The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-12-04
E. 4. & W. N. Q. RAIL ROAD.
It's Location, Management, and
Prospects. ---HOW II will Bene-
&c East Tennessee In
the Future,


written for the Jonosboro' Tsnnl Onion Flsg.l
Editors Ezion Flag Did you ever visit Ib'
vicinity Of the Rosne Mountain 10 the latter
part OF November? We take it for granted
you never did and venture, therefore, to tel
you, and your readers, how much you missed
and hoW mach we saw during such trip re.
Gently performed, The flowers Of summer
the eglantine, hawthorn and honey suckie
are all gone the little birds, too -:
- With azure wing,
And scug that .aii a Thousand thinss,'
have down TO a mere genial sky. A solitary
flower, here and there, keeps watch over the
graves of its fellows, and the thrummiug
pheasant. the Whistiing partridge and the
c=wiDg Grow are nearly all that remain 20
ps Of the songsters which rendered vocal ev-
lery valley, cove and glen o. the mountains
during the summer season.
Leaving the ho5pi,sbls DsDsios Of our
friend, Mr. DAME! Krouse, wish whom We
/ spent the night previous, in company With
our host, we get our faces, on the morning Of
toe l7sh inst, towards Doe RiTer Cove, Grab
0rchard and I.0sne Mountain.
a short trip OF some ten miles over Gif-
ford's Turnpike-.through a mountainous
range Of cOuntry-broDght US 10 the Doe
The intervening country, immediately along
the roadside, is rather sparsslv populated
bot more fertile and more densrly settled in
the valleys. The few tarms. cleared aud cul-
tivated on the more eleyated lands, appear TO
yiald abundan,ly TO the honest toll Of the
husbandmsn while the thrifty housewife,
With her tToup Of children, from The blush
ing maid Of sweet sixteen to the " wee tod
din bairn % Of a single sumusr-the WELL
hiled barns and ple,horic garops-horses
cows and bogs-all fat and sleek-gobbling
turkeys, noisy esese and growing socks iunu-
merable al attest bis prosperity.
But W bsye reached the valley Of the Doe!
Like a fairy panorama, it il suddsuly unfold
ed 10 the view as vi. emerge from The forest
west Of Mr.. Hydss's. How hse, in lie quisl
beauty ard general Surroundings. 20 CONS
faoled dream.laud Ito the Elysinm which
the spint, tired Of the tunBlt Or ovsrwheined
with the sorrows Of life, signs forl HeFs re-
poses the beautiful valley 10 the bosom OF
the eternal bills, dotted over with lis smiliug
cottages, teening harms and fruitfpl orchards;
along its margin courses the Doc, clear
as the abyss uf the pure heavens, now re-
from its n~oiseless depths The beauty
Of toe world a5ove-again uurtDnrinR, softly
As toe cbidings Of love or yet sgaiu Il bur-
itself obstreperously through opposing
rocks and dams 10 the sea. Above all, tow
ars the great old monutaiB-' rock-ribhed
lod ancient as the san " 10 SUMMER clothed
10 bloom and verdure, now gray and grim,
but teeming With minerals aud covered With
forests Of valuable timber.
Here we become the guests Of our old
z. Simmerly, ESQ, Presideot Of The
and North Caroli1s Rail Road
Company. And just here, let Us say a few
Eo.ds, N TassaHt,' respecting tbs Road,
rs nansgemsnt, location aud prospects.
Let your readers draw a straight iiue from
Louisville or Cincinuati 70 the nearest point
On the Atlantic coast, and be will 6ud toe
terminus Of the line 70 be At or near
". c. and the projected Road
from Johnson's Lep0i, on the 2. 7 Va. R.
TO Norgan:on, ". O., 70 constitute IN iD-
norant link ia the great ehalB. Wilmingtou
a hne harbor, aod WITH this great
ine eooaeciing directly the wa;ers Of the
Obio and the Atlantic, completed, would A.
,aes become TIE epirepot u western com
nsrce aud trans-AtlsBtic importation. A
Arzs portinu Of the West viii Sad ne natu.
ral and most reliable outlet 20 tbs AtlaBtie
BIZ tals roais. Tbs local bensfis az this grsa,
ssisrprite, viewing Il Siuply a. = State i'm
b.ovtnent, are various ard iuportsnt. Asids
ftbm tbe fict tbst tbis faii comnuuicsuou
vii sfss 70 10 ihs natafd utFas, i0T or