Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-14
MARIETTA.
Description Of the Little Mountain
CIts - Picturesque Scenery = The
Hospitality OF iss Citizenss and
Their Love OF FIOwers-A Fine
Summer Resort.


MARIETTA. GA, August 1O.-As the August
session Of the State Agricultural Society, which
opened here on Tuesday. has now adjourned,
and q large number of the delegates and eiti-
zens, including your correspondent, will set
out at nine o'clock this morning on
an excursion up the Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad, 1 take ad-
vantage of a spare half hour before the
moment Of departure to make few notes on
this beautiful little mountain city, the hospi
tality Of whose generous, open-hearted citizens
we have so freely enjoyed, promising to give
you an account Of the excursion in following
letter.
Marietta, you know very well, is the capital
of Cobb county, one of the old time, strongest
Democratic counties in the state wnlcn Fre ISL
dent Hardeman facetiously alluded 10, IN ms
eloquent response to the address OF welcome,
as having for time deserted the standard OF
the State Agricultural Society, put recentIIy
"repented," and now so noblv and calamity
returned to her allegiance" IL Is located
about thirty miles north of Atlanta near the
base of the Kennesaw mountain, so Wen re-
membered in the history OF Sherman,s lnva-
sion of the State from Chattanooga, and which
looks down upon the graves OF ten thousand or
his soldiers as the sacrifice he offered Tor the
possession OF its heights. Inc Dooles OF Ine
misguided heroes were collected ana buried In
common cemetery, which the General 0oV-
ernment has subsequently, deliberately orra-
mented and caused to be kept, at great ex-
pense, as a national cemetery Those who
have seen it of late represent the design and
execution of the work as grand ana oeauGlIui
while the gate at the entrance, now IN course
of construction, will alone cost the sum OF
ten thousand dollars.
Marietta was formerly the seat Of military
education in the State, and the site Is sui
pointed out where stood the old Institute, on
the Powder Spring road, half mile from the
aif mt a hui
where martial spirit was cultivated In the
South seemed obnoxious to Yankee PATRIOTISM,
and the bricks, am informed, were trans.
ferred to the tombs, and the very SURFACE OF
the soil carried away as appropriate turing
| for the graves Of the Union warriors.
The country round about the city is famous
for picturesque scenery, fertile hills and val
levs delightful summer breezeS and cool, pure,
ENJOYABLE water. At this writing the nelds are
green vita the growing crops OF corn, cotton,
| peas, potatoes, sorghum, millet, ETC., ana the
corn in striking contrast with that Oh the SOUTH
ern part of the State, where the fodder mas
been pulled and the fields already broken for
the harvest Like all other sections OF Georgia
| the present year, Cobb county has made an
| unusually heavy crop, and her citizens once
more rejoice in peace and plenty.
There is, perhaps, no city in the State so well
located for the pleasure and convenience OF
summer residence, and why any South Geor-
| gian should pass by this healthy and beau
| tifuI region to patronize even less favored To-
| calties far away among strangers, am un-
| the foolish vanity of appearances" so preva-
| lent, of going abroad"
Within an hours easy ride of the busy
| thriving, newsy, populous capital OF the state
among the mountains, with every advantage
of healthful, bree Zy elevation, of educational
| and religious facilities and ass citation, and
with the purest and most refined society," Ma
rietta is admirably situated for the
the warmer regions of the South,
where the long summers enervate and reduce
| the physical energies. 1t has for long time
| been thus recognized by many, but It's advan-
| tages should be better Bnown, and hope these
| references may attract thither some who
spend thousands to much less advantage in
n ore pretentious localities of higher latitude
| The society of Marietta has ever been consid
| cred the BEST equaling the most pretentious
| cities eff the country, and numbering among It's
summer visitors from the South, and its winter
visitors from the North, families OF distinc-
| ton, noble descendants of noble ancestors,
| maintaining the honor and dignity OF their
names Some of this class are also perma-
nent residents here, and may say, from my
| own observation, as we'll as from the abundant
| testimony of others, none more honorable or
worthy than the NJ arietta survivors of the ia
| nous old Huguenot house or Count hobart, OF
| France The taste and elegance OF home life
| in Marietta are not surpassed in the State
| residences are beautifully designed and locat-
ed ornamented with excellent taste, and sur
rounded with intelligently cultivated shrubs
| and flowers. Nowhere have l seen more at
| tention and good taste exhibited in the man
agement of flowers. and their arrangement
| for proper display about the dwellings
| The love Of flowers among the citizens is
universal, and equaled only by their hospitali-
| ity, of which your correspondent can speak
! from personal experience from the hands of
| the good Doctor Greer and his excellent con-
sort. Some of these days, not very distant in
| the future, hundreds of elegant and costly
mansions will rise like Aladdin's palaces among
the beautiful hills of Marietta and other fine
| localities in the vicinity of Atlanta. That re-
markable city of remarkable energy and
| growth will need them, and thousands of her
| business men will pour in in the morning
| and out in the evening to beautiful homes in
the less crowded suburban towns on her
| numerous railroads l.. e. b.