Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-24
wANDERINGs ABOUT.
what L saw aud Heard I'm Giles,
Lawrence, Wayne and Perry. -

correspondence Of the Union and American.
On the wing chartered vehicle at Pu-
laski. the po-sheadative business capital of
Giles. and went west via Vale Mills Fac
tory, which / found doing driving bust
meas. with SIGNS of prosperity all around
il. The cotton crop on Richland hang in
wiling to the pickers, who improve the
GOOD weather in harvesting King Cotton.
In Lawrence about three hundred Ger
man families have purchased Land, and
have gone to work in good earnest and are
winning golden opinions from old citizens
for their industry, energy and steady hab-
its. I met at Lawrenceburg many friends
of the popular UNION AND AMERICAN,
among others, your agents, Messrs. Mat
thews and Davenport, two Of Tennessee's
most sterling young lawyers, who are des-
tined to make their mark Ia their profess
sion and on the politics Of the times.
Judge Nixon is making one Of the very
best Chancellors in the State, giving en-
tire satisfaction to all parties. He is thor
ouqhly posted, dispatches business and In
augurates system wherever he holds court.
J. N. Sowell, Esq, formerly Representa-
tive from that county, is residing in the
Orousen Fork region, conducting fine
farm and doing a great deal OF good
both by precept and example to the
people around him. Very few men, If
any, WELD q more extensive or salutary
influence than he in advancing all the ma
terial interests of his section. The various
factories of the county were never more
prosperous, and the population around
them are doing well also. The whole peo-
ple are doing well-the younger men
adapting themselves to the changed order
of things rather better than the older
ones. whose habits and feelings are more
fixed and unbending. The crops are fairly
above an average year; they are all more
or less on hand yet, holding up to get the
full profits of advance in prices. The
people of this county are, generally speak
ing, strongly attached to the UNION AND
AMERICAN and its consistent course. They
are anxious to take it at every Office if
mail facilities were better. By the way,
can you not stir up cousin Kisses and
get him to send "Terence" down here to
fix up our mail routes to suit us, as his
military matters are now settled?
Dropping through to Wayne, I found
the old Walker Iron Furnace, six miles
this side of Waynesboro in full blast, nine
months in the year, making twenty tons
of metal per day, being in fine condition,
with a growing population around.
In town l was delighted to meet your
old friend Mclean, the excellent Clerk and
Master of the Chancery Court; and the
efficient Circuit Clerk, Mr.. johnson, whose
praise is spoken by all. The town is not
improving as it should, but business is
fair. spent the eveningat the hospitabls
dwelling of your lifelong friend, Samuel
Burns, Esq, whose love of the UNION AND
AMERICAN is only surpassed by his devo-
ton to all that will advance the educational,
moral and material interests of his people
He is evidently a benefactor amsng his
people, who all pay him the highest honor
for his self-sacrifcing course. The peo-
pie are doing well, making fine crops on
their fine farms along those matchless
streams of beautiful water, except nearly
all their hogs are dying with cholera.
Linden, in Perry county, is giving many
evidences of Improvements IN building,
education and business generally. Here
met many friends, among whom mention
Col. Horace Rice, the Senator elect for that
district He is a gentleman of fine literary
and legal attainments, first-rate abilities,
enjoying the confidence and respect of the
people, and will make himself felt in any
community and any business, for good.
He is, believe, the son-in-law of the late
lamented Judge Abe Caruthers. The crops
of Perry are very fair, and the people are
all alive to improving their condition; and
they are anxious to get and read the UNION
AND AMERICAN, which they say is very just
ly named the peoples paper and they,
with the citizens of Wayne, greatly regret the
lack of better mail facilities. In all these
counties l find no other paper half so pop.
ular with the people as the UNION AMI
AMERICAN, and you shall hear from me
soon again relative to what 1 have seen ant
heard. N1AToR.
Novauohar 10 1870