Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-03-27
ABOUT AMY joAkScA's sen BOB.
News from East iepressee-.-Siase-
ment Of &, bert johnson.

From the Baltimore American. Feb. %.
We had tke pleas are Yesterday
of a visit from Robert johnson,
Esq, who passed through our city
directly on bis way iiom East
Tenncsse to- Washington, the sto-
ries OF whose escapes would almost
suffice for a volume. This gen
tleman was lately a sen of the dis
tinguished U. S.ESenater Were
collect we'll the denuneiations of
him by the Nashville papers last
Summer, when, with but one oM-
er member he had the nerve to
vote against the hill censuring the
Government for placing troops ut
Cairo. His career since has fum-
'ished material for many diatribes
from the rebel prints, and although
driven to the moEitains for his ad-
hesion to his principles, and com
PEELED Tor months to undergo eve-
n hardship and danger, he has
safely emerged to return m tri-
umph, we trust, to his old home at
last.
The fact that his fathers house
has been converted into a hospital
by the driving out Of his family,
is confirmed, along with numberless
other accounts Of t. ranny suffered
at the hands of the Confederate
leaders by the Union men of East
Tennessee The two Union men
Fry and Henolite, who were
hanged at Greenville, were arrest
ed at night and hung next morn
ing, and this was done, too, by Col.
Ledbctter, "A native of Massachu-
sets. bat a rabid Secession:st of
course! The account is confirmed
that three were hung as stat, d
some time since, at Knoxville, by
order of Gen. Carroll. Frownlow
was still sick at Knoxville, hut
with a chance of recovering.
Mr.. Johnson learned GU his way
that two regiments and one bat
tallion of rebels held Cumberland
Gap. but Gen. Carter, with the ad.
vance OF Gen. Thomas division
was at Cumberland Ford, fifteen
miles distant on Saturday; and
it WAS thought would pass through
another gap five miles distant,
and Tot fortified, and thus take the
rebel forces i'll the rear.
Mr.. johnson Informs us that al
though the Union sentiment Of
East Tennessee is kept down by
superior force, the people there
await with confidence the advance
Of the Government fore $ to raise
up and aid them in the restoration
Of free speech and IF the rights of
which they have been deprivtd.
When he left they had not heard
OF the result at Fort Donelson.
He had not heard since his arrival
here the reported burning of the
bridge across the Tennessee river
ON the line of the Chattanooga
railroad, and considers this terri
bic blow to the rebels at Nashville,
if it is true, as with the bridge de-
stoSed at Florence, below the
Masele Shoals, and the Memphis
and Charleston railroad bridge, at
Decatur gone also, they are absc-
lutely isolated, so far us railroad
communication with the Cotton
States is concerned. and would
have to give up or destroy all their
heavy war munitions belonging to
the Bowling Green army along with
the vast Quantity understood to
be stored at Nashville.
Altogether he gives a very cheer
ing account of things in that re-
gion, inducing us to look for results
OF vast importance soon He pre-
poses, after brief visit to Wash
ington, to return at once to Cum
bcrland Gap, and accompany the
national troops on their relief OF
East Tennessee.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, March s.
All is quiet here. Orville Ewing,