, 1866-12-20
A TRIP THROUGH TIIESOUTH.


Lie III East tennessee.
3o7suboD's Tailor shop-Early His
tory. of Eust TenueBSee-RemInf%s
eencea OF Danicl Boonc-soil ana ClI-
mate-A NatIve-G;reenSiI1e-A RENE |
fnfacence OF H1orean-XItstnrF N Correct-
ed-IIov Morgan Wah Cnpiurcd-A
loyal BInck Woman.
tCoIrespondcnce Of the Chicago Tnbuae.}
ELzAnk7u7oyrN. EAST TExsIs.rE,{
December Il, 1861. |
l write from the extreme southeastern
cotncr of Tennessee. on the border Of North
l'aro!ina, high up among the Cumberland
Aleuutnins. II Is splendid climate up
Lcre-an altitude equal to st. Paul, with an
atmosphere as pure, but mrch more mild.
This is the town where Andy johnson made
lis advent In Tennessee, (whcre he came from
nobody knows aud few care whenla bnrc-
footed boy Of sixteen, unable to read or
write. and without money or employment
From here be went to Jonesburo, Washing
ton County, where he learned his trade,
thence be found his WEy to Gscenville,
Green County. where be opened = taiior's
shop, and where now over the shop door
may lie seen his old weather-faded sign,
"A. johnson, Tailor where lie now
retains his residence, and wIe5e IL
lie had remained in person and grorn rich
TN *'cabbage' lie would have becii much less
criminal and altogether more usefnl and
respected by his fellow men than be has
been while "sWin.ing round the circ1cH OF
Ion. Yet It IS stili true that /. J. Las las some ONE
friends left among the descendants Of the
Sand -hiiierS in East Tennessee. But II WAS
terrible mistake Of lis Accidcucy when le
took it for granted that the United States
was only an enlarged Tennessee, and that
the Republican party is composed Of tle de-
ccndants Of Sand-hillers.
East Tennessee has been settled ninety
seveu years. The early settlers were poor
whites irom North Carolina, who souGa III the
wilderness immunity from the crushing IN
way IN I'LL. and did not stop until he reached
what IL now called Bonneville, Kentucky,
where he took up his residence. In WASH
inrtou County, on Boone Greek, twenty miles
northeast Of Jonesboro: is on ancient burch
cut in the bark BY Daniel Boone, when On his
WY - % s:is:iND. boon killed a bar.n
Notwithstanding this country has been sct-
lied nearly Z century and is rich in natural
Of q century of progress. There arc
old, far ahead Of East Tennessee.
The climate aud soil arc unsurpassed
and there is abundance Of timber Of all kinds,
Including Yellow rine chestnut, eedsr. oak,
splendid blue limestone mud marbie-any
amount Of cheaply available water power,
which never freezes up IN winter, and clay
for the best brick in the world. saw brick
houses more than fifty years old, the brick
Of which, even at the sur face Of the ground.
the damrness nnd frosts. Fruits OF al1
kihds-app}cs, peaches, pears. cherries,
pluns, grapes, blackbcErics, rasplcrrics, &c,
grow almost spontaneously nnG in the grea.-
cst abundance. i'll spite Of man or beast, for
It can hardly be kaid with the Cooperation
OF either.
AN cid man living in dilapidatcd log
house, with scarcely clothing enough on to
caycr his nuke1ncss, who had bacn burn
where he lived and where saw him, who
had merely +'ve:-ctated' for ffty-eight years,
and where lie will most assuredty rot" sad
To nc that he could have gathered 4 hundred
bushels oi bluckbctries any season during
tile last twenty-five, which grew wild in the
corners Of tue fields and on the hill sides.
informed him to Ills great astonish,uent, that
| dl1yd blackbcrrles bud not sold for less than
fm&y cents per pound Wholesale, In Chicago,
| in i've year,, when he inquired where Chi
| caeo was, and how .pe"plc got there? Ye1
this man vas better informed than the aver
age Of East Tennesscans., Thousands o
bushels Of the finest peaches, described tt
llc us being us large Us small tea cup, rot
ted on the ground Inst August, which coult
lave been dried or canned, and sold for e1
travasant prices, bnt for want Of little IN
tclligrnce and enterprise In the people.
