Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-07
The Enc mY BIusterinE.

ne Following paragraph Is gong the rounds OF
the Abolition papers;
MEMPHIS AS A MILITARY POST.
The Chicago Tribune, in commenting upon the
forward movement of the Western troops, says:
The troops of Illinois, Indiana Iowa Wisconsin,
Minnesota, ard several regiments from Ohio, it is
expected, will march on Memphis, following both
the river and railroad routes. The batteries along
the river will be taken or silenced and the railway
repaired where the bridges are destroyed or the
rails removed. Once cleared of secessionists, both
avenues of communication can easily be kept open
by the loyal troops:
Memphis is much more healthy than Cairo 1t s
stuated on high bluff; the soil is dry and the air
pure: The mosquitoes are much smaller than
their brethren on the low, wet grounds about
Cairo. Memphis is far healthier place for the
army TO spend the hot and sckly season than where
portion of it is now encamped at Camp Defiance.
1t IS furthermore the key punt of the Southwest
held by the rebels Should il fall into the hands of
the soldiers of the Republic the insurgents would
be terribly weakened Its loss TO them would be a
fatal blow, as It wOul1 render the capture of New
Orleans certain and place the whole line of the Mis-
sssippi in the possession of the patriots.
II the order to advance on Memphis be given 81
multaneously with that Of the march on Richmond,
asplendid and exciting rivalry will spring up be-
tween the troops of the North and the soldiers
of the East which will first reach their destination
The Fourth of July should and can be celebrated
by the two patriotic armies in Richmond and Mem
phis The fall and winter campaign will then close
the war and crush the serpents head.
Memphis is much more healthy than Cairo, ;" says
this par agraphist. If it is simply question of
health with the emigrating gentlemen of the North
it is private opinion that they can find about as
free funeral in and about the city of Memphis as
in any other portion of this world. Neither physi-
clans or undertakers bills will ever be rendered to
their administrators after their decease Occasion
SLY, surgeons services may be required, but
this will be mere trile, and the amount will free
ly be iquidated by their Uncle SAMUEL We OBJ
serve, from the Memphis papers, that the citizens
Of that hospitable city are daily preparing large
numbers of "LTNCOLN pills 7" for the special use of
the sinsick soldiers Of the Northern CATITuDEs,
whose Splendid and exciting rivalry, it is expect
ed will result in such thorough exhaustion, by the
time they reach their several destinations as to
render it necessary to administer an opiate for
their permanent relief. We are told that the ply
sicians who will administer this narcotic are
mere amateurs, having never attended course
Of medical lectures in their lives. But at
the same time, are informed that they are
thoroughly accomplished in this specially as well
as in the use of the lancet and the scapel. They
rather belong to the old school of practitioners,
who believe that blood letting is the most ecacous
remedy, in certain cases of disease where strong
intsmmatory symptoms are developed. There is
also at Memphis and Richmond large class of that
other school of medicine who throw every patient
they have into fits and when the fit is once estab-
lished, they are "h-l on fits These latter phys-
clans may be regarded by the gentlemen; seeking
health from the North, as being bunglers in their
profession. We trust, however, that none of them
may be disappointed it, in hunting health they find
themselves landed in place represented by some
10 be a very Elysium,
"That undiscovered country,