The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-02-06

or gates within the county Of Frank
lin, so far as ! know, for years past
and much as have travelled the
county, never have seen a placart
warning the people of the danger o.
milk.sickness. The truth is, we now
scarcely ever think of it, and only
remember it as one of the evils that
has been, and that, like the Indians
the wolves, and the snakes, has van.
ished with the settlement of the coun.
try.
WALLACE ESTlLL, M. p.
Since making the foregoing state
ment, my attention has been directed
to Warren's second article, in which
he states that five French gentle
men, in 1852, proceeded to Winchester
with letters of introduction from Mr..
Morgan of Nashville to DR.. Wallace
Estill.' If French gentlemen had
any letters of introduction from Mr..
Morgan to me, they never were deliv-
cred, and of course Inever could ha, G
given the advice which am represent
ted to have given to these "French
gentlemen" My acquaintance with
Mr.. Morgan is very slight, and have
no recollection of ever having receiv-
ed letter from him upon any subject
whatever. am certainly under obi
cations to Warren for his highly
wrought eulogy. hope Warren's
good opinion of my candor will induce
him to withdraw his charges against
Sewanee, and make the amende hon
orable. His charges, presume, are
founded upon rumor alone. judge
he knows nothing personally Of Sewa-
nee and its surroundings.
In addition to milk sickness, War.
rem has long known that the vicinity
of Sewanee was not exempt from
epidemics but so many other objec-
tons present themselves that he had
not before mentioned it," and in cor
roboration of the fact, quotes from the
Montgomery Mail. | presume that
Warren and the Montgomery Mail
speak from rumor, and not from any
personal knowledge they have Of facts.
Will they permit me to speak knowing.
ly from observations made on the spot
at the time this epidemic cholera pre-
vailed at the Tunnel: The Montgom-
cry Mail states that he was credibly
informed, that in the year 1852 large
force employed in constructing the
Montgomery Gap Tunnel, had their
camp on the top of the mountain with
in three miles of the proposed loca-
ton of the University, and that chole-
ra then and there broke out among
them, causing from fiftyto sixty deaths.
Is the Montgomery Mail aware that
at the Tunnel there is depression in
the mountain, and that when you get
on the top at that point, you are seven
hundred feet below the proposed site
of the University, and still in the
lime stone region? If not, know it
to be the fact. The proposed site in
stead of being three miles from the
tunnel is double that distance. The
number of deaths at the Tunnel in
so, instead Of being fifty or sixty, was
thirty or forty; these are slight exag-
erations, but go to show which way
the wind blows.
was, IN part, the medical attendant
upon the operatives during the con-
struction of the Tunnel, and previous
to the appearance of the cholera had
observed local causes enough to pro-
duce any sort of epidemic disease.
notified the contractor of the danger,
but he did not see proper to use pro.
phylactic measures. The hands &C.
cupicd little, dirty, temporary shanties,
stuck about among the rocks and mud.
The slaughter pen was situated in the
midst of these shanties, where all the
beeves were slaughtered, and the offal
thrown out to purify, and the raw