Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-16
LETTER FROM NAsHyTrI.H.

oPo0'0i OOrrepohoence LOUISVILLE Commercial
NASHVILLE, TENN, July =, 1870
The Rock City is very quiet. For seyera
days business seemed at a ISLANDS,
There are many signs, however. O
progress here, and the people agitate tn,
importance of the situation as having ne
culiar advantages for
MANUFACTURING.
There are already four or five foun
deries, and Messrs. S. Z. Jones and Co
viii soon have large farming implement
factory connected with their foundry.
The interior of the
MAXWELL HOUSE
Is very elegant, although it does not pre-.
sent very slightly external, except the
front, which may be said to compare
favorably with any hotel South.
Nashville is well furnished with &C
commodations for the travelling and bust
ness public-street cars on every i'm
portant street, omnibuses and hacks in
abundance. Many of the hacks are
owned by the colored population, and are
downright shabby, the stock especially
poor and unsightly. The only amusement
now in the city is
THE RINK,
Greatly crowded night and day. Mr..
Barwise is here, looking fat and lively.
Business is brisk with him.
TENNESSEE GOING AHEAD.
l do believe Tennessee is going
ahead of every State in the Union. The
people seem to offer more inducements
and encouragement to emigration, and
that too, with more earnestness than any
other State. They seize every opportu-
nifty TO beckon the enigrant this way, and
many strangers are now traversing the
country looking out lands for settlement.
Fisk's agent, Maloney, is here trying to
organize an excursion party to start North
about the first of August, to 60 as far as
far as New York and Boston, Cape May
and other points of interest. The round
trip to cost not exceeding $25. There is
not the slightest doubt but that the party
will be made I'D.
The citizens talk of this little railroad
trick of Mr.. Fisk bidding for custom on
the Erie line, as affording them great OPP
portunities to visit the North, converse
with the people and secure emigration
here TO work their lands and man their
shops. How is it that Kentucky is still
in the rearl As a Kentuckian, many
times feel ashamed of the old fogyism of
the State. Not long since, Tennessee
was desolated with the ravages of war,
and as our Democratic friends tell US,
for so these many years, crushed under
Radical rule, and to-day she is head and
front of all, her people prosperous, her
credit good, indeed, so good that Louisville
has pride in her trade.
The Capitol is rather common looking
building at q distance, and indeed would
disappoint most people on first sight after
hearing of its fame. Its interior is su-
perbly fine. The greatest beauty. how
ever, is the surrounding country as seen
from the Capitol. The city spread out at
your feet with house tops, trees, church
Delfries and spires, intcrmingling as the
lowers of carelessly constructed but
beautiful boquet the river, the bridges,
Lhe railroads and pixies, with busy travel
mark the thrift of the people.
The landscape before you seems as the
waves of the sea rising and receding, and
yet rising higher and higher, until in the
distance they reach mountain nights, and
how lining on the horizon like distant
loud just come up from the West, and
whose thunder mutterings you scarce can |
lear.
But, then, Mr.. Editor, turn your eyes
oward the cast as the sun kisses the brow
# the western slope. What enrapturing |
'eauty spreads before you as the evening |
hades climb the distant hills, casting their |
-eil over the earth.