Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-31

HPApucAH, KY, May 81, 1851.
aForty.cight boxes containing MIME
rifles, muskets, &C.; six pieces artillery; one
hundred and ffty soldiers just leaving this
place on the Ohio and Mobile road; destina
ton, Union City. Some scheme on hand,
Listen for a 6ght in this region in a few
/ days. General Pillow was certainly seen
opposite Cairo last Saturday. A gentleman
now in this city told me he staid all night
with him at Columbus Saturday night. He
also stated to me that Pillow would have
four thousand troops in Columbus in less
than four days. lnhasto."
We don't deal in sensation items. The
letter above is from a reliable source. OF
course the soldiers, and cannon, and rifles,
and muskets, leaving Paducah for Union
City, a Tennessee city, are Kentucky SOL
diers, cannon, rifles and muskets. We don't
suppose there can be in any mind the least
doubt about that.
Here is a case that calls loudly for the i'm
mediate and vigorous interposition of the
authorities of Kentucky. Our Governor has
Just issued bis proclamation in favor of the
enforcement OF neutrality throughout Ken
lucky, and IL he is worth, as q Governor, the
rope that would hang him as a man, be will
put forth the power c0nfided to him, when
he beholds the soldiers and munitions of
Kentucky on their way to a Tennessee town
upon the Kentucky border, knowing, as he
must know, that the purpose of the move
meut is a conflict with the troops of the
United States. Governor Magofin knows,
unless evil counsels and counsellors have
madea mailman Of him, that if, either through
his CO. operation, his connivance OF his su-
pineness, a war shall be inaugurated at the
mouth Of the Mississippi, or in the southern
portion or any portion of our State, an ocean
of blood will rest upon his soul, and a moun
tain of cursaa uDou his mama
Probably q good deal of light may be
thrown upon this rather mysterious subject
by the publication of the following quite
startling letter that we have just received
from one of the most respectable and intelli-
gent citizens of the First Congressional
District. We withhold names at the request
of the writer, Che has furnished us with all
the names of the persons he refers toy for the
publication could do no good, and might
create much trouble. All the events enum-
Grated certainly appear TO indicate very
strongly indeed, that, oil this very day, the
30th Of May, or as soon as the District Con-
v~ention, which meets to-day at Mayfeld,
can hurry through a secession ordinance, the
disuuionists of that District, with a strong
Kentucky military force at May field, backed
by a far stronger Tennessee military force
at Union City in Tennessee, will strike for
disunion. This, we have scarcely a doubt,
Is W u ihC OlNLAe AAN AAAibAA OAGlulOu o
ers in the First District of Kentucky, and in
q portion or the whole Of Tennessee, have
been preparing to accomplish for some time
past. This explains those systematic con-
centrations of troops and munitions that
would otherwise be inexplicable. Here is
the most important portion of the letter we
have referred to;
t., KY, May "a, 1861.
"Some one wrote you, a few days since,
in regard to g meeting at Msyfield, in this
District (the First for the purpose Of taking
this portion of Kentucky out of the State.
That meeting was adjourned and another
one called for the Both inst, and all the
counties in this Congressional District were
requested to send delegates. On the night
of the 2lst inst, six pieces Of brass cannon
and one thousand stand of small arms, be-
longing 10 the State and sent to Colonel
Tilghman at Paducah, were sent out to May
field. Why they were sent was a puzzle TO
the citizens of the town and county. Nor
did any two Of the company who took them
out tel the same tale. Some who professed
to know, however, said they were taken out
for safe keeping, a descent on Paducah by
the soldiers at Cairo being daily expected.
This tale did no look reasonable. WIZ
should the arms be carried off from the point
expected to be attdckedP We haYe since got
q clue to the design. A citizen received a
communication from a highly respectable
and truthful citizen of Paducah, who says
the arm were sent out to be ready on the
Both inst, when a Secession Ordinance
would be adopted by the seven counties
west of the Tennessee River, revolution
inaugurated, and the arms handed over to
the district soldiers-the troops concen-
tratipg now at Union City to be ready al
once to move upon this part OF the State,
and Federal and State authority at once de.
MED.
"In further evidence of this fact, one o.
the officers who took out the arms told hil
brother. in law, of Mayfield, that Kentucky
or this portion, would secede and, swapping
his fingers together, he said, When it Il
done, twill be done as quick as that HI
further told Mr.. - that, in q few weeks
Mayfeld would be a military camping
ground, with from six thousand to ten tnou
sand soldiers in drill. Judge A. R. Boon
who is Captain of the State Guards in May
field, and q warm Secessionist, told a YER
strong Union man that in ten days the Stat
Guard in this part of the State would b.
entirely broken up. IL is evident SOM
revolutionary movement is in contempla
ton. Whether it is to be confined to thu
Purchase or not, / can not say. / am appre
hensive it is concerted all over the State; j
not, it is evidently contemplated here. Thu
names l have given you are all reliable
men"
We repeat that we rely strongly, YER,
strongly, upon the information thus commu
nicsted by our highly respectable correspond
emit. We think he develops the whole plan
by which the Secessionists, believing, that
in the event of civil war or open rebellion
against the laws, the United States troops a
Cairo will be invoked to cross the river 70
the support of the Union men, expect to in
augurate the madly desired hostilities witt
the United States upon Kentucky soil. Twt
or three days will tell the tale. We hop,
something from Governor Magof6n, but ne
confidently. Let all good men and true
whether in or out of Office, keep their eye
open and their nerves steady in full prepare
ton for the worst.
There can be no doubt, that, if the Ken
lucky and Tennessee dis~unionists down upol
the border attempt to execute the cOnspirac,
imputed to them, they will sweep every
thing before them for a time.
Our eye has this moment fallen upon th
following from the Hopkinsville Gazette:
"DAEGBR AHRAD.-We have just been in
formed, on good authority, that a desperat
scheme is now being laid by Secessionist
in this State, in order to force a confic
between themselves and the Federal Gov
eminent. The plot is 10 establish one o
more encampments of Secession forces o.
the border of this State, and hasten q COLI
sion. By this deVilish plot they hope t
drag the State into immediate hostilities
They are already operating secretly wit
agents in various parts of the State.
"FelloW citizens, we warn you TO be o
the alert. The Secessionists have bee
routed signally at the ballot box, but th
Confederate States are resolved that 70
shall join them, aud that our beloved Stat
shall be the battle ground of civil wa
VIII you be dragged headlong to ruin?"
TIE SEcEssIOS LKT-Us. ALONE DOCTRIsE.-
Notwithstanding the constant reiteratio
from some sources South that they hs
never designed an attack ON Washington
the Richmond WHO of the 22d inst. had II