The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-28

inferior only to the Tennessee. Below
Nashville, the river is deep and narrow.
There are on the borders of the Cumber.
land nineteen furnaces, nine forges, and two
rolling mills, producing annually 44,5OO
tons of iron, valued at 81 ,673, 900.
THE CITY OF NASHVILLE
In short time, if our armies progress in
the West as energeticaly as they have done
of late, Nashville will become q place of
interest as connected with our movements
up the Cumberland. 1t is connected with
Bowling Green by railroad. Nashville is
situated on the left or west bank of the
Cumberland river, some two hundred miles
by the course of the stream from it's mouth:
$50 miles northeast of Memphis FOG miles
southwest of Lexington in Kentucky, and
ga miles from Washington city. Many of
the private residences are erected on a scale
of palatial magnitude and splendor, and the
public buildings exhibit corresponding
character. The suburbs abound with pic
turesque scenery, enriched with beautiful
groves of cedar. The city was originally
laid out in lots of one acre each, with re
servation of four acres for public buildings.
The boundaries have since been enlarged.
The new Capitol, which stands on com.
mandiDg eminence It's feet above the river,
is one of the most noble, magnificent, and
costly structures in America. The mate
rial is fine limestone, which was quarried on
the spot, and nearly resembles marble. The
dimensions are 240 feet by l85, and the es.
timated cost 81 100000. 1t is built, as is
stated, entirely OF stone and iron, without
any wood about it, except the plank on
which the copper roofing is fastened the
floor and inner walls are of dressed stone.
A Lunatic Asylum, on large scale, has
recently been erected in the vicinity The
State Penitentiary at this place is 3l3 feet
by SO, containing 200 cells The Univer-
sity of Nashville was founded in 1906.
The Medical College connected with the
University was opened in 1851 it occupies
spacious building, and has upwards of $50
students. There are also number of fe-
male semlnaries, the largest of which is at
tended by more than 300 pupils.
There were fifteen newspapers published
here, six of them daily. Nashville contains
three banks, with total capital of $5,lS2,
Duo, and fifteen churches, representing the
various religious denominations. The min
eral cabinet of the late DR.. Troost contains
the largest private collection in the United
States. The city is lighted with gas. The
Cumberland River is crossed by magni6.
cent wire suspension bridge, built at cost
of 100000. Water is supplied by being
raised from the Cumberland River. Six
railroads now centre at Nashville, affording
communication with many desired points.
1t is the terminus of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad, $50 miles long,
which was finished in 1852, at an expense
of about 100000. The road is built in
very substantial manner, and completes
the connection with Charleston and Savan,
nah. The commerce of Nashville is very
extensive, amounting annually to over 5000
tonnage, composed of steamboats, naviga.
ting the Cumberland river, engaged in the
conveyance of passengers and the traffic of
goods and produce. Extensive manufac-
turing establishments are in successful op
GRAFTON at this place, among which may be
mentioned the powder mill; the rolling mill;
the Tennessee Iron Works, just below the
city, on the Cumberland river, which are
as extensive as and equal in capacity to
any in the United States /; foundries and
machine shops. The population of Nash
vile at the present time is about $4,000.