Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-22
FROM OUR TRAVELLING CORES.
~seIa5 PONDENT. ~.
on BOARD STEAMER TYnosE, I
June l4th, 1866. +


seen more, but that will have no other OPP
portunity to send you one except by the boat
am now on. And l wouldn't forego the
ecstacy of reading my own lucubrations in
real type for nothing in the world. Besides,
although ! have been away SO brief time,
yet to man who hasn't been on a steam
boat within the memory Of the Oldest inhab-
liant many things are presented very enter
tanning to himself IL not to greater travel
ers.
tell you, dear Locals, have seen a pow
err of things since yesterday evening, when
took passage on the pleasant little craft
now bearing me and my fortunes (said for
tunes being wife and baby to the far-of
shores of "Paduky." After OBTAINING the boat,
through the sympathy of the genial Captain
= Capt Harmon until. run back home
two or three times for some indispensable
little things for Fortune, Jr., which, by the
strangest oversight, had been forgotten, we
got under way. Oh, the sensations of
stay-at-home youth when he gets on a steam
boat The only ecstacy can compare it
to, Is that of circus and brass band. l
felt an immediate disposition 10 walk all
over the boat, and in the expansion Of my
heart thought of treading the hurricane
deck for an hour or SO, to ventilate my
swelling emotions. So | mounted the lad
der, but seeing rain-storm brewing, like
the King Of France, | ''marched right down
again" The threatening appearance of the
elements caused our prudent captain to tie
up the greater part of the night at Trice's
Landing. Not Icing able To mount upon
the wings of Imagination, at so short dis
lance from my native city, went to bed, to
find myself, on awakening this morning,
at the Cumberland Iron Works.
The trim little cottages that dot the bank
at equi-distances, half hid amid pleasant
shade trees, make this a very picturesque
spot, in spite of the vivid suggestions of the
late wars wanton barbarities, the ashes and
bare chimney -stacks of the once famous
Rolling Mills present.
A few more strokes of OIL ~|IYel brought
us in sight Of the ever-men ,csJio Fort DON
elson. believe Dover-what there is left
of it---has almost lost its name, even with
the neighborhood folks, in the oversi adow-
ing grandeur Of the great battlefield that
lies contiguous. So we gave passing glance
at the few wretched tenements Of the coun-
ty-seat of the State Of Stewart, and gazed
with a mournful interest upon the grass
grown trenches and breas.-works of the old
Fort Donelson. The new fort which the
Federals built, is still conspicuous and i'm
posing fertilization, doubtless much stronger
than the Confederate works ever were, but
il lacks the glorious history Of the latter
About the spot of this old fort now dank
with tall grass and weeds, will forever cling
the saddest yet proudest page Of Southern
valor. | could write pages of all that this
immortal battle-ground suggested, but space
forbids.
Farther down the river, the ubiquitous AMI
irrepressibe African has located settlement
numbering some 600 or 100 souls, | am in
formed. Here they cultivate little patches
upon which they depend for miserabl,
sustenance, and luxuriate in shady idlenes.
the greater part Of the time. The next place
of interest we came to was the noted "Ten
nessee Iron Works Here ! was not pre-
pared TO see the works in operation, and wa
therefore surprised to fnd that the energies
of the Messrs. Hillman, have almost restored
these great iron works 10 their original pros
perity. As our boat stopped some time Il
take on lot of iron, strolled up TO exam
inc the operations of the gigantic machiner.
of this establishment. We witnessed witt
curious interest the melting, beating, ant
rolling out Of the ore into pig metal
bar and sheet iron. But shades of Tartarus
what n hot place it is on sultry day
Looking into the vast furnaces of white no
masses Of metal, whose glare is almost blind
ing, we took back our whilom theory tina
/ He'll meant mental torture instead Of actua
: fire. Certainly to those sinners who believ
r in the latter opinion, look at these,furnace
is enough TO work an instantaneous reforma
! ton. We hare fanced that we might en-
Inra MA tu r,l, fnr nj.
but we felt in gazing into these seething iuI
naces, that there were not many things ths
' we wouldn't give up at the threat OF ben
= pitched into their horid mouths.
But we see we are making this letter to
: long, so we must hurry past the classic elite
; of Cantou, Linton, Eadyvillc and Dycusburi
: although our popular little craft staid lon
enough at all these places, receiving freigh
TO show us much that was worthy of mel
! ton. And so here am, now, at the eli
: CANT and flushed city of Smithlsnd, an
!. whilst our boat is coaling have been scril
h bling these lines. | wanted to say SOM
?. thing about the lovely scenery that adorl
!. the shores of this Incompatible little river
is the Cumberland, especially at this seaso
If when ''Summer has left its robe on Il
trees and its breath Oh the gale" wantG
to tell how charming all this was as |, sea
" ed upon the guards, with my boots on Il
l. railing, viewed it in luxurious indolenc
N with nobody to cry shoots, at me.
d Above all, wanted to give you some pt
A and ink portraits OF my fellow passenger
Nt amongst whom have found some whim'