Year: 1872

nse degrees and keeps at tina. heure for days upon
days. The lack OF the country Is capital. All sorts
Of the SOIL awaiting the money and the enterprise
y - 's WANT wa OF ENTERPRISES.


There are some rich natives in each OF the towns
have visited but they are singuarly unenserpris-
ing They lock their money up In banks or dssi-
pate II an Northern cities, when theusand ways
could be found for investing 1t at home and contrf
buting TO the Advancement Of the State and the gen.
eral happiness OF the people. The South must look
to her young men-those who were mere boys when
the war was going on-f0r her regeneration. The
Old fellows have had all the starch knocked out OF
them by the emancipation OF the slaves ana are
not ut for much. or course mean the old slave
and landh0lders, who know no earthly way OF max
ing an honest living with their own hands. These
are to he pitied Sectional jeal0usies will die out
soon, ana Northern men win be less disposed TO
think they are not welcome, for the truth Is, so
long as they bring money they are as welcome as


THE wAR-wAsTRD AND HEART BROKEN SOUTH.


Since the war pail OF sadness has rested all
now. but the stranger from the gay and prosperous
North feels It stealing on his spirit when walking
the lonely streets where even the gse o. children
the theatre, once 80 popular at the South are far
less patronized than the church and the camp
North We sometimes see travestie Of religion, a
profane blending OF the sacred and Rrotesque OF
lechcrous old clerical Pharisees grave and reverend
OF looks and austerc in language when at nome,
aalying with young, bright, thoughtless girls and
making snfnl mcckery Of their profession. Down
the South is most solemn AFFAIR. There
Churches it Is the same way. Everybody goes
srosen hearts are not ew and religion Is the
opiate sought by the many poor souls among this
people, sick sore and bowed down. II those howl.
fng radicals up your way could but see little OF
this "war wastedn South they might be disposed
to temper their bitterness with trine OF Christian
charity.


Here In Nashville feeling is about equally divided
hat hnu thaT m q Inhngnp
Roberts paper, the Banner, is on the side OF john
more or less, and is inaueurating, IN conjunction
with the Louisville Courier Journal, much-needed
reform In Southern Journalism, that s, Its emanci
patton nom the corroding thraldom Of party
The genial Colonel Burcn, OF tho True american,
is for Cheatham. This 10 the handsomest
city in Tennessee, and It's capitol building is among
the few specimens OF purely classic architecture on
around 1t are disgraceful. Hot water and soap
might improve them, but not much. They have no
expression and must have been designed and cast
rounds each lamppost twelve in number that
stand about the building. One OF the figures IL
supposed to hold the torch OF liberty in his out
stretched hand but to my eye it looked more like
the Maxwell House. it is worthy Of men.
II o1 io,s 81 See
steaks. The women have the fair est compilations
OF the Ango-Saxon race, but they dress without
any regard to the harmony OF colors, and that Is
most objectionable, for ladies have nothing else to
do but to study dress. The men are o fine, frank,
open-hearted lot OF fellows and 1t is really pity
to see 80 many OF them with hardly thing to do,
and the races drew crowds during the week. They
were OF the usual country type and not worth ten
lines OF notice ontside OF Nashville.


The candidates are now beating around the State
as before and for the present shall leave them to
take care OF themselves.