The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-22

u ita1T fsfbi5the Cincinnati COMMERCIAL y ~ "
TJIis 1St OnfVaisye, bS asrE665 yilIe-.-
IA Fexvs vsInclden e. oF Coz. .suusnderA,
IN Expealtion into Eastirenn9 9ssee.
FPdm an intelligent gentl6nan aiust
over" from East Tennessee, we have
learned come interesting details connect
cd with Che recent raid into that section, /,
some of which show that while War,
himself, Is "grim -tisaged, +" he can new
ertheless, some times provoke q smile,
even amid scenes Of death: s
-4 Knoxville is, and has been for The last
two yeats, as we have often beer told,
infested By q clique Of intOlerant seces-
sion leadefe, 10 whom, in great degree,
has been attributed the gross prosecutions
suffered by the Union citizens Of that
section. They baye al the while been
furious war men-~glast diteheTs, ' ct the
Yankees could only enter Knoxville over
their dead bodies, 2 .&es rS9cy-~hut for
itunstel g,untilrecentlyltheiT courage had
never been tEieds,a Our Informant gives us
an account ef this test, which, while il
may not really interest the genera alread-
er Of the 0oanae1aiak will, no doubt, be
heartily, appreciated by every hast Ten
nessean. u seeGas fhatl when Colonel
Saunders ( supposed at fthe time to be
Gon! Garter) approached Knoxville, and
turned bis. artillery toward the town, the
eOufage. Of the ohivalfoua knights began
10 ooze out at their fingers ends, and their
terror ,isl described as having been
ludicrous in. the. extreme. Conscious Of
their guilt they fed IN every direction,
,Gexeept toward iCol.S>) and some of them
were yenieFayenl enough teseek .protec-
ton ifrnm the 1eryspecple they have 50
lnng and so gFieyoualy wfonged. Gro.
zier--the deuglAyh liitle John, Or. as
eBfownlOw styles him, John Hapse-Who
had 80 often prninisad has folloFers TO
enter tha ranks when the proper time
oomes,i andfwh0 have eO,Greqnehtly re-
erett6dsthat be bad not "a hundred sons
10. dtdicaiai TO- the '.glohions en- hqsep--is
reported tOs OshaYe ,precipitaiely padded
4 himself across the aHost0n River, "a
atraddle'' a pine logg while Spefry, the
,gIriah fiesp nf the hegistei, the 4 organ
OF the aforesaid clique, unwilling 70 abide
[ thefardy mOtibnsofl the ierryboab which
clhnced to he ON he Opposite side,
, piunged q ,irantically into the strsa am with
I his halfemplied bottle in kis hand (the
only thing ho bad act forgotten in his
! flight9, and.by-dint of Wading and float
ing, soon fonnd himself siranded on the
friendly rocks of dam a short distance
below the ferry The ferryma1, after
.permitiing. him 10 exhaust himtelf 10y
mostRociferUus enireaties, at last relieved
him from his periieus prodieamtnt anC
/ landed him, al dipping on the southern
shore. Strange 20 say Sp0rry, through.
out kll his tribulations neier los his bot
90 3. Sneed-.%commOuly known as "MJ
4 Lord dSneedF--1hs'sane gen ntleman who
Tow years ago, sank 1.-THE Queen Of th'
4 Antilles toiOld Oceans depths,P and hai
on several occasions, asWe learn, patrloii'
= cally remoVedhis august and overwheln-
ing gpersOnagsa from East Ionnessee, II
order that the i'eRemy,F seeing pc prs
had fled, mig ht desigt from their inga
siOn.--he, WeuRderstepd, bpuing me- linz
Of retreat cut of, incOnunenuy spbsldet
into cellar, and, when called for by
y servant, who upezsd the cellar door som
i-twohOars after oar troops hadleit aroa
from his hiding -plaoeand With eyes di
lated, heroicallY exclaimed: "P@t i'm
G1eral Cartai Ny names SSEED n
Hon. WM Fl. SSEED, late Of Che Unite
, States C0gytsg. Iahe language of Genera