The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-28


Some writer 1--WE think we know HIM
in the Washington ID. o. Chronicle, has
for several weeks been guilty Of a very
disrcputAble imposition upon us, and up
on the readers Of that newspaper. In
making up summary Of Tennessee news
he quotes various news and political ar
ticles, from The Union and Invariably Gre
dts them TO The Nashville Press. If the
mistake had happened once, or twice, we
would have passed il over as mistake,
made in the hurry Of the moment, but it
has been done so often that there is evi,
IDENTIFY design in the matter For in
stAnce in the Chronicle.of August 20, we
end Che following
wa receiigd last evening, too la5e TOR
publication, de JollaDing from friend Of
oagyin NaslViIie, and knoioing him as we do,
il is sufficient only TO state that he is q
gentleman of reliability. lie says: W
conversed yesterday with a gentleman
who left Greenville, the home OF Cover
nor johnson, about three weeks ago. He
estimates Buckner's entire force at not
more than 5000 men, who are scattered
IN squads over the country, guarding
roads, bridges, and passes. lie thinks
there are not exceeding 10000 able
bodied men in all that division of the
State, under fifty-fvo years. The in
1Amous .Langdon Haynes said recently"
Now the portion of the above paragraph
marked with quotation marks, is taken
not JTona a letter. as the Chronicle writer
lyingly says, but from an editorial of
ours, published al least one week before
the Chronicles article appeared, giving
Nan account of conversation which we
had with Mr.. Fletcher of East Tennessee.
,sNolsueh letter-was ever received at the
Chronicle Office ahHf
After this impudont theft follows an
editorial from the Union, on Bragg, credit
ed TO the Press Then an article in favor
Of Emancipation, copied from the Union
and credited to the Press. Then an edi-
''p tOriAl paragraph stolen from the Union
and cody appropriated as original with
:" the Chroniclel
We understand The origin Of these
raschlities perfectly. They sre cminently
characteristic Of one d. O. Truman, quon-
~ dam editor ofthe Nashville Press, and one
Of the most reckless and impudent liars
% who ever came 10 Nashville The thefts
'' are his they are like him. The scamp
used TO pick up "grapevines" on Che
= street, and publish them as special dis
o"pAtchesto his paper. On one occasion
t''he stole private dispatch, forged TO it
90 tie Initials Of Col. Forney, editor of the
''' Washington Chronicle, dated it WASH
oV' inston, and sent il out as an extra. The
D"' scoundrel became furious az us for ex-
~ posing him, and few days afterward,
zen in connection with the editor of the Lou
isville Journal, wrote series Of lying
. 'biAckguArd letters, signed ~, abusing
i.' the Nashville UNION. The letters writ
Pc Ton partly by Ben. Truman in this place
'H' aud partly by Prentice himself in Lou
~ isville, purported to be written by I'm.
'N ION citizen of Nashville, and were en-
dorsed by Prentice himself edilorially
sn' We detected the fraud, Truman confess
" ed IT. and on our exposure CT the two
blackguards the letters suddenly stop
ped; Truman was forced by public sem
timent to quit his paper, he got boauti :
fully drunk, was put in the work house,
~ and left the city few days afterward
= IN company with one hundred and fifty
W prostitutes, who were sent away from the
city on The steamer Idahoe. we do not
blame Che editor OF the Chronicle for the
imposition Of this miserable scamp. Of
'' whose true character he is doubtless To-
= norAnt. Truman used to correspond reg
- oiArly for the Philadelphia Press, and
writes letters to It now occasionally, in
which he nearly always manages to stea
something from the Union and credit 4
- TO the Nashville Press
aVuG rCl i---l-al-ll. -,
sd11 The present remarkably cool spell /,
furnishing fine paragraph for itemizers
The mercury fell on Monday last from 81
AT noon TO 5s at night a change Of Q.
degrees. Quicksilver like other silver