Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-05-29
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THE ATLANTA CONVENTION.
FROM Our SPECIAL RsroRTsE.
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StatenE Georsia, asem pliat8tally aghiic
of thelsail. Hnt for theEaaveneef the
Iran:fIarse heSs in ls45, Tits place situaN
ted 81 a pooFsxfslg& andsremote from
streams of any note, might still have
been Cross Road 1hrerM, near White
Hell Post Office. At first, the fe'ni''1ts
of the Georgia Railroad here was called
Marthasvilfe; BntiE nitf4ae was soon al
forwards changed to Atlanta, a word
coined as the feminine of Atlantic. be-
cause Il is on the wafer. between
that Ocean and the Gulf: ulf:....-----,,---.-
From Augusta, from Macon, from
Montgomery, from ChAtanoega, and
from Tug,loo. and from beyond all these
come the daslring trains crowded with
ray passengers, or. laden with costly
merchandise TO make the bnstlifg, and
90 .ahend Gate City, forget its former
insignifcaace and poverty. Tho din, the
squeeze, the rush, the smoke, ali super
added to the delightful .eliriu1n conse-
quent upon the moving spectacle, would
transport the dullest mortal and make
him believe in the widest tales Of magic
and romance
Many'of the Business Blocks, as we'll
as the State House and Governors man
sion. and also the Halls sacred to Rcli-
gion, Learning and Science, arc on a
scale OF grandeur commensurate with
the reaaiements and expectations Of a
great, growing, and ambitious City. The
III. I. Kimball House" is colossal
structure with underground Salons, and
six tan stories above, including the dor
mer windows in its magnificent Mansard
roof.
The present population of Atlanta is
about thirty thousand, with q tendency
.constantly upward. This thrifty and
restless population is now reaching out
after coal and iron in the direction of
Talladega, Birmingham, and Decatur in
Alabama. About twenty miles Of this
latest Railroad enterprise of theirs have
already been graded. These people talk
and then aet. they hunt up promising
and credi.ablc job, and then they gOto
werl1 in casasest.
Having arrived in this City a day be.
fore the Canal Convention assembled, I
had ample time to zee the sights and find
my friends TIVE of the 'g1iest things ]
saw, were sloth and an Egyptian nftlin
my. Tire etoth, as it's name suggests, is
the very opposite of energy and activity.
In its hideous aspect and iH-sbaped
limbs, nature seems to preach sermon
against laziness! The art of embalning
as practiced in ancient Egypt is lost, but
specimens of it's handiwork have come
flewn to us from that dim, twilight period,
which antc-dates History itself. As 1
stood, and sighed o. or this "long deserted
shrine" of immortal soul, it occurred to
me that this very mummy might have
been Pharoah's daughter, who discover
ed the infant Moses among the rushes on
the banks of the Nile.
Two of the prettiest things saw. were
the top Of Church, and the view there
from to the West. This roof was COM
posed of slate so variegated as to resem-
bic beautiful mosaic. Facing the cool
zephyrs, I saw Kennesaw Mountain
sweetly reposing in the haze of distance,
and backed by sea of molten gold crea-
ted and glorifed by the setting sun!
Two of the funniest things saw, were
a degenerate Roman and we'll developed
Darcinian roaming about together,-ex'
tremes viH meet, you know. Poor Pom
pus. Penpiscus, .Pompilius The came
all tho way from the turbulent tribes Of
the turbid Tiber to let us know he had
just sense enough to turn the organ
crank and wink at his monkey, which,
was smart, and spruce, sharp, and spun
ky. His impe-sonating performances
were inimitably droll and ludicrous
r-u1r, anybody would laugh to see this
ape show how the dragging, betting,
Boston belle holds her HAVANA when
hob-nobbing outside of "the Hub"
Two of the sndtlcst mementos I saw,
were, the new Espiscopal Kirk, and the
KimbaH House. The Church in ques-
ton has been erected near the spot where,
On the 9th Of July 1864, saw the youth.
fnl Corporal YeldeH fall, pierced through
the heart by minnie ball from the Fed
erd sharp-shoeters "Tobep was no.
BILE fellow. and it il eonsoling to know
that he was so good boy as to be loved
| and respected by all who knew him. Al
the kimball Hotel, notwithstanding its
luxnries and elegance, I WAS constantly
haunted by the recollection that in this
very building, in July last, died sudden
lyand unexpectedly MY particular friend,
Gen. W'illfa,n X. Easley, of Greenville,
S. G. "Bill'' and myself were school
mates. Together we read Horace, and,
together, many a time and oft, )" had we
climbed the high, steep rocks o'erlook-
Ing the murnluring waters of the beauti-
full Keowee. General Easley was both
Poet and Orntor, and had his life been
prolonged, ne would doubtless have at
taiued to fame and eniinence. Peace 10 his
Posterfty, and Monument to his Memo
ry! was sitting on log by the side OF
Corporal Yeldcfl when he was killed at
theeRtrenchments on Peach Tree Street
and like General Easley, too have
visited Atlanta in the interest OF internal
Improvements. Why my improbable
life has been spared, whilst both of1ny
friends were translated under circum-
stances 80 peculiar and rEournf,E is one
of those iascrutable DEGREES of Provi-
denee,- which fills iny nlind with much
solemn reflection.
Two of the g'Nndest rhings saw, e7,
route, We're Charlottesville and the Stone
Mountain. The House OF Alexander ii.
Stephens attracts the gaze Of every trav-
elter. 1t will find place in every heart,
and a page ins every History, as the
shrine of .gcntas and patriotism. That
huge pile of granite, so stern and solitary
sixteen miles below Atlanta, and almost
in the very track of the locomotive, is a
delightful mystery to every geologist,
and Il bold outline of grace and beauty