Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-21

containing British landholders' money forms
the main feature Of the remaining charges in
the specification.
We need hardly call attention to the fact
that every outrage mentioned by the Tines's
correspondent Is to be referred directly TO the
Olericals, whom Juarez, the President to be
deposed by protectorate, is at this moment
putting down.-Neto York EVsning Post. -
Affairs Mt Nashville, Tenu,-RepOrts of n
Gentleman just Arrived-PreparRtion for
the War-RRilrOnd Arrangements -HIan-
uTactures, eto.
Mr.. @. G. De Grove late Revenue Collector
of Nashville, Tenn, whose arrival at Wash
ington we have before announced, furnishes
the following facts to the correspondent of
the New York Times:
In Nashville the Southern intolerants have
organized and put in operation a society
which is miscalled "The Committee of
Safety" Il is the business of these men to
spy out and denounce every man or woman
suspected of Union proclivities, whereupon
follows an edict of banishment. If the state
ments have recently heard are reliable, and
Of that have no doubt, then we may safely
say that Nashville, hitherto occupying po-
sition of only minor Importance, bids fair to
become one of the greatest, if not the great
est, commercial and manufacturing empori-
ums of the South, from which the wants of
| the Confederate armies are to be supplied.
| Already the nucleus of q vast military depot
has been formed there They are we'll sup
piled with materials and manufacturers of
tents and army clothing Of every description.
For their good luck in this line they are in
debted in a measure to the North. All the
Northern Sewing. machine Companies have
! agents in Nashville but since the breaking
out of the war these gentlemen have not
! found business transacted under Union Sc
curities very profitable, and so they offered
their services to the Confederate Govern
ment, and took out contracts to manufacture
| clothing for the army. They are doing a
most extensive and successful business. All
the tsilors in the city are likewise engaged
in making clothing for the army. So that
1 Nashville is the grand ready made military
clothing store, from whence all classes Of
Southern purchasers are supplied.
The leather dealers and shoe manufac-
turers Of Nashville are also doing big busi-
ness. The leather dealers did neat little
thing in the way of speculation Just before
the war broke out They bought up immense
quantities of leather in Missouri, Kentucky
and Texas. And just about this time they
find themselves on the right side of the fence.
Large quantities of canvas shoes are also
manufactured. There are two large manu-
factories which turn out immense quantities
of saddles, harness and cartridge-boxes.
Many of the employees in this and other shops
are new to the work; but war is leveler,
and necessity compels many who never did
turn before to earn their bread by the
sweat OF their brows, ..
AS to munitions of war, the resources of
Nashville, in this particular, are very su-
perior.
There is apowder-mill on Sycamore Creek,
fifteen miles from Nashville, now in success
full operation. Also a manufactory in the
city for percussion caps, where they are
made at the rate of two Thousand five hun
dred per day. Rifles and muskets are also
manufactured; and there is large establish
ment for making Bowie-knives and swords.
One hundred men are employed day and
night at the mandatory for cannon-shot and
she'll.
/ They are beginning to fortify the place.
At Dover, on the Cumberland River, there is
battery fully armed and manned; and at
Fort Henry, on the Tennessee River, there is
another, and force of two thousand men,
, so arranged that if either of the forts are
assaulted or rendered untenable, they can im-
mediately, on the word of command being
given, promptly shift from one fort to the
other.
| AS there is a general impression among
our people of the great scarcity of provisions
at the South, we will give few details in
this connection, which our informant vouches
for. There are enough provisions-meat and
| flour-now stored in the warehouses of Nash
vile to feed the Confederate troops of Louisi
r | ana for at least twelve months-the provision
dealers having invested largely in this line
Just prior;to the breakingout of the rebellion
: with an eye to the present state of things
F.. There is one provision store in Nashville
? three hundred feet long and seventy fee
, wide, five stories in hight, and this mammoth
? pork house is packed from top to bottom
} with bacon. There is no scarcity among
/ | Wholesale provision merchants.
/, There is one other very important fact ir
: connection with these Nashville statistics
' which is well worthy of consideration. Tht
Q railroad interests of the South having be
come subservient to those of the Confederate
It Government, all the energies of those mos
/ interested have been bent to the task of sys
/. tematizing, consolidating and centralizinJ
the affairs and operations of all the railroad
companies throughout the South, so tina
some one point should be the nucleus, tn
heart of all these various interests so concen
- trated, 80 that the aggregate capital of th
roads may be used separately or as whole
is for any purpose that the Government ma,
1T indicate; and all the united rolling stock o
d these roads can at any time be concentrate,
10 on any one of them which it is most desirabl
n to be used for Government purposes or il
II the event Of the others being rendered useles
le by any of the accidents of war. And To
s. property of the various roads-car5 and en-
% gines-can at any time be thrown upon an,
10 particular road where additional accommodd
% tions are needed for transporting troops. T
o. such perfection have they carried this syE
y tenn, that any number of Confederate troop
Y can be transported from Manassas to an
Of Southern point, over any one of the railroads
3; without stopping or changing cars.
ID These details of the present state of affair
le in and around Nashville being obtained froI
h an old resident of that place, aud thOroug
n business man, who is accustomed to give b
ig attention to the matters herein discusset
a. are particularly useful in giving US some ide
i of the resources of the South. Nashville
evidently right arm of the prosperity
ID the Southern Oonfederacy. How many hop'
for the coming winter center upon those va
IN stores accumulated in its warehouses. TT
Is loss of Nashville would be psralYzing blol
Sc in most vital point, to the interests of Il
g. Southern Confederacy. II naturally occu
II that we should recognize the growing impo
to tance of Nashville, and in some way NAL
the fact subservient to Union interests.
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