Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-09
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% parties isSr over one hsntllzsd thousand
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and returned via Big Creek Gap Thsrp b
no besf routs sver do Cumberland Moan.
laaa. into Kentucky ffylp 80 ssll, ne
last route tested viii PROVE e be the WORT,
The Alps, thc most remarkable fahgs Of
mountains ID Ensupc, over which NAIoi.EoS
snaseked is army, were 4 hnit class Pike
compared With aiy one ef The reiiscs oysr
tho uaablFIana fango. Ths higher Alp.
.sFS eayefssl With perpetual sno'F lht Cum.
tierlAlsd with IL tsiagniAcent glaciers, md
Is6zen s. ii u bear wagons mud teams
what tie iiifasii srable cascades which are
,sfecibitatcsi lfoai Their submits, equal the
most iuposiug knd rlct6fseqao scenery in
Europe.
From thrcs Il fsU tlloasand men, women
and children, sofns On foot, some IN wagons
and carts, ana others On packed mules ahd
horses, were pressing through the dscp
gorges Of the mountains, making their e..
cape through every possible gap nom The
nsnrderoua assaults, revolving insults, and
wholesale rohbcries Of Che tAlesing Arabs
nnder Longstroei's command No a1eqaate
idea OF the mass Of Union refugees fleeing
from their more than savage pursnsfs 70
places OF saf6iy in Kentucky, Ohio and In.
diana can be formed, unless tho sight could
have been seen Thousands Of panic-strickeh
Unionjsts, simultaneously deserted their
homes, in the midst Of ihdiscriminAte rob.
berries, insult and Outrage, and moro than
savage batbaritics An this distracted mul.
sitp,le. from The wide area Of Airty.t,eo
cohstfcs, on the highways and l,y.waya.
hiding now IN the sleughs, and now IN the
rivcr.fills, and in the woods. in tho rear OF
plantations. some lamishIng for provisions,
Others suffering from cold, all dreading the
approach Of the Infatuated, but tkieying
murdsrous cavalry of a rebel army. They
had LEFT their homes and their oil. Fenerally
without money, and such As had any, had
Southern funds, which were utterly worth
less. We gave small sums Of faoney to ssy.
erai parties. and regretted that It was not In
our power 70 relieve all The inauguration,
faint and aghast, turns from this terrible
picture in tlisinay and gloom weean never
s,rget the sufferers and BE appearance they
presented aud We can assure the distant
resier that many We're the uuaysiIing tears
tina, feil unseen to the ground from tAls
scattered army Of helpless infancy, reduced
by purjared villains in uHis,ru,, BY seoun.
drcls 10 legislative assemblies, and their
aarttcruas segions, 10 nlife d. ssiect poverty
aud cherries Eloom'
On orr return we stayed for the night, in
company with Msssrs 1ENFLE and METH
EhLASn, AZ TIE tpot Of Pine Mountain, in
Campbell euantys where the rebal soldiers
mardercd lack Campbell, an obi infrn man,
In his eTth war, snd knocked his wife In
the head with The. butt of mpskct, an obi
lady in her G5sh year. for the oiEsnse Of
being on the side of tho Union. In the
-aino county, and only few miles distant.
wc visited the horse OF old man Perkins,
whose son, Esquire. Perkins and bis son-in
law, wers arrested. and brought iato Pow
ellie yallcy and shot down In cold blood, for
the crime Of being on the side of the Union.
Througlsaat every county IN East Tonnes
soc. OLD and young were shot down in their
Yards and their fields parents were crueily
in the presence Of their chilartn. /
and the latter were ienied the poor priyil-
eye Of barying them; an classes were rob
bed and pianderOl, afier the niost approved
style Of plundering Arabs And although
the fhir fields of this once dourishing and
happy county have been crimsanesl 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 cherished homes, by the light VI which
The alfrigbtod patriots tled from their merei- !
less pursnere, and the still more nerciless
terrura that besot the paths OF their glorious
wemcn, many of them only 20 sail victims
10 the monsters who Sight The daaning bat
Tics Of JEFF Davis, aAd his legioAs Of pirsstes,
they have, through all these ups and downs,
avowed their andying devotion 20 the laws
and eonstitGtion Of the United States, and
Lhs banner Of heauts aaa glafy That waves
In triumph oycr our battlo-Gelisi
II Is. perhaps doe 10 The public, Ia the
light Of an example, thar a scheme 80 isfsr-
val Us that Of secession, ealminating IL the
deliberate marler, ineold blood, of unarmcd