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The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
Crushing Treason.

A severe blow for the suppression of the
rebellion in East Tenn essee was given
last week at Cleveland, in Bradley
county. This charge and route of the
enemies of the Federal Government,
says the Knoxville Wing, was made
by Hon. Elijah T. Hall, Judge of the
judicial Circuit, and the jurors of the
county of Bradley.
We refer to the suits brought by 10y
al citizens of Bradley county against
their rebel neighbors for having them
incarcerated in rebel .iails for their pa
triotism.
DR.. VIM. Hunt, Local Agent of the
Treasury Department in this city, re-
covered for false imprisonment, the
sum of twenty thousand (S20,000) dol
lars in suit brought against w. II
Tibbs, (member of the rebel Congress,
James W. Gillespie, Colonel of the de-
ceased Confederate States Army, and
Elijah F. Johnston.
Stephen Beard, Colonel 9th Tennes-
see Mounted infantry, recovered
twenty thousand dollars from this
same VIM. H. Tibbs and VIM. l.. Brown,
Captain of the defunct Confederate
States Army Major j. S. Bradford,
United States Army, recovered the
same sum from the same parties.
Sam. Hunt recovered ten thousand
dollars from the same Southern rights
gentlemen.
VIM. Gamble recovered twenty two
thousand FIVE hundred dollars of John
B. Carmichael, Captain William Snow,
Confederate States army and Caswell
LuttrelL James Kirby recovered ten
thousand dollars off several rebels
whose names we have not learned.
Several other Union men recovered
sums similar to those mentioned, from
their rebel neighbors. All these men
were in prison with DIR Hunt Chatta
nOogG Gazette.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
Extra Pay to Army officers.

The Cincinnati Commercial says some
doubt has been expressed, by officers
of the army, as to the passage of bill
introduced in the last Congress, grant
ing three months pay, as sort of bo,
nus, to such of them as remained in
the service until the close of the war
1t is law, and is published officially in
the statutes at large Of the Thirty.
eighth Congress, second session. 1t
was made part of the Army Appro.
priation Bill We quote as follows:
SECTION d. And Be IL further enacted,
That all officers of volunteers now in
commission below the rank of Briga-
dier General, who shall continue in the
military service TO the close of the war,
shall be entitled to receive, upon being
mustered out of said service, three
months pay proper.
The bill was passed on the Sd of
March last "Pay proper" means pay
exclusive of commutat ton for rations,
servants, DC.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

tional with the purchaser either to res
tain the residue'of the tract purchased,
after redemption of q. part. or to sun
render his certificate of purchase to the
commissioners, and receive back from
them the amount of the purchase mon
ey paid, with interest; and In case he
shall elect to retain the piece or parcel
unredeemed. he shall surrender his
certificate for the whole tract purchase
ed, and the said board shall issue q
new certificate for the piece or parcel
of land retained.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
Meeting Of NIssissippians.

A meeting of loyal Mississippians
was held at Memphis on the llth inst,
for the purpose of appointing delegates
to Reconstruction Convention to be
held st Vicksburg on the 5th of June
next John w. Wood, Esq, presided,
associated by w. C. H. Bugh and T.
Gillespie as Secretaries. The follow
ing preamble and resolutions were
passed: -
WHEREAS, We deem it our duty tc
heartily co operate with our fellew-cit-
izens who are endeayoring to restore
our State to its proper position in the
Government, therefore,
lst Rssolved, That we hereby request
all loyal Mississippians to attend, as
delegates, convention of the loyal cit
izens of Mississippi, 10 be held at Vicks
burg, on the 5th of June, proximo, for
the purpose of reorganlzing civil GOV
ernment iu the State of Mississippi.
3D. ResolUed, That I'VE, as loyal citi'
zens of the State of Mississippi, obli-
gate ourselves to return to our respect
i've counties in the State, and exert
ourselves to the best of our abilities to
secure full delegations of loyal repre-
sentatiyes IN said convention.
Resolved, That we heartily endorse
the policy of the Government of the
United States with regard to slavery,
aud that we deem it the duty of the
convention at Vicksburg to adopt such
measures as will place Mississippi in
her practical relations with the Gov
ernment as speedily as possible
ResoEved, That we ldenounce the as
sassination of Abraham Lincoln, late
President of the United States, as a
crime of the deepest dye, and believe
that the people of our State condemn
the act, and denounce it as atrocious.
The very best feeling prevailed and
the meeting adjourned with the under
standing that all present who could.
would attend the yicksburg Conyepl
ton.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
The Cotton Crop of Mississippi and
Eastern Louisiana

