The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-07-17
MASS CONVENTION,
INDIANAPOLIS, ON WEDNESDAY,
JULY 3OTn, 1862.
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE.

FLORENCE, Ala, June Goth, 1862.
Mr.. EDIroR We have just completed
a forced march of sixty five miles from
Co:inlh to this place. which triflng little
enterprise we performed in four days. be-
meath one of the hottest suns | have felt
since my tour in the l2!h degree of North
latitude in Mexico, some fifteen years
since. What the movement is 10 accom-
plish we are entirely ignorant. unless it be
10 brouse and rusticate in the Cumberland
mountains about Chattanooga, during the
summer.
But | can't proceed any further in this
wild-goose chase without giving you some
account Of the scenes by the way side
which. though few. considering our
move was noclurnal) may have some in
ierest to your readers. These midnight
movements with an army in strange
country are by no means as agreeable ex
ercises as | have enjoyed in the wee sma'
hours, yet .they are endurable, espe cially
when the direct rays Of the sun, and scar.
city of water and herbage are the opposite
alternatives.
Tishemingo County. in Mississippi. is
large. thinly populated, and in many pla-
ces sterile Water. in this season, is
scarce and bad. and nothing could be
iound along our course TO refresh or
strengthen tie inner man. will not col
snme the paper uselessly describing the
abortive effort apparently making along
the way by some deluded wretch to pro-
duce enough corn to maintain so misera
be an existence as that to which they
seem doomed. Bat there is a spot. a sweet
little oasis in the midst of this Cuban des
ert for which my affections langush and
the saliva of mouth dries up to think Of.
Ii was a marked by the red aborignees of
our country as place fit for the great
Manitou to dwell, and bears the aame OF
one Of his famous worshippers. TuKa.
|, possesses the finest Chalybeae springs
known any where in the Union, and
quite popular as watering place. parlio
ulary for the Mississippi rlauters, many
of whom own beautiful summer residences
here. The town grown up since the
completion Of the Charleston IL Memphis
Il. Il. contains now about 1000 lnhabit.
ants. The buildings are of the modern
style Of architecture, finished with great
taste, at considerable expense, located on
most beautiful grounds. in which nature
has contributed much TO enhaLce their
beauty. A large, neat, and we'll arranged
hotel stands at a convenient distance from
the depot where one thousand people could
be accommodated, at once, in addition to
this. most of the private dwellings, have
been constructed with view to enter
tainment. This is the first and only
town in the South which corresponds in
any particular with our towns. 1t nes:les
amidst mass of hills, oral, low, ana
convergent toward little valley Of small
extent, in which the springs gush out in
great proiusion. A stream OF soft, peasan,
water also courses through. of excellent
> quality. The medicinal waters rise in
numerous small stone basins, surrounded
by a beautifully trelised and fancy enclo
sure. shaded with an infinite variety o.
beautiful trees. and shrubbery walks gra
ded and pebbed with great taste, so as tc
agreeably impress the visitor with its use
fulness and neatness. We spent one day
and half at this delightful place and ther
decamped, with many serious regrets
The country improved some from tha
place. As we entered the valley Of the
Tennessee River the farms grew into large
plantations Of well cultivated an product
i've land, with their capacious palatia
mansions fit for king to reside in. bu
occupied. unfortunately by few young
: ragged negroes, by the way the only
friends we find in these regions.)
. Tuscumbia is the next town. whose 81
e lent, deserted and neglected and mould,
walls greet us on our victorious way.
5 laws four miles from the river. in beau
o tiful valley. but art has long since lai'
. aside his decorative genius here, and onl,
}, the fayors nature once Enthusiastically be
e slowed upon it entite it to consideration