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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-28

We have an army of women in our midst, With an
average Of three children each, whose husbands
are fighting our battles. These mothers earn about
thirty cents per day, when they can getthe work to
do Their helpless offspring are clad IN the thin and
worn garments of last spring, shoeless and stock
ingless They are to be shod snd clothed for the win
ter, and fed, even if it be upon cheap bread alone
Yesterday reminded us that they must have fires to
protect them from winters chilly blasts" There
IS within the limits of the city sufciency of COAL
if economically used, to last until spring. This
coal cost only peace prices to mine and deliver here
and twenty days ago, as we are informed, it could
have been bought at twenty cents per bushel, and
handsome bonus would have been paid to the Per
son who would have found purchaser, because
it would have been good speculation on the part
of holders to have sold out at that rate. Yesterday
thirty-fve and forty cents per bushel were deman-
ded, with an intimstion that to day the price may
may be fifty cents. .1
In the name of humanity, shall this army of wo-
men and helpless children-the wives and children
of the brave men who are periling their lives that
we may have peace and pendence-freeze,
because the exorbitant prices demanded by
holders has placed fuel out of the reach Of their
limited means? A more gloomy prospect for win
ter certainly never has hung over the poor of this
city, and especially in cases where the heads Of
families have gone to drive the invaders froE'
Southern soil. Almost every necessary of life has
gone up to worse even than /" famine prices" 1t re
ally seems as if sharpers had combined to
mouopolise the trade and to fatten upon the
necessities of those who are fighting the bat
ties of their country. We hear one univer-
sal complaint that the prices Of almost every CON-
fort as well as necessary are exorbitantly high.
The people, who can earn no more now by their
labor than they did before the war commenced
cannot understand or appreciate this heavy ad.
yancs and they naturally conclude that spectators
are at the bottom of the matter We are at q loss
10 know how the poor of Nashville are tobe cared
for the coming winter, under the circum-
stances that surround u.s. and indeed we
know that large numbers cannot support
themselves upon the small stipend they receive
from the Government and the little plttsnce the
women can earn by their labor if they have to pay
the prices that are st present demanded. Instead
Of combinations to raise prices, patriotism would
dictate that combinations should be gotten up to re-
duce them
The course pursued by tradesman generally in
the South has produced great deal of discomfort
and not without apparent reason. In the present
crisis everything should be done to tighten the bur
Xens of the people, for they are heavy enough al
heat
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rhe Battle Of Lexington.

The brilliant victory of Gen. PRIcE at Lexington
Missouri, has revived the ardor and enthusiasm Of
the people It was won, after three days hard
fighting Lexington is the key to Kansas, and the
upper Missouri. Its to be the future capital under
the disenthralled Government.
The arms, military chest, containing s25O,OOO,
ouartermaster's stores, etc. are an important aid
to the suffering patriots Of Missouri, and their cap
ture opens up brighter prospect, in the future
for that downtrodden State. -
twas indeed glorious and important victory
All honor to the gallant and intrepid Price and his
brave soldiers i B3sF
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PabIIc NTesIinr To-DnY.

A numberof gentlemen who have been commits
stoned by the Confederate Government to cOmmu-
nieats with the people, on the very important sub
ect of the produce loan, desire to meet their fellow
citizens to day and counsel with them touching a
matter which deeply concerns the success of our
Government and the future welfare of the people
1t is desirable that the most substantial citizens OF
our city should take such interest in this guess
ton, as shan eYince determination to sustain the
Government at every point and st all hazards. We
hope to see large and enthusiastic meeting --
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ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

