Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-01
From the Memphis Bulletin.
Matters Thereto APP
pertaining.

thither was one purely of business. yet even
since we are again harnessed down in that
treadmill wherein the last three years have
been ground away in order that there may
come presently more clover-y hereafter, we
find sticking in our mind, here aud there, off
shoots of pleasant memory which nought else
will prune away save the clippings of the
scizzors editorial So to make an end of these
phantoms of the past, so alluring amid the
realities of the present, here goes for their
dislocation and burial in the columns of the
Bulletin.
And first, as to NASHVILLE herself Oc-
cupyng situation the most favorable for
the highest development of urban beauty,
the lapse of years has smGothed rather than
deepened the wrinkles upon her front. Like
another very Cleopatra. Time seems but to
have ripened into fuller and luxuriant
voluptuousness of outward exterior, the fair
promise of her earlier years:
cage cannot wither her, nor custom stale.
Her infinite variety"
Seated like queen among the growing cities
of the West, the genius of STRICKLAND has
crowned her with an Immortality of architec-
tural beauty to which worsbippers of pure
and perfect Art will resort in the after years,
as they now make pilgrimages to the
shrine of the old world wherein its votaries
expended their best talent thousands of years
ago. The CAPITOL of Tennessee is the chef-F
OettUre of modern times. In the soft grandeur
of its conception as a whole, and in the har-
mony of its proportions, it stands without
rival; and if the denizens of our older and
sister city had no other objects TO which they
could point the stranger, they might show to
him their State House with the full measure
of exultant pride.
Al.
may be proud. In every direction, the city
is envirOned with private residences of taste.
elegance and luxury, which set it off like the
ieweled girdle around the waist of a form
fashioned in voluptouOus beauty. Our own
Memphis is not devoid of these studdings to
her borders; but, beautiful as they are in their
quiet hospitality, and redolent with the bloom
so genial to our southern cline, we are bound
in candor to admit that. as yet, we have no
rival to the encourages OF Nashville, in the
substantial elegance and expensiveness of
suburban improvements.
Nor. in another respect, has our goodly
Capital failed to keep up aud advance her
ancient reputation. We mean. in being the
abode of feminine beauty, of a rare and ex-
quisite order. Although in the midst of the
dead season, when whole galaXies OF the bet
ter half of humanity were off to the various
summer retreats, and we were but drudging
impossible not to observe in our perambula-
tions, that the fair promenaders we encoun-
tered had inherited the transcendant LONELINESS
of person of the bewitching mothers Of the
present generation with whom we
event a-gipseying, some twenty years ago"
Nashville has glorious destiny, if her
people will but work it out. Her true mis-
sion is not so much that of a center of COM
merciai exchange, as seat of industrial pro-
ductiOn. There are hundreds of the lighter
and finer branches of manufacture that ought
to exist, and would prosperodsly flourish in
Nashville. All the elements of success
abundant and cheap food and accessibility to
the markets of the South, Southwest and
West, by the network of Railroads projected
and in process of cOnstruction-eXist there
and demand that Industrial Enterprise should
be brought 10 the aid of the attractions
already existing, of health society and means
of education, to swell her population, and in
crease her wealth. In the heavier articles of
manufacture, and in commerce based on
great and leading staples, Memphis possesses
advantages to which it would be idle for
our metropolis to aspire. But in other re-
gards-in the means of fostering that null
titudinous variety of pursuits which diffuses
employment and invites population-in the
attraction of wealth dispOsable either for
society, or for purposes of easy leisure while
experimenting education of the young-few
places in the Union present SO many advan-
tages as Nashville. We were glad to realize,
in the earnest interest awakened there in
behalf OF more direct and speedy Railroad
communication between the town ''high up
the creek" and the village sat the mouth of
Wolf" that the abused idea of antagonism of
interests between the two places, has become
obsolete in both. The expanding and eleva-
ting influences of Internal improvements
have made the interest of one the interest of
the other
In TO one thing is the recognition of this
truth more strikingly apparent. than in the
reform OF the Banking System about to be in-
augurated by the several old Banks whose
central control is at Nashville. The intel
ligent managers of those institutions see and
know that what is the Interest of Memphis, is
their interest; and hence the preparations in
progress for the full consummaton of that
change, of which our old friend, Maj. Penn,
has been the doughty pioneer That this
change has not been sudden as the popular
perception of its necessity has been earnest,
was hardly to be expected when we remember
how ramified are the interests to be adapted
TO it. 1t is enough that it is now sure, and
that we shall have its benefits during the
present season.
Long as this article is we cannot bring it
to a conclusion without returning our thanks
10 the sundry good fellows" to whose cour-
tesies we are indebted for one of the most
pleasant pictures which memory has stored
the moonlight view from the Capitol. The
party consisted of Il. T. S-Y, VIGOROUSLY
one of the most urbaDe and genial men be-
tween Carter and Shelby; J. ii. s., an
,S-Mayor of Nashville, and now good prac-
ticing lawyer Maj IN, distinguished
subaltern officer in the Mexican War, and
now an accomplished architect, IN. Bit
was not he that got up the barn of Court
House which disfgures the public square),-
"BoB" H-D, true-blue old-line wing
who never saw Sam" or bowed to the knee
to the Baal of Tammany; and l.. E-s, one
of those princely fellows who sell goods 10y
wholesale, and is both good-looking and gen
ial withal, as our cousins of Milesian blood
are apt to be. We-none of us