The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-04-28
NASHVILLE, April %, 1870.

"NoFtherners, and at least one hall
of the business men Of the city are
from the North.
Northern men, as I heard remark
ed, "run" the place. A Mr.. Rath-
borne, formerly of Pomeroy, Ohio, is
Mayor and President of National
Bank, Col. Stanly, of Athens, is Vice
President, and Theodore Stewart,
from the same place, is Teller of the
same Bank. Gen. Wilder, of Mount,
ed Infantry celebrity, "runs" the
Iron works at Rockport, and one of
the Rolling Mills in the city. The
buildings generally are not of the
most valuable character, but there
are many fine residences, and some
good brick business houses.
In my last letter intended speak
ing of the Ducktown Copper Works,
but feared my letter would be too
long. These Works are 40 miles
south of Cleveland, in Polk Co. 5000
people depend upon the Works for
support. In this connection l have a
fact which it may be difficult for some
to believe, nevertheless it is a fact.
From the ''IsabelIa Mine" at the
! Ducktown Works. flows a stream. the
water of which contains so much Cop
per, or some of the properties or parts
of Copper, that Iron thrown into it
ia changed to Copper. One gentle
man told me that he sold the Com
pany, yearly, thousands of pounds of
scrap Iron, which they put in this
water, and when it has gone through
the change of Iron to Copper, which
[ will not here attempt to describe, it
is worked over as the Ore is, and is
ready for market. As yet, all the
Copper from Ducktown is hauled
to Cleveland by OK teams, and is
worth from IS to 20 cents per pound
in New York or other Eastern mar
kets.
McMinnvilIe, in Warsaw Co., is the
.'livcst" town of its size-2.5OO popu-
lation-that have yet seen. North
'erners "run" it also.
At Manchester [ asked for Capt.
Charles Sheaf and was told that he
was still contesting the seat in Con-
gress to which there is no doubt he
was fairly elected. He will probably
be a candidate, and if so will be elect
ed, Attorney General for his Judicial
District at the August election.
ShelbyvilIe, q city OF $500 people,
is not very thrifty. No improve
ments of any consequence have been
made since the war. 1t is a Southern
town-strictly speaking, and has a
Southern population.
Rev. G. Policy, of NJ. E Church, a
very pleasant gentleman, is Presiding
Elder of this Dist. He is we'll known
in Highland county.
On one corner of the Public Square
is, as stated by the sign, "Registered |
DistiIlery No. l." On the next cor
ner is "The White Mans Bar" Il
should pity the negro who would be
low enough to go into such a place, as
from the pavement it seemed to be.
Just here I will say that 1 have not
yet seen the first drunken negro in
the State.
Murfreesboro looks rather dull, but
is in pretty good repair. In the
1 noticed much Cotton
being planted, and not much Corn,
which is now worth in Middle Ten
nessee from $1.1O to $1.25 per bushel.
In my next letter, if you deem these
worthy of publication, 1 may say
about Cotton growing, as
by that time expect to be in the Cot
ton-growing country.
An Emigrant Agent told me a few
days ago, that the Company to
which he belonged, had taken from
to Arkansas in about five
900 white and colored people.
The trains on the Va. & Tenn. and
Memphis roads last week, were crowd.
ed daily, with westward bound travel
ers.
Last Sunday it showed about half
Of the day as steadily as it ever did
sup North" in mid-winter; to-day it
IS quite warm.
AS "brevity is the soul of wit" per
maps it would be well to conclude; so
astly, let me say that, generally
speaking, there is not a more quiet.
industrious people in the
United States than those among whom
am travelling. They do not need
'reconstructing" any more than the
people Of Brushcreek or New Market
townships, who have also voted the
straight Democratic ticket.
The zeal of Tennessee politicians
md politics, has about eaten the peo-
Die up, and now they very wisely are
It work at more profitable wages than
,olitics pays.
Further deponent sayeth not. =
N. T.. AYRES.