Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-08-02

From the Louisville Journal. JUN 10 i

A Bloody Crisis at Hand N Kentucky.
Notes of Warnfng---The Designs of the KIN
tsfcLy portance OF Prepay
alton in KeniueiEy----So Time to be Lost
ne Peril near at Hand.
We have just received communications
from two veteran Union men in Kentucky,
men OF high character and sound heads,
we'll known for their wisdom not only
throughout the State but through the whole
West, and who have carefully watched all
the signs Of the times and had access to in
formation, They write these words to be
laid before the people Of Kentucky:
I'VE perceive by the Lexington States
man, and learn from other quarters, that
large number Of Kentucky secession volun-
tcers are concentrating near GAINESVILLE.
in Tennessee. The number, by those lest
informed, is put down at twenty Regiments
The test informed are the Secession Coun-
ell. Those who l.ok at the papers viii be
struck with the fact that the entire official
force Of various companies Of the State
Guard have gone to Tennessee. This ap-
plies to Central Kentucky, as well as to
Jackson's Purchase These officers, com-
missioned by Goranor Nago3in, have re-
signed, carrying with them the drilled men
Omen drilled at the State ezpense) as their
files. Now why are they concentrating at
or near GAINESVILLE? The Louisville Cou-
rier. the mouthpiece Of rebellion, warns the
/ Union men of Kentucky that q terrible
retribution is smear at hand" Home Guards
Union men of Kentucky look to it
| Desperate men resort to desperate means !:
a rejecting man cannot fail to see that this
/ Is the last throe Of treason in Kentucky.
These rotuHtee3s; expect soon to return,
backed by Tennessee troops, and carry out
the decree of the knights Of the Golden
Circle to plant the Confederate flag on the
Capitol at Frankfort! This is no idle idea
1t is the key to the whole secession
movement
This acknowledgements army, len
dezvousing near GAINESVILLE, viii first
march on and capture Louisville and 90
from thence to Frankfort, and plant the
secession flag on the dome of the Capitol.
Unless the Union men are aroused, we
think the State will be captured before
tie first Monday in August"
Many have inferred. from the continual
departure of numerous members Of the State
Guard and other secession troops for Ten
nessee, that the disunionists must have
abandoned all thought Of making strug-
gle, either civil or military. in Kentucky,
but the probability is that veteran friends,
who have written as above are correct in
their exposition Of the significance Of the
movement. We believe that the going of
so many disunion troops from this State to
Ten essee has been aud is with a view to
a speedy return. We have scarcely doubt
that it is in pursuance of carefully and
elaborated projected disunion conspiracy,
that, as soon as the disunion leaders shall
see clearly that there is no hope of their be-
ing able to carry Kentucky by other means,
the plan is for the Tennessee army to strike
for Louisville. backed by all the well-organ-
lied and we'll drilled secession forces that
have been going and are constantly going
from among us, This plan was developed
in letter that we published yesterday frcm
an eminently reliable and respectable sour
CO and the fact that it is in existence and
actively at work is strongly confirmed by
the very confident declarations that We pub
lish to-day