Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-30


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Unusual actiTtyArgival Of troops--Removsl Of sck-
Hndmanh brigade here--Y Vaccination Runners &c.
BcWLNG GREEN, KY, Nov. 20.
If there is one outrage more criminal in ita char
scter than another, being committed BY the SKY
LOCKS Of this now important place, which, with
in the past three months has sprung from chaos
into money changing and wholesale butcher shop,
the Yankee system Of extrayagsRtly discounting
soldiers money, is that erimeg Upon every street
IN town and there are not afew, can be seen hang
ing from the windows and door-jsms of houses
signs painted with lamp black on pasteboard- Ten
nessee and South Carolina money exchanged for
gold'. Entering the back room of retail gro
Gerry store, or in some convenient nook Of euon-
dam bar,room, can be seen a weazel faced, and in
his business, proficient money changer, who &C
costs you with '.what can do for yeu to-day, SIR
Explaining your business and the necessity
which compels You to resort to his shaving shop,
in very bland manner you are informed that "Ten-
nessee money is thirty five per cent discount. "The
soldier who has received 81 in Southern money
for the past months services, and neeessitated to
make purchases for needful articles transfers his
earnings to the broker and in return receives
eight dollars and quarter, mostly in silver, with
the exception of the quarter which the dealer I'M
! fortunately happens not 10 have but in order to
make the change, takes from his customer seyentys
five cents of the silver given him and returns him
one dollar Tennessee bill. 1t is as difficult in thus
yet Union town, to purchase bar of soap, pound
Of starch, or what you will with , Confederate
States BILL IS it would be for pauper to success
fully carry on a first elass hotel. To pay board
bill of 81 per week, So, in Tennessee money must
be forthcoming in Kentucky funds, how.
ever, paper bills purpOrting to pay 81, at their
banking houses (all of which. are now within
the enemy's lines) are readily taken. of what &C
count is Kentucky money to res idents of strang
ers passing through Bowling Green? Its real
value at present to citizens of the Confederate
States, or even to Union men living here, is GER
tainly not more than the blank paper upon which
the promises to pay are printed 1t is as impossis
Bile for a biLholder of this place to receive specie
for Kentucky bank note, at Kentucky banking
house. as It's for an engine TO perform revolution
| without some motive power. Yet this money
which cannot be redeemed is eagerly sought after
and is changed and exchanged as freely as though
its basis were specie, which it is not Let such
ruinous discrepancies as are made between the two
representatives of capital cease and both be put
par, or if an inYidious distinction is to be made
let the circulation of Kentucky money be discarded
altogether.
Let the robbers, native and imported, who from
the necessities of the times are growing fat and
purse-proud, be compelled to close their leeching
establishments at once, then will Southern money
circulate upon an equality with that of other monies
for the redemption of whose issue there is no more
security than for that of Tennessee, Louisiana or
South Carolina. Msyhap the evil complained of has
root at home if So but little advance toward rem.
edying it can be effected here but that something
should be done to alleviate the condition of those
holding and who are compelled to use such funds,
is patent.
As was anticipated, the message of the newly in
augurated Governor was read before the Council
yesterday. Il is a document of considerable merit
replete with arguments in favor of the action taken
by the late Convention in forming the Provisional
Government now in operation. Recommendation
for specific purposes, looking to firm establishs
msnt of the Government whose Jurisdiction it Is in
tended shall extend over the entire State, are made
BRExNRDGE's brigade which was at Rochester
on Green river, day before yesterday have vacated
their position, and after useless march of eighty
or ninety miles, weary and foot sore, returned last
evening If at any one time since the occupancy of
this point by the COnfederstes move was pOrtend
ed, the unusual activity prevailing in the different
departments unquestionably augurs the immediate
transpiring of events of a momentous character,
Whether move will be made or an attack IS an
dcipated, cannot be definitely stated.
Within the past fortyreight hours numbers of
troops, infantry and cavalry, have been arriving
here from different points. All the sick who have
so cOnvalesced as to be able to be removed,
| are being taken to Nashville Several hundred in
yaIds have already been sent away, but the origi-
nal number Of troops have not been decreased
owing to the daily arrival of discharged patients.
Gen. HRDNAN's brigade which wasat Rocky HILL
| and afterwards fell back to Oakland, arrived here
yesterday, and are encamped short distance from
/ town.
By q general order from the chief of the medical
department., all soldiers and citizsns who have not
been, are ordered to be yRccinated at once, thus
guarding against the smallpox, which has made
its appearance in sections of the country adjacent
Innumerable rumors, varied in their nature, are
afost, a. to the Federsls having crossed Green
river, in large force aso, that sixteen Texan Ran
gers had been captured between Glasgow and
] Greensburg.
These reports have no foundation except in the
brains of sensahonists, whose wits are ever at
work. devising come bugbear to brighten the credu-
lous and tmid. LEXINGTON.
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Letter from ass Tennessee.
RoGERsEHLE, Tenn, Nov. 2G, 1861.