The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-15
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KNOXVILLE TfsS., Aug. o.
About sixty delegates for the Southern Cenven-
ton left the Montgomery White sulphur sIIines
Friday morning, on the Virginia and tennessee
Railroad under the care Of the Conductor konert
III. Buckner, whose close attention 10 "uty 81"
courteous dcmeapor made him genera az, ~;
At about o'clock we reached bristo1' y" a IN,
dividing Virginia from Tennessee. 'neIo No 100
The Fast Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, WHICH
carried us 20 miles 20 Jonesborougn: very pretty
place containing some 200 inhabitahts, several
churches and n courthouse. Here the excitement
sintepse 1t was the second occasion upon which
a locomotive had made its appearance there, and
the train was greeted with cheers from multi
tudc of Tennesseans, many of whom for the first
time viewed the iron horse. The assemblage
was well sprinkled with that most interesting por-
ton of the female sex-school girls. and am
the passengers were az much attracted by them as
they were by the iron horse"
After hasty supper the passengers prepared to
encounter the pleasures Of stage travel for nearly
80 miles. and among the preparations the cap
ture Of sundry biscuits and soft boiled eggs from
the tea table. Of course the latter did not break
on the way, and the owner was not at all surpris
ed at finding a travelling coat ruined forever
Popular opinion has long been against stage travel
ling, and if popular opinion could have been placed
on one of Summerson, Kent & Co.'S machines, and
sent over the road TO Bulls Gap II would have been
irrecoverablv confirmed in its preudces The
coaches being scarCe,a number of the unfortunates
we're slowed away on top of them, and among them
wrapped in a shawl, your correspondent. From
considered privileged to at stage coaches aud
their proprietors, and il Summerson, Kent & Co.
before mentioned, could have been TRANSPORTED to
the place to which they were frequently consigned
10y the sufferers, they would have found the heat
oppressive, if not absolutely painful. About mid
night We arrived at Greenyillc Tenn, very pretty
little village in Green county, where the coaches
and divers were exchanged for others. Here the
scene was irlghtful; passengers half awake rush
ing in every direction to prevent their baggage be-
ing Left and damning every body who could not
tell them where IL WAS. The stage agent replying
TO the hundred questions asked every minute, the
drivers swearing at their horses and the passengers
swearing Mt the drivers, all forming picture Of
confusion, strangely uncongenial with the quiet
aspect OF the village sleeping the moonlight, aud
tue 6tllI and solemn appearance OF church oppo-
site, which raised its spre TO heaven from the very
centre of this scene of discord and blasphemy. At
last we were of again 10 pass portion of the
road " three tunes WusScT, a driver expressed
II, than that We had gone over lie was right. II
anything could be - wusser' than that road We
should like to it, The mud holes varied from
two to five feet in depth, and made the stages urch
worse than Il ship at SEA. one moment, brown. as
peaceabe man as ever lived would force his heels
into his ueIghbJr smith stomach with violence
which nothing but personal explanation could
atone for, and 1t was worth II mans life almost I"
attempt view of the scenery along the route for
ne no SOONER put his head out of the window than
he would receive the heel Of one of the outside
passengers boots between the eyes in manner
which ctiectually dampened his ardOr to witness
the beauties of nature.
Along the route passed the celebrated Blue
spring, III Greene county, said to be All hundred
feet deep. About sunrise, reached Bull tap
the terminus Of the memorable stage journey where
We got very good breakfast, and We're waited on
10y White gIIls, something new to us of the ''Uld
Dominion. observed the same popularity of Gus
tom at Jonesb0IUugh The head girl at bull Gap
WAS model IN form, and had "a neck, arm and bust
winch would have graCeda bail room. At q clock
We lett Lull tap III the Of the Virginia anu
lpuu tsal.,ttI and when the ('pninrfOr
around hi lew minutes afterwards, We're very much
surprised 10 learn that, though PASSED free at the
beginning of the ruad, the delegates here
charged halt iare To knoxville. Ihe principle OF
the thing caused some excitement, and several
gentlemen offered to pay the fare for to the
zap. iutrnGing 10 20 home without attending the
Convention. 1he charge, however, paid, AMI
will in all probability be refunded by the i'reS
dent of the road
AT 10 @ clock the train reached Knoxville q ''city"
of some 1tu ishabtants, with active, business
like people who have erected in the central part Of
the city-tiay strCct-stores which rival those oi
Richmond i'll size and beauty he town lies Oh
the nustUn river, and contains five churches. u
court house jail deaf and dumb institute and other
buildings of note 18th regard to hills it is almost
as bad as Lynchhurg, Virginia and Main street
tunbles OF ut Gay street down Il hill steep that
II IS difficult to traverse it. The town has two
railroads running into 1.-THE East Tennessee and
Gedrgia, and the East Tennessee and Virginia The
llolstuu river, too. is another avenue for trade.
the advantage of gas and water works.
The number of delegates to the Convention here
at present is about 6Uu, and the trains of Monday
will increase the number to LOO. The larger
number OF those already here are from Tennessee
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, with some from
Virginia. Hon. Edward Everett declined an iuvi-
tation to attend, having an engagement at Port
land, No. Rev. Dr. KUss, of Alabama. is to deliver
sermon slavery, during the session Of the Con
vention.
1hls Sunday morning, | had the pleasure Of
hearing sermon from Vim. c. BrOWnlow, the
fighting parson" and editor of the Knoxville
Wing. lie does not preach in IL church, but in
Temperance Hall i'll Last knoxville. The house ot
course crowded. chiefly 10y strangers lnlagho-
a tall salOw faced looking person in black with
dIsheveled hair, aud thin, but lar person. en-
tering the pulpit with no popularity to distin-
gniSh him from others, who discuss religion from
the same stand, and you have before You 'Parsun'
BrownlOw. He has u heavy grey eye. VERY much
like that ofticn. Walker, which seems that IL might
indicate the possesser to be everything or nothing
just as the fancy of the behodcr might dictate
lis sermon was upon slavery, and to ears aCcus-
toned TO hear only the old style Of preaching
sounded somewhat protanc. For instance, saving
that an argument was killed las dead q. the d.y-
ii, and also, that somebody had done more for ne
SrOes than all the abolltonists out of hell" Tht
sermon Was interspersed with good deal of wit
and closed with savage attack on the New school
fTcsbytcrals. The audience was dispersed with
out prayer or bcnedCtIon.
Among the names registered as delegates are J.
Is. DE bow, Of La; NJ. LacOutre. of " ytheylle; Hon
A. dudley Mann, of Washington, and Jas LYONS
of Richmond. Either Mr.. De Bow or Mr. LYONS
will be the presiding officer. The body meets in
the Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning, anu
It's sessions will in all likelihood be crowded MS an
extra train was sent to lIuls Gap to-day to bring
down couple of hundred passengers who arrived
there this morning.
forgot to mention that State law exists in
Tennessee, preventing the sale of liquors in les,
quantity than one gallon. and has caused the del
cgates much suffering. Snifters here command
any price. a ball il To be given by the city next
Friday night. T.
The Convention at KnOxviIie-Thr
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