Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-30

have received from General Sherman's head
quarters.
We learn that an unfortunate affair oc-
Cured at Lebanon Junction on Wednesday
night. Qusrtermaster White, OF Colonel
Hecker's Regiment, attempted to pass the
picket-guard from Colonel Orittenden's
Tenth Indiana Regiment when he was chal-
lepged. There was some Misunderstanding
as to Captain Whites response, when the
guard fred upon him, woonding him severely
in the leg. $500.
1t was generally believed in this city last
evening that the rebel forces under General
Buckner had Tetreated from Mumfordsville
toward Bowling Green, destroying the
bridges behind them.
LOYALTY AND ECONOMY HARMONIOUS.
The following report of the Judiciary Com
mittee was adopted by the Kentucky Legis.
latuFe:
The Judiciary Committee, to whom was
referred leave to bring in bill to take the
sense of the people of Kentucky at q special
election, to be held on the first Monday in
December next as to whether the State
should pay her proportion ($7l5, $3.50 of the
direct tax assessed by the Congress of the
United States, have had the same under con-
sideration, and ask to be discharged from the
further consideration of the leave, because
the proposition involved in the "leave to
bring in the bilp' proposes to submit to the
people of Kentucky whether they shall or
shall not pay their proportion of tax levied
by the Congress of the United States, and
levied in the exercise of an unqueStiondble
constitutional potoer; and whatever difference
of opinion may exist in the minds of equally
honest men as to the policy and propriety of
Congress resorting to the exercise of the
power, the legal and constitutional question
remains the same. In the opinion of this
H.. 6 al, I
| islatufe either to abTogate, enlarge, or limit
any direct grants of power found in the Ma
| tiOnal Constitution; nor can they by any
| constitutional act authorize the people of
| Kentucky to do so as long as Kentucky re-
mains constituent part of the United States
Government. Such can only be done by the
modes prescribed by the Constitution of the
United States, and the mode proposed by the
"leave" is not one OF those.
And the Committee have been unable to
come to the conclusion that Congress has
| traDscended any of its powers in the impo.
sition of the tax referred to; but be this as it
may, that question is one TO be settled alone
by the courts, and not by the Legislature.
And the question may now be asked, has
not the conduct of those who complain of
this TAX, and that of those with whom they
propose to co operate, rendered the Legisla-
ture imposing this tax necessary to protect
| the Union from the assault made upon it by
the seeded States, whose army is at this
moment in sight Of and belleaguering the
National Capita, and threatening the exist
ence and security of the national archives2
| And again, because Kentucky herself not.
| withstanding all her persistent efforts to keep
out of this unnatural t0Gr, is at this moment
invaded by at least three separate columns of
| Confederate troops, portion of their terri
tory seized and npjustifably held by them,
her public works destroyed, her towns
sacked and burned, and her people harassed,
driven from their homes, and others slaugh-
tered. For these deeds there is no justifca-
ton or palliation; and inasmuch as this State
is assaulted with view to its conquest she
has a right to the protection of the National
Government and all the loyal States and
people, and will cheeTfully meet her share of
the costs necessary to defend her soil and the
liberty of the citizens. This has been made
necessary by no act of the majority of the
people of Kentucky, but has become SO by
the unlawful and unjustfiable invasion oi
her soil by the armies of the seeded States,
whose people we have never injured or in
apy manner designed to molest, and with
whom we desired to live on terms of fra
ternity and peace, and would yet desire to
so live, if permitted to do so on honorable
conditions.
And lastly, it can not be that Kentuck
ians will allow sordid considerations to in.
tervene when their loyalty to Government
from which they have received so many
blessings is in danger. But were they to be un-
mindful of their duty to honor and the memo
ries of past blessings, and allow such consider
ations 10 control their action, there would be
no need of speculation upon this subject The
United States and the Confederate State;
have both levied taxes for the support of the
existing war; and the contrast between the
taxes levied by each is great and striking
| At the very lowest calculation citizen OF
the Confederate States must pay war tax
more than ten times as great as the citizen Of
the United States. A change, therefore, o.
allegiance and political relations would, O
, necessity, bring upon the people of Kentucky
far greater ,0eigM Of debt and tdIatO1
than the assumption by the State of this tai
/ OF its payment by the people; and the Com
mittee congratulates the country that in thi
instance it will be true; that loyalty an(
3 economy are harmonious.
SECESSION EXODUS.
, The Mount Sterling Wing says
9 In the last week large number of leading
5 through here, on their way to Prestonburl
and the Virginia line. Among others wa
a John G. Breckenridge, G. B. Hodge, Johnson
{ | of Scott, Desha of Harrison, w. l.. Preston
a and Colonel j. S. Williams. Mr.. Breckin
4 ridge passed through here toward dayligh
e on Friday morning. The following nigh
8 he laid out in an unoccupied clubhouse, thre
v miles this side of Allen Days, in Wolf an
e took breakfast at Days, who is also a Tory
: From there he left for Hazel Green, wher
e he made short stay, and gave his friends
If understand that he would soon be back q
IS the head of an army. We learn from gentle
n men from Wolf, now in our Office that larg
1f numbers have passed Hazel Green, and tha
q they are gathering at some point above tina
le place. They also tell us that Colonel Wi
N iiams was in West Liberty calling for volur
,e teers, on Monday last. The Union men
d Wolf and Morgan, being in minority, al
le very much alarmed for their safety, as the
a have no arms.
st AFFAIRS ON THE LOUISVILLE AND NAsHvILI
70 RAILROAD.
n HEAD. QUARTERS ROUssEAU's BRIGADE, |
Is Near Elizabethtown, Sept. 27. J
y Every thing is quiet and promises to r
N main so for some days at least. We feel Il
,d sudden change in the weather this mornir
q. very acutely. In the sudden advance whiC
was necessary to prevent Buckner and
nd renegades from getting possession of Null
rs raugh's Hill our tents were left behind
al Lebanon junction, and it has been imposs
n BILE to get them up yet. We are now liviI
,a- in WigWams made of fence-rails set on en-
h. Great exertions are being made to bring
ID supplies, but the lack of wagons is a gre
'es embodiment. HoWever6 the bridge aero
~ | ID ztl:.., Torlr mill ha aOnnDlatad in va