Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-07
!. WASHINGTON.
Post Office Appropriation BIZ

The conference report on the post office
appropriation bill retained the clause in
serted by the Senate, excluding absolutely
from the mails all free matter after the 30th
of June, 1873. This, of course, cuts off all
i free newspaper exchanges. and all free
mail delivery of country newspapers.
-se's From sole Virginny.''
Corresndence of the Chronicle
LyNCHBURG, Va, March 3, 1873.
T. Here we are in Lynchburg! We had
read Of her before-we had met her citizens
abroad and listened to their eulogies with
eagerness, but never had seen her before
to-day. She is greater than Rome for
Rome had only seven hills while Lynch
burg has about seventeen. At least we had
climbed up fourteen.before dinner and saw
three more ahead of us when the gong call
ed us to our feed. In fact it is so hilly that
| town lots are sold by cubic measure, to pre-
vent purchasers from encroaching upon
the cellar-room of neighbors on the oppo
site side of the hill. And we have been
told that dwellers in this cup and down"
town were reversible hooks upon their
| shoes to keep from a too rapid progression
in going down hill and too rapid retro
gression in going down hill. How true
this is we can't say, but if it isn't it ought
to be-
EN- ROUTE.
We had pleasant company in tue per-
sons of Col. ID. M. Nelson and Capt. Ham
bright;pw were going forward to Wash
ingtOn to witness the Inauguration cere-
monies tomorrow. After leaving Bristol
we passed successively Abingdon, the old
est town in Southwest Virginia, which
still preserves lingering air of its pristine
quantness. From the cars it appears to
have but one street, along which all its
stores and dwellings arc built. But i'm this
respect it is not singular, as most of our
country towns in this section grew gradu-
ally to their present size, 10y successive ad-
ditions along the sides of the public road.
They literally stretched themselves into
existence and now are not able to spread
out. A few miles above the imposing
building of Emory and Henry College
came into view, the main edifice crowning
all eminece which slopes gracefully to the
railroad. These buildings are substantial
brick structures, the grounds are well kept
and the school one of very successful an
tecedents and operations.
At Wytheville We were Overtakcn by
darkness and a miserable supper. For this
latter the passengers were "jerked" to the
tuneSOf seventy-five cents, and got in re-
turn very jerky meal-it appeared to
have been jerked straight from the pantry
to the table through slow fire without
change" Can't these "eating house"
frauds be suppressed? Is there no law to
protect the travelling public against these
hoaxes? They are the only things upon
the civilized globe out of which even q
Connecticut yankee can't get the worth of
his money.
OUR WINDING WAY r-
was soon resumed and over the fisll-bar
connected rail of the A. M. and 0. Road,
we flew toward "Lynchburg town."
which we reached on time at A. NJ.
Lynchburg appears to be live business
point. Its streets show an activity and
life to which Knoxville is stranger. Go
listlessness aud micawber-like passiveGess
of the people of Knoxville and
other communities is painfully evil |
dent. We have seen more COM
mercial activity upon these streets to-day
than was visible to us in three-days So
journ in your city last week. This is due
to the spryness of these folks in Virginia.
They are after trade, business, capital, and
are working hard for them. Instead of
ing for capital to import itself and develop
our resources, they are working up every |
one. of their attractions, interests and
ave 'ues to business, as an indictment to |
married men and productive labor. Now
let our people adopt the same policy and
two years from to-day their wealth, pros
perity and importance will bear the ratio
to its standpoint of the present of three to
one. Nothing is so true as that .'the gods
help those who help themselves" and
East Tennesseeaus have that lesson yet to
learn. 3G % eE-t II .sz4ssiI)
TOBACCO. ze2 - g.
Every thing here smells of "the weed"
While cologne is celebrated for it's compli-
Gated odors, Lynchburg may also claim |
notority for singleness of its smells. |
Large manufactures of tobacco are situat>
ed here, employing a large force of opera
tives and consuming enormous quantities
bile is tobacco to I,ynchburg. tits, in fact,
tthe trade" of the city. "Break days."
when accumulated consignpents are sold
off, are the liveliest of the week, and the
scenes at the warehouses resembles those |
witnessed in the Gold Board of New York |
or the Cotton Exchange of New Orleans |
OF course Lynchburg has other large |
operations, in the conduct of which she
realizes great wealth. Her trade in coun-
arms into East Tennessee, drawing thither
large consignments of wheat, grain, bacon
&c. iFes ~ t.|-: ~t
AN OLD VIRGINIA DARKEY.
While standing on the street-corner this
morning, seriously debating whether to
slide down Bridge street in sitting
posture, or "back up at full length" an old
ailapidated relic of ante beHum days ac-
costed us with request for "a dime, young
master!n The strangeness of the epithet
attracted our attention to the old fellow,
andWe began to question him little. He
said he used to belong to "old Colonel B.
over ID BGtetourt rca aa ana frod, aaaI Ne
"What?n said we, "you don't mean to say
that you would like to be slave again ?"
"Dat's it, dat's it, young master. If my
ole master was alive dis darkey'd go righ
back to de ole place and die dar." He ex-
planned that his sons, of which he had
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