The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-04

dren who are allowed to indulge thsir
natural disposition 10 sing have
stronger lungs and better general
health than those who are not.
We have received from the Chatta-
nooea Times a copy OF their special
edition setting forth the resources and
advantages OF Chattanooga, and the
inducements II offers for capital and
labor in manufacturing, mining and
commerce. 1t Is very handsomely
printed, is put up in q Japanesque
cover bearing the great seal Of Ten
nessee and q view of Chattanooga
from Lookout mountain. 1t is for
gratuitous circulation, and is one OF
the best evidences the Times has yet
furnished the public of the push and
energy that have made Chattan ooga
what il is, except the Daily Times it.
self, which cannot be surpassed for
enterprise and high integrity, as well
as editorial vigor and tone. We con-
giatulate the Times, but we especially
congratulate the ps ople of ChattaI o )ga
thai they are 80 adequately repre-
scented and so favorably presented 10
the general public Of the country.
THE Wilderness Road is the title OF
monograph published by the Filson
Club OF Louisville, Ky. IL is, ss we
learn from the COuria.Journdl, from
the pen q Thomas SPEED, who was
binder and publisher OF the papers OF
the old political club which o,cupy 30
conspicuous q place in Shsler's recent
Hi,tOry Of Kentucky. He is a descend.
ant in the third degree from couspicu
GUS pioneers who came from Virginia
through the Cumberland Gap TO Ken
lucky as early ~ 1852, and has heard
at the family Preside the traditions of
the early routes of immigration aOout
which his monograph is written. The
reader may possibly wonder at first
why the old wilderness road from Vir-
elnia to Kentucky through the Gum
beiland Gap should give name TO a
book on the ways by which the pio.
neers came TO this State when there
was the Ohio river, with whose current
immig,a lts might have tloated in their
craft from Pittsburg to any point
along a border of seven hundred miles.
When the book is read, however, this
wonder will pass away, for II will be
learned from its peges that far moe
pioneers "a Ie fom Pennsylvania and
Maryland and Virginia and the Caro-
linas along the traces through the
mountains than by the river. The
early immigra ats preferred to walk or
ride on rack-horses along the cheer.
less trace through the Cumberland
Gap to flo iting on the current Of the
beautiful Ohio; and for the simple
reason thst the mountain route. was
the safest and easiest traversed. A
pioneer might easily have foated
down the Ohio in his family bcai II
the Indians had not infested the river;
but when 1t came to going up stream
in hts rude ctaft he found it easier TO
20 over the mountain read. In one
instance which Mr.. Speed records a
whole church, under the lead OF Louis
Craig, their pastor, left Spottsylvania
county, Virginia, in 1881, and passed
over the wilderness road with
singing aud praying and preaching
until they reached their destination
on Gilbert's creek, In the wilds Ct
Kentucky. And there were instances
In which whole companies Ct soldiers
and large caravans of immigrants
came by this route in preference t.
the river, while the families and sin
gle individuals who made the same
choice are without number. That
the pioneers preferred the land to the
water in their routes to Kentucky is
clearly shown in this work. The book
is q most creditable specimen OF print
ing, and does credit even TO John p.
Morton & Co. of Lolisville, n firm
whose name rs printers has stood as
high as the highest for many years.
We commend this work to the atten-
ton of Tennesseans, and respectfully
snggstt thai similar monographs in
similar style should be prepared by its
members for the meetings OF the Ten
ness Historical Society.