Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-13
r SATURDAY, JUNE 10. 1874.

THE .CITY.-Summer, hot; eneryat-
ing, dusty Summer is upon us. For
moro than n month we have not had
rain sufficient to make the streets
muddy. The heat has been intense
and the citizens in this Immediate
vicinity have been tanialized fire.
quentiy with promises of copious
showers. Even while we write, great
leaden clouds are massing in the
west and south, but we are afraid
they will pass around us, and that
their thunder will in n little while
''be calling out from other lands" In
this we hope TO be mistaken, altho'
it viii spoil the beginning of this ar
ticle. Despite the heat, the dust,
aud the deep spirit of browse that is
abroad, the city has been remarkably
animated during the past ten days.
School examinations, concerts, straw
berry Shippers, lectures, and sermons
by distinguished clergymen have af-
forded much pleasurable excitement
and social enjoyment, which relieved
the everyday monotony Of our city
life. The air has been athrill with
the silver treble and basso-prefundo
Of "men aud women singers" re-
hearsing and filing the day as well
as the night with music. Hard times,
the drouth, the civil rights bill, are
discussed with emphasis, and the lat
ter theme often provokes unnecessary
temper og the part of our Athenians.
In fact it seems that something like
the Apocalypiic star called Worm
wood has fallen upon the political
waters and made them bitter. The
wheels of commerce at best always
reyolve slowly in our land at this sea-
son of the year and the unusual and
general stagnation throughout the
country makes the fact more percept-
IDLE now. The credit system is be-
coming obsolete to great extent and
everybody seems disposed 10 go alone
for what is in sight. The good effects
of this system viii soon be apparent,
as men not constitutionalIy econo-
mical will be put in short harness, so
to speak, and will soon find that they
have no accounts coming in to har-
rass them when there is a chronic
or casual void in their pockets. and
even professional men willzbe forced
to. sell their opinions as men sell cali
co and coffee, for money down. The
cash system is boot that fits tight
at the start, but it becomes easy as
an old shoe when it is worn for
days and weeks. ''Take in sail" says
the sailor when the heavens are scowl-
ing with storm, and this is also a
good motto on the land, while the
financial equinox is abroad III all its
wrath. The times are hard, not on
everybody, but on the thriftless and
improvident, and harder still upon
many of those who labor for their
daily bread, who have bad paymas-
tsrs and who are tormented hourly
by exacting landlords for the last
months rental. There is, however,
much enjoyment of life with the
young, the hopeful and the prosper
Gus, although there are and must be
many who feel with the French poet
that they are unfortunate guests at
the banquet of life. We hear too of |
heavy showers all around us, and we
know that the sun is daily lifting up |
into tho labratory of the air, millions
of tons of water. All of this cannot
be carried to other localities, and as
it is quite certain that what goes up
AUST some time come down, we will
continue to look hopefully to the
clouds.