Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-06
OUR SPECIAL CORREsPON-
DENCE
SAVANNAH.

liant ROP-Erastus Brooks, etc.
Correspondence of the Union and American.
SAVANNAH, March 30.-The hotels in
Savannah are full to OVERLOOKING. This
is caused by the large number of pleasure
and health-seekeIs who are returning from
winter sOjourn in Florida, and the as
sembliDg here of the General Ticket
Agents Convention, a sort Of congress
for the various through lines of railroad
in the United States. When the gentle
men composing this body, quite q
number of whom are accompanied
by their wives, arrived here yester-
day they found il difficult to secure
hotel accommodation, and many of them
had to take quarters at private boarding
houses. The weather has been very
gloomy and disagrceable, having rained
almost necessarily since their arrival, SO
that the pleasure of the trip has been
greatly marred. So far the ladies have
been kept within doors, and thus de-
prived of the pleasurable enjoyment of
visiting the points of interest in and
around Savannah. This is peculiarly the
season of flowers and beauty in this re-
gion, and it will be a great deprivation to
the ladies and gentlemen from the West
ern States if they shall be unable to see
Savannah and its sun Oundings in the bril-
liant garniture of early spring. One
bright, sunny day would be a most pleas
ant finale to the visit to the ''Forest City,"
The Convention is composed of repre-
sentatives from almost every important
railroad in the United States, and it is an
assemblage which, for talent and sterling
worth, is highly creditable not only to
the railroad interests of the country, but
to the States from which the delegates
hail. The members bear the impress of
intelligence and thorough business habits,
and the manner in which they dispatch
the work before them shows that they
mean business and understand it. The
object of the Convention is to revise the
through rates of travel for the summer in
whatever direction business or pleasure
may call a man. ! Judge from what
can hear, that the rates likely to be agreed
upon will vary but slightly from those
established at the fall meeting for the
winter. The Convention will bring its
labOr5 to close tomorrow after
noon. To day the Convention &C
cepted an invitation to visit Fler-
ida, and quite number of members,
including several ladies, will take q spe-
cisl train over the Atlantic and Gulf rail-
road st seven o'clock tomorrow evening
for Jacksonville, where they will arrive
Saturday morning, aud thence go on an
excursion by steamboat up the st. Johns
river.
Tonight Mr.. T. S. Nickerson, proprie-
tor of the Screven House, gave a hop
complimentary to the General Ticket
Agents of the railroads of the United
States" tickets of invitation to which
were distributed to the delegates early in
the forenoon. There is now q brilliant
assemblage Of fair women and gallant
men representing various States of the
Union and also, the city of Savannah, in the
parl1 and dining hall of the Screven. The
arrangements and appointments are COM
plete, and reflect great credit upon the
taste and judgment of the enterprising pro-
prIetor of the hote!. The beauty of Sayan-
nah is strongly represented, interspersed
with which are to be seen some of the
fairest flowers that bloom upon the broad
prairies of the great West. There is eve
~ indication that it is most enjoyable
affair, and st late hour the merry dance
still goes on. This impromptu but
pleasant affair will go long way to atone
for the unpropitious weather which has
greeted the party, and which has prevent
ed the stay of the ladies and gentlemen
in Savannah from being an ovation of
pleasure.
Among the strangers now in the city, l
notice MIR. Erastus Brooks, who'll making
a tour of pleasure through the South with
his daughter. The course of the New
York Express and of the Hon. James
Brooks in Congress, in boldly and ably
defending the South against the aggres-
sions of the Radical party, will secure for
the former gentleman a cordial reception
from the Southern people wherever he
may go. ..... ..-
The only amusement furnished the
Savannah people is that by the Davenport
brothers. They are to be succeeded next
week by Lydia Thompson and her British
blondes. a g. a...... ....a ....
Savannah rejoices in a profusion of
early vegetables. Think of green peas
and strawberries, tomatoes and ripe
cherries, which you will not have in Ten
nessee for several weeks yet. This region
is about six weeks ahead of Tennessee.
SKwANKE.