The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-01-01
BLooNsBURG. WEDNESDAY JANUARY J. 1862

diameter, and thirty-,hree ieet five inches
! high ; and each OF the sides has also a por>
tlco six columns A tower rises above
the center OF the roof TO the hight of 206 feet
from the ground. II has quadranguar rus
ticated base, fory-two feet high surmofnted
by circular bell thirty seven feet high, and
twenty-six feet eight inches IN diameter,
! with eight huted Cornthan columns des.
! gnaIed from the choragic monument ot Ly-
sicrates, at Athens. The dimensions of
the whole building are I4s and 23s feet,
and II cost over a million of dollars 1t is
| approached by four avenues, which rise
/ from terrace 10 terrace, by broad marble
steps. The edifice is considered the hand.
soonest State Capitol in the Union. This is
the building in which the Secession Con.
gress VIII hold It's sessions. 1t was held
out by the ciizens of Nashville as one of
the principal inducements to remove the
capitol 10 their town. There are many 9TH
er fine public buildings-a court house, a
Peni'enIiary, theatre, hospital, university
State bank, etc. AT secession time The pc.
riodical press of the city comprised five
daily newspapers, eight weeklies, and eight
monthly publications. Several of these
papers have perished of late but in addi-
ton to them, the late Louisville Counter
(Secession] is now printed there The
Nashville press has long been the most re :
spectacle in Tennessee-notsd for modera-
ton and solid sense.
The commerce of Nashville has been
very large, and was carried .on by river,
rail and turnpike roads. great part
of :his is, of course, now destroy ed
though the fact that it has been made a
military and provision depot has prevented
its falling into as great a dilapidation as
some OF the other cities of the State The
average annual shipments are 80, 600 bales
OF cotton, 5000 hogsheads OF tobacco q
600, 900 bushels Indian corn, 10 900 casks
OF bacon, and $4,000 hogs The neighbor-
hood is famous stock raj sing country, and
has high reputation for blood horses, jack
asses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs and CASH
mere goats The Southern Methodist Book
tories in the United States, here carried on
its operations. Some years ago they got a
large number of printers from this and 9th
er Northern cities-mosI OF whom soon got
Disguised and returned, and the best left
before Secession times. The value of tax
able property is fhas been) about SIS. 00O,-
600 Seven miles from the city is the State
Lnnatic Asylum, where Davis, If be es-
capes the gallows may yet be glad to find
refuge under plea that secession was but
a irolic OF insanity. Twelve miles east
from the city, is the "Hermilsge,n the cell
ebra;ed residence OF Andrew jackson, which
viii constantly remind the Confederate Con-
gress of the fact that "The Union must and
shall be preserved"
A letter written from there says "The
blight of secession has arrested the progress
of Nashville. A walk over the business
portion OF the city, survey of the custom
less appearance Of the open and a count of
the closed stores on the public squares in
Market, Cherry, College, Union, and Broad
streets, aud OF the idle workshops and fac
tories on Water aud other streets, reveals
plainly the severity of the blow inflicted
upon the trade and industry Of The city by
the severance of The lies that cemented
Tennessee, politically and commercially,
with the North. Nashville will henceforth
keep pace with Memphis, Nalchez, Vicks-
burg, or New Orleans on the road 10 ineyi- /
liable ruin" Among The residents OF Nash
vile is John Bell, late Union candidate for I
he Presidency of these United States, who I!
wonid do well 10 read over 10 the Confed- /!
crate Congress some OF his speeches OF a
year ago. There was, until lately large
Union element in the city as in the sur
country, but most of it now ac-
4uiesce in the existing Status of political al
airs.