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General BncI,s Policy Safe for the
DisIoyaI but Unsafe for the Legal.

Eiitor orhe Nashville Union
NASHVILLE, July 81, 1862.
DEAR SIA:--In your mornings issue /
read with satisfaction an article from
the Cincinnati gazette, "An Expression
form BUELL's Army" returned few
days ago from Huntsville, Alabama,
and can fully endorse the statement
of the article Since the dearture
of General MITCHELL and the arrival
of General BUELL., the ncighborhood
of Huntsville is 50 unsafe that all
travelling is stopped entirely from Shell
byville pja Fayetteville, Hazelgreon, and
Meridianvillc. Guerrillas are swarming
all over the country, plundering Union
men, burning cotton eight miles this side
of Huntsville. They are getting so bold
as to raise openly in New Market guer-
rilla parties under the leadership Of a
noted ruiIian FRANK GoRIY
The citizens of Huntsville and neigh
borhood openly declare the conciliatory
policy of General BUELL., is nothing but
fear, and enjoy the fact that he is guard
ing rebel property, when at the same
time he refuses 10 protect the property
of Union men who came from far trust
ing life and limb, to get the needed staple
out TO supply the northern manufactures.
Consequently such conduct has effect on
the subalterns. | overheard a ccnVersa-
ton in Shclbyvillo few days ago, when
a Federal officer remarked TO cotton
merchant, would not go five PAGES to
save your cotton if l had my whole COM
pany here, and a couple of guerrillas in
tended to burn it,
: 1T is no wonder, then, that the enlist
ment in OHIO and Indiana goes slow, when
our boys write such matters home; and
who would like to be made watchmcn OF
rebel melon and potatoe patches?
We hope General MITCHELL will soon
return, and we stake our lives, matters
will change in this ncighborhood, Cen
erals BULL and ROUSSEAU, sitting snugb
in their tents like squires in the Office
listening to the complaints orrebcls about
chickens stolen, negroes sloped, peach
orchards plundered,' when all around
the guerrillas are growing holder, anC
making both lines to Huntsville more
unsafe than before.
Something more energetic has TO be
done shortly or the consequences in tina
quarter may turn out entirely dilIeren
from what was expected.
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Goyernor sam. Houston.

SAM. HoUsToy, ex- Governor Of Texas,
has been reported dead and the report
has been cOntradicOed Il has been re-
newed, however, in the most positive
manner by Rev, c. II. CLARK, a Baptist
Minister, formerly Of Houston, who is
son-in-law Of Gen. HoUsToN. On Thurs
day last Mr. CLARK spoke at a war meet
ing in Boston Common o.. .
He said he had fought not. only his
neighhors and friends but also his own
father IN defence of the glorious old Star
Spangled Banner, and he was ready TO
finish the balance Of his feeble lie in the
same glorious cause.-the cause Of his
country, the cause az humanity and the
cause of his God. The majority Of the
people Of Texas are now and have been
loyal. The State was carried out bv
calling the roll Of the Legislature half
an hour before the usual time, when the
Union men were not in their seats Sam
Houston, the Governor of the State, was
brought before them on a charge Of trea-
son, and the old man made the most de-
mandatory speech against them and Sc
cession he had ever heard in his life.
The secessionis,s rose and gathered
about him, bent on violence, but his
friends crowded around him, and for a
while nothing was heard but pistol shots
and the clanking of knives. The speak
er himself received a wound that would
probably soon terminate bis life His
father, who had been Lieutenant Gov
ernOr, assumed the Office of Governor Of
! the State. Mr. Clark described at length
| how Texas was carried out Of the State
! by the treason of Vwiggs, and its dire
! effect on those who remained true to the
| Union. Men and women who, two years
| ago, were possessed of wealth and all the
luxuries of life, were now in the streets
of Galveston, begging for bread.
He said that if 5000 troops should
land at Galveston and march through
Texas, they would be Joined by 10000
men before reaching San Antonio.
Mr.. Clark said he had been surprised
slice coming North TO hear that it had
been reported and believed that Govern
or Houston had given his adherence TO
Secession. As his son-in-law, and the
one who had closed his eyes in death, he
stgmatized them as false. The old man
was loyal to the day of his death He
took violent cold at a meeting held by
the Union men to devise means to pro
tect themselves, which finally settled in
to pneumonia. About an hour before
his death he said "Cdarlie, hare y1u an
american Tag" On being answered in
the affirmative: "Bying 10 ont" he said
"ana spread 10 orer a5c--T ,oqB to die mdeJ
its glorious folds.'
Among his last words he said 81 an
sorry that it is the will of God that ]
cannot see that flag float again. Do y0u
be faithful and true to 10 forclcr."
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war ueetIng. ma EnII.lmen..

