Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-17
M'CONB CITY.
A Yeritable WOnder-The City Of Day
What Railroad Can Do.
The New Machine Shops Of the n. o., j.
and q. n. RailrOad-Energy and
Progress Everywhere.
rom an Occasional CorrespOndent.I

From an Occasional Correspondent.I
CANTON, Miss, August 1.-THE 10
nance of Aladdin's lamp is a ro-
nance no longer, for mine eyes have
seen the fulfllment of its most wonder.
ful assertions. Where but little more
than a year ago a pine forest sighed
dreamily upon the breezes of evening,
yesterday beheld city, noisy with the
sound of footsteps and voices, dingy
with the smoke Of furnaces, alive with
industry, grasping at prosperity with 6
vigorous and certain hand. The en-.
chanter has spoken, and McComb City
exists. All the information l could
gather from the conductor on the Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee road, with whom
rode to Grenada, or from the gentleman
who officiated as ticket agent at thai
place, amounted to the simple fact thai
il was a new station somewhere below
Jackson, so that | was prepared not tC
be disappointed if found the conven-
tional 1.-TWO saloons and blacksmith.
shop,n the usual foundation of future
civic greatness in our southern
and western settlements. Judge
then, of my surprise, when af
ter leaving Summit, first looked out
upon the young city, radiant in its fresh
paint and whitewash. An hotel that in
size, appearance, and elegance of design
suTpasses the best in many of our Older
cities, and whose commanding situation
upon the summit of lofty green terraces
is truly imposing, startles the eye o.
the approaching traveller, and its lofty
colonnades and spacious verandas fore.
token the delightful GOODNESS of the
h,+ , / L =,
their numerous recesses. From the ter
races, in whichever direction one gazes,
the visible presence of energetic enter
prise is everywhere manifest. Over fifty
houses are in sight, about twenty
of them being incomplete, but in
very rapid state of progress,
and all engaged beforehand. A
walk through the shops of the New Or
leans and Jackson railroad, there situ-
ated, in company with that accom-
plished gentleman aud superintendent,
Nick Grainer, Esq, is a treat that fully
repays one for a journey thither. The
foundry, the smithy, and, above all, the
mschine-shOp, surpass anything of the
kind you have IN Memphis, being
crowded with row on row of powerful
and beautiful machines which shape
and finish the Obdurate steel as easily
and effectually as tine fingers of ladies
fair entwine the intIicacies of the beloved
tatting. But when your correspondent
visited that stable for mighty steeds, the
eRgiHeb0uSe, the appreciation of the
grandeur of human intellect was most
complete, for there, in giant semi
circle, slept the greatest of mans
creatiOns-the majestic locomotives
the dormant power of more than two
thousand horses. Absolute perfection iu
tie arrangement of the ears to secure
the comfort and safety of passengers
seems to be the object in this establish
ment, as is shown by the adoption OF
the Miller platform and the Westing-
house air-brake. The air-brake, be il
known to timid travellers, is an.arrange.
ment by which a pressure of many hun.
dred pounds, sufficient to lock the
wheels, can be instantly applied by the
engineer to all the wheels in the train
through the medium of compressed air
did not stay in the city sufficiently
long TO form many acquaintance, anC
am, consequently unable TO Judge of the
society there resident, but it is an elO
qlteHt circumstance that no intoxicating
liquors are allowed to be sold in the cor.
pOratiOn, and if the APPEALS "man o.
science" visits this city, born in a day
he will have to import his own "shOO
fiys.n In avidity it Out-Portlands Port.
land.