-black
and news-vender is a Spectator, and
schoOl-children, in tOddling home
from the presence Of the pedagOgue, dis
cuss real estate, and coal measures, iron
interests, railroads and corner lots. The
question is not so much how to build
the town as to find room for the houses.
The possibility of taking in Nashville
aud Knoxville, and of even trenching
the natural domain of Memphis, not
un~frequently become a matterof debate.
1t is a town of civil engineers, hod-l
carriers and intending miliOnaires. The
man who moulds brick to-day may man.
a hank tom 1TrOw. The men of
are the future great ones of the
land, hence il is no small compliment
to be called "a regular brick.n "a reg
ular brickr is a fellow of infinite project
and a very heavy capitalist-on paper;
a man of talk, of brains according to
their kind, and of energy. There is a
great crop of him here, and though he
is worth his weight in gold, he can be
employed to do anything within the
compass Of human possibility, from the
construction of a railroad TO the making
IF a constitution or a treaty, for a COM
oaratively small sum. Chattanooga will
a great town in the future.
A similar spirit is discoverable every
where along the great Southwestern
quite to Norfolk. With the exception
perhaps of Petersburg there is no place
between here and the ~sea-cO&st that dOes
lot indulge high hopes of the future.
Every town appears to be GliUe with the
pirit Of industry. There is a stir among
he people, and a hustle and excitement
observable on the streets, which shows
hat a new era has already dawned. The
,Otentialities of the country are now
of grave study.and investiga-
ion. Every possible means of increas-
ng wealth is tried; every natural fea-
uTe of every section that offers reward
o toll is a matter of speculation. There
:, in fact, a new life visible, and a new
r and more progressive order of things
lI~augurated. The straight line of rail
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