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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.East Tennessee. Knoxville, Aug. 18th, 1861. Affairs in East Tennessee are becoming more settled. Mr. G. W. Bridges, who was elected to the Northern Congress from the Third District, was arrested near the Kentucky line, brought here, and has been released by Gen. Zollicoffer, after proper acknowledgment or his allegiance, &c. The only danger now apprehended is, that of an invading army via Kentucky, and of that our authorities are fully advised. Gen. Zollicoffer will not be caught unprepared.
e confirms our recent representations of the great reaction now transpiring among the people, and designates it as a "perfect stampede" from Unionism to the advocacy of the Southern cause. Mr. T. A. R. Nelson had reached home, and it was understood that he would issue an address to the people of East Tennessee through the columns of the Knoxville Whig, advising them to desist from further opposition to the State authorities, and espouse the cause of the Confederate Government The Hon. Geo. W. Bridges, who has been an intense Union man, and was a candidate for the United States Congress in the late election, advised Col. Carroll of his intention to raise a regiment of volunteers from among the Unionists of his district and enter the active service of the Confederate States. Col. Carroll issued an address to the people, calling upon them to daily to the support of their section against the vulgar despotism of Lincoln, and informs us that the Knoxville Whig will publish it in
Mrs. L. Virginia Smith, a lady of decidedly literary talent and reputation, has written a series of lectures, appropriated and relating to the times, which it is her intention to deliver through the principal cities in the South--the proceeds to be approximated to the purchase of winter clothing for the Confederate soldiers in Missouri. Mr. Henry Couch, of Russell county, Va., was engaged in the experiment of making gunpowder, on the 17th. By some means the mass of material became ignited, and he was burnt so severely that he died on the 10th, A. U. Tomlinson, of Remington, M. C. has put up a machine to run by steam to make shoe pegs, which the South has always heretofore been content to buy from the Yankees. The people of Tennessee were started by a heavy shock of an earthquake early on Friday morning last. George W. Bridges, of Tennessee, has been unconditionally released by General Zollis sooner,