The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-05-13
DOTS BY THE WAY.
CHATTANOOGA, April 30th, 1874.

JItiitOr IlOOeUuc TrcSS ana D0iuteF.
a few dots by the way' in my jour
neying may not be unintercsting.
left home on the 9th inst. and took the
train for Seneca City on the dir Linz
Road. Why tack on city to the name
of very small village, and why call tho
crookedest road in the State "Air Line,
has never been explained. Seneca may
become city after the Blue Ridge Roac
and the Greenwood aud Augusta Roac
are built; but the Air Line will alway:
be crooked. The Greenville train rai
off at Anderson, and badly broke up the
Cd passenger car; but we thought of the
old saw q "bad bcginning,' &C., took
courage and went on in the baggage
car. The Erenvillc road deserves credit
for not often hurting any bedy when its
trains run off; but IS very unfortunate
in the destruction Of its property
We stopped six hours at Toceoa Clty-
another Air Line City, but quite a brisk
aittle place, with six or eight stores, and
two hotels, all built since last August
The hotels and livery stables arc cXnect-
INCA harvest from visitors to the ccle-
brated Toccoa Falls this summer. These
falls are two miles from the "city," and
the stable men are very anxious to &C.
commodate you to q ride out there for
$50. The Falls are very pretty-can
hardly call them grand. A beautiful
ssttealn of water leaps over preclpce OF
rock 81 feet perpend deuiar,, breaks INTO
snray before It reaches the bottom, and
.o nernetual shower Of mist Is falling for
some distance around. a tree has fallen
mt the TOP of the Falls, aua ,sbostt ten
feet of its projects over the precipre. i
was told that young lady, sixteen years
old, walked out to the end OF it, stopped
down, and stuck a cigar in 1t. "toWls
that for high" Mr.. Junior? Don't you
think she displayed more nerve Than
brains? Just along here the country Is
very rugged for a railroad. The tram
shoots into one hill, out and into anoth-
er in few steps, and no very comfor,a-
ale feeling ca,Res over the 1raFelef
when he looks out and sees the trees be-
dow him and thinks of Imperfect cul-
yerts and landslides IN rainy spell, on
- newly-built road. But we feel Ike
"praising the bridge that takes rs over
safely.n We made connection with the
Western and Atlantic road at Atlan';
and took the train for Chattanooga at
g3Op.m. Of course we did not see the
"Gate CITY," and nothing else but u cal
crowded with men. don't like ia
dies cars" unless have one along with
me. otherwise l may be shut out.
tried to sleep but did not make it out
until about , O'Clock, then knew moth
ing more until / awoke ia Chattanooga
early the next morning, and here bio
you adicu for the present. Z. .
NASHVILLE, April 80.
Editor AJJcrHc Press ord Banner:
! left you at Chattanooga, in sight OF
Look Out Mountain, a place rendered
historic in consequence OF the opera
tions of General Johnson's army during
the contest for libcrty-not the rebel
lion" as l too often hear it called. 1t is
"a wild and rugged country, ana mo
doubt the retreat was attended Win
fearful hardships, which are vividly re-
imembered by many Confederate sol
.dicr. The "masterly retreat, !" conduct
ed by Gen. Johnson to Atlanta, per-
.haps lead to his removal, which was
the opening Of the Gate" to defence
less country, when Hood started on his
wild goose chase; and this had more tc
do with the failure of the cause than the
nerlcct to "seiZe the cotton" But lei
us come back to Chattanooga, Tor we
don't care to follow Hood or fly before
Sherman. The city is situated on the
South bank Of the Tennessee, ana Is
next to Atlanta in the busy hum of cn-
tcrDrise, and the arrival and departure
of trains. 1t has grown astoni'hingiy
in the last three Or four years, ana the
wooden houses on the main street have
uiyen place to massive brick stores,
three or four stories high, filled with
merchandise for sale, wholesale and re-
tail. The river was up boiling with
madness, and rushing Oh impatient tt
enter the great ocean 50 Weare hurry
ing on too impatiently to the ocean o
eternity. Just after leaving the city INC
cars,wind around the base of Look Ou'
Mountain, walled in on one side ny Tow
,ering cliffs Of granite, and on the other
the river runs along, sometimes wltilir
ten feet of the track. If the Greenvllle
. track was along here l would prefer L
walk awhile. At Stevenson we got :;
fine break fast, and thence we went or
our way rejoicing. tputthcpccachers
who were on their way attend tlcHen
,eral Conference at Louisville, ina goot
,hiunor, and many anecdotes. were tod
and thrusts, and ,counter-thrusts made
One objected to the temperance move
mentas going too far, and tending L
Substitutes the church, and said to hi
opponents, who by the way, had tn
numbers on him, that "you bold vi
YOUR hands in holy horror if brothe
takes a glass of brandy for the ache
but q thousand christians hire them
selves to shoot down their brother Chris
tians it's all right that "people some
times leaned over little to appea
erect" Another illustrated by an anec
,iote as follows: that party went ou
deer hunting, but there We're not enough
horses for all and one had to take {
mule. .Supposing that the mule wout'
lump when he fired, he leaned over u
prepare. for it, but w,beE lie fired tn
mule stood stock still and oHcr he went
There is some fine country betWeel
Chattanooga aud Nashville, cspeciaii.
about tMurfreesborough Here the con
tending armies of the North and Sout'
faced each other for long time, an!
evidences are yet to lie seen in the cart
forts and breast-works and the numel
,ous little head-boards that mark the ap
parently neglected graves Of the unfor
,tunatc soldiers who fell here.
Arrived at Nashvillc-the last twcnt
miles in twenty-eight minutes. We pu
nm at the Maxwell Hotel we'll kcI
four dollar house, and spent a half da
in looking round. The corner stone {
the Vanderbilt University was laid tn
day before our arrival, on when occ;
sion addresses were made ny blsho[
McTyeire and Wightnian ana Governe
Brown. This isa Methodist inslitutlo
founded by the munificent llDGfallty
Il .tan- l.a.t