New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-10-24
Kentucky Items from Louisville Journal

Gen. Zollicoffer though said to have retreated
is yet at Cumberland Ford with his main force
while his advance is in Laurel county, at LoudOn
and in that vicinity, ravaging the country and
driving the people from their homes. We are in
formed on good authority that he has not more
than from four to six thousand men, and it seems
to us that he can be driven out of Kentucky before
he devasates the whole mountain region. Shall
he be permitted to remain in our State until REIN
forced and enabled to march upon Lexington,
Frankfort, Louisville and Cincinnati? Why delay
till the enemy is strengthened in numbers and in
trenched on our own ground?
We have all confidence in the military author
tiles TO whom the guardianship of Kentucky has
been confded. We know, however, that they are
anxious to obtain all the information they can and
we take the liberty Of suggesting TO them that in
passable. especially between Crab Orchard and
Mount Vernon. No teams can then draw loaded
wagon over the roads. There is no turnpike or
the mountains, and the mud and the rebels will
barrcade the route and prevent the extension o
any succor to that region, the best and most
patriotic portion of our State.
All imprudence should OF course be avoided
but we confess to the utmost impatience whilst
Iollicoifer, Buckner and Polk are upon the soil Of
Kentucky, stealing and maraudlng in all directions,
winning feeble Union men to their side by promises
of protection, and arresting others and requiring
them tc swear allegiance to the Southern Con-
federacy. Are the thieves, robbers, ravagers,
desolators to be permitted to winter in Kentucky
We learn that the rebel Buckner entered Browns
vile, the county town of Edmundson, on Thursday
last, and by proclamation ordered that the taxes
should be paid to the Southern Confederacy Mr..
| Lemonte Brun the Sheriff, took his books, papers,
vouchers ETC., and sought refuge with General
! Buckner he has since enlisted with Capt McCul-
| och's Mounted Rangers, and will go back in time
to raestabIsh his office and secure what he has left
| behind. Old father Harold, worthy minister o:
| the Methodist Church, who has seen two genera
tions of war, has enlisted in the same company
| and promises to give good report of himself. All
along our lines, the men are impetuous for an ad
vance, and before many days the expectation is
that they may be gratiiied There is no idea OF a
backward movement in the vicinity OF Green river.
Forward is the word eagerly expected, and it will
be readily obeyed.
The 'Maysville. Eagle learns that a secessionist
named Martin, who was wounded in the skirmish
at Grayson, believing himself to be dying, con
fessed that his party on their way to seces
sion camp near Prestonburg, under command OF
John S. Williams, the defeated Congressional can
didate in the Maysville district; further, that a
plan had been agreed upon by the secessionsts il
the eastern part of the State, including the coun
| ties Of Mason, Flemmng, Lewis, Bath, Rowan
| Greenup, Carter, Boyd, and others, to assemble
| near Prestonburg, organize and drill to be me
| there by reinforcements from Virginia, and NOV
with large force and seize Maysville. The Eagl
says that Williams is in Floyd county at the hea
| OF a body Of desperate men. =