Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-06-22
Sight Seeing.
Editorial Correspondence.

Editorial Correspondence.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 16.-l
In our minds it is now a settled |
fact, that the quickest route by
which one can reach Nashville
from Savannah is by Florence,
Ala, provided you can find Capt.
Sleeth and his polite crew in a !
running humor. We left Savan-
nah at ~ noon on Monday and
reached here at 500 a. m. Tuesday;
only about twenty hours out.
But, as we before said, you must
find the boat crew in q running
humor, induce them to reach Flor
ence by $50 a. m. the next morn
ing, be able to walk from the river
to the hotel, carrying your bag
gage, in just twenty minutes; find
the bus there waiting and ready
to carry you to the l.. & N. depot,
and there find the train waiting
but just ready to pull out, then
you can make a quick run to
Nashville.
AS is always the case, our trip
on the Clyde was very pleasant
one, and a very interesting feature
of the ride was q 6-pOund shot
shown us by Capt. Sleeth, that
was fired at him from a gun boat
about thirty.one years ago, but
did not reach him until the day he
was showing it to the writer. 1t
had not been travelling all that
time but had been lodged in tree,
near Cerro Gordo, until quite re-
Gently when it was found in a saw.
log by Mr.. A. j. Haynes. Capt.
Sleeth was building gun boats at
Cerro Gordo for the Confederate
navy, and Immediately after the
fall of Fort Henry sent his men to
Florence remaining himself to see
what the enemy's approaching
fleet would do. And when three
gun boats arrived and anchored
near his ship yard they started a
manned yawl ashore; into this
Capt. Sleeth and Mark Hardin
fired volley that sent the yawl
back to the boats. This was a.
bout 0 o'clock at night and the
gun boats turned their guns loose
on the woods and kept up the
bombarding all night. Capt. Sleeth
and Mr.. Hardin were safely posed
behind the bluff and enjoyed the
novelty of being the cause of the
United States army wasting Sc
much ammunition on two prac,
tically unarmed men. Hardin lii
out for home before daylight and
left Capt. Sleeth to hold the fort
who laid low until the enemy de-
parted when he mounted a fleet
horse to join his force at Florence
The Tennessee Press AssOcia
ton took possession of the Capital
City Wednesday and Thursday
The badge was the "open Sesame
to everything worth having. We
were rendered the freedom of the
city by Mayor Guild, and City
Recorder Bell delicately informed
us that in case any member of the
association was brought up before
him all that was necessary was tC
hold up the index finger and he
should go free. The street Cal
conductors recognize our badge
as a pass and look somewhat
hacked when we show him the
badge if he failed to see it and
demanded fare. The CyclOramit
view of the Battle of Missionary
Ridge was also open to the AssO
citation and it was truly a mOst
wonderful and realistic represen
tatiOn.
The association was entertained
Wednesday from 5 to 7p. IN. by
Mr.. and Mrs. Acklen at theil
palatial home in West End Park
with music on an electric piano
and delicious refreshments.
The annual election of officer
took place at the Thursday after
noon session, and resulted in thu
election of l.. j. Brooks, of tn,
Jackson Wing, as President; w
H. Griffin, of the ObiOn Democrat
as Vice President for West Ten
nessee; d. S. Wallace, Of the Nc
Minnville New Era, as Vice Presi
dent for Middle Tennessee. j. L
Rule, of the Knoxville Journal, a
Vice President for East Tennes
see, and reelected PitkiD c
Wright as Secretary, and r. j
Miller as Treasurer.
Thursday afternoon the associa
ton visited the Cyclorama, ant
the reception by Congressmal
Jos. 4. Washington and the ban
quet, both at the Nicholson House
closed the annual meeting of tn
Tennessee Press Association TO
1893.
We leave for Chicago this morn
ing at s o'clock on special trail
over the Evansville Route, whic
is growing in popularity with a.
visitors to the Worlds Fair, fror
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