The New Orleans Price Current Of
the eth inst contained an elaborate
review of the condition and prospects
of the cotton trade. The writer of
this article, Mr.. j. B. Gribble, is an old
factor, and has been for many years q
close and intelligent observer of the
staple. As such, his views at the pres
ent time are entitled to the careful
consideration of all parties interested
in the trade. Mr.. Gribble says moth
ing remained on hand of the
crops previous to 1861 and that
in estimating the quantities on hand
We have only TO deal with the past
three years. Sarting,t then, with the
subsequent years he makes the follow
ing estimates, which he supports by
statistical references, and the result of
his recent observations in lower Missis.
sippi and Eastern Louisiana:
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
! ! From Gle v Washington Chronicle
The F0Od-PrOducing Capacity or the
South.

There is much present distress in the
South; and more is to be spprehended.
But it is impossible that in a country
possessing agricultural capacities suff,
cient to feed more than twenty times
its population, there can be any permaS
n ent difficulty Of this kind. A few
months labor by each Southern man,
without distinction to color, would
easily supply ali that is absolutely re,
quired for sustenance.
The Agricultural Census Report of
1860 is full of proofs of Southern pro-
ductiveness of food Many of our
readers will be surprised to learn that
Virginia raised more wheat in that
year, and Alabama more swine, than
Pennsylvania; that South Carolina
produced more than 100000 bushels
of sweet potatoes, and that several of
the other insurgent States exceeded
that amount; that Georgia and South
Carolina yielded more than 100000
pounds of rice; that there were 1852
S67 swine in the Southern States, Ia
435, ,3l6 in the Western States, and
only 26l4,236 in the Middle States
and that the product in the Middle
and Southern States of the great
staples of wheat, rye, and corn, was as
follows:
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
Paw the soldiers.

We have on our table a number Of
communications from private soldiers
complaining of the neglect of the gov
ernment TO pay them. The writers are
married mem whose families are in dis
tress for the want of money to purchase
food and clothing. We deeply sympa-
tbize with them; but nothing can be
accomplished by publishing their cor
respondence. Lay your complaints,
bovs. before the President. He will
hsed and have them attended to.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

The pro-slavery prophets are all at a
sad discount They assured the coun-
try that there never would be an end
of the rebellion unless the emaneipa-
tion policy of the National Government
was abandoned. The war has come to
3 close, and SO has slavery. The proph-
cts occupy back seats.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

CLEMENT c. CLAY.-The Washington
correspondent of the Boston Journal
says:
Positive information has been re-
ceived here that Clement c. Clay, OF
Alabama, who sas IN Canada last fall
and winter, reached Richmond on the
day before lis evacuation by the rebels,
and there are reasons for believing
that he carried tidings of the atrocious
plot for the murder of the President,
the agents of which, excepting perhaps
Booth, were the mere hirelings of the
slave power.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
PRODUCT OF 1860,
Total. .3f6 27l,656 1924

The inhabitants of q coantry that
has made such additions, and others of
almost equal importance, to its vast
products of cotton, sugar, and tobacco,
however much they have suffered from
the ravages of war, cannot, IN a mild
climate, where comparatively little
shelter or clothing are required, have
dark future, unless they have entirely
lost the instinct of selfpreservation,
and ali power to exert selfsustaining
energy.
If the destiny of the South is to be
narrowed down to q mere question of
exis tence, it is evident its inhabitants
can secure the means of sustaining life
with less real trouble than any other
people on the globe. The whole "Con-
federacy" can keep body and soul to-
gether with one half the work that is
required from the citizens of New Eng
land, or of New York, or of PenRsyl-
vania, respectively. Some new indus
trial system can certainly be inaugura-
ted to do the little that they require
to obtain all the necessaries of life, sus-
tanned as they are, for the present in
many instances, by the bounty of our
Government, and encouraged by its ex-
pressed desire to promote the re-organ-
isation of labor.
1t is folly to doubt the ability of the
South, in the absence of slave labor, to
raise all that is required for food and
raiment 1t is more probable that the
chief difficulty in re-establishing the
culture of cotton, sugar, rice, and to-
bscco, will arise from the ease with
which potatoes, corn, wheat, and swine
can be procured, and the disinclination
of the emancipsted laborers to continue
the steady toll necessary to insure the
frst-named crops, after they have been
relieved from the accustomed compul-
sorry influences.
We expect much, however, from the
demonstrated superiority of American
soil for cotton culture end the BereE.
NAL demand for that staple. This win
be constant stimulus to exertion, aud
it will combine influences that will
eventually overcome all temporary diff
fculties. The South viii yet prove that,
under q free labor system, she can feed
herself and clothe the world.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

