Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-09-04
KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.
FAMILIES DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES

FAMILIES DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES.
The Louisville (ky.) Journal says: ave
stated short time ago that two young men,
named Busbey and Harp, arrived in this CITY
from Hickman county Kentucky, having been
driven from their homes by the secession lists
of Southern Kentucky and Tennessee. Three
large families, numbering fully twenty five
souls, arrived from the same vicinity yester-
day, and stopped at the Oyler House, on Mar
ket street. The heads of the families were
John Boswell John Busby and Wm. Harp.
Their condition is really deplorable. They
were forced to leave their farms at few hours
notice, leaving their crops and household
goods at the mercy of the heartless rebels.
They travelled with the aged and infrm, ard
youthful and tender members of their families
from Hickman county in wagons and encoun-
tered many hardships. They inform us that
fully fifty families in Hickman and Ballard
counties have been forced to leave their homes,
and to abandon their crops and nearly all they
possessed in the world, their offence being
that they entertained Union sentiments.
TENNESSEE THREATENING KENTUCKY.
letter from Georgetown, Ky, dated Au-
gust l9, says; "To-day, being our regular
county court day, was selected by Colonel
George W. Hanson an appropriate occasion
for making very inf1ammatory and traitor
Gus speech. His object was to stir mp he'll
lish spirit of war. He began with an attack
upon the camp in Garrard county. He de
clAred that, il those troops are not disbanded
in thirty days, they will be put down at the
point of the bayopet. He said he saw Gov
ernor Harris, of Tennessee, a few days ago,
and that Harris declared that he should con-
slider it violation of Kentucky neutrality,
and that Kentucky would have to meet 80, 900
Tennessee troops in battle array ifthose camps
were not speedily vacated. Thirty days are
given to you. Union men of Kentucky use
those thirty days TO a good advantage, or a
civil war will confront US with all its horrors
RRECKINRIDGE RI-sy
The transportation of number of guns in
tended for the loyal kentucky troops, through
the town of Lexington, Kentucky, created
disturbance. The louisville Journal says:
ssWe hear, that, when it was asccrtained tha.
the guns were coming, John G. Breekinridge
hustled about, arousing his secesstonists to re-
sst their passage. At the same time armed
aid was summoned from Harrison and Scott.
In the meanwhile. DR.. Dudley mustered two
companies of the Home Guards TO sustain tho
government There was very fair prospect
of collision, but the sudden and very impo-
sing appearance of the cavalry from Camp
Robinson put an end at once TO all danger of
breach of the peace. All honor to the ga.-
liant Union men of Lexington.
HUNTED MIN TURNING WARRIORS.
a gentleman of Danville, Kentucky, makes
the following statement son Monday, Au-
gust l9 two hundred and forty fugitives from
East Tennessee, men driven from their homes
were fed in the Seminary yard in that town.
Some of them were elderly men and some
young, and III had been compelled to aban-
don their families, and were i'll clad, almost
barefoot, weary and hungry. Their situation
was indeed deplorable. Several hundred more
were expected to arrive yesterday. The whole
of the two hundred and forty fugitves enlis-
ted in the United States service at Camp Rob-
inson.'