Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-30
vICIssrruDEs OF TRAVEL.

Adventures and 1Iisadventures of q
Migratory Yankee nj the Louisville
Depot.
If there is live city in all this broad
land that has more impudent and dogged
/ ly persistent corps Of hackmen and run
ners than has made Nash vile infamous
to the travelling public, we would like
something precise as to the locality OF the
devoted burg. The arrivaiof ocean steam
ers in bigger towns than ours, creates search
ly less of sensation among haokmen and
Jehus generally than does the incoming
railway trains in Nashville, and il is worth
ones while 20 see the accompanying per
Torrance at a safe distance.
A very illustrative incident occurred at
the Louisville depot Friday, which GER
tainly deserves place in this department
of our paper. On the arrival of one ofthe
trains, there iostled along among the weary
passengers who crowded the platforms, a
very thin gentleman. with rather a rural
air. He might have had ''the news from
Maine in his carpet>bag, for he certainly
bore the cut of full.blown down-easter,
and one, too, who had "heerd some Of the
Observation-Disclosures stories 80 industriously
circulated in the newspapers UP his way in
regard to the safety of loyalists in Tennes-
see. Though he eyed everything suspi-
ciously, he seemed little relieved as the
crowd of black, greasy hackmen, from
the depofs month bore down on him and
the rest Of the passengers, for surely be
could took for no harm from the loyal con-
trabands. Poor Jonathan, however, little
dreamed OF what was before him.
On came the black tide Carriage,
sab" eyes sah.p "Any part de city
massa." "Dis way, sah.s The whole
niger crew was upon him. They seemed
to have singled him Out as their special
victim, and like buzzarss they seized their
prey. The din was perfectly distracting,
and the tall hat of the poor Yankee seemed
rising from his head, and ears. eyes and
mouth expanded to fearful dimensions,
frightening hotel runner nearly out of his
wits but in no way affecting the equilibrium
of the indefatigable negroes. One Of them
made a grab at the carpet-bag, catching
one of the 'handles" and giving it jerk
that had never failed before, but the grip
of the traveller saved it. Another and an
other essayed to reach the coveted treas
ure, and at last two or three made fast to it,
but grim death wasn't circumstance to
that Yankees grip, and pulling and haul
ing began in earnest.
"Darn yer black skins Y shouted the
traveller, cant yer LET Teller alone
second. Hanged if yer git me into any o
yer internal old hearses. Let go, say
Git e-o.u.t you black varmints p
To and fro swayed the black mass, mer-
cilessly dragging their victim toward the
outlet Of the depot. On reaching the door,
blockade ensued, and in the confusion
the negroes lost their hold OF the baggage
of the besieged. This he was not slow To-
take advantage Of, and in few minutes
more, by the help Of some sympathiting
bystanders, he was rescued from his peril
GUS position, and reached the sidewalk with
jump. There was pair Of feet just then,
with the toes in tbs direction of the South
Nashville street railroad or thereabout,
and FIVE minutes later pair of horizontal
coat tails had marked the vanishing point
of the ill~starred stranger.
It is hardly necessary to add that the
matter has been laid before the Metropoli
tan Police Commissioner, and steps have
been taken to rid the depot of the hack
men nuisance. l