The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-04

VIC uch are itAll ieul Daoly Clothcu, sick,
filthy and diaalleoted. Some regiments
which have been more than a year in the
service have never made the acquaintance
OF paymaster, and il is not an uncom-
mon thing 10 see them begging for bread
tickets Of passers by in the streets They
have even been known 70 beg Of negroes
by whom they are regarded as objects of
pity rather than hatred.
Butler and his officers live in A state of
complete isolation. They occupy the st.
Charles Hotel, from which they never ven
ture forth, except under escort of strong
guard. Since first the threshold of this
once popular establishment was profaned
by the brutal Butler, no Southern guest
has entered the st. Charlss The draw
ing rooms no longer ring with the merry
laughter of gay Southern bells, and the
long, empty corridors echo only the meas
ured tread of the sentinel who guards the
troubled slumbers Of the tyraRt The por-
tails OF decent society In New Orleans are
closed aud hermetcally sealed against
the entrance Of Yankee ill-hreeding, and
as it TO avenge themselves upon the COM
munity, the officers indulge in every kind
OF lcentious excess without the least re-
gard TO the proprieties of life or the
usages OF society. Drunken officers may
be seen thronging the side walks, in front
of the ST. Charles, daily. As ladies no
longer frequent that street, il is given up
to quadroons and courtesans, who are the
only female associates of the Lincoln Of
ticers. Our informant has himself seen
high officials in theYankee army seize and
embrace negro women on the street in
front of Gen. Buffers headquarters.
The only commissary stores which
were found in New Orleans on its occu-
patton by the Yankees, were lot of con-
demned beef II was this beef-utterly
unfit for use-which Butler seized and
distributed TO the starving poor" This
! act of characteristic Yankee benevolenoe
and charity has been made the subject of
a vast amount Of blowing in the Yankee
press, and some of their most enterprise
ing pictOrials have illustrated this last
aud greatest test of Yankee generosity by
cut, in which the sanity Picayune is
represented as feeding the hungry multi
tudes out of the abundance of Yankee
stOrehouses.
No better illustration Of the aninl,s Of
the North in prosecuting war of con-
quest is to be found, than the fact that
along with every Yankee army goes a
mercantile corps" whose province and
duty seems TO be to stand back till the
military have shaken the trees WELL then
step in and gather the fruit. For ex-
ample Butler issued proclamation for
! bidding the circulation of confederate
money; whereupon the merchant corps,
of whom Picayune's brother is said to be
prominent member, set about buying up
the notes at heavy discount. These
notes were then sent off by agents rep
resenting themselves as true friends Of
the South, 70 points in the country, and
invested in sugar. molasses and cotton.
The planters were ready enough 10 re-
ceive them-iirst, because they had con-
| fidence in their ultimate redemption; and
secondly, because they knew their crops
would be coniisoated il they fell into the
/ hands Of the enemy. In this way
considerable quantity of sugar and mo-
lasses was secured. But to the credit of
the planters, be il said, that the prospect
Of raising cotton in any but the most
limited quantities, is very poor indeed
In exposed places, where the military
failed to destroy the staple, the planters
themselves had applied the torch, and
everywhere could be seen rising in curl
ing wreaths toward heaven, the smoke
of this voluntary oblation upon the altar
of patriotism.
The Yankees claim they will get a
thousand bales in the noighborhood of
Baton Rouge, but the most authentic in
formation from that quarter renders IL
questionable whether they viii be able
20 secure O fifth Of that number There
is no cotton for the Yankees in Louisi-
ana-none of the last crop left--nono
growing.
Our iniormants corroborate the report
Of the steadfast loyalty Of the people,
and their irreyocable determination 90
resist every attempt Of the invaders 10
re-establish commercial intercourse with
them. A circumstance occurred at Bayou
Sara last week, which deserves to be re-
corded to the external credit Of the citi-
zens Of that place. Knowing the scarcity
and high price Of salt at that point, a
Yankee merchant shipped 200 sacks upon
the steamer Empire Parish, Irregular coast
packet. The citizens hearing ol tho fact
in advance Of the boats arrival, collected
at the wharf and refused 10 allow her 10
land at all, and she was compelled 10 re-
turn TO Port Hudson. They preferred
paying hfty cents pound for salt to re-
ceiying il gratis from the hands Of the
despised race who are prosecuting this
war solely for the purpose Of securing
the trade Of the South,