Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-07
From the Sunny South.


ATLANTA, NA,i June %, 1870
TO the Editors Of the Chronicle.
This is my first visit TO the Gate
City Of the South, aud in the uu set |
would say l am highly delighted
with the place and people, for the
city is admirably situated, beautifully
aud substantially built, and chuck full
of hospitality aud wide awake bust
ness enterprise, and is destined, and
that at no distant day, to be the great
metropolis of the South. with pleas.
ure aud pride refer to the fact that
Atlanta is naturally indebted to East
Tennessee brains and energy for what
she is to-day, for very large per cent
ase Of her most successful, enterprise
ing citizens are native East Tennes-
seears.
Business here, as well as in all
other sections of our country, is dull at
present, yet | have not heard any Of
that contemplate whining and growl-
ing about hard times, which we are so
often compelled to listen to. This is
just as it should be, for all thought
ful business men expect trade to be
slack at this season Of the year, and to
think and growl about dizziness in
business makes one miserable as well
a. all others with whom he comes in
contact.
Cotton and corn are in a very flour
ishing condition, and all agree that
they never saw a more flatterlng pros
pect for an abundant yield than the
growing crops now present. / have
heard.but one report about wheat, and
that is, it is simply splendid every
where. Within the distance Of IN les
of station on the w. and A road as
l came down ten threshers were run
ming and hundreds of bushels of choice
white wheat were being sold at one
dollar per bushel. This will perhaps
give some of our East Tennessee farm
ers an idea that something else is be-
ing raised in Georgia this year besides
cotton, as well as what kind of price
their wheat will meet if it comes
this way at present
/ can buy bacon from one to three
dollars less per hundred in Atlanta
to-day than | can in Knoxville, and
there are many other articles much
lower than in Tennessee. Owing to
the very low rates of freight on Wes~
tern roads, aud also to recently estab-
lished lines running into this point,
Atlanta has turned her back on most
all products of East Tennessee as she
can lay them down for less money
from other sources. This does not
speak well for our railroads, for in for
mer years we had very large trade
with Atlanta and we can not now well
afford to lose it entirely and some steps
should be taken to regain at least a
portion of what we have lost.
At precisely 1890 on yesterday John
Purifoy, negro, was hanged in the
Jail yard at this place for brutality muir
dering John Casey, in January last,
an account of which you have heard
About seventy-five spectators were adj
mitted. He died with fear and trem-
bling, and his last words as they came
mufiied through the cloth covering
his face were O Lord have mercy
on my soul.h
An excursion party has gone up to
Iceville to-day to witness tub race
and some biped calling himself " Pro-
fessOr," while blind-folded walk rope
across the " Katthoohee river and do
many other things all of course
highly interesting.
shall spend Sunday in Marietta,
from thence | shall go to Selma, Mont
gomery and other towns and cities of
the Sunney South" | hope to find
time to write you again.
Yours truly,
GNORTs.