Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-08-14

MONTREAL. Canada, July II, 1888.
Correspondence of The Times Democrat.
Without the discomfort of travel
ing, your readers can travel in spirit
with your humble servant, who had
all the discomfOrts of spirit and body
for at least a part of his journey.
BE the cars ever SO comfortable :;
leaving New Orleans under the blind
ing glare and white heat of Il day in
June, not q cloud to shadow The sky,
not Il breath to stir the air and fan the
fcyer2d face, the pleasure of travel
has much Of pain in it. We swept
along the coast, but from over the
waters came not the breath of breeze.
At each station, in the delay of a few
minutes, crowds, large or small, arc
always gathered, seem listlcssly gaz-
ing with faces cXpressionIcss, others
seem, with eager eyes, expecting
friends. We reached Mobilc-bcau-
tiful Mobilc-but its graceful quiet
was and had been for some time dis
turbed by avery momcntous question,
THE COW 0RDENANcE.
Some wished to give all tic COWS
and goats and other four-fOOtcd beasts
the freedom Of the city-othcrs pro-
tested. The protest gained the day.
So a law was enacted against the COWS
principally. The friends of the lib
critics of the COWS met in various parts
of the city-Or rather part-and held
Indignation meetings in which some
words as hot as the hot weather fell
from lips deserted by the calm virtue
of prudence. The miId-faccd COWS
and the cunning-IooHling goats seem
to have known nothing Of the agita-
tion they were causing.
In many home in Mobile there
was hot discussion about the great
question of the strccts-"Cows or no
Cows" 1t will certainly, as to some
of the commissioners of the port, set
tic their future non-clcctiOn or re-
election. Little questions have great
consequences.
On to Montgomery and hotter and
hotter. Thence to Atlanta, the young
Chicago of the South. Away up and
on toward Dalton, over the roads
where armies had marched. Not a
sign of that strife of Years agone.--
The trees and shrubs hid away from
sight ali trace Of battEc-fclds ard
tenting grounds. If away on either
side of the track there were graves,
the grass vciicd them and the trees
sheltered them. Nature is kinder
t!,c, ,C,D Che oo,.,,.,. O,,.c, : I, y. ,,,.,.,.
marks and memorials of battle and
biOod-a hint to men to bury away the
animosities OF the past. Up through
Tennessee, where on either side of
MS the crops seem to give promise OF
abundant harvest.
Away across the valleys Eoomcd the
mountains. sometimes cloud-crowned
sometimes sunlit, and they looked Sc
still, so different from the rivers and
seas. These are always restless, they
change every minute. Not so noun
tains-they are fixed. At last we
reached old Virginia. and as becomes
her character and history. higher,
grander mountains lowered on either
like her men. We
TeaCncu
THE UNIVERSITY OF vmCIN1A
WHITTIER We had heen invited to de,
liver the commencement address be.
fore the Washington and jefferson
societies. Nestled amid the noun,
tains which rise tier above tier al
around Charlottesville, are the Uni
Tersity buildings and its spacious anC
beautiful grounds.
There was very large attendance
and to an audience of high character
and culture the grafton was given
Meanwhile orders came from Gen
Jubal Early to YOUR humble scryan
to proceed forthwith to Lexington il
order to be present at the unveiline
of the recumbent statue of Gen Lee
1t was alYaYs JlaDfEero;Is fo C1isoE1eI