Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-04-24
Condition of affairs in and around Nash ville-The consequence of subiugation.

The Atalanta papers contain very interesting accounts from Nashville. We take the following from letter in the Atlanta Commonw edith, da ted Nashville, March l9:
 The Nashville of to-day is not the Nashville of a few months since. Fully two thirds of our best population have gone and are now scattered over the cotton States. Their places are filled by the very dregs of society from northern cities. There are thousands of merchants, and drufnmers here from New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnat, and new business houses are being opened here every day by northern men. There are numbers of steam boats arriving each day from Pttsburg, Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. The cars are now running regularly from Louisville to Edgefeld. Gen. Buell. is still in command here. His headquarters is at the Hermitage, twelve miles from the city, on the Lebanon turnpike. His force is at least 60,000 men.
 Gems. Thomas and ShGf are at Lebanon, thirty miles northeast ofherc, with 25,000 men. Thus you will see there are S5 G00 federas in the vcini ty of Nashville, and the cry is still they cone.- There are 4,500 sick in the hospitals, and 800 have deserted since the occupation of Nashville All our bank bills are good; Confederate notes of course, afe repudiatcd. One gunboat is anchored in the river. All the horses and mules and many of the able bodied negroes in the counties adjoining Davidson have been pressed into the federal ser vice, and are working like beavers on the fortifca tions around this city, which of the most lorlni dable character The eheay;est Qualifications are east and south ofthe city. The enemy have possession of Lebanon, Murfregsboro, Leverge, Franklin, Shel- byyille, Columbia, Centeryie and Charlotte, which towns cast, south, and southeast from the city, and embracing | radius of forty miles They are constructing tho Nashville and Chattanooga rail- road and the Tennessee and Alabalna railroad as they proceed South.
 Andy Johnson, the provisional governor, is here, and together with Emerson Ethridge and Horace Maynard, is busiiy engaged in forming q proyis- ional government for the State. Major Wm. H. Polk, of Marry, is also here, working cheek by io@I with Johnson and the leading e,os.,! officers. You may be assured that our enemies in this State are conducting the campaign with immense vigor. Their policy towards the people is conciliatory, and they arc using all the arts and dupcity of which they are masters to induce the planters to bring in their cotton, for which they offer twenty cents in gold; but, up to this time not single bale has found it's way to this market l am informed that ten thousand bales of cotton have been burned in the counties of Williamson, Maury and Rutherford alone. General Pillow 8 overseer burned six hun dred bales cotton before leaving his Maury coun ty plantation.
 Capt. Morgan, with his troop of cavalry, annoys the enemy terribly in the neighborhood of Mur lreesboro. Scott's Louisiana cavalry and Forests Tennessee cavalry are dealing out death and des. tructi0n to the enemy in the Duck river country The enemys losses in their various skrmishessi taking possession of this place have not been less than one thousand in killed, wounded and missing
 The tederals are sorey disappointed at the re- cepton they meet from our people. We keep alOof from them, and have no communication with them whatever. The country people refuse to bring in anything at all, and our market is almost bare Aside from tue miserable and money making pop ulation with which every southern State is unhap pily afflicted, our people are sound to the core.-- Dr. Harris, the Episcopal minister, has left the city He was arrested last Sunday a week ago. and told he most pray for the President of the United States and no other, on peril of his life. He said he would suffer deata first; So he is gone. All the churches are closed We are hopeful and bouyant, and will wait patiently. and pray fervently for the good time coming.
 Our women, God bless them! are all in favor of the South. An incident occurred here the other day, which is worthy of mention. The Yankees have nured,yery materially the property Of those citizens in the seryice absent from their homes on business, OF compelled to leave from the nature of their occupation The house of Colonel George Nancy (lst Tennessee Regiment) was riddled, and his furniture ruined. They committed depreda- tons on the property of Rev. John B. McFemin and others and visited the residence of Col: Gran vile r. Smith witl the same dabolical purposes, but were met ut the door by his heroic wife, arm ed with pistol and bowie knife. With "a courage and determination Of the women of '76, she con fronted them saying: ''I have a husband, two sons and brother in the field battling for the South. If If were not woman, l would be there too; but Pm onlya woman Ihayc been left behind to protect my home and will do it. Hone of your vandal crew ares to place his feet within this door, he does so at his peril; for will certainly kill him. The Yankees stood amazed for time, and finally with drew, without attempting to enter the house.