The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-10

KsoxvrLLs, TENN, Jan. 7, 1862.
Being ensconssd for the night, in mo. -
of the Lamar House, having been born on
the 18th" Of the NOR tn, and it being the 18th"
day Of the new year, I cannot resist the temp.
tatiou to write you from the home Of Brornlov,
although wearied with trip Of one hundred
hours on the rail. AS entered my roon,a
number of books was Observable on the man.
tie piece. Not having seen anythlng OF the
sort for more than e month, laid violent
hands ON one, and, to my great surprise,
found It to be the "Life and Works Of Thomas
Cole.n Struck with tho coincidence OF name,
I opened the volume hastily, and made tho
discovery. that Thomas Ools was an English
tanned some celebrity In his professor. He
delighted In visiting the Oatskill mountains,
and in q letter 10 friend, he calls them the
''gray.headed mountains This expression
reminds me Of the mountains have passed
Today, and 'gray.headed'' describes them to
a dot. As the cars came slowly along by
them, ones thoughts were inevitably turned
to the traitors, who had scuGded away in
their Businesses, and to the -AefariOus acts of
recent vandalism which caused the cars to
move so cautiously.
The running on the East Tennessee road is
confined TO daylight. and then il performed
with much circumspection. All the bridges
burned have been rebuilt, with the exception
of the one across the Holston at Union
This will be mp within twenty days. A de,
tachment Of Stovan's Middle Georgia) Bat
TALON Is stationed at Union. Georgia troops
guard the bridge over Lick Greek, and are
stationed at 0reenviile, the former place Of
residence Of Andy Arnold, Several North
Carolina companies are ut MorristOwn. The
Government has stationed a competent force
at all i'm portant points. 1t is most pleas
ing reuectlCn that some OF the incendiaries
have paid the penalty of their treason by
daactns on noiains, and that those who have
escaped 10 the mountains are being pursued
with the sharpest sort OF stick
The place where am penhing this letter Is
known the world over as the home OF Par.on
Brownlow, and his hitherto inseparahls ad.
en sa.o the s.as and Yellow sa
Knoxville is at once the scene OF his glory
aud his degradation. There IL NO one so
poor as to DO him reverence now. Tha walls
of wrath which he has peysistentiy poured
on the heads Of others through years If IL
centious journalism ars /. now e0mmsoded
TO his own wicked pate, and the miss{able
man, dashed by his conscience no less than
by tee community In which he lives, has
been released from prison, and lies In his
house here sick unto death.
The policy Of permitting Krownlow to be
escorted without our lines into the enemy's
persons deprecate II A. fraught with meal
culable mischief. He know every hog path.
every disiillsry, every secret cave In Eastern
Tennessee, and could stvs Lincoln better
put together. Aud this IL not all. fabooeA
In the South, stung to desperation by the low
estimation In which he 10 held BY every true
Southrop, and Aataered and froWnsd upou,
telling tbs pitch Of phrenzy y which ne
would carry the already morbid fanatictsm
OF the North. should the Payson quit his
hold on this world, his best friend here
The sssS 1 1sn Il Regime Regiment len Aslnsdoa
on EytdAy last. commanded BY Cant. YhoS.