From another correspondent, who was attached
to Col Hills command we have a full account Of
the fight alluded TO above. We make the following
extract from the letter, which will be found int
resting:
nearing the enemy's stronghold, divided Col Log
wood commanding one half and Major Charles Hill
the other who had command of the Hill cavalry.
Captain Neely's company and Captain Hsywood's
company. On their approach to the enemy sig
nal gunEWas fred, and the picksts some twenty in
numbes fired upon Major Hills command, (Colonel
L0gWoed being ordered to flank them on their left)
The order was given to charge. which was done IN
gallant STYLE md especial credit is due to the seve
raj captains in charge of the companies viz Capt.
Claiborne, Captain Nicely, and Captain Haywood,
for the gallant and manly part they bore ID the ac-
ton They received the fire, and then the charge
was ordered and obeyed and Eve Yankee rascGls
paid the forfeit Of their lives for their temerity
have had the good fortune to speak personally with
three Of our men who did bag Hessian, ard many
others who testify eye-witnesses TO the killing
THE youngest man in the battalion, Mr.. Char
Claiborne, of the Hill cavalry, the frat man
kill Yankee in Kentucky; his gallant conduct on
the occasion was openly complmented by his
superior officer IN command Mr.. John CbVingtOn,
also of the same company, who got his horse shot,
killed the Yankee that shot him, and Mr.. Buck
Cockrill also Of the same company, killedlthe IAN
kee who shot deliberately at him and missed him.
Mr. Durett and Mr.. Gilchrist, of Capt Neely's com
pauy, also killed their man. Mr.. Mike AcGrath,
Of Haywood's company also killed Yankee. The
Yankees ever true to their Manassas Characteristic
ran with Mcdowell speed. On our near approach
to the mill at the mouth Of the creek two regime IS
supported by artillery, discovered: The order
was given to form into line, and the retreat was
made slowly and perfect order, without the loss
of q single man, and only two horses killed.
Information has been received in camp, since the
engagement, from the snemyis quarter, in all
respects verifying the above faets, with this addi-
tional fact that there were five killed. and one mis-
sing. The boys speak of the fight and Of killing
Yankees ss they would of killing snakes, and say
that the whistling of bullets near their Head only
excited them to renewed action Take it altogether,
it was a days sport that win be reme nbsred to
their sorrow by LIncoln's troops on Mayhbd creek.
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ARRIYAL oF PRIsOYERs.


The Central cars that arrived yesterday evening
brought an installment Of AZ Hessians, including
Captain Cox and others, recently captured by the
First Virginia Cavalry, under Col. J. l.. Davis on
Qo,e river, in Boone county. Captain Cox and q
themselves on footing of familiar intercourse with
their custodians, and were kept apart from the men
"a sury truculent set Of miserable looking seoun-
drels. In the crowd were one. or two Union :"
men. No one could see them without being con-
WINGED Immediately that a much stronger affair
than the late republic would have ultimately fallen
to pieces when advocated by such cut-throat look
ing fellows. The prisoners were carried to one of
the depots on Main street
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From, the Upper Potomac.

1AIOul1OI14
4 report was, BY some meSns, extensively eircu-
lated in the city last night thRtthe enemy had cross
ed the Potomac, st Leesburg and invested the town.
The report probably originated in exaggerations
the fact which reached late last night that de-
tachment of the enemy had crossed over to LoVetts
vile and fortified themselves in the tswn church.
1t is possible that the movement is only the incur
sion Of forsging party. A detachment of our
forces had been sent to Fspulse the enemy. ..,.
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- a - RIFLE CANNON FOE CAyALkY SERVICE
The Richmond ErGniEer of the 25th says: "The
necessities Of the times are producing number of
wsrlike inyentiOns, and developing the genius of
the South in anew channel Of usefulness. Many Of
these, already noticed in our columns have been Of
a very interesting description We were shown
yesterday, ia this city, new arm Of service that
has attracted the attention of the Government and
tlatBromises the most effective service IN the field.
Itfs rifle cannon, q ponder, invented by Mr..
JoHN kULLANE, late of Louisville, Kentucky. 1t is
said to be the most powerful gun Of its weight and
ealibre in the world. The gun weighs only 2sO
pounds, and shoots 8 conical bali, weighing six
pounds, from two and half to three miles. The
barrel is made on a stub and twist principle, of
wrought iron, using longitudinal bars to form
tube, with two series of iron banding welded solidy
to this tube and to one another By this means the
gun is forged hollow, which said to account for
its wonderful combination Of srength and lghtness
This formidable arm can be maneuvred in the field
by two men, adapting it to the rapid movements of
light cavalry. The Government, we understand
has ordered the manufacture of number of these
guns. The tests as to the quality and strength
have been very satisfactory, 24s rounds of ball
cartridge having been shot out of Of these guns
with q satisfactory result
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Letters on slavery, by Hon. James win.

