The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-03

stons si.o ahour6 Il those ridges. while their side
ana boovs 40 d.n.s'v timbersd, except In frequent
nlaos. along Tho ro.d the settler or soldier ha
cleared ou. Az y. passed along rich bottom Of the
Tennessee after crossing the n INV wy ss'e WORK
Bridgeport bridge, we gang s' ~Sn
made from the river through field, o. -pas " 'ne nsn
in small net by tho basketfuL whseh. Aaouna Ms
sionary Ridge, into the broad open plain .n'on
stands Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain with :. iion'
something like the 'Od Man OF the Mountain" o. the
FranoonIa ranss looms out in grand relief There wa
. veil Of mist around Its summit and lightning and
thunder around It's sides. reminding ono iorcibiy OF
Hooker's ssbatils above the oloudan As tho crown,
posurs the roasting arid plain. and I'VE
miles Of climbing the rocks AterWards concluded
70 defer the grand lookout from Looko1. 81. 90. next
ragged scraggy and Godforsaken looking place, spread
an sufficient for city Of hundred thousand
and though dingy and dirty il has had this season
thorough washing up to the second stories Of the housss
other high places being from feet under water
for ten days Great losses were entaied by the
dood, bat It did some good In drowning out the rata
Of science his way scotch nsh In dc river when
do food vent down with young rats in their stomaohs
Didn't much like de- m ERE nsh."
From various officials and inhabitants consulted We
s
dant population TO the great expectations created
originally By is position =. railway focus Il Is the
Grant with his master key for the passage Of Sherman
down through Georgia the But there is Some
business bore, including foundry and rolling MILL
which. since the war, have besn mainly occupied in
working up the old iron loft BY sherman along the trail
story white buildings on The hill there were built BY
Bragg for hospital purposes and held BY Uncls
Sam Bragg expected to stay here to the end Of the war;
There company Fifth veteran infantry here now
whose duty 10 70 take OF these buildings and GER
about the Naked desoated and bstered appearance
OF this m SCRABBLE place, stranger Let me tell you When
s Was coopeo up nero oy Sragg az
trees OF tho town and We had great many were used
up for rewood and earthworxs by the soldiers That's
why the place 10 so much all outdoors, broiling In
the sun. When yon ask how this population
live you take me down. But look at those
which our emancipatsd niegen fairly swarm. And
We have some poor vagabondizing whites here, too
no 10 leg s and y DShtv " noacsirg
house and highga robbery which make II particularly
unsafe for cent stranger TO walk these houseess
OF dark night As for these free nggers they
would rather flock together and starve death town
than get fat and flourish in the country. Brownlow
with his devsh tools Of despotlsm monopolizes the suf
rage OF these lovely nggers and he welcome
You will that ali the respectable whites, who keep
The town from becoming nothing but nest Of thieves
servave ticket; and you will see that this Is the rule
over all the South
It appears too that the charity Of the Chattanooga
citizens who have anything to give has been and CONT
to be heavily drawn upon by the destitute people
with starving Children their hands Ia some casas
these have crept into the town from distances Of
niteen and twenty miles and moro, with some little
household relic to exchange for few quarts Of corn
NEAL So take 1t altogether Chattanooga, for the pos
session Of which many thousands Of men were sacri
feed, Is place from which the traveller generally de-
parts by the rst train Inside and outside for miles
tho marks OF the ruthless wasages and the yesges OF
war; and years will be required 70 get the place in de-
cent trim again.
Tho government however, Is making . beautiful
thing Of the eodiers cemetery here one Of the do
enclosed being enclosed with substantial stone
WALL and the original forest during the having boon
cleared away for military purposes largo numbers Of
young trees, some Of spontaneous growth and some
planted, give already civilized aspect 70 the place
Here the bones OF thirteen thousand Union soldiers
and the body finders and grave dRgers are still gather
ing them In Al the Nashville cerastery they have
some twenty thousand. at Murreesboro I'VE thousand
at Franklin I'VE thousand these all that had 70
be sacrificed to open At Chattanooga Shermans gateway
down through Georgia to the sea-