Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-08
the facts. one would say, Pittgburg
must look TO- her laurelsi but the ]
whole osu m no IL 80 ranidly sexpaynfI 4

must look to- hef laurelS; put the
whole country is So rapidly expand
ing that there are work and room
enough for all; and Pittsburg has the
prestige of age, capital, concentration
and energy to enable her to bid de- |
fance-or rather to aid in generous |
emulation-her possible future rivals, |
In fact, there is new city founded,
on the Tennessee, some seventy
five miles below this point, which re
ioices in the name of South Pitts |
burg, and which, looks, to develop |
ments Of the Goals and irons in the
surrounding hills for future growth
and prosperity. The W II
TENNESSEE RIVER APPROPRIATION
for the present year is 100000; and
it is reckoned that for the total cost
of $2,5OO,OOO, the largest portion of
which has been expended for complet
ed work, the natural obstructionss at
the Muscle shoals will have been re-
moved, and good navigation constan
thy secured. '
CHATTAAOOdA,
I'M an important sense, has been cfeats
ed since the writer fifteen years ago,
soiourned at her sole miserable no.
tel. He rise and progress are mainly
due to several of q the gentle
men who were with me at the
time, ~ho,were brought.to East Ten
nesseetby the Contingencies of the
southern war, who foresaw the capac-
tiles of the direct, who fixed upon
salient points and have developed
them to their own enolument, but
more emphatically to that of the
country Of these the names eof
Wilder, Rathburn, Chamberlain,
Evans, Montague, Rees, Winchester,
etc, should be yconspicuousiy men
toned. All of these men are active
" engaged as manufacturers, miners,
bankers, etc, in building up the per
manent interests of east Tennessee.
The operations and representations
have attracted to this region large
sums of foreign capital, which has
fructifed the germs of development
and prospe-ity in this glorious valley
to aAdegree at once surprising and
gratifying: English capital has also
been planted on the Cumberland
| plateau, in securing extensive boun-
daries of timber pasture lands IN a
mild and equable climate in that mon
: tame region, and soon large .popu
t lation from the distressed communi
, ties of the mother corntry Will OF
, attracted to these new sense, 80 7
5 THE LAST CENSUS
showed Chattanooga to cantain .13s
600 souls-about the size of Ports
, mouth in our own state which / say
in 1854 with less than 500 people
In manufactures, this new city ha
exceeded the other az the mouth 9
! Scioto, and that in one third the TIM
a To the push and skill of norther-
f men, which expelled from the height
$ of Lookous-now cleaning in tn
n bright sunlight as seen from tn
q chamber Window the promoters {
n treason and directed their forces t
# the material redemption Of the beat
4 tiiul land, must be accredited tn
# marvellous changes which my iow
n eyes have Witnessed. Over the Ell
# tire state, and the northern portion
D. OF Georgia and Alabama adjacent, 9
r. well as in southern Kentucky, I'll
: germs OF vigorous lie and enterpris
D. are animate, promising to futul
70 observers the existence of powerfr
m commuritics conserving all the int
= ests of Christian civilization, trar
le scending in compass and .endurant
1e any Of the erest.ons of past genere
/. tons. : [Ae. Ed.