The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-29

In HetorenCg 10 AtAAiIH "hN
lie Sentiment I'm that state
We wuro introduced yesterday to 0
citizen onklabamA who has recently
made hb Escape across the lines. lie is
a genslemsn of superior intelligence,
native oilthat SlPte, and a slaye'ownel
and thqlRqeoant he gives Of the internal
condalOn Of that portion of the South Is
more 1diFSp satisfactory Than any we
have heard heretofore, ~" %
Hostatasz that an extensive travel and
acquaintance in Alabama satisfy him
that no attohnt yet published has done
JUSTICE, 70 eiho Union feelings Of The
Southern people, In the county where
he resides allargsi majority Of the peopl
arc f6rlbeUhIonsunc additionally, and are
anxI9usly aSaitihg tie complete triumph
of the National arms The same feeling
provails mia number of The adjoining
counties. q Aboutthe last Of Dccembertht
Unioa men o. Randolph county were
preparing toFesist the Conservation Act
by furte A young man had deserted
fromthe army and had been thrown Into
Jail at Wedowee, the county scat OF
Randolph. A.large party Of the citizens
went to tho, Jail, aud told the jailor that
he must either surrender the prisoner, OF
they would tear down the jail. The
q
Tailor prefrrred 10 release the young
mama KVord was Immediately sent to th'
War Depar tment, and a regiment of cav
airy was sent 70 quell the trouble, and
arrest the Unopisis The troops came,
and the organization was broken up and
large number of consoripts carried of
The ciFcnit Court sat the last week in
February, and 50 fearful were the rebel
authorities that the Unionists would rise
and overpower them ihat Capt LEw1s's
company came TO protect the Court, and
the rebel Judge was actually guarded by
Confederate troops during the session OF
his courts The Judge gave a very ear
nest clatge TO the Grand Jury, urging
them TO notice every gathering Of The
citizens, who were conversing on the
streets; and see whether they were en-
gagged in seditious conversation. Our
informant was arrested on the charge Of
advising soldiers. to desert. Col. M. W.
HANNoS, Of the 53i Alabama Cavalry,
into whose hands he fell, treated him in
a,bruial manner, lie is . vulgar, ma
liciops, base man, Lieue-col. GArNts
Of the same regiment treated him very
courieoasly Through the intereession
OF Influential friends he was patoled, al
last after a great deal Of rough treat
meat, vAs illustrative Of the feel
ings mof the people, he states that
three enrolling officers were killed,
white enforcing tho CONSUMPTION law
one ia Jefferson, one in ST, Clair, and
ano ther, ID another county not remem
beFed. iaaFhgy fell victims TO popular
Jury Capt. Baird was shot while riding
along the road. lie states as a fact
wilhin,his personal knowledge, that the
enrolling officers travel with packs ef5Iooa
kotpi5 j6r hie purpose Of running do,oa con-
aripts ieh3 neg tn 10 escape There is nc
doubt Of this fact whatever. IL is Of
oomhOn occurrence in the poor white set
Elements where the hills afford facilities
Tor coneeslment. Ia Randolph county o
company of the sd Alabama cavalry
went lothe house Of an old Union man
who had fed TO The woods. They de-
manded Of bis wife TO tell where he was
She replied she did not know, when the
officer picked up her little bay, about
four years old, and told her that be
would take the child into The woods, and
IL she did not come and tell where her
husband was within half an hour he
would shoot her child The child was
borne or screaming with terror. Tho
wretohsd mother unable to Tell whore
her husband was, was horror
stricken. When tho half hour had
expired, the cavalry fred of
several guns 10 mako tie mother believe
that they had executed their brutal
threat, and made or to camp, taking the
child with them. II was kept there sew
u sFal days, IN the cold and rain, refusing
TO eat or sleep, and screaming with ter
ror, and then allowed to go home.
a' The des1itution o. tho people is dis.
tressipg Hendricks Of families hardly
"a eyeriasle meat, and are glad to get bread
But little cotton has been destroyed. Our
Informant does not remember one In
stance where q planter burned his own
cotton, What little has been burned
uwas the property of loyal men
who were pluaderod by the gusr-
rillas, Tho cotton OF secession
lists may have been burned, In
some instances when thore was
danger OF its falling into tho hands
Of Federal troops. Randolph county
u borders on Georgia, and our informant as =
. eures ms that there is an under spread
'"loyal feeling in Georgia, The people
are sick Of the war and long to return to
the Union. We asked him if the CohHs-
,i cation Act, and Emancipation Procla
, t,,,afion had lesqenpd tho g,,,ti ~ .