New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-03-27
Federal Comments from Nashville;


The army correspondent of the st. Louis Repub-
can, in his letter from Nashville on the 1st inst
says some things about Nashville and its people
which are quite amusing. He says
There is none of that manly tread and eye
flashing defiance the Southern papers have told
us to expect and which Americans emnently
capable of showing, when their cause is Just, and
the iron heel of oppression is attempting to grind
them. The remaining inhabitants of Nashville do
not indulge in any of this, but go about gloomy
and taciturn, moping from store to store, seldom
looking strangers in the face, and giving that idea
of smothered hate which makes the beholder
determine to keep out of dark alleys after night.
fall. 1t would need urgent pressing by a Nash
Willie to rave the honor of any Union officers
company at tea, for the Fed. might imagine that
strychnne looked like white sugar. and had oeca-
sionaly been mistaken for it,.
At first the people here took little pains to con-
more tractabe. They will sell poor articles for
good money at moderate price, and not fly into
a passion if Confederate scrip is refused in ex-
change tor treasury notes. Ladies', too, appear
upon the streets, and although endeavOring to
seem gazing in an opposite direction, take side
long peeps at marching columns preceded by fife
and drum aud sometime deign to keep the nose
moderately straight when saluted in gallant mill
tary style by passing officer. This slight letting
down, however, only occurs when the "Fed'' is
good looking, and Colonel or General. The time
of Majors and Captains has not come. Occasion
ally carriage or two rolls along, with Il family
holding reins and whip.
One or two stately dignitaries have emerged
from their hidng-plaoes, also, and stand in the
doors of princely residences, non-committal in
speech or action.
noticed at one house group of children play
| ing on the porch--among them beautiful little
Southerner with dark eyes and o wealth of ring
l lents, who, as we passed. skipped to the front
step and either accidentally or by design, exposed
a small Secession apron, the three bars and stars
stamped upon it, while its owner placing one
thumb against her nose and her little finger against
that of the other hand went through THAT childish
and graceful motion whose precise meaning has
never yet been explained. Some say it expire esses
profound knowledge, others profound contempt:
| Her companions, after staring moment to see II
the strangers were genuine Yankees, went through
! a similar maneuver with skill that showed prac-
tice, and immediately disappeared, pair OF specta'
| cled eyes having gazed patronZingly from Win
| dow during the whole performance.
| elf Nashville ever becomes Union, it will be
| when Gabriel turns final trumpeter," exclaimed
nv soldier friend, who had witnessed the noseical
| display with astonishment, and to whose bright
| buttons it was owing.
| Just atterward we met q crowd of negroes, or
their way to the levee to view the troops and gun
boats Asking one where he was going, he said te
see "dem Unioners." He had been in Fort Don
fled with Pillow. :" tell you what, sab" said he
"nlassa Lnkum shoots dam straight; Knocked thu
head off parson Bigelow's nigger clean, as it Gu
| with a knife. Lor, how de kannerstir spikes dIt
| tV. NaSSa Sliu LlnRuIu uSeu u KEY U Hdlls eaol
| load" And down the street they went, with reg
ular plantation swagger, increasing in number q
| every corner.
The greatest blow to Nashville has been the de
| strucon of its two fine bridges across the Cum
berland. Of that ! gave full particulars in m,
last. Gov. Harris words, when waited upon b,
the citizens and requested to refrain from sue
Vandalism, were Has Nashville come to this
hesitating to sacrifice two such paltry pieces c
timber for the cause? Go back and tell those VIII
sent you, that another word and their own ROOF
will be blazing above them" As related to m
by one of the committee. the outbnrst OF the grea
bridge burner was spiced with :" tall oaths," col
scentious Harris being no exception to the ger
eral rule man goes by when mad. Althoug
denouncinp bitterly the conduct Of their traitor
ruler, the sufferers, with prospect that 1t may
years before the structures will be replaced, stl
| cling to q cause that is running them.
The last assertion is decidedly rich. If the co
respondent of the Republican was told that sto
r by anybody in Nashville, he may set it down th
he was sold at cheap rate.
The army correspondent of the Cincinnati
quirer, in his letter of the 9th ut, furnishes
0 fancy sketch"
Our regiment was the first OFT shore. 1t wo
have made tears start from a statue to have s.
Q old and young press round th, loved flag, ana !.
; print warm kisses of devotion on its bright ..
VI and broad stripes. The colc,r- bearer hlmseii
n not exempt from the no mage, for in their en- EN-
D siasm the people raised him from the grouhu
bore him in their arms.
We have seen private letters from Nasv,lae' ,ns
q nessee, which say thtIt the Yankees navy se f
A | four hundred men Hnce their occupation VI
n city. The picket duty oi the e, enemy g 10 49,
eNf lRichuond Exa'nin