Southern news.
From our exchanges we gather the following Southern items:
A movement is on foot, we learn, in
Nashville, to raise a monument over the remains of the heroic and lamented
Gen. Zollicoffer.
A patriotic friend in this city proposes to be one of a number to contribute a hundred dollars each, to make it a monument worthy of the man.--
Annville Reg.
The
Bowling Green Courier says:
‘
A friend writing us from
Fort Henry, on the 23d, says that they are busy there making preparations for a fight.
The
Yankees had landed at Calloway town, on the west side of the
Tennessee, some sixteen miles below the
Fort, to the number of ten thousand or twelve thousand men. The scout-boat ‘"
Dunbar,"’ which went down the day before to take a look at them, almost run afoul of one of the
Lincoln gun-boats hid under a point just above Calloway town.
They had a beautiful race from there back, but the
Dunbar beat her. She fired at the
Dunbar eight times without effect, then came almost within range of the
Fort, fired a few shots, and went back.
’
The
Courier says that the appeal which
Rev. Mr. Dickinson,
Superintendent of Army Colportage in
Virginia, has made to the citizens of
Charleston, has met with a liberal and cordial response.
Fifteen hundred dollars have been contributed to this cause, besides an excellent horse, which was given at the mass meeting on Sunday night.
An army correspondent of one of the
North Carolina papers writes as follows:
‘
The
Yankees lately made a scout to Burk's Station, on the Alexandria Railroad, leading from
Manassas to that place.
They accomplished little more than taking some negroes over to
Alexandria; some of them belonged to a brave Southern lady, who distinguished herself on Saturday before and Sunday of the battle of July 21st, when
Cameron, Loverjoy,
Bishop McIlwaine, of
Ohio,
et al, were then
en route to see the rebels whipped.
Although surrounded by Yankee hirelings, she made them desist from hoisting the
Yankee flag upon her place, and during the battle of the 21st stood upon the steps of her door waving her handkerchief at the report of every gun. This, too, while the
Yankees were all around her. She told them on that day, that they would return before the next much faster than they marched upon
Manassas, and remarked to the
Surgeon of the 3d New Jersey regiment, who was very fond of milk, that if he had time to call on his return she would treat him to a drink.
This promise she fulfilled, the
Surgeon having barely time to call for it.
On Monday after the battle, while the
Yankees were returning double-quick, she had her negroes cheering for
Jeff Davis and the Southern Confederacy.
All this was related to me by the
Surgeon above alluded to a few weeks after the battle, having come to my picket for some men of his regiment killed by our men when they were attempting to surround us. But I forgot I was giving you a history, when I only intended to give you a fact.
This lady, whose name is
Mrs. Marshall, went to
Alexandria to recover her negroes, when she was taken prisoner, and I expect now shares the fate of
Mrs. Greenhow.
’
