Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-07
From the Nashville American.

FROM IQ6 NdSnNlllG AiuOI1CdIl
After the Association had
been photographed by McCOrmac,
and the ClarksVille Female Acade-
my taken, adorned by the Press, for
the benefit of Rev. DR.. PIummer,
Principal, who will use it to keep
the girls in OTdea a drive brought
US to the romantic and wild gorge,
with its horse-sfs lodges and-Over-
hanging cliffs, Nsiderringes of ever
greens and ferr1sress the dark yaw-
ming mouth of IJombar'S cave. A
half miles walk, half bent over sill
my stones and muddy floors, under
dripping ceilings, amongst gn0mes
and bats, sufficed for the enlighten-
ment Of the party in cave architect
ureandsubterranean palaces in ''cav-
erns measureless to man." or WOm-
an either. The fair pOetesS led the
way escorted by the gallant General
Quarles, himself a poet. Greenwood
cemetery was visited-a credit to
the city-a cemetery of three years
Ornamenting, and already in taste,
neatness and beauty of landscape
gardening, one which would do hon
or to much larger cities. The bull
dings of the Southwestern PreSbyte-
rian University too were passed-an
institution which has rapidly grown
into popular favor by the proper vi
gOr of its discipline and the comp
letenesS of its cOurSe-the pride of
great cultivated denomination in the
Southwest. Two of the most beau
tiful features of the city are its two
new churches-the Episcopal, of
beautiful and duarable stone found
within a mile, is not surpassed in
the South for architectural beauty.
The other is the large, new and ele-
CANT brick church of the Presbyteri
ans, which completes with the other
in design, and which will be unsur-
passed for interior elegance and COM
fort. Clarksville is city Ofpalatial
residences, beautiful groves, lovely
valleys where the shadows linger in
vitingly on the green woods and
amongst the beeches, oaks, and
sWeet-gums. Its streets are many
of them shady retreats of elm and
maple almost forest like, and its
turn-pikes and well metaled and
graVeled streets afford miles OfdriV-
ing on the turnpike.
But these are not all. Its people
are genial, hOspitable, well-inform
ed, moral, temperate, and with
these energetic and equal to any bu
siness emergency, of private nat
ure, and never wanting in public
spirit. With their immense tObac-
co trade, and their surrounding
country producing all products of
the soil in prOfusiOn, they form a
point which ought to be reached by
Nashville in two hours instead of
a day, ,andsOmetimes two days, and
which Nashville owes it to herself
to reach and which Clarksville
ought to and would help to reach.
The distance IS mileS-iS a small
matter, between the two.
The affair was crowned Friday
night by a magnificent banquet in
which elegance, abundance, and
skill We'd with good taste to furnish
a sumptuOus entertainment for the
eve. the ear, and the palate. There
was no French bill of fare to entan-
ole the unWary editor, but the edi-
bles were all elegant and well-prep
ared, although they were called in
English. The tables were covered
with fine cOnfectiOns and pastries,
and magniticently decorated. The
walls bore appropriate notices and
coats of arms, and in the centre of
one table was a pyramid OF ice,
with clambering VineS-an iceberg,
which some malicious person assert
ed Sam Gaines, of the HOpkinsville
Ne,U Era, carried off around his
head about daylight, The man
who said it has been packed in it
and forwarded to his friends with
Sam's compliments, The hotel
with its passages and winding ways
was an evergreen labyrinth, like a
fairy bower. Three parlOrs were
for music and conversation; the
winding halls and passages and lam
tern-lighted ways for prOmenading;
two rooms for dancing, three sets
to each floor; and the great dining
hall for the banquet. From 10
O'Clock a steady stream poured in,
and mirth and enjoyment ruled the
night. The elegant and dignified
matrons lent their presence, and the
beauty and elegance and fashion of
Clarksville and Montgomery cOun-
ty, and many from Christian and
Todd counties, Ky. The Press say
there is no place like ClarksVille for
beauty and grace, as well as gallant
and knightly gentlemen of the old
style. Festivities began early, and
tba ladies added their winning pres