New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-04
THE WAR FOR The union.
FROM KENTUCKY.
The Position OF Affairs.
Rom Our Special Correspondent.


tnp 20 perfect military bin, authorizing the calling
out Of 40 600 volunteers and 200 foot and moun'eu
sharpshooters and scouts but at every STEP the sS
PIGEONS which attach to Che loyalty Of the GoVefn,[
ore a &c ious impeachment 10 proper legislation. ~
Gov Nagofin should be authorized 10 aoeeP' ~
seruSces Of volunteer companies we nave ~
snranee that he viii not give tie preference -
which have been organized in Secession ,'.,"
md are now striving 10 make their w " 'N0
of the Confederate invaders. Ibe'o u "O' p" '"e
man with whom the Governor y vi 'ou"N'u''''
terms who il not an open disunioh!s'' Ills 0e'ie'"'
of State left here last lTlday ana 'ls eenei e"P
-, i ,bot 10 bas seeded. Breckenridge fed az
soon 90 he heard OF the arrest OF hoiehel' anu
-, ,bo, he is now engaged in forming Rebel
camp in the vicinity of Hazel Green, IN Morgan
Cnnntv. Humphrey Marshall, eSiled by conscience
f,o,o his own home in Henry County, has gone over
into Owen, which is 10 Kentucky what Berks is to
Pennsylvania the Sixth Wardto your City of New
York-tbe receptacle Of all the that disgroces
the name OF Democracy, and in that eongenal neigh
borbood he, too is raising levies-a cavalry regi-
paeut understand. Never since the days of the
veTitabe FastaT has there been such awalking mass
OF lechery debauohery, selshness, and ingratitude
He resembles his great prototype in everything but
his congenial wit and inexhausiibo humor. Hum
plrey 10 scholar and profound thinker; one Of
TIE most accomplished men in the country, but the
spotted traitor spCils all bis scholastic aainments.
Ne fall of bomb-shell into quiet tent, or Sudden
elap Of thunder in clOudless sky caused such
start and scattering az did ttat arrest 1.-The thiof
doth fear each bush an executoner," and every Sc
eeesionist apprehended that Marshal Sneed bis
deputies had warrant from Justice Catron for his
arrest Tie eecsof tbs has been 70 scotch the snake
temporarily, but we have not killedit. lts coils
Will coon again be fastening around us if
we do not take the most decided meas
Eres The Legislature has lost valuable time
for which i do not eensure them, but it Is
deeply to be regretted They now in the fourth
week of the Session. and this weeks work ought 10
have been accomplished in the first. Every days
delay has enabled the enemy to organize and
strengthen lis position and thus made him all the
more formdaby TO encounter, while we are unpre-
pared TIE Legislature must take into consideration
that we are dealing with lawless and INSCRIPTIONS
foes who resort 10 means which not recognized
in honorable warfare, and Gen. Bucknsr has, if re-
port speaks true, other incentives than ambition to
suRr him on. have heard that he has contracted"
the subjugaton of Kentucky aud il to receive ten
millions of dollars for the JOB and all expenses paid
This may account for the heretofore uDaccountable
detection of some men, who now il seems were
stamping the State for peace when they had Con-
federate commissions in their pockets. i know Of
but a very few men who have turned traitors who
are not needy, aud like true chevaers Of industry
they have flown at the first game that offered. They
would have picked pockets cut tbroas with equal
Rlacrty bui that whole some dread Of the law has
deferred them.
Another serious embarrassment is felt by our Leg
isAture, and may perhaps induce them, if it cannot
be removed in a satisfactory manner to remain in
session permanently. This is the belief that should
they adjourn for recess, Gov. Magofn might take
advantage Of their absenee, recognize the Rebels
which Marshall and Breckenridge are raising the
traitor Buekner and che invading Coufelerates under
zOllicofer, as the State troops of Kentucky and en-
plOy them to drag the State out of tie Union and
into the jaws of the Crocodile Confederacy. II may
strike you at distance as strange that with this dis
trust Of the Executive, the Legislature does not i'm
peach Magofhn. But he possesses facility for by.
pocrisy and a species of cunning which enable him
to cover his tracks as completely as an Indian will
Obterate the footprints Of bis moecasiDs. We all
know that he is fAithless; he oxhsies the very
odor of tresehery, and all bis surroundings are fetid
with rank political corruption, but Governor
cannot be impeaehed upon Suspicion, and it would,
therefore, be difficult to lay counts in al indict-
Tnent. II There were single clue TO the discovery
of his treachery, be had left one single point in
his armor of dupiciy unguarded, or ii he Were to
isObey the wishes Of the Legislature without cary.
ing them ont most grudgingly, lie would not remfssn
IA Office one hour, He would have short shrift and
leave to retire to keep company with Breckenridge
Or Marshall; seek out some eequestered shade, and
there mourn over their degradation, else plot more
mis- hief. by our Constitution he Is Commander-il.
Chief ofthe Militia, but fortunately 1t does not EN-.
power hint take the field in war except upon i'm
yitaon Of the Legslsture, which he is not likely to
get. He has submitted to more degradations already
than mary men would do 10 hold on to his Office
His power and his command are taken off b the
very last verge Of the Constitution. Fearing that
he might remove Inspector-Genoral Cfiitenden,
who is by law his military executive agent,
che Legislature named that officer expressly in the
resolutions ordering ont the militia Of the State he
has been deposed from the Military Board, not that
be wss not attentive ostensibly to Its duties but
through apprehension that he was = spy upon their
actions, in the interests Of the Confederaes Tie
Board now can arrange their plans In secret and
prevent his EScelency from knowing any Of their
movements until they are executed. The man who
would hold on 10 Office when such reflections upon
his honesty andpTobity, such unspoken bat eloquent
ayOwsls Of distrust and such brsudines Us it were
Ofbis duphcty matters Of daily occurrence loves
Official position with love surpsssing ta, Of woman
lie holds on By mere sufrance, and the fact IL that
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