Letters on slavery by Hon. James Will"
Jams, late q, s. Minister 10 Constantine
pie.
We are pleased to learn that the author of this
work has with great iberaIty, rendered its entire
proceeds after paying the cost of publication, to
the ladies Of the Soldiers Hospital Relief Society Of
Nashville and that the proposition has been accept
ed by Mrs. FELICIA G. PORTER, President of the As
ISOLATION. The work will be issued from the Press
Of the Southern Publishing House Saturday next,
when it will be offered to the Public by the Society;
We hope to see an immense sale, inasmuch as the
purchaser will not only get the ablest and most at
tractive general work ever published on the great
question that now so much exercises the mind
Of the civilized world, and has produced the
most important revolution of modern times, but
he will also be aiding our sick and suffering sol
diers, who have been stricken down, while engaged
in defending the rights and achieving the independ-
ence of the South.
This book is pronounced by critics to be the most
philosophical and comprehensive exposition of the
question of African Slavery in its social industrial
and political aspects, and the most powerful vindi
cation Of that has yet appeared
from the press 1t is written in st yle of flowing
esse that renders it highly attractive to every intel
Hgent reader, and gives evidence of deep thought,
extensive research, large acquaintance with the So
phistres of the Abolition school, both in Europe
and America, and enthusiastic devotion to the inst
tutions of the South All the tortuous and plausible
theories of the modern negrOphilists are triumph
antly refuted, in style that viii commend itself to
the common sense of mankind and strike dumb the
calumniators of the South, wherever reason and
philosophy instead of prejudice and false and mis-
taken philanthropy prevail. ...
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From gentleman who arrived from Kent
the ed instant, we learn that on THURSDAY In
Of Lineoln's Runboats steamed il the Cumbe
70 within few miles Of Hillman's iron wcrk Ks
seizsd about two hundred tons Of iron. whicl
some time since been deposited on hstboats.
iron was towod down 70 Smirhland, and win a
less prove quite serYieesble 70 Old ABE, who
it-CIdrksUias Js6srsoaiGR, Sept. "a
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A PATRIOTIC FANuY.-Capt. Benz Z. Spence
the Faris and fuckers Greek Volunteers. in
Lyrehburg end Of Lincoln county, has .
brothers and brothers-in-laW, who have enlist
the southern struggle for freedom. That fs
therefore, FURNISHES twelve gallant soldiers,
VIII make their mark before the war ends
are aetuatea BY an exalted spirit Of Christian !
otigm-and such men never can be conc 4
They are represented in Turneys, falion's, 80
new regiment now forming. Honor to the SDe
family ~ aysitsUiIs Observer.
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EOIfce.

WILL sill for cash. at Re Carpcr ter shop o. Jai
u Adams, on the Broad Street Pike IN Nsss NssaG
Thursday, the IOth day OF OetOb
All the Plank and Enesr, and Two snail wagons. Is ID
y % aid laekscn Adams, % satisfy M basoce q N
t,oz IN ny hands Ia fEvor Of woods, featman CO,
W. D. Rohertssn aeBtenbr l9. 1915 No 405 One excl
fEYsr OF A. ullAR for o. SIX collars and eiEhtgseyI
lsSued By ". D RObsrson Nay I. ejl, No Hlo3i Nns
Of Len Cash for balance OF execution issued b. u
son March y, 1860. No 1857 execution In s-1r
Conner g. ans H Pc ca, -askzon & adams, ase
Psntecast ,siagor, fr seventy six dollars. 1ty-ous
o. s.s issued By W RouertOa Nafch 9. $50 30 7g1J
scution Tor bzlzncs 10 favor john Ung ~
Meore, issued ~ " Robertson NoTstiss- 2, 1861,
one exscau D for hAlaLcs in iaYor % Gr9Omes, Cave
against arm Jackson. Issued y " D ROortaou
'e5o, No ESQ; one execution in faTur Of W Birdie
q Phil lip BroIn, against Jselssr ard siayedl
rem Jaekson, slusd By W D kobsitsna June % ls5,
sale to commenee a. II o'clock A n.
JESSE v PAD
ssp27-tds Constable of aEidson Il
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RECEIVER FOR WEsr TENENssEE We understand
Judge HUMPHREYS has appointed HOWELL E. jack
SON, Esq, of Memphis Receiver for West tennessee
under the seguestration act.
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escape from Fort McIle1ry, and was "a his way d
this city The intelligence came to us At ldte hour
last night; but, so far as we could make inquiry
was fully authenticated -
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Hganavyay,

TTRON the Subscriber, Hving IA Elgtfe'd, about
ara,a NsRFo Wonsans Of Dark brova co Or
IA about 81 yeazs cd Rasai n lhl c5uniy, aai ri
1hout the city.
vi give lissral reward lor beg appreaension sna
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Election for Direct1r8 gf re Tame see Aarias
~ Insurance. coupIny, will be had ~ tls on e "
pz1y on Monday, The IN Of Oot,b-r Daxt.
Scn9Ssds a. w. BCTbER, Fs'
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TRABUE & LUCUs.

