Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-04-25

NJ. HAIsTEAD, Esq, of the Cincinnati C6a-
snerciai, whilst on his way to Charleston,
wrote a letter home from Atlanta, from
which we make the following extract:
The country near Nashville is very fine,
but we presently enter upon mountainous
region-we passed through one tunnel twenty
three hundred ieet long. hewn and blastd
through the solid rock. We crossed the Ten
nessee river on lofty bridge, looking down
upon the blue waters of that splendid stream
from dizzy height, that commanded a view
of its glittering meanderiBgs and of the
bold mountains amid which il wanders. The
Cumberland mountains of East Tennessee
are exceedingly picturesque. Imagine
dozen of our Ohio hills of the highest grade
piled upon each other, and the whole cloth
ed with dark aud towering pines, with
blsached cliffs of granite standing out at
intervals in cas- elated shapes. and you have
the Cumberland ridges as it appears in Ten
nessee. Ii is much like the ZANE system OF
mountains in Virginia, but seems TO be some
" hat exaggerated, do not think even the
Cheat river scenery, which is the most Ia
nous on the Baltimore and Ohio road, IL
EQUAL 10 some that | observed to-day, aud
which will rt main among the pictures hung
forever on the walls ofmemoIy- was some
what surprised, though | do not know that
ces ui prOdigiOus performances of engineer
ing skill aud downright labor in tue con-
struction OF the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad. And still much work is being
done upon it. and in few years IL will be
enc of the most famous in the land, and will
be Justly celebrated for lis business and the
bt auties of the country through which il
passts. When few rather PR carious tresile
works are superseded 10y more substantial
Hsr u f.sI IA aNOn n
hrud insecurity in passing over it. Al Chat
tanooga. there Is a railroad depot OF The first
class. 1t is superior to hat at Columbus or
Day ton, Ohio, and is certainly crediiable to
the town and road. We dined at Chattanoo-
ga, and the hotel was genuine Southern
insiituIion-large and low-with extensive
verandas, and arrangements made rather
with regard tc ventilation than ke, ping cut
the winds of winter. The county about this
place looks fourisbing. Chattanooga is sit
uat, d hear the point " here the boundary line
between AlnbanIa aud Georgia strikes the
line of Tennessee. The consequence is, soon
after we leave that town. ChaI lrston bound,
we find ourselves III the great State of GeOr
gia, which has been called, not inaptly, the
Ohio of The South. Ii is one IF our excellent
Governors ''sickiy shred of Gulf Staies.'
but could not observe any special sigus of
4 want of health.
The country bears every appearance of
being newly opened aud Of the prosperous
condition OF the enterprisiug planters. |
was reminded of the banks Of The Ohio BY
many whey ards-and / doubt not this will
be one Of The greatest grape countries I'D the
world Ii Is iOrluItUus circumstance that
the farmers have taken the grape fever.
They are located in the place Tor that dis
ease to make their fortunes. Some Extensive
tracts seem to have been hastily and iuade
qGately deadcned, the fields remaining tuil
ut deadCned and half burnt trees. For fifty
miles into Georgia the country is singularly
like central Ohio in its general outlines. the
Land Is higher and dryer. however, and per-
haps The land IL stronger, and where you find
beech trees ia Ohio you find the pine here
the pine the prince of uees-tall, graceful
and useful.
The management of these Southern rail-
roads Ii peculiar. and If l were not 50 much
interested in the country, would be very dis
trcssing o me. The roads are good and well
equipped. and do "a large business; and yet no
Que seems to be in hurry, to care 10 dis
patch business. In Indiana or Illinois, or
any of our North western States, they would
make thirty miles an hour, with such roads
and equipments as they have here, aud yet
we have hardly made fifteen miles hour
to-day. The locomotives down here are all
exec dingiy thirsty, and want wat ring every
lew miles, and they are long time about IL.
i should he sorry If the engineer whiskied as
often aud long. Tn generous stOppings are
made Tor meals. We had three quarters OF
an hour for dinner aIsChaltanOOga, and bali
an hour for supper, and the ''feedin'" is
very COED, there is no danger of starvation.
couple OF trains met at a StaiiOn--the
Train Vas on and another, and the conduc-
tors talked and laughed on The platform for
ten minutes, and the passengers looked ON
as if nothing was the matter This II mol SO
speedy, but is surely more pleasant way Of
travelling, than we have in the headloug
States of the North. 1t il just the way a
gentleman would like trdveI To see the
country and the people. | recommend this
route al this season To Northern travellers.
a. one OF the most and perhaps the most
charming. in the country. | have perfect
right to make this recon. meuda ton, having
paid full fare from Nashville. BY tue way.
the faic from Nashville to Charleston is
twrnty-one dollars. have not, by the way,
stopped at Nashville and at this pciul be-
cause L chose To- do so. could not help il.
The Train r. ached Nashville last evening.
aud IheIe was nu Train out until this mUrn-
ing. 1t reached this point this evening, aud
there is no IraIu going toward Charleston un-
III nine o'clock tomorrow oning. Every
body SEEMS 10 think This The very way TO
travel, aud as l have time enough, So il is.