The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-12
From the.Memphis Appeal
COLUMBIA.
Its People, Railways and Lawyer $.

EprroRs APPEAL-This, as you are well
aware, Is one of the most charming towns in
Tennessee. 1t has been the home of some
of the ableSt and most distinguished lawyers,
diyines and statesmen that have ever lived
III the State. The bar here is still avery able
one, as may be inferred from the fact that al
the last election Supreme Court Judge,
Circuit Court Judge, Chancellor, q MEM
Der of Congress, and an Attorney General
were selected from the Columbia bar. The
educational advantages OF this place, eSpe-
cially for females, are inferior to none in
the State. Two of the handsomest buildings,
surrounded by the most beautiful grounds,
are occupied as institutions of learning for
girls and young ladies. Both of them have
warm friends, and are highly spoken of by
all good judges. No place in Tennessee is
better suited, on account OF health, fine
scenery, elegant and accomplished society,
for the education of girls than Columbia, as
can be testified by thousands of the most
accomplished women IN the South, who
have been educated here.
More persons have gone from this town
and county to Memphis, than from any 9TH
er in this or any other State, and can safely
say theipeople of Columbia feel deep in
terest in Memphis, and are DESTROYS of di-
rect connection with your city, which they
will get by means of the Columbia, Jackson
and Memphis road. 1t is only one hundred
and ten miles from this place to Jackson,
and there is no railroad in any of the coun-
ties between the two places. This road will
give these people not only the most direct
route to Memphis, but also TO New Orleans.
Itis as near from Columbia to Memphis by
this route, as from Decatur TO Memphis by
the Memphis and Charleston railroad. AT
present, Columbia and Maury county are
dependent alone on the Nashville and De-
catur road; as there is no competition,
freightS are very high, as is always the case
where there is but one road. Let road be
built TO j ackSOn Tennessee, and then freightS
and passenger fare will he reduced fifty per
cent, at least. The building of the Nash
vile and Decatur road added over two mil
lions of dollars to the value of land in this
nnT1 MT Or han. a
on an average. This Jackson road will ben
eft the county even more by reduced
freights and increase of competition, than
the road they now have. They can never
manufacture successfully here until the road
from the Cumberland mountains TO the Ten
neSsee river is built, and without manufac-
turing establishments, Columbia can never
be anything more than pleasant, agreea-
BILE, cultivated, tiouriShing town, with six or
eight thousand inhabitants. As manufac-
turing place, ii might easily have popula-
ton OF twenty thousand, but this can never
be until the McMinnville and Jackson road
is built.
Agriculture is in a much more improved
condition than in West Tennessee. Here all
| the land is made available. That which
| they donot cultivate in corn, cotton, tobacco
or grain, they sow in clover, timothy, or
some other kind of grass, They do not buy
| their food and work-stock, but raise them.
! They therefore find time and opportunity 10
| improve and fertilize their lands. West
Tennessee could do likewise, and never will
| people who buy what they eat and wear,
| and all their work-stock and farming uten
sis, can ever increase much i'll wealth.
| They have in this county five or six differ
ent kinds of reapers and mowers; among
| them the Buckeye, the Champion, the Clip
| per, the Excelsior, and Others. All of them
have their advocates and friends. How
many have we in Fayette, Hardeman, Shell
| by, Haywood and Madison? And yet these
| counties can grow clover, timothy and herds
grass, especially in the bottoms, equal to
| Maury and Williamson. This county is
| now full of fine cattle, sheep and hogs, and
| of riding and trot!ing horses equal to any
| in Kentucky. There is no reason why as
4 good stock cannot be raised in West as in
| Middle Tennessee, with proper care. They
are building, in this part of the State, a
great many rock fences around their farms.
4 We have not the limestone out of which to
Which viii Do eSa s gas%ti The lands as in
| West Tennessee are owned in too large
bodies to be improved as they should.
/ omitted TO mention that the railroad
| from this place to Jackson will pass near the
| celebrated BeaVer,Dam springs, in Hickman
| county.
The opposition to conventions here may
result in the defeat of the Democratic can
| didates for Criminal Judge.
| AGRICULTURE.
Corn, wheat and meat of all kinds can be
| supplied from Middle Tennessee, if we had
direct railroad communication, as cheap as
| from any part of the country, the great
| NOFInWtSt nov eSceptcU. hlHlST pOrh
| and corn were cheaper in Hickman county,
not one hundred miles from Jackson, Ten
! neSSee, than in st. Louis or Chicago. The
4 peanut crop has left more money in. Hick-
\ man and Perry counties than the cotton
crop has left in some OF the new counties
| near the Mississippi. Mind, I do not say
the COOLERS Of Hickman and Perry sold for
| more money, but that owing to the great
| drain made upon the cotton counties for
| money to buy mules, provisions and other
supplies, which are raised in Hickman and
| Perry, more money was left in these coun-
| ties than Fayette and Madison. 1t cannot
| be too often repeated that so long as our
| people buy all their supplies, which they
could easily raise, they will never grow rich.
PRESIDENT FOLKS OLD HOME,
! Many changes are taking place in Column
| bia. The famous cottage in which James
| X Polk resided at the time he was elected
| President, and for a great many years before,
| has disappeared and in its stead an elegant,
| Hateful residence, in the modern style, has
been erected. The old Episcopal church in
which Bishop otey preached, has been torn
| down, and a new and beautiful church edi-
| flee built on West Main street, between the
public square and the Female institute
| There is one peculiarly about all the county
| towns in Middle As in West Tennessee. The
court house is in the center of the public
| square, around which are built the business
| houses. How much better, more comforta-
| BILE and tasteful would it be If the court
| house was on the side of IL street and the
| public square was sown in grass and set out
| III Trees. NouTb SuHdfe, A1tiu-
| phiS, is the gem of the city and gives il more
| character and its citizens more real enjoy
ment than any other ground of the same
dimensions within Is borders. Cities that
fail TO have numerous parks, when land is
comparatively cheap make mistakes that
| cannot remedied,
A GOOD PRIEST.
| had the pleasure last week of .secting
Rev. David Pise, now rector ofthe Episcopal
Church in New Albany, Indiana formerly
Rector of st. Peters Church in this place
He was most highly esteemed and beloved
by ell the citizens of Columbia, without re-
1 gard Il. Unconstitutional preferences Al
though born in a Northern state MS heroi,
devotion TO principle during the war and
his courageous refusal To submit his eccle-
| siastical privileges and duties to military
domination, should endear him TO the lover.
| of civil and religious liberty, both in tn,
North ana south. His zeal, learning anC
ability MT him for the highest rank among
the clergy.
CHARMING.
The Institute, though built more than
| thirty years ago, is the most picturesque and
| imposing editice of the kind in the South
west. The examination at the Atheneum
another female school of high grade, which
is in very fiourishing condition, is to com
! mence this week. WI. s.