A gentleman reached
Charleston yesterday from
Nashville, direct,
via Chattanooga.
He brings interesting accounts of the condition of affairs in and around
Nashville.
There are now but few Yankee troops quartered in that place, the masses of
Buell's army having been thrown forward to wards
Murfreesboro' There were no signs of fortifications visible in the neighborhood of the city, as he passed out. Business is very dull in
Nashville; many Southern shopkeepers have come to "settle" in the city, but those of the former inhabitants who remain are steadfast in their adhesion to the
Southern cause.
The notes of Southern banks and Confederate Treasury Notes pass freely in the city at from 20a50 per cent discount, and since the invaders have taken possession of the city, the pent-up fountains of silver change have broken loose, and shinplasters have disappeared.
A gentleman who left New York on the 26th ult arrived in this city yesterday.
He reports that nothing of striking importance had taken place north of
Mason and
Dixon's line.
It was the general opinion in New York that the rebellion was about being crushed, and that matters would, long, be restored to their former condition.
There was much activity in New York and to a stranger things seemed to be going on just as before the war, the streets being full of people, and many of the hotels doing a prosperous business.
Some of the merchants had made large profits by the rise in the price of various imported articles which took place on the increase of the
Lincoln tariff; one house had cleared $100,000 on a cargo of tea. The steam frigate
Roanoke and a new vessel called the
Juniata, were to be Iron-clad, and although great reticence was observed by the offices a, vast efforts were undoubtedly being made to increase the
Yankee fleet of iron-sheathed steamers.
In,
Baltimore business was dull, and the city had suffered terribly by the war and by the partial destruction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which had out off communications with the
West.
The vast majority of the Baltimoreans were intensely Southern, and they so expressed themselves everywhere; but the city was kept in subjection by a Yankee garrison of 20,000 men. It was generally believed in
Baltimore that there would soon be a powerful attack on
Norfolk; that
McClellan's army, which had crossed over into
Virginia, would speedily advance, and that
Burnside would endeavor to force his way into
North Carolina, and, if possible, form a junction with
McClellan's Grand Army.
At
Fortress Monroe some large cannon were being shipped to an unknown point, and many vessels were lying at anchor in the
Roads, some being war vessels, and others thought to be transports, but there was no shipment of troops going on. The Monitor was lying at
Fortress Monroe, out of reach of the
Virginia--
Charleston Mercury, 1st.
