The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-10-22
military Items.

military ACemSs
The steamers Sir William Wallace, Argo- |
naut ]. W. Hailman, and Clara Poe, were
expected at Louisville on Sunday, with |
1000 Pennsylvania troops, General Neg
ley's brigade) on the way to the seat Of war
in Kentucky.
Two batteries of rifed guns passed through
Louisville few days ago, accompanied by
$50 artillerists.
John C. Breckenridge and William Pres
ton, Elk Minister to Spain, were in Nashville,
Tenn, on the 9th inst. We trust the Gov
eminent will take immediate steps for the
confscation of the property of those rebels.
1T is reported that Capt. Wade, Major
Lewis Clark, and Fergus McRea, are on
their way up White river with twenty-five
to thirty rihed cannon. to join Prices army
They design landing at Forsythe, Taney
county, about forty miles from Springfield,
Missouri.
The city of Philadelphia has received
present of two hundred aud sixty-ene cases,
containing 6,525 Prussian mnskets, from
the Prussian Government. They were
brought over by the steamship Bavaria.
The Irish American states positively that
Gen. Shields has not declined the commits
sion of Brigadier- General recently rendered
him by President Lincoln; but that as soon
as the intelligence of his appointment reach
es him in Mexico, where he has gone on
private business, he will hasten to the seat
of war, to devote himself with all his might
to the duties of his new command.
1t is thought that Slidell and Mason have
gone to Europe with full power to sell
out the Southern Confederacy to any nation
that manifasts Willingness to pay tue
traitors ftf III, transter.
A most dastardIy attempt was made
to poison our troops at Upton station
about 20 miles beyond Eiizabethtown. on
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad G.
w. Upton, the proprietor of a small store
in the village having become quite odious
TO the Union men of the neighborhood, fed
to the Southern Confederacy, but previous
to his departure poisoned four barrels OF
by our soldiers. The diaholical attempt
was frustrated, for the vile stuff was analyz-
ed before any one drank Of it, the poison
detected and the villaiuous compound
thrown away.
Horse stealing seems to be the principal
. of n no,t;or of ory,v
The plan of operations adopted by the
thieves is quite successful Certain Ken
tuekians first go through the neighborhoods
which have been designated for plumber
with the pretense of buying horses, and
ascertain what farmers are in possession of
the articles needed. Taking list of names,
they return to camp and report the result of
their investigations. These renegade Ken
tuckians constitute Buckner's body guard.
A second party is then sent out, who take
whatever they can lay their hands on in the
shape of horsefesh, bedding or wearing
apparel. The Union citizens in the vicini-
ty of Buckner's camp, are il fair way Of
being broken up, and many of them have
taken up arms eager to get at the fends
who have thus exiled them from home, and
robbed them of their hard-earned property.
There are five thousand two hundred reb-
ell troops at Prestonsburg, Ky. They have
evidently made up their mind to winter in
Kentucky. The wheat and pork of thai
State, as well as the horses and mules are
/ -, hal
where else can they be obtained so well.