The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-31
From the Somerville Falcon.
Letter from Pulaski.


On the morning of the 23d November
bid adieu to my many friends in Som
erville, and with a sad heart started for
my new home in Middle Tennessee
Pulaski is the county seat Of Giles, one
of the richest counties in the middle di-
vision. 1t is a beautiful place, situated
on the n. 81 ID railroad, about 20 miles
south of Nashville. 1t is fine place for
business, there being more business done
here in one week than in four weeks in
SOmerville. 1t has two National banks,
well conducted, with large capital, eau
sing greenbacks by the thousand to flow
along the channels of commerce. 1t has
also fine weekly paper in which nearly
every merchant advertises,. and tells the
people what he has for sale. These add
greatly to the business interest of the
place. This is County Court day, and as
walked upon the public square to-day
it seemed that 1 was carried back to old
Confederate times, when our cavalry, in
their grey, were seen moving along
every road by which town could be
approached. The men were pouring in
by the hundreds along every street.
They were on horseback and muleback,
and every kind of back on which cav
alier ever rides. Is seemed a regular in
Yasion. They moved on in solid pha-
lanx until they reached Jockey Valley,
where they dismOunted, and then such
horse swapping as occurs nowhere else
1t is study for philosopher or fora
poet or a painter. Such riding. and
jOckeying, and chaiTering, and trading,
will distance anything in Georgia Scenes.
l think on some first Monday of spend
ing whole day in jockey valley and
taking notes for the Falcon, 1t is a
beautiful place just east of the square on
the commons, well supplied with racks.
Bales of cotton by the wagon load are
sold every day to the regular buyer who
meets them on the square. The genuine
mountaineer also comes to town in his
OK wagon, with his pine tar, chickens,
eggs, venison, &c. Just think of having
nice fat Venisen steak for ten cents per
pound, and fine apples at 81 per bushel.
The houses for business are built COM
pactly on each side of the public square,
and are of the most substantial charac-
ter, and in the main the best adapted to
their purposes of anything l have seen
in town of this size. The Giles Col
lege stands all alone in the southeastern
part of the town like a solitary sentinel
keeping watch over the boys of Pulaski
both by night and day. Antoinette Hall
rises in majesty near the center of town
and keeps its portals ready to be opened
for everything of the show or pleasure
kind, from hop to a scientific lecture
The court house stands in the center
of the square and is one of the finest in
the State. The yard is enclosed with a
substantial iron fence, and great care is
taken of the grass and shade trees
Martin College is situated in the western
part of the town on a beautiful and ele-
waited plateau in the highest state of Gull
tivation. The next session of Martin
College will begin on the 18th of Jan'y,
and it is believed we will have the first
day l25 pupils.
L have formed but few acquaintance
since my arrival but learn that there are
two temperance societies in town, one
I.O.O.G. and one u FIT. l am sure this
speaks well for the place. J.
Pulaski, Dec. s, 1874.