The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-01-26
from the South.
Spirit Of The Southern Press.
Furious Trades Against Davis.
COTTON IN SAVANNAH.

The Southern Confederacy (Macon)
saws it learns from a high Confederate
official source that there were about
10000 bales of cotton in Savannah at
the time Sherman entered it. Near
10000 bales of this amount belonged
to foreign merchants and cannot be in
terfered with. The remaining 10000
belonged to-American merchants.
FURIOUS oUTBCRsT AGAINST JEFF. DAVIS.
From the Charlottesville eva) Chronicle.
If Mr.. Davis and the court were onlv
going to dash their own brains out, we
might rally from the calamity but
they are dragging the whole secession
feet after them We know that we are
told that we must hold up the hands of
the Government We have been told
so for nearly four years And the
press and people did lend an unques-
tioning confidence TO their rulers--if
ever whole country did place itself
implicitly in the hands Of the Execu-
tiye-if ever men and treasures were
laid at the feet of one man-if ever
ship was surrendered to helmsman-it
has been done right here in these Con
federate States The Government is
land has been properly all in all. Our
whole population was freely rendered
We have permitted it to issue Treasury
notes, bonds, certificates of indebted
ness, to over Sl,500,000,000 We have
this year paid per cent. of our whole
property In taxes.
We have allowed it to impress horses,
wagons, cattle, grain, at nominal prices,
until it has left the country almost
bare. We have seen Congress laid at
its feet without spirit or will of its
own. We have seen the constitutional
advisers of the President so totally ig
nored that we have never had solitary
cabinet meeting. We have seen the
higher appointments in the army all
entirely regulated by the will of Davis.
We have seen Gen. Pemberton made a
Northumberland without a single
achievement. We have seen him, un-
der instructions from Richmond, sacri-
fee the Mississippi Valley and an army
of thirty thousand veterans, We have
seen New Orleans fall from incompe-
tent measures to defend it.
We have seen General Bragg defeated
at Missionary Ridge from an untimely
division of his army in fruitless ex-
petition against Knoxville. We have
seen this officer, after he had lost the
confidence Of the country, and was
driven from his command by public
sentiment, made a sort of director
general of armies in Richmond. We
have seen General Johnston abruptly
dismissed from the army in Georgia
lust when his services were most
needed We have seen General Hood
"a plain, untiied young man--advan-
ced to the command in this State,
merely to lose Atlanta, after several ill
advised and fearful massacres. We
have seen the President repair in per
son to the theatre of disaster only to
inaugurate under the same General a
campaign which startled the country
in its inception and which has termi-
mated in the investment of Savannah
and its garrison, and bloody victory (O
and defeats of Franklin and Nashville
We now await with the most painful
suspense every breath from Savannah;
we hear Through NoFthernsofficial dis
patches certainly that Hood has lost
sixteen pieces of artillery on one oc-
casion and forty odd on another, with
we know not now how many prisoners
We hear from General Hoods own lips
that in the victory" at Franklin he
lost thirteen generals; killed, wounded
or captured He has ceased to advance
he has begun to retreat. In the Val
ley here we have opposed a force of
cavalry, armed with sabres, pistols and
the seven shooting Spencer gun.
In the Trans-Mississippi Gen. Tay-
lor was removed for his Spring cam
paign, and General Kirby Smith, who
has not done the frat solitary thing,
has been buried ingloriously in North
western Louisiana during the whole of
this eventfal year Forrest, whose
military genius fitted him for the most
important enterprises, has been lead
ing a small body of raiding cavalry.
General Bragg, tits true, was dispatched
to check General Sherman; but it ap-
pears so far has not met with success
Our finances our river and harbor
defences, our international negotia~
tions, our domestic politics, have been
managed in precisely the same extra
ordinary way. For the first, We have
never derived any material benefit
from our commanding staples Of cotton
and tobacco. For the second, the
proposition to construct gunboats in
the beginning of the war was rejected
For the third, we have not applied TO
European Powers in the only way that.
we could reach them, and we have en-.
couraged at the North the Republican
politicians against their opponents.
For the last We have, 50 far as it has
been possible under the circumstances,