Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-09-26
CORRESPONDENCE.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn,
September 18th. 1872,


a few days after you, and have been
sojourning here and in Virginia since.
Few routes present more charming and
beautiful scenery than the one from
Washington here, by the way of Lynch
burg. The battle fields adjacent Wash
ington still show unbroken earthworks,
and many distinctly outlined embrais-
ures still remain to remind an old sol
dier of the glorious times Of tough beet,
hard-tack and still worse campaign
and hard fought battle. 1 was stationed
several years at Lynchburg and realiZ-
ed real sense of pleasure upon return
to it after long absence. 1t is a dull
place, apparently, to the stranger.-I
Built upon a steep river bluff, destitute
of plateau or table land, the stranger
wonders what could have induced such
a location. Beauty or adornment is
simply. out of the question. But it
was, prior to the war, through its to-
baeco interests, a place of immense
business and under the concentration
of railroads. now constructed and pro-
jected IN connection with its vast water
power and proximity to unlimited
fields of minerals and coal, it must be-
come in the future as much a centre of
wealth and business as ever in the past.
1t is surrounded with the finest noun
tain scenery in the South, and a rich
walk up to the higher portions of the
city and note the grand Peaks of Otter
standing out in bold relief against the
Sky, hanked on either side with spurs
and ranges OF the Blue Ridge, and to-
gether, making a picture in. nature
rarely surpassed. After leaving Lynch
burg the road passes through some of
the finest agricultural lands of the
State. In ailthe tidewater portions of
Virginia the grasses rarely succeed,
and as q rule to which there are few
exceptions, Northern, men who: have
tsetfi6d In them since the war, have
failed in attempting TO farm, simply
because, in my Judgment, they cannot
make their farms carry and grow the
various grasses as. in the North. But
tin those counties west Of Lynchburg
grasses Of all kinds grow as spontane-
ously anfllaxurieds as aay~here North
land in them +, beiieye, the Nprthern
man viii succeed. Four years experi !
tence safid observation as an offieef In
charge of a'large disffict gave ine full
Iopportdnity0of judging fepennitheseI
points, and it il InyL firm, belief that as
Ia rule q Northern man is a failure as a
farmer in all portions Of Virginia east
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n,aios.;fw than " tbst yo r;uen 5er al1@ Da15o
cratic g5sjSernor last faH. This is John
tson' 5 Judgment and it IS Supported BY
tthe juegmeht,i6f many Republicans
/ with whoa L have convelsed aPhe
Union soldier, vote, of East Iennessee
/ is undoubtedly dividing, and while
There is httfe' enthusiasm Or public ex-
1hibition ofpolitics etinced, yet assoeia-
tion with the people viii l.soon convince
an inquirer - that. Greeley will carry
here by. an increased majority. In Vfr-
gfnia, particularly, there is little denl-
3onstratibnl In 1859 the Republicans
dhelieyed theyeYoqld elect Wells. be-
Ecause, of the, apparent apathy OF. the
CONSERVATIVES, but Walkers 20, 900 ma
tjority was evidence strefy that so called
'ienthusiasIh is not feduisite for the car
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