, 1861-05-03


:: We, learn from yrristt:y Of SOURCES that the
Seeesaionlstg in; this Statg .are NOT only chuck
ling good deal Il secret, but openly throw
pl1E something more than tnAinqat1onst thet,
within s. very few days, something startling
will o9eur, calculated to kindle flame Of reYo~
luton throughout the statf L anybody can
tell defaitslY 9Aat it u that il 2a foot, re
VII fd:uEh him for the Information. Some
think that leading Union men are to beat
licked and Bla1n, and this fdea is countsnahEel
bY many hundreds Of Anonymous