Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-09
Our TrIp Over lhc Mountains.


thcadvce of GEs BURNSIDE, we crossedlnto
Kentucky, aud thcncot 10 Cincinnati, While
in the latter city We granted special permits
lto parties for over one hundred thousand
dollars worth Of goods, most Of which are
pn their way here.
We crossed over through Rogers Gap,
ad returned via Big Creek Gap, There is
10 best route over the Cumberland Noun
tins into Kentucky, Try ii who will, the
i'At route tested will prove to be the worst
Tle Alps, the most remarkable range of
MOUNTAINS in Europe, over which NAPOLEON
mashed his army, were n first class Pike
com barred with any one Of the routes over
the cumberland range, The higher Alps
are bycred with perpetual snow-thc Cum
borla,d with its magnificent glaciers, mud
frozen 50 MS to bear wagons and teams
whls6ths innumcrabc cascades which are
prcciP(tatc from their submits, equal the
most imposing and picturesque scenery in
Europe
From three to five thousand men, women
and children, some ON foot, some in wagons
and carts, md others on packed mules and
horses, wee pressing through the deep
gorgea Of the mountains making their cs-
cape through every possible gap from the
murderous assaults, revolving insults, and
Wholesale roLbories Of the thieving Arabs
under Longstrets command No adequate
idea Of the mass Of Union refugees fleeing
from their moe than savage pursuors to
places Of safetyin Kentucky, Ohio and In
diana can be formed, unless the sight could
have been seen. Thousands Of panic-strlckcn
Unionsts, simultaneously deserted their
homes, in the milst Of indiscriminate rob
berries, insult and outrage, and more than
savage barbaritcs, All this distracted null
titudc. from the wide area Of HtHy-t~0
counties, on the highways and by-way'
=, hiding now in the soughs and now in the
rivcr-hiIIs. and in the woods, in the roar OF
plantations; some furnishing for provisions,
others suffering from cold, all drcading the
approach of the infatuated, but thieying,
murderous cavalry Of rebel army. They
had left their homes and their all, generally
without money, and such as had any, had
Southern funds, which were utterly worth
less We gave small sums of money to sov-
eral parties, and regretted that it was not in
our power to relieve all. The Inauguration,
faint and aghast turns from this terrible
picture in dismay and gloom. Wecannever
forget the sufferers and thcappcar.nce they
presented. And we can assure the distant
reader that many were the unayaling tears
that fell unsecn to the ground from this
scattered army of helpless infancy, reduced
by pururod villains in uniform, by scoun-
dres in legislative assemblies, and their
murdcrous legions, to alfc Of abjcct poverty
and cherries gloom
On our return we stayed for the night in
company with Mcssrs. TEMPLE and METH
hRLAND, ~ vue IUvu VI llnc hiUuntoin, in
Campbell county where the rebel soldiers
murdered Jack Campbell an old infrm man,
in his 9th year, and knocked his wife in
the head with the butt Of a musllet, an old
lady in hor Goth year for the oilcnsc OF
being on the side of the Union. In the
same county, and only q few miss distant,
wo visited the house of old man Perkins,
whose son, Esquire Perkins, and his son-in
law. were arrested, and brought into Pow
ellis Valley and shot down in cold blood, for
the Grim, of being on the side Of the Union,
, Throughout every county in East Tonnes
see, old and young were shot down in their
, yards and their fields parents were cruelty
r murdered in the presence Of their children,
. and the latter were denied the poor priyil-
eye of burying them; all classes were rob
bed and plundcrcd, after the most approved
style Of plundcring Arabs. And although
the fair fields Of this once fourishing and
happy county have been crimsoncd with the
blood of its murdered people; and although
the midnight sky has been lighted up with
the Hurled blaze of burning dwellings and
long-chcrishcd homes, by the light Of which
!; the aflrightcd patriots fed from their mcrci-
less pmsucrs and the still more mercilcss
/ terrors that beset the paths Of their glorious
women, many Of them only to fall victims
to the monsters who fight the damning bat
ties Of jeff Davis, and his legions Of pirates,
t they have, through all these ups and downs,
avowcd their undying devotion to the laws
: and constitution Of the United States and
the banner of beauty and glory that waves
in triumph over cur battle-iields
9 1t is, perhaps, due to the public, in the
, light of an example, that Il scheme so infer
nal as that of secession, eliminating in the
9 deliberate murder, in cold blood, Of unarmed
, men, women and children, without Il mo-