The partial destruction of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and especially the blowing up of the tunnel near the Junction, should take no one by surprise. Savage warfare alone can produce parallels with the atrocities, even at home, of the rebel leaders. The amount of property in bridges, dams, railroads and other artificial improvements destroyed by the secessionists, in the border States alone, since the beginning of the war cannot be much less than from ten to fifteen millions of dollars. Yet the Southern papers are howling continually over the prospective ravages of the Union army, when they shall have once advanced into the heart of the States in insurrection. It would be impossible for our troops, even if they were so minded, to do more mischief than has been perpetrated by the rebels themselves.
The New York Herald, New York, NY