The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-03-07
saashrille 2Auiua.
WH. OAMER0E : CO., Publishers.
TUESDAY, MARCH 7. 1865.
ARaIrs IN East Tennessee.

says:
The old Spanish proverb, Courses,
like chickens. come home to roOst," was
never more abundsntly verified than in
the action of the Circuit Court sitting
in Knoxville the other day. In a suit
for damages from imprisonment and
prosecutions at the hands of certain
prominent rebels of Knoxville, during
the early days of the rebellion, Dr. W.
g. Brownlow has been awarded the
sum of $25, ,005, to be raised from the
properties of the notorious j. G. Ram.
sey, Sneed and some Others. The same
Court has also given verdict of S40,-
900 in favor of the heirs of Senator
Pickens, who was taken from his home
and thrown into a rebel dungeon at
Tuscaloosa, Alabama; in 1862, and
where he was kept until death merci-
fully came to his relief
The Knoxville Whig of the LIST says ;
Horace Foster, loyal citizen of
Blount county, had a slit for damages
tried IN our Circuit Court last Tuesday,
and recovered damages TO the tune Of
$4,000 The parties sued were james
Smith, Franklin Smith, Fred. LenOif,
w. NJ Cox, J L Cox, Il I. Cox, Henry
Buram, and w. I. Johnson. Several Of
the parties are wealthy, and Foster will
be able to make the money in short or
der. The jury were out FIVE minutes,
and gave Foster all he asked for. He
ought to have claimed fifty thousand
The proof was, that they instigated the
rebels to rob him of his horses, mules,
bacon, tobacco, grain and hay, and
then to shoot him through the thigh,
and drive him, white bleeding, through
the creek, in water up to his arm-pits
Well done for the juries of Knox
county. ImpoYerish the villains-take
all they haYe-give their effects to the
Union men they hsve crippled and inn
prisoned-and let them have their
Southern Rights" They swore they
would carry on the war until they ex-
hausted the last little negro, and lost
their lands. Put It 10 them is our ad
vice, most religiously-feece them, and
let them know how other men feel
when robbed of all they have
WHgELER IN EAST TENNESSEE 1t was
reported and believed in Charleston
yesterday, that Wheeler, with a large
force of cavalry, was entering East
Tennessee Charleston is about forty
miles from Chattanooga, on the Knox
vile railroad. 1t was reported that mis-
advance of two hundred men had
crossed the Hiwassee river above that
place, in canoes, swimming their horses.
Several well-knOwn parties, former
residents of that section, belonging to
the command of Wheeler, are known
to be in that neighborhood, and efforts
have have been to capture them
Chattanooga Gazette 80.
ACCIDENT on THE KNoxyILLE R0AD =
On Wednesday evening, the mail train
from Chattanooga to Knoxville, was
thrown from the track by the rails
spreading, when q mile from the latter
place. Seven cars, loaded with soldiers
belonging to the 7th Tennessee Cavalry,
were thrown Oft, but strange to say, no
one was injured. The accident pre-
vented the morning train from leaving
Knoxville yesterday until late in the
day, 50 that it did not arrive here un-
til 9 o'clock. We have been required
to note two railroad accidents in this
issue of the Gazette, and both caused
by the same thing-the rails spreading
To say the least, this is suspicious and
the matter deserves the earnest atten-
ton Of the railroad aud military sE-
thorities. In view of the probable con-
dition of affairs in this section during
the next two months, the greatest care
should be taken to prevent ali tamper-
ing with the railroads leadsng to Chat
tanooga.-Ckat Gaz. 3D.
On the I'D ult,, rebel guerrillas made
a dash into Greeneville 70 break up the
election. They were about 2jO strong,
and led by John E To0le The fourth
Tennessee Infantry on duty there drove
them of, killing two and wounding
several
A similar attack was made on the
Voters of Granger county at Rutledge,
where three hundred votes had been
cast The ballot box was seized and
carried of, and the election broken up.