The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-24
[ Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch

STEVENSON, Tenn, May %, 1875
At Wytheyilie we found IL large and i'm
posing Cdifce in course of erection for
depot. The lead mines of Wythc seem L
be in full operation.
The number of students at Emory ant
Henry is one hundred and eighty. of whom
twenty-five arc in the senior class. II is J.,
Methodist institution.
"king'> College," lately established al
Bristol. has one hundred and thirty students
Ii is Il Prasby terrain institution. aud fakes its
name from Rev. John King, deceased, by
whose donation it was founded.
Rev. Is. GiIdcr.lceye. formerly editor OF
the central Presbyterian, resides and
breaches near Abingdon. Though four
score years and upwards be regularly meets
his appointments. He is blind. and repcT, :.
bis hymns and chapters in the pulpit f,..on
memory.
The road from Marion to Bristol - nearl,
all new laid with the solid rail. AID the run
ming on it is fine. Those pa,"",s If the roa(
which have the Old strap raj, are very rouph
The company is pushing ON the work, put
ting down The new rail'.. rapidly, no doubt, Il,
possible. This is absolutely necessary, IL
the old part can't ,.clnd the constant friction
of so many and -llch trains. On one train
saw IN entire car full of live fowls goina
East.
A new tngiuc-houSc is to be built al
Bristol House, and another new building t0I
the .nilroad
All satchels. r;il pet bags. &c, are excluded
Tom the cars on this road. The difficulties
with travellers and their complaint of re-
gulation so inconvcnicnt are inullmerablc
1t does more harm than it can possibly do
good. and ought to be- repealed ut once.
The towns along the line from Bristol to
Chattanooga are beginning TO assume some
of the thrifty appearance they had before
the war, and the SAME may he said of the
country. 80 many towns in the same dis
lance it would lie hard TO find in any other
State. Some of them are very pretty. At
one not far from Knoxville there are copper
works. Knoxville has name for business
and low prices that i. contributing rapidly
to its growth rs Il commercial place. Much
produce cores to il in boats on the TenncS-
sec river London is charming little place,
and 50 is Mouse Greek. Mouse Creek for
dinner" is Il singular announcement: but
Mouse creek has learned to take in many
dollars with Il moderate outlay.
Chattanooga has population OF 5000.
Several railroads ccutrc in Il large and com
handing dcrOt. which at some times of the
day reminds one of the scene III the dcrot at
Washington. The mineral wealth of the
Lookout mountain and other mountains
around it is attracting capital from the North.
Excellent railroad iron is made here, With
which the road over which the cars run for
Memphis and Nashville is laid, and there is
no smoother or better road mt tie South. Al
Stevenson tie traiu is divided. aud one part
goes 20 Nash, lie and the other To Memphis
by good roads.
The circuiullS route of the railroad H. we
leave Chattanooga for Stevenson, and run at
the foot of the Lookout mountain, and fol-
low the mcandcrin.s OF the Tennessee and
then run for miles among the mnlntain-,
presents scenery tllatis char ming. 4 bridge
Il hundred and twenty feet high over a
c.lasm, supported by small iron pillars on
granite foundations, trail IL lis appearance
but so solid as to receive no jar from the
train, is gem. s.sa-
Rev. 4. X. Metallic, of the Presbyterian
church, has lately resigned his charge ut
Chattanooga. Rev. George Gilmore. of Nir-
GINA. is spending 4 week or two there and
supplying the pulpit.
The Chattanooga and Alabama railroad
with connections 10 New Orleans, is now
complete. and will become Il formidable conf
petitor for the travel to the latter city.
IUCKAHOE.