Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-03-18
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, MARCH II, 1869
letter from Tennessee.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, March H. lNpJ.
1t Is nearly fifty yenrs since first re1d
the pages Of your HERALD. With its
name are associated many recollections Of
my childhood To most Of your readers
it is Of Little consequence what transpircd
IN Rutland fifty years ago, but there are
some still lingering within its limits who
can look back to the time when no one
ever inlulged in the wild fancy that such
ehanges would occur. To one who left
the town thirty years ago, the contrast
between then and now is very striking.
Rip Van Wrinkle himself could not have
been more astonished on waking from his
'ong sleep, than will one be to visit |iut-
aud atfer nm absence Of fifteen or twenty
ears. Last fail it was great pleasure
O. me 10 visit the place Of my nativity,
and to observe the changes which time
and enterprise had effected. In 1888,
none had dreamed OF railroad ia Rue
hud. Then teams and stages conveyed
~ the freight and passengers toward the
West The New York Central ran ems
at lh4t time a, f4r IL Little Falls Tho
nal was the most convenient means OF
sr,ehin1 Bnffalo. Then. the Northwest
rrn States were too far toward the setting
sun. aud but tcw ventured to So distant a
region. Ii is needless to speak of what
has occurred to make our country what Il
sat pre-. e.eut
Our late war, ana what sama might de-
nominate royipg di-po-ition h,yr
brought me to this remote locality. aaa
81 rive som. account of East Tenr,.,..,..
f. rh..aaf,et OF wrifin. this commuuisI-
9ion fl your readers viii fake map ot
th., ~nitrd States. tLny viii find i So
tion ii country WING between t,. Cum
bafIaud Maunt4ins when they traverse tie
state Of Tenur~-cr and tie Western liuc
~ North CaroliHt This Is East Ten
u--~ee. Not fir FROM the centre ~ this
so.ti1u Of country, viii Ee found he ,ity
.i Knoxville. living upon thc moth bank
The IIaI~ton riy,r This plag, is near-
u as old Al Ru,land. having been l.id att
ia l194 Tits built nIon three lill., bc-
tween which ran two creeks, and c.lse-
Iuoaty Is not lnvel, but atfarding rX
,,lleut dr.,iuage. l. is the llrges' plly~
between Washington fll Nashville. ,N-
cept lynahburLh, Na.. and contains Ill mt
5000 iahabittnts, onc-third are nrEra"s.
Bristol, on the Virginia line, j, ~ miles
y T., and Chattono"ga Is IL mile+ South
west
knoxville is the homo OF the peI>opage
long tamiliarly known rs Ptfspa
Br"5r"''', and editor OF the knoxville
VIM lie lives in q ropmy, old-fl~hiancd
hoAs' just across First Creek \ few
'liys ago he lett Knoxville 70 tak" his
~stt in the nitei States Senate. He Is
t@ehle IN health, but like all other m-n,
Npects to.lIye many years
his city was made famous during the
war, as place Of import nee by both
of the ooutcuding armies /ollil.offer
and Kirby smith both were stationed here
at an early part Of the war, and here was
recruiting point'in making up the army
'i ',l' 9'n'hs M'hy'"i 'he e'''|sn' carry
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