The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-10-25
Letter from Kentucky.
DOVER, Mason Co., XIV, Oct.

10 tie Editor Of the C0led0nian:
Without burdening your crowded columns
with the general war news in Kentucky,
which you can CLEAN from the Kentucky
and other western papers, will jot down
for the benefit of your readers what of inter-
est is transporting in this immediate vicinity.
Volunteering is going on, though rather slug
gishly, and Camp kenton, near Washington
in this county, has some 5000 soldiers under
drill. This camp, named in honor of Simon
kenton, one of the pioneer settlers of Ken
lucky, occupies the very site of the "old Ken
ton farm" and is in the midst Of as beautiful
and highly cultivated country as the eye of
man would desire to see. General Nelson, a
native of this county, and for a long time
connected with the /. S. Navy, is the chief
officer in command, and is highly popular
among "bold soger boys" His proclamation
has just appeared, calling upon the home
guards of this (the 9TH and the Ashland dis
trct to volunteer for ninety days,and renGez-
vous at the Olympian Springs in Bath coun-
~, 10 be headed by Williams, breckenridge.
and others in Floyd county. Regiments are
also coming in here from Ohio, and proceed
lng at once to the same destination. Hot
times are but just ahead in northern Ken
lucky, as well as in Missouri and Virginia
The secesh IN these regions, since the ar
rest OF their leaders in Maysvile and other
places, in this and the adjacent counties. are
as quiet as lambs; although their hearts are
see,hlng with rage, and their hands are ready
to strike down their neighbors 70 the dust as
soon as the turn of fortunes wheel shall put
, them i'll the ascendency. Many, nothwi,h-
standing a stringent act Of the legislature 70
prevent 1t. have slipped away and Joined the
secession forces. and are proposing to return
with the sword in hand to deal ont death to
their old associates and friends.
Such Of the seccsh as have been arrested
IN these regions by the government. and have
refused TO take the oath have been forwarded
with care and dispatch to Camp Chase at Col
umbuS, Ohio. Among those sent on from
this county WAS ,.r-Hon X. II. Stanton, for
merly Member Of Congress from this district.
He Wore an awfuv sour face as he passed
this point bound for his winter quarters
Troops are constantly going up and down
the rlver.-the former to Camp kcnton or
Western Virginia, and the latter poor inva-
IDS returning from the seat Of war 10 the
hospital al Cincinnati. One boat has lust ia
ken down two hundred and torty-scven sick
and disabled-a horrid. heart -sick,nias COM
mentary upon the horrors Of war"
traSlcai occurrence took place in this
village on Monday last, growing out of an
Old difficulty, in which Fred Adams shot John
Lloyd, lntlic:ing severe but not fatal wound
AdamS has been arrested and is hclt: for tri-
al. Both parties are free masons
The weather is now most delightful-onlv
one or two trosts having occurred as Vet to
chill outdoor existence, or mar the beautiful
green of the waving forests. The Ohio river
has been higher than ever before known at
tins season OF the year, causing immense loss
of property in the shape of RATS wood, etc,
along its banks. Western Virginia has been
actually cleaned oNt, if not of secesSionists. at
least Of a good deal of lis other MATERIAL
The rains in that section have been constant
and heavy beyond precedent. The poor and
scantIly-clothed soldiers have suffered greatly
in consequence-the effect of which is seen in
the hundreds of invalids that are returning
from the seat of war.
Yours for the Union, MD.