The loyal States are all ablazc with
the war spirit Volunteers are pouring
in ON all sides, and subscriptions TO war
funds are coming in with unprecedented
rapidly, The nation is awakening at
last to the tremendous crisis which is upon
it, Countrymon, work, work, work while
it is called day-the glorious day of free
dom; or else the night--the long, unbro-
ken, and starlcss night Of despotism, and
dcsolalion, and national death will come
upon us, and no man can work
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Tremendous war Meeting in HaI-
IIu1Orp

Tremendous war Meeting in HaI-
umOrc.
The Baltimore american thus notices
the great war meeting in that city last
week;
Not since the commencement Of the
rebellion has Baltimore given more de-
monstrative and convincing proof Of the
loyalty of the masses of her population
than was developed by the War Meeting
in Monument Square last night. 1t is no
mere hackneyed figure Of speech TO say
that the people were assembled in their
might" Called together with but little
preliminary notice, and without resort
TO the clap-trap contrivanccs that are
usual in political campaigns, they yet
came in thousands from every section of
the city, and crowded the Square with
such dense mass of "bone and muscle"
intelligence and patriotism as has never
before been equalled in the history of
public demonstrations in Baltimore.
At the height of the meeting, when
the multitude was most magnificent in
its proportions, the scene presented was
Lexington, occupying almost every foot
Of the Square, and crowding the APP
proaches to it, the dense mass OF people
swayed and pressed and shouted with
enthusiasm. Hundreds Of National flags
aud banners tuttcred in the air, bOnlircs
lit up the surrounding space, rockets aud
fireworks threw out their brilliant fires,
the fine Band Of the Seventh New York
Regiment added their splendid music to
the occasion, whilst the marching in of
the Union Leagues, the raltles Of the
drums and the roar Of enthusiastic shouts
that greeted every expression of Union
sentiment gave life, yigor and ANNA ton
TO the spectacle.
The meeting was not only a glorious
success in the numbers that attended il
and the brilliancy of lis surroundings
but also in the vigorous, unequiyocal, un-
conditional Unionism which was eXhib-
tied in the addresses of the different
speakers.
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Mn EDrTon: Why should Nashville
continue to furnish the rebel guerrillas
east of here with salt and other neces-
saries That it is done every day there
is the most ample testimony. Perhaps
more than a half dozen wagons loaded
went this day in the direction Of Lebanon
and Sparta. The most Of the contents
will go into the hands Of the enemy.
Those who do this are either secessionists
of the most malignant type, or a sort Of
milk-and.cider genus Into that region
Of country no true Union man can take
anything TO sell without being subject TO
be robbed The very fact Of any one
applying to do so, is p,7ma taaie evidence
that he is an enemy, either openly or in
disguise. Such men take the oath in the
morning, and, as they say, spit it up be-
fore night, and openly boast Of it, This
is a state Of facts which ought to be
changed and why should il not be
changed b. j.
NASHVILLE, Aug, I'd, 1862.
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tionary; and taking these definitions, it .
will occur 10 all men Of plain common .
sense who call things and men by their .
right names, that DE conservatives Of this .
rebellion or revolution, are tie tgord radicals I.
tie 1UorH eUey SalO. The proposition proves
itself The stand-still, do-nothing, tenn
porizing, vascillatng, timid policy Of the
conservatives, forever emboldening the
foes and checking and disheartening the
friends Of the Government, is uprooiing,
destructive, and tends directly to SuJve,t that
Government. Itaids and abets the policy
Of the ayowed enemies Of the Govern
ment, the men who are now armed and
marshaled in hostile array against it.
The conservatism which conSe,Ves evil
inevitably breeds corruption and death
No wise man desires to preserve any
thing but that which is good, but our
Conservatives appear more anxious to
uphold the source Of loyal weakness and
rebel power, than to preserve the free in
stitulions which are the basis and strength
and glory Of the Republic Radicalism is
sometimes the only policy which will save
a people. CROMWELL was radical when
be seized the British throne, bcheaded
King CHARLES, and saved the liberties Of
the people. The Cavaliers Of that day were
conservative, and said that CROMWELL
was violating the British Constitution.
WAsHNGToN was radical, fcarfully go
for because of triling tax he raised the
flag Of revolution and bore it through a
seven years. war 70 save American lib
erty-the liberty which the cotton re-
bellion now threatens to destroy. Yes,
CROMWELL and WASHINGTON were both
radicals. Imagine CROMWELL listening
to a speech against the confscation Of
the property of a traitor, or WAsHINGToN
hearing Governor WICKLIFFE, "the old
man from Kentucky" arguing that it is
unconstitutional to use rebel negroes for
our own purposes. Would not conscr-
tism be cut short He who cannot see
that this nation is in great transition
state, which may extend through perod
of two, Or five or ten years, but still a
transition certainly to be consummated,
is binder than the mummy which has
slept three thousand years in the heart
of pyramid. 1t is a tremendous con-
test between right and wrong, free gov
eminent and aristocracy, truth and error.
Man and property struggle for the ascen-
dancy as they have done for centuries
past. On the one side are the Gracchi
pleading and defending the rights of man,
and on the other is selfish and grasping
aristOcracy, ergrown mOnopolists OF
land who seek to enslave the entire la
boring classes. The Gracchi are called
radicals, because they mean to destroy
whatever endangers the life of the nation
and the welfare of its citizens. The
land-monOpolists call themselves conser-
yatiyes, because they are for maintaining
e hoary iniquitics and venerable wrongs
which are encrusting the whole body
polite with their foul and lazar-likC
scab." Conservatism would uphold ant
, porpetuate the very evil which threaten:
us, and thus make certain the destruction
and downfall of the nation. Is ther,
any radicalism so dangerous as the radi,
Calsm Of conservatism
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OFFIcsRs CAPTURED AT MURFREEs-
BoRo.-Some of the officers captured at
Murlresboro' reached Atlanta, Ga, last
Tuesday, en- route for their prison at
Madison, Among them was Gen. T..
Crittendcn. We were much disappoin-
ted, says the Atlanta IntelLgsncey, in the
verifying Of the report that Gen, Critten-
den was not Tom Crittenden, Of Ken
lucky. The Gen Crittenden who is a
prisoner is from Indiana, and is, we
learn, a relative Of the weak, old traitor,
John j. Crittenden, once the pride Of old
Kentucky Richmond Wing.
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Wealth of OHIO.

