Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-05-15
c0yDlYIOy or THE .S0T1H.

United States Senator Anthony was at the Gil
sey House last evening. lie had just arrived fl ON
New Orleans and the South, where he accompanied
Col Thomas Scott and the Senatorial party for
Mexico, visiting on the way back from Washing
ton to New York the venerable Senator Cameron
at his Riverdale farm of Lochiel.
"Did Major Ben Perley Poorc go on to Mexico :"
"Yes: Poorc said that if he started out and
stopped short of the end of the voyage he would
be called The Mexican Tourist by everybody on
Newspaper row. So he went on with Scott y
"But you and the Senators generally returned
to Florida by the inland South 7"
"Yes. When we arrived at New Orleans Mrs.
Morton was taken very i'll. We also heard that
yellow fever had broken out at Vera Graz, and
that might be dangerous or subject us to quaran-
timing. / suppose" continued Senator Anthony,
that in reality could have been transferred at
Vera Cruz from the steamer to the cars without
delay, and all proceeded safely. But we had set
| out too late. The unity of our company was
broken up, and we returned through the Southern
States"
| long peace after the war there p
Not very much We mingled with the old ma
tive people, and they assured us that everything
was joyful except for the carpet basgers. The
Northern people resident there always said that
except for the military they had security of life
or property. We could not reconcile such oppo-
site statements and went to the officers of the gar
risons Of the regular army, who are neither carpet
oasgels nor ia.t, d atbor no;nts The,e ,oid
On".i :.i, aa:os ~ oo,n,ia;nt ,hot ,ha;r w;ves
US, .nra ovar w;stsd socailv NV me
nu Sau.harn ioJ;es nor Ala thew receive snv of the
| courteses Of intercourse common to civilization
| and always made the especial boast of Southern
| ;, rs os ha nanmIo Of tbe Son;b at hottom was rc
| sentful and their professions unsound. We heard
| at Charleston of q man who wanted to carry the
GA'ou ~, .as;IoT -. tbn natte,y among The aris
.ay..a u ros;dnncss there Nv informant an army
&C., sa;J .INonc of these dwellings, are over
onsnad 10 tho officers and the man who wanted to
., tba saS cod h,s object was IN have il said in
Ia yorth the, a not;ve gen,lsman naraded with
,ho nst;onai colors in CRarieston and that captal
,n;aht therefore come IN the MACE / cart say.
cnnHcinded senator Anthony, chat I was convinced
mo Southern grievance was ended"
'N Iha na;i, Granh;c renresentative told the Sena
tor hv that T ;n z the cald attitnde of the peonle
towards the reonlar army. socially. was based
80 ,Lo rac, tbot tho w;ycs of tho csr,etbagoers
who were mot recognized by the Carolinians, visited
the bouses NJ the officers II the native ladies
" sI the neonle who nnndered them. Senator An
thonv said that the idea that an officer could make
tho r;ca Of h;s comnanv the rejection of some
ho1r elsc from his house was a novelty. lie said,
also that the Southern debts were manipulated by
rot;ves and that North Carolina-the rcnre senta.
,;valv 9,eat dehtNwas mad next 10 ;nsnlvent Inv
democrats
The Senator from Rhode Island epioyed him.
self chiefly in savannah. where he had visited
when a yonnc man and was welcomed after the
Ianse NJ vears hv old friends. lie appeared TO
think more of Georgia than of apy State he had
visited Az IN New Orleans he said
"That citv seemed to me to have suffered more
bv the war than any place of the south. lis
Ievees delta and trade with the West and the t,ib-
ntaries of the Mississipp are all seriously affected
Thev are irving now tn give New Orleans a deem
and reliable sea channel doubt it will be a suc-
cess What can Won think of a river where an
Island annears in a night. shin rms aground
mon it and then ia foated off by the gases of de-
composition at the bottom ;"
"Gsses of what ," we incurred.
"Of the animal matter brought down and
buried there. New Orleans. also bv the suicidal
follv of the war cut herself off from the West
of Which che had been the mart and the railroads
built tbrouehout the Northern State. from East to
| West have Aanked New Orleans so that we can
| bring cotton from Memnb,s nv water via New
| Orleans. We consume in Providence one hundred
tbonsand bales a wear. worth. in round numbers
m q 600 600 I sunnose that New Orleans no
iongcr has anvtbing to do with anv material onan
nears TO he the growing oant of ibe West. il