American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-15
Letter from Mobile.
MOBILE, June 10, 1877.

MOBILE, June 10. 1877.
Mr.. CITIZEN: l take it for
granted in these "piping times of
peace "-when the clans are gather
ing-that you would like to have
dish of taste, Shakespeare, and the
musical glasses" by way Of change
from the "very dry soup" Of poll
tics. in fact, the time is fast ap-
preaching when Canton and Mobile
will be near neighbors, for when the
Northwestern road is established,
they will be Ike one family, hay ing
the same interests, aims, objects,
and enjoyments. You see, that l
take it for granted that the road
Will run to Canton, and this seems
to be the opinion of the directors
who reside III this city. l called on
Mr.. Henry few minutes since, but
lie is out of town; when he returns
/ shall be able to get from him some
data which viii be useful to your
friends in Madison county. He is
the President of the road.
/ have mentioned tie piping times
of peace, but of course you must
take the phrase with grain of al
lOwance, for at times politics rise to
fever heat in the presidential barOm-
eler. But it strikes me that after
the :! first notion IN reference to
Greeley has passed off, that the
- sober second thought" has pre-
vailed with the Democracy, and that
they are not disposed to so it blind
for the nominee of the Cincinnati
Convention. The persons, in Mobile,
who have been tossing up their caps
for Horace are not the old lire Dem
Ocrats, but that portion of the party
which calls itself Conservative, and
those again who, being weak and
Idle, run Off on all occasions, as they
are unable to comprehend principle
or constancy. In the late Ward
meetings efforts were made by the
old trickSters-men who have time
and again endeavored to destroy
the Democratic party-to demon
alize and disinteerate the Democ
racy, but they signally failed, as the
primary meetings refused to instruct
their delegates to the Central Coun-
ell, which will appoint delegates
to Montgomery, where the cOnven-
ton meets on the 10Th Instant, to
select delegates to Baltimore. My
own opinion now is that, the Dem
Ocrats Will make a nomination for
the Presidency irrespective of the
action taken by the Liberal Repub-
licans at Cincinnati.
know that you viii be glad to
learn that the Ladies' Monumental
Association have been finally sue
cessful in their efforts to raise the
necessary funds for defraying the
expenses of a monument, in Mag
nolia Cemetery, to the Confederate
dead. They adopted the plan of a
lottery, and have acquired a large
sum, for these times-say six thOus-
and dOllars-and much of the re-
suit is due to Mrs. Ann L. Hunter,
an old lady of this city, who is a
daughter Of Judge Harry TOulm,
the FIST Judge OF the Mississippi
Territory. She came to Mobile on
the fall of Fort Minis, flying from
the Indians, and has resided here
from that time to this, honored, re-
spected, and beloved, OH account OF
her many virtues.
Mobile has now become one OF
the most musical places in the
whole country. We have music
from the U. S. Band twice a week
in Bienville Square, besides music
from the Mobile Brass Band, and
the playing about the streets at
night. If to this be added the fact
that since the first of May, scarcely
a day has elapsed without the form
alton of Il picnic party, composed at
one time of school children, at an
other of tiremen, and now again of
all sorts Of ''men in buckram," you
can well imagine the gay and fes-
tive appearance of the streets, and
the revealing at Frascati, Arlington,
Bell Vue, and other summer resorts
Oh the Bay Shore, to which visitors
are taken in the street cars. | eX-
pcct to see the time when a street
car will run from Mobile to Canton
by atmospheric pressure!
The steamboatmen complain bit
terly that they have been destroyed
by the railrOads-threc Alabama
river steamers were recently sold to
a citizen of st. Louis, who has taken
them round to the Mississippi, his
chief object i'll making the purchase
being to use the iron for other enter
prises. The Morgan line of steam
ers plying between Mobile and New
Orleans for the last thirty years has