The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-04-17
TIE LATEST NEWS.
By LAST NIGHTS HAIL.


The reported sinking Of the ram Ten
/ nessee in Mobile Bay was unfOunled
A disas trous fire occurred in New . :
leans on the night OF the 18th. The
stores of T. H. York, Parely, Williams,
and A. T. Cochrane were burned. The
loss amounted TO several thousand dol
lars
The Free State Convention had com
pleted its organization. 1t had voted
% to II that the members shall take
the iron-clad oath Of December Sth, or
the oath prescribed by the Presidents
amnesty proclamation.
Sixty pieces Of artillery. consisting
Of l2-pounders and smooth-bore llowit-
zers, left here last evening for the Army
of the Potomac.
The subscriptions to the first loan at
the National Bank to-day were SI2j,-
600 The receipts at the custom-house
to-day were 81 .Oj1 600 the largest ever
known, including $l,040,000in gold GER
tifcates
The New Orleans Bee Of the eth states
that the French had occupied Mats-
unoras without a blow; that two regi-
ments had been landed. and all com
munications with the interior were for
the time being interrupted
Qtayaaf-us, -1pnH l5-The gunboat
| Chcnango while outward bound and of
Fort Lafayette this afternoon, burst her
b ,iler, and sca!ding forty men on deck.
S )mc of them are dead. Tie engine
rooms of the vessel have not been
reached yet.
CAIRO. April 1.-Two negro soldiers,
/ wounded at Fort Pillow, who were
buried by the rebels, and afterwards
| worked themselves out Of their graves,
were among those brought up on the
| Platte Valley, and are now in the hos
| pital at Mound City The officers Of
| the PlattesV Valley received great credit
from the military and all others for
landing at Fort Pillow at an imminent
| risk, and taking our wounded. and for
the kind and humane treatment mani
tested toward them on the way up,
doing everything possible to render aid
and relieve their suiferings.
Three other negroes were buriedaliye
by the rebels at Fort Pillow, making
five in all. All were wounded but one,
aad he was forced to help dig the pits,
and was then thrown IN and covered
up.
| Chalmers said to Federal officer on
board the Platte Valley that it was
| their intention to show no mercy TO
| home made Understanding South
erners serving in the Union army-and
negroes, but genuine Yankees, would
| be treated az prisoners of war
/ E.ypC A,,,i1 No hoo = 30. oil nrH-al
to leave here for points below Column
| bus since tho first news of the Fort
Pillow affair. The attack on Paducah
yesterday proved TO be q mere raid for
| plumber 1t was made by couple OF
| hundred Of men who were driven ont
by the fort and the gunboats. After
! occupying q portion of the city about
an hour, they left taking away mum
Der Of horses and considerable plumber
leaving behind q half dozen Of killed
| and wounded There was no one hart
| on our side Several Of the guns cap
| tured by Forrest at Fort Pillow were
! spiked before falling into his hands
Others We're put upon the gunboat No
| /, which from the exhaustion Of ammu-
milton, having fired some 800 rounds,
was compelled to withdraw Although
| only tin-clad, she received but slight
injury Gen. Lee arrived and assumed
command at the beginning of the bat
tie, previous towhich Chalmers directed
the movements. Forrest with the NAN
force retired after the fight to Browns
| vile, taking with him the captured
| guns
While the steamer Platte Valley lay
under the flag of truce taking on
wounded, some rebel officers, among
| them Chalmers, went aboard and.some
! Of our officers showed them a great de
ference in drinking with them, and
! showing them other marks of courtesy.
| Prominent among them is said to be
/ Captain Woodruff, Of the 18th Illinois
! infantry.
ST. LOUIS, April, 1.-THE CORES
| pendent Of the Union, who was aboard
the steamer Platte Valley at Fort Pill
low, gives even more appalling de
scription of the fendishness than our
! Cairo despatch Many Of our wounded
were shot in the hospital The remain
der were driven out and the hospital
burned On the morning after the bat
! tie, the rebels went over the field and
/ shot the negroes who had not died from
their previous wounds. Many of those
who escaped from the works and hos
! pitfalls, and who desired to be treated as
| prisoners Of war, were ordered to fall
into line and inhumanly shot down OF
the $50 colored troops, not more than 80 |
! escaped the massacre, and not one officer |
! Of that command survives Only four
officers of the 18th Tennessee escaped
death. The loss of the 18th Tennessee |
was 800 killed, and the remainder |
wounded and captured General Chal- !
mers told this correspondent, that, al !
though he was against killing negro |
/ soldiers, and had done all in his power |
to stop the carnage, yet, at the same !
time, he said he believed it was right !
Another officer said that our white |
troops would have been protected had |
they not been found on duty with the /
negroes While the rebels endeavored /
to conceal their loss, it was evident that !,
they suffered severely. Col Reed, com /
manding the Tennessee regiment, was /
MORALLY wounded.