The Cincinnati gazette says that the
surplus produce Of Ohio for this year will
exceed the interest on one thousand mill
lions of dollars, and will exceed the in
tcrest ON the National Debt made by the
war, in the year from its commencement.
What a noble illustrations Of the resources
Of a State in which the laboring class
are not depressed by caste, and where in
dusiry is not regarded as degrading,
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''DO You DO faithful and True 20 Il

''DO You DO faithful and True 90 Il
Forever.
These were the last words which the
immortal Hero Of San Jacinto uttered on
his death-bed to his son.in-law, Mr..
CLARK, who, in obedience to his request,
had brought him the flag Of the Union, in
ordcr-to use his own words-"he might
die under its folds" And the lion
hearted patriot died as he had lived, I'M
der the flag of the Union. Tennesseans,
we conjurc you to-day, in the words Of
your former fellow citizen, as we point to
the Stars and Stripes, BE tuithfW and
huc to il Joyerer."
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Another band Of guerrilas attacked a
wagon train near pittsburg Landing, and
captured sixty wagons, with commissary
and quartermasters stores. 1t is time TO
stop this sort OF thing-N T. Times.
Certainly il is. The guoTillas Ought
to be talked to, as the old professor said
Of the fellow who murdered his wife and
twenty three children. Their conduct
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We learn that ON Monday an elderly
gentlemen, whose name we were unable
to learn, living near Gallatin Tennessee,
was caught near a tunnel in that vicinity,
tied to tree and his body literally rid
died with bullets by a party Of rebels
He had been giving information concern
ing their whereabouts which caused the
assas5ins 10 commit this foul murder
Louisville Dm,0crgt
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Carpenters, painters, masons, do you
know what you are? Perhaps you ilatter
yourselves that you are mechanics, but
you are not. The Richmond Wing says
that you are a set Of "yuETH0LETAEIASs"
Now isn't that awful Pentesyllabic
''.-1- how we pitv YOU
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The Louisville journal says there are
40 prisoners in the military prison in
that city, and still they come.
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General Railroad Office.
GENERAL RAILROAD AM OMNIBUS TICKET OTIIgr,
No. 20, North Cherry Street,
nm lnur n-uM hmm \ =

