New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-04
FROM TENNESSEE.
| From Our Special Correspondent
KNOXVILLE Tenn March 81, 1865
ANOTHER RAID IN PROGRESS.

From Our Special Correspondent
KNOXVILLE, TENN. March q, 1868.
ANOTHER RAID IN PROGRESS.
Reforo this reaches Won, General SLOVENIAN, at
the head OF - thousand cavalry, will have started
from here on what will very probably prove 70 oe 'n'
greatest raid Of the war. Even II was aware o. tne
route to be adopted and the programme to DO carreu
ont, II would not be Just the thing 10 dVuige now
stonean IL will be borne in mind IL one of the most
dashing cavalry officers in the service, aud his oFa'
raid into South Western Virginia few months sihce'
when lie destroyed the Virginia and Tennessee hsroad
for over a hundred miles, and completely denonsneo
the Rebel salt.works Mt Satve wiz not soon DC 'o'
gotten Accompanying him in his present eIpodi''on.
az subordinates will be such successful ana "e'rea
leaders M Gems Gilem and Cooper and other "of'"e'
Of lesser rank who have proved their s aud bravery
ON many bard contested field.
The opposition stoneman viii have TO contend against
az east for the first hundred miles or So VIII not DC
very formidable. In South Western Virginia and west
ern North Carolina there are not, to-day over ''V''
Rebel troops and these are scattered about at dereht
points Vaughan has got the largest number his iorce'
Judging from the stories o. deserers being about 80
uen-a cavalry, who ore at present lowering around
near Bristol, Tenn. watching the movements Of
Thomass advancing army. Gliner has oody OF rega'
mufns numbering about $50 and. from present ndica-
tons his command is daily growing smaller and beauti
fully less.
Meeting q squad OF desertsrs C22) couple OF days
since. who were being forwarded TO Chattanooga
asked one OF them what State they represented and to
whose command they had belonged. He replied; Ali
yi,aninp,. Giltners com mand" To further inquiry
a, 10 the numbers deserving his reply. which was en-
belished BY very peculiar facial grim was somewhat
more emphatic than elegant: I'm be Cd IN they ain
all a comm" And sure enough. almost every train
moving toward Chattanooga has more or less deserteIs
a large proportion Of them officers. The night Is lar
spent; tho day is at hand
KNOXVILLE.
Apart from the present hustle and excitement arising
from the movements OF troops passing through TINS Is
stand STILL sleepy enough sort oi place. Chattanooga
with less than onethird Of resident population sup
ports spicy and aourishing little daily paper whiie
Knoxville il content with weekly-Brornior' bA's
which. while it may be excellent In some respects. Is
decidedly behindhand in furnishing the more salient
featured and latest general news, connected with the
war.
Tb, place IL admirably adapted for defense, and II is
hardly necessary TO state that what nature had left un
done the best engineering skin and untold labor have
accumulated so that Knoxville may be considered as
obsolutely-wel, let Lees whole army jlst for once
make an assault.
The weather has been delightful for the last week Sc
that In the country all around here farmers are busy
blowing and preparing their lands for the next crcp
Throughout East Tennessee, with majority OF tho
10y al guerras do not find very profitable
TO follow their profession very extensively.
aUERRILLAs.
Shaking of gucrrillas IL must be understood thai
tese aend,sh wreches sometimes act sngly aad alone
ba. arc generally dubbed together into small IRE
sponsibe gangs who stop short at no outrage an'
whose principal object is plumber. 1t s hardly neees
ssry to say that they all Rebels but il does not fol
low that their outrages are exclusively against tn
Federal Government. and loyal interests No; YER,
frequently private citixens-loya and disoyal-gener
ally tho former however. are robbed and pundered bu
booty they will have even II murder is prerequisite
Moro than one Union dcserter has been found amons
these gangs when captured and desperate and aband
oned characters very likely TO be pest and erro
to society snyhcw such States ~ Tennessee and Ken
lucky in the present disturbed state Of society furnish
more than ordinary attractions theater for theil
outrages and depredations
| GOV. BRowNLow AND Mr.. MAYNARD.
Gov. Brownlow Is here busy on his message to THE
forthcoming Legisature which meets In Nashville on
the first Monday in April. Horace Maynard Is here
also coafned to his room by ndisposition. Ho viii
doubtless be elected the United States Senate Who
the other Senator will be do not know. but there
10 lack Of aspirants for the Office.
i EASTWARD Hol
Eastward the star Of war steadily pushes Its way
This city Is iul OF double and snglestarred shoulder
straps, and others Of modest pretensons. all on
their way to "the front" The front is NOV able con
Germ, here to-day, and there tomorrow. Where il IL
at present writing, win not state; but II may net be
out OF place TO say that tho railroad Eve are rapidly re
pairing the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
was this morning in running order Is fai
as Morristown--i0 miles from this place
II is said that the Rebels the line. run trains
westward as far Bristol 100 miles distant from here
50 that in the natural Of things, before grca
many days one party-it Is easy to guess whch--wil
gracefully perhaps sullenly retire to make way fo
the progressive movements Of the other 1t is out o.
the question to suppose that, with the insignificant
Rebel force in his part u the country. Thomass army
will hayo any serious fighting on hahd for the
present but then there Is nothing Ike preparing fo
emergencies.
i QUARTERMAsTEB's DEPARTMENT.
| Pcrh.ps in NO other military department have tho
operations connected with the Quartermasters Bureau
been brought to state Of greater efficiency healthy
elasticity TO meet the most extraordinary emergencies
than in the Department of the Cumberland. Railroads
arc built and bridges OF the most formidable Dimensions
erected as II by magic. Things are done BY wholesale
| when the occasion demands it.
i To Gen. Donaldson, the Chief Quartermaster of tn,
Department. and Copt James +. Rushing Chief Asss
tan,. Quartermaster is due in great measure the ad
mirahle efficiency and systemauo deyelopment which