The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-09-10
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VIM. CAMERON & co., lfa fishers.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1865.
Letter from Kansas.

merous readers who are sojourning Il
ye sunny South and ye goodly city o
Nashville, and being slightly affected
this morning with cae9t5s seri5sRai,
propose giving you a few items.
As an evidence of the go-ahead char
acter of our countrymen, l need onl!
cite to you this city, which seven year
ago contained but one or two lol
houses, and now numbers some twenty
or twenty-five thousand inhabitants
with some buildings of large size anC
architectural beauty. There are sever
al hotels here, two or three OF which
rival the best hotels in your city. The
prominent ones are the Planters, Bree
WORT House and Mansion House. The
Breevort House, now kept by DR.. a. B
Massey, corner of Maine and Senecs
streets, is one of the best DR.. Massey
was formerly connected with the army
in your city as Contract Surgeon, ano
was well known. twill give his many
friends there pleasure to know he Is
doing SO well in this famous locality o.
| jayhawking and border ruffianism. Al
the Fort, which is some % miles from
the city, l found some more of our old
friends Gen. r. B. Mitchell, formerly
Post Commander of Nashville some two
years since, is fourishing there in his
glory. He is commanding North Kan
sas, his headquarters at the Fort.
had the pleasure also of seeing Capt
John Pratt, his Acting Adjutant Gen
eral, who was with him here The Gen
eral l understand has been appointed
Brigadier General of the regular army,
which he well deserves as a brave Of
ficer and good gentleman. had the
pleasure also of seeing the 18th Ten
nessee cavalry there the day before it
left for Fort Kearney on the plains.
Lieut.. Col. Kirwan, who was in com.
mand, was looking as hearty as ever
and we had good talk of old times
that were in Nashville. The recent
changes in the Department have made
a great many alterations.
General Dodge, who formerly com
manded the Department of the Mis-
souri,, headquarters at St Louis, has
been relieved by General Pope, who
has his headquarters at the same place
General Dodge, having assumed com
mand of the Department forces in the
field, has removed to Fort Lesvenworth.
He left some four days since for Den
yer, Colorado Territory, visiting the
forts and frontier posts on his way.
There are several regiments here, some
preparing to cross the plains, others de
parting for muster out-particularly
the Kansas troops. There has been a
great deal of dissatisfaction felt among
the troops ordered here - cross the
plains, and tendency TO serious mu-
tiny among some regiments. One of
the West Virginia cavalry regiments
refused to 90. Some two hundred me n
turned over their arms to their officers
and refused further duty. Some one
hundred or more are now in the guard
house at the fort, waiting trial by court
martial. The men of the disappointed
regiments felt hard against their Off
GERS. They say their officers are trying
to keep the men in SO as to hold their
commissions. The men think and say
that as the war is over they have full
filled their contract and should be mus
tered out. There are in the city do
ing Provost guard duty, part of regi-
ment formed from Confederate prison
ers, and, to do them justice, they are a
quiet orderly, welldisciplined and SOL
dierly-lOoking squad Of men. They
look much better in blue than in grey,
and theytLink the color ,cW stand l9nger
,oitIom running. By-the-by, there was
some time ago two negro officers at the
Fort with shoulder straps, etc, in full
figure. They commanded negro bat
terry, and | understand one of them, a
Lieutenant Matthews, had uniform.
horse pistols, belt, sash, etc, presented
TO him by the citizens of Leavenworth.
l heard yesterday, however, the battery
was mustered out
You must probably remember Judge
Williams, who SO long was with Col.
VIM. Truesdail as Provost Judge in
your city. l saw him at the Fort. He is
chief clerk in the Provost Marshsrs
Office there.
The amount Of travel over the
plains is immense. Hundreds of wag
ons are constantly starting over the Ar
kansas and Sante Fe route. The rate
of freight is high, from SI3 to SIS per
hundred to Denver City and to other
places in like proportion. There is q
a company known as the Butterfeld
Dispatch Company, with a capital Of
FIVE millions of dollars (paid in) who
are establishing near route to Den
yer. 1t is called the Smoky Hill route
and lesesns the distance some IOO
miles. Col Eaton is now out on his
first trip for the Company. His reports
sent in are very favorable. The Com.
pany intends starting stage route
across and reducing the fare from SI5C
to 800 through.
We have had very frequent violent
storms lately, which, perhaps, you have
heard Of One storm washed away a
great many houses, and drowning some
twenty people.
In my next letter ! viii give you
some better general description Of this
part OF the world Until tken, wish
| ing success to the Union"
am yours truly, T. s.
Daniel Andreas. late Postmaster at