When JEFF Davis was caught in his
wife's dress he said he thought our
government more n1agnanimous than
to hunt down women and children" /"
We presume he meant to include HIM
self among the former: though the
Stiffness of his conduct might stamp
him as one of the latter, and very
young one at that.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
Important orders from the War De-
partment-rnempI0yed Generals to
be Mustered Out.


WAsRISGToN, May IL. A general or
der has been issued from the War De-
partment, as follows:
All forces of the enemy east of the
Mississippi river having been duly sur
rendered by their commanders to the
army of the United States, under agree
ments of parole and disbandment, and
there being row no authorized troops
of the enemy east of the Mississippi, it
is ordered thst from and after the lst
day of June, 1865. all such persons
found in arms against the United
Ststes, or who may commit
acts of hostility against it east
of the Mississippi river, will be re.
garded as guerrillas and punished with
death. A strict enforcement and exc
cution of this order is especially en-.
joined upon the commanders of the
United States forces within territorial
limits to which it applies. According
to an order of the War Department the
Adjutant General has been directed to
commence mastering honorably out of
the service all General, Field and Staff
officers who are employed, and whose
services are no longer needed
WAR DEPARTMKST, WASHINGTON, May
IL, p M-A review of the gallant
armies now assembling around Wash
ington viii take place here on Tuesday
and Wednesday Of next week.
,as E. N. STANTON.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

During the week ending the 9th inst (,
the subscriptions to the 73O loan
amounted to $40 100000; the ensuing
week to seS,3s4,65O. Thus in twelve
working days the people loaned the
government upwards of ONE HUNDRED
AND THIRTY-EIGHT AND HALF MILLIONS OF
DoLLARs-What country and what a
N peoplei
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

The CinciEnati Gazette of the 18th inst.
condemns the billBhich recently pass
dta ed popular branch Of the Tennessee
Legislature enacting code for the gov
ernmentcS the "free persons ofcolor' IN
this State. The Gazette regards it as
"yery much like measure to retain
slavery under another name"
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

The Selma (Ala) Union of May LIST,
ssys Forrest had personal difficulty
with Chalmers, another rebel General,
during the 6ght there with Wilson.
Forrest choked Chalmers nearly to
death.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

We have, then, of nier ,hanta-
bic cotton, Including the
probable crop of 1865, avail
able both for export and
home consumption.......... 100000
live take from the above the amount
set down for the growing crop 100000
bales), and add the quantity deducted
as damaged and rotting in the interior
100000 bales), We have 100000 bales
as the entire amount now on hand
The popular estimate in our cotton cir
cles is from 100000 to 1000, 900 bales,
showing no great discrepancy with Mr.
Gribble's views.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

The rebel General Ben Hill has
turned over all his men, some seven
hundred, with their arms and horses,
to the United States. The men were
paroled. Ben. goes to his home at
McMinnyille.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21
st. Louis Spring Races-Laclede Ass0-
ciaiiOn Course.

