The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-12
Mashrille Anion.
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The ceKIY Union,
The fourth number Of the Weekly
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THE RAID on THE CHATTANOOGA RAIL
aoAD.-A number Of gentlemen who were
captured on the train which was de-.
stroyed near Lavergne last Friday, ar
rived in this city lasts evening. They
wcro paroled after having been taken
o m eighteen miles from the place of
their capture in the direction Of Lebanon.
We learn from one Of them that the Con-
Tolerate force which made the attack was
under the command Of Col. TERRY, a son
OF the noted Texas Ranger who was killed
in 1861 in a battle near Green River, in
Kentucky, and numbered between $50
and 300 men. BLEDsoE, formerly a mem
Der Of the Tennessee Legislature, and an
opponent of the ordinance Of secession.
was also with them as an officer. They
stopped the trainsby removing the spikes
from some Of tho rails, and permitting
the latter TO remain as if all were right,
When the locomotive got on these rails.
they spread out, and the wheels went
down on the bed Of the road. The attack
was immediately made, and ths train
went up" Among the passengers were
twenty five or thirty rebel prisoners
chiefly officers, on their way TO thin
place. They were re captured and re-
leased. Our informant complains tina
the prisoners taken were generally rob.
bed, though otherwise they were no
mistreated. ~
There was a report in circulation las
evening, that the rebels in their haste t
burn the train neglected TO remove 81
wounded men, three Of whom were reb
els, from one Of the cars, and that the
were burnt with II. Nothing of thi
sort was mentioned by the returne
prisoners, who, however, were sent o
before the train was burnt. The repor
may be entirely untrue.
LABcENY.-LoUIsA, an Alabama COZ
with stealing some 1885 from Mr.. Gin
MAN, former proprietor of the Donegal
eating house, on Cherry street. The g
had been employed in Mr.. GILMAN
family as a nurse, and learned where
kept his money. Making use of Ii
knowledge, she grati6ed her thieviI
propensities by appropriating the abO
amount, leaving him the remand
of S7o0. She determined at once
become a d~ry.goods merchant, and pr
cseded to invest cher funds" in muslin
etc. Her an bidon thus ao'erleaped
self" for the goods were bulky, and cou
not we'll be hidden from such sharp d
t]ectives as CnUMBLEY and his assistant
They were found, and were the means
recovery for Mr.. GILMAN of 1924 80
the stolen money. The merchants
whom she bought the goods came forwai
and got them back, refunding the monC
paid for them.
A great many cases of thieving ha'
been mentioned TO us Of late, the MAORI
Of them being the work Of some of 4
contrabands who are running idle in o
streets, or have found employ ment
families whose houses they haveon
entered to avail themselves Of opportun
ties tol. They ought to be punished
every instance.