The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-29
INTERESTING FROM CAIRO.
OUR CAIRO CORRESPONDENTS.
CAMP DEFIANCE, CAIno, Ill, August %, 1852

The Recently CdfauTeQ hefRucFtdnS- no lhey Afe-A W
Hc1iars Of the A1air-Partieulars Of the Capture Of the
Steamboat 7erryA Prisoners Account Of HinseJ and
Cdmpany-4e Says he sUds Forced, &C., dc.
Kentucky has been invaded twice within as many days,
and if Mr. Magoan does howl most terribly in conse.
quence viii be because the people Of his State have 80
recently given him TO understand that gubernatoral
brayng for secession will fail TO elicit their appreciation
Yes two of the "haif and half alligator" natives
have been dragged from "the sacred so by "Lincoln
hireng sodiery and stern wheel steamboat has been
away from the levee iaducah and cone
because Of its agency in urherng the nte ests Of
sion. The first named event occurrea yesterday just
across the river from here and important only IL
will deveope the at, Of the government Of the State.
The circumstances were-a party Of Giy or sixty
horscmen were from the Missouri shore standing
upon the bripx of the river and gesticulatng mystic
riousfy towWd the opposite bank. The facts COM
manicated to Colonel Ogesby, who sent
party VI TO ascertain the mean
Ing or unusual movement. Our troops were ferriod
over and marched down to he vicinity, but their APP
woach had been discovered and is usual hcreabout,
the party had fed with the exception Of men, who
took refuge behind old logs few rods back from the
river from whence they hunted and brought to
Cairo. They proved to be--ene the postmaster at Bland
vile IA dimnutive South Caronian) the other either
had any NAME his fright had forgotten it, for
he called himself by many different cognomens as did
horse thief when travelling in strange neighbor
hood OF course when they got TO Cairo they were both
the strongest kind Of Union men, and explained the
Of their being where they first upon the
hypoh sis that they had down the river to hear
the about the battle Charleston The plausbhy
Of their story may be when that there not
bsding on the Kentucky side within four miles Of
them. ILey are retained here for the purpose
OF allowing them time for proving their innocence
tpon the person Of the postmaster found several
letters from rebel Kentuckan members of the ME-
derate troops in ssoui Of which gave the names
Of company now organ ENG ut Bandvileo OF which the
worthy post officials Ohe-t0 70 assist In
treving the falling fortunes Of Caib jackson The pro
liabilities are str, ngy IN favor of their stay here being
elongated somewhat for Colonel Oge,by Is not remarks
by favorable qack conversions deathbed repentaces
Oaths OF allegiance.
The steamboat affair WAS "a folows-Nght before last
gentleman from paducah gave information at headquar
tiers that small stern whs Tennessee river steamer,
named the H. H. Terry, was regularly running under the
rebe flag ana with rebel passport from PadLcah TO the
Tennessee State line ms, provisions and NUM-
tons Of the rebel states and that when he left the
for another Zip. inmediateiy he gunbeat LexIng
ton Captain Stembell, was started visit to
aiicah with ORDERS to bring the Terry down 70
Cairo, with everything and every body found on
beard. The gunboat reached PaducaA at O'Clock
this morning. made fast to the steamer of the lines
started down the river the Of thousand
people who attracted the leve by the sight Of the
gnboa, and TO learn the object Of her mission single
Ineffective shot was fred from the crowd during the
whole ion, and that at the sailor who
ing the Terry from the Ievee. Not soul found
boa but from appearances the had but very
ceny vacated her, FOR the fires burning brkiy In
her furnaces; coffee pot steamng gleefuy the
stove in the cocks Department. the breakfast table
supernduced by panic evidenced by the fact that
glass Of Cincinnati whiskey found untasted upon the
bar-and who ever heard Of Tennessee steamboat man
leaving his grog unless struck by panic DEATH The
Lexington arrived here at about eleven cock day with
her prize, and this afternoon examination male
Of the cargo and papers. She had Of the former
boy
and bayonets to match, together with lot Of mscea
neous freight, Unnecessary to mention, all consigned
fact that she had been engaged oil summer in
taking articles Of comfort and mid to the place
az our Cairo citizens connivng with our enc
mics TO break the force Of internal blockade
two hundred dollars in coin found in the safe besides
drafts and bank bills to an indefinite extent MI useless
however, to N0rtherners
1t will indeed be amazing If Rerah Magoffln docs not
seize upon these two affairs as pretet for calling out
the militia ho repc invasion; but do hear that he
has cied the Confederate States for seiziug
the Cheney Columbus u days since or for
prvateering above Columbus. the stealing OF a small
steamer the Evansville, Norfolk but shall await
with some interest his action now.