LAST DAY-SATuRDAY, MAY 13
5 per cent entrance to 60 to the second
horse.
II Taylor enters b b Prairie
Bird, by Sovereign, dam
by Glencoe, years old;
colors red and red........ ]
E Thompson enters s.h
Prince Of Wales, by Lex
ington, dam Cylonia, by
imp. Herrold. years old;
colors red and orange. 0
w III Renfrew enters b m
Mamona, by imp. Sover-
eign, dam by Glencoe, Z
years old.....................
w Weldon enters b h Le-
gal Tender, by imp. Sov>
ereign, dam the dam Idle
...........................
r g Maytield enters b Abu
Beker, by Mahomet, dam
Rescue, by Beethoven; col
ors red and white. e.......-.. 0
Time-l:451
Selling Race-Purse S250-dash for
two miles.
Entrance, so per cent to go to the
second horse.
w. II. Renfrew enters S. c., by Rim
gold, dam Little Peggy, 3 years old. Old
price $500. Weight 76 pounds.
j. Ballard enters b. b., Alfred Harris,
by Sovereign, dam, Mistress, years
ole Price 81, 200. Weight l23 lbs.
j. w. Weldon enters s. G. Red Oak,
by Second Altorf, dam by Job. Price
$500. To carry l07 pounds.
Time-3:51a :.
Mile and repeat--Purse S500--free to all
Entrrnce-5 per cent, TO go the Second
Horse
&. J. Mayfield enters ch. G.,
by Pot~8-tos, dam by Mann
ona, years old; color fan
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

Total supply to January, 1866 100000
Deduct exports to date 100000
consumption U.
s., 1861 and
1863 inclusive 100000
Burned and otherwise
destroyed. 600,000-3, 100000
100000
Deduct also damaged and rot
ten cotton. .......................... 100000
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

Brig. Gen. H M. Judah has assumed
command of the District of the
Etowah, Headquarters at Chattanooga.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

Gen. Cruft is to have an important
command in Upper East Tennessee.
The Nashville weekly union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-21

j. e. Kelley enters b. {. Lutte
string, by Lexington, dam
by Glencoe, 4 years old;
Color black and orange. 2 l
c. c. Tife enters b. b. Jim
Sherwood, by Lexington,
dam Nancy Perkins, 5
years old; colors red and
white.
Time-1 800; las.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-01-12
NEWu ITEMS CLIPPINGS.

Jan. g. Thomas F. Wilson. late
Consul at Bahia, who was dismi ssed
for the part lie took in the capture o,
the Florida, is to receive recon-
pense for his lacarated honor BY Il
position az Consul to one of the lax
ports in Canada. Captain Collins
will call for a court Of inquiry and ex
poets to come off triumphanty, ami
he rewarded in the end tor the part
he played IN the Florida affair,
Yesterday was the day fixed upon
for blasting the earthly bulkheah or
partition at the head Of Ditch Gap
Canal. There is no doubt that thr
Canal wOs successfully opened, bn'
the particulars of the transaction have
not been received, owing to the non
arrival of the City Point steamer,
due here this forenoon.
1t ia coufientally assorted by
those in the Presidents conf Snce,
that there will be an extra session of
Congress in March.
JANUARY o. The enemy is expect
ing an attack upon Charleston aud
Branchvile. Refugees say that Char.
.s'on Is being surrounded by forloI.
1able earthworks.
1t is said that Uarlee's army has
gone to Charleston.
General Sherman has limited the
publication Of newspapers in Savan-
nah to two. They are not allowed to
comment upon the acts OF the autbori,
ties
The Richmond Sentinel says that if
the South ia overcome. they want an
alliance with England, France, Spain,
or any other nation, rather than the
Yankees.
George D. Prentice, who has re-
turned from Richmond to Washing
ton, has brought a memorial to tha
President from Lieutenant Governor
jacobs, of Kentucky asking permiss- :
ion to return to that State. BE had
been banished by the military author
tiles from the State. The President
has the memorial under advis mcnt.
Sherman is still at Savannah. He
will undertake no movement until he
recruits HE nen, and gives them some
rest.
In our special dispatch from Wash.
'ngtou will be found a statement that
the Consul Of Bahia has been dismis
aed +; and the Captain Of the Wauch
nett has been ordered to appear befor,
"a Court martial tor capturing ihc
Florida.
! JANUARY o. Nearly two and a hal
milIion Of National Bank Currency
was issued last week. The fotu
amount now 10 circulation is S78,-
408 520.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-01-12
One OF The Pictures.

