Williams news., 1907-01-26

reached the crossing or the MISSES sippi at midnight where the whole. train. was ferried across, but the. fog was so dense that we could not see the water. This crossing is nine miles above New Orleans. As several members of our party are to leave us here we all remained out of our berths to see them off, and to find that we have missed our train out. and must remain at the L. x N. depot until 6:3O a. m. when our sleeper will be taken by I the Mobile morning train, where we arrive for dinner, as there is no dining car attached to this train. We are to have two hours there so several of us started out to see the l city. and get oysters and beer. We found plenty of both and the way we filled in was a caution. Just think of it, scoop shovel of fine fat oysters for 20 cents, and five cents schooners 65f beer two stories high.
 All along tic road through Mississippi we saw the havoc wrought by the tornado that caused such calamities at Pensa cola not long ago. Thousands of up rooted trees are to be seen as far as the~eve can reach, wrecked build ings, and even the railroad track for many miles lies upside de~n or across fallen trees and debris, and which has been replaced by new material on an elevated road bed. At Mississippi Sound the dts;ruc- tion was almost complete, and schooners and large sailing vessels were 5eached high above tn. present wafer level This condition prevails all along the coast where ever 1t could be seen from our car and the coast at Mobile Bay is strewn with wreckage of every description.
 We leave Mobile at 2:20 p. ID
 Wednesday, and as we have din ing car we naturally expect gooo run but find that about 30 mile:
 per hour Is the limit In fact, this has been the average speed all the
 way, except from Houston to Lake ! Charles. where we reached 6t , mile clip for nearly 300 miles } Some of the party seemed to get | little nervous as.we had narrow escape about midway between l Columbus and Houston, at abou 7 10 o'clock that morning. Tn, !. front wheels .on the truck of tn, , tender of our engine left the rail, - and passed over one bridge anC : two cattle guards on the timber, : within only a few inches of tn, ! edge, continuing on for more thal s the entire length of our train o l fourteen cars before stopping. A ! We begin to ge, into the mountain. P of North Carolina we feel tn, l change, and'ask the porter of ou { car to turn on the steam.
 < l have not been up to hear an, ] of the great speech mak kers yet, bu
 have jusLinis he'd reading one mad, l by Senator Tillman yesterday or F the Brownsville affair. He certain l ly gives Teddy" roast, and 1 an : inclined to believe we will b, l treated to some blood and thunder ) oratory the coming week. Ther' F is a sharp division on the rae. question among the senators o r session that cannot be divided or < party lines, and while it is eviden ] that the president will be sustained
 and the Foraker resolution vii i fail, there is no telling what tn, l final result will be. The colorec ] people in general seem to take tn, 9 wholesa le dismissal of 167 coloret l soldiers, under the circumstances ' means that "Teddy". has change, r his feelings for the welfare 0 Q their race.
 P Joe Bailey is having a hot time r just now, and from what I coulC l learn on the way through his stat, S his chances are slim for re election