New-York daily tribune., 1863-08-01

down to the Office found my friend the ooiouei az
ready stirring "Ah, he said, as oade nun gooo
morning" I'm in luck. An orderly las come IN
with NV horse. and an ambulance goes out nhder an
escort this morning. In half an hour can be OIL.
(Trippe was distant only eighteen miles, but the
,osd wss ;nres.ed with guerilss, and was unsafe
for single travelers'I
"pm glad for that, on your account, but sorry on
NV own. l had reckoned on your aid in procuring
access TO my friends at the prison."
"Yon'll have no difficulty about that. Call on
Col. Martin at the Capitol tell him who you are,
and he Il give you permit"
After breakfast, with mutual expressions OF good
will, we parted. have formed many agreeable ac-
qvaintauces while travelling, but never one more
agreeable than the sturdy Indiana Colonel. He tad
frank, glowing genial nature that attracted me IT.
resstibly to him, just as one is attracted to warm
wood Gre on Winter evening Indeed be is some-
how associated in my mind with glorious wood
fre-one OF the generous, oldtashioned kind; OF
oaken logs piled high broad hearth, and giving
out oxygen enough to supply small village.
When he was gone, the landlord said TO me, " II
YOU don't know none of the military folk, Sir, You
stand solry chance OF gitta' inter the prison. Ye
zee, they karnt admit them as they don't know.
'Twould nt do, nohow.
If that was true was in dilemma. had pro-
vided against such contingency by taking with me,
on leaving home hall dozen Introductory letters 10
Gov. johnson, but that gentleman was not in Nash
vile, and might not arrive for week, therefore
shey were OF no present service.
As / sat down to ponder over the situation" |
suddenly remembered having heard that the son Of
old A .ffi in Tam rer
Landlord" said addressing the publican q,
told me be was also Republican, bat other t. ust
worthy persons assured me he was at heart rabit
Rebel Tois thought accounted for the coD' liton o
bis establishments. have observed that ooral anr
physical uncleanness are usually found together.
Landlord" said, can you tell n.' were the =
Tennessee Is statlonedF
Here Sir; bout two miles o It-nieh TO For
Eegley."
This was agreeable news, and writing few line
70 the young Tennesseean i'll which alluded to III,
long friendship with his fatb er. and asked him ct
come over" and help me, dispatched messenge
st once to the camp. B abou. an hour be returned
but with toe unweco me tiding. that "de Cap'n en-
OH, sar; Oh scou'in 1t, sar an dsy don't know ~he
bel 10 IaeN, boI ley reckon he'll come yere dricly
he come, sar; d rcly lie come, sar."
lhe mornlH was slipping away while was thu
casting aOo7 for Escort and at last determined
10 do Whs should have done at first-se out alone
"a c imbed the steep bill which leads TO the Capi
fol, was struck with the gloomy aspect Of tb
sie' It, somber houses, and the noiseess, deserted
81 leets. 1t was a bright, Sunmerke day, aud near
the hour for morning service, but with the exeep
ton Of solitary soldier, a snsrtly dressed darky
l., dlv aslr lie xl |.
population had mostly Aed, aud the few that remained
welcomed the Northern intruders" with bolIe
doom and barred windows. realized was walk
Ing the streets OF conquered city. Arrived at th
Cspito-an imposing pile OF white marble, NOR
spacious and beautiful than any similar edifce in III
Northern States-I found myself under the walls 0
huge fortress, frowning with cannon and encircle
with breastworks. Its marble steps were hanked b.
stocksdes, and its broad battlements crowned Wit
artillery, which, from its elevated position, com
manded the entire town and surrounding suburbs
In the ds.snce, the Casino ard Forts Negley snc
Conascation looked down from rocky elevations. an
beyond them broad belt Of military camps en-
grdlsd the captive city. To my unpractced eye th'
deienses seemed, as they 10 doubt are mlregnable
snd'with what emotions must they be contemplate
by Nasbvilles tobacco lords, who, wandering bacl
from exile in Dixie, stand now and then on thes
neighborng hills, and look down on the homes thei
Own mad treason has shut them out from forever.
Approaching the sentinel at the principal stairway
said: "Wil You tell Inc where 10 find Col. Martin
"An' shoore an / will, ST.. Foiler the grand hal
sill ye come fornins, the Guvners room-ye1 spy
over the dhoOr-thin, say pothin' to nobody, but &
straight in, Sir, an ax fur the CunDe an yen hav
him."
"Thank you. And pray, what brought you here
ali the way from auld Ireland"
"Fath, yer honor, an come to fght-to fight 70
the Daygur;" and he shrugged bis shoulders, as
what ho said might not be exactly true.
I" You don't mean that"
"Trotb, an does I niver loiked the blac
divils-tbough them as s here amt black, fur they
yaller-till come out TO fight fur 'em but I've Sor
o. takin to 'em SINCE An Ifishman, ye knows,
he's niver hapenny 10 his pocket has alters feler
feelin' fur poor divi as is poorer thin he ian
sorry bit of anything in the world has the naygur
He don't own his own children. Sir; mot aven th
flesh on bis bones"
"Your kindred, where live, are not Of your wa
Of thinking"
"An' where may that bc, yer honor'"
"In New-York."
"Oh, yis know; theys all Dimmocrats there
an Fernandy Wud Dimmocrats at tbat-bad luck u
thim. If you'd loike to kinvsrt 'em, Sir, jest sen
'em out here. / warrant ye they won't be four an
twenty 'oours in the State till tbey's Black Republi
cans-as black as the naygurs themselves. An Irish
mans hoart in him, Sir, an, be CORY, be can't Re
tte poor craytures widout havin feller feein' fu
EN-"
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