Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-24

EDITORS CHRONICLE; Merely to dispel
the somewhat popular idea, that ii is only
$50 miles from Knoxville to Nashville, the
individual, who addresses you, in COM
pany with himself, left the City of Rocks
on Saturday morning, September 9th, for
a pedestrian tour to your city. Thirty-one
miles, over splendid pike road, brings
YOU to Lebanon, the county seat of Will
son, and stirring, thriving little city.
Hating here for a nights sleep, l pushed
on next day to Alexandria, eighteen miles
east of Lebanon, and the
HOME OF STOKES,
The "Bald Eagle" of the noun
tains. Alexandria, consisting of one
long rambling street, looks as
though it had been taking a RIP
Van Wrinkle nap,iand hadn't walked up
vet. Passing down High " street, a
modest sign, on neat looking little build
ing, informs us that it is the Office of wv.
B. Stokes, Attorney at Law"
A SINGULAR CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF
BASE.
was considerably amused between AL
exandria and Smithville, at the reason
given by perhaps not over-intelligent
tiller of the soil for his detection from the
Democratic ranks, and espousal of Repub-
lican principles. Said L:
My friend, what is the political senti-
ments of this section of De Kalb ?"
Farmer" Well, stranger, you see can't
say for nobody but myself / usen to be
Dimocrat, and 1 were for the war, but
sence our last Legislator have passed them
are school laws, a taxin' of the people to
death, / am agin 'em, and have jned the
Radicals. When L were boy, you didn't
hear nothin' about no free schools; every
body that wanted eddication, had to pay
for it."
Cor You should go up North, and see
the splendid buildings devoted to the cause
of education, some of the free school houses
costing from SIS 900 to $40 600. We don't
know what taxation is down here. The
taxes, both on polls and realty, are much
higher there; splendid system of free
schools is maintained the people are intel
ligent, and there are no children growing
up to become Ignorant paupers and Grim
mails"
A system of popular education being
one of the main principles for which the
Republican party of Tennessee has con-
tended ever since the war, and finally sue
ceeded in forcing Democratic Legislature
to provide it struck me that his reasoning
was not as cogent as it might have been,
but he protested himself as determined to
stand by the Republicans until they COM
mitted some overt act which would drive
him from their fellowship.
THE SPARTA INDEX
Is the name of 5-week's old bantling,
born of the crash that hurried the Tribune
to an uutimely grave, and is edited by Mr..
Jos. NJ. Carnes, one of the stockholders of
the Rural Sun, and recently OF its editorial
staff. Mr.. Carnes was formerly a resident
of Knoxville, an eX-Campbellite min
lister and a Jefferson Davis DEM
ocrat. He is apparently very clever gen
tleman, and impresses one favorably in
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eddy ultra. He seems to be assured of the
financial success of the Sun, las who
wouldn't be who was cognizant of the
Treasury manipulations exposed by the
CHRoNICLE?) and thinks it would be q
good idea if everybody in the State would
take it, and l am afraid that if he had the
power he would not hesitate to adopt the
plan of the Tycoon for running up sub
scriptiOn list.
The fruit between here and Nashville is
non est, there being positively none-all
killed by frost.
IMPROVEMENTS.
In crossing Cumberland mountain and
Waldon's Ridge the great change which has
taken place since the war in the aspect of
the farms along the route is most striking
Where were once barren hills and uncHlti.
waited fields in many places, now blossom
nurseries and vineyards, and the neat cot
tages-not log-and stove chimneys pro-
truding through the roof betoken the en-
ergetic, never-tiring, thrifty yankee"
who has come TO our glorious climate for
his health, and our many avenues for
wealth. In conversation with gentle
man, who lives on the top of Cumberland
Mountain, and has fine nursery and vine
yard, he informed me that when he first
came there he was so weak and emaciated
as scarcely to be able to walk hundred
yards up the mountain. Now, he chases
the deer ''over the hills and far away"
while the ruddy glow upon his cheek
attests the health giving power
of our mountain air. This gem
tleman was first attracted to our State by
truthful Facts About East Tennessee, -
appearing from week to week in that pa
per which has done more to build up the
south since the war and proved itself a
sincerer friend to Tennessee than any other
institution 10 my knowledge. OF course
/ allude to the Knoxville CHRONICLE
and in the above sentence but quote the
language of a far ADLER man than the writer
The Cumberland plateau is full OF
Northern settlers, and still there is room
for thousands more who would escape the
rigor of Northern winters and inhale the
pure, consumpuon-curing, health-giving
air of that favored region.
The small town af Crossvilie, the coun-
ty seat Of Cumberland, is improving slow.
1y but surely.
ALLEGED TRAGEDY.
Upon arriving at Kingston, day before
Yesterday / WAS SURPRISED TO read in the