Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-02-25
MEMPHIS. February. 1859.

MEMPHIS, February, 1859.
To the Editors of the Na&lUille Daily Patriot
GENTLEMEN - The undersigned came on
Immediately to this city from'St. Louis, but
did not remain here Long enough to write you
a single line, having shot through the place
and penetrated into the bowels of Mississippi
the same day, he landed from the Alvin
Adams the boat he employed to bring him
from Cairo.
BY the way, speaking of the Alvin Adams,
do you know ED HALLIDAY, the second in
command on that splendid steamer? OF
course you do, though; for to say that you do
no. know him would be simply to argue your
selves unknown. But if you are compelled
to go the argument anyhow, meet me at
Cairo one of these fine days, and I'll introduce
you. He is glorious fellow, and shall be
proud to bring you together. His boat the
Alvin Aadns, is said to be the fastest on
the Western waters, and wouldn't be surpris-
ed if she is. | know she is among the most
elegant and comfortable. Our old friend l..
A. Cooley tested her accommodations some
time ago, and was so well pleased with the
experiment that, when he went back to Phila-
delphia, he gave her, I'm told a notice
through the Lady's Book that lifted her,
with the heaviest freight and passenger trip
of the season. something over sixteen inches
out of the water. The Adams, still COM
mandcd by the popular Capt. LAMB, leaves
Louisville every Friday, at p. NJ, and
confers the same distinction upon this city
every Monday at the same hour, connecting
at Paducah and Smithland with the Cumber-
land and Tennessee river packets, at Cairo
with the Illinois Central Railroad and packets
for st. Louis, and at Louisville with the
Thursday Mornings mail boat for Cincinnati.
| Convenient isn't it?
Several years have elapsed since my last
visit to Memphis. Nevertheless, land also
| notwithstanding" am glad to find that my
| protracted absence has not, to any very con-
siderable extent, retarded the progress of the
| city. A number of magnificent buildings,
and many very elegant ones, have gone up
since was here; and the ring of the trowel
| and hammer is heard on every hand, singing
the song of prosperity and enterprise, and
foreshadowing glorious future for the Bluff
| City. Memphis is destined to become, at no
distant day, the rival of New Orleans and st.
Louis, if not of Mound City and CairO-the
pride and glory of the Western cOntincnt,-
of that part of it, at least, on which the former
stands and the latter swims.
But if Il number of boot-blacks should
happen to apply to you for an eligible place
for their business, for mercy's sake don't di-
rect them to Memphis. The people here don't
! black their boots particularly at this season
Of the year. 1t isn't any use. DAY & MAR
TIN are powcrless to shine upon the streets.
There is too much mud. 1 saw a hack aground
| in the middle of Main street, the other day,
with but two passengers aboard, and on the
very same spot, two or three months ago, the
gravel was eight inches deep. But that went
down when the wet weather set in, and the
mud came up.
went up to Court Square, yesterday,
through the mud and rain, to see the bust of
Gen. JACKSON, about which so much fuss was
made n few weeks since. | expected to see
n very large piece Of chiselling, but found
it IA rather small one. 1t isn't more than half
rs large as the rhetorical effort Mr. EWING
made over it, and am not sare that it is
pcrior as u work of art. Artistcally, how
ever. it does very wcll-at least have been
of red no pccuniary inducemcnt to find fault
with it in that respect; yet, considering the
position it occupies am inclined to think
that it looks too much rs if it had been
gOeSen mp in n country where marble is scarce.
But as deft't "sculp." myself, am not ex
actly the individual to criticise such things
| was quite mortifcd-not to say shocked
to see the old General, sawed of at the waist,
standing bare headed in the cold rain, with
scarcely any clOthcs-in fact, with no clothes,
To say clothes-abOut his aged shoulders
Having been raised within fifty or "a hundred
miles of the Hermitage-having been, rs it
were. neighbor of the old hero though our
families seldom borrowed of each other-I
felt really sorry for him, and went back after
dark with the disintcrcstedly benevolent in
tention Of taking him in out of the wet; but
"a gentleman who was passing at the time re-.
quc7ted me not to; aud as the language in
whichthe request was conveyed indicated, as
| thought, the speakers right in fee simple
To an undivided nine tenths of the entire
premises, with an uncommonly heavy mort
gage on the remainder, didn't do ii.
Finding that had exhausted the attractions
of General JACKSoN's bust, l 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 consd-
erations of respect, both for yourself and the
distinguished individual whose name l APP
propriate, now that he has no use Tor it him
self, BUSTEMENTO.
city Council.
THURSDAY EVENING, Feb. "a.
Report Of the Revenue Coll ctor. showing I,