OF The light at Charleston the night OF the GOTH
have nothing TO communicate except deeds Of per
sonai prowess interesting only to the local reader All Of
wounded are doing well and the boys eager
than for action One Of the rebel prisoners from
New Madrid has given statement to the course
| into the rebel army. When the troubles I'M Missouri
broke out the young men of New Madrid county formed
themselves into Home Guard, having been made be
eve that they would only be required defend their
locality from marauding parties from either army but
| some two months ago they ordered to Memphis
about two hundred Of them-whcnoe hey were ordered
vice for three years. One hundred and fifty Of thu
two hundred refused TO take the prescribed oath,
We're permitted 70 return to New Madrid only upon con
ton that they would keep up their organization and ho
themselves in readiness to march whenever called upon
hy Governor jackson. The forty -four who took the
Confederate oath to Virginia ana the other.
returned When Pillow reached New Madrid he ordered
the Home Guard to arms and then sent them Immediate
y to Sykeson with Thompson where they have since
NAMED.
that small body Of troops have lust eft Bird.
Point on the Charleston road, but cannot learn ,heI
destination.
CAMP DEFIANCE, CAIRO, H., August "a, 1881.
Secession Policy in The AidHe and Border Sates-Ta,
"Neutra,ay Of Kentucky Fast Dying O,a--R Retaliation
for the Seizure Of the Frry--Seisure Of the Steamboat
Samuel Orr by the Kensuctians-T Treatment Of the Pas
sengers and Cre,u-The Rebels in Missouri Eytifyue
Benton- Hon. Etheridge It Cdrs-Gen Pillows afope
menis, dc.
Day by day affairs With the sovereign State Of Ken
lucky are getting more and more complicated, and /,
needs no prophetic spirit to predict, with certainty of fu
mcn, that Kentucky fast being made the great cen
trail battle field Of the country Poor old Virginia aud
Missouri have thus far been bear the scourpng
but the Confederate managers knowing but too well thai
their sway in the latter is its end bending every
energy 70 the eort OF keeping Tue active strife from the
ultra and wealthy Gulf States aud conne it to
the moderate slave States Of the border They know how
strongly the Union and peace sentiment prevails anon
the masses Of the Kentucky people they despse the
Kentucky Shareholders for not aiatiug with them in
their ruinous and reasonable policy they determined
70 punish them for their lack OF sympathy by visiting
upon them the devastation incident to bloody war:
and having the Governor in their hands with large
number Of irresponsible and ambitious demagogues OF tn,
breckenridge Magoan school yielding themselves AZ viii
ling caspaws, Will succeed without question Every day
this plan IS being developed and the day is not far dis
tant when the journalist will have chronicle "A Bloody
Battle in Kentucky" The question Of neutrelity' must
soon b. settled aud the State be made 10 show colors
wrote you in my last Of the Of the Evansville
packet NJ. II. Terry, by the gnboat Lexington; and
have now 70 inform you Of high handed Of rctaiia-
ton. pepe,rated by the citizels of Paducah in the
seizure VI the Evansville and Faiucah packet samuel
orr yesterday The officers and crew. together with the
passengers, arrived here this morning, from whom get
the facts.