, 1861-08-31
FROM KENTUCKY
The Rebels Busy,
From the LouI- vile journal, a9th.l
WHAT roEs IT MEAN,

WHAT HoEs IT MEAN.
The following is from source that is to be
1eif on- If It be true that messengers have
been dispatched to all the companies Of the
guard Throughout the State, commanding
them to muster and hold themselves Ia rsadl-
ICES is obty FL expected order from our Sc
ceEsion Governor, the people should knowths
hot The very late furnishing Of the members Of
the State Guard of this city with twenty-five
or thirty rounds Of ball cazsridsges apiece, an
intimate sEd immediate connection With this
&c cret movement
The leading eecessicnists all around us, es-
Fecia1lg thb less prudent and reserved Of them,
say il oninoua tones that We ate to have ciVn
var at once in the midst Of us. Have they
been admitted to 3 knowledge OF design or
conspiracy concealed ee yes from the Puptc9
the had men Of Kentucky, can tell on what
day or at what hour the accu15Sd handy may
apply the torch to the combustib.e materials
they haTe been secretly aecumulating:
letttr from Lexington in the Courier Of
yesterday announces that the secession feeling
there u, that, unless the President Of the
United States d1sbacds the troops in the Gar
raTd eGcampmeDt upon the requirement Of
Gcv- Azgofhn's Commissioners now at Wash
iDgt0n, as everybody knows he Will not do,
the Governor shall at once can out the State
Guard, ard disperse the troops at the point Of
that this is the pian Of action prescribed for
his Excelleuey. If it is SO, aad il the State
GEara shall obey the call, the drama Of blood
viii ol'Iu very soon.
To the Editors Of The Louiscs2e Journal:
sHE1BTv111E, KY., Ang. &c, 1861.
GEE1IEAEk: Yesterday I ast5rded church at
Caruther's Chapel, in Spencer county, on the
turnpike leading from Lo1ievi1le to TaYlorsrille
reacbed the Chap+l about O'Clock. 1. II. There
wire large numbers Of people riding along the
turnpike, but, to- The astonishInen1 ot all. COM
psp3 Of the State Gaard, commanded By Capt.
Nj rmaG, were drilling IN D&lss woods, opposite
the church. The congregation were eo excited
that the preacher had rut few hearers There
were various reports in circulation; one vas that
Gen. Rousseaun = brigade had marched into Louis
vile aid done-nobody won1d tell what By in
Yui1ink, aecerta1ued that messenger had come
10 Cept. Norman with an order from eome au-
ptricr officer to muster tne company and have
them III readiness, subject to the cider Of the
patched to he state Gaard tafou ghout the state.
| Ahous u O'Clock Capt eormen's company dis
! persed to meet today with the *'Littie Mount
to remain until o1de1sd eut, wGtch they thiak Vii
| be so1ne time during this week. heard come Of
these boast that they were al for JEFF Davis
DeeniDg it it my duty as loyal citizen to inform
| the public OF such proceedings, write you this
note, that you may expose them in proper man:
| 1tl. j. 7. 4.
CAMP BOONE FIEND6.
! A number OF men from Camp Boone wers
! seer CT this side Of the State line, coming uE
the railroad track on Monday night People
| wondered what they could be after. The mys
| terry was pretty ECON revealed.
Yesterday morning, it was discovered by 8
| borsenan that couple Of rails at Elk Fork
eight or Zine miles this side Of the State line
had been 1oosened and turned in SO that tht
cars, il they should come along, would bs
thrown down sixty or seventy feet. Tht
horeem man rode forward short distance, ane
at the approach Of the cas-, about O'Clock
Yesterday morning, gave the n signal to stop
but for his timely discovery, two or thret
hundred uncffrnoing passengers would nav
beEn precipitated to destruction.
Tkis deed Of renegade keEtuckians Wal
ne1e like the # ork Of devils than Of men.
TEE GUNS At CAMP ROBINSON.
r Hen. Garrett Davis returned frou
Washington last Friday, and We utierstan
| trat he repCrte, as the result Of conversation
With President 1incoln, that the President ha
se44eurs to Kentucky at the request Of Unio
mh of Kentucky, for lawful purposes, aud i
conformity with the laws Of the Union Th
President said also that the guns would tt
1uail in Kentucky, unless the sovereign autho
| ify Of tie State, the representatives OF th
: people, assembled as the Legislature Of tt
; Common cath, stall pasa an order fo2 the
removal. The President will not Listen
| a1y request cnanating from & less authoril
| than that Of the ccnststutionally anthoriz
! representatives. of the wishes Of the paople
\ Kentucky.