The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-11
AT THE NASHVILLE PosToFFICE.

Opening the postofice here developes the
anxiety to communicate with the North
Not an hour passes that scores of ladies and
gentlemen do not call to inquire when tbs
first mail from the North may be expected.
Swarms of persons crowd up with letters,
nearly every one of which is directed to
some one in the Northern States Well
dressed and intelligent gentlemen come up
with open letters and ask to have them
Ff ffHf WIN '7eGtters TO soifs, from riisy
have not heard for eight months, and ask,
with an air of distressed uncertainty
whether it is really true that they can
write to the North without interruption.
"I am very sorry TO see you here at all,
said young lady at the postof1ce this
morning, and hope you'll have to leave
soon again, but oh Pm so glad can write
home once more {" "Are you quite sure
you can get letter all the way to Philadel-
phia without some Lincolnite's destroying
ii ~ asks an old white-headed man, all of
whose friends and relatives remained in the
Quaker City. Win you look over this,
sir, so as to be sure there's nothing wrong
in it, that it may go on as fast as possible 2
asks a Young lady, dressed in deep mourn
ing. q 1t isn't necessary at all, madam, !"
replies the officer. HThey'll go just as
| speedily without examination Oh no,
sir, I'd rather have you look at it, to be sure
| that it will 60" The Postmaster runs his
eve over the letter, and finds it piteous
appeal to long unheard-of mother to come
ee+-z1 and comfort her. Her husband has
gone with the army, her child lies dead in
the house. her aunt ia at the point of death,
and she yearns for sympathy from home
and kindred. And so they go. aa
When the rebels left, they did not forget,
| IF loffo n
/ paper from their postofice. They had oc-
] cupied the u. 8. postofice building, and
everything was left just as they took pos
| session of it, eight or nine months ago. save
that not a stamp or envelope could Be found
| about the building. No new postage stamps
or envelopes have been received yet, and as
the citizens have nothing but the stamps
with jeff Davis phiz on them, which won't
carry letters through the United States, they
are compelled to pay postage, for the pres
ent, in specie. z
| how THE LIECoLNITEs ARE RAYAGING NASH
VILE.
1 have been IN Nashville now six days,
/ and in that whole time I have not seen a
single drunken soldier. Nothing / could
saw would speak so loudly for the unexam-
pied quiet and comfort the citizens ENJOY,
notwithstanding the occupation of their city
by what they persist in regarding hostile
army, as that single fact. Soldiers are moi
allowed to return to the city from the camp:
beyond, and nothing could exceed the be
havior of the regiments as they pas
through. .5.s--4--.-.-f
Colonel Stanley Matthews of Cincinnati
is appointed Provost Marshal of the city
and his efficient patrols are seen every
.. where The citizens, rebel and loyal alike
admit that the present order OF the city !
Paradise itself compared wItn the state the1
were iI while the fleeing Bowling Greer
and Fort Donelson soldiers were passing
through, and even better than their poiici
has been able to preserve at any time TO
| the past five or six months.
The city government continues its ordl
nary functions the Council sits and ordain
as usual, and their police and police judge
take care of all offenders among their owl
people. They even had an election las
Saturday for city and county officers, a
L which the usual electioneering and wire
pulling and buttou-holiug went on, an
which progressed as quietly as election
ever did in Nashville.
rs s-- GROWTH OF MANUFACTURES.
There is one statement in Davis inangu
5 raj address, the other day, about whic
there was no idle boasting. Cutting ther
of from Northern supplies has stimulate
home manufactures. Already in Nashvin
they had an armory, fitted up with gres
portion of the machinery stolen from Hal
per's Ferry starch mandatory, ne
foundries and iron manufacturing establish
!. ments. and factories for weaving lnse
voolsey and the coarser cotton taorles'