GENERAL RAILROAD AND OMNIBUS TICKET OFFICE,
No. 20, North cherry Street,
am door nom Union
DERsuNS designing leaving the city by Railroad
L viii save per ccutggo by purchasing their Tick
cts at this Occ, whore Tickets bc bad To- a the
principal Cities iu the North, East and west by the
shortest aud most reliable route also Tick g. can be-
had 90 Huntsville, Ala, and all Intermediate points on
the Nashville 4 ChatanuUgl lud Tennessee 3 Ala
bIma Railroads.
Persons going Etst by purchasing Tickets will have
their baggage checked Dom any Hotel part Of tho
city as far AS Louisville, Ky,
Purchase your Tickets the day prev uns 20 leaving,
so that You can leave your call for the Omnibus tu
convey you 60 the Depot.
through IiIls OF aiding, giving for AN classes of
Freight Co HI the principal Cities East LOUSY ly
& Nashville, Jtilcrsonville b Indianapolis, Bcciuu
tame New York Central, New York, Erie n pcnuEyl
vuua Railroads. OF by water AZ as low rate us by any
other route.
o. ann the only Agent ia this city that can fur
nish Bills of Lading 10 the East Boy all Railroads OF
hy Water and Rail
For further Information call nt the Office.
w. w. CRAIG,
luy2I-u General Ticket and Freight Agent
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PROPOSALS FOR FLOUR.

DICK HANDLES-l 600 good heavy split
L lick Hnndl.s for sale by
WA. LYON
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GRASS SEEDS - Blue, Orchard, Herds
" and Timothy Sc d, for sale by
WIN. LYON.
The New York herald., 1862-03-05

GENERAL FREMoNT's DEFENCE.-The Tribune
yesterday, for the first time In its his
tory, astonished its readers with an extra
sheet; and this extraordinary bit of enter
prise was for the especial benefit Of
Greeley's pet General-Fremont Frcmont's
defence Of his expensive and disastrous term Of
Office, as the head of the military Department
of Missouri, makes up the difference between
the ordinary and this extraordinary issue Of tho
Tribune. We know nothing of the financial con-
sequences of this experiment; but If Greeley
has lost money by It he doubtless expects, in
the long run, to indemnify himself and his radi-
cal faction out of Fremont as q political party
speculation As for Fremonts defence of his
military campaign in Missouri, although an
able and ingenious vindication of his conduct,
Il fails to satisfy us that his expensive fortifca-
tions around st. Louis were necessary, or that
his costly retnue of aids, musicians and at
taches Of all sorts were indispensable to the
defence Of Missouri, or that 1t was beyond his
power to strengthen Lyon at Spring
field, and Mulligan at Lexington. We
shall know more when the evidence
on both sides, and military judgment thereon.
shall have been rendered in. For the present
as tho emily thing in which General Fremont sx-
The New York herald., 1862-03-05

QUICK FIGHTING IN MIssoURI.-By dispatches
from General Halleck we have information Of
seven brilliant skirmishes in Missouri and Ar
kansas in thirteen days. On the 14th Of Fe-
bruary it was announced that Springfield was
occupied by our forces, and that the enemy,
after short engagement, had retreated. On
the 18th the flag of the Union foated in Arkan-
sas, and General Curtis was cutting up Prices
army and capturing prisoners and stores On
the goth, Price, reinforced by McCulloch, made
q stand at Sugar creek, was soundly whip
ped and again fed. On the 2lst General Curtis
captured Bentonville, Ark, and the rebel stores
gathered there. On the 25th Prices army had
been driven from its stronghold in Cross Hol-
lows, and the rebels again took to their heels,
burning their barracks and leaving their sick
and wounded and army stores. On the 26th
Colonel Woods detachment drove the rebels
out of Dent, Texas and Howell counties; and on
the 9th General Curtis had taken possession
of Fayetteville, Ark, capturing number Of
prisoners and driving out the enemy in great
confusion. This is bright list Of exploits, Of
which General Halleck and General Mcclellan
under whose direction these movements have
been accomplished, may we'll feel proud. Union
soldiers, under able and experienced Union
officers, are irresistible.
The New York herald., 1862-03-05

