A Southern merchant R in Caiso.
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Mr. G. A. Faulkner, a merchant from
Mount Vernon, Ark., arrived here yesterday from
Paducah, via
Cairo.
He states that he reached the latter place last Monday afternoon, and when passing from the steamer
Tom Scott to the railroad packet, he was assailed by half a score of Federal troops, who, after subjecting him to a rigid interrogation as to the sentiment prevailing in the
South, and the strength of her troops, wrested from his possession a handsome
Colt's navy pistol and $83 in gold, all the money he had. On asking them to leave him enough money to get home with, they rudely told him to go to h — I, and get home as best he could.
Mr. Faulkner took the precaution to sent his goods from
Louisville via
Paducah.
Tennessee river.
Nashville and
Memphis.--
Memphis (Tenn.) Bulletin.