Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-03


this motley crowd would astonish a man fami
liar with the quiet manner in which teams are
managed in our northern cities.
Corlnth has been entirely built since the
war. The battle Of Corinth was fought here,
through the town; Price coming in from the
Memphis road was met on one side, and 30
the battle went on through the place, back
ward and forward TO the other side till he was
finally forced back and the battle won. The
relics of the battle are still found here, and
the stores have sold tons of iron and lead
picked up from the field of battle. Near the
town is fine National Cemetery, where
those who fell rest quietly under the folds of
the old flag.
A few miles from Corinth on the river is
Piusburg Landing and the battlefield of
Shiloh. We crossed to Grand junction, and
after rest of few hours arrived at an ear
ly hour at Holly Springs, very pretty town
in the centre Of what was once, in the days OF
story, a very aristocratic and fourishing dis
trict Much of the glory has departed, and
the same apathy that is apparent elsewhere, is
noticeable here. The gardens are fine, and
much attention is given to horticulture, the
ladies especially taking great interest in the
cultivation of flowers. We had here the
pleasure of meeting "Aunt Patty" of the
Country Gentleman, whose correspondence is
not based on theory alone, as her home shows
in its floral decorations a thorough practical
knowledge of the floral world and how much Of
beauty and fragance it is possible to secure by
a wise selection and careful culture of the
best flowers. At Canton we spent the Sab
bath very pleasantly, enjoying call upon an
old acquaintance, Judge Thos. Shackleford,
and the next day reached Jackson, Missss-
ippi. Here again we were near Vicksburg,
and all along the roads for miles the houses
were burned by one or the other Of the armies,
so that what now exists are new in most cases
in the county, and the town also bears marks
of the war. There is little business compar-
atively done here, for a town of its size, and
more bitterness of feeling exists on the part
of the people than at any other point have
yet visited, toward the north. 1t is not out
spoken. but it exists, and only because of its
utter weakness is silent. All along this sec
ton the feeling was furious for a war with
Spain, and it seemed to me if it was possible
to have war on the grounds of justice, that
this section alone would send out men as fast
as they could be sent, with the proper mater
ial and that it would most thoroughly unite
the north and south as nation in giving the
soldiers common interest in common Veto
ries and honors. But that could not be, and
while war at any rate is a terrible evil, war
of giant republic against people just strug-
Cling to escape from monarchy and to give
the people a chance to govern themselves,
would be most unnatural, and has been wisely
escaped.
From jackson to New Orleans, the princi
pal portion of the way is through the 'Pney
Woods" as it is called, a region of pure tim
Der, with which the highlands are principally
covered along the Pearl and Pascagoula
rivers till about fifty miles from the Gulf,
when the marshes are reached and the low
lands are continuous to the city. At this
season of the year, the evergreen trees with
their green leaves and trailing moses orna-
mented with clusters of red berries, are very
fine, and the heat and dust are not oppressive
as at other seasons Of the year. The traveller
reaches the city in a portion not the finest,
and has a considerable ride before reaching
the centre of the Crescent City. A. B. c.
GENERAL NEWS.
England has prospect of another little
war, the Caflre chiefs at Natal having re-
voted.
The Princess Louis of Lorn has been
chosen President ofithe National Union for
Improving the Education of women in
England.
Water will find its level. In Marion,
Ohio, John c. Water was last week mar
ried to Caroline Level.
Hotel keepers and others interested in
the liquor business of New Hampshire met
Wednesday at Concord and organized a
protective association.
Small children, dressed entirely in white
fur. with blue ribbon trimmings, are a
conspicuous feature of New York prom
enades
So many corporations of South Carolina
have issued due bills rs currency, that Con-
gress will be petitoned to prohibit by law
any further issues of such irredeemable
and unlawful currency
A Jury in a Brooklyn court have awarded
fifteen hundred dollars damages against
landlord for renting a house which he
knew to be Infected with smallpox and
did not inform the tenant Of the fact.
NJ. de Lessups has gone to Bombay,
whence, with an English civil engineer,
he will proceed to the interior of Hindo-
stane to begin the prelim mary work for
the great railroad line which is to unite
Russia and India.
The Philadelphia Press says that a ma
tional college of the most advanced order
for women will be established in Washing
ton in which will be taught all branches
OF learning, inducing theology, medicine,
law, art, and the sciences.
An ambitious young clergyman of Chi
cago preached Il brilliant sermon on the
loss Of Vile du Havre, but the character
of the popularity it gave him underwent
an unpleasant change when it was discov-
cred that it was the same sermon which
the Rev. DR.. Chaplin oiNew York preached
on the loss of the Attic.
Aron Boleau, brother-in-law of Gen.
Fremont, is now imprisoned in France
for his connection with the unfortunate
Memphis and FL Paso Railroad affair.
His offence consisted in recommending
the negotiation of bonds ofthis road, while
French Consul at New York city.
John Slattery, who begins his fifteenth
years residence in the State prison to-day,
was regarded as one of the most skillful
and dangerous burglars i'll the country.
He was so angry at his recapturc after his
momentary escape, that he almost lost his
senses. During his rawlings he let out the
fact that he had been concerned in Il dia-
mond robbery in Philadelphia two years
| ago.-BoSton AdccUtser.
A short, fat man, says the Detroit Free
Press rushed into u grocery house on
Woodward avenue the other day, and
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