Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-12-06
our niehmOnd Correspondence.

our RIchmOnd Correspondence.
No chance for Naihye 70 become ths Sat Of Government
Reports from Csntrevle~Gen stnart--Bad Whisky and
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Special CORES pondencs Of s NaIhys Union and American
RICHMOND, Nov. 80, 1861.
Thry days hath September April, June and HoVembar
So we have reached the end Of the fall months
and the beginning of winter, without seeing the
rebellion crushed out" or "Jeff Davis hung" Or
1.-THE atar-spangled banner foating over Memphis"
or any other of the magnificent expectations of the
Vans. Keangs. as the Richmond Wing calls them
accomplished.
Itmay be that / am ike Mark Taply, whose spirits
were never so high as when his eli cumsanees were
at the lowest ebb but be that as it may, one thing
is certain, your correspondent, and hahy ..others
with him, are inclined to think that they see day
q breakin."
At all events, the bst way to meet q danger Is
to face it. and not pull face as long ss your arm
and as blank as the msjorty of prizes in lottery
Office. Why, that's the way the "young men who
live in stores" in this city doing just because
the militia are going TO be called out Camp life is
right bitter pill to people fond of idleness and
feather beds, and Yankee bullets viii make holes
that are rather hard to button up but what of that
We can't keep in feather beds forever; On the con-
trary, every mothers sen of us have got
to go to bed six feet under ground some
time or other; and as for dying suddenly,
that's heap better than dying by inches with con-
SUMPTION fever and things. Dce est to die for your
country think of that; and dalcissime est to put
out the mortal chunks CT few Yankees at the
same time Think of that, also.
Don't fatter yourselves that the Confederate
Government viii be transferred to Nashville. To
move half dozen Departments is no easy matter
You can't take them along in your hand as you
would an umbrella and carpet bag, nor can you
mail them or put them through by express. Rest
assured, the Government will remain here for some
years to come, unless we take Washington or the
Yankees bag US. But you ought not to want Nash
Vile to be the Capital of the Cont deracy. Itis
too beautiful city, and too full of pure society to
be spoiled by the contamination of politics.
That variety Of concentrated ies," which is
generally known as telegraphic dispatches, contains
among its latest ingredients the report of an mme
date and very big battle at Centrevie and Evans
port There is possibility of this, not certainty
MCCLELLAN may be fooling US with view to real
designs on the COST snd at Columbus. We are
abundantly ready for him up there. The baggage
has all been sent back and the battle flags dstribu
ted with solemn religious ceremonies. Let the
Yandal hOrdes come on.
1t may interest your readers 10 know that Gen
STUART, who commands the advanced forces at Ma
nassas and who is only Is years of age, is the
in,law Of Colonel (nGw Brigadier GeneraD ST. GEO
Cooke, of the regular Yankee army. Gen. Cooke
has another son-in>law, who is a surgeon in the
Confederate army, and son in command Of one of
the heavy batteries on the Potomac. He is the
uncle of JoHs Ester Cooks, the novelist, who is a
Seargent in howitzer OmpEny at Leesburg. Gen
STUART's command consist Of 16 600 men-3 500
cavalry and IL 500 infantry. Bis cavalry have been
Of immense service to the army, in doing picket,
courier, vidette and sentinel duty. They have
bagged not few Yankees, too; twenty>six Of their
captives having arrived here yesterday.
As to the doings of the invisible and insudible
Congress, have nothing to say, preferring to leave
that to your Confederate" Perhaps could pump
something out of cur Congressman if were to try;
but am afraid to associate much with them-not
because my pocket would be picked, for there ia
nothing in it, no more than In COngressmans head
but because should certainly acquire taste for
bad whisky.
GRANT and McCLEaSXSD's official reports of the
battle of Belmont are published in this mornings
Examiner, the editor of which, by the way, seems
disposed pay attention the denuncistOFy card
Of Mr.. SAMUEL LETCHEE, brother Of Honest JoHS,"
the Governor.
Icant read these Yankee reports with any pa
tience, for however pleasing fiction may be, down
right lying and self glorifcation nauseating in
the extreme. The Yankees always "cut it too fat"
Blessed fathers What a Brobdinsg romance
their history of this war will be.
On Monday next, third deliberatiVe machine
will be started here-the Legislature. No wonder
Main St. is so GRO wded on both sides that you can't
walk half square without hitting against dozen
men. To give you en- idea of how the crowd is
thickening in doors as well as In the streets will
state the caae OF al acquaintance Of mine. Him
self, his wife, two children, and two servants in
habit room IL by "a feet wide, and tina: is the
best he can do. This is packing behring's" for
you.
We are all laughing over the stampede at Wildcat
and it appears that RosECaANs, after charging
FLOYD, took to his heels in the sefsame ap
pLONCA LII LII sly ElOiD WAS ssEedA-
ing one way and RosECaANs was streak
ing the other. What picture Wonder if Har
psrs Weekly and Frank Leslie ever do justice to
these Bull Eln performances What pity we
haven't picture papers of our own! How the boys
in camp would enjoy few spirited cuts represent
ing the rapid travelling from Wildcat and Piketon
Your Nashville publishers have more enterprise
than any others in the Confederacy. Why don't
they get up frst elias illustrated Racing Calen
der" for the benefit OF the poor fellows in winter
quarters? PARKS
Gard from James BrItton Jr., OF Greene.
An EEpIIHtIion-My Position Defined and True Po-
Sion of tohdt has heretofore been EsOton ashe Union
Party in East Tennessee ShGdoped forth.
In August last l was elected to the General Az
sembly of the State Of Tennessee, as pint repre-
sentative from the counties of Greene, Jeffer-
son, Hawkins and Hancock, and was elected