Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-03-29
LETTER FROM TENNRasEE.
"A fFihinG Accident nt''--BrIdgIng the Ten-
-LOudon---Refusees, and their
COndition--What the Provost. ,arshaI Is
Doing for Them--8Ielan holy History.
LouDOs, TENs.. March 20. 1854.

SonaAtlon--s " NAT the PrOVoatsfiarBhal IL
Doing for Them--9Ielan; holy History.
LOuDOz, TENN, March 20, 1854.
EN- ROUTE.
A frost, severe and brilliant, dressed the
world This morning in multitudss of glis-
tening particles, and as we danced gaily
past the rent peach orchard ON shermsn's
sAnguinary battle-ground of four monahs
ago, 1 saw the crimson. tinged blossoms
withering and falling in showers beneath
the suns ardent gsze--falling on the
graves Of heroes, too, who had withered
and fell, but by blaze more fierce and
potential than the suns. Swiftly we glid-
ed along, and from my perch on bale Of
hay 1 was regarding with exquisite delight
the beautiful landscapes we were sweep
ing by, when few sudden jerks-s crash
and found myself head downward in
stagnart pool, in rather unsoldierly po-
sition. But the conductor said it was
= triAing accident-Only tsVo soldiers killed,
and half dozen msimed for life. Utter
ing this philOsOphism, he turned the
wreck down the bank, and in an hour We
were wheeling toward
LoUDoK,
A dingy, Insignificant place, too, where
the railroad crosses the river. Yankee in
gsnuity endesvOred to span the Tennes-
sees rapid running waters with frailly
constructed trestle- work, but the first rise
that occurred exposed the egregious falIs-
cy by carrying the whole concern down
stream. A Cincinnati firm have now ts-
ken the contract to erect substantial iron
bridge, to be finished within six weeks.
When their work is completed, there will
be a continuous line of railway from Nash
vile to Knoxville.
Msjor-General Granger has his head
quarters here, upon whose staff Major W.
P. Edgarton, of the lst Ohio Artillery. is
Chief Of Artillery Of the Fourth Corps.
The Majors myrisds Of friends will be
gratifed to learn that he has received the
promotion that his fine abilities and three
years Of srduous experience in the field
entities him to.
Since my connection with the army.
have been an unwilling witness to many
cases Of distressing indigenee, the newt
able fruits Of relentless tyranny and op-
preston; but never until today have 1
seen to what depth Of intolerable misery
human beings can be constrained by con-
tinusl seOurging persecution.
London is thTonged with unfortunate
loyal refugees, who were compelled N
leave their peacesble homes in North Car.
olina and Tennessee, fleeing hitber for
protection from human demons that ara
wontonly numbering the Inhabitants. nil.
Laying and demolishing their property. Il
is deplorsble TO see those poor emaneiated |
wretches, ooBgregsted in the streets of a |
strange place, prescribed and exiled from |
sll that dear to them, and stricken by poy- /
erty. The aged and young, women and |
children, are indisoriminstely eommipgIed |
who have travelled hundreds Of miles TO /
reach this asylum, where assassination
does not stalk unopposed. Each has the
same piteous tsle Of woe and outrage to
tell; each has to relate the tragicsl fate Of
a father, husband, or brother. who were
the victims Of traitors fell vengeance. l
just conversed with woman, apparently
eighty years Of age, who had walked over
the mountains from North Carolina, and
was seated on the street surrounded by
her six married daughters, She Weeping
ls-AzaazsEnRd -thelE- -IIaslan aholy histGEr-.-
Her husband, two sons, and six sons in
law, all Of whom were stsunch Unionists,
ied to the mountains to avoid CONSUMPTION
had one by one been caught and brought
fhasvs hon - L. /
II their plesding families brutslly mur-
Tered, until none were left but women and
'hildren, when the fends plundered their
homes, turning out these defeneeless per-
ons in mid winter, starving Wsnderers.-
This is fair sample Of the horrors of our
'postste rebellion. These people have felt
var, real, inexorable war, robbed Of its !
.elusive cOloring and poetical embellish-
nents.
THE PROVOST NARsHAL's WORK. :
Captain ]. s. Ransom, who is one Of the
lost energetic and thoroughly posted pro.
o's in the department, is doing much to.
Tsrds ameliorating the uncomfortable condi-
ion Of the crowds Of aims seekers that
onstsntly besiege his Office. His able as
istant, Sergeant W. W. Beach, GlidJ 'Wad'
be Hersld's, inimitsble correspondent, is
harged with the arduous duty of procur-
ng food shelter and furnishing them with
ransportation to land less frsught with
anger, beyond the Ohio River, which
sbor is efficiently done in fWad's chsrsc-
sristio style At the commisssry depot
ere, rations are daily issued to the Pro- I
ost Marshal, who delivers them to the !
sfugees in such quantities as he deems
eeessary. LEMAN.