The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-04
Horrible state aT Affairs IN west


Horrible state dT Affairs IN west
Tennessee.
IMPORTANT PROM Henry CoUNTy
GEES AT Observation-Disclosures ~ MUR-
RAY County, KY.--THE MIsumEF Is
1RREMEDIABLE-MUBD AFTER SUR-
CONGRATULATIONS or HENRY CoUN
TY-SoUTH AFRICA PREFEBRED-BAN
QUIT OF CARNAGE, FIRE AND Blood.
We find the following in tho Memphis
Bulletin Of Saturday:
From number of letters Just received
from prominent citizsns of Henry and
the surrounding counties in this State,
and especially one from well-informed
gentleman residing at Paducah, Ky, we
have statements of the outrages commit
ted by guerrillas in those parts, we'll cal
| culated to arouse the fercest passions of
wrath and revenge. No less than thirty
citizens from Henry county, Tenn, are
now az Paducah, fugitives from rebel
violence Among them are various per
sons known in Memphis, of whom we
name John W. Nance, John Cooney, Jr,
j. p Dunlap, B. Pollard Il, Cowan, II
p. Howard and George Billings. These
report the land fall of guerrilla bands
Murray county, Kentucky, was visited
September 18Th, by gang of 100 of these
miscreants, by whom several stores were
pillaged. Troops are on the move from
Paducah to redress these outrages but
the mischief already done is irremedi
able
This is the second or third raid into
Henry iunty since the 1st of September.
and th, unfortunate CT liens whose d,vo-
ton to o.. Union flag has rendered hem
obnoxio 10 the rebels, or who are
singled out as victims to the couscripiion
for the Confederate army, have as often
fled before them.
Carter Foster was killed by tue euer-
rillas at Conynsville at their last visit Co
that place. He was murdered after his
surrender. Many persons from Henry
and WeakleY counties have recently
been conscripteG. Among them we name
James Snider, Oseph Spence, John Booth
and Thomas Snow.
A more desolate county than Henry
: county, as described by our Informant
can scarcely be imagined. "The inhab.
itants are absolutely ruined. Many have
left-many more are preparing to 20. In
the county seat, Paris, there will soon
be no one left to tell the tale of it's former
beauty, wealth and prosperity" The
writer adds, vi would to God my family
were in the wilds of Africa, rather than
in tat abandoned and desolate regiopl"
f 1t would be difficult to credit these
painful reports were they not confirmed
by too many statements of a similar
character from the most reliable author
r tiles. The devil is certainly loosed from
his bonds, and runs through those I'M
protected parts of our State like a roar
ing lion seeking whom he may deyour.
D What heights of audacity that officers in
4 the Confederate service should 60 three
p hundred miles from the nearest camps
), of their command to conscript unwilling
citizens into their service! Is this
lawful warfare, even according to those
;, lndia-rubber regulations called the laws
a of war If one of those scoundrels
in Henry county, who is engaged, Al
the head of band of marauders, in drag
ging husbands, sons, and brothers from
o their homes, is caught, ought his mere
q possession OF a recruiting commission tc
save his miserable neck We're Gen
d Hurlbut to send recruiting officers as far
e South as Aberdeen in bands of fifty anC
II one hundred, and they were captured
. would their recruiting commissions saw,
their lives ? We trow not
y The audacity of it lies ia the fact tina
70 a oonscript, taken in Henry county, Ten.
It nessee, must be carried southwark int
n Mississippi, directly through our line,
and past our strongly guarded and for
titled posts, full three hundred miles, Of
II he must be taken across the Tennessee
n river, southeastwsrd through Tennessee,
Ia and Alabama into Georgia, before he cal
= be made available to the Confederat
- service. Now such an effort, with an I'm
's willing and outraged conscript is simpl,
d an impossibility, seeing the number o
u chances of escape that would hourly
present themselves to him We cannO
but conclude that the sole object of thes
q pretended recruiting agencies is plumber
d To take up man under authority of
IN simulated commission, that fat ransom
may be secured for him or his friends. i
= doubtless the purpose had in view, ant
N we know that large sums of money hay
,r been raised off of our people by the Con
,e federate agents in that way.
Poor Tennessee when that day, blaol
forever in her calendar, witnessed th
u voting population consenting at the polls
1T to fOrsake the flag of their fathers, hos
le little was this banquet of carnage, blood
IN fire and pillsge looked for