Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-01-13
For the Climhitle.
View Of ClarksviIle in 1880.

We hear much said, publicly md privately, Of
the rapid and Unprecedented prosperity OF the City
OF GAINESVILLE, even the muse has lately broken
forth in the following poetic strain
sour working men, the bone and pith
OF all our wealth and power,
Are getting rich and happy with
Each passing day and hour.
And now amidst the prcsp rous state
OF all conditions in our town,
All should be happy small and great
And neer a face should wear n frown.'
We do not doubt the sincerity and honesty Of
purpose Of those who give vent 10 such opinions.
We believe that our town Is improving more rapid
" than heretofore. But il is a sad mistake as to
the prosperity Of the Mechanical interest here and
believe that our position can be supported BY the
most tangible evidence.
| GAINESVILLE is now IS years DID, and boasts Of a
population Of 5000 inhabitants. II is true for tho
first 45 or 80 years she in chrysalis state the
business and population having almost all sprung
up of late years The question now arisesl ought
not GAINESVILLE TO have been three times as large as
IL now isl In answer, we shall state what II is
which makes large cities and towns.
First A good location, with good agricultural
country to support it. Manufactures and mechani-
cal workshops of every description 80 far rs prac-
ticable (and they patronzed upon principle COM
merce law, physic, &c, &C., constituting one great
whole. And lastly, an enterprsing and generous
public. IL is the manufacturing and mechanical in
terest which has made Cincinnati within one gen.
Grafton 1.-THE Queen City Of the West"
| Let us now examine the position Of GAINESVILLE.
She contains at this day "a stores of all descriptions
large or small at which are kept on sale everything
''from a needle to an anchor and all of Northern
manufacture Flows, rat-traps wheel-barrows and
goose-yokes. Tools from cross-cut saw to an
axe Manufacturing, from a hat to pair of slip
pers,-vehices, from the gorgeous Coach, TO a dirt
cart.
| Again, from want of State pride beguiled by
the delusve word 'cheap" which is the Syren voice
of the stranger the public mind yearns after every
thing of Northern manufacture, totally Indifferent
as to whether the article has been made or out of
notwithstanding, and anxious to buy nut
megs whether they be of natural growth, or turned
out ofdogwood so that the Sine qua non is attained,
the word Cheap. Thus it is, that the Yankee ped
dler is encouraged nay, invited to come among us,
with cargo of goods and wares Of all descriptions,
made expressly to sell for what they will fetch at
auction or otherwise, and protected by the lGtrs Of
our oue State he tells it is of business,
and to hull the apprehension suspicion of those
who would appear to be incredulous he wdrrdnts or
guarantees everything to be just 1t is required to
be. Enough said he is accordingly received with
open arms; and yet many of these peddlers are in
imica aud unoyal to Southern institutions, unscru-
pulous in their dealings, (''the end justfying the
means" Stalk abroad amongst us raducing and
| Iyinq against our own feeble manufactures and
workmanship as a satisfactory recommendation OF
their own virtues. And yet under all these crcnm-
stances the mechanics of GAINESVILLE are informed
that they