Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-03-04
From Tennessee.
Clarksville, Tenn, Feb. %


yesterday, with twelve surgeons, who came
down to take care of the wounded whom
the rebels left here in their recent hasty
retreat They say Nashville is deserted by
rebel troops and that the eitizens are
leaving the city very fast.
The enemy will make stand n. Muir
ireesboro, which Is forty miles back in the
the country from Nashville They are
afraid Of the mortar boats, and want to get
away from the river, out OF their range.
elarksville is place of 5 900 inhabitants
about one half of whom are gune. There
mainder are badly frightened.
There is but one Union man in the town,
and be is sixty years uli,or be would have
been killed long ago.
paid visit to Hon. Cave johnson
yesterday. lie resides at Carksyille. Mr..
johnson was powerful advocate OF Union
until The war commenced, bat is now as
p'weriul on the other side. He says the
ouly effect of our success VIII be To drive
the peuI lie of Tennessee into the mountains
aud render them desperate.
There Is not a spark of Union feeling
here, and nCbody pretends to disguise the
fact.
The people of Clarksvile glory in secss-
sion, but at the same time are trembling
( lest the town be burned.
There was large quantity of rebel
! stores here, portion Of which they carried
of, and the remainder they threw ooen to
the people. After they got all they wanted,
the remainder was DESTROYED.
|. The rebel leaders shipped thousand
negros away last week from Cl4rksville.-
/ What there are left are wide awake to the
probable results of the campaign.
The was full regiment from C.arks-
vile at Fort Donelson, all of whom are
prisoners. Most Of them owned slaves, and
there are lots of negroes here without mas
ters. The inhabitants fear an instruction,
and some of the more intelligent say that
it is unavoidable.
The hospital is full Of rebel wounded
who were put off on the deck to make room
for well soldiers. They have had nisera-
bic care, and have died off like rotten
sheep.
People here had not the remutes, ide,
that Fort Donelson would be taken. The,
had grand jubilee the day that the gun,
beats were repulSed. A few hours after
they scattered and ran. Those who ~,
left think the surrender was rather a COW.
ardly affair.
Floyd destroyed the splendid river bridg
over the Cumberland ut Nashville. an,
burned the railroad bridge. Great indig
nation is felt 10y the citizens of Nashvill,
at this vandalism. They are entirely on
of coal and are suffering for many article
OF necessity.
The city was evacuated on Sunday, tn
+ lGth-the morning of the surrender OF For
DOnelson. The stores were oil closed. mn,
the citizens were leaving fast for Memphi
and othe: points The surgeons say YER
little it any Union sentiment was there
The sympathy was all the other wav.
Tue statement that Governor Harris hh
sought and obtained an interview wit
Gen. Grant. turns out to be untrue. Ii wa
generally believed, as it came by what WI
considered the best authority.
News has been received that Goyerpo
Harris had convened the Legislature o.
Saturday last at Menu his, ana had trans
mitted most violent and extraordinar
war message. 1t bad created intense ex
citement,and it is supposed that every male
no matter how old or young, and any or
VINO nid carry gun or APP y torch
would be forced into service. The leader
in the rebellion in Tennessee, with GOV
Harris ut their head, have become desper
ate and are about to throw their last an
most desperate stake in the contest. Tn
leaders are getting afraid Of their OWE men
IS IN the late contests many of their dune
, have shown they have no heart in th
STRIFE 1t Is quite certain, from what trans
pred at Fort Henry, that two thirds of tn
hsntuckians and Tennesseeans would de
sert II they had chance, and in case q
the evacuatlen of any important post,
such az Columbus, the rebel ranks woul
have but few left of citizens from thss
States.
GAINESVILLE, Fob, 81.
Clarksville is in full possession of GU
troops. Gen. Smith has appointed Actin
Brig Gen. Cook, Of the Seventh Illiuoi.
cnmmandant OF the pest, and Capt, Esta
brook, of the same regiment, Provost Mar
shall
General Smith preserves the strictes
discii liue among his troops, and the citi
gems have no hesitation in saving the
much prefer the Union to the rebel 81 liier,
About one hundred wounded conFedera
ties are brought here, and many of ther
have since died. The wounds made bv on
Minre balls are !ri2htfui. A large portio
OF the rebel wounded will die from tn
effects of these wounds.
Gen. Nelst n hoisted the stars and stripe
On the magnificent capitol of Tennessee,
on Tuesday, the 25th, amid the most en-
thusiastic cheering Of Union citizens an,
soldiers.
The fine steamers b. NJ. Runyon, C. Z
Hilman, and Cura Andersen have bee
seized. The james Woods and Jane
johnson were burned upon the first au
proach of Federal troops.
Several of our wounded, left by the reb
els at Nashville, are receiving the kinde.
OF attention from the ladies' of the CITY .wh
are represented as particularly patriotic.