New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-28

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Costondsa.-Ssenera FLOYD and governor
Harris.
yIom Our Special Correspondent
Friday, Feb u, 'lb2 y
A the telegraph has informed you, the Town OF
Clarksye, Tenn, has been evacuated by the Rebels
and il ROW IN possession of our troops. The story
,,culated at Donelson, that this town was fortified,
aud would make strong resistance was, Of course,
rs have before stated, only alsehood of tie enc
my, TO prevent our army from moving forward III
ime 10 seize upon the Confederate stores and num-
Mons of war, Tor which GAINESVILLE has for months
been depot.
OUR POSSESSION OF REBEL STORES.
Even with our delay. however, the Rebels have
been unable TO remove their entire stores, though
they have carried off all their Of consequence
Bacon, -four, beans, meal corn, and hay have been
found here in considerable quantities. enough, II Is
sAsd, TO subsst our army for % or ~ days.
UNION TROOPS AT GAINESVILLE.
Clarksvile lie at present held by 'hree Union hesr
meuts. though hardly handful Of men is required
here now az those people who remain are, or at least
,eem 70 be- Ioyal enough. and 20 be Delighted Mt IN
advent of cur longeXpected forces. One sees, III
travelling about The strees, nothing but an air OF
welcome from the citizens, who kind cordial, and
ustr,oc az the residents Of New York, Philadelphia,
and Cincinnati would be had their homes been freed
from the presence of hated, though powerful and
oppressive foe.
CHARACTER OF GAINESVILLE.
Af,er travelling through Stewart County, and be-
holding the desola,ion and barreDuess and meager
settlements OF that region one s agreeably surprised
and refreshed by the appearance OF Clarksvie, one
Of TIE most conservative and pleasant cities of Be-
eessia. Its Inhabitants generally intelligent ard
hospitabe, and not few highly intellectual and cul-
tivated reminding one more OF persons from New
England and New-York than those one meets IN tire
South.
There is good deal of wealth in Clarssvillc; n
number Of Gentlemen residing here who have re-
tired from business, and who until the rebellion,
were ENJOYING a pleasant end an abundant ease.
New-England has numerous representatives here,
but they have lived so long in Tennessee that they
have become impregnated with Southern customs and
mannen which are more UNIQUE than elegant, and
more outre than refined.
Indeed what is called good breeding in the South
would be styled very iIl.breeding anywhere elfe;
snd frivoty vanity assumption. aud unsp1uaiiy,
combined with pompous forms and sonorous phrases,
behind which there is little benevOence and 10 sym
nsthy seem to be the characteristics in Rebedom OF
the best society.
Your correspondent remembers being in Clarks-
vile come six yeare ago, and of meeting not a few
agreeable persons here There were. then some ten
thousand inhabitants in the city, aud dc not sup.
lose the population has materially increased since
then: indeed just now it is much less, num- rous
families have abandoned this place account Of the
Trade b4g s'I.lf ed
by the same agency.
The city is well built, with wide streets and many
handsome DIV engs aud Is the center Of the tobacco
region of Southern kentucky and Tennessee, and in
ordinary times has large aud profitable trade
through the Cumberland with various places Oh tie
Ohio river and tie tributary streams. It, location il
pleasant and salubrous, being situated On lluf on
the bank of the Cumberland, seventy miles froH,
Nashville by water but only forty by lsnd.
SENTIMENTS OF TIE CITIZENS.
While here, have had curious conversations with
nen Of influence and position, and they all eXpress
their love for the Union, ard indulge the hope that
the Rebellion will speedily be put down, as they can
never hope for peace or prosperity while pro-SlaveTy
fanaticism rules the hour. Some men have told n.e
" aha, at first they in favor Of Dsanon because
they believed tie Government designed 10 make Tie
strife turn altogether upon the abolition Of Slavery
but thai they have since adopted different views,
arc now bitterly opposed to Jef Davis and Co.
tJrannlc sway.
REBEL PROSECUTIONS OF LOYALTY.
Several large merchants, suspected Of Union sym
parhies, have suffered severely by he imposition
she Rebels-havng been enormously taxed on ever.
occasion, and compelled TO surrender an property o
contribute any money the Contsdeyacy" desired
10 appropriate. They hsd no choice in the matter
they durst not complain or resist the oppression.
they had done 30 thew would have been driven ont
Of the State, and all their effects confsca,ed.
Other parties declare that they con,ended against
Secession ar long "a they could, until freedom Of
opinion and action Were absolutely denied, and the
State carried, they well knew, by false meas-
1res. out of the Union Then they had no remedy,
no alternative left but to pretend be governed by
the course il was assumed Tennessee bad taken.
Everybody suspected, everybody watched
and TO be reasonable OF 20 intimate Loyalty, war 20
be persecuts3 and injured. Those who were loyal
in secre. had no organization, a-ms, oppO;iu-
nifty. All wes against them. They were bourd
hand and foot, and in the power If their enemies;
npd while the South mouthing about The inpos.
siby of its ssbjugaton, I'll the best and r,uest of
III citzens were sutjugated ,y he very people who
proclaimed Their inevitable and unavoidable indie
pendcnce.
The Southern Rebels, ike tie French Revolution.
iss, give, BY Their acts, the constant liz 70 tbeii
swords, in the nsns Of Liberty Eight for Slavery, end
with osaseless clapor about fIe edorn commit every
injustice and outrage hat Tyranny has ever known
AFFAIR5 AT DoNz5.sON