The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-03-03
OUR CORRESPONDENCE.

person, 10 ODIdln IrauSpOILdulOh. Was
obliged to lay over in Louisville twenty-four
hours, as it was impossible to obtain sitting,
or even standing room on any of the trains
from there to Nashville, and there were three
trains, all crowded to their utmost capacity
with soldiers and commissary stores hun
dreds of soldiers riding on the top of the
cars, This is not SO for single day only,
but it has been so for the entire past week.
| You can therefore form some idea Of the inn
mense number Of men that are being hur-
ried to the front. Their destination from
here is Chattanooga, thence 10 Knoxville.
1t was confidently anticipated here that a
battle would come off at the latter place
some time during the past week, but. as the
| telegraph has ere this informed you, Long
street thought 'discretion the better part o.
valor' and retreated. On the route from
Louisville to this place the railroad bridges
are all guarded, a small garrison being sta
toned at each and, usually, some slight
earth-works behind which is small stock
ade fort.
NASHVILLE place contains nomin-
ally, population of about thirty thousand,
but it is universally conceded that the num-
Der of persons now in the city will reach, if
not exceed, seventy five til ousand The
whole city is built upon a rock, and the
surface is quite uneven. The State House
stands upon the highest elevation i'll the
city, and is very expensive, though not a
very imposing structure 1t is built Of a
light gray stone, the walls, partitions, floors
and stairs are all stone; the ratings and
bauisters Of breccia marble found, am told,
susceptible of very fine polish. The build
ing is large, still the Assembly Chamber is
small, as is also the Senate. The hall thro'
the center, north and south. is wide and am
pie; in it are several inches for statuary,
though none are as yet, placed there. There
are four entrances to the building, each of
which is, at present. protected with earth
works short distance off, and, at the foot
Of the steps, with stockades of heavy oak
timber 8 Or 9 feet high. and pierced for
musketry, The offices III. the Capitol are at
present occupied by the military as offices
in the.various branches of the service
HosPrrALs.-The following public build
ings are occupied as Hospitals The First
Presbyterian and Second Baptist Churches
Masonic Hall, Nashville Female College,
Tennessee College and University besides
four Or five large blocks Of stores, from four
to five stories high, and very large build
ing, should say 100 feet long and so feet
wide, four stories high, built prior to the
breaking out of the rebellion, for gun
factory. They had got nearly all the ma
chinery into the building and were about
ready to commence operations when the city
fell into our hands. With regard to the
number under treatment, in the several Hos
pitfalls, have not taken the pains to ascer-
tain. 1t must, however, be several thous,
and.
BARRACKS First Baptist Church, the
Court House, two large buildings at each
end of the market, three stories high, built,
suppose, for the use of the City Council and
the various city officers, are occupied as bar
racks, besides many private buildings, one
opposite where am writing, built by Gen.
ZoIlicoffer (who, you will recollect, fell at
the battle Of Mil Springs for hotel. This
building, l should judge, must be at least
$50 by 100 feet on the ground, stories
high besides the basement an open space in
the center to afford light There are also
several other buildings i'll the city used for
the same purpose. They are only for the
temporary occupation of soldiers in the tran
sit to and from the front The Nashville
Medical College is also used as barracks for T
temporary resting place for refugees i'll their
to the north. I visited this last
named institution day or two since, and,
of all the ignorance, filth, rags, and apparent
poverty, it far surpassed anything | had ev-
er seen before, or even imagined. There is
no use of my attempting to give descrip-
ton, as | cannot begin to do the subject JUS
tice, suffice it to say, that there We're be-
tween three and four hundred of these poor
creatures, men, women and children, hover
ing about the stove, in one large room, and
around fires in the open air outside the build
ing. | would not give ten dollars for the
household effects Of the whole colony. They
all claim to be for the Union and that they
have been driven from their homes to escape
CONSUMPTION and to save themselves from
starvation, having, as they say, been robbed
of the last pound of meat and the last bush
el Of corn.
SLAvERY.-In the short time have been
here | have been unable to ascertain, with
any degree of certainty, the exact status of
''the peculiar institution" in this city. Some
say that the slaves are held here as firmly {
as ever, with, of course, a few desertions.
Others say that the institution is very much :
shaken, and that little or no control is at {
tempted by the masters, and that very few '
remain with their old masters except they c
Ire hired and paid wages. The govern
nent has opened a recruiting Office here for !
African soldiers and many are enlisting. '
When the owner of those enlisting is able to I
establish the fact that he or she has been, '
md is STILL for the Union, they are paid $500 /
or the man. Most of the public journals of '
his State, as also of Kentucky, pretend !
treat attachment and devotion to the Union, 7
nut it is with an if that is if their rights of t
property, including the rights of property in h
negroes, can be preserved. But am in ,
lined to believe that public opinion is I'M {
ergoing rapid change in that respect, and s.