Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-18

! DEAR PATRIOT :-Soiournng few days among /
the mountains of old Virginia, where two old bits
pass for qnaster and SO on, it occurred to to
write yoa something of the way hther, and give an
| mixing of its accommodations and attractions.
By the o'clock P. n. train Of the Nashville and /
Chattanooga Rzilroad, our company left Nashville |
under the care Of that elegant CONDUCTOR as he is
called, J. Chicut; and safely landed at the |
door of the Crutch6eld House, at Chattanooga, BY |
6 O'Clock, a. next morning. But before we go /
on, little episode may be instructive if not Inter
esting. Reaching Murfreesboro about dusk, the la
dies of our company very naturally listened for the
announcement of 81 minutes for suPper;" but dis
appointed, we had 20 resume our way, resting as
we best could, our heavy hearts upon the seats
of empty stomachs. you all the choler
of our attenuated appetites was vented upon the
Railroad Company, for carrying US until II O'Clock
P. NJ. before giving US anything to eat, which we
got at ''Mrs Decherds" Do this enterprising com
pany believe they are thus properly serving the
public interest whose support they receive? They
ought to consider the comfort and health of their
patrons before that of eatingbouses of any partie
uar locality Murfreesboro is the proper suPPing
place while the present schedule holds We ven
ture the travelling public will sustain in our sug-
gestion.
Arrived at Chattanooga we had to wait for sec
ond table so great was the crowd OF passengers
and the rush to breakfast. Some dgnitaries of the
Epscopalian Church were here poIated out to US;
drawn thithyr to consider the location of South
ern University. At II O'Clock we were off again,
and in two hours reached Dalton, uniuteresting
for its railroad connection through your State
to the Eastern cities Here we chagne again,
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ricuural country which increases in atIractveness
all the way to Knoxville the eastern terminus of
this road. Breaking bulk again, we here get the
cars of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
at $50 P. NJ, and whir away over beaudfuicoun-
try, enjoying the way than any other portion
of our from your city; because OF the exhi
Grafton of the speed, and the more roomy and COM
fortably filed cars of this Road. But did not
enjoy the accommodations of those comfortable cars
long, for o'clock, P. A. brought to Bull Gap
81 miles from Knoxville, the present terminus OF the
western portion of this great road. Unexpectedly
and agreeably were here ushered after stage
ride of hundred yards so, into neat but COM
Portable looking inn, just put up by Mr.. Vance, an
) enterprising East Tennesseean; where got a
good clean supper, which prepared us for long
nights ride in the stages, to toe terminus of the
eastern portion OF the R,iroad. Another little ep-
ISOLDE. On the cars before reached Bulls Gap,
: a stage agent appears and books those who have
. | not through tickets for the stages. gentleman
with d family, wishing to his party COM
Portable accommodations possible, chartered a
stage of this agent, and paid fortynine dollars for
the same; but imagine his chagrin, and the stage
contractors pusianimity, when he was seating his
family for the long night, after supper Bulls Gap,
, other passengers and their baggage placed in
and upon this stage, until it was loaded even more
heavily than the others; and for which passengers
and baggage the stage cOntracto: received the usu
al fare for each, although his agent had before re-
ceived the full fare for a stage load from the gentle
l man mentioned. During the night, the moon, as
well as the murky clouds would admit gave little
zest to the unpeasurabe solitary way, now and theu
fitting over sleepy forms osciating posing anC
dangling with every uuevenness OF the rutty
road, At last reached Greenvie, the home o
e your present Governor, IS miles from Bulls Gap
Here, we and our baggage undergo another trans
fer to somebody elses stage-line, and so to othe
: coaches. This done, trundle away the rest o
: the night, over little better road; and daylight
E yet finds US on our stage, rocking swinging, an,
jolting towards Jonesboro, which place We reaches
about O'Clock A. n. Here we got breakfast; ant
g such a breakfast! We, all united, thought it
: mean breakfast, for jones boro Hotel. Blu
we again seated in our coach, which
brought us by 10 o'clock, A. NJ. to Owensvlle, tht
terminus of the eastern portion OF the Railroad 81
d miles from Bulls Gap. After awaiting few min
utes for slight repair to of the cars, we wer,
soon carried away at a rapid speed towards Bristol
), which we reached at o'clock, noon, where we i'm
: mediately took the cars of the Virginia and Ten
. nessee Railroad. Bristol is new place, on tn
Virginia and Tennessee dividing line, and is a -four
! ishing little town. Little than year ago
the place where now stand large railroad depots
! and hOuses for more than eleven hundred popula
d ton, was wilderness, infested by wild beasts. b
: o'clock, P. M., reached our place of destina
r ton on the Railroad, after passing Abingdon
= Wytheville, Christiansburg, and Salem, all impor
a tant pllces and nuclei of rich agricultural sections
d Ali the way from the pleasant city of Rocks tn
!, crops are promising good. The wheat of Middl
Tennessee along the Chattanooga Road is better,
am told, than for many years. The Cotton crop
the same section looks fine, and great deal bette
. than that of North Georgia. But friend Patriot
> you wish to chsat you ought to pass over tba
Il part of East Tennessee called Seouatchee VALLEY
AucIe you can see the most beautiful ana iaTgts
: fields OF superior wheat that Tennessee can boss
= II the vast fields, might say seas, of wheat wa'
ing over your State indicate anything, she will D
this year of the first States in the Union /
?, grain raising. The Corn of Middle Tennessee
: better than any have seen.
II Tennessee is fast taking that position she is Ell
r titled by Nature to hold No state is more divers
t fed n surface, or more fertile in soil 1t is onl
- question of time, whether she will not be tn
foremost State south of Mason's and Dxon's lin,
Her resources are yet undiscovered and unknown
It Her Railroad system, when completed, bids fair
. make her people the strongest and Weathest popJ
. lation in the country. Among the ch ief RaIlroa
. improvements, the E. Tenn. s Va, now in rapi
n progress, seems to as to be the most mPortar
= connection of the Northeast aud Southwest. II
President, DR.. Cunningham has, learn, latel
effected a loan Sufficient to finish the road read
, for the Spring trade of 1868. Enough iron h
;. been purchased, and is nearly all delivered
le city point Petersburg Virgins, for laying th
g whole track Staging upon il is shortened
= At miles. The only uncompleted section Of heav
n work is at Bulls Gap, which viii be ready for III
IN rails by the time the traeklayers reach il from th
d East, from which end the traek-ayiDg ELL b
, pushed rapidly forward. By the same time, "
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