The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-04-07

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3 A3travelings correspondent of the In
dianapolis lind, Nelcs, writing from At
lanta. (Ca1 says: Atlanta is growing,
while Charleston and Savannah are asa
stand-still. The export cotton tradeaiOne
saves thelatteE cities ,from,a delegation
TO the bats and owls for an abode At
Ianta sdigging her wealth out of the
! mountain sides and in her buildings dedi-
Gated to productive industry, while Sa-
vannah and Charleston have waited since
their foundation for contributions to
come along and cast prosperity into the
| boxes which they pass abound for theft
! support as middle-me11, or handlers of
what honest toll is foolish enough, in it's
| unorganized condition, to give them.
| After awhile honest toll viii find q less
expensive channel through which to
reach the ocean and 2 foreign market
| and then farewell to a large portion of
| the business which Charleston and Sa-
! Yannah now enjoy. 14s-. ~. .1r rsI ...
Atlanta is one of the few places in the
! South with a bright future. 1t has in
| dustries which it cheTishes, and it well
/ comes all honest corners. 1t has a
cIimate different from most Southern
cities. 1t is both mild and saluorious.
The Legislature of Georgia hold its ses-
si0ns in the summer because it is most
pleasant to do so in the invigOrating at
mosphere of Atlanta. The winter is the
busy season in the South, and if Legis-
Iature can escape to the mountains
through the tOrrid heat of summer whe
not do it? Summer is more endurabl,
in Atlanta than it is in Indianapolis
and 50 it is any where in this mountain
range from here to the northern bound
airy of Virginia. But coming to lower
level, protracted heats, malaria, mos
quitoes, sand flies, red bugs, chiggers,
gnats, ants, feas, bed-bugs, centipedes,
spiders, Wasps, hornets, Lizards, chame-
Icons, frogs, tOads, cOpperheads, mecca
sins, rattlesnakes, alliEators and other
tOrmenting insects and venOmOus rep
tiles abound and dispel all idea Of para
disc when associated with this land of
sunshine and flowers. Nature has its
cOmPensations and if you would have
perpetual summer You must have sum-
mer complaints. An old darkey woman
singing one of the "sOngs of Zion" on.
a neighboring hill, has Just shouted in
my hearing: "Dere's muffin true but
hebbin p That tells the whole story.
Anybody looking for q perfect climate
this side of the Gland Of the blessed
will not find it-not even at Atlanta or
elsewhere in the Southern mountains.
Florida" Italy of America" has its
marshes which proves so fatal to stran-
gers at Rome, but it has its high pine
lands, which are remarkably free from all
atmospheric poisons. To know Just
where to go is the main point for those
in search of health. Unfortunately, the
best places are inaccessible by railroad
or steamboat, and-if they could be
reached by private conveyance. there
would be no accommodation for man or
beast'-nOthiDg for either to eat--nO
place but the bosom Of mother earth for
beds. About three hundred years be-
fore there was white man in Indiana,
Florida was settled, and in about three
hundred years more, if things shouldn't
take the back track, the country may
be fit for people to live in, if people will
only retain their present ideas of life
and fight progression as Indians fight
frontier settlement. But if people in
sist on keeping up with the world at
large, Florida, / am afraid, will always
be behind just in the same proportion
ate rate of progress in which we find it
to-day. .... ... ....