Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-12
A GLANCE BACKWARD.
An old. ola Paper.


If anything wore needed to impress US
with the wonderful progress OF the age IN
which we live, it would be furnished IN tne
papers published before our eyes opened
upon the world and which have been pre-
served. We have been placed IN posses,
sion of copy of the Augusta CaT01ttose
published by A. H. Pemberton IN AugustA'
Georgia, Feb. 4, 1926 Near halt cen
fury, big with change, and repiete Win
events, has dropped into history since
then. All the systems OF social and pusi,
ness life and individual and commercial
intercourse within this period have changed
| and reyolutionized. Politics, as then I'M
derstood and defined, exists no more
| John Quincy Adams was in the Preslden-
tial chair, and the old warehouse Oh tne
Hermitage was just fastening upon MN
self the popular gaze OF men.
Besides showing the vast Improvements
In newspapers, as seen in the prlihan'
dailies now flooding the country, this reno
of the past affords food for retecuon III
more senses of the word than one.
In the advertising columns OF the papel
it is seen that 'sBy AUTHORITY, py
the President of the United oIa1es
IL. John Quincy Adams, make
known the sales of public lands at tn
I,andofice in Huntsville, Alabama. Ao
vertisements calling the militia of Geor
{ | CHE TO the "old field" musters also az
a near A large numb& Of lots IN tn
& town of Macon are advertised at au6
tion and the assertion confidently mad
!, that IL will be a thriving and ''fourishing
q | r,Iace- In its market report, cotton
6uoted at 10 to 12t cts. with $500 bali
lie re cts. 0ll
4 1 lasses 40 cts. a gallon, and whisky 36 ct
The naner contains highly Imperial
e letter from South America dated NO
It %, 1925" near two and hall months =
d fore its publication. Its late news 6 no
in Europe bears date " Dec. o.. 1o. :
which was two. months before Pubncalo
20 and its "last advices from Charleston
4 were five days in transit. Paris papers
n | tbe 9Th of December had been receive
Among its news items Is one that rea
thus: j..
at is expected that Sir Walter Scott
& writing the life of Bonaparte."
Another paragraph says that the poi
lation of Washington City is reported
&c be 5000" In another place the Ioyc
intelligence.is conveyed that the dithcu
on ''between the State Of Georgia and Cre
nd Indians had been settled by the cesslon
es- the latter of their lands to the General G
of eminent. "
es Among the law cards appears that OF
The w. Wilde, associated with the name
ice Richard Henry Wilde, that will live
Irt- poesy as fragrant as the "Last Rose
as Summer" itself.
re- The paper contains the cards and adv
bur ! tisements of and illusions to many pers
| in of note and distinction in their day
have passed of the stage of existence,
Or it is chiefly interesting as showing
?, progress and development OF the coui
the in increased facilities of transportation
oyd ali the elements of an advanced civilizat
d during the last half century. To req
ore the rapidity of our forward march, it IS
, q cessary that we should occasionally tai
4 of glance backward and review the road
ates which we have travelled as shown by
rth- papers as the one under consideration.