The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-14

tl0Ct anu Wiueiy uluefcut 0l0ifSp tue i"s,
ter being q tax on moveables. We erred
from sheer ignorance, and nothing else.
From Tennessee.
The intelligence from Tennessee is very
misty. The commanding General there has
very properly enlarged all intelligence
relative to the military movements going
on in that State. On the Sd inst, Gen.
Forrest gave the enemy severe drubbing
at Kingston, killing and wounding large
number Of them. Kingston is small
county town, located upon the banks OF
the Tennessee and Clinch rivers, eighteen
miles below Loudon. Gen. Forrest COM
menced crossing his command by ferry
boats over the Tennessee river. While
crossing over with the last detachment,
the ferry boat sunk, drowning ten men.
The remainder swan ashore. The fol-
lowing from the Marietta Confederate will
show how the enemy is prosecuting hos
tilities in Tennessee
The Yankees occupied Winchester on the
Sd of july, celebrated the 4th, and issued a
number OF the Winchester Daily Bulletin Oh
that day, taunting the editor and proprietor,
Mr.. Slater, with supplying his place in his
absence. Gen; MeCook occupied the resi-
dence of Mark Henderson as his headquar-
tiers, and Gen JEFF. G. Davis (who killed Bull
Nelson, the Kentucky Yankee General, last
year,) occupied the residence of Harrison I.
Carr, a member of the last Tennessee Legis-
latcre. They put guards around the houses
in town, and L few OF them were robbed.
But they gave leave to their troops to wan
der up and down the country like devils,
seeking what they might devour. The con-
sequence was that they carried on system
of general plumber, taking meat, meal, -four,
and other provisions from all but the very
poor, leaving nothing to eat, and making a
large majority oil the people wholly Deepen
dent on the enemy for ratiOns, which were
doled out to them for three days at time.
They went to old Captain Taylor's, WI is
about ninety years old, and his sons, w. f.
Taylor, formerly Clerk Of the County Court,
both of. them regarded as rich men, and SO
completely robbed them that they had to sub
sist GU boiled corn for more than week,
when they got days rations Of meat and
-four from Yankee soldier, who took pity
ON them.
A brigade of troops was sent to the farm
of A. Shook, substantial citizen Of seventy
odd years, under the guidance OF one OF his
negroes, and three regiments spent the day
there. They took all the provisions, not
leaving half gallon of meal for the old man
aud the family of his son, o. 3. Shook, who
had been in the First Tennessee regiment in
Virginia. They killed every hog, sheep, and
calf that they could find, took five negro
men--all he had-and three of them were
armed, uniformed, and put in the Yankee
service. They stole Mrs. s. Shocks watch
and jewelIy, and afterwards guard was put
over her room.
Mrs. Shook went to town to draw rations.
The Provost Marshal was disposed to be
courteous, but said she must go to General
Davis. She went to Dayis's quarters, and
his Adjutant OF Clerk repeated the name !:
''ShoOk! Shook "-when Davis said, Cali
rebels; and you, madam, are as d-n rebel
as any," "Yes," said she, land always will
be-" Davis said, "YOu can't get any fations"
Mrs. s., ''DO you intend me and my children
TO starve? You have stolen all my Meat and
everything else to eat" He replied, 81 don't
care d-n if you and your children do
starve." He seemed familiar with the
peoples names, and called the names
of all the men in the Shook family-the
father aud sons-one Of whom was the Con
federate Postmaster at Winchester, another
in Starnes's cavalry, and the third, lawyer,
had been in the First regiment, as already
stated.
It is said that SO sweeping has been the
pillaeing and deGOlatiOn, that not shock Of
wheat has been left In the country, and they
were cutting the green corn; and there are
no vegetables, aud not sitting hen, goose,
or other fowl Notwithstanding this bar.
barous treatment, the spirits Of the people
are not broken, but they are still defiant and
opposed to ecOnstruoti0n Of the old Union
hulk. The Yankee papers Say that they
have no friends in Franklin county, and
complain that The ladies won't receive them
in their parlors, saying that, ii they would
do SO, they would find them jovial set Of
fellows.
Notwithstanding the occupation OF Frank
lin county by the Yankees, an election fol
members Of the Legislature was held there
within seven miles OF Winchester, and john
G. EnOchs was elected Senator for Lincoln
and Franklin, and JAS. K. Shook, Represen
tatiye for Franklin, and certificates OF cleo
ton were awarded them.
A correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury, writing from Charleston, Tenn,
on the Sd inst, says:
Our trains now run no further than Lou
don, where the railroad crosses the Tennes
see, and which is thirty miles from Knox
Vile. Yesterday the enemy appeared at Lon
don, OH the opposite bank, and shelled the
place. Our batteries responded, and oui
people burned the railroad bridge over the
Tennessee This is vast and splendid
structure, worth q million OF dollars. Its
destruction, alone, viii cause the loss of the
use of this railroad for many weeks. The
guns used must have been heavy ones, for
heard the cannonade at this place, though
forty miles distant.
Yesterday and to-day this little village has
been the scene of grand and moving sights,
For thirty-six hours past, night and day,
there has been continuous stream OF wag
ons, long lines OF infantry, leagues OF cavalry
aud their diminutive batteries Of artillery.
Thousands aud tens of thousands Of soldiers
tramp, gallOp, and hang about the streets
staff officers, c0uriers, orderlies, dash pbOut
ON horseback; sdust-c0yered dragons lOpe
along the streets, enyeloped and Obscured
in the heavy clouds of impalpable dust; the
entire village Of Charleston is covered Will
great clouds Of dust that envelope it like 6
heavy fog; dozens Of locomotives are scream
ing and screechiDg, and long trains Of carr
speed down the road with tons Of army
stores; now and then a carriage load o
fugitive ladies and children passes through
to place Of refuge from Yankee out
rage. This morning | saw and converted
with the remnant OF .'Morgan's men" who
escaped in the late raid. They are several
hundreds, and splendidly mounted, ARMED
and equipped. They are, indeed, almost thu
only cavalry IN this army that ever fights Will
any spirit or success.