Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-25
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+ During his stay in Nashville, our inform
! ant visited the hospitals, which are fllst
with the sick. He estimates the number o.
the sick at from eight to ten thousand, TIL,
two hospitals on College street occupy al
entire square, and are enormous buildings
= They were crowded to excess! The inmates
| complained of lack Of attention, and were
suffering for want ofEfood The sick be-
sought him to give them water, there being
no one apparently to wait upon them even
to This common bounty. They we're poorly
supplied with clothing, and suffered from
cold. The prevailing diseases were pneu.
monia and smallpox. The troops from
Tex as, Louisiana and Mississippi suffered
most, the changeable climate seriously af-
fecting them, and inducing pneumonia in
the most aggravated form. The Texas
Hangers, distinguished by felt hats, white
and black, with the words {. Texas Rangers -
printed on them, above the band, were al
most al on the sick list, and in most pit
| liable condition. Deaths were very frequent,
and supplied the draymen of the city with
their principal business. 1t was no uncom-
mon sight to see dray carting off dead
rebel. boxed up, and without much ceremony
planted in The ground. There is a third
| hospital on Market street, near the public
| square, vast five story brick, running
back towards the Cumberland river. On
| Saturday last, train of six or seven cars,
| filled with sick, came in Fl ON Bowling Green,
the hospital at that place being unable to
accommodate them. 1t was proposed 10
take them to the Market street hospital, but
he heard the officers say that that building
| could accommodate no II ore, and orders
| were given to take them to the Court House,
| which was done, and that building con-
| yerted into temporary hospital.
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Nashville. The excitement consequent up
on the attempt to draft, had died out, and
the city was then quiet. He proceeded to
| GAINESVILLE, and there hired buggy to take
him to Lafayette, Kentucky. Arriving there
he hired team and driver to take him to
Cadiz, but after leaving the town bribed his
driver with q $50 gold piece, to convey him
to Princeton. from which point he made his
way to Ford's Ferry on the Ohio, and thence
by steamer to Evansville, and thence by
rail to this city. On his way from Clarks
vile to Lafayette, he was told that the reb-
el forces at Hopkinsyille were being con-
centrated at Bowling Green. He also
learned that the rebels were busily engaged
in erecting Notifications of the Cumberland
at Dover, and at another point forty miles
from GAINESVILLE down the river. There
were no Notifications at Nashville, and
cannon placed about the Capitol. The
work on the Notifications is being done by
negroes mainly. To secure sufficient force
Of laborers, the policy had been adopted of
drafting all able bodied negroes on the plan
tations. The officers enter the planters
house, ascertain the number of slaves owned
by him; and Immediately impress them into
the service, needless of sll protestations and
circumstances. The indignation aroused by
this arbitrary measure is intense but una
vailing.
The gentleman says that, all assertions
to the contrary, there is strong Union
feeling in Louisiana and Tennessee. He
thinks he cannot be mistaken in this, for he
took by the hand and talked with a number
of people in New Orleans and Nashville,
who would welcome the appearance of the
Federal army with the liveliest satisfaction.
They were very cautious to whom 'hey ex-
pressed their real sentiments, and their con-
ddence once secured, they made no reserva-
tons whatever. Dissatisfaction with the
present state OF things is almost universal,
and the rebels themselves are not in the
highest spirits. He over heard them, in the !
saloons and hotels of Nashville, discussing
the prospect of 8 battle at Bowling Green,
and the prevailing language was-s.They
are too strong for US, by c." With Bow
ling Green and Columbus in our hands, he
feels confident that our forces will be able to
seize Nashville and other cities further
South, without much difficulty and hardly a
contest.
The scarcity of coin is general throughout
the South. People who have it have hoard
ed it. In New Orleans, silver is at pre-
MUM of 40 and gold at so cents. Brokers
would hand out a hundred dollars in coin
for $3.50 in Tennessee money; while the
Confederate bonds we're held at greater
discount than the issue of the banks No
change was ever given for bank notes. Buy
a half dollars worth of stuff in the market,
and the change was invariably made in
tickets.
One of the refugees. to whom we are OBJ
Hged for this statement, preceded the other
in his exit from the Confederacy, by week.
He gives an amusing incident to illustrate
the scarcity of change. While seated in
the saloon of the Southern Coffee House,
in Nashville, three soldiers entered and
called for the drinks, lat a dime each) and
presented dollar bill in payment He
was handed seventy cents in che cks or tick
cts. The soldier demurred, and demanded
the change; the checks, be said, would be
of no use to him, as he was Immediately 60
ing into camp. The bar-keeper, however,
was obdurate. I" WE'LL" said the soldier.
81 give me back the bill, and by G. Pll take
pills and throw up all Pve drank RICH |
here" But this proposition was not act |
ceded to, and he left with the tickets in |