The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-12
The Tronblss reras.

The NEWS from Texas oVerbrims with
interest. The last message Of the rebel
Texan Governor, P. r. Lubbuek, is very
extensive, and dwsls upon many points
which go to prove that the game is up
with secession. The wholesale conserip-
ton measures sdvocated By the rebel
Congress are extended to yet severer
limits in Texas. Rebellion is making its
last gssps there. All between the ages
Of sixteen aud sixty must be enrolled.
Msy and December alike must be drag
ged into the service, to keep the mill Of
rebeldom agoirg. This was commenced
ayear age nearly, so that by the law Of
progress, fresh cOnscriptiOn viii place
dOtards Of four score and babies ofhalfa
score chsek byjOwlin the rebel ranks of
Texas.
They sye having . glorious time Of it
down in Texas Gov. Lubbock wakes
confident and grandiloquent. He thinks
the COnfederscy could well afford to for
tify such places as Vicksburg and Port
Hudson, and surrender them upon the
same terms. Could she, indeed? Let
her fortify them, then. The message
says that, nearly year ago, sixty eight
thousand five hundred men were in the
Texan service, leaving in the State only
tWenty-seven thousand men between the
ages Of sixteen and thirty. The sixty
eight thousand have increased to ninety
thousand, and consequently leave bat
fifty-fiTe hundred men to repeopls the
snnihilated ranks. How long can re-
Ill
reserve force Governor Lubbock
speaks of the wants of the soldiers
who are battling for their country,
and suggests that the Confederate
authorities be authorized to put to
hard labor, in the State Penitentisry, all
soldiers, within the limits Of the State,
who may be convicted Of desertion and
Ell persons encouraging desertion or har- |
boring deserters; such labor to be for |
the benefit Of those in the field. The /
wants of. these iftyflVe hundred who shall !
support the fresh levy must indeed be
magnificent ifthe cannot be supplied ten /
times over by the forced labor Of those de- |
serters whom the Governor Lubuck is so \
kind as to recommend to the tender
mercies of the psnitentiary. General
Msgruder wants the Federal prisoners of /
war accommodated at the penitentiary,
likewise; but Governor Lubuck will not
hear of it. The report Of the directors of
the Texas State Penitentiary goes to
show that the working of the institution
is sofincalulable.ben OF TO the cause of the
State and the Confsderaey; 80 much 80,
indeed, that Governor Lubuck objects to
the introduction there of Federal prison
ers IF war, in accordance with General
Msgruder's request on the ground thatit
would incur the risk Of destFucti IN to the
sole mandatory Of the cloth west Of the
Mississippi.
The Texan Governor admits that the
rebel currency is in q sadly deteriOratsd
condition concludes that everything
will come right by and bye, and con-
graduates Texas upon her bright and IN
quilted escutcheOn. His promise that he
and his coadjutOr5 are going to turn over
: new leaf in the way Of forgetting pri-
vate interests, and foregoing the love Of
money, ease and luxury, reflects infinite
credit upon the very large number whom
he feels it hi5 painful duty TO designate
as deyoting themselves entirely to the
wild hunt after wealth. In Texas the
Confederate treasury notes are less sp-
preciated than in any State in the Con-
federacy, and it is recommended that this
and other evils be remedied by vigorous
taxation.
The citizens Of Texas living in the
counties bordering upon the uavigable
portions Of the streams and within fifty
miles of the coast, are called upon by
Gen. Magruder to remove their able
bodied male slaves at once, at any cost,
and at all hazards, farther into the in
terror or he will be forced 20 drive them
before him with his cavalry in haste and
without regard to their Wsll-being! This
Appeal is made to all those who reside
in COUNTIES within fifty miles of the
coast from Corpus Christi and Galveston
inclusive.
One interesting item in the above news
from Texas is the novel view which is
taken of cotton as 3 basis Of exchange
for army supplies. The policy proposed
is to purchase one half of the cotton Of
the planters or holders, and on its de-
livery as a Government depot, or other
place agreed upon, 10 give an exemption
against military impressnent for like
quantity.
1t will be seen that if Texas has got
herselfinto an unpleasant position, Gov
ernor Lubbock, General Msgruder, and
the whole raft Of their aiders and abet-
tore, are still more intricately involved
The cause Of the Union has not adVan-
,ed thus far, to be smothered snd ex-
.inguished in Texan borders. The sew
raj State Governments are being reset in
.hel gslden enclosure Of the Union, and
hall, ere long, group themselves harmO-
liously around the Government and Con-
jtitulion Of the United States, as main
aimed At the national capital.