The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-12

Of the execution of the Missouri hrideeburn.
ers. There is in the communication NO Al
iusion whatever To that subject, and II is not
believed that the contents will bs officially
made public.
ANOTHER sESAToRIAL ISaUIRY PROBABLE.
The expu lsion OF Mr.. Bright is likely to
prove only the beginning OF the war against
Ia alresdy being directed toward Mr. Powell,
Of Kentucky. 1t is said that shortly resolu-
ton will be I'm troduced into the Senate d.
recting tn e Su superintendent of the Docu ument
room to inform that body what public docu.
m en- t. Mr.. Powell has ordered to be sent to
members Of the Southern Confederacy since
the formation Of the Provisional Govern.
mont.
THREATENING Aspect OF THINGS IN EAST rsx.
SEssEE.
Our Tennessee exchanges give us gloomy
prospects for the future in that part Of the
Confederacy. Several OF the Leading jour
mails intimate very plainly that there is
"really threatening state of affairs in East
Tennessee" growing out Of the "idolatrous
love" of many Of these people "for the old
Union" A corr espondent Of the AralaacAe
writes thus Of this feeling:
The rumored condition OF ths interior
conrties OF East Tennessee Ia Eos- iga proved
by the lapse Of time. The people apIi sh end
An immediate advance Of the NorinI sn. ana
traitors to the South evince thoir 10y in
every village and neighborhood. Johnson
aud Maynard have ad vised their friends .ii at
they would soon return to their homes and
that tbs grasp OF seeessioEism shou u,d be Ie.
laxed." The scou Is Of the enemy have psue.
trated, SO dame rumor tells us, TO James.
town. within Fifty miles OF Knoxville. Many
Of these stories are unfOunded, and ethrrJ
perhaps. exaggerated. Still the actual con-
dition of popular sentiment In Eas. Ton
nessee is Ill understood by Southern states.
men and military chieftaius. There is at tn is
luncture 4 peculiar value attached to the
possession Of East Tennessee, not only be.
cause Ii gives US railway connection wit tn
Virginia, but its productive hiilsides and
valleys must furnish vast supplies for our
armies during the next year.
The enemy are reported $1,000 strong at
Beech Grove, the scene of the late defeat
The UnIopiStS are making demonstration
in many Of the northern nties, and even
here there were exhibitions of Joy on the ar.
rival OF ths news from Beech Grove. Armed
bands OF Johnson's and Maynard's followers
are proving ABOUT in all direc tions through b
the mountains. In remote counties mauv
have been shot at ntgat in their wn OuseS
who adhered to the fortunes OF the South
Men stand as sentineis by turn g.. every
house, and the farmer no longer opens his
door TO every wayfarer. You can imagine
no condition OF society more deplOrabis man
that which will exist in East Teunesss,
should the Llncolnltes succeed in sending an
army iutO our midst. A brother shall i'm :
brue b Is hands in & brothers. blood, privat 10
wrongs and personal hates will be terribly
avenged. The assassin will do deeds of fear.
1 full violence. From u Cuntem mplalon OF all
the horrors W hich stalk abroad at MONDAY
and make night hideous, humanity will star
back aghast. Villages will be- burned and
tOwns laid dssolate.
Ii BY mere forca OF numbers tho North ex.
pecis TO overpower and humiliate us there q
one recourse ieft--we can desolateithe country
as Northern armies advance; we shall burn
villages and towns; the crops ard cattle
must be utterly destroyed, and in vading ar
Russians acted we'll and patrio:icalIy when
their empire was assaiied by Napoleon s ire
i sistirlo hosts; but the South, when pene-
trated by invading armies, will leave his
tory Which shall be as most extrayagant 1c-
tion in point OF ssif-infiic4ed sutferings, when
contracted with that which details the sacri
fees Of the Russians.