Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-08-17

miLs5 Of the Warm Sp rings, n e. Is
all that has been completed. Yet,
Notwithstanding only ~ miles is in
operation, we are reliably informed
that the Road more tl'au pays ex-
penses by simply tran porting the
local freight and trav ell, operating
merely as IL feeder to tue other road.
JEst here | am remint ed of the pro
posed Macon 4 Tuscal osa Il. r. and
| am forced to ask I his question
ID 30 miles of Railwa, intersectlng
With the Il. T., Va. 4 sa. r, r., will
pay expenses here, ' here there is
nothing 10 be tranSpo, ted but wheat,
corn and people, WI = would not "
Railroad from Tusca oosa, intersec-
ting the NJ. 4 O. r.. r. at Macon,
sustain itself? Nay + not. only sus-
tain itself, but aetu; lily be able to
declare a dividend 1t certainly
could be built at otW-half the cost
Of building a road through these
hills and rocks and over the nuMsr-
Gus creeks and riv, rs of East Tenn.
and n. G.. Let M& ION & TuscaIoCs&
AS well as inter- lcdiate country.
look to their into rest, and rea izo.
the gIaring fact, I lat with the CON
struction of that I. r. tho advance
in the price of their real estate
would be almost sufficient to build
the road. Lande hero, lying on and
adjacent this r. r., which do not
approach q COR Iarison with your
best prairie land !, are worth $25 to
S75 per acre, al d are only adapted
to raising grair. and the grasses.
But fear am growing polk. A
few words about
Pc GITICs,
and will beg 'our indulgence no
longer. On NJ nday, the 9Th inst,
WAS f grandC) Radical Grant and
Wilson mass m 'eting AT cambridge
the county s; 70 of Jetfercon coun-
(which you : correspondent 'htdl
the distinguished pleasure Of attend
ing. After u Ii rely ride of l6 miles
over hills, cree +, gulIys and rocks,
behind two dbl ,oded bays" in com.
pany With a \, " Jersey Greclcyite.
a Tennessee GI seleyite, and a New
Jersey Granite a very clover Rad.
ical withal-wc reached cambridge
at II O'Clock, and at precisely I
o'clock p. NJ, on rocky hillside in
tho suburbs of I >wn, beneath tower
ing oaks of n c%entury's growth
were assemble | the largest con
course of peopl that had been wit
messed Their: sin &c the days of JamCI
X. Polk and ,thers Of his time
Hon. Horace N wnard was the frs
speaker, who C; me upon tho stanC
amid inhuman hurrahs for the
Union, Abe Ii lcoln and Grant
He congratulate, d his countrymer
on the propitic az hour that hat
called so large a | assembly of leu
nessee's Ycoman " to hear him, anC
with one Of his most laborcd har
argues, he hold his audience fo
throe long hour . His speech wa
evidently not " ell received by tn,
more intelligent Radicals. As ha
always been the practice Of his par
ty, when hard PRESSED and driver
to the wall, he | latantly referred tt
the dead issues Of the past, endca7
oring to tear o zen afr osh the ,onc
bleeding wound engendcreuIby'tb
war, and dwell with oxuItaut tpr,
upon the COO Ii, ion and conduct 0
the Rebels ut during and Mnc
the war, by ' h CHI, he succeeded ad
mirably in CO CHUNG the crcdulity d
a majority If dis hears"s. This
however, is lot to be wondered q,
when We rem embor thattheiR aItic1
e party here, : ) it is in Mississippi, i
principally ( opposed of a class GA.
f lily aroused ~ passion, or swayC,
by prejudice They are for Gran
because tho Democrats are.fer Gree
. ley. In q conversation with
prominent tadicaI this fact was nc
= concealed b him. Maynard's rel
= erence to t le South was vile an
. malignant. He wa unmeasured i
+ the most s anderous abuse of tn
t white poop Q Of the South, whom h
left his ca; r and ignorant listener
to infer wU i'll no less thar band
0 of Ku-kluI and m%arauders, and a
. this he rota led to his fellow.citizen
rs indispua blc' facts of history, an
{ in order t. e. tablish what he aai
as true, rea | many garbled extract
from the rim ted testimony, p9l
! sporting to bav been given in bofoG
c tho X. X. CO mmlttce by negroe
and carpet-ba9 gers from the Soutl
ern States, in 'hich they wore mad
ITO state that t ley had been unmel
cifully torn II ON their homes b
men in DISCUS J, and cruelty viii,
ped and otherN Use m~altreated, wer
many bcing placed in martyr
graves &c. ] mention this ,muc
. that our peopl may be apprisOd.s
a the effort bein Z made to prejudic
= tire public min d against the Soul
: and her peopl Q. Both Maynard.
! speech and the speeches made b
others OF their party, on that occi
. tsion, simply a mounted to hayroM
= iHg up the dead issues of tho past
u abElse of the S, uth-and an apoIt
getic eulogy u 'on Grant. A SUI,
cessful vindicati IN ofthe administr,
ton they dare net attompt, ther.
tore but little W As said by either {
y tie speakers II. regard to it. 6
:, much for the lays entertainment
: and after "a plea ant drive over vc,
cant hills and fertile valleys, "
find ourselves back again fro.
y whence we st; Grted. To.mOusON
. tho 10th inst, ill be a grand rail-
of tho Liberals and Democrats .
Knoxville. and PSO loarn That h., !,