Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-19

We recently gave the particulars of the
vanderings and discovery Of a lost boy,
from Williamson county, as one of the
many marvellous events growing out of the
late war. We have Just been placed in
possession of the facts of the sad fate and
misfortunes of Montgomery county fami-
", ending in the sale into slavery of two
children in distant torrid and semi-bar-
barrie land. By request we withhold the
name Of the family, assuring our readers
that the circumstances are true to the let
ter, and in every particular. Singular and
adventurous as were the facts we gave of
the williamson county wanderer, the de-
tails, vicissitudes, sufferings and actual
fate of the children Of the family now being
CO sidered, are more 80, as partaking more
of the painful and heArt-rending. The sale
into slavery of the almond-eyei, swest-faced
and blue-veined Caucasian girl to the
lustful Musselman, under sanction of
his crescent banner and his Koran, shock
ing as is the monstrous traffic to the Chris
tan world, from long usage is Invested of
many Of the horrors naturally attaching to
it But when il comes to the sale, as
slaveF, Of Tennessee children and those too
from an adjoining county, reared by Guilt
waited and refined parents, educated and
cared for, and surrounded by all the CON-
forts and elegancies that make home a
little heaven and young life all rosy and
beautiful; when il comes to the sale of such
children to people not many removes adj
vanced in civilization beyond the African
Congo. it starts the blood with indignation,
and crimsons the cheek with shame. Yet
such are the facts. Before the war there
resided in Montgomery county a gentle
man who was well known, and who was
we'll to do. He was an educated man, a
man of letters and man of God, being
Minister of the Gospel, and one of the
principals of the leading Female Institu-
ton of the county. His family consisted
of himself, his wife and two children,
both daughters, the one being near
twelve and the latter near ten years of age.
The family was q happy one. The pa
rents were esteemed as good and
useful members of society, and their
children rose up aud called them blessed.
Thus they were situated when the civil
war, with its fercs alarms, is clang and
clash of arms, burning trophies and rivers
of blood burst upon Us in 1861. Then
came the time
"When desolatisn. snAtching from the hant
OF time the scythe of ruin, sat alOft
Or stalked in dreadful majesty abroad
Tennessee was the banner State in send
Ing her braves 10 battle, fol- the r-gemmed
benny blae flag she had flung to the breeze
Among those who gathered under its folds
was the minister and gentleman referred
TO. He chung to it with the devotion of
love and the fervor Of patriotism, through
all the four years of blood, and storm and
thick darkness that lowered about it. When
at last, in 1865, the star of the young Con-
federacy went out in g DOM and in glory
behind the hills of Appomattox, and the
SCARED veterans, who had borne their ban
ner bravely, returned TO their wasted fields
and desolated homes, to lay down its shat
tered staff forever, the heart OF cur friend
sickened at the prospect Of his countrys
ruin, and sank within him Though his
energies were subdued 10 the struggle, his
proud spirit was unconquered. While some
ion-hearted Southerners, like Sterling
Pnce, the iron Blncher of the war in the
West, in the land of the T ascalans, and the
valleys of Cordova sought them homes,
some mingled as exiles among Europe's
gay capitals, and others, at the tropics,
where the breath Of midnight burns the
saud, went for refuge to Brazil. Among
these latter we're our Montgomery friend
and his family. Converting his available
assets into what ready cash they would
bring, he gathered his family around him
and bade his native land sdIeu." ''Some
natural tears. no doubt, that mother and
those blooming children shed ''as they saw
for the last time" the CLASSY Cumberland,
that had so peacefully flowed near their
home. Perhaps the father into whose