The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-12-09
WE ATLANTA ExF0slTIoK.

VIII ike TO publish an account Of "Trip
from Monroe to Atlantis. Starting from
yicksburg at $50 p. m, ON tho same day I
left Monroe, 1 found nothing interesting on
the route this side of BirIningh the great l
coal and iron region OF North Alabamas
where the great furnaces and mills are heay-l /
ing and moving aud roaring as If they
were trying to mould a new world. Then |
come the Rich and beautiful valleys, at rest |
between protecting mountains that stand
on both sides of the road FOR moro than
hundred miles, like battlenentB thrown mp
by Nature to guard her mineral treasures.
The route becomes thrilling a. tbs train
shoota along the marrow ledge betwee n the
Tennessee river and che steep and towering
| front of Lookout Mountain. did not ~
cend t1iis noble nnountain, but aew isa
/ proud peaks clad In lowering clouds and
! could not help calling TO mind MI the naomi
tain poetry ever reads sapeciaiiy Byron's
| faithful 1iness
.He who ascends 70 mountain tops shall
Their ioptiest peaks most wrapped IA
clouds and snow
Must look down on the hate Of them
On we ss Went through Chattanooga, boo m
ing with fiSteer different kinda OF manu-
factories, and down through the historic
hills or Georgia whose green sidea tell mot
the story of the woefnl wars that they have
SEEM. Atlanta is reached less than forty
eight hours after leaving AGonr oe. and yet
| when tn ere, the Moneovian feels like no
was in foreign country The people are
the same in looks and Language. The same
| bright slies are overhead and tho land
scapes, the crops, and ths manners OF the
| people make the North I4ouiaianan feel ct
home. But the atmosphere or life Is If
4 ferent. TIE spirit OF the place comes over
him Iike revelation and he ID amazed to
Ihnd that everybody is trying to see who
can work the hardest and the most.
ifyou have not been In Atlanta since you
\ fought aronnd there in July and August
1884, you would be astonsshed NJ the mar
velous improvement and progress that has
4 been made. This is the city which, sixteen
years ago, sherman boastfally. announesd
i that he had 'twreckeds' and .sruiasd.''
Here on Whitehall street along which the
Confederate provost guard march out Of che
were ,s1arching ia down Peaehfree street,
with flying colors and mantfal music, NOW
J arise the grand and nersive walls Of costly
to and fro. II is city which one would
suppose It took at least hsty yeara to build.
But IL has been we'll said that buildings and
2 streets do not make city, but the inhabi-
tants make it, And this Is the secret OF
Atlanta's wonderful success. Her cittz8nn
: are alive and awake Industry, on0rgy
y pluck, indosnitable patience are atampod
4 upon their faces and outlined In every mo
For the proof OF this one has bat TO look
] around, asd especially at the Exposition.
Nothing bat the spirit of such a.ctty could
have inspired the unbounded con6dencs Of
capitalists which was necessary to produce
this vast and expensive exhibition. The
great enterprise, labor and ability involved
IN this erection Of these buildings and the
! arrangement OF these innumerabl0 dinpfaYe
! are interesting, but not SURPRISING. But
culturists, and all these thousand other
exhibitors, should have gathered thon-
selves together with all their wares and pro-
ducts and ut tremendous expense, In tissa
small inland city, IL tndSed woEzoeouai
1 have spent only three daya In the Xxx
position buildings and have no idea ~
trying TO give q description of It. It would
require volume to give list OF the labor
never heard OF before. There are samples
II of 0very kind of fnechiuo or utonaf1 mAusz-
factured in the United States. and apesa.
/ southern state. Louisiana, 30 far as have
seen, has no exhibits here Somebody has
! 6lundered in this matter bat hope with all
/ INV heart, that no visitor TO this great fair
will imagine that Louisiana has no products
worthy of exhibition. am sure thas every
body here In surprised at the enorraetla
variety Of the productions of sho Eoa4harr
States; know have bsene although
have lived in the South all nay llfo. Indeed
with our old notions about the effect Of eli
mate on the industries of man aIlG the pro-
ductions ofthe soil, 10 e passing strange e
that can DO raised In the cold bleak NoRtE
fou rishes in perfection by tho side Of ths
it will do anybody's soul good to see the
curiously div ersiied productions Of shii
| favored land, where all tho zones neet and
offer up their choicest gifts.
, OF course, the moat extensive and chs
best exhibit here il the cotton naanufaetur
ing machinery The representative Of onl
, firm told me that he had 1000 worth o
machinery on the groand. Here you car
) see enacted the complete history of cotton
from the stalk to the consumers back, will
the middlemen, however, LEFT Gut. Her
YOU can sec an improved, labor-aaVins
machine or Implement for performing every
operation connected vita tho cnlttva
ton and handling of onr great 6ontherl
fstaple. ] ana not conapetent TO express a
: opinion as to tho particular advantages o
these machines /; bat ] Will mention that
heard experienced cotton planters say thR
one of these nachines alone, tbs ChicaE,
Screw Pulverizer, viii soon make 3 revclu
tton in cotton culture.
; We are told that the world hiss had q atom,
age, a bronze age. and an sEo OF iron. II
. the midst ofthis Expositions one feels Tx
, this is the Cotton Age.
= cannot help ranlaEling that ths norEh
i ern manufacturers seem 70 absorb all tl
attention aud time OF visitors. 20 the eEciFs
y sion of Southern mills, some OF which hav,
really fine displays. This may DO due q
the faot that the Northern exhibits ara NOR
extensive and expenHlve. But e appears z
he wall 1rrrr,ff,rr with he -,