Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-13
~ The Nashville Patriot hoe Q r.

%D AHo NasHNhle Iatflot has a cores. pondent who IS perfect Doesticks. He writes from Memphis as follows:
 Several years have elapsed since mv last visit to Memphis. Nevertheless (and also notwithstanding,') I am glad to find that my protracted absence has not. to any very considerable extent, retarded the pro- gress of the city. A number of magni6- cent buildings, and many very elegant ones' have gone up since 1 was here: and the ring ot the trowel and hammer is heard on every hand, singing the song of pros- perity and enterprise, and foreshadowing a giorlous future for the Bluff City. Mem pms IS destined to become, at no distant day, the rival of New Orleans and Saint Lotus, if not of Mound City and Cairo the pride and glory of the western conti- nent-of that part of 1t, at least, on which the former stands and the latter swims. but Ii a number of boot blacks should happen to apply to you for an eligible | place for their business, for mercy's sake don't direct them to Memphis. The peo- | pie here don't black their boots. particular ly at thls season of the year. It isn't any use Day & Martin are powerless to shine upon the streets. There is too much mud. saw hack aground in the middle of Nam street, the other day, but with two pas sengers aboard, and on the very same spot, two or three months ago, the gravel was elght inches deep. But that went down when the wet weather set in. and the mud came up.
 l went up to Court Square yesterday, through the mud and rain, to see the bust of Gen. Jackson, about which so much 1uss was made few weeks since. l ex- pected to see very large piece of chisel- ing, but l found 1t rather small one It isn't more than half as large as the rhet- orical effort MT. Ewing made over it, and am not sure that 1t is superior as work of art. Artlstically, however, it does very well-at least l have been offered no pecu- mary lnducement to find fault with 1t in that respect; yet, considering the position It occupies, am inclined to think that 1t looks too much as if it had been gotten up Tn country where marble is scarce But as don't scul p myself, I am not exact 1 - '"o 'hNti' iNtuai tO CIIJlclSe Sucn things. l was quite mortifed-not to say shocked ito see the General, sawed off at the waist, standing bare headed in the cold rain with scarcely any clothes-in fact with TO clothes, to say clothes-about his aged shoulders. Having been raised within fif- ty or hundred miles of the Hermitage having been, as, 1t were, neighbor of the old hero-thoush our families seldom bor- rowed of each other-I felt really sorry for him, and went back after dark with the dlsinterestedly benevolent intention of talk Ing hlm Tn out of the wet; but a gentleman who was passing at the time requested me not to; and as the language in which the request was conveyed indicated, as 1 thought, the speakers right in fee simple to an individual nine -tenths of the entire premises, with an uncommonly heavy mort gage on the remainder, didn't do it.
 Finding that had exhausted the attrac- tlons of General Jackson's bust, 1 went down town and got on one of my own.
 In view of which fact, suffer me to sub scribe myself, with the most elevated con alterations of respect, both for yourself and the distinguished individual whose name appropriate, now that he has no use for it himself, BUSTEMENTO.