Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-03-14

aristocratic house below Nashville and
shook delicate white mouchoir and her
pretty curls at us as long as we remained
in sight. Whether she did it from patri-
otlsm, for fun, or because her romantic ma
ture was impressed with the quantities of
gold lace that SO plentifully bedecked our
gallant officers, is more than l can tell
Probably it was simply one of those i'm
pulses to which gushing girlhood is Ii
able, and hence cannot logically be con-
strued as an evidence of public sentiment
in that neighborhood.
1t is more than probable that in week
or SO there will be a marked difference
They have 50 long been lied to, and de-
ceived by the political religious, and edi-
torial scoundrels of the South, that they
dread our coming as they would the ad-
vent of a pestilence The following is a
specimen of the pabulum upon which the
masses of the South are fed. 1t is taken
from THE Nashville Banner Of Peace,
Reverend dying W. E. Ward.
We have felt too secure, we have been
too blind to the consequences of Union
success. If they succeed, we shall see
plunder, insult to old and young, male
and female, murder of innocnts, release
of slaves, and causing them to drive and
! insult their masters and mistresses in the
most menial services, the land laid waste,
houses burned, banks and private Golfers
robbed, cotton and every valuable taken
away before our eyes, and brutal, drunk
en- soldiery turned loose upon us. Who
wants to see this? If you do not believe
you will see it look at Missouri"
AS soon as our troops have occupied the
country for a few weeks, and by their ac-
ton given the lie to such assertions as the
above, the latent Union sentiment in this
portion of the State will develop itself to
an extent that will overwhelm the traitors
beyond redemption.
Soon after passing Fort Zolicoffer the
magnificent State House, situated on the
highest hill of Nashville, came into view,
with the glorious old flag waving proudly
from staff upon the roof. A little fur.
thcr, and the lofty piers Of the ruined
bridges became visible--a few minutes
later, and the Conestoga was fast at the
wharf at the loot of one of the main
streets of Nashville.
Up to Sunday msrning the 10th inst.
the day on which Fort Donclson surren
dered, the impression was prevalent in
Nashville that the " Yankees we're being
cleaned out" in the usual wholesale
slaughter, buncombe style, customary in
the cases of the gallant sons of chivalry
Saturday a dispatch was published as fol-
lows: 1. g
/ "Eaemy retreating - Glorious result!
Our boys toAoaoing and peppering THEN
rear !!--A complete Oicto7y."
Gen. Pillow also sent up dispatch
"On the honor of a soldier the day Il
ours!v' 9i ..
Cave johnson was also seized with thu
prevailing hopefulness and the dispatch
mania, and from the safe distance of Clarks
vile, cheered the rejoicing spirits Of Nash
Vile as follows: .EH l ~
a"The fighting on yesterday was mainly
between two gunboats and the fort. Boat,
greatly damaged, and retired. Three
out of seven in this river are believed tt
be disabled. Firing kept up all day or
our lines without loss on our side. w,
hear firing again this morning. They
have had large re.enforcements. Iheil
whole force supposed to be near one hun
dred thousond Our officers feel confident
Of success, and our troops equally so, and
cannot be conquered. A Virginia regi
ment, McCaustin, took one of their bat
tcries night before last, without any los,
on our side. Reports of the capture o
Russelville and Elkton not believed. Their
whole loss, it is thought, exceeds on,
hundred thosand. 3 CAVE JOHNSON" 70
Of course the virtuous ahd christianly
traitors of Nashville we're highly delight
ed on Sunday morning, to receive thes
encouraging assurances of the thrifty