The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-05 00:00:00

NOVA SCOTIA.

The gold mines of Nova Scotia were attracting a
good share of attention at the date of the last
advices. The Hulitax Sun says :—" During the
last week several men from Canada who have lately
returned from British Columbia, have arrived in
this province for the purpose of trying the Nova
Scotian gold fields."

WHY THERE IS NO UNION SENTIMENT

IN 2:HE SOUTHERIV STATES.

At a meeting held at New York on the 15th ult.,
the Rev. Mr. Brownlow, a well-known methodist
minister of Tennessee, described his experience in
his own state. He said, in the town of Greenville,
where:Andrew Johnson resides, they took out of the
gaol, at one time, two innocent Union men, who
had committed no offence on the face of the earth,
but that of being Union men—Nashy and Fry. Fry
was a poor shoemaker, with a wife and half a dozen
children. A fellow, by the name of Daniel Land-
beater, the vilest wretch that ever made a track in
East Tennessee, Colonel Daniel Landbeater, late
of the United States army, but now a rebel in the
secession army, took these two men, tied them
with with his own hands upon one limb, imme-
diately over the railroad track in the town of
Greenville, and ordered them to hang four days
and nights, and directed all the engineers and
conductors to go by that hanging concern slow, in
a kind of a snail gallop, up and down the road,
to give the passengers an opportunity to kick
the rigid bodies and strike them with a rattan.
And they did it. I pledge you my honour that
on the front platform they made a business of kick-
ing the dead bodies as they passed by; and the
women (I will not say the ladies, for down South
we make a distinction between ladies and women)
—the women, the wives, and daughters of men in
high position waved their white handkerchiefs in
triumph through the windows of the car at the
sight of the two dead bodies hanging there. Lead-
beater, for his murderous courage, was promoted by
Jefferson Davis to the office of brigadier-general.
He had an encounter, as their own papers at Rich-
mond state, at Bridgeport, not long ago, with a
part of General Mitchel's army, when Leadbeater
got a glorious whipping. His own party turned
round and chastised him for cowardice. He had
courage to hang innocent unarmed men taken out
of a gaol, but he had not courage to face the Yan-
kees and the Northern men that were under Mitchel
and Buell. He took to his heels like a coward as
he is. In the county of Knox, where I reside, and
only seven miles west of the town of Knoxville,
they caught up Union men, tied them upon logs,
elevated the logs upon blocks six or ten inches from
the ground, put the men upon their breasts, tying
their hands and feet under the logs,
stripped their
backs entirely bare, and then with switches cut
their backs literally to pieces, the blood running
down at every stroke. They came into court when
it was in session, and
when the case was stated the
judge replied,
"Those are revolutionary times, and
,
there is no remedy for
y anything of the kind,,
In the gaol
where I lay they were accustomed
to drive up with a
tr..ocar, with an ugly, rough,
flat-topped Coffin
upon it,
bayonets, as a guardaurrounded by fifteen
to forty men, with bristling
to march in through the
trembled
who
w a s i
tn o our
boots, r
gate into the gaol yard,
in that
with steady military tread. W
boots, for they never notified s
hanged, and you mayaniymamgainne
Your humble
servant felt; for if
their law, deserved the gallows, I :gaol, unde •
claim to have
e 1
been the man. I knew it, and they knew it. They
came sometimes with two coffins, one on each Cut,
and they took two men at a time and marched
them out. A poor old man of sixty-five, and his
son of twenty-five, were marched out at one time,
and hanged on the same gallows. They made that
poor old man, who was a methodist class leader, sit
by and see his son sinking till he was dead, and
then they called him a -- Lincoln Union
shrieker, and said, "Come on; it is your turn next."
He sunk, but they propped him up and led him to
the halter, and swung both off on the same gallows.
They came, after that, for another man, and they
took J. C. Haum out of gaol—a young man of fine
sense, good address, and of excellent character—a
tall, spare made man, having a wife at home, with
four or five helpless children. My wife passed the
farm of Ileum's the other day, when they drove