Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-09
VOLUME XXXIU.
IMPROVED VIEW OF NASHVILLE
THROUGH RADICAL SPECTACLES-

! things here, and constantly exhibits so much
prejudice and 30 little intelligence and truth
in his epistles, that we have seldom felt cali
ed upon TO notice his statements The Ga
5ette has however, introduced TO its impair
tial readers another, who is a most decided
improvement. As a specimen number,
possessing something more than a mere local
interest, we append the first entire:
NASHVILLE, June Nashville is begin
ming TO throb with healthier and more
vigorous life. Mayor Brown is making the
streets all that could be desired. Cherry
street prides herself on specimen of the
Nicholson pavement, which delights every
one. The Board of Health is moving Wig
ouOusly upon the accumulated masses Of
filth. The air is becoming purer. The wire
bridge, destroyed in the madness of the hour
by the rebels, has been rebuilt on a better
plan, and at a more suitable place, thus re-
uniting to the city the delightful village Of
Edgefeld
The South Nashville Street Railroad has
been completed and is doing a handsome
business. Another line. from Cherry, on
Church, to Spruce, and out Spruce TO the
suburbs, will soon be constructed. A num-
ber of substantial business houses are going
up. Our market is well supplied; our
schools for white and colored are overflow
ing, and all our churches are thronged. The
truth is, we are a religious people, and it is
to be hoped that we will become a moral
people.
The city swarms with spectators in oil
lands, and mineral lands and cotton lands.
A very powerful Immigration Society,""
with proposed capital Of l,000 000 has
been organized, at the head of which stands
that noble old Roman, Gen. Geo. II. Thorn
as, glorious in war, as he is wise, Just and en-
terprising in peace. A very important rail
road enterprise-an enterprise of national
importance-has been inaugurated under
the most flattering auspices. The fact is, we
have our thoughts full of business-we must
get rich, and it don't matter farthing just
now whether we are represented in Congress
or not.
THE NORTHERN ELEMENT.
The new Northern element in this city is
respectSle and influential. To say that it
is prescribed and despised is childish non
sense Many of our first class merchants,
bankers, oil men, railroad men, lawyers and
physicians are "new comers" from the North
some Of them men of superior energy and
business capacity. What Stiffness to talk
about putting such men Under the social ban
of excluding from society, for instance,
the hero Of Nashville! Shallow spinsters
who failed TO capture Federal officers brain
less fOps, who run their faces at the Saloons
and skulking sneaks and towards, who made
money out of both sides during the conflict
and fought on neither, may talk such non
sense, but ii is not true. Every man will
gain his level here, AS in every other Ameri-
can city. Nashville must become large
rich, liberal city.
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The newspapers Of Nashville are, on the
whole, more liberal and Just than those of
anv other city i'm the South 1t is true that,
with two exceptions, they are controlled by
men who have good rebel record; but,
with one or two exceptions, they breathe a
tolerant spirit, and seem to have accepted
the situation in good faith. OF course a
man will find something Objectionable in al
most every issue, but speak of their general
t0ac.
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.
This measure is at present IN Stdtu quo,
owing TO the opposition Of the Senate to two
of Gov. Brownlow's nominations. The Sen
old citizens of Tennessee, Just as though a
man who came here five years ago, fought |
through the war, and buried in the soil many
Of his dearest friends, is not just as good a
as any other man, and especially |
rs those choice specimens of natives who |
never ventured in gunshot of a rebel during
the whole contest. But our police system is
very well managed by Mayor Brown, and
~, c,ot ~, ,,,r,- yvoll ora until tho
Legislature meets again.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
Passing along College street, opposite the
market house, one sees in large letters be-
side door, Anderson, johnson & Smith,
Real Estate Agents" &c. On inquiry you
find that these three men, who are now alb |
sOrbed in maps and charts of additions TO |
Nashville" town lots and farms, which they !
offer at astonishingly low prices to Yankees,
negroes or "any other man. |
were Major Generals in the Confederate |
army. They are very quiet gentlemen, and |
are doing their best to promote their own |
well being and the prosperity of the city. |
Immediately over the rooms occupied by |
these distinguished spectators in town lots,
Mr.. John Ruhm, late lieutenant in a col |
ordered regiment, is publishing the "IeHnes-
sec Stats /eitung," an intensely Radical |
sheet. A singular association, truly. "Be- |
hold how good and how pleasant it is for |
brethren TO dwell together in unity" We |
are one nation, thank God, and must become
ONO, MASSACHUSETTS AND TENNESSEE.
In talking about Northern men and South
an men, and their respective merits and
lemerits, | have often thought of some sin
gular facts in this city. Let me note a few
Df them.
Go with me to the terminus of the South
Nashville and Atlanta Railroad. Two fine
Old country seats present themscles to view.
The first is occupied by New England
LAWYER, an intense hater of the Radicals,
and warm sympathizer with everything
ultra Southern. The other is the house of
Senator Trimble, a Tennessean, first-class
awver. and the leader of the Radical party
in the Senate He joins hands with Chase
md Sumner, and has stood against the rebel
ion from first TO last like n wall of adamant.
Thousands of your soldier readers are
amiliar with the Elliott Academy" near
he Chattanooga depot. Elliott the mana
ycr of the school, threw the whole weight of
lis influence into the rebellion and was
rom first to last most bitter and intOlerant
,ehel. But the good Buckeye State must he
,harged with Elliott. He was schooled in
hat Paradise Of Democracy, Butler county.
Nou have heard many times of Rev. DIR.
Armageddon Baldwin, the eloquent pastor
# McKcndree Chapel, who, in a lecture
ome months since, exhorted the Methodist
Widows and girls not to waste the sweet
less of their affections upon the Yankees,
md thus detcriorate their high-born, chiv-
llrous blood. This was very fine, but DIR.
Baldwin did not tell the pretty girls Of Nc
Ncndree that he first breathed the vital air
"a the quiet village ofWoTthington, Ohio.
Our esteemed fellow townsmen, Hon. {.
\. Ordwav, one Of the "bolters "a very
,stimable gentlemen, by the way, and one Of
he keenest business men in the State made
MS debut among us in the creditable charac-
er of a Massachusetts schoolmaster.
But why do ! mention these facts? Is IT
o disparage these men? BY no means. 1t
; TO let vour readers see that men have gone
II the wrong way, not SO much because they
we're Northern or Southern, but because they
we're trained up in bad school Of politics
col. JOHN o'NEILL.
Col" or Gen" O'Neill, the Fenian
eader who made the first dash at JOHNNY
Bull in Canada, was Captain in the 18th
!. 5. c. l. during part OF the war, and
las since been a Claim Agent IN tins city