Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-07

marble. IL goes carefully up, ana ages
hence win glisten in the summer sun a
very pretty thing indeed. 1t is about
the size of one of those large warehouses
now going up on Shelby street. The
same economy of space that has been
Noticed as characteristic of the corpora
ton laboTer's pig-pen is also observed IN
respect TO this 1t standst IN sueh 2 con-
ltfacted area that one cannot see II until
his nose has been fiattened against as
white walls. A considerable number OF
hands are engaged upon its construction,
and some stir throughout the city is said
4 10 result from the weekly distribution of
salaries among them.
THE JOHN RNoxvmLIANs.
There are no wasted energies, blasted
homes or wrecks of human ruins
in ancient Knoxville. Yet the place
is not without character, more or
less unique. To me the Who'll
place isunique and curious. The farmer,
hOme-spun clad, dull of feature, sharp
at trading away his truck, who tai
in the narrow market place from day
light till the heatsOf noon are over, mig
Cling about the price of acabbage with
the sun-bonnetted housewife whose
fingers appear to have been bronZed
more by former handling of brass tarth-
ings than by the summer glow ofa ferVld
sky, is a character so like an "Arkan-
saw" fiddler in externals, that one
would never suspect any difference. But
there are no two people more unlike.
Our genuine East Tennesseean h a no
suecnlatien IN his eve, and there Is no
laughing devlOn his lips. Heis man
who abhors a piece of artillery on his
| A-sr-~ lie os,au ~ eanan0fnlA mn his
Thoughts are of home. If he drinks, no
one sees him, and if curse wellsu up from
the bitter depths of disappointment or
madness, it lies on the silent air and no
ear, save that of demons, catches the
sound. The man of "Arkansaw" talks
! politics and death at the same time.
| When he drinks liquor he wants all b
world to know it, and he rattIes forth his
ohjuTgations for the a of humankind. The
Knoxville man of labor toddles to mar
ket early in the morning and carries
home his bushel of meal in q bag that
has done duty in the anne manner for a
/ century. With an income Of dollar
per day, he has managed in the course
| of years to become the owner of a house
and lot, when he lives in a style of
| economy that would make every man
in Memphis a millionaire in the course
Iof time. Once in a while an individual
may be seen cautiously perambulating
| the streets who had managed to get up
| a little fit of inebriation on an outlay of
something about five cents. He wad-
| dies home in silence. How he dissipat-
| ed SO much on so little became a matter
of study with me, and my curiosity led
70 a considerable expenditure Of inquiry
In finding out. The saloons are few,
and those suffer from atrophy. When
a HquOEy individual has reached that
point of moral and social turpitude that
a good solid drunk becomes a neces-
sity Of his nature, he searches out a few
others in the same stated Of inner deprav-
ity and thirst. They chat together and
purchase a wholesale quart of rye. Re
firing to a corner, they suck alternately
at the neck of the vessel until the re-
qUired state of inebriety is attained,
and are then satisfied. The thing IS
done in quietude, and the city police
fail to get a job. Nor is the city treasu-
~ enriched by the amount of a cent.
This Is the beginning and ending and
whole history Of a Knoxvillian's drunk.
1t is saidthat the name of a Knoxville
man was ley registered at Long
Branch, OF any other watering place,
anu II IL Il AAlALLEl " uOOON { l liz
sober probOscis was ever seen
inside of a saloon out of his
own town. He never speculates
ON cocktails, and the reason alleged
for his wealth is that he holds all he gets.
His faculty for acquisition is not a ge-
Mus, but his power of retention is sub
lime. 1t is principally owing to these
characteristics that Knoxville walks for
ward, and viii continue to go forward,
no matter what may happen. 1t is her
fate; for her iron-shOd and bronze-fisted
aristoeracy will compel the world and
tie times TO minister to their purposes.
The town will and must become great.
THE RAILROADS
are managed like everything else. In
the whole course of a year not the price
of a wasted envelope has to be put down
to ''proft and loss.n They consequently
flourish under circumstances where a
different style of management would in
duce ruin. The Scott system of roads, |
which extends from Memphis to Bristol,
viii pay, and will do better under the
combined management than ever be-
fore. Last year ninety-two thousand
bales of cotton passed up this East Ten
nessee and Virginia road for Norfolk.
The coming season the quantity will be
doubled.
NEW POPULAR ROUTE.
The time is now reduced to five days,
certain. This is inside of all coast trans
portatiOn from Memphis, and will result
ia making this not only the favOrite, but
the only Liverpool route for cotton leav-
ing your city. The Scott combination
route will also become a favOrite one for
.freights going west. A day or two ago
Messrs. Hill, Terry & Mitchell got a
consignment of a thousand cases of
boots and shoes from Boston by the
way of Norfolk and Chattanooga. They
arrive in shorter time than by the old
route. 1t will also become a favorite
route, and this is of the utmost impOr-
lance to Memphis, for passenger traffic
for Europe. The steamship Moravian
recently landed a load of immigrants at
Norfolk, all of whom went over their
roads. InOticed that nineteen We're for
Memphis; three for Galveston; one for
LeavenwoTth; six for Jackson, Missis- |
sippi; five for Nashville; nine for Knox
vile, and nine for New Orleans. The
importance to Memphis of working the
route up to its possibilities cannot be
over estimated. II appears that AN era
has commenced which will witness the
total change of the passenger and traffic
courses east and west. Events seem to
point strongly to the bending southward
of those great lines or travel that had
Cincinnati and louisville for prominent
points ON the way. l may be mistaken,
but the indications are that way I'M
dOubtedly.
POLITICS.
Politics are running high out here.
The people seem to have their hearts
and minds fixed upon electing a Demo-
cratic Congressman to go to Washington
with Greeley. This grand idea has
taken such possession of the popular
Caucasian mind in the mountains, as
well as in the valleys, that all local
matters are overlooked as being of
secondary importance. The average
voter, as well as the experienced and
influential politician, seem to think that
u universal effort ought TO be made in
that direction, and that no trading or
compromising ought to be tolerated,
which would defeat the project. NJ.
~o CARSON'S LANDING.