Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-29
southern items.

southern Items.
We are indebted to Mayor Smith for
copy of the Memphis Appeal Of the 22d
inst. Il contains several paragraphs
which will be of interest to our readers.
Il speaks in this mournful style of
THE CITY.
The city ia dbl place. The lamp
post committees and street corner con-
gregations are poorly attended,; change
has become a myth the landing is well
adapted for a solitary walk by any SEN
timentalist wishing 10 mediate undis-
turbed upon the mutabiity Of human
affairs; our stores close Of their own
accord every afternoon; the coffee houses
are all shut up by the Provost Marshal,
and the only lively spot that greets the
wanderers eye is Court Square, which
is now a beautiful place TO spend an
idle hour in and is much frequented by
the Juveniles in the evening, who make
it gay with their ringing laughter and
innocent sports. Persons disposed to
the blues should frequent the square be-
fore sunset each fine day. The
streets were in their best trim yester-
day, the rain having laid the dust and
purified the cutters.
The troops of General Butler having
been frequently grossly insulted in pub
lie by a certain class of women, that
officer announces that all such offenders
would be dealt with as disorderly per-
sons. Whereupon the Jackson Missis-
sipian
ADVISES HIS ASSASSINATION.
Is it possible that he can breathe the
atmosphere of New Orleans an hour af-
ter the issuance Of such an order? Is
heteno jackson amongst her bra0e and chic
alrouS sons a0ho l0tU offer himself martyr
IN defense of the chastity of the mothers,
wives, and daughters of the city, and
gladly give up his own to take the life of
the rulfian and the outlaw who dares to
breathe suspicion against their angelic
purity? Is all manhood lost, that such
10retch is alIoWed 10 EUe move, and have
his being amongst us? We will not be-
lieve it, On the contrary, we shall soon
expect to hear that the insult to the fair
daughters of New Orleans has been wiped
out in the blood of their cowardly SLAM
derer. And when it is done, let the Oc-
casien be propitious-nOt in his prisons,
but "when he is drunk. asleep, or in the
incestuous pleasures of his bed-then
trip him, that his heels may kick at
Heaven, and that his soul may be as
damned and black as hell whereto it
goes"
Suppose this PAROLES of the MiSsiSsip-
plan plays the part of jackson himself,
instead of advising others to do it.
vICKsBURG.
The Citizen of the 18th inst, says
"Our market is almost played out and
our grocery stores have all been remov-
ed except one, and the stock in this
one is so nearly exhausted that one
or two days more will clean it out. 1t
is becoming a serious question where
groceries can be procured after this
Many families who have moved into the
country with three days provisions are
now entirely out of supplies, and how
they will manage to get more is puzzle
to many very hard to solve"
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VIRGINIA.
The Montgomery Advertiser, comment
ing on this subject, says:
At the very moment when the people
of the South were looking to the Virgin
ia to act as powerful auxiliary of Gen.
johnson in repelling the attack of the
enemy on the Peninsula of Virginia, the
intelligence reaches us that she has been
blown up without even an attempt on the
part of the authorities TO make her use
full Why is it, and how is it, that our
gunboats and batteries are destroyed,
one after another, without being made
available ! AtNew Orleans a number of
gunboats were burnt, either in panic or
by orders from Richmond, when there
were strong reasons for believing they
might have been saved.
Two powerful floating batteries, the
construction of which had been most
unaccountably delayed, were dstrOye-
ed because they were utterly use
less in the condition they were at the
time Of the attack on New Orleans, and
now we learn that the most efficient iron
clad battery in the world has been blown
up for reasons which have not yet APP
peared. There is certainly terrible
amount of incOmpetency, if nothing
more, in the Navy Department of the
Confederate States, and President Davis
owes it to the country, as well as to him
SELF TO remove from that department the
incubus which is bearing it down to the
earth. If Mr.. Mallory is so destitute OF
energy that he cannot resign his posi-
ton in the Cabinet and is wholly in
sensible to public opinion, we hope the