Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-01
A Trip t0 Texas.

The following IL an extract from a
private letter written homo by q
young Eat Tennesseean. who has re-
ceived a position 10 the postal service !:
To. day struck my first 'no Their"
I did no. flJd it so Iunplesssnliy cold,
though, perhaps being in we'll warm
ed postal Car had something to do with
ii.
1 have been looking at this city
(Austin) to-day, and a strange old city
it is. We expect to run down t. San
Antonio la two or three months, and
then suppose we will get giimpses OF
real Texas aud Spanish life Ia that old
CITY and tie plains around it. In re-.
gard to the country around here, 1t is
Door, poor, partly wooded amt partly
prairis. I feel relieved when they tell
me it Is the poorest paitaof Texas.
Nothing seems to b6 grown here but
co t IN, and IL deco, from Chattanooga
dowp,I cav bu. very little other freight
shipped, and the long cotton trains,
with their piles OF white bales, their
darby brakemen, singing negro songs,
were no Unpleasant sight to break the
tedium of u railroad journey. 1t was q
very pleasant journey, from Hnoxvii
to Cha ttanooga | rods W tn Charley
c., Ia tue exprss IS Car nearly all the
| way; went from Chat anooga to Mem
phis by night. arriving In the plague
| stricken city by noon. Saturday, oct
! 80 b. and no wonder it is the "pisgue
| stricken" city if it Is always as fl thy
as when saw it. At Memphis our
train was run into ferry boat, and
| thus We crossed the father OF watere,' y
and a more be autif1l sight never saw
than at the crossing OF the river. II
was just sunses; above and below us
was the mighty expanse OF this
great riyer-all alive with
the commerce of a world,
and behind as the sun, throwing its
last red rays, on the mighty city with
its stately buildings. but all this faded
away in the darkness as we sped on to
Lit Rock, arriving at 2 a. No., Tex.
arkana q. No., Long View p. m. and
Palestine p. M. From Little Rock
to Palestine I went down ia q postal
car, thus getting my first insight Of the
| mail business From Palestine, right
on to Austin, he "C.ty Of the Hil!e,'
AID thus my j urney ended, and very
thankful I was. Everywhere it was
cotton, colton-at the depots, wharves
store houses, trains. and in the fields
everything was and is. and will b.
whits with ett.on-cott ID, the wealth
and the poverty, the blessing and thu
bane Of all khis southern country.
cau't get anything 10 eat in THU
| country-have not had one drink o
milk since [ came here. [ know
shall die.
"PALEsTINE, 7th inst.
Went round to the NJ. E. church
| to-day, but found there were no ser
vice.. Tue church have . fine parson
age. the ground for church and ,
temporary chapel thereon, and intent
TO build Fl ne brick church.
Hurrah for the republicans Tn,
faces of the democrats are as long a
ya1d-tticks, and we few black republi
cans have the regular "horse laugh
over them Gas one OF their own paper
put ~. They are considerably as
founded at the way the north woke up
ADD are now laying about them 70
"causes - z--~e' .--...
[ had tie pleasure yestt lay OF meet
iEg the man whom / succeeds mic
fellow. He resigned to run for ia,
collector. He did 40 and was elected
He pets from 81 500 to 81 $40 rer ve.'