The Portland daily press., 1863-09-19

flags, and shouting, "Hurrah for the Union"
Old ladies rushed out of their houses and
wanted to see General Burnside and shake
hands with him, and cried, "Welcome, well
come, General Burnside, welcome to East
Tennessee~
Near Kingston our boys had carried off a
wel-rope so that water could not be drawn.
zen. burnside ordered the quartermaster to
give the woman of the house rope. He
gave her one twenty-five feet long, She said
her well was only twenty feet deep, and
would not have the extra five feet of rope.
A Mrs. Staples whose husband had been mur-
dered by the rebels, came out to see General
Burnside, caught his hand, and told him he
was welcome-they were glad to see him. The
soldiers had taken all her corn, but she did
not care. He assured her her corn should
be paid for, ard asked how much she had.
She said there were four acres in the lot. He
asked how much it yielded to the acre. She
said, If well tended it would yield sixty bushels
but she had been obliged to tend it herself
and thought there was only thirty bushels to
the acre, and would only take pay at that
rate.
These incidents of the simple honesty of
the people will Illustrate their character,
and the feeling with which they looked upon
the triumphant march of our troops. They
care little about the "policy of the Adminstra-
tion." All they want is that the rebels shall
be whipped and the Union restored. They
have no fears after that. They associate, as
well they may, liberty, Justice and peace
with the Union; and they know they have
bad oppression. anarchy and boodshed in the
Southern Confederacy. 1t is common ex-
preston among them, "We were born under
the old flag and the constitution. They are
good enough for us, and we intend to die
under them" About Knoxville the people
were pointing out the hiding places of the
rebel stores, and were Jealous in so doing.
The prominent secessionists at Knoxville fled
with Buckner. There are few left who have
assisted the secession bloodhounds, and the
popular expression was. "they must leave
here or they must die. They can't live here"
The ATTACK UPON THE Hon. Mr.. VooR
HEEs.-The Cincinnati Gazette has the follow
ing:
The second battalion, 63d Indiana voun-
teers, returned from Terre Haute on SatlIr-
day. Most OF the men were raised in Mr.. Dan.
w. Voorhees, district, and one company in
his old town. Learning that he was on the
train, the soldiers broke Tor the car where he
was. dashed in the door, and in spite of the
presence of his wife, threatened to hang him
by the bellrope if he did not get off the train
telling him that no man who called Ameri-
can soldiers Lincoln dogs, who, when the war
was over, would wear collars so labeled,
should ride with them alive. The officers in
terfered and forced the men back almost at
the point of the sword. A second and third
attempt was made, but failed, through the en-
treaties and command of the officers. Voor-
hees solemnly protested that he had been be-
lied, and that they read but one class of papers.
They answered that they had seen his speech
es, and that was enough to show he was a
traitor. At last he was informed that if he
would quietly leave the train at Greencastle,
he might do so, but that the SD would never
ride into indianapolis on the same train with
him, or any man who would abuse the sol
diers, who were fighting for the Union and
the Government that protected him as well
as them. 1t was mighty narrow escape for
Dan, and neither his weeping wife, nor his ell
treaties, would have saved him, if he had con-
tinued the journey.