UTE VIII sn to the highest slider. on Moray
w Eeptsu Der 3Jt1, 1901. c0nmsncing at ten %
eisely, The entire stock Of staple aot faIey Dry Goo
Boots. Hats, Caps ard Clotnir g. &C, C Ins -
being attashad ~ Issr to SATISFY 5.ndry deaia t.
b positive and without re .erye Va. ~
aept26-dtds ~
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NAsHvnLB, GDGEEIELDl AND -
EEw ROUTE TO TIE WET AND soUI
MBMPHIs, JACKSON, NEW ORL
yICKsBURG, mOBILE, HICK "a |
COLUMBUS, &C
ooEKxEczEs 7HuRseAI sEPTT5BER

C0HEXECZRg THURSEAI SEPTT1lBER o.
Trains VIA run e folloEsi
$50 M-MsmphiS Express-Rans DailJ-nak
esEpsetioa with Al points south and West. Distan
and tine less than b any other Route
Through Tickets for sale At Ticket once IN y. q ".
Depot, 70 HempAiS, Hiekran. Puir, Hura1oItl.
ytstson. Nsv OrlsHn8 and Mobile.
The ReEulas Freight Train leaves Nashville
Wednesday and Fridays at : A u, and auigss IN
Tuesdays, Thursdays and sstzrtEys At P n
A. ANDE 2 d
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E. D. WHEELER, M.
De til = t,

r ATE CT Hurfahsboro, intesding 70 make bis q
4 idenss in Eashyile. Ts)e nslly easIs protest.
To1 % is ci6zeE5in the speciality Or DEsrAL sps 2
I'M tie close Of the pr ssnt year he RAY Be iopnd Y
lof kol( Of eqcA noah, 81 he ulee formsry ccru
ngHsiry, 90 sunsr srssi, ts.Essu cllzrcA and pniS
ra-s5-tfu fst Igh.
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Among the recent arrivals in the city we are peas
ed to notice Col JoHN c. BURH, of this paper, AID
20 Gen. Pillow, who is on brief visit to has lam
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ArrtvaasOf the Captain of the French
nnWvafta- T.,

The announcement that the Captain and officers
of the French corvette LaYoisier were expected tc
arrive in our city yesterday afternoon, drew large
crowd of our citizens to the leyee. At about
o'clock the steam tug Watson, Capt SturdsVant, on
which the French officers we're expected, was seen
coming up the river, and when abreast of the u
S. receiving ship MeRae, received salute Of five
guns. ..s, -.e .-.s -
The tug landed at the foot of st. Joseph street
whittier the crowd focked to see the officers. Il
seems that John n. Bach, Esq, our well known
feloW-citizen. had gone down in the tug to escort
up the officers, and On his coming ashore the crowd
mistakiug him for the commander Of the French
vessel cheered him Justify.
The tug only brought up Capt. Ribourt and Lieut.
G. BAteoot of the French corvette, who were
received by Count Mejan, the French Consul, who
had a carriage in waiting, and drove them to his
house.
We learn that these officers will remain day or
two with us, aud will have opportunity Of en-
Toying our hospitality. 1t is said that Capt Ribourt
is the bearer of very important dispatches to Ad
miral Reynaud, the commander of the French
Squadron on the American coast, and who is now
at New York and it is supposed that Lieut.. Berte-
loot will proceed by land to deliver these dispatches
TO the French Adpiral-Ne1O Orleans Picaylne
Sept %.
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News FRNN BALTIMORE AND HARBEEs FERSY-A
gentleman just arrived in this city brings US news
from Baltimore. The Ecchsnge, the South and the
Republican, bad been suppressed, and the SIM was
expected to share the same fate soon. The Pea.
body Institute has been converted into prison for
let manhood blush-ladiesi The coming of the
army of deliverance under Johnston and Reaure-
gard is looked for with intense interest, and the
soft hands of Baldmore's fairest daughters have
already woven numerous wreaths with which to
decorate the brows of our victorious soldiers God
speed the day of deliversnee.
Tho same gentleman informs us that skirmish
took place at or near Harper's Ferry on yesterday
week, in which Federal field officer was killed,
the man who killed him being our informsnt's au-
thority for the statement Richmond Dispatch,
Sqt. Is, ask sss.
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Reeruits WnnIed.
For sale.

