The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12
Correspondence.
AsHYILLE, N. 9.

w AOAC VIC w din oP III HSoo bpOele = -1A'l
and set oution foot for Ashyille, the prinri
cipal town of North Carolina Our way
lay along the French Broad for the whole
distance; and it does seem to me that
| scenery grande1. than that along the
French Broad can hardly be imagined.
While on one side the land would stretch
back for a short distance before rising
into mountain, it would on the aother
rise abruptly, with scarce space for the
road, presenting a perpendicular face Of
moss covered rocks, in whose gcreyices
brilliant wild flowers grow with festoons
OF trailing vines around them But the
human creation along this grand route is
often not in harmony with the mineral
and vegetable Onasteep, rocky hill
side, we saw a little negro, with no super
fluffy of clothing, holding the handles of
a pillow more primitive than had ever
seen nothing but a bar of wood pointed
with iron. This was dragged along
among the rocks by a diminutivo rlule,
attached by rope harness and guided
by single line. This picture is common
enough among TIE darkies, only varied
1 by scrawny little horse or OK instead
lof mule. They are all poor-people, cattle,
horses, mules and puppy-dogs One m
genious contraband finding his hogs SO
poor that they crawled through the cracks
Of their pen, tied their tails together to
prevent them, with ''thus fa and no fa'
da' shalt thou 60" Others less inventive
followed his example. But this beauti-
full heathful land, with its abundance OF
grass and innumerabIe springs Of pure,
soft water, is worthy of a race more in
Itilligent and efficient, than the contra
bands are likely to prove. For the dairy
man. the wool grower, the stock raiser
There IS no more desirable region.
+ Wo did not hurry on our way, though
when VIC walked we made three miles al
hour But we often paused on our way
to cline. some hillside, and amuse our.
selves with book or with gazing on the
ever delightful scenery.
at the distance of nine miles from the
Springs, We halted for supper and were
directed to Squire Gudger's two miles
farther. We made short work of the two
miles and were refreshed with the Gus
tomary corn bread, hot biscuit, ham and
coffee, the staples of most of the southern
, tables. In the morning we saw glass
and bottle of whisky on stand, the
practice of taking a, glass being much
more common at the the South than at
the North The Squire had placed a
copy of the. Frieud Of temperance by the
bottle, as a kindly warning to the partak,
er not to exceed in his rotations. After
breakfast, we pushed on toWartd Ashville,
but Mr.. R. becoming somewhat weary OF
walking, we stopped at MarhalL town
of about 60 inhabitants, to hire horse
for him. But the specimen offered, not
being satisfactory to Mr. r., we continued
on foot to the mouth of the Laurel, where
we dined. For six mile beyond Laurel
the scenery was more grand and impos-
ing than any that we had seen.
We improved our opportunities for
talking with the people, whom we found
to be frank and social in their man.
tners-one whom we met telling us that
he spent two years in Camp Douglas.
j We stopped for the night about 10 miles
from Ashville A heavy rain falling du-
ring the night, we took the stage the
next morning; though have never seen
a country where the roads are less muddy
after rain than about Ashville. One
can walk there with comfort as soon. as
the rain il. over. We reached .AshYille
at about 10, A. NJ, and proceeded to the
; Drug and Book store of Mr. g. ]. Aston,
whose name has become quite familiar to
some of the citizens of Kenosha, I was
about to hand him my card, when he
greeted me {" how are you Charlie ?" &C:
companied by hearty laugh and heart
lei. shake of the hand. He is q whole
souled, laugh-and- grow-fat sort of a
man, standing six feet in his .stnckingss,
weighing $50 pounds and looking as
though care and time would have hard
work to leave any traces on his good-hnt-
Imorad face we walked around the town
with Mr.. Aston, after which we spent a