Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-02
CLEVELAND, ONO, May q, 1875.

SiNS' 'ShfOl NANS'S'
CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 81, 1875.
On arising yesterday morning we
found ourselves in front Of a beautiful
park, with fountain of rustic struc-
ture.
Other fountains more expensive in
structure, and gorgeous in appearance
are in the park, but not so beautiful.
In the center of the park is a large
marble statue of Commodore Porter,
only short distance from which is a
piece of artillery captured in West Vir-
ginia, in 1861. Across the way from
this is another very large gun, which
would be placed among the relics of
the last century just by its appearance
| if there was no explanation given,
having been old and rusty, but now
cleaned and painted. On the side of
the carriage thefe'is this history given.
This gun taken from Fort Maiden,
Canada, and put on board Barclay s
fleet on Lake Erie, was captured by
Commodore Perry, Sept. 10th, 1873
presented to the Western Reserve His
torical Society by Messrs. Moore, Foote
q Co., of Detroit, Michigan, 1873"
The great attraction to an East Ten
nessee mountaineer of course would be
to visit the Lake, so in company with
a gentleman from Indiana, we started
for that place. 1t was only a short
distance from the park, and soon blue
horizon as we thought appeared before
us, but we noticed large white spots
rapidly appearing and suddenly disap-
pearing. Coming nearer we met that
which, with us in East Tennessee
would be called third cousin to a
storm, but is only breeze here, and
the white spots were caused by great
| upheavals bursting and scattering on
| the surface of the water while angry
waves dashed madly against the land
| ings.
Cleveland is no village, being a city
of one hundred and fifty thousand in
| habitants, and place of exceeding
great beauty. About fifty members of
the General Assembly, your cores
pondent being in the number, have
their "homes" six miles from the
church where the sessions are being
held. "These "homes" are reached
by street cars and a dummy, so that
the distance seems much shorter.
A collation. was served yesterday by
the Presbyterian ladies of the city,
which was a grand affair-feeding the
entire General Assembly, consisting
perhaps of over six hundred persons
yet all were fed, and well fed, too.
East Tennessee boasts of her hospi.
tality, but Cleveland is equal to any
community.
The proceedings of the General AS.
sembly are moved on very slowly
since it is body so large that it is I'M
wieldy, and the question of how the
size can be reduced, has already been
brought up, two being to organize, one
being to fix the basis of representation
of Commissioners, so that it shall con.
sist of the pastors and missionaries in
active service under the Boards. The
other to give one minister and one
elder from each Presbytery.
Tomorrow morning the Committee
on Freedmen will report. w.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, May "a, rs
To the Editors Of the Chronicle;
The standing committee on Freed
men made their report to the Genera
Assembly last Saturday, the discussion
of which took up the morning session
Able and eloquent speeches were mad
by several learned men, and the AS
sembly was entertained some time b.
, colored minister from North Carolina
| who acquitted himself nobly. H
represents that in his field of labo
there is an interest awakening anon
) the former masters of slaves in th
! welfare of the souls of colored people
: that in one of his churches the Luther
, an Church sends teachers, who labo
! diligently and earnestly in the colore,
: Sabbath school His ideas are practi
t cal and common sense, while he give
a clear and true statement of the fee
4 ing between whites and blacks in tn
! South.
The other day, taking up dali
: paper, under the head of "Telt
t graphic one of the first things ths
: attracted our attention was line i
= large full-faced type Murders in Ter
: nessee % With a shudder we hui
/, riedly glanced down the columns an
r found sickening detail of the murde
a of little girl and boy at MoristowI
followed by another, almost as bad, {
f the murder of two men near Memphi
p While both statements may be trut
Q and we have seen nothing to the col
s trary, at this distance, they being i
t Tennessee, one naturally imagine
o them to be indications of state (