The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-06
From the South.

To the Editor of the ENTERPRISE
Last week we left Nashville for few
days and went to Tallahoma, where we
breathed mountain air, drank pure water
and feasted our eyes upon mountain seem
cry. The occasion of the visit was Sum-
day School mass meeting for the purpose
of organizing Sunday School Assembly
in the South similar to the one at Chau-
tauqua. People from Georgia, Alabama
and other parts of the country, were in at
tendance. There were fluent takers and
no lack of impromptu eloquence on the
subject A committee was appointed to
select permanent location for it, and to
make other necessary arrangements. Tai
lahoma, Lookout Mountain and Tallulu
Falls, Georgia, are among the places offer
ing inducements for the Assembly. Quite
a number were present who had visited
Chautauqua,-somew who had just returned
from there, and they were all enthusiastic
in their praise of its advantages. On ac-
count of its distance, however, but few
from this part of the country can go, hence
the effort to establish such gathering
which would be accessible to this people.
DR.. Vincent and other Northern workers
have promised cooperation and assistance.
The scenery along the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad is very interesting
Midway between Nashville and Talla-
homa, we pass through the historical town
of Murfreesboro, a place of three or
four thousand inhabitants. Just before
reaching IL, on tho northwest rFRe-cross
Stone River and the ground where the
battle was fought. Here and there are re-
mains of the eaEthworks, grass-grown and
quiet now. On an eminence just this side
of the town still stands large fort Upon
the site of the battlefield is National
cemetery, beautifully laid out and decora-
ted, where sleep thousands of fallen he
roes. We looked with interest upon these
places and felt deeply grateful that not on
ly the noise and smoke of the battle have
passed away, but that hatred and preju-
dice are disappearing as the shadows of
the night before the morning sun, and
christian workers are shaking hands
across the bloody chasm."
Here and there along the route were cot
ton fields just opening into bloom, fields
of waving grain, orchards bending with
luscious fruits, high hills thickly covered
with oak and cedar, quiet villages nesting
between, beautiful valleys and pretty
streams. As we neared Tallahoma, beyond
and above the hills are occasional glimp-
ses of the blue line of the Cumberland
mountains broken by jagged peaks and
heavy swells. A gentleman of the party
was so delighted that he felt inclined to
settle down and say:
Forever here my rest shall be-"
Tallahoma, which is becoming a favor
lite summer resort, is about seventy miles
southeast from Nashville, and fve-hun-
dred feet above it. 1t is noted for pure
air, healthfulness, the numerous springs
of freestone and mineral waters in its vi
cinity and the intelligence and hospitality
of its people. We took carriages and
drove out three miles to the Cascade,
beautiful waterfall of eighty feet. Our
first view was from above and as our eyes
fell upon it and the great chasm into which
il plunges we exclaimed in chorus: "Ohl
how beautiful" Our guide led us by
steep, narrow, circuitous pathway down
and down until we at last reached the
stream, where we were hemmed in on eth
er side by overhanging precipices of solid
rock eighty or ninety feet in height, out
from the crevices of which grow long
ferns, beautiful MOSES, and trailing vines
with delicate flowers. We picked our way
from stone to stone until we reached
large flat rock just below the falls. Our
enthusiastic friend threw up his hat with
a loud huzZa; others followed suit, max
ing the place echo and re-echo with their
shouts. The young men scaled the rocks
where foothold could be secured, to gath
er ferns and MOSES. Some of the more
ambitious ones wrote their names so high
that they could not be read or seen except
by those equally ventursome. Gathering
again upon the large fiat rock, before leav-
ing, with the music of falling waters for
accompaniment, we sang,
'sIn the sweet bye and bye,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore"
A. II. r.