Year: 1872




| Editorial Correspondence


NEW HAVEN, June ii, 1872.


am in the Nutmeg State, in its beauti-


full Elm City, shaded by some of the finest


trees that ever grew, and boasting of some


of the co stliest and handsomest residence


on the continent. New Haven is chang
| ing gradually from its former quiet retir-
| ed and attractive home features to a bust
| ling manufacturing city, with growing
| foreign element. 1t is three years since [
visited it before and the changes in the re-
spects named seem to me very marked.
It's good people notice them and some of
them are not very kindly accepted. 1t is,
nevertheless, one of the handsOmest cities
of its size on the continent. A leading
| feature in its architecture and general ap-
pearance is the very large number of neat
and attractive frame houses. Many of
these are large and costly, and many are
neat, convenient and moderate in price.
The style of architecture is varied, and [
never saw so many beautiful homes built
at reasonable cost. The value of every
foot of real estate i'll the city has been
materially increased by the beautiful shade
trees that line both sides of every street.
The first thing done after streets are laid
out is the planting Of trees. Every home
is shaded, every street made pleasant and
the general health and appearance of the
city greatly improved by this inexpensive
but wise practice. There is no law COM
pelling property holders to plant trees, but
there is public sentiment and custom far
more binding and effective. The result is
that some of the widest streets are shaded
by majestic elmS, the tops of which meet
over the center of the highway and make
it at all hours as cool and shaded rs a for
est.


l wish a law could be passed in Knox
vile, making it obligatory upon every
property holder to plant shade and orna-
mental trees. 1t could be done at a trif1ing
expense and in ten years it would make
our city in beauty, comfort and healthful-
ness q place immeasurably superior to
what it now is. [ do not know that we
need law, if we could only get people to
think Oh the subject. | am sure an hours |
drive in the streets of New Haven would |
give every KnoXvillian such mania for
tree planting, that next spring, thousands |
of green leaves would be putting forth |
soon to add to the beauty and comfort of
homes and streets, now baking hot under |
our summer SullS.


SCHOOLS AND MANUFACTURES.


Just in proportion as New Haven man
ufacturers and merchants grow in wealth |
do they increase and improve their school |
advantages. Amid The MN immenSe }a7 ni; new
built can be found imposing, roomy and
public school houses being
erected at public expense, It seems to
me q fair measure of the enterprise and
of its people. Large factories de-
mand additional labor. This draws to the
city large foreign population, thus far
mainly Irish. The wise men of COnnec-
ticut know that the public interests de-
mand that this element should be moulded
to our character by renewed efforts in the
matter of education. They are drawn in
to the school house as numerOusly as pos
sble and there trained for the high duties
OF American citizenship. The rising ma
tive generation is better trained than ever
to leaven the great body polite soon to as
sumo the care Of the future of our country.
The splendid schools of this city and State
are worth to it millions of capital, Would
that Tennessee might emulate the exam
pie of this little State and give to its
young the education alone needed to make
it one of the greatest of the sisterhOOd of
States.



not devoted to iron or heavy machinery.
1t is rather content to look after the little
things that are neglected in Philadelphia,
New York and Pittsburg, the great manu-
American cities. Paper boxes, |
needles, pins, shirts, and a hundred such
articles are made here on a large scale.
Carriage building is one of its heaviest
of manufacturing and proves
very profitable. All its employers and en-
DlOyees seem to prosper, and good will and
happiness are almost universalin this beau
Jiful city.


/ ought not to omit here brief notice of
hat grand old educational institution that
for over century has sent out all over the
continent our greatest and best intellects-
Yale College. Among its students | find
Knoxville represented in the person of
Ebon Alexander promising member of
5he junior class. [ am glad to report that
ne stands among the foremost of his class
and will do credit to his friends and native
;ity.


CONNECTICUT POLITICS.


The political situation here is not unlike
hat reported of New York and Penn
sylvaMia. L find Republicans united and
n the best of spirits. The Democracy of
his State are somewhat on the Bourbon
order and view complacently, but not en-
the contemplated suicide of
;he party AS the probability of Greeley's
nomination at Baltimore grows stronger,
hey become more resigned. They will
vote for him to "beat Grant," but do not
let as though they had any hope or conf !
lence of victory The party is started on
he downward course to destruction, and ]
10 one seems to have the courage to arrest
t. | have had honest Democrats here tell ,
ne they could not understand the force '
hat seemed to drive the party towards ]
Greeley. 1t was going that way, but
Why or how they could not understand ,
The Irish vote of New Haven makes it II
and in fact is the element :
hat makes the State so close. The wealth ,
md intelligence of the city as a mass is |
Republican and as nearly solid for Grant !
md Wilson as ever. The Independent t
voters have no confidence or respect for /
he Greeley bargain and sale, and the De-
nocracy will not poll full vote for the
Cincinnati ticket. Republicans in posi- !
ion to make their opinions of value seem 5