Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-10

BY REV. II. G. ATwATER.

To the Editors Of the Chronicle:
l have just returned from fourteen
days trip, on horseback-crossing and
recrossiDg, in various directious-the
mountains of East Tennessee and
North Carolina.
AS viewed them last summer, lift
ing their lightning scared SUBMITS
above the clouds, clothed with the
softest green, l said, "human eyes had
never seen ought more grand and
beautiful" But now, at the magic
touch of the Frost King, the magnifi-
cent forests, stretching away as far as
the eye can reach, are clothed with
gorgeous colors-such as no language
can describe. The rich, red and
brown, of the various kinds of oaks
is everywhere; while the bright yel>
low of the poplar, CLEANS along the
mountain sides, in the golden sunshine,
| like the banners of an army, marching
on to certain victory; the frs, pines
and balsams, near the mountain tops,
aud often down their sides, furnish
that fringe, or border of green, which
makes the picture complete. Sure
| ly, if all the rainbows that
have ever arched the heavens, since
Noah's time-had fallen, aud left Their
robes on these grand old mountains
| the colors could not be more beautiful
ly blended.
| In every mile of ascent, and descent,
in sunshine, and in the shade of every
passing cloud, new picture of beauty
was presented.
If the jewellers in the cities and viii
lagos of East Tennessee, knew wha
beauty God lavished on their noun
tains, in the autumn time, they woulC
leave their dwellings, and camp on the
Roam or Bald, or some other magniti
cent outlook, where the soul mightIbt
filed with "a beauty rare indeed, on
this sin cursed earth.
1t was pleasant to witness every
where among the people, tokens o
material prosperity. New mills, anC
dwelling houses are being erected
Fat cattle abound, children thronged
the highways to the public school
at the foot of the Iron Mountain, il
Mitchell county, North Carolina, un'
der the vigilant superintendence o.
Capt. Jenkins, we found General Will
der's new iron FORCES, nearly ready fol
operation. He Twill make green
backs" plenty, in a cove, where
hitherto they were hard to be obtained
They will bring out from the bowels o.
that mountain, wealth hidden there
by God himself, when He made the
world.
Mr.. ID. Jobe, an enterprising WOODEN
manufacturer, of Carter county, East
Tennessee, is erecting new WOODEN
mill on Reem's Creek, twelve miles
south of Asheville, and soon the
mountains will echo to the time of hi:
spindles, and click-clack of the flying
shuttle. So rapid will be the process
of manufacturing, that wool taken
from the sleeps back one week, may
be on the farmers back the next
Intelligent industry utilizing oul
magnificent water-power, with rum
and its twin curse, tobacco, banished
the magnificent mountain country
will bloom into an eden of beauty.
There is one speedy cure for hard
times, and sure road to specie pay
ment, viz:
Let every family earn more than
their daily expenses,
There never can be good times
where the drones outnumber the
working bees.
In this last tripI saw one of the foul
men who were struckwith lightning on
| Black Mountain, near where We were
engaged in worship, on Mitchell's
Peak. They were surviving to join oul
party, but the severity of the storm
hindered them. The shock was not
so severe as to deprive them of life.
Elizabethton, East Tennessee.