Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-03-05
WHOLE NO. 237O.
Nashville. Tennessee.

As Gen. Mitchell IS reported marching
on Nashville with large army, the fol-
lowing sketch of it may not be uninter-
esting to our readers:
Nashville is situated on the left or the
west bank of the Cumberland river, some
2OO miles by the course of the stream from
its mouth; $50 miles northeast of Mem
phis; 266 miles southwest of Lexington,
IN Kentucky, and 6S4 miles from Wash
ington City. Many Of the private resi-
dences are erected on a scale of pala-
tial magnitude and splendor, and the
public buildings exhibit a 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
reservation of four acres for public build
ings. The boundaries have since been en-
larged.
The new capitol, which stands on
commanding eminenee, one hundred and
seventy-five feet above the river, is one
OF the most noble, magnificent and costly
structures in America. The material is
line limestone, which was quarred on the
spot, and nearly resembling marble. The
dimensions are 240 feet by 185, and the
estimate cost 81 ,000,0 coo. 1t is built, as it
IS stated, entirely Of stone and iron, with
out any wood about it, except the plank
on which the copper roofing IS fastened;
the floor and inner walls are Of crossed
stone. A lunatic asylum ON larger scale
has recently been erected in the vicinity.
The State Penitentiary at this place is
3l3 feet by so containing 200 cells. The
University of Nashville was founded in
1906. The Medical College connected
with the University was opened in 1851
it occupies a spacious building, and has
upward of $50 students There are also
number of female seminaries, the largest
of which is attended by more than 300
pupils.
There were fifteen newspapers publish
ed here, six of them daily. Nashville
contains three banks, with total capital
of s., lS2, 500, and fifteen churches, repre-
senting the various religious denomIn-
tions The mineral cabinet of the late DR.,
Troost contains the largest private eollec-
ton in :he United States. The city is
lighted with gas. The Cumberland river
is crossed by a magnificent wire suspen..
sion bridge built at a cost of 500, ,000.-
Water is supplied by being raised from the
Cumberland river. Six railroads now
center at Nashville, affording communi-
cation with many desired points. 1t is
the terminus of the Nashville and Chat
tanooga railroad, $50 miles long, which
was finished in 1851, at an expense of
about g, coo 900.
The road IS built in very substantial
manuer, and completes the connection
with Charleston and Savannah. The COM
merce of Nashville is very extensive,
amounting annually to over FIVE thousand
tonnage, composed steamboats, navigat-
ing the Cumberland river, engaged in the
conveyance of passengers, and the traffic
Of goods and produce. Extensive munu-
featuring establishments are in successful
operation at this place, among which may
De mentioned the powder mill, the roll
ing mill, the Tennessee Iron Works, Just
below the city, on the Cumberland river,
which are as extensive. and equal in ca
paeity to any in the United States, and
boundaries and machine shops. The pop
ulation Of Nashville at present is about
$4,000.