A correspondent of the Chicago
Journal relates the interview Of A
Federal foraging party with a farmer
in tennessee at another place we
called upon the owner, a man of over
sixty years, well Say ID, yet evidently
much cast down and dishear;en,d
He was polite, and answered all ones.
tions tediouoly. On being asked what
he had to spare, he exclaimed. Not
much = indeed nothing His wife
and four children standing by him,
said not a word, but the counte nance
Of tn. whole group showed that he
told the truth. Indeed | have moth
ing said be, what with one army
or amoth r, campaigning through this
part Of Tennessee, they have siripped
me Of all ! could spare, ant more, too
Have you no horses or mules?' asked
The officer. Yes, ans wered The man,
II have ono more mule which is en-.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-01-12

Francis T. Blair Sr, has zone to
Richmnnd The mission is under
stood to relate to his private cores
ponderce cal tured some time ago by
Brcckinrid9e.
The quotas. Of Ohio are to be re al.
ju5ted on the basis OF the revised eu.
rol mcnt. THIS is an ac; Of aimp q
justice, which will materially reduce
the heavy call published few DAYS
since Had the correction not been
ma {, Ohio would he made to furnish
nearly as m1ny men under the pres,
ent call Tor 800 900 rs unIon the late
cal! Tor 100000 men. 10 Ni,tN
The coiorcd people OF Memphis
celebrated he first anniversary ot the
Emancipation c.ama'ion on Mon.
lay 10y a grand procession, one Of the
features Of which Was . printing press,
on which UrgrUls were setting type
Inni printing copies Ui the Emancipa
lion Proclamation for. distribution
among the crowds which liusd the
streets through which they passed.
JANUARY 10 In the line Of mill
tary news there is ve,y liale of i'm
portance this marnlng, except tina
General Pbomas has thrown torwarD
MS headquarters and chan 9ei his base
rom Nashville to Easti ort, on thC
Tennessee river. The cappaign in
thai quut1r may be checked by tn,
weather, bat not seriously, We have
reason to believe. 1t is not the pur
pose to give the rebels much time t
reorgaD zs the shattered forces driver
so precipita.ely and in q most shat
tcred condition out Of Tennessee,
The Senate yesterday passed a bill
By p to 10, making free the fanilie.
Of slaves who have enlisted in tn,
army, or who may hereafter enlist
An amendment to except slave State:
which have not attempted to Secede.
was lost.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-01-12
THURsDAY---- Jan ~. 1868
u a. QUOTAS on the Draft.

Provo Marshal General Fry has
issued m order to all bis subordinate.
to ALLOW no credits upon the new
quotas jnst assigned, accept recruits
actually enlisted under the last cal
The government wants men in the
i4ld, aud not merely men on paper
and must have them. This order, our
friends in Yinton will noelce, diSposes
of al! questions Of credits, veterans as
well as Others, which have bothered
10 many Of our citizens. So now you
know what to do; it is simply to 60
to work and ill up yonr quotas by
enlistment cf'ac'ual recruits. A live
man must go into The ranks to fill The
quota.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-01-12

tirely broken down; it Was left me by
a trooper, who took my last horse in
It's stead No beet cattle l'swas the
next question. Not one, was the
answef EAn9 hoger NYcs. sir, |
have four pigs which had intended
for my winters supply of meat45 'Any
,ncgrorsp asked the officer. No, not
one; my servants all lett me some
Two or JTree m6ifs ago. | have not
one on The nlaos. j have. 10 chopall
my wood a ID DO al the out door work.
Imt my wife and daughters do the in.
doors, yhai thoy cao2 tAhy corn or
wIIoa'T No %heal, and only two or
three bushels OF 'c1rn, was the reply.
'Lei's see tho mnteF said the ificer,
it was brought up, and WAS as the old
imam said Show me thosn pigs Wa
i,he n,x' demand.g When he .;eard
this tho OLD msn couIJ hardly speak -
his hopes were ulmosr at an end. He
showed the pigs, however, there were
no more than such a family wuuli
need, mol as much in fact. The off
Ger then kindly said: You may kecl
all these EhUgs Iboy will helpyou out
oGl, and can be oi but little good us.
and gave the old man safe guard
that be might save his property
from all inlure moIojtation from our
tro9Ps Three years ago, this man
owned large, well stocked planta
ton. and tiue stud OF herses
catfe and hng5 in plenty, with serv
anti to coma at his. call, and corn t.
sell aEd 10 keep, Now be- was sin
cereIy thankful and much moved, tha
we spaIed him hiSt'ur little sboats
ais pit'ance OF o3rnand lis old mar,
nule, with which he hoped to max,
9 shall cro2 next spring" ..' . o.