The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-02

Late and Authentic InteIIIgemca
rom the south.
A gentleman who has spent several
years in Macon, Georgia, where be vas
engaged in business, snd who recently
escaped by means Of q passport permit
ling him to visit Europe, reaohed New
ark, New Jersey, where his friends re-
side, s few days sincs. His account Of
the condition of affairs atihe Slulb fully
confirms the reports lately received from
refugees and the public j0ueaals. The
rebellion, be declares, is an utter failure;
and even the leaders see that snceass is
out of the question, while the common
people would hail with delight the res-
tOratiOn Of the federal authority. 81
On the day this gentleman left Macon,
one Of the principal bankers of the place
said 70 him: Oar only hope now is that
the Federal army will deliver us feom
our troubles; for without that int.rven.
ton we must perish" The utmost desti-
tuition everywhere prevails; actual STAR
vatiOn is st the door Of hundreds of the
poorer Glasses, and even those who SUP
posed themselves, frcm their possession
Of large means, beyond the reach OF
want, have found themselves reduced to
comparative poverty. e 81
The rebel authorities sge enforcing tha
conseFiption ip all parts Of the South
with pitilegs energy, forcing into ths
ranks men Of al ages and conditions.
Even graY-baired old men, 80 snfeebled
by age that months pFiVaiiOn in camp
or field must put them in their graves,
are snatched up By the officers of con
scription, rand the proposition recently
made In the rebel Congress By Senator
Brown, TO force into the service every
person in the Confsderacy" over the
age of sixteen years, is literally 0Errisd
out. This Wholesale CONSUMPTION has
necessarily OeeasiOned the greatest suffer
ing, leaving entire families and comm
mites without any means Of defence or
subsistence, and producing chaos and
misery everywhere.
The greatest ignorance is said TO exist
among the people generallYas % The con
ditiOn Of affairs at the North; they arc
told that our people are Subjected n
cruel despotism; that there is no liberty
of speech or action; that the government
means to destroy The entire population Of
the South, and that were The southern
people at this momens to sbsndoa "a ir
contest they would be punished by She
seyefest penalties that mAlignitg could
invent. Bat even this, we are told, would
not prevent desertion Of the rebel cause
by the great mass Of people, were op-
portnnity afforded them; they would
gladly run eli risk aud eheerfully cub.
nit TO the worst that might await them
4 they could only escape the riggrs Of
rebel rule.
Our informant says Chat be himself ex-
oected that upon landing from she sieam.
n 10 this city be would be seized and
1urried to prison - . suspicious chsrac-
Ter, aud he adds that when, on coming
ashore, he was permitted TO 20 -abJut his
business without any m0lsstatl0u, and
without notice, even, from any qusrter,
be was IS much astonished as ho we'll
could be.
AZ 70 the effect Of the war upoa Slave
~, this gentleman bears explicit tesfi-
aOny. The institution, he. ayers, is dead
beyond The hope Of resurrection and
this fact is, moreover, admitted By nins-
tenths Of the Southern people Even
stockholders confess the hsslsssnes8 Of
to save the sVetsm from de-
struction, and say that al they can nov
ask is that upon the restoration Of the
Federal authority Il may 81 disposed Of
gradually, in order hat hey may, II
possible. cave 3 fragment or s. from tho
wreck -, ...s-
The gentleman who furnish these
statements Is known 20 as as entirely
and sitcere, and be SPEAKS
wholly Of Whist be has seen and known.
Three years ago be wrote lsgfeFssts per
soas as the North, with whom hs had
dealings, asseseFating in The strongest
-erms that the South could not be sub
1ued that the North world not fight,
md that II it did, could not hold out in
lhe contest now be del2res che only hope
IF the South is in The advsnceOf Tho
Northern armies and the prosiraiiOn Of
lhe infamous desp0tism which IL eating
1ut the Vilals OF Soutern life, and making
he fairest fields desolats ana ghs8lF.--
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