New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-06
PRENTICE OVERLOOKING.

| Governor and Commander IN CHI
| VIZ 6cHouLER. Adjutsnt General
| PRENTICE OVERLOOKING.
| Recent events in Kentucky and Tennessee hava
put upon the face Of The Louisville Journal soua.
thing more than broad grin, as the following, tskn
from one ssue, testi6es:
Gen. Pillow made prodiee display Of the white feather
Fort Doseson There to have been strife bes~sS
him and Floyd ses which could make the best
II Floyd is half as light.'ooted as be is ligbtnn.
gered, poor Pillow must have been distanced in IL
race.
Gen. Buckner pirates Of "cbivsly." He has y
idea Of chivalry beyond destroying bridges blowing
up locks and dams, demolishing railroads, stealing
horses, cattle, and wagons poisoning fountains q
water with carrion, and-surrenderlng when
comes to fight.
An ugly old maid has written us q letter abusing
10 for what we have laid of Buckner. We don't
know how we can molIify the ill-temper OF the Cd
girl, unless We can persuade some member Of IL
Humane Society to marry her.
Gen. Humphrey Marshall, at the last date
was pounding away at Pound Gap, and Cerro Gotdo
Williams was sounding bis own trumpet at SOUNDING
Gap. SO these two heroes have got the gaps, an4
we guess they will soon get the gapes.
"A Nashville correspondent Of In. MemP@" Aee'
Lanche Gays that the Union soldiers have the wos!e.
looking faces he ever saw in his life. We gues -
will never be able to see how their backs look.
Tile R,cAnaond Examiner announces that Gel
T. X. II. Cobb is authorized to raise 5000 men and
ordered to the Tennessee line. Let him beware est
he yet entangled in Kentucky hne.
The boats in which Floyd escaped from Fort DoA.
elson didn't belong to hlm and his brigade, but were
the common property OF the whole Confederate
army. Floyd stole thenl
"A Confederate paper says that Gen. Price isn't
whpped-that be is " merely falling back" Well,
ofeniimes q man shot through the heart merely
4" falls back"
The great subterrnnean phenomenon in Edmond.
son County, KY, the giving up Of Clarksville, end
the surrender Of Nashville, Are three mammoth
caves
We hope the IT, s. troops will closely scru.iniss
every Niger apparent passing through their lines,
ERE TINT he isn't Floyd or Pillow il disguise.
-Beauregard Is suffering at Murfr~esboro from 9
sore throat. He isn't the only rebel that is begin.
ming to feel bad about the neck.
Humphrey MarshaIrs headquarters, that w
hear SO much about, are great deal the smhtS
quarters he has got.
The Confederate army south OF us has been n
terly shattered and it will not he easy " save ~
pieces"
Some of the Fort Donelson officers confined +
Indianupos are said 10 give tie most startling -
codi.ts o. their mighty achievements IL tie bsth
Samson used the Jaw o. all ars III performing ne
fca,s bat they wag that weapon IN telling then.
One oil them Gays that after becoming weary and ex.
hsueteG with sLlughteTing Yankees he stepped sside
ani slept on the ground fifteen minutes at The esd
of which tine he found four or i've dead men lying
ell around him. We presume he hasn't a doubt tu~
he killed them in his sleep.
We ure told that Tie NaskriLe- Boring. Grtes.
Murtreestoro'- L0usviiic C0srrsr has been molDtsd
on wheels 30 that it can be wheeled from town 70
town as fast the Union forces advance. Its wheels
had better be kept well creased.
-keDtucky WIS very recently considered tie grcas
battle ground Of the continent We don't think ties
Teunessee 10 likely TO be much Of a battle-ground
hereafter. There's more probability OF her beinsa
race-track.
months that the war should lot be III the Southern
Confederacy bat upon The banks Of the Ohio. VIC
do they propose TO fetch it up this way
Was the " Provisional Government OF kensue
Ky reality, or only vision, an appari'ion, ghcs
specterf
We understand that search warran, has ben
issued to the sheiis and constabies in the sonthea
nart of Kentucky to find the Provisional Govern
nent. They are diligently hunting for it with lauPs
and lanterns.
--tieu. Buckner expected, in bic correspondents
with Gen. Grant, to exact and obtain high COMP
tions, but be found himself, like vulgar fractisa,
reduced TO the loves; terms.
Two thousand barrels of flour were :ound a
Fort Dunelson. SO we captured no, only the iiosw
OF the Southern Confederacy, but the flour. M
FIRST WEI feed, the last we IL eat.
The Western soldiers terrible in attack. We
wonder what they would be in retreat, but We -
to have but little chance of ever finding out.
One Of the mississippi companies at Tennes<~
commanded by Capt. Phillip Cooke. We pressrs
he il gala I T. Cooke.
Roger Hanson curses Floyds flight As dshoscf'
able Roger says he will never again trust No
maxim, " Honor among thieves. A.,
Howell Cobb has published 3 letter, In wh'sa
he thrice SAYS, - ween." lie is old enough 900
90, one would think.
The Provisional Government has left kentr<Sy,
taking its provisions i: il bad Ally, with il.
Cant Buckner send bis coat back TO some oH "
his Rebel friends 10 hight in