Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-18
The News.


up to the 9th. The reporters for the asso-
ciated press seem to have made the most Of
the old news on hand. They give no sign to
indicate whether or not any future Pony will
be permitted to bring us later news by way
of ST. Joseph. We trust that the Govern
ment, the mail contractors and the Pony Ex-
press people will oil conclude to give St.
Joseph the go by and run no chances of
further interruptions. The most striking FED.
ture of the news at first, seemed the an
nouncement that the ring leader, Davis, was
dead. This, however, is not told by the
wires in a very confident manner, and be-
sides, at the risk of being set down as little
better than one of the wicked" we must say
the general feeling here seems to be that the
news is too good to be true Kentucky has
been invaded by traitors from Tennessee, and
the Governors of the two States. who are
both traitors, had been corresponding upon
the subject. pretending. both of them, to be
innocent of any share In the invasion. The
Union General in command, Gen. Grant, had
taken Paducah, and telegraphed to the Ken
lucky Legislature of the entrance into the
State of hostile forces. His dispatched, to-
gether with Gov. Harris's of Tennessee, to
his brother Magof1in, Governor of Kentucky,
were referred to a special committee 1t will
be strange if the committed does not find
ample grounds upon which the House may
base articles of impeachment against the in
famons Magoffln. The pretended indigna-
ton Of that worthy, and his friend Harris's
explanation are clearly mere bits of byplay,
thrown in, in order to give time for rebel
movements in Kentucky. The war has
opened there, and the loyal men of the State
are ready for it. Here we have q further
exhibition of the doctrine of the rebel mis-
creants to their much praised doctrine of
State Sovereignty
Kentucky is sovereign State, say they,
and has right to secede. But she refuses to
secede. Then they send armed forces upon
her soil to subjugate her, and force her into
the mock Confederacy of the South Such
vilanies were never recorded before. The
whole rebellion is a monster lie. It's origina-
tors have never in one single instance told
the truth to their followers. Missouri and
Kentucky compelled obedience to Federal
authority, legitmately asserted within their
borders but asked to be allowed to remain
neutral in the matter of enforcing Federal
authority in the rebel States. What is the
return for this friendly neutrality? Why
the rebels seek to coerce and subjugate the
two States which never once interfered to
fight against them. History furnishes no
parallel to such perfdy. We hope that every
rebel who sets hostile foot upon Kentucky
soil, from abroad, may there find grave
The two armies were almost within cannon
shot of each other on the Potomac. The Da-
Wis forces are ragged, barefooted and hungry
They must fight for plunder, or must run
away, and that speedily. We may expect to
hear by the very next Pony that on attack
has been made upon our army near Wash
ington, and that every stronghold of treason
in Maryland is the scene of riot. But Ma
ryland will be saved from the hands of the
enemy, and the rebels will not make as good
fight against our Notifications across the
Potomac as we did against theirs at Bull
Run
If there is not engineering skill enough in
our army of the Potomac, to fortify WASH
ington in the six weeks, which have trans
pired since the Bull Run disaster and to
fortify it too, in such manner that the whole
force of the rebel army canhot make any
impression upon it, then we shall favor re-
moval of the Capital to some place better
adapted for defence.
The capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark,
on the North Carolina coast, marks an i'm
portant epoch in the war. We may now
look for offensive operations against the enc
my on the Southern coast. The cotton States
on the seaboard will soon have cause, we
imagine, to assert their favorite States Rights
and to call troops of theirs away from Fair
fax and Leesburgh, to Charleston, Mobile and
New Orleans. We call attentioe to the inte-
resting details of the victory at Hatteras In
let which we publish elsewhere under q sep
arate head.