Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-02-14


MEssRs. RULE * KICKS Enclosed find
80 cents, for which please continue the
WEEKLY CHRONICLE from Jan. lst, if you
have the back numbers, AS we are PLAN
ming a small colony for some country, and
are comparing the claim of East Tennes-
see with some other regions, we wish to
obtain some more light ON the subject
through your paper. We have read and
studied Your interesting letters on East
Tennessee with much interest and profit.
Nour citizens owe you heavy debt of
gratitude, if nothing more, for your noble
efforts in difiusing so much interesting in
telligence concerning your region. But
hope they give you aid more substantial
than mere gratitude-that they do not
leave the whole financial burden on your
shoulders. Those advertisements in the
New York Tribune and elsewhere, which
first attracted our attention to your region,
and then the collection and publishing of
such a mass of miscellaneous facts, finan-
cial, social, climatic, historic, &c, must
cost much time, talent and money. Such
efficient and persevering efforts as yours,
in behalf of your country, would be gen
erously and promptly sustained by any in
telligent and honorable people, did they
LROtr, could they only realize or appreciate
US lCe outsiders do, how great a work you
are doing for East Tennessee. How your
advertisement i'll Eastern and Northern
papers draws the attention of the expect
ant emigrant and these are tens OF thous-
ands) first to your paper, and then how
your paper transfers their attention to, and
fixes it on your country, aud there holds
it as if by some magic spell, as ii is carried
from valley to valley, each more beautiful
and attractive than the other; then from
mountain TO mountain and mine to mine !;
where the hidden ore, the pure mountain
air and the heaven distilled beverage of
nrlrI inn inns Iii N m
alike to the votary of wealth and to the as
pirant after richer joys of health and rural
happiness. Ges, how truly tantaliZing
your vivid pictures of invigorative noun
tain air and pure gushing springs to our
pale, bloodless cheeks and feeble, nerveless
nerves-as we are doomed to inhale
from month to month and from year
to year our damps and fogs and
death dealing nliasms, or as we shiyer
and shake with ague and fever, as we
swallow down our wagon loads of quinine
and pills, of Balsams, cruel Bitters, and
may be wind up with Congressional
and this is generally the last of US at least
so with such pictures of your sunny wales
and winter flowers and balmy clime-us,
shivering and freezing as perched on our
Northern icebergs, or surrounded with and
! buried in our (if not "perpehtdt, at least
| semi everlasting snow? Would you only
Invoke some colony of swamp-reared, ca
nal-bound and ague-proof Hollanders OF
! some oil-fed iceberger from Lapland to buy
us out, how soon would We hasten to real
i,e what you now SO tantalize us with
Well, now, Messrs. Editors, we are
! frightened-we have "spoke right out in
meetin' we have certainly done what
We did not dream of, when we sat down
| to write three lines for so cents worth O
your paper-but we were forced to record
our appreciation of your paper, in one sen
| tcnce as we began but that led to another
and so on till you have got a bore
Please eXcuse--tre did not nlean ii.
Yours, w. J. MURPHY.