Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-11

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tie took position awaiting their advance, when
fire from an agubuscade Of the enemy was opened
on his front and rear at the first Of which the gal
liant and nozzle Dreux fell pierced BY the balls of
the mercenary foe. His men, not Rva Of the dis
aster, awdited his orders for charge when at this
moment the horses attached to- the howitzer became
frightened, and breaking away from their position
disconnected the infantry and caused the cavalry 10
fall back, the ground being uneven and exceedingly
disadvantageous to the movements of the horses.
As soon az the death Of Col Dreux was ascertained
captain Collins Immediately assumed the command
and recovered the body. The only serious results
of the affair were the death Of Colonel Dreux and
the weundiDg of one of our men accidentally by
one of his fellow-soldiers. Captain Collins with
the men under his command, fell back in good order
Il was impossible, from the thickly wooded region
in which the enemy were ambuscaded, to tell how
many of them were killed and wounded.
AN ATTEMPT TO TAKE TIE STEAMER GEoRaE PAGE.
Yesterday morning about two O'Clock, the Fede-
raj steamer Pocahontss, which has been cruising
about Aqua Creek for day or two, opened FIRE,
it was supposed at first on our batteries there The
second shot she fired disclosed the design TO either
capture or destroy the George Page steamer built
on the plan of the New York and Brooklyn ferry
boats, and which, it will be remembered, we saved
from capture early in the present war.
The Tennessee battery Immediately returned fire,
giving five shots in response to their eight harmless
missiles. One shot from the Tennessee battery,
ricocheting, was very hitting the Poeahontas.
The citizens fredericksburg heard the cannon
AIDING very distinctly, and many went down to the
scene of action.
Richmond Dispatch, Julys 8.
AMONGST THE UNION MEN,
We learn that LieutenantColonel Patton has en-
tered Ravenswood, on the Ohio, in Jackson county
at the head of of some three hundred men. The
motley force Of Union men retired upon his ap-
proach.
Governor Wise continues to investigate the cases
of disaffected persons putting the deluded ones in
the way to political salvation, and turning the
others over to the proper authorities, to be dealt
with according to the law of the Convention.
We have nothing further from Gilmer, where at
last accounts civil strife was going on very &C
lively.
In Tucker county the disafected are very bold.
We learn that Lieut.. McChesney, Of ROckbridge,
with nine mounted men, went from the Laurel Hill
camp few days since to be present at Union
meeting in Tucker. On his way he was warned to be
on his guard, as he would probably fall into an
ambuseade in a short distance. He persevered,
and had not gone far before he was shot dead by
party of Union men secreted on the roadside.
One of his men returned to camp wounded, but the
other eight had not returned at last dates, and it
feared they had been captured or killed. Nc
Chesney was gallant and brave man. He had
been an active skirmisher, and but few 3ays be-
fore hal shot one of the volunteers from Ohio.
whom he surprised Richmond Dispatch, Jdy8.
NORTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.
the Richmond Uispath, July g.
The traitors of the Northwest are emboldened by
the countenance and encouragement of Lincoln and
the presence of Mcclellan. They like al trait
oTs cruel when they have the power. They are
driving true men from their homes, pillaging their
houses, stealing their property, destroying what
they cannot carry away, and thus spreading desos-
ton amongst all who are not branded traitors like
themselves. An intelligent gentleman who has Just
arrived from the West represents their crueies as
of the most barbarOus character. Such is their
brutality that he thinks the State will be compelled
to carry terrible retribUtion amongst them No
thing but the seyerest measures can take effect upon
them, and put end to their Gutrages. They ought
TO be driven out Of the State.
The trouble in Virginia is attributable to the Bal
tmore and Ohio Railroad, which isolated the North
west from Middle, Eastern and Southwestern Vir-
giniG. That road has cooniZed its entire line with
a population Of the very worst descTiption-enter-
tanning opinions and morals at with good order
and Southern interests. Nearly every little town
upon it is rotten and deserves humiliation. They
are so many fortresses of the enemy, from which
our true Virginians, among the farmers and pro-
fessional men, are harrassed, and their lives and
property imperied. They are the strong props Of
the contemplate Government gotten up by CaTlile |
They have set the example of Burning and deserve
to have the measure Of their viudictiveness meted
out to them. 1t would be a social and political
blessing if they were laid III ashes.
There only few counties where there Is
other counties may be brought back TO a sense
of their obligations to the State by such meas
ures as now on foot The presence of two |
such men as Wise and Floyd, backed by a strong
military force, will have fine effect. The traitors |
will dispense very rapidly like mist before the sun,
as soon as they get fairly in the field There are !
a great many honest but misled men-Victims of |
the arts Of the Submissionists Of the Virginia Con
yention-who will come back to their true sllegi-
an the moment they hear little truth, IA com
modify seldom offered them by their teachers) and
have the encouragement of a force sufficiently |
large 10 protect them from the Outrsges of the fol
lowers Of Carlile The proper disposition must be !
made of those hopeless traitors who, thoroughly |
abolition zed and demorslized. can neither be |
brought to a of duty, made to discontinue
their brutalities. The true Virgnians must be pro-
.ected and enabled to return TO their homes from !
whence they have fled to save their lives.
From the Iynchburg Yirginsn.
We met with gentleman on the 4th instant who |
travelled with a member of the Wise Legion direct |
rom Fayette county, where the Governor had his |
who informed that great change !
was going on in the sentiment of the people of the
Northwest. Governor Wise is speaking every day, /
md the effect of his appeals is most kalutary AS
IN instance of Governor Wises success in convert
ng those people from the error of their ways we
tate the following:
A Union Captain was arrested by the Legion, and
brought to Gov. Wise, who used his elOquence upon
he Union man, and then let him 60 in obedience to
lis request when he promised TO return. The Cap
ain did return, agreesbly to promise, having more
han fulfilled his word, in that he persuaded his
whole company, one hundred strong, TO Join the !
legion, which, it was reported, would reach ten
thousand in few days. They were rapidly in
reasing. Gov Wise is doing a noble work for
which we freely forgive him all that we have ever