New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-07

with anxious curiosity. But success emboldens.
After the lapse of a few days my sense Of danger
became bunted, and mingled with people on the
street. visited paees Of public resort, and gradually
extended my range Of observations Of men and mat
ters with az little concern as formerly fequented
my customary haunts in the Empire City.
| The City Of Nashville lie situated upon elevated
limestone bluffs on the left bank Of the Cumberland
River. Viewed from it's higher portions, its wide
and regular streets, it's compact and commanding
exparse of business edces, surrounded with circle
of splendid private residences amid beautiful under
groves and finely arranged gardens, together with
it's truly magnificent public buildings-among which
the stately Capitol is the most prominent-prefents
an ensemble of truly striking appearance. Nashville
impresses one altogether more like Northern, or
rather Northwestern, than Southern city. Its
dimensions are large and indicative Of the confidence
Of the inhabitants based upon past success in future
greatness and prosperity. Traces Of recent improve
ment enterprise and thrift, are perceptibe in every
direction. In ten years the city had, indeed trped
i.s popuaton-from 10, 600 to 3O,OOO-and more than
quadruped the value of taxable property. But even
transient observer of the present status Of Nashville
cannot fail to be impressed with the conviction that
whatever apparent indications of business activity
there may be in the capital of the most thrifty Of
Slave States, they reflect the past rather than the
present. The blight Of Secession has arrested the
progress of Nashville. A walk the business
portions of the city, survey Of the customless
appearance Of the open and count oil the closed
stores on the public squares, in Market, Cherry,
College, Union and Broad streets, and OF the idle
wors shops and factories Water and other streets
reveals plainly the severity Of the blow inflicted upon
the trade and industry of the city by the wanton sew
erance of the ties that cemented Tennessee, politically
and commercially with the North. In spite Of the
immense natural advantages of the city-ts location
in the heart of one Of the finest agricultural regions
in the oountry-its direct connections by rail and
water with all parts Of the North and South none
of which was disturbed obstructed TO any very
injurious extent until Just now-its business has been
paralyzed ever since its doom was sealed by the
passage Of the ordnance linking the political fortunes
Of Tennessee TO those OF the Cotton States.
II is true Nashville has been as yet visited less Sc
verely than any other commercial point in the South,
and this is owing 20 the fact that its rail facilities to
the Ohio River enabled ,s Wholesale and retail mer-
chants to procure If not all, at least portion Of
their customary supplies Of goods, the blockade TO
the contrary notwithstanding. Nashville doublessly
imported more foreign" goods in the course Of the
past Summer than any other Southern city, and its
business men realized splendid profits all the gooos
they could command But the day before yesterday ter.
minated the partial exemption from the fatal effect
Of the general embargo upon Southern trade the city
had hitherto enjoyed and Nashville will henceforth
keep pace with Memphis yickburgh, hatcher, New
Orleans, &C., on the road to inevitable ruin. No
thing can more clearly illustrate the infatuation and
recklessness Of Southern rebels than the interrupt
ton Of travel and freighting over the Louisville
and Nashyille Railroad, with the connivance, and at
the instance Of the Secession leaders in this place.
They knew that from the very moment this, their
last means of communication with the North, was
cut off, most Of the articles Of daily consumption
would Immediately rise in price, and consequently
the already prevailing distress among the poor be
greatly increased, and yet they countenanced ard
even encouraged the destruction Of the road by
their sympathi1ers under Gen. Buckner.
IL was quite interesting 10 observe the effect OF
the news Of the rising Of the Secessionsts in Ken
tucky-their open defiance Of Federal and State
yforcibly taking possession of the lower end
Of the Louisville and Nashville Rsilroad-the burning
Of bridges, etc. Those in authority herersbout-
Gov. Harris, Brig -Gen. Foster, aud their immediate
confdants-were, OF course, fully aPprized in adj
vance Of the intentions Of Gen. Buckner, and even
the general public had been somewhat prepared for
a c0sp d 6iat by strong intimations thrown out by
the press. Thus tho news did not create much sur.
prise, but the excitement caused by the cousumma-
ton of what had been desired by good many, and
expected by nearly all, was, nevertheless, intense
The morning papers day before yesterday contained
the last direct telegrapbic intelligence from the North
the swan.song Of w. NJ Barr, the agent Of the
New Orleans Associated Press, who is at last Ms to-
days papers announce, about meeting his richly.de-
served fate of an involuntary sojourn at Fort La
fayerte so often telegral ideally denounced by him
as "Lincoln's Bas,ille." On the evening OF the
same day-the 18th instant-an extra appeared with
an account OF the Sudden snd mighty rise Of the
friends Of the South in Southern and Central Ken.
lucky" the advance Of the Kentucky regiments
from Camp Boone, and the Tennessee troops from
Camp Trousdale upon Kentucky soil -" the march
Of Gen. Buckner upon Louisville" &c. The sensa-
ton budget wound up WITH 1--WE learn that a few
nights since park of field artillery forwarded
to Camp Boone from this city, in anticipation of
decisive events in Kentucky"
Groups OF ehciteu Inul!uuAis boon CVheCleu III
front Of the newspaper Offices in Cherry and Dead
wick Streets at the Of the public square, and
in front Of the City Hotel, eagerly discussed the
stirring news, and INDUCED from time to time in
cheers for Old Ksintuck Gen. Buckner, Gov. Ma
coffin, and John c. Breckenridge. The crowdreemed
TO be fully impressed with the idea that the Confed
crate flag would fly over Louisville in the next forty
eight hours. One violent parsonage loudly gorihed
in the prospect of controlling the Ohio River, and