Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-04-06


Our Memphis contemporaries. who recently, en-
the occasion Of the completion Of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, visited Huntsville, Ala, seem
to have fallen in love with the miniature city, Our
friend PRYoR Of the Eagle and Enqnirer, speaks o.
it in the following rspturous terms:-
As we have said before, We have no doubt that
Huntsville is the bandsomest, the completest, the
heathest looking little inland city that the world
can chow. It's business houses, though small, are
well builr-iis public buildings of the first order
its streets are well paved, and, at night, well
lighted lcii gas-aud nearly all OF is private rest
dehces are palaces With inmste> worthy of such nc
lie hom steals. No wonder Huntsville has pr due
ed so many poets, orators aud statesmen. With so
many advantages of wealth. position, scenery, and
climate, it seems fitted to be the very nursery of
such as are to win immortal names and bear a COM
handing part in the worlds great drama.
We hardly know how TO commence de cribing the
beauties and the 1ons" of Huntsville. Il is beau
tiful all over from the centre to the Circumference
from its magnificent CoURT HOUSE and be Iutilul
PUBLIC SQUARE out to the remotest suburts, i1clo-
ding PATroN's noble HILL which overioOks tie
town; the GREAT SPRING which gushps forth wi
rivers volume, from the living rock, but f "
rods from the Court House; III BAsCnM FEMALE
ISsTITUTE; the FEMALE SEMINARY. shoull lao have
been noted tue most classic building OF thu kind in
the South, - the THEATRE, the CEMErERY; the BANK
EDIFIcE, lone of the finest and most costly in the
Union) and in fact nearly all of its private resi-
dences, which are almost without exception sur
rounded with widernesses of shrubbery and flower
gardens of rarest beauty.
After admiring the town as whole, the first OBJ
ject that strikes the stranger is the huge FOUNTAIN
LIVING WATERS" before referred to pouring forth
its hundreds OF gallons every moment, and turning
a wheel which forces is waters upa pipe lead
ing to great reservoir Pattons Hill, from whence
unlimited supply of the purestlymph is furnished
to every part of the city and which may be used at
any time 10 pnt out any fre that may occur though
it re a hui d feet 10 the air.
Another beauty of Huntsville is the immense
number of shade trees and evergreens 10 which 1t IS
empowered These render it at once rural, South.
ern like, and pleasant to the eye The streets are
20 well paved, and the location of the city is so
favorable for off that it is always clean,
free from mud Tree from dust, dry nice and every
way comfortable to pedestrians IL was well said
by distinguished visitor from Memphis, (Gen.
Haskell, on beholding the beautiful flower gardens
OF Huntsville and all its many attractions, that the
breezes fingered among them reluctant to leave
their delightful perfume; and that when he died and
started to Heaven, where all, without di-tlnc-
ton OF conduct religion expect to go) he hoped
the Heavenly Father would lei him 20 by the way
of Huntsville aud lnger there for while and recall
the glorious memories of our visit" We endorse
these sentiments 10 toto cello, and here close our
remarks about HuntsvilA, with the disliIct under
stlndIng that if to write a whole week We
should be unable to do the subject justice.