Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-23

ant Trip-ArrIVai Oh AepFesehI"'h'eS
10 the National Division of Sons of
TcmDerance-ChicagO in Adversely and
Prosperity, &c.
CORES pondence of the Chronicle.l
CHICAGO, June IS, 1872.
Your correspondence reached his journey )
end this morning at 8 o'clock, and after
somewhat extended drive in vagrant ON
nibus. in which rather more time was
spent than his appetite, sharped by an IN,
VirOrating breeze from the lake, could
brook with the equanimity that usually
characterizes his placid disposition, reach
ed the headquarters of the Temperance
Brigade. the Grand Central Hotel, located
on Michigan Avenue, between 18th and
18th streets, where he is now dOmciled
with as abstemious "a party as ever as
sembled in the United States.
THE TRIP
was very pleasant one, but void of any
event of note Not an accident occurred
nor even detention, but connections were
made like clOckwOrk and the result is this
letter, which reminds me Of the "mOun-
of labor which brought forth a mouse.
But perhaps the Intelligent reader will see
this before its conclusion.
Leaving Knoxville at one o'clock on the
18th inst, reached Chattanooga on time
and had the good fortune to meet with
Mr., Duncan, brother of the courteous tele-
graph operator at Knoxville, who was on
his way to Nashville. Taking the Nash
vile and Chattanooga train we were soon
in motion for the former city, where We
arrived a little after 8 o'clock this morning,
and at once took the train OH the Nash
vile and Northwestern Railway, which,
as is also the Nashville and Chattanooga
road is under the management of Mr. j.
W. Thomas, General uperintendent,
whose efficiency has made this one Of the
most popular lines Of travel, and whose
policy has attracted steady stream of en-
igration over that line from those seeking
their fortune in the Far West.
At Columbus we got Oh board the
steamer Illinois, which, after few min
utes thereafter, was ploughing its way
through the tuTbid waters of the AIissiS
sippi. After passage of two hours and q
half she gracefully rounded at the wharf
in Cairo where the passengers disem-
barBed and proceeded to their several des-
tinatiOns.
is built on a bluff just above the mouth
Of the Ohio river, and, as commercial
point, is one of some Importance, though |
the war gave it an impetus which it can |
not, of course, now sustain in these pip |
ing times of peace" The whisky traffic |
seemed buOyant, judging from the num- |
Der of houses of different grades where |
the compound was sold. Here [ saw a |
sight that would have brought tears to
the eyes of Nasty, being nothing less than |
the Harp NV Erin S'lOon,n located in the |
of this namesake of the capital of |
the Ptolmies. When Petroleum V. left |
New York, perhaps the proprietor was |
To account n II rn
of his best customer, and came as near
'Confedrit Y Roads as he could without !
coming in competition with the Corners
But this is only conjecture, however, the
Harp of Erin" is prominent feature of
Cairo.
ILLINOIS.
Cairo is the southern terminus of the II
inOis Central Railroad, which extends
lOrthward the entire length of the State
10 Chicago, 365 miles, and is provided with
splendid coaches, while the conductors and
attaches are as urbane and obliging as
hose on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Road, which all who have trav-
9led over that line know it to be all that
could be desired from the travelling public.
TO one familiar with mountain scenery,
he vast eXpanse of prairie land, which
stretched on either hand as far us the eye
could reach, was in marked contrast,
hOugh possessed of a beauty peculiarly
IS own. For miles the road was as level
IS a barn floor, and the few fills and cuts
hat occurred on the upper two-thirds of
he line are scarcely worth calling such.
The population is very numerous along
his road, almost every station being of the
dimensions of a respectable sized village.
IN every hand were evidences of thrift
md prosperity, tn result of patient indus
ny and the use of improved agricultural
Implements. The fences were without eX-
,eption well kept up and the large number
If horses and cattle grazing in the pastures
we're too we'll satisfied to make any at
empt TO leave. But our Temperance :
friends wish to learn of the
NATIONAL DIVISION OF SONS OF TEMPER
ANCE.
A number of Representatives from differ
mt parts of this country and the British
provinces have already arrived and the re-
nainder will reach here tomorrow. A
ist of those already here was published in
me of the evening papers, III which the
writer's name was sadly butchered But he
the same fatality attended Far
'agut when midshipman, and he rose to
anne Notwithstanding. That cOnsOls him.
CHICAGO.
Is situated on the southern shore of Lake
Michigan, and boasts of a population of
100 goo, and contains an area of about ten
quare miles. The energy that built up
his city so rapidly within the past few
ears was never more displayed than since
he late disastrous fire, by which hundreds
we're reduced from affiuence to poverty.
hundreds of new buildings have been
rected to replace those that were destroy
d, butenough of the desolation yet remainS
o show the awful extent of the ravages of
he fire.
VERY ANIMATED.
An editorial excursion is i'll the city, ]
WHICH with NiXon's Circus and the Cali
Ornia Ministries, together with the return !
ng visitors from the German Sangerfest at !
It: Louis, make the city pretty lively. {
More anon. G. H. B.