Yankee Traders in Nashville.
--After the occupation of
Nashville by the enemy, large stocks of goods were sent to that city by Yankee merchants, who want to do a little trading while the army does the fighting.
A telegram to the
Northern Associated Press says:
‘
The steamer
Graham returned this afternoon from Nashville Very few, if any, of the
St. Louis merchants who went on her to
Nashville, were satisfied with the result.--Some of them sold their goods at a sacrifice, so as to return on the same boat, while others unwillingly remained, in order, if possible, to effect sales at better prices and bills of the banks in loyal States and scarce, but nearly every shop-keeper is getting daily an amount of United States Treasury notes, which they are already eager to secure.
Anxious inquiries were made for cotton, turpentine, rosin, etc., for which specie would have been given, but nothing of the kind could be had except about two hundred bales of cotton, which a resident of
Nashville shipped on his own account per steamer
Madison, Southern bank bills, especially those of
Tennessee, were abundant, but the people of
Nashville are being rapidly convinced of the worthlessness of that paper.
’
Some of the merchants have ordered goods from
Louisville,
Cincinnati, and probably other cities.
The steamer
Graham brought back a portion of the goods she took to
Nashville.
She left the Lacrosse at
Paducah, bound to
Nashville, with a similar cargo.--The
Adriatic, the first arrival at
Nashville with goods from
St. Louis, is due on her return trip; and is probably bringing back a portion of her cargo.
The Memphis
Appeal remarks:
‘
The currency is not the only, or even the chief difficulty encountered by the "traders. " Our information is, that the people of
Nashville roundly refused to buy the wares of their would be masters, and that many of the goods had been reshipped to the
North.
The people of the
United States will discover some of these days that the
Southern people cannot be bought with a mess of pottage.
’
