Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-20

MOnday- lie says the river bank seem.
lined with cannon. at Memphis in few
days battery Of twenty guns will be
mounted, commanding for several miles az
approach to the city by river. There are
not many troops in the city Of Memphis, The
main body being four miles back.
The heaviest battery in the South is al
Randolph, Tenn. IL would he utterly i'm
possible for any force, however large, to pass
within range. Number of men commanding
it is variously estimated from fifteen hun
dred TO six thousand.
AT Union City there is trouble among
the men; the Tennessee troops wishing To
rally et Memphis, while the Mississippi
troops express q desire to march upon Co
Iumbus, fortity the town, and provoke
General Prentiss into hostilities.
The guns at Union City are of small
caliber, except six thirty.tw Founders, a
few howitzers, and two sixty two Founders,
while the approaches to Columbus are OF
such a nature as to render a battery OF such
character as they would make by no means
formidable.
Work on Notifications at Cairo is pro-
crossing slowly. Everything already done
has permanent look, as ifitw the purpose
of the Government to render the place mill
itsry post hereafter.
LOUISVILLE, June I9.-Tne Memphis Ap.
peal of the 18th says that one hundred and
fifty head Of Texas cattle were received there.
Also large lots of powder aud lead.
The Lawrenceburg (Tenn.) Flag of the
10Th says that, during the progress of the
Union meeting near Knoxville, the Weduess
Gay previous to the election, a train bearing
troops was fired into by Union men.
ST. LOUIS, June ia special to the Re-
pubicoR gives further particulars of the
battle at Boonville. The Federal troops
landed five miles below the encampment of
The State forces. The latter had a battery
near Boonville, pointed toward the river,
but it was circumvented by the Federas,
and proved useless. General Lyon imme-
diately advanced on the State troops, and
was met in q lane where the firing COM
menced. Rest of the description substantially
as reported last night. Jackson was about a
mile of, surrounded by Captain Kelley
company, as a body guard. 1t is reported
he was severely reprimanded during the
engagement by his own party for cowardice
and lack Of discretion. Colonel Parsons
was not in the fight having previously been
reported sick. BooDville was not injured,
10 shots having been fred into it. General
Prices absence is thus accounted for on Sun.
day morning: PiCkets brought report that
seven steamboats, were coming up the river
with Federal troops A consultation was
Immediately had between the Governor and
General Price, and the Governor ordered
the State troops to disband, not being able
to sustain themselves against such force
Price then went home.
The troops, however, determined to have
fight. Colonel Marmaduke then became
disafIected, and resigned. A few hours
later, the report about the steamboats, proved
untrue, and the Governor ordered the troops
to prepare for resistance, appointing Mr.
Little 10 command. There Is no reliable
account as TO the number killed, wounded or
taken prisoners. 1t is stated that General
Lyon had once the State troops in such
position where he could have killed them in
large numbers, but be ordered the firing to
cease, and proceeded to make prisoners.
ltis said the State troops are gathering in
the counties west of here, and another stand
will be made in Jackson County.
ST LOUIS, June 12-Advice5 from Kansas
City via St. Joseph give the following ac-
count Of the engagement near Independ-
eDCe, on Thursday last briefly alluded to
yesterday. A detachment of Federal troops
under Captain Stanley, with flag of truce,
visited the camp of the State troops to as.
certain the purposes of Captain Holloway.
During the conference, Stanley observed that
movements were being made with design
10 attack him and ordered a retreat. His
detachment while retiring was fired on by
State troops, at an order given by private,
but the fire was so irregular that they killed
their own commander, Captain Holloway,
and j. B. Clavabant, and severely woundipg q
several others Of thier own men. Stanley's
troops did not fire, having received orders
not to do so under any circumstances. Stan .
ley retreated to Kansas City and reported
the affair, when Captain Prince with streng
body Of troops attacked and routed the State
forces, capturing thirty horses and a large
lot of baggage.
There aIe now two thousand five hundred
United States troops and volunteers at Kan
cas- City.
General Mcclellan is expected here to-
morrow.
Brigadier- General Sweeney, Of the Home
Guards, is making a thorough investigation
Of the firing upon citizens by volunteers on
Monday.
CAIRO, ILL, June 19.-W. H. Russell, cor
respondent Of the London Times, arrived
from the South to-day. He says nothing in
regard 10 Southern affairs, but complains
that his correspondence has been tampered
with by Secessionists his letters detained
and altered, and some rot sent from Southern
postoffices at all.
JIG. Newcomb, of New Orleans, was to.
day arrested on the charge of being a Sc
cessionist. He took the oath of allegiance
and was discharged.
No news from the South to day; all quiet.
LOUISVILLE, June 19.-All the railroad
bridges in the vicinity of Knoxville are
guarded by the disunionists.
The Jonesbero Express, of the 18th inst,
publishes Nelson's call for meeting Of the
East Tennessee Convention, and expresses
the hope that the Convention would submit
to division of the State.
The Nashville Union, of the 10th, SAYS that
the evacuation of Harper's Ferry was done to
meet General Mcclellan half way and to save
him the trouble aud trial of marching over a
rough road and extend to him the old fash
ioDed Virginia hospitality.
The same paper has been furnished with
an extract of letter froIA a late United
States officer 10 friend in Nashville, wherein
the writer asserts that the French Govern
ment is favorable to the South, and willing
to advance 100000 900 for cotton.
The Charleston Mercury of the 18th says
I'm private letter received here from New
York, the writer states that he can not &C
count for the revolution which has taken
place among the moneyed men of that city,
and that but one battle shall be fought be.
fore Lincoln will ask JEFF. Davis for terms oi
separation"
The Memphis appeal of the 18th has a
letter from Union City, saying that the citi-
zens there make thesoldiers pay double price
for all they buy.
The writer disclaims against people who
impose on poor soldiers who have left their
homes with but little money, in defense OF
their country's rights and adds, that there
are ten thousand volunteers there, and more
coming.
VIM. E. Woodruff Colonel, and Henry
Wendell, Adjutant, of the First Kentucky
Regiment, left Louisville for Camp Clay to.
day.
The Neweomb Grays, company of the
State Guard, refused, with the exception of
nine, TO take the oath Of allegiance to the
United States. Those refusing were mostly
Union men, who took this method of sever
ing their connection with the State Guard.
Dispnion members urge others to take the
oath, saying that it is not an oath to support
the Administration.
WHEELING; June le,-FrAnk Pierpont, O.
Union County, was unanimously nominated
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