Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-03
FRANKLIN.
Business and Crops Revival Of Re
iigion---A visit 90 the Confederate
Cemetery. etc.


ligion---A visit 60 the Confederate
Cemetery, etc.
Correspondence of the Union and Dispatch.
FRANKLIN, May l, 1868. Franklin. ar
Is the case with most inland towns at thu
season Of the year, in commercial point
OF view, is exceedingly dull. The farmers
throughout the county are busily engaged
in planting their crops, which, for the
greater part, embrace the cereals. Not
withstanding the recent advance in cotton,
they are paying but little attention TO ia
culture. No branches Of business save
those of dry goods and millinery, are doing
anything in trade.
A party Of plain, onest-faced, German
emigrants, from Starke county, Ohio,
passed through here yesterday morning, on
their way to Marry county, where they in
tend locating, a tract Of land having been
donated them.
/ For the past two weeks lively protracted
meeting has been in progress at the Christ
ian cAurch in this city, under the guidance
Of Rev. Joseph f. Brown. assisted by Rev.
Mr.. Miles, of Clarksville, resulting in
the accession Of fourteen members to the
church.
A grand Sunday School celebration
and reunion of the Southern Meth
odist Sabbath Schools is contempla-
ted at this place on May Both.
Colonel John McGavock, of this county,
has rendered for their use his beautiful
park one and a half miles south Of Frank
lin. The various schools of Nashville.
Brentwood, Franklin, Spring Hill, and
Columbia, are to be present Burke Bond,
Esq Of this city, has been chosen to de-
liver the address Of welcome
BY invitation paid a hurried visit to
the Confederate Cemetery, situated on
beautiful grassy hillock, ten miles south of
here, on the Lewisburg pike, within sight of
the meandering Harpeth, and immediate
~ adjoining the country seat of that proto-
type Of Southern gentleman, Col. John
McGavock, for whose generosity hundreds
OF desolate Dixie homes" will ever be
grateful. The Cemetery, which ia now
completed, ID an enclosure Of about two
acres of an oblong shape, guarded by an
iron fence Of tasteful pattern. with two
gates for pedestrians leading out at the
eastern aud western extremities, the money
for the erection Of which was obtained in
Texas through the praiseworlhy efforts of
Miss NJ. A. II. Gay, of Macon, Ga. The
cost OF re-lnterring, etc, was paid by sub
scrlptlOn. A complete register is kept Of
everybody inferred, with company, regi-
ment, etc, as near "a asceTtained. There
were 1881 bodies inferred, few of whom
have recently been removed Every South
ern State, save Maryland and Virginia, is
represented. Mississippi has the largest
humber, 424-and North Carolina the
smallest, 2 There are l25 marked Gun
known" The graves are arranged in two
columns Of platoons, each containing fifteen,
with a space Of twelve feet between the
platOons, and with their snow-white head
boards rising above the waving blades
OF grass remind one of a grand army
passing in review. Evergreens are
planted at the ends Of each platoon.
turned to the grave of a boy soldier, from
Texas, but had hardly done So when the
most heart-rending cry that ever greeted
my ears came from the direction in which
| saw buggy stop | hurried 10 the spot
and there found an elderly lady with a
beautiful young girl, kneelng by the grave
Of an Alabama soldier. They had come,
they said, all the way from their home
without any protector, 10 see this grave of
their soldier darling, and wonderful to
relate, the first grave they caught sight of
was his. They were mother and betrothed,
who for long months after his death sup
posed him living. Oh how my heart
sympathized with them as they told me of
their sutierings.
Hon. Edward CarsWell, the celebrated
Canadian temperance orator, addressed
large aud intelligent audience of ladies and
gentlemen at the Methodist Church in this
place last night. His speech was well re-
celyed, and promises 10 result in much
good for the order.
J.. l.. Hardeman, the GAINESVILLE burglar,
mentioned in the Union AND DISPATCH of
this morning as running of from Clarks-
vile and leaving his friend in the lurch,
il seems has turned horse-thief also. Taking
a circuitous route around FrankliQ, he
stopped Saturday night at the house of Mr..
John +. ThWeatt, about three miles west of
town, aud appropriated horse the proper
~ Of Courtney a. BostiCk, hired by John
Whits, of Franklin, and a saddle and
blind-bridle Of Mr.. Thweatt, cutting off
the blinds. Thus mounted and equipped,
be put spurs for the west, disposing of the
horse somewhere unknown. On his return,
he was questioned as TO where he had been,
and told a rather mixed story of business
with a man who, am informed, has been
dead two years His wife did not go off
with him as reported, positively refusing to
accompany him, and he put out for parts
unknown, w himself
SAL MAY GUEDY,