AR. BEN FoRD desirgs to forn conps1y Of Light n
lFA those desiring TO Volunteer VIII please report
AZ EoI 2, Cedar street near Public square spI
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A YOUNG ard likely negro woman, With ons danrh'
"a Ave years Of age The woman is good house .,
gOod cook, washer and isorer, AID fair sssnztrfs
?. CBfBDREs
ep27-d1W az Cherry
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EscAPR oF CO... TIoNAs.

The Richmond Eragpinsr Of the 25th says:
1t was understood last night that Col. Thomas,
well known from his brilliant exploit in the capture
Of the steamer Sc. Nicholas last Juue, had made his
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IELEGBAHIg TxrEysIONs.
he Richmond Disrctch of the 25th says:

Inc hlcnnOnd OLSICtch OF the Z9tl says:
E The State has been pretty well spanned by the
telegraph wire. ana lt will not be long ere every
division of the army in Virginia will be in immedi-
ate communication with the Capital With the
army on the Potomac, on the Peniusula, and at
Norfolk, the electric wires have served q msst
ful purpose, and they are now being extended 10
wards the army IN tine West; cOnsummston which
has been devouty wished. Not only this but field
telegraphs are stationed at convenient localities and
our ingenious electricians will lay wires for sub
marine operations If they shall be found necessary.
In this connections may state fact which shows
how we are getting along in manufactures hitherto
claimed exclusively by the North. The first Com>
plete set Of Geographic instruments ever made in
Virginia has been completed at the sewing mschine
factory on Cary street, and is now in operation at
the Danyille depot, and several more have been
ordered from the same establishment.
THE PATENT OFFICE.
The sRiehmond DispqiGb Of the 25th learns that
the business of the Patent Office has increased so
rapidly that the apartments hitherto occupied are
altogether too crcumscribed and the Office viii to-
day be removed to more commodiOus rooms in the
third story of the Government building on Ninth
street. The Dispatch Is gratided to learn that the
Office is now self.sustaining, fact which shows
that the South is not lacking in inventive resources
which the war has had the good effect Of bringing
to light A considerable proportion Of the apPhcs-
tons arc for improvements in firearms and projec-
tiles, though there are many inventions, both
ingenius and useful.
THE REPoRTED NUTINY IN WASHINGTON.
The Richmond Dispatch of the 25th says:
The report of the shooting Of four hundred Fed
ederal soldiers, in Washington, noticed yesterday
was brough to this city in letter to distinguished
Marylsnder, by gentleman who managed to elude
the vigilance Of Lincolns hrelngs, and escape into
Virginia. The story goes that Mcclellan contem-
plated an advance movement few days ago. when
one regiment mutInied that they were tried tyes
drum head court martial and the ringleaders shot,
as above stated.
ESCAPE OF COL THOMAS.
The Richmond Examiner Of the 25th says:
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~ = IUUAL FiGILANVh CUNMIfIEL5.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 25th says

We would strongly urge the organization of local
vigilance committees along the Confederate Stats
border particularly in the direction of Winchester,
Virgins and Nashville, Tennessee, as valuable and
appropriate auxiiAry to the Government in inter-
cepting refugees aud suspicious emigrants on the
routes to the Nsrth. The present reformed aud
vigilant management of the passport Office under
the at once courteous and firm sup;rintendence of
Mr.. Jones, of the War Department, in subsection
them 10 the discretion Of the general Commanding
officers on the border, shows the appreciation on
the part of the Government Of the strictest neces
sty of closing all communications with the North.
The assistance Of the vigilance Of the people, espe-
cialy routes of travel, not common thoroughfaFes,
is very important tothe Government in tie accom-
phishment of its purpose, and should be promptly
rendered at all available points.
- NO DIVISION N THE CABINET.
The Richmond Eramiaer Of the 18th says We
are satisfied that the statement Of Divergence of
vie Us among the members of the Government upon
the mode of prosecuting the war is entirely incor-
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headquarters Medical DsPa<tr1oil
NAsHyILEE. Sept. Is, i6ii.
IL claims and accounts aEaiuis he Nsical Dgpsrs
the Provisional Army Gf eanesee. are req nd 4
EErdsd 10 their sGos in nediateis Cor ssltie.1ert.
b order Of the Medical Beard
GEOBGs L. BLACKTI
Fap27-d twAEiW aGci Eu-gscn md Medical urI