The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-04-26
From Chattanooga.
Correspondence Of the Nashville Union.


CHATTANOOGA, April 81.
Perhaps no town in Tennessee,
Nashville not even excepted, has, dur
ing the last year. exhibited greater
signs OF healthy improvement, and a
more praiseworthy spirit of progressive
development than this fortress bound
city. remember my impressions of
the place when first visited it little
over year ago. The surroundings
were emphatically forlorn and crest
fallen, and the whole place strikingly
suggestive Of dreary desolation. neglect
and decay. Now, sll is changed. The
streets are macadamized, and kept in
the best possible condition. Business
Of every kind is in fourishing condi-
ton; neat and tasteful residences are
springing up, and meet you in
every direction; churches and
schools are crowded Sundays,
and week days young ladies in
the most expansive crinoline and the
very latest style of hats, promenade the
| principal thoroughfares and affect new
tangled, Partisan airs, while swsrms of
gay and festive young men, incipient
shoulder-straps, Quartermaster clerks
and fashionable dilL'Hand jostle and Jog
YOU at every corner.
Chattanooga supports a neat little
daily paper-the Gazette. In the all
sence of Hood-that gentleman is one
Of the big guns of the State Legislature
and will be going to Congress one of
these days-it lacks the Vigor and spiel
ness which his presence would be sure
to inspire, still it is readable and does
very well as a news medium.
There is 8 very large amount of i'm
ported reading matter sold here at the
far famed Vans News Depot Charles
Dickens in his american Notes" gives
lively description of the rush and
scramble usually seen in American no
tells at meal hours, but that is q small
matter compared to the rush made to
Vans for the Nashville UNoX as the
train comes in each morning. Speak
ing of Van, that gentleman may be con.
sidered as the very embodiment of the
progressive and enterprising spirit of tbs
town. The business that flows through
his hands is immense, for his energy
aud enterprise are not confined to one
branch of industry, but extends TO sew
eral, while his integrity and Union
loving sentiments are known and read
by al men. Almost every town has il
specially prominent man, of grand, pro
gressive ideas, and sweeping capacity
for going ahead in CREST business move
ments Chattanooga is not an excep
! ton, and its hero is emphsticslly Var
: the whole-souled Van
I'm sorry I cant be complimentsr.
(, Of every thing in the place There
an institution here known as Bishop
Varieties" Something in the burn
: cork and minstrel line Amusement
I sre very good when not abused an
converted into positive iudecency an,
BE- obscenity. This is why object 10 the il
stiution in question To pander 10
low and corrupt taste, the mana genler
allows representations on the stage thu
should not be tolerated in a ciyilize
. community. Its to be hoped that
reform will be effected, or otherwise
that the military authorities will tai
measures to abate the nuisance.
Taken in all its aspects, howeve
Chattanooga Is Aourishing and pr
< gressiye little city, and its future gres
a ness is already reflected in its prese
. advancing strides. CURsFR BElA