Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-17
Atlanta
HOW IT LOOKS SINCE T#K WAR.

Atlanta is the most remarkable city in
the South, and its name is most familiar
to the Northern ear. The beautiful bills
about it are historic, and from them run
ming back for hundred miles to the
Tennessee is that path of patriotic dar-
ing over which the flanking columns OF
Sherman swept with rallying success,
while Johnston was before them, till At
lanta fell
The destruction of the town was
terrible blow, but like many a calamity,
If has proved a blessing in disguise. The
Atlanta of to-day is richer, better built
and with thousand times the life, en-
ergy and prosperity of that Atlanta
which flashed out one dark night IN the
summer of "a | would not recommend
burning down impoverished towns in
order to make them prosperous, but had
Atlanta remained unscorched II would
never have had its present importance.
| always thought it overrated as strate-
gic point during the war 1t is winning
now by sheer energy and boldness, and
from the fact that Northern men by
hundreds have flooded in with ready
money, but it has no commercial faciii-
ties, and it holds cut no inducement by
water power or the proximity OF coal or
ore to the factors of cotton and iron.
| The proposed canal to connect the Ten
pessee. through Georgia, with the DC
mulgee, and of which | will speak In
some future letter, may aid it and give
stability to its fortunes, and continually
add to its present increasing population.
PREcooroUs SuIoIDEs.-Surely there
| is something wrong in the moral atmos-
phere of a country where the young so
! frequently commit suicide to escape the
! tortures of pride and poverty. The am
/ bition to rise in the world is laudable,
| and parents do not err in inspiring their
! children with a healthy stimulant that
may be necessary to arouse their ener-
gies to the work of bettering their con-
dition but either ia the home education
or in the feyerish influences of American
society, the stimulant may be made too
severe for callow minds. On all sides
the symptoms are multiplying that a
morbid pride and discomfort verging up
on despair are developed in the minds
of the young by oursystem of education
or by the influences that surround our
natural life. Every day we hear Of some
child heart broken by disappointed love
some young life lost in despair and
suicide. A young man doomed to some
| 1uUlDlc anu
his dreams had been of brilliant oppor-
tunities and unfaltering success, rebels
against fate and blows his brains out.
Anon. it is a boy who feels degraded by
having to wash dishes, and he goes qui-
etly to the garret and hangs himself. In
Yesterdays exchanges we read of two
Young ladies who, for similar reasons
committed suicide. One of them put a
pistol ball in her own brain, because she
saw no escape from her occupation as
school teacher The other one, Miss
Hattie Clayton, of Orange county, n.
Y, took laudanum because she could
find no other employment and was too
proud to do housework. The false senti-
ments and false teachings that wrought
these wrecks are the cankers of a sys-
TEN that worships money and glorifes
success. That it is prolific in national
disgrace is sufficiently manifest-tar be
its poisons from the minds and It's curse
from the lives of the young The great
est bepefactor of our country and ma
tion will be he who imparts TO US heal
thier public sentiment, who teaches our
youths that they may ''dare be poor for
, a. that" and imbues them with the feel.
. ing that all the real honor of life lies,
, not in their part, but in acting il we'll
Missouri Republican.