Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-12

WE extract the following from a i
correspondence in the Brownsville 1
Bee, by Mr.. Westbrook, the editor,
who is on trip east:
"a short run brought us up. at 1890
p. NJ, to
GAINESVILLE,
where we stopped for the night with
the accommodating proprietors of the
Southern Hotel. Next morning we
made due report to the respective OFF,
ces of our live contemporaries, the
Tobacco Leaf and the CHRONICLE,
after which we were turned over in due
and proper form to Mayor Ligon who
goes as-always within proper bounds
the freedom of the city. We met
our genial friends, Maj. Fl. M. Doak,
Gen. W. A. Quarles, Maj. Gustavus A.
Henry, Capt. Robt. Johnston, and
many other Clarksvillians and got
through with the day right royalty.
The city of GAINESVILLE is located on
a series of high, rockribbed hills over
looking the chrystaline tide of the
semi classic Cumberland, at the cross
ing of the Memphis and Louisville
Raidroad. 1t is young Tennessee
city of about 1000 inhabitants, and
has one of the first sections of the
State surrounding it. being also sup
ported by large portion of the tobac-
co growing region of Southern Ken
lucky, the State line being only eight
miles distant. 1t is peculiarly atobac-
co entrepot, and has sustained its rep
utatlon in that line for many years.
Before the war the tobacco crop
amounted to q, 600 hogsheads annual
ly but since that perilous epoch it has
declined to about 10000 hogsheads of
the narcotic weed. Formerly this
vast trade went woodward by steam
boats adown the Cumberland, and as
many as five or six large New Orleans
Packets might be seen at one time
loading at the landing. Now a great
deal of it goes by rail. The Clarks-
vile tobacco goes mostly to Germany,
as it is of fine quality, very heavy leaf,
and especially adapted to flavoring the
IL.
There are other business enterprises
not to be overlooked in day sojourn
at this enchanting willie. 1t is in an
inapproachable wheat country and
quite number Of excellent merchant s
mills are operated here, sending out
thousands upon thousands of barrels
of the very finest family -four all the
year round. Large amounts of corn
and hay are annually shipped south
ward from this city. Considerable at
tention is also paid to the cultivation
of orchards and vineyards, and with
most encouraging success.
The principal mercantile business of
the city is confined to Franklin street,
and great many Wholesale and retail
establishments of no mean pretentions
are located in good commodious brick
and stone houses along this thorough
fare. The features of the Public
Square are not peculiarly inviting, a
good Market House, also used as a
Police Station, stands in the middle
of it, fine Hotel at one end, the
CHRONICLE OFFICE at the other, with
the Tobacco Leaf Office on the West
side, but the main business of the city
seems to have drifted away from the
vicinage of the river front and estab-
lished itself on the street leading to-
wards the depot. There are a good
many fine churches in GAINESVILLE and
her schools, both male and female, are
unsurpassed in the whole land. But
the maine charm, to our quiet eye, was
the hOmelike elegance and refinement
that pervaded the very atmosphere of
the resident streets-spacious, costly
and almost palatial residences are met
with all over the place. Ample
grounds surround them and wide
spreading trees overshadow blue grass
grown yards and the fragrance of flow
ers, the song of birds, and the UNI
brageous shed a peaceful and inviting
charm around the homes for the people.
GAINESVILLE will linger long in our
memory as one of the most agreeable
places we have ever visited.
We regret to chronicle the absolute
failure of the tobacco crop of this Sec
ton and an immense falling off of the
corn, hay and stock cropin consequence
of the extreme dryspring and summer.
But the people have an abundance to
live on and but little to buy, while
everybody got rich on tobacco" made
last year.