Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-18


A deserter from jeff Thompson says that
the force opposite Cumberland is twenty
three hundred, and that they are ragged,
shoeless and short of provisions He ex-
presses the opinion that the command will
disband.
JEFFERSON CRY, September ia special
to the st. Louis Democrat says that man
named Griffith arrived here to-day, and states
that on Saturday last that General Price with
seventeen thousand men had surrounded
Lexington, and had sent a summons TO Colo
mel Mulligan to surrender. Colonel Multi
gan refused when Price is reported to have
sent word that he would give him until
Monday at four o'clock to surrender, and if
he did not, that he would march on him with
q black flag. 1t is confidently thought in
military quarters that General Sturgis has,
by this time, reached Lexington from st.
Joseph, and that Price will be cut OFF or
forced to retreat.
Quite panic prevailed at Georgetown on
receipt of reports from Lexington, and many
families He'd, fearing an attack from the
rebels.
All quiet here, and no apprehensions are
felt of an immediate attack.
81. JOSEPH, September l5.--The st. Louis
Democrat is furnished with the following
item: "All is quiet here now. General
Pope has sent a column of one thousand men
and three pieces of artillery, under Colonel
Smith, after the rebels who left here on the
l3lb, and there is little doubt but that their
large train of plunder will be captured, al
though, as usual, they will disperse, and
being mounted Will escape, unless Colonel
Smith should surprise them. The irreguars
Home Guards and others are securing the
country on all Sides"
Colonels Cramer and Edwards, the first
commanding the irregular forces of Missouri
Volunteers, and the latter about six hundred
Iowa State troops, will arrive here Sunday,
having swept the entire region north of this
city.
The General will Immediately put them in
motion along both sides of the railroad to
clear out the small squads of rebels remain
ing in the woods between here and Chilli.
cothe. The General says in FIVE days North
Missouri will be quiet again.
LOUISVILLE, September l7-l0:30 P. NJ
The train from the South on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad has not arrived, being
six hours behind time.
Telegraphic communication below Eliza
bethtown, forty.six miles south of here, has
been interrupted since six o'clock this even
ing.
There is great military activity in the
city. All the Home Guards are assembling,
and it is rumored that q portion OF Ros-
seau's brigade has been ordered over from
the Indiana side.
The Memphis Appeal has dispatch that
General Braxton Bragg has been appointed
Confederate Secretary of War, vice l.. 2.
Walker, resigned.
FRANKFoRT, KY, September 1.-THE Sen
curity of the State army and protection of
the railroads.
In the House, Mr.. VOLTS report from the
Committee on Federal Affairs was adopted
by vote of seventy to thirty.
JEFFERSON CRY, September 17.-IntelIi-
! gence from the West, received here to-day,
contradicts the report that Parsons had ar
rived at Georgetown with four thousand
rebel troops. Reliable news from Lexing-
| ton up to Saturday evening, received here,
| shows there had been no fight there up to
| that time, though the Federal troops had
| been summoned to surrender by Price, whose
| army was fourteen thousand strong. Cen
eral Pope will re,enforce Lexington to NOR
row, the 18th, with four thousand men.
An Indiana Regiment, Colonel Hovey
was sent to guard the Lamira Bridge, from
this place to-day. AS the train was leaving
private, named Wallace, in getting on the
train, fell and was run over and instantly
killed.
having left Boonville at three p. NJ. to-day,
reports all quiet there. There were about
two thousand, two hundred Federal troops
there when the boat left, besides the Home
Guards, consisting of the Iowa Fifth, Indiana
Eighth and battalion Of the Indiana
Twenty.second. Last night battalion of
Home Guards were sent West to guard the
Lamira Bridge; eight miles from Boonville.
On entering the bridge they were fred
upon by the rebel pickets. They returned
the fire, killing one rebel and wounding
another. None of the Home Guards were
injured.
A private in Company X, Iowa Fifth Regi-
ment, named William Barrett, committed
suicide on the War Eagle, this evening, on
the way down, by shooting himself
The steamer Clara Bell had arrived in
safety at Lexington.
LOUISVILLE, September II Mdnight-
The train from the South has not yet arrived.
A part of Rousseau's Brigade is now land
| ing here, and it is understood they are going
| Southwark, over the Nashville Road, imme-
| diately.
The Home Guards are all out Their des-
| tination is supposed to be Southwark.
| WASHINGTON, September l7.-There is au-
| thority for declaring that the reported pro
| clamation of the Governor. General of Cuba
| recognizing the rebel flag, as spurious. None
| such has been made.
| Great activity still prevails in all the
branches of the Navy Department.
An order was issued to day, authorizing
| the Commander at Hatteras to accept the
services of loyal North Carolinians, not ex-
ceeding one regiment, and to make timely
requisition for arms, Sc.