Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-22
FROM CHATTANOOGA.
Points for Knoxville Capiialisss-fhe
WtclSs War Party at the Mountain CITY.
CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 10, 49,

Wicls War Party at the Mountain CITY.
CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 10, 1873.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: Chattanooga still
maintains her "possh !" The world Of
waters with which she has been lately
threatened have "tidal-waved" it-haven'
arrived. She is still anchored in her mud
and from the depth and constancy of that
native product of hers, she will probably
stick as successfully as it does.
+ IMPROVEMENTS.
This place is improving rapidly. Each
time we revisit it new evidences of the pro
gressive and aggressive spirit of her citi-
zens meet our view. Her growth is of a
substantial character-partaking of moth
ing like mushroomness. 1t is the increase
which naturally follows the accretions of
trade, population and Importance as rail-
road center to which she is daily subject
ed. These silent motors to enterprise and
prosperity have, too, only just began their
operations. a brilliant future opens itself
TO Chattanooga and a few years hence che
will have outstripped many of her sister
cities
KNOXVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA.
Contrast Knoxville with Chattanoo-
ca. Knoxville is q recognized city
and known abroad / Fas point of
some Importance. Chattanooga is just
rising far enough above her hills to attract
attention to other things than her signifi
canoe as railroad center. While Knox
willie has her settled business, her common
avenues of intercourse and commerce and
her tributary trade, Chattanooga has all
these yet TO build up. But Chattanooga
has the capacity and the ability to take
hold and command her share of trade and
commercial Importance. Her capitalists
and her laborers are men of life and activ
ity. She will never cease to work earnest
ly for her own advancement. Now look
at Knoxville. We are ashamed to tell
her errors, for we have been raised TO look
upon her as the capital Of East Tennessee
and her representative city. But COM
PARSONS are odious," and in this case 'her
Offense is rank and smells to heaven !"
Take her monied men-they are supremacy
grasping, fearful of venture and i'll dis
posed to take hold upon projects
which promise great profits to their
own purses and the general prosperity
of their city. They must see the gain
close ahead before they will venture to
bid for it. What is the consequence Of
such misery practices? Sirs, in them lie
the great secret of any towns business
stagnation. Reduce the pulsations of the
heart and note the weakness of the limbs
and functions Of the body. Erect dam
to Che outflowing stream of capital, and
watch labor anguish, trade diminish and
prosperity wither. Knoxville will yet
mourn her golden opportunities of the
present when they shall be gone forever,
if her men of capital and influence do not
rouse themselves to the labor in hand. Let
them develop her attractions and re-
sourccs-put their business and Importance
i'm the conspicuous positions they should
occupy, and all will yet be well with her.
MAJ. wICKs AND PARTY.
Mai Wicks, of Memphis, with whom
one of you is alphabetically acquaint-
ed, passed through here this A.
his friends Col. Sam. Tate, Col. Greenlaw,
and Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte Forrest,
where it was given cut that lone William
Rule" was to eXpiate some fancied offense
at the half dozen mouths of brand new
Colts navy.
The arrival of the CHRONICLE dissipated
all fears of bloOdshed that might have been
entertained in Chattanooga, and the arri-
val of the evening train on the Atlanta
road was looked forward to with some in
terest. Promptly upon its arrival the mar
tal party dsembarked, baggage in hand,
not looking as badly chagrined as fellow
I'D a tree might have supposed they should
be, but presenting pretty much that APP
pearance which we always thought must
have fingered about those
60 six hundred men,
Who FIRST marched up the hill,
And then marched down aCa!nl