Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-08

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tion and intelligence. Read IL carefully:
m letter from New york.
Tfr New YoRK, April 80, 1862
From the wild mountain paths Of East
Tennessee, to the crowded thoroughfAres Of
New York is about as great transition as
can well be conceived. was there and am
here. What lies between seems like terri.
bic dream. tlA-
Yesserday---is Seas but yesterday--I was
rambling through the halr deserted streets
Of little town in Roane county, where the
empty stores, The closed cburcbes, aud the
silent school houses bore witness. dumbly
bat eloqueHtly, TO the folly aud madness Of
rebellion, and where the only life remaining
10 the body polite seemed concentrated in the
camp to-day find myself borne along by
the living tide which Gibbs aud flows through
Broadway, whose seven miles Of marble aud
free-stone palaces OF trade are filed to
overaowiug With the beautiful products of
the industry aud skill of all nations. Th1s
the pulses Of society seemed 10 have almost
ceased beating, here they throb fall and
strong. seem to have stepped from the
dead past into the living present, Would
that could forget the agonies through which
The transition has been made.
need not tell you of the wife and child
left behind on the banks of the beautiful
Tennessee. without protector, and exposed
TO I know not what perils and privations
Of the escape, under cover Of darkness,
through the rebel lines forced marches
over rough mountain paths; Of narrow
escapes from pursuing and relentless foes
of tentless camps on the wet and frozen
ground Of blistered, torn, and shoeless feet;
of cold and hunger and utter WEAKNESS. /
should only be reproducing a story already
often repeated, in substance, for my case is
that Of thousands of loyal men Of Tennessee,
/ took up my pen TO say something about
New York.
had never fully believed the stories told
by the rebel leaders of the utter prostra,ion |
Of business, general bankruptcy, and uni
versal suffering in the loyal States, as a con-
sequence of the war J, but was prepared to
end much greater change than has really
been wrought. The casual observer is abso-
lutely unconscious Of any change. lie is
told by his friends that business in many
departments is very dull, aud that retrench-
ment and general economy are being put in
practice bat stores are not closed, business !
is not suspended, and there is not even the |
usual amount Of distress among the working |
class. can see no difference between the
New York Of today and the New York
three years ago.
The loyal States have sent into the field |
something like 100000 men. The absence
Of this number is felt as u relief rather than |
otherwise by the public. 1t is by their per- |
sonsl friends only that these men are missed
with any other feeling. Half million
more can be had, if there should be need OF
them, Without any resort to drafting, and |
without inteTrupting general business. Do
the rebel leaders know this? They can
hardly be ignorant Of the true state Of the
case but their deluded victims, who are
pouring out their blood in desperate and
hopeless cause would be astonshed and indg.
nant # they could but learn the truth.
observe posters OF the streets announc-
ing that Confederate Bonds are wanted at
No. Ann Street, and that cash will be paid
for them. Having none 70 sell have not
applied, butam told that their market value
is three cents each, without regard 10 the sum
expressed on the face--a hundred dollar note
and a thousand dollar note being rated here
at the same price. Wall street is evidently
either not acquainted with JEFF Davis & Co.
Or else knows them two WELL Secession
stocks are down.
The news Of The capture OF New Orleans
has caused great rejoicing here. hope it's
not premature. Everybody is looking with
great interest towards Tennessee, where the
experiment OF bringing a seeded State back
10 her allegiance is going on. The loyal press,
/ seems to me, will be found The most eff
cent instrument in undoing the work which
. disloyal aud unprincipled press has accom-
1lished. The minds OF the people have been
poisoned i is for you to apply the anti
lote.
shall turn my face Southwark in the
course Of a few days, to be ready, when the
inc comes, TO accompany a column Of the
Union army into East Tennessee. You shall
pear from me again anon. ROAM.