Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-04


The Richmond Era'ainsr has the following !
seryatiOns touching the captrre Of Fort Bstts
By Gen. BUrLgR's force Of four thouuund men u
one hundred guns:
Neither the S0athern public nor be rotd peoi
Of North Carolina have any reason 10 s. i,sfprd
| oy the news from Fort Hattes as. This small n
freshly constructed fort6eatIOn Of f,gs and "a ;
bearing twenty guns without ammunition n
manned ~ few hundred undiseip iaed men Of !
neIgnooTnoot has been tsken BY g d 7es 81 the m
powerful war steamers in tee Worff ra-rving u
hundred Of the heaviest cannon Fsov,o Is nal
warfare. and Transporting a laa5 f,rcs Of ID
thousand disciplined troops. This ex tols IS vi
thy OF Butler Of Bethel, who once stss thr nrsl
titles Of Picsyune and Small change ia viii na.
the most Of il 10 bis dispatch to Laeoln; the IA
kee people VIII magnify Fort Hsttera. snts Seb
topOl, and the affair viii be set in tae ga
against Springfield, Manassas and Bah RIM 60
6ned. But it will not even be the nine DAYS ~
der. The epic Of Butler will never B. dnished.
ms small pipe Of triumph Eili be drozn and Il
gotten IN the roar Of the guns on the Potomac
clarion 81 yistOry and the cry Of dsfeat
he new Is certainly net agresa6le to lesr.
Is 70 De regretted that the enemy have gained
trifis on "a. But the material couse9ne0cps of
eYent are not serious TIE inaigniiclnt fsrt or b
terry was situated On az island Commanding he
trance o. one Out OF the many sounds Of No,4
carolina IL vas intended TO assist our d iyasee
and does not command the peighboring count
Butler VIII be unable to repeat in North Cs-oI@
even his chicken stealing and Diano-burning 60
from Newport News Fort Hsttarss does not int
fere with Beaufort, nor viii It much trouble 4
pTiTateers. IL is ssid to be 80 si:HRted nat il
not be easily reached from the land; and IKE P
ens, may possibly remain in the hSnds OF those \
hold il tall the end Of the war il they find the n
quitOs and the saud-banks sufficiently valuable
compensate for the occupation Of large body
their best troops, supported BY supplies franspor
over seas We shall be compelled to place 90
regimen IN the neighborhOod TO observe them,
in that is ali the Cost to Us.
Il Is said that we should not have had to chroai.
this adventure Of Butler. had not the coast Of Nci
Carolins been full Of Yankee smigrants there
everywhere else-the best allies Of our enemies
A DISMAL FezEBoBNG.-The New York TSmss Il
vOeates eom5iaed effort to get rid Of the una
Ployed and starving population Of that city BY Sc
ing them to the West. 1t owns up 10 The eondis
of affairs thus:
Our citizens may as wen now take into scri
consideration the social burdens hey viii be 90
ed to carry during the approaching winter.
unemployed poor are increasing upon cur hand
an alarming rate. Already we are Informed
thousands of able bodied women are under Ella
of the Commissioners Of Charity, and supported
public expense-Women who ask Ter no charity
only work Many families Of voluntt ers have not
relieved By the liberal sums expfs1ded, and v III
forced soon TO become burdens "a tie city.
swarm Of unfortunate elildren--ths Offspring
people impoverished By the businez prostrati0n
Of fathers who have Abandoned everything for
war-increases in the streets. The agents Of
societies as the Children's Aid Society report
numbers Of destitute and orphan little ones ID
their efice or their schools and seek shelser and
ployment. All signs fOrebode 8 severe snd gloo
autumn and winter for the Psor.
RUSHING THE BLGCKADE-A letter received By
this morning. and dated at Carolina City, Aua
18th. furnishes the annexed interesting item:
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