between Austria and Prussia was widening daily
1t is said that Prince Napoleon will explain the
Italian policy of the empire in the Senate of
France.
We publish full report Of the great English
prize fight between Joe Goss and Bill Ryall in an
other column.
In the State Senate yesterday the General Rail-
road law received favorable report. The New
York and Brooklyn Steam Boiler Inspection bill
was reported adversely from the committe, and
the report was agreed to. The Metropolitan Cab
Company bill also received an unfavorable report;
but the report was laid on the table. The bill pro-
vding for the distribution of soldiers allotments
was ordered to third reading. The bill enforcing
the responsibility of stockholders in banking asso
Citations was the subject of discussion in Commit
tee of the Whole, after which, progress was re-
ported on it. A bill was introduced authorizing
The New York Commissioners Of the Sinking Fund
to sell certain lands. In the Assembly the Annual
Appropriation bill occupied considerable por-
ton of the session Considerable discussion was
had and several amendments proposed, when pro-
gress was reported and the subject laid over. The
bill for the protection of wild game was passed;
also that relative to the trial of offences against
joint stock companies. The Speaker announced
hibition bill Consent was asked, but refused, to
bring in bill legalizing the primary elections.
By O vote Of the House, the Comptroller was re-
quested to send messenger to Washington to pro-
cure copy of the expenditures by the State Mill
tary Board under the Three Million bill of last ses-
sion, the accounts having been transmitted to the
War Department.
The rebel Congress some days ago passed a law
appropriating two millions of dollars for the bene
fit of Kentucky. We hope the provisions of the
bill will be carried out, and that the money will be
spent for the relief of those Union men who have
been robbed by the rebels, and whose homes have
been made desolate by the brutal invaders from
Texas and Arkansas. If the two millions mean
Confederate shinplasters, however. they might as
well keep it, for the whole amount would not buy
bushel of corn north of the Tennessee line.
Some of the runaway members of the Tennessee
rebel Legislature got together in the City Hall in
Memphis on the 2lst ult., but could not transact
any business for the want of o quorum. General
Buell. is after the whole party.
The rebel provisional government of Kentucky,
which is located in some part of Tennessee, con-
the power to fill all vacancies, and, in connection
with the Executive, to appoint all officers. The
name of the Governor is George w. johnson; but
who compose the Council is not generally known.
The following table exhibits the number of slaves
in each of the slaveholdng States, according to
the census of 1850; the number of Shareholders,
and tho average number held by each owner,
Ina, x,ipoo o,,ff fJ,o f,oc
The New York herald., 1862-03-05

is sufficiently powerful to command the respect
of Europe, by maintaining an effective blockade
of coast measuring three thousand miles, we
have further demonstrated our ability to cope
with one Of the most formidable difficulties pre-
sentsd by the rebellion. 1t only remains for
us to prove the capabilities of the national
purse. We must show the world that we are
able not only to raise armies and to call navy
into existence, but to pay the necessary ex-
penses. The property ofthe nation is estimated
in the census Of 1860 at si1teen thousand mil
lions Of dollars Upon this the tax proposed
is only small per centage, which can be easily
paid without being even felt by the simple
plan of q retrenchment in our household and
personal expenses. There is more money an
nually wasted than the amount of the whole
tax. A little domestic economy would enable
us to pay it twice over without being one
dollar the poorer at the end of the year.
The practice of economy is q national virtue
which we have but little cultivated, and an
electual lesson in it would be cheap even at
two hundred millions of dollars. There is
another important benefit likely to arise from
the tax, and that is spirit of vigilance on the
part of the people, who will henceforth take a
greater interest in the duty of selfgovernment,
be more alert against corruption, and more
careful as to the kind of men they send to Con-
gress to dispose of the public money. Let, then,
heavy and comprehensive tax be laid on at
once. 1t will be the cheapest course in the
end, and nothing short of this will bring the
country through its troubles or save the national
credit, which has hitherto stood so high among
the nations of the world.