The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-04
FROM THE REBEL STATES
Richmond Prisoners.
Scarcity of Food at Charleston.
Misc eIlaneOus 1t, ms.
From the savannah News. sopt u

Ga Saturday afternoon, while Mr..
Buckhalter, overseer of the track of the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, was
passing over the road near Green Pond,
he discovered telegraphic wire leading
into the woods. Following the wire a
short distance, he came upon party of
Yankees, who had aninstrument arranged
so as TO enable them 10 take off the dis
patches passing over the line between
Charleston and this city. The Yam
KEGS, comprising party of three whites
and three blacks, fed ON being discoV-
cred, beating off their instrument, but
leaving quantity of submarine tele-
graphic wire and other implements.
Mr.. Buckhalter lost no time in giving
information to the military authorities at
the nearest point, and party of cavalry
was speedily dispatched in pursuit Of
the fugitives who succeeded in capturing
three of the party-a Chaplain, a First
Lieutenant and anegro-all belonging to
rhe Fifty fourth Massachusetts negro
regiment The pursuit was continued in
the Uombshee Swamp to which the bal
ance OF the party had fled, aud Nth tbe
aid ofa nqDlber Of g. ailing dogs, after a
chase of some seven miles, the operator, a
red headed Yankee by the name OF FOs
r. was found and captured while stuck
up 70 his middle in the mud, and unable
TO exirlcate himself. The remaining two
negroes, with telesraphic instrument,
made their escape in hAtboat, but al
last accounts our men, with their dogs,
we're in pursuit, with q good prospect OF
OverlsklDg them.
UEIoNIsTs CONFINED IN CASTLE THUNDER
There are some big fish in Castle
Thunder, caught in the net of military
surveillance. The most notable, because
of his ancestry, is Andy Johnson,
nephew of the great blow pipe, Andy
johnson, of Tennessee. He is about 30
years of age, and boasts how soon he is
to be liberated by Yankee bayonets. lie
is charged sOiM disloyalH dc.
The next in Importance is George w.
Hudson, the Englishman and spy, arrest
ed on the Southern Railroad by the "un-
known detective" almost a month since.
He bears himself with hauteur
Another is the Yankee spy, Negley,
arrested in the Confederate uniform with
in the lines of the Army of Northern
Virginia, and sent to Richmond by Gen.
Lee.
Among the females is Mrs. Clarke, a
French woman from New Orleans, and
apprehended at New Orleans on the
charge of being an emissary from the
Yankees. The other day she surrepti-
| tiously sent letter from the Castle 6y a
negro boy. On the discovery of the vi
olatiOn of the rule the boy was ordered
to be logged, whereupon she asked thai
the stripes might be laid upon her own
back instead of the boys OF course,
her expression of devoted sympathy foi
the negro could not be entertained il
this instance, as she was well aware
when she INDUCED herself in that slight
exultation of gas.
SPIRIT OF THE RICHMOND PRESS
SING, FOR THE PRIDE OF THE TYRANr is
BROKEN.
From the Richmond Examiner.
Is il yet time to intone the anthem
If Geu Braggs bulletin is to be received
I | WIN AuAl GOnnANnNAf Wo bAitlI uA
80. "Our victory is complete" says tn,
exultant General. Possibly-butitw il woulC
have been more prudent TO have refrainet
from saying 80 till the week of battl
was ended. Oar victory cannot be com
plete unless il is cOnsummated by the re
oovery of Chattanooga. The prize o
the conqueror is East Tennessee. Tn
incomplets result is very glorious. Pris
Oners, cannon, the burial of the dead
possession of the field, pursuit of th
enemy-all the trophies and tokens o
successful war our own. But let u
await for the end before announcing tn
triumph of the Confederate arms in th
Central West. II has become the settle
system of the enemy TO prepare, Defor
delivering battle, some strong point i
his rear on which he can fail back afte
defeat, and win by his own reinforce
ments ana our indlscipilne, what cUurag
could not secure.
The Generals Of the United State
know well that none OF their troops
whether Eas ern or Western, can sustai
with success the i,st onset vi = SJuther
army. But If tbey can protract the con
tes,, and retreat wI,nUu rout til the
reach heir reserve, tney usually win q
last Why Because a Southern arm
b, comrs mob after victory. General
aud roops give way 70 an exhllaratio
proper TO schoolbOys. The men strag
Gle, the Offices drink, and all brag OF th
wJnders doue by our division Hence
is that none OF DO Southern leaders nav
been able to secure the fruits OF WctOrI
Beauregard, Lee, Johnston, Bragg, eac
an turn has been censured for not pursu
suing advantages which would, IN oth'
countries and by other Generals, haV
certainly baeu rendered decisive OF II
var
PEI iJence u conducting h police
a regular q, my IA tue spiut OF a miiitl
organization has been the source Of a
our reverses and the cause Of all our mil