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TENNESSEE. 



On the 21st, D. F. Carter, president, and 

 John Herriford, cashier of the Bank of the 

 Union at Nashville, were arrested on charge 

 of treason, and placed in confinement. 



An election for judge of the circuit court of 

 Nashville, held on the 22d, resulted in the 

 choice of Turner S. Foster, secessionist, by a 

 majority of about 190. The Union vote was 

 about 4,000; the vote against separation in 

 Nashville in June, 1861, was only 300. 



Judge Foster received his commission from 

 the provisional governor on the 26th of July, 

 and the same day was arrested and sent to the 

 penitentiary. 



On the 24th of May a Union meeting was 

 held at Murfreesboro', at which speeches were 

 made by Gov. Johnson and others, and the 

 resolutions of the Nashville Union Convention 

 of the 12th were unanimously adopted. Thirty- 

 four soldiers of a Tennessee regiment in the 

 Southern army came before the provost mar- 

 shal on that occasion, and took the oath of 

 allegiance. 



On the same day, under the provisions of 

 the general confiscation act of August 6, 

 1861, the United States Marshal for the Middle 

 District of Tennessee seized at Nashville the 

 offices of the "Republican Banner," "Union 

 and American," and "Gazette" newspapers, 

 and the Southern Methodist Publishing House, 

 and on the 26th the Baptist Publishing House, 

 and "Patriot" newspaper pffice, all having 

 been active supporters of the secession move- 

 ment. He also seized two gun factories in 

 South Nashville, belonging to stock com- 

 panies. 



The address of the committee appointed by 

 the Nashville Union Convention to draw up a 

 paper setting forth the purposes of that meet- 

 ing was published, June 4th. After reviewing 

 the prosperity of Tennessee before the civil 

 war broke out, it thus depicts the condition to 

 which the State had been reduced by secession : 



"We are without representation in the national Legis- 

 lature, and laws touching pur most vital interests are 

 enacted without our participation or consent. War in 

 its most terrible form is at our doors civil war, the 

 scourge of nations and of the human race ; here it is 

 with all its horrors. And look at its effects upon the 

 interests of our people ' Our schools, academies, col- 

 leges, and universities as places of education and in- 

 struction are closed, and are only used as barracks for 

 troops or as hospitals for sick and wounded soldiers. 

 Our common school fund, for the education of the poor 

 and helpless, has been abstracted and carried off by 

 unauthorized and irresponsible persons beyond the 

 control of the legitimate authorities of the State or 

 even their own control. The funds of our State bank, 

 our only financial agent and place of safe-keeping of 

 the money of the State, have been seized and carried 

 within the control of men at war against the Govern- 

 ment. Our State debt is increased by millions with- 

 out a dollar consideration. Our credit is dishonored 

 and our currency ruined. Our commerce is cut off 

 and our manufactures shut up. Our fences are de- 

 stroyed, bridges burned, private property taken, and 

 crops consumed under the plea of military necessity. 

 Our fields are uncultivated and the hand of industry 

 is still. Our cities, towns and country, are crowded 

 with troops, and our public highways and street cor- 

 ners blockaded with military guards. Our Governor, 



Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer, with 

 the public records of the State, are missing. Our 

 courts are suspended, and we are without a regular 

 government. Our sons and brothers, and our rela- 

 tions and friends are on the eve of battles, probably the 

 most destructive to be recorded in history. And at a 

 time when most needed, our churches are closed, our 

 ministers of religion absent from their duties or in the 

 army, and instead of "Peace on earth; good will to 

 men," it is war to extermination. 



The address discusses the abstract right of 

 secession, defends the conduct of the Federal 

 Government, shows the advantages of adher- 

 ing to the North and the certain misery to fol- 

 low a union with the Southern Confederacy. 



Governor Johnson, about the same time, 

 issued an order providing that all persons 

 who should be arrested for using treasonable 

 and seditious language, and who should refuse 

 thereafter to take the oath of allegiance and 

 give bonds in the sum of $1,000 for future 

 good behavior, should be sent South beyond 

 the Federal lines, with the distinct understand- 

 ing that if they returned they were to be treated 

 as spies. 



Memphis was captured by the river fleet on 

 the 6th, and "West Tennessee was thus brought 

 under the control of the Federal Government. 

 (See MEMPHIS.) 



On the 7th a Union meeting was held at 

 Shelbyville, Governor Johnson, Col. May of 

 Kentucky, and James L. Scudder, formerly a 

 prominent secessionist and assistant inspector 

 general of State troops under Governor Harris, 

 being among the orators. 



On June 17th Governor Johnson summoned 

 six prominent secession clergymen of Nashville 

 to meet him at the capitol, and requested them 

 to take the oath of allegiance to the Federal 

 Government. At their urgent desire, a few 

 days were granted them for deliberation. On 

 the 28th, as they refused to take the oath, five 

 were sent to the penitentiary, to be kept in 

 close confinement until arrangements could be 

 made for escorting them beyond the lines : the 

 sixth, being in feeble health, was paroled. On 

 the same day Dr. J. P. Ford, and on the next 

 day the Kev. C. D. Elliott, principal of a girls' 

 boarding-school, and Dr. Cheatham, superin- 

 tendent of the State Lunatic Asylum, were ar- 

 rested at Nashville and similarly disposed of. 

 At a Union meeting held in Pulaski, June 17, 

 Mr. George Baber, formerly identified with the 

 Southern party as editor of the Nashville 

 "Banner," delivered an address in which he 

 disavowed his past course. Another meet- 

 ing of the people of Giles county was held 

 at the same place on the 21st, when resolutions 

 were passed whereby the citizens pledged them- 

 selves to use their influence for the speedy res- 

 toration of the State to her federal relations. 

 Giles county is one of the most flourishing m 

 Middle Tennessee. It is largely engaged in 

 cotton growing, and works over 5,000 negroes. 

 On the 23d five of the most prominent seces- 

 sionists of Pulaski, including the Rev. Mr. 

 Mooney, a Methodist clergyman, were arrested 



