Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-18
Reports from, Jimtoxvn.

Reports reached here last Monday morn
| ing, that Paul McDermott. a member of Capt.
| Lowry's Company, now stationed in the
neighborhood of Jimtown, had been attacked
| by three men, while separated from his COM
| rades, and killed. Also, that Geo. w. Brid-
ges, of whose departure for Washington we
made mention last week. had been captured
on the Kentucky line by detachment of
Capt. Rowan's Company; that Rowan's men
| had been subsequently, cut off, and that the
encampment of the troops was being sur
rounded and menaeed by large bodies OF I'm
| ion men, &C., &c. When thess reports reach
ed here, there was large crowd in town, to
attend Court and to witness the departure of
Capt. Gouldy's Company, and a good deal
of excitement followed, of course. la the
evening Gen. Lane and Burche Cook gave
notice that they would start on the following
morning to 'see about it," and by o'clock
Tuesday some sixty odd men, mounted and
armed with rifles and guns, assembled to go
to the "relief of the boys" Had the reports
been generally considered reliable five hun
dred men would have answered to the call at
once. The company left about ii o'clock
We understand that large bodies of men also
started from Monroe, Meigs, and Rhea for
the scene of reported danger.
There has been no messenger direct to this
point since tie company left, but we have
obtained Information to justify this conclu-
sion: That McDermott was attacked as first
reported by three or four men, while separat-
ed from his comrades, knocked FROM his
horse, beaten until his assailants supposed he
was dead, and his arms and his horse taken;
that he subsequently, revived and succeeded
in getting to some distance from the place of
attack, where he was fouad in day or two
by some Of the company who were out in
search of him. He is now at the Camps, and
though badly injured will get WELL, The
source through which we get this information
reports Bridges as prisoner in Camps
Thus much we think we may venture 10 be-
lieve. As to large bodies of Union men con-
centrating to attack the troops, we suspect
there is but little foundation for that part of
the story. We have reason to believe that
small squads of Unionites have been making
their way towards the Kentucky line, but
whether for the purpose of obtaining arms or
to get beyond the limits of the State whose
action they are not willing to acquiesce in, is
not known. IL the latter, we hope that they
will succeed in making the trip. And when
they become settled in q more congenial sec
ton, and drink in the free air of Black Re-
publicanism, they can console themselves
with the old Botany Bay sentiment
s.Righl loyal patriots we, for be 1t understood,
We left our country for our country's good"
There has also been some commotion and
| moving to and fro among the Sergeants aud
Corporals of the Union forces within the last
eight or ten days; but, as they are not all
fools, We don't think it can be for any other
purpose than to pass the word that the only
men who had capacity enough to give any
character to the movement had either ruria-
way or been arrested in the attempt, and con-
sequentiy il is about time for the deluded
rank and file to disbend and yield an honest
allegiance to the State. We think those who
have been nervous lately about Union move
ment-, will End in q few days that we are
right in our conjecture, and that the misera-
able scheme will soon expire in a long drawn
fzzie.
We will either to-day or tomorrow receive
news direct from the troops in Fentress, and
If it should prove important, We will at once
put the public 10 possession OF Aasas Post