Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-30

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trance 70 ChartauOoRn,

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trance 70 Chattanooga
We copy below from the csFrespondsnes
Of B. 2. Taylor some sxquisits gems Of
word painting and poetical descriptions:
cHATTAHooaA EinRoAD.
The railroad from Bridgeport 70 Chat
tsnooga is one Of the widest and most
picturesque on the continent. You make
straight at the solid mountain, but Green
through cleft and keep on; you swing
around scurVe and hang over a 9orge. buf
you play sthe devil On two stieksS and
pass il you run like mouse along a mar
row shelf up the rocky wall, the bsvildsr-
ed Tennessee far beneath, winding this
way and that to escape from thsenohsntsd
mountains. 1t flashes cut from you here
curved like Q oimetsr Il ties thrills up
there with loVe-knots Of broad ribbon. The
sky line rises and falls around you like
heavy sss; black heaps Of coal high up
the mountains look like blols on this rough
est Of pages Of Natures iWritin book The
dark Osdsrs counterfeit deep shsdoWs. You
60 through stone gateway Of the Lords
building. A deep valley is under your feet
You look far across to the other side.
Will the train run straight out into mid
air Will it take wings snd hy7 Il IL
gliding cautiously out upon she bridge ct
Falling Water; the boys in blue far down,
look like drops Of indigo; you sEs safe
over, and you thank God and lake courage.
You pass the ruins Of rebel camps the
huts are gone, but the swallows z9st IRE
places remain, and the hillsiies seem
strWne with old, rusty honey comb,
MOUNTAIN SCENERY,
And all along the rugged way, ct every
station, bridge, raEine, are rihe-pits and
earth-Works, the rude signature rebellion
has compelled; grim Wars has his I mark;
and all along, those journeymen Of ours,
grouped to see the train 60 By, The train,
their one, long slender link with the dear
old homes ofthe North. The black threats
Of cannon cape st you over the tops Of
their kennels, in unexpected places. The
tunes the drummer beats, all shattered on
the crsgs around, oome tumbling baok
upon the players head.
So, through these grand and everlasting
hills We made our way, and when the
morning walked to and fro upon the top Of
night, and stepped from hight to hight, and
pines took IRE and cliffs Of grey we're
glOri6ed, itseemed mighty minister, and
did not wonder that God gave the law
from Sinai that the beautitudes were shed,
like Hermon's dew, from mountain that
the noblest uttersnoe Of all time-saVe
Gods first word on record, '' Light Be P
should have been the Sermon on the
Mount.
DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY.
Sometimes the valleys Hidened into
fields, garden plsts beneath rs looked like
the squares Of ehesker-board, and clus-
ters Of poor dwellings seemed having their
morning gossip together; now and then .
house was perched high up the mountains,
and buEzsrds, graceful nowhere except In
the sir, were vibrating, rocking on their
broad wings far below it. A glorious re-
gion for painter and poet whatever
ploughusn may make Of it. At last,
threading needles eye Of tunnel, We
begin 10 get into broader ground, and the
Tennessee bears us company. Six miles
from the Hawks Nest we pass the cluster
ed villages Of Gen. Wards bfigsde-the
105th Illinois Is there, and has one Of the
most beautiful AID tsstefully adorned
camps ever saw. TriumphaI srches Of
evsrgreens, broad, clean avenues, rustic
sests-sltogether It would make an sx-
quisite psge for some new edition Of Rural
Architecture.
GOING INTO CHATTANOOGA
We wind around the angle Of the noun
tain wall Of Lookout camps glittsring on
the hills everywhere in the morning sun,
tumuh Of red earth, with sentinsls pae-
ing to and fro, regiments oheckering the
low grounds, engines backing and hlling,
araaf sfass.-k al----s----------s ~ =
dead, the whole landscape alive with
crowds and caravans, and there in the
middle oft sll, like rusty hatchet bur-
led in the live oak that grew around il lies