The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-03
Notes Of Travel In North CAROLINE.

CHARBOTTE-ITSe TRADE AND ,GROWTH--CELE-
BuArIoS OF THE coMrLETIos OF TIE AIR
LINE ERAILRoAD-CoHCoRD--c ReHEs- MANU-
FACIUREs--MEETIHG OF PREsBYTERY-REvO-
LUTIOEARY RELIC, &C. ,...,
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.1
CHARLOTTE; n. G.; May %, 1873.
Charlotte gives evidence Of steady growth,
and is rnpdly increasing in population, and
trade. Now that the AIRLINE railroad is COM
pleted. We may, look for still greater strides.
Most. Of the private residences are locatedin
shady groves, and the grounds are adorned
with beautiful flowers and shrubs. Many Of
the houses evince great taste in their con-
str1ction. To-day the town gives an enter
taininert TO its southern guests to celebrate
the completion Of the air-ilne railroad. Some
400 OF 400 excursiCnists, including number
of ladies, lIaYe arrived. They were met at
the depot by the committee, with General
Young as chief marshal and Governor Vance
Hs orator. They were escorted by the Fire
Department, with band or music, to the
central portion OF the town, where Governor
Vance, in his own hlndsolnc style, extended
cordial welcome; to which responses were
made be representatives from SpsrtanbnrS,
Atlantis, dc. The cxcurSioDists then retired
to their quarters at the hotels and private
houses TO prepare for the festivities Of the
evening. An elegant banquet will be given
in g Oatis's Hail." and party will be given
at the Central Hotel. -. ~, = --l!
Concord is an old town. partly dilapidated
and partly rejurenated, about twenty miles
from Charlotte, on the North Carolina ruil-
| road. 1t Is in Il fine cotton-growing section,
and has large trade 10 that staple. 1t has
two hotels, cotton factory for spinning
n 10, nd
well-conducted newspaper. Or the main
street, much the worse for wear, and nearly
| resolved into the dust of ages, is an old
building not unlike fat-sided carriage
house, which constituted the hotel of this
place during the Revolutionary war--I mean
| the, old Revolutionary war, when the Yam
KEGS, if there were any in those days, were
| called rebels. If it be true that the Yankee
is the result OF The reverse of Darwin's
| theory, perhaps there were none in That age
| Of the world. Well, IN this old house It
| once took Us much Continental money to pay
for breakfast as was charged in Confederate
| currency Of later years by its more stately
! neighbors across the street. II they could
but speak, these solemn old walls could
doubtless many "a wondrous tale unfold"
| The thought is pressed upon us that those
| old codgers in that first struggle for liberty
| only lost their money, while we in our fight
| in behalf OF the same principles lost our
| money, and our niggers and our liberty too
| indeed, pretty much everything but honor
| and, alas that it should have TO be confessed
many OF US, when the struggle was over,
| lost honor too; when nothing but good
name was lett, threw it,pYay, and sunk lower
than our conquerors. These are the saddes
cases in all history. Who that has ever fought
| under Longstreet can look back upon hin
then and look upon hiIl nOD withou5 feeling
commisseratiou so deep that indignation j:
almost quenchcd? Imagine him in the Spiri
world with the ghosts OF the departed tina
be so glorousIy led to honorable death
What curse to live too long! But / mus
not moralize. The memories that clu>te
| around this old Revolutionary relic is leading
| me astray. .... .... .....
An adjourned meeting of Concord Pres
| bytery was held at Concord ON Thursday
| ALr. John Davis, of Salisbury, was ordained
| Us evangelist. sir. Davis has just co.npletet
the course 1T Union Theological Seminary
| and expects 10 be sent as missionary +
Mexico. Rev. S Taylor Martin, liayin
taken charge OF Simouion Female College
Of statesvillc, within The bounds of thi
| Presbytery, was received as member u
certificate Of PIesbytery of West Hanover
| Rev. j. b. Mack was elected evangelist
SALARY fixed at 81 800.
| Provisions in this country are plentiful
Eggs, 10 to lie, butter. ~ to 25:.; beel
S to l0c. y.