NASHVILLE (oat"), co. seat of Davidson co., in lat. 36° 10' n., long. 86° 49' w., on the Louisville and Nashville, the Nashville and Decatur, the Nashville and Tuscaloosa, the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis, the St. Louis and Southeastern, and the Louisville and Great Southern railroads: pop. '80, 43,461. his built on gradually rising ground, with regular streets, at right angles to each other. The finest public building is the capitol, on an abrupt eminence 175 ft. high; it is 240 by 135 ft., built of limestone and iron, at a cost of nearly 0,500,600. It is three stories high, surmounted by a tower 206 ft. high from the ground. The corner-stone was laid in 1845. Among the other public buildings are the state penitentiary, 310 ft. by 50; the court-house, market-house, county jail, and a asylum, with accommodations for 400 patients. There are also many handsome private residences. The city is supplied with water from the river by an elaborate sys tem of water-works. A suspension bridge and railroad drawbridge span the river, con necting the city with Edgefield opposite. The educational facilities of. Nashville are unsurpassed in the south-western states. Besides its public schools, it contains Nashville university, founded in 1785 under the name of Davidson academy, and which received its present name in 1826; the Fisk university, for the education of colored teachers, founded in 1S67, under Congregational control; the Vanderbilt university, founded in 1870, named after the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, and controlled by the Methodist Episcopal church (south); the central Tennesee college, for colored people, also under l'rlethodist control, founded in 1866; the Nashville medical college, the Tennessee college of pharmacy, St. Cecilia's academy and St. Bernard's academy, Roimm Catholic, and
others. There is a fine government building, used as a custom-house and post-office. The city has many churches, a state and public library, an opera house, 2 theaters, air elegant masonic temple, national and savings banks, flue hotels, and 22 periodicals, 2 dailies. The river is navigable during high water from its mouth to Nash ville. On account of its situation and ample railroad connections Nashville is the cen ter of a great wholesale trade with the surrounding region, Groceries, cotton, dry goods, liquors. flour and wheat, boots and shoes, are the largest components of this trade. 'There is a large cotton-factory; and there are saw, flour, and planing mills, machine-shops, paper-mills, distilleries, tanneries, etc. The city is divided into 10 wards, governed by a mayor, a common council of 20, and a board of aldermen of 10 members. Nashville was settled in 1779, iucorporated_as a town in 1784, as a city in 1806, and made the state capital in 1843.