The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-23

army or a guerrilla band, or else, fearing !
an arrest, fled South, not knowing whittier
or wherefore particularly, and the SER
wants are left uncared for and without
food or clothing. Such cases occur al
most daily. The negro departs after
some disposition Of him has been made,
and is met at the door by master who
has just returned from an absence Of Sc
vcral months in the South, where be has
been on voyage Of exploration in search
Of certain "Lost Rights" an article in
great request in the Slave States, it would
seem from the numerous anxious inqui-
ries made after it, but as difficult TO find
as the Northwest passage or the exact
location of a rainbow. He wants the
Governor to send ont posse Of soldiers
TO help to catch a fugitive negro. He
hates the Federal Government, and thinks
il ought to be destroyed, and says that
there is no such Government, and nobody
ought TO pay any attention to it--that
it is so weak IL can't do anything or
hurt anybody, and that it is stealing every
bQdy's, slaves and violates theCOnstitutiOn
and he would scorn TO acknowledge such
a government because il won't protect
him, and therefore he demands as con-
stitutional right that il shall send out
soldiers to catch his runaways. This
man a few months since gave a thousand
dollars to the Confederate army, besides
a couple Of good horses, and has too
much regard for his conscience TO take
the oath of allegiance. His sympathies
are with the South--he can't help that
buthe insists that this does not relieve
the Federal government from the duty of
protecting him. This conscientious man
is marched out under an escort Of two
soldiers, with ugly looking bsyonets.
Presently half dozen plain, stur dy, de-
cent looking citizens, apparently indie
pendent farmers, present themselves.
Some of them, perhaps all, have been
forced TO fly from their houses and fami-
lies by rebel marauding bands One has
| had his barn burned, two or three have
had their cotton fired, others fine horses
stolen, and others teams impressed by
the dreaded guerrillas. They have trav-
elled fifty or sixty miles in coming here,
going on by-roads, and sleeping at night
in the woods, or in thicket, as though
they were travelling through a wilder
ness instead of civilized land. They
want authority to raise company for
protection, and arms and equipments. 1t
is readily granted, and now woe TO the
| luckless freebooter, who falls into their
hands! An agitated individual enters
and asks permission to whisper a word
in the Governors ear, in corner. He
saw ten thousand guerrillas last night,
commanded by MORGAN, marching on
Nashville, each man with a six FOUNDER
on his shoulder He was chased ten
miles, and shot at repeatedly but fortu-
nately escaped injury. And then comes
a spy, and smuggler, and rebel kid
napper who claims to be trustee over all
the negroes of runaway rebel masters,
aud hang dog looking villain who has
been recruiting for guerrilla troop, and
a parson who has been working like a
beaver in the pulpit and out of it, for
JEFF. DAVIS bastard government, but
thinks it is sinful for "citizen of The
Kingdom of Heaven" to do anything for
the support Of the Federal government.
Two or three petty officers have FLASHED
together, and come TO get their dispute
settled, and are followed by twenty ap-
plcants for Offices of various grades.
But here comes a woman clad in rusty
black, with a haggard, and sorrowful
face, leading several ragged and forlorn
looking children, and behind her comes
several other sisters in distress. Her
husband was a poor laborer, whom the
war threw out of work. While filed
with despair as he looked upon his little
household, and saw the wolf famine star
ing them in the face, with fieTcoly glar-
! ing eyes, a wealthy merchant doing bus
mess in five story palace, told him thai
ii he would join the rebel army he
would support his family, The poor
I man was loyal, but affection for his wifi,
; and children overcame his loyalty and
I he enlisted and fell on the fatal field o.
Shiloh. The promised aid was never Civ.
5 en-, of course, for he who will betray hi
1 country will betray an individual AnC
the disturbed and weeping mother i'm
! plores relief from the authorities. Alas
r such applicants are painfully numerous
f Bless us, who have we here Half-A
3 dozen silks, and tremendous curs anC
? artilicials, come sweeping and rustlinl
= into the room like an army, bent on TAX
D ing a battery by storm. They certainly
b came 10 give commands, or reprimands
p for there is not any Of the air Of peti
g tioners in this bevy Of females. A hasty
i glance at the faces Of this new group
e recalls very wildly some of the face
! occasionally seen on the platform at
S Woman's Rights Convention. A frienC
whispers in our ears that several Of then
are Yankee school ma ANS who have turn
g ed fire eaters, and can now deyour NOR,