The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-13
Letter from - Siat6r."

IN A P.LACE-CAR FROM i.fSCHRURti TO MOBILE
RAILROAD IMPROvEMENTS-CROPS, vEGETA.
BLES. sc.-pELEGATEs TO THE SOUTHERN BAr-
list CONVENTIONAL PLEASANT SET-SMALL
DELEGATION FROM NlRGlEIA-rIEE FOREST,
TIMBER SWAMP, &C.
correspondence of tn" Richmond l>ispa!cti.I
OSCARs FROM MONTGOMERY 10 MOBILE,
May !. 1873.
ur day before yesterday | babe adiru to
our beautiful city of hills, and find myself this
bright afternoon seated at table in the Pull
mans palace-car on which left Lynchburg
and which goes through ria Mobile to New
Orleans, da>hing through the immense forest
along the road from Montgomery TO Mobile,
and writing in perfect comfort Il few dots
that have made along the way.
There his been an immense Improvement
in all of the railroads along this route since
passed over them last year but ! M!l>t say
that none Of them art ut all equal either in
tEr elegance of their coaches or The smooth
ness of their running to General Mahonc's
road from Burkeville Il might say from Nor
folk 10 Bristol,
The crops along the route arc generally
looking badly, or, rather, they are backward.
In Tennessee the peach crop (Which is Il
large iteln) Is cut short by the frost. In
Georgia and Alabama the corn and cotton
have come up very preltily, aud seem to Us
very forward. while the flowers are very
beautiful, the foliage US full as it ever gets in
Virginia, and the new potatoes. cabbage,
beets, onions, strawberries, &c, have been
very grateful to the traveller, but the natives
complain Of a late season.
Ny allu>ion to Georgia is really to Il
very small part of the State. for l went to
sleep at ) O'Clock la>t niSht-soon after we
left Dalton. land when awokc this morning
we had passed the "Gate City" and the
numerous pretty little towns along the line,
and were nearly across the Empire State -"
aud into Alabama. What blessing to the
traveller these slccping-carS are. Here
have travelled three days and two nights,
have had no trouble changing cars, have
slept more tun do ut home, and am posi-.
lively frcshcr than when lett Richmond
When we stopped for breakfast ut Opelika
this morning we found on board number
of delegates to the Southern Baptist Con-
vention. which meets i'll Mobile tomorrow,
and 1t was very pleasant TO witness the cor
dial greetings of Nirginians, GcoryianS,
CarolinanS, Murylandcrs, &C., who we've
vending their way to the common gather
ing.
At Montgomery we had Mrge accession
from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama,
and our ranks have continued to swell ever
since, until there are HOW some sixty dele
gates on this train +; and rs pleasant set they
are us often get together. The good anec-
dote and mirth.proyoking joke mingle with
grave discussions Of important plans for the
general cause.
The delegation from Virginia win be small.
Rev. DR.. Thomas, OF Norfolk; Rev. j. K.
Garlick, Rev. A. E. Dickinson, Rev. DR..
upper, and Rev. j. William Jones, of Rich
mond Rev. DR.. Long, of Charlottesville;
Rev. DR.. Montgomery, of I.vnchburg; Rev.
j. b. Taylor, of Culpercr: and Rev. }. T..
kincannon, of Bristol. are all That we now
| expect.
The delegation from il,e border STATES
generally will be small, but it will be- prola.
bly, made up by the Gulf States TO about fine
usual number.
For thirty or forty miles .cow Mont
Somery this road runs through tiue cotton
plantations, bat it then strikes into Dine
forest for about 100 miles; after which VIC
run through marsh, in which the song OF
lnntncmb!e frogs en- be heard above tho
rattle Of the ears.
This pine timber Is Of immense value, and
q large number Of steam .aw.m!Ils ure on.