Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-10
An Astronomical General.

Last Friday night "a very large audience,
composed mostly of the merchants and BUSH
ness men, assembled at Smith and Nixon's
Hall. Cincinnati, to hear Gen. o. NJ. MITCHELL
deliver himself of an address Soon after
LINCOLN was elected, Gen. MITCHELL made
tour through portion of the South, embra-
cling Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Texas. We heard of him in this city on his
way. We heard of him through the papers
at other points. We think we have an indis-
tinct recollection OF his being interrupted
somewhere in the neighborhoOd of Jackson,
Mississippi, upon suspicion that his busl-
ness was not of such nature as to make hls
presence the most agreeable to the people OF
that region. He conGersed on the cars with
a gentleman who was decidedly of that I'M
nressiou. In short, he was about to be mob
he'd: but the conductor of the train pulled
the bell-rope, and the cars moved on before
the mob got ready with their tar and feathers
and-so-forth. He explained to other passen-
gers. however, that he was an humble friend
of science in general, and OF astronomical
sr;ence in particular. He was welcomed, as
.neb. all along his journey-the papers MOTTO
ed the fact that he was scientific gentleman,
. Profe.sor of Science, and travelling in the
Soutb an snch. 1t was a fact; for he had
h.sn Professor of mathematics, philosophy
and astronomy IN college at Cincinnati,
from 1884 10 1874. The next year, he drop
ped the mathematics and philosophy, and
took to astronomy exclusively. He got him
nm an observatory, built (mainly by S25,
subscriptions, The ground being donated by
NICHOLAS LoNGwoETH,) of stone, so feet long
AID p stories high. 1t cost $4,000, and
hourished. In 1859 be got the appointment
of Director to the Dudley Observatory at Al
bany, y. z, still holding on to the one at
Cincinnati. He now had two of them, and
when he was net writing books, making as
Economical observations, and publishing the
!Sidaial Messenger. he employed his time sob
90, vingn the stars It onght to have been
know to the Mississippi mob that he was
deyotee to astronomical science
Tn his southern tour, however, be mixed
in some political observations" with bis
science. He sid so the other night at the
Hall tn the merchants and business men OF
He sail, he found the people
through which he passed, determined to
have what they called their rights, or to
dissolve the Union. They had deluded the
people, (that is the people had teiuded
themseIve s)sinto the belief that secession was
and, as their righst had been
taken from them, they not only had the con-
st:tutional right, but that they ought to Sc
aeds from the Northern States" Ergo, be
esrne back, not to return to star-gazing but
70 make preparations to save the Union.
Lincoln finally made him General, and
sent him to Cincinnati. OF course he told
the merchants and business men of the city"
hoy he was going to manage things. Quoth
he -
aAs this sentiment [secession1 is very
ing in the South, he remarked, and as the
erners are not towards, this war can
- and in the subj1gation OF the North, or
=. -. ,vfoing out OF this rebellion in the
- rs n,ost be fought right through. But
ne .snnot tight without men. We have
oisntv of cannon. rifles. muskets, ammunition
nd swords, bat neither can the cannon, nor
nuskets load themselves, nor snoot tnem-
selves of; we must hsge men 10 DO IL anu neu
hat will do it with viii. 1 am soiry 10 say,
aid be. .that il is too much the wish OF our
men in the North to get grsat rifed cannon,
with which they can stand OIL four miles, ana
shoot in safety; and to get rifles vic mnisn
they can shoe, eight or ten hundred yarus.
This is not right. We must use instrGuene
that viii bring Us nearer The SoutherLsfs
AZ not going 60 let us stand At that distance !,
md shoot them down. They will come upon
as. and we must be prepared 10 meet them.
We must use the bayonet, and drive it home.
fhis war must be made the most bloody for
|. time. that II may be settled We must 1
march right nm "a them. Three yards, Is far |
enough Oh for me; and, If necessary, reduce
hat to one.'1
In relation to Kentucky and hsr neutrality
be continued:
sWhen was called Hpon TO hold q con- I
ference with Major, now, General Anderson, /
with reference 20 my accompanying him 70 /
this part Of the country and kentueky,