The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-01-14
The Morristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. IA, 1874.
OUR NEW CORRESPONDENT.

| THROUGH TIE sOUTIT-PLENTY OF
MONEY-GOoD PRICEs-BAD POLICY
old FRIENDS-VIRGINIAN AND
NNESSEEANs-CoL. CALVIN NC
CORKLE-TIIE STATE CAPTTOL-THE
PENITENTIARY-MA O'CoNNOR-
A FACT OF INTEREST--TIIE ROGERS
VILE AND JEFFERSON RoAD--NEw
AND GIGANTIC RAILROAD SCHEME
UNPRECEDENTEDC CASH NEG CITATION
-FROM KNOXVILLE. TO NORFOLK
FROM CINCINNATI TO, CHARLESTON
THE POLICY OF THE. NEW CoMBI-
NATIoN-CONFIDENCE ESTABLISHED
Col. ACTON YOUNG. ETC, ETC.
~ LOUISVILLE, KY, January c, 1874.
DEAR GAZETTE when parting
with you at the depot last week, 1
promised to write you. Since then
[ have visited Atlanta, Macon, Col
umbus, Ca, Montgomery, Ala. and
from the latter place, through to
Louisville, stopping one day in Nash
vile. In this extended trip, [ have
seen much of interest, especially to
one who travels as little as l do.
Permit me to say, while speaking of
travelling, that the two best meals /
have had, at eating stations on the
whole route, 1 got at Jonesboro' and
at Mouse Creek, in your portion of
the State.
The South seems noaU to have
plenty Of money-the result Of hav-
ing her cotton in the market. Had
the financial panic lasted during the
cotton market season, the South
would have been ruined. Although
the price is now reasonably high
many planters are holding for higher
rates, which | think is q mistake. |
have often thought your East Ten
nessee farmers who hold their wheat,
corn, hay, bacon. &C., back for rise,
on an average lose great deal, that
could be saved by selling on first
market.
In my trip | have met many East
Tennesseeans, and q few Virginians,
all of whom seem to be doing we'll.
Good luck go with them, wherever
they go.
Stopping one day in Nashville,
met my old Virginia friend, whom l
knew in otherdays, Col. c. McCorkle,
and by whom my stay in it was made
pleasant Tennessee has a splendid
edifice for -capital-one of which
she may we'll be proud. The sur
rounding grounds are being hand
somely improved, at great expense,
SO as to appropriately set off the ell
egant structure on the hill. This
work is being well done by convict
labor, under direction of the lessees
of the Penitentiary. To Major o.
Connor, another Old Virginian, l am
indebted for an insight into the
workings O. the State prison. |
found it in splendid order-eyery-
thing as clean and neat as q pin
while the appearance Of the inmates
showed they were humanely clothed
and fed. aa-.o l.-t
While in Nashville | learned 8 fact
of interest to- East Tennesseeans,
which I, will give you,- as l do not
remember to have seen public mem
tion made of it. The sale of the
RogersYille and Jefferson Railroad,
it appears, is likely to develop into a
matter of more Importance than was
supposed, and is part of a well diJ
gested plan for a raIlroud scheme of
first class Importance.
It is whispered among the knowing
ones. that Col. Calvin McCorBle will
become the cash purchaser of the
Knoxville and Charleston Railroad.
The trade would have. / hear, been
consummated,. but for the delay
Messrs. Elliott and McCorkle have
had in negotiating with the East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia
management, for the common use Of
their branch from knoxville to Bulls
Gap. When this is. secured, these
well known operators will extend the
Knoxville and Charleston road to
Charleston. S. c., and the Rogers
VILE and Jefferson road through to
connect with Virginia, thus opening
a new line of very great Importance
to the whole country, but more espe-
cially to East Tennessee.
If the East Tennessee, Georgia
and Virginia management is wise, it
viii make liberal terms with this en-
terprising firm and thus prevent the
by them of a parallel road,
which would be injurious to the in
terests of the old stockholders of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
gia.
But as the officers of this power
full corporation have never been un-
Of the interests of the stock
holders, it is useless to surnise that
on this occasion they would fail to
see where their. interests lay.
Beyond the fact, which is not con-
cealed, that connected with Major
Elliott and McCorkle, is the well
known capitalist-Col. Acton Young,
any surmises as to who else share in
The enterprise would be impertinent-
y premature.
Success attend them.
l had intended to speak OF Louis
lille, but this letter is Eow too long,
md tonight l leave for Lynchbufg,
lia Northern route.
Yours as ever,
II U LIN