Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-26


opposition to the war policy now adopted by
the State, that no Kentuckian shall be ar
4 rested who remains at homo attending to his
business and does not take part either by
action or speech, against the authority OF the
General or State Government, or does not
hold correspondence with, or give aid or
assistance to, those who have chosen to array
themselves against us as our enemies.
The police force of Louisville are on the
alert; they have special re-enforcements.
PRENTICE ON BRECKENRIDGE,
The Louisville Journal Of September %,
says: .t...
We learn from Mt. Sterling that on Fri
day morning, about four o'clock, buggy,
containing two gentlemen and a negro boy,
passed through that town, stopping for few
minutes at the house of an ex x-official, and
took the State road toward the Virginia
line.
Several gentlemen met the buggy on the
road. One of the travellers was closely muf
fed, and, whenever they were about meeting
any one, the negro boy raised himself so as
to cover the muffied figure. One of the Sc
cessionists in Mount Sterling revealed the
fact on Friday that John o. Breckenridge had
gone through on his way to Virginia or Ten
nessee. Lincolns "Hessian cloak" is forever
eclipsed now.
The ex-official, at whose house the travel
Friday night. A number of the State Guard
stole portion of the State arms on Friday
| after dark and started on the road the buggy
had taken. Perhaps they accompanied
Breckenridge and his companion as body
guard. .t
PROTECTION TO THE CAPITAL OF KENTUCKY.
The Capitol Grounds are full of soldiers
legislation proceeds at Frankfort under the
protection of five hundred bayonets. There
| c.n,,a pron a,,
ment commanded by the Colonel himself
and Major Buford. The companies are Cap.
tions Dunn's, Barnetts, Rousseau's and Hew-
etts. There are also two companies of Home
Guards-Captains Cochran's and Prices.
They are under the command of Colon ell
Athbert Dudley.
ALL RIGHT AT SALT RIVER.
The missing pickets of Captain Gibson
have returned to camp.
West Point, at the mouth of Salt River, is
occupied by our forces.
The nights on the Indiana shore, opposite
West Point, are occupied by battalion of
Home Guards,:who have an effective battery
of rifled cannon, which commands the Ken
lucky shore for distance of three miles on
either side Of the town.
: OCCUPATION OF sSfITHLAND.
| Smithland, at the mouth of Cumberland
, River, fifteen miles above Paducah, is in pos
, | SGSSlOu Vi H6u6Edl IIOOpSs
The 1otilla of tiatb boats form pentoon'
t bridge over the Ohio at the mouth of Ten
| nessee River.
{. HENDERSON, KY.
Henderson, the county seat Of Henderson
County, is on the Ohio River twelve miles
below Evansville, and one hundred and eighty
3 miles from Frankfort.
: The Home Guards and the Thirty-frst
= Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, Colonel
Scott, are camped in and about Evansville
4 who will be prepared for any raids from
= Kentucky at this point.
q Steamport is O small village on Green
. River; at this point and at various locks
above troops are posted for defense.
HAwEsvILLE, KY.
Hawesville, in Hancock County, is a great
D coal depot. A few miles above and half 6
mile from the river, is natural fertilization
. being circular table of land surrounded or
J, all sides by cliff ranging from fifty to one
r hundred and twenty-five feet in hight-i
e can be ascended but in one place.
= BRANDENBURG HrGHTs.
= The Ohio River opposite Meade County
makes a great bend, and skirts the county
about sixty miles, while the Rolling Fork o
? Salt River forms its eastern boundary
BTandenburg is on high hill, and is forty
miles below Louisville; if guerilla bands arc
to menace our river navigation, it will bC
8 necessary to have military possession of the
t commanding points on both sides of thu
q Ohio.
MULDRAUGHs HILL.
There is no news of Importance in refer
ence to the forces Of Sherman and Buckner
J, on the line of the Louisville and Nashville
o Railroad. Both are actively at work strength
q ening their positions.
SPECIAL MAIL TO REBELS.
l A gentleman who arrived from Memphis
to. day, Via Owensburg, Ky, states that the
rebels received correspondence and Oincin
natl, Chicago and st. Louis papers daily by
that route, by hacks to Russellville, Tenn
Owen County is on the north side of thu
Kentucky River; at one point joins Harri
e son, where the Secessionists are numerous.
y UNIoNIsTs OCCUPY owENsBURG.
n The Evansville Journal thus announce
n the friendly invasion by Kentucky of 9Th
:. sacred soir' of Indiana:
Il "a company of Kentuckians, armed anC
J equipped with the stars and stripes flying
j. and martial music, landed from the Eugea
q yesterday and marched through our princi
. pal streets. They were sturdy, hearty set
g and were on no holiday excursion. They
!: sent here for the Hartford (Ky.) Regiment
= The agent of the Adams Express delivered
, the arms to the company, and they were
j shipped to OWeDsboro, where the remaining
d companies had arrived. The Hartford Regi
4 ment marched across the country and took
possession of Owensboro early yesterday
: morning. Their appearance was unlocked
6 for, and the occupation of the place has dis
d arranged the plans of the rebels, who, it il
+ said expected to take the town.
: The escort company, after visiting the
r camp Of the Forty first, marched dowr
: Water-street, and were drawn into an am
8 buscade at the American House, where al
. ample supper had been prepared for tn
" "ruthless invaders" by Messrs. Boicourt 1
s Pillsbury. The Kentucky boys left in goo,
y spirits, and expressed the determination t
n "come again."
's No EXEMPTION FROM THE OATH OF ALE
d GIANoB.-The following correspondence ex
a plains itself;