There Is scarcely any manufacturing llcr,
home consumption, except what is done b,
hand and in the most primitive manner
Yet, nowhere in the world arc there create
facilities for manufacturing .purposes-iron'
zinc and coal are found here in great auanti
ties, and probably mauy other minerals:
From what have seen, think hat
rather live in East Tennessee. with Northern
people, than in any other locality With wflicl
am acquainted. but t6t"Vhree fold barbar
ism hiss left Its curse and blight so deep an
witheriog tha. no Northern m'au will he con
tent to live here and bring up his childre
Tor Mt last gcncration to come.
Grccnvillc Is celebrated for being the towi
where the notorious John Morgan was killed
as we'll as for bctps the home Of Andy JOHN
! son-the two worst men, probably. the c3un
try has produced. Several items have crep
into the history Of Morgan's discovery an
death, which nre untrue, and as you are OF
casiorally pointing out inaccuracies Of hl
| tory, let nc here state what are the facts
this case. On the night on which 1forga
met his death, he was stopping ut the hous
f;illcm's brigade was cucamped at Dull
Gap. seventeen miles distant. It has bee
written and Published throughout Ii
. United States that Mrs. Williams m0untc
f n horse and rode to General Gillen
camp, mud reported to him the whcreaoon
. was rebeA, 90 well known and above su
. picion, that Morgan sought her house Us
, place Of safety. On the night in question
; | however, Mrs. Williams was three mics Q:
oltown, and knew nothing Of Morgan's b
! ! lug ut her house, or Of bis death, until t
+. O'Clock, next day. The facts are as follow:
, 4 ceEeo boy, about twelve years old. son
n negro woman bv the name Of Mary kea
! was captured by Morgan's party as they we
{ ! entering town. and lest the boy might ri
information 10 some Union mcn, he WAS he
+ III custody sesesal hours, but was finally r
i. leased. and went straight to his mother al
c reported what he had eccn and heard, al
tllcrcupon black, loyal Yrs- Iary Ecda, Al
!; net rebcl, white Mrs. Williams, mounted
horse aud rode seventeen miles to infot
:. General Gillcm. Let history see to It til
c hitc rebels do NO: steal honors belonging
!. black loya1ists.
q ind no evidence anywhere in the Sou
). that the late rebels contemplate another !
{, bcliion. On the other hand they sec
g thoroughly whipped and cowed. but UNI
0 pentaut and uhconviuced, aud incapable
t conviction or repentance. The South mig
a | lie reconstructed and redeemed In few Sc,
d aud the rebel spirit entirely snothercd q,
is destroyed, If It were not for this incapacl
q 4 III 1GAIu, AuA tuG AH9CAG% ~ %E4tN4A y
J. mcnis absolutely essential to progress,
o wit disposition and ability to labor or 9
g gage In useful enterprises, on the part of
r uure Intelligent whites who were before
v war, and indeed must siifl continue to
a the leading aud ruling class. ....-
It Thousands upon thousands Of young m
ar who belonged to wealthy families before
u. war and expected to inherit wealth, but y
It are now begears, think 1t disgrace to VIC
g eisll, and moreover, have neither the mco
h nothing but loaf about, taking: on the airs
= more prosperous days, drinking whtsk
IL. chewing tobacco, cursine Yankees, shoot
er niegcrs, gambling and stealing IS oppot
ut Ety ohers or necessity requt'
osss o sDaenl fw e1ses sss hsee sac
n, energy or sclt-rcspect to set Themselves
he doing anything useful They know how
tr ride horse, use gun and pistol, and thl
ca about all. Those, who have, remal1
H. all manual labor as q disgrace
b. roor whites. on the other hand, have a1T
w | lived from hand to mouth, aud are Inca pa
Of much progress, while the negroes are
In the servi(e class, with limited ability,
m little opportunity Or ensoaEagemcpt te 81
be But, with free, Intelligent labor and No
1c- cru cntcrprise, how rapidly would the SO
,as become The garden Of the world, teen
he with the fruits Of the esrth aud the man!
IN prCQEEIe u lAAutkA AAe tAN 0uSNS "a
ho civilization Ind cultnre, instead Of dcs
re- as II i, inhabited by wresehed semi ea
I'm Rams. Al.
~ ~ Fashions and Fashionable Life
~ Paris,
nse Paris Correspondence tSoycmbez so> ofthe
NJ dcl3hia North Amcrlean.j
he MANY American families who have c
to over this autumn, thinking that BY seti
on down now they WonIo ootall nousc accon
,at 1 I,+4ooe fnr tho coming xhibit{on on Id