The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-25
Intellig. bee frOm NashvilIe.

Mr.. Charles II. Green, Claim Agent at
Nashville, Tenn, arrived in this city
Friday evening, direct from Nashville,
bringing news which will give the great
est satisfaction 10 al who have been I'M
easy about the fate Of that city. His in.
telligence is up TO the 18th, on the morn
/ ing Of which he left Nashville. The fight
at Lavergne had taken place before he
started, and also the demand for the sur
render Of the city, which demand was all
hoax, and considered as a good joke,
for there were no rebel forces anywhere
in the vicinity Of Nashville 10 enforce the
demand; none, in fact, but the guerrillas
under Bennett, who fly about here and
there, securing the country in every di-
reciion, and picking up any unlucky
stragglers, and they are not strong enough
TO interfere with the armed foraging ex-
petitions sent out from that city. Nash
Vile was never safer than the day Mr.
Green left IL, and there are 1900 of our
troops there, under General Negley
Gen. Buell. was strongly under the
impression that it was q military neces-
sity that Nashville should be evacuated,
but Governor Andy johnson, not being
much Of military man, could not see it,
and opposed il successfully vowing that
be would hold the place as long as there
was a man to defend il, or one stone
standing upon another in the Capitol
house of the State. The health of the
Governor is good, and his spirits do not
seem to be depressed by the condition
his city is in. Cut off from all commu-
nication with the North, he seems a man
for the times, whose energies rise to
meet the emergencies, instead Of sinking
at the first shock
Mr.. Green made the trip from Nash
vile to Lebanon Junction in a buggy,
coming through Franklin, Bowling Green,
aud Elizabethtown. He was accompa-
MED by a lady, whose name, as a matter
of delicacy, shall not be mentioned, who
courageously offered to accompany him
and who performed a very important
tservice for the Government, no less than
Marrying official dispatches from Governor
Mandy Johnson to VIM. II. Seward, Hon.
Horace Maynard, and the Secretary OF
3War. These dispatches, and other pa
pcrs accompanying them, weighing some
ten or twelve pounds, the lady carried in
a hustle, made for the purpose, about her
person; also, about 100000 worth OF
Government claims, belonging to Mr..
Green. They were stopped three
times by different parties of guer-
rillas belonging TO Bennefs gang,
and questioned pretty closely, but
Mr.. Green, who is an adept in the talking
line, spoke SO slightingly. and sneeringly
of the Yankees that he completely BAN
bOozled the guerrillas, and succeeded in
making them believe he was rebel Sc
they did not search either him or the
lady with him, whom he passed as his
wife. The guerrillas were fooled This
time, and q Union lady has proved az
smart as some of the secession ladies
about Washington were some months
ago. The lady is safe in this city anc
Mr.. Green has left for Washington witt
the dispatches, which he will deliver il
person, and receive the thanks, which he
deserves, for the hazardous mission HI
undertook and successfully carried out