Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-06-01
Letter fronl Nashville.


tifully serene and balmy, and the middle
of the carved spoon is making ali the far
mers glad with overfiowing corn cribs and
smoke houses; and good prospects of "a
bundant crops in the coming season. This
reeuperative energy to cause the, fertile
soil and climatic resources to yield so
bounteously, calls forth many investments
in other industrial pursuits, as, manufac-
turing cotton into useful fabrics-its seed
into fine oil; our splendid cedars of Leba-
non into the most handsome and durable
hollow -luxuriant forests of hickory,
oak, ash, walnut and other valuable woods
into agricultural implements furniture &c.
Then wherefore should we growl? 1t is
to be lamented that the center of the moth
er of counties, where Boone first settled
the State, that there is a lack of varied
employment. among the people, as indi-
Gated by"FAx" of your town, the faithful,
fowery and frank correspondent of the
Nashville Banner
Yours is a most salubrious location
where such natural facilities are offered as
are not excelled anywhere, abundance of
the best of ores, convenient and no foun-
deries-a stream furnishing ample water
forever flowing idly by without mill
mountains full Of sheep and no factory to
utilise the wool. The best walnut hickory
and other timber and no approved ma
chinery to turn the wood into useful and
ornamental articles, with all rail road
facilities to transport easily either North
or South to market. What then, is lack
ing there? Is 1t combined capital and
skilled labor? When our late erratic
assembly and previous Legislatures were
most profuse in passing hundreds and
hundreds of charters, incorporating manu-
featuring companies for Memphis, Nash
Vile, Chattanooga and Knoxville to en-
courage these things, old Washington was
left pretty much out in the cold, and in
dicated no desire to avail itself of these
advantages. Wherefore is this? Are
the people fixed to their. old habits and
customs of ancient times as the peasantry
of SMYRNA Asia are to the distaff, and
tilling the soil with the prong of tree?
Or, rather, are they educating their chill
dren in the arts and sciences that are de-
veloping so astonishingly. that the rising
generation may feel the current of pro-
gress in the land and join in the march of
life as is, with its broad net work of
rail roads and telegraphs intermingling
thought and enterprise, that is shooting
out in the recesses of the vast western
wilds as streaks of Lightning that flows in
eddies and builds great cities like the ma
gic of Aladins lamp all through the west?
Or, is the Switzerland of America so
hampered in by the eternal hills that
five dollar bill keeps circulating round,
and round, and never ray Of advance
ment enters, but the iron yoke of specula-
tors manopolies that flourish on ignorance
and honest toll? .g
The Industrial Exposition here is a
most striking feature in the State, having
been conceived in the interests of traders
in wares for the purpose of bringing their
virtues before the people, the elaborate
building is well era;nmed with new man
ties, products of our own factories of
cloth, wooden ware, metals &c. Splen-
did specimens of marble from Hawkins
county Of the varigated kind like those of
Scotland. attracted my particular atten-
tion, while the calamine of East Tennessee
was equally a conspicuous feature
Specimens of venition red are there from
the middle portion of the State, but it IS of
a dull spanish brown color, far inferior to
the venition red hills in the extreme East
of the State.
A most excellent cement limestone
(sulphate of lime) representing quarries
in the neighborhood of Nashville promises
to be of great value in building.
Nashville feels very sore at having our
delinquent rail roads to fall into the hands
of foreign capitalists who may control
them in the interests cities north of us,
mrking our Tennessee towns mere way
stations to TIE cotton belt. This however,
is fair competition, and after all, the peo-
pie along the line out side of the capital
city are satisfied with the transfer.
A new idea now sought to be popular
lied to build future rail roads in the
South with narrow gage, seemingly on the
surface has the appearance of making
their terlnini distributing points; but
any measure that tends to hamper travel
and transportation, by increasing expen-
ses, seems to be narrow sighted vision to
general prosperity. Success may be in
another direction, that is equal energy
and attraction of capital.
i-. nfT LAREBIL.