New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-07
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1861

were alec prevalent tnat pS ary hdd Ialen back on
Bowling Green, and that Gen. Anderson was ad-
yancing along the railroad with 10000 Federal
troops. They were repeated in this mornings
paners and made the occasion Of strong hints 10 the
military rulers of the propriety Of preparing the
militia for active service Blinded as the rebels are
in this latitude by over-weening confidence In the
superior yalor of the defenders of Southern SOIL they
have got sense enough left to see the utterly defense
less position Of Nashville and recognize the certainty
that defeat of the Confederstes near the State line
would inevitably place their city at the mercy OF the
Yankee invaders"
There were about 1000 Kentuckians at Camp
Boone and an equal number of Tennesseeans at
Camp Trousdale, 70 that Buckner, with the Access
sions to his army from Central and Southern ken-
lucky, has probably no less than 1900 men under
him. II is claimed here that the troops at Camps
Boone and Trousdale were well uniformed, armed,
and drilled. But happen to know better, and that
from authentic sources. In both camps only about
three-fourths were armed, mostly with Indifferent
muskets, and not half well supplied with clothing
OF Commissary and Quartermasters Department,
hardly shadow existed before they took the field.
They have about twenty field pieces, but scarcely
any experienced arterists. 1t was reported on the
street this evening that dispatches had been received
from Richmond promising succor OF ten regiments
from the army of the POtOmac-with what truthful
ness few days will show.
Nv host assured me to-day that since the stoppage
Of the Louisville Railroad prices of every description
Of merchandise had risen from ten to twenty-five
per cent AS most articles were previously held at
exorbtant rates-from one to four hundred per cent
higher than in the North-it may be readily imagined
that the greatest privations and suferngs will visit
the poorer classes during the impending cold season.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 20, 1861
We are absolutely cut off from the North. Con-
tending armies have blocked up the last channel OF
communication so effectually that it now seems as
though Chinese wall interviewed between the two
sections Of the country. The mail and express failed
long ago. and at last the railroad and telegraph have
al.o gwen out. For four lifelong days already not
breath of trustworthy intelligence from the loyal
North has been waited 20 this latitude. begin to
realize my isolation. There is to me something ex-
tsmely oppressive in the thought of being separated
by almost nsurmountable distractions from the
cause and the people in which all my sympathies
CENTER and compelled to breathe-for months per-
haps-the same air with those engaged in the foulest
political crime that ever excited ones spirit OF hatred
and vengeance. And it is not the want OF COM
munon-be sort of compulsory
with the wicked ignorant, fanatical, british follow
ers of the Secession beresy / am now holding Is
g,eater source of mental trlbulation. Necessity
forces me to put up with the regular digestion OF the
contents of the daily organs Of treason and rebellion
in this city, 1t is q diet, can assure your readers
that would soon wear ont better constituted stom
ach than my own. Such doses of ignorance, men
dacity, sophistry, presumption, and blackgusrdlsm
as am nolens volens administering TO myself twice
a day, from the columns Of the morning and evening
papers Of this place Verify, the race that not only
toerates but encourages and enjoys such ntelleetuA
bastardy as is daily committed in The Daily Uni0'
and American, Patriot, Gazette, and Banner, de
serves no better than to be wiped out from amonI
the living II the files Of these journalistic abor
tons should outlive the rebellion, posterty will wan
no better evidence Of the justice Of the terrible retr
button that will sooner or later oyertake all tbos,
engaged in the Southern Pro-Slayery crusade.
This sweeping judgment applies with equal justice
not only to the Nashville, but to the Southern Pres
generally Nashville having been the center through
the South has passed during ii last six months, the
continued presence in the city Of travellers from al
parts Of the South created great demand and pro-
cured a liberal supply of all the leading Southern
papers, 80 that was not wanting means Of Judging
correctly. Southern journalism reflects truly and
fully the utter corruption of the Southern mind by
the political pestilence that has been rayaging upon
slave soil since November last. Never was human
intelligence prostituted to baser purposes. Never
Was the most responsible Of professions degraded
greater depth. Never was the guilt of guiding {
deceived people to ruin more madly assumed, snC
never more recklessly increased by the most unscru
pulous adaptation of the means TO the end
Fortunately the Southern press is already itsel
tasting the bitter fruit of the evil seed it has sown
One Of the most rabid of editorial Secession agita
tors il Richmond confessed in his paper the
other day the reluctant but sincere convic
ton that there was not single paying pape
published in the Southern Confederacy. Looking
over the twenty odd papers that adorn the
reading-room Of the City Hotel in this place
find unmistakable evidence that the troubles OF
bis soul were but too well-founded. Reduction OF
size, destution Of paying advertisements poor paper
Of various coors, miserable typography, and dolefu
notices oftl demse Of contemporaries characterized
the largest numbers and all this in spite of the fact
that they had all raised their prices nearly shty PEI
cent months ago. The want Of type and machinery
for the repair of presses, together with the steady
decrease Of the supply Of paper, will make fearful
havoc among those that managed TO survive thus far
There is but type fOundery in the South located
in Richmond, and its capacity lie very limited Al
to paper, Memphis daily stated but a few days
since that it feared that all the Southern daes woulC
have to appear before long in half sheets. An at