New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-06
FROM kENTUCRy.
u.b,I Grswiipg .beut Hatierss Condition
.f-payI.'s Army-yo psy-No Clothes
Little TO Eat-Keniucky shouId b. ss once
Or.upisd-The Home GuarS-smuggIing
C.pt,sbsaa Geod.-New to Treat Urea.
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LOUISVILLE. Sept. l. 1861.
The NasIsiHs Usion Of 3lst talks thus spite.
fully and spunkiy HbOat the taking of Fort Hat.
teras;
For the lack Of ammunition, Fort Hs.teras, on
the Of Norb Carolina, has surrendered 70 Pioy
une Butler who commanded fleet with 10 gun, snd
400 men. The neglect 20 furrish alninnri'ion TO
these bravo men, on isend coast il mot iueXcus-
able. Pieayune must be oislodgsd Immediately, al
every hsz.d and 10 the lsst extremity. 1his viii be
tho last victory Of General BOrb2sies Fuliosc.'
If the recapturo of the font be undertaken, we
shall be able to see whether tie pirates arc as
good ct fighting az they are at Dragging. L be-
liove thoy have not Jet given to tho admiriDg
world the first saIaple OF their Yaor before an
intrenched enemy, save that at Sumter il which
5000 or 10000 attacked 20 men.
Tie Sams papor has language in relation TO
the Quartermastcr's Department OF Tennessee,
which is aigniio can't nnd suggestive. 1t says:
nWo have leaned from highly reliable gentleman,
who was recently of Richmond, that President Davis
doubts the entire ability ftho Confederate Government
during the approaching Winter to supply Quaiernss-
ters' equipments 10 tho army aud would prefer that
each State should undertake 10 furnish lie own volun
teers the Confederate Government being responsible
fOr the ex,enceg. The various departments at Rich
mynQ Lfo not yet thoroughly ofgonLcNi anu oven III
organized would not have tie iacities Tor gath
erlDg together tho scattered materials in the coanIy.
ain able 10 state facts which The Uaioa does
not mention, but which may have something to
do with the notion Of TelHessoe's maintaining
ber own solJiery by means Of State Quarter
Masters Department. They reach Inc by way
of Nashville but were not put in my possession
by the editors Of The Union and American. A
Conspicuous rebel returned from Virginia to
Nashville the other dny, bringing in his trunk
great number OF letters from soldiers to their
friends. These letters give information that very
many Of The troops are absolutely without shoes,
aud nearly naked; snd they are not paid, even
In tue miserable, deprecated currency Of tho
country. The truth leaks cut more and Ilore
every day, that the poor, degraded, infatuated
sorfs who have been forced into .rrs against
their country. are suffering both nskedness and
huuger. Some Of them, while passing through
Nashville have been suffered 10 wander about
the streets In 80 pitiable state Of starvation
that loyal people have called them into thoir
houses. aud fed them for PHYS sake. There ia
another reason why Tennessee should preserve
her own Quartermaatcr's Department; She is
the beat supplied State in the so.calicd COnfcd-
cfacy, rsooiying supplies from the rebels in Ken.
tuckyi and very natural selisaGei, suggests 10
her leading traitors that the extra supply should
be kept in their own family.
Let me soy 10 our Unclo Abraham tLat the
.hae lor tI-EoS a..a Ee4tseA, 80 sa.svl. LIZ