The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-22
SUMMER IN UPPER GEORGIA.
MARIETTA, Ga. Sept. 1st, 1870.
Correspondcnce Kenosha Telegraph.

| DEAR SIR :8IdOb Bay 9z6 af93 n8 /
It is quite an event TO establish q nea
home one thousand miles distant from thu
old. You may imagine then it was q mo
ment of more than usual interest to us
when we saw several pine boxes with thu
familiar Kenosha mark tumbling into oul
yard the other eveDing-there are no after
moons in Georgia realized that oul
household gods were ready to take theil
places beside the new hearth-stone.
Perhaps it will, serve to give you a
better idea of the place and its surround
| ings, to sketch a few features of oul
domicil. This stands just outside the
city, as this pretty village is legally en-
titled some twenty rods from the Atlanta
street. The old mansion in its best
estate must have had more show than
comfort, and both of these time has made
de &c; tely less. Some noble old oaks and
chestnuts shade che lawn from which
the grass has nearly perished-the result
it is claimed of the rude tramping Of our
Yankee, soldiery. In the rear is an
orchard of apple, peach and pear trees
and there too the garden, with little else
this season of value but some fine figs.
One negro cabin. stands behind ss usual,
and anold we'll under its canopy in
Southern style, with its creaking wind
lass, half suggests the Sakki-yehs of the
Nile, as it groans under the hand of the
languid African. s.A - - -.
This house has history which inter
ests u.s. Its walls are marked yet with
the names of the boys of some Ohio
reGiments-ha having been the head quarters
of some of our officers during the war.
The one in the next yard was the hospital
and underneath these old trees in front
of both places, there were encamped for
months some fifteen hundred Of our
soldiers Beside an old chestnut, stood
the amputating table, and there many O.
one armed or one-legged brave perambu-
lating now the streets of our Northern
cities left his missing member. At such
a cost, alas was Georgia won again to
the Federal Union. lsa a8ga1 So M
The Southern people understand we'll
the use of the piazza in this warm cline,
and this place retains a noble one, whence
we view at leisure the whole course of the
village life--the files of market wagons
The cars dashing northward and south
ward three times day-the glowing
and the throngs gathering in
the square to listen to the music at even
ing No better point can be had for a
ook on the town, some description of
Thice have promised. .a
Marietta is said to be the highest
point on the rail road between the
Tennessee and the Gulf It is about |
Twelve hundred feet above the sea and is
pleasantly situated among group of
pretty hills about two miles from Kene-
Jaw. The oaks and chestnuts have been
generally left on the hills, giving look
If shade very agreeable in this climate,
md although there is no large stream Of
water near the the town 90 diversity the
scene, each hill almost has its spring
md little :" branche,' or rivulet of clear
water, which adds to the general con-
venience and pleasure 8
This town is the county seat and even
With many unsightly remains of the
ayages of the late war bears traces of
having been one of the neatest and pref
lest villages in the South. Many fine
shade trees, some pleasant lawns and
gardens with magnolia, wild orange and
numerous glistening shrubs of this lati-
ude give it pleasant effect. 1t
numbers now from two to three thousand i
inhabitants Before the war it had some
TX thousand and was the resort in sum-
ner for more than one thousand visitors.
It is said this year to have had five
hundred, and with proper hotel accom-
would have many more The
place is ranged in Southern fashion
around a central square, which is
pleasantly adorned with grass, and shade
,rees. Here before the war were the
Court House, one of the largest hotels in
he South and the principal stores and
shops Our boys made "heaps" of some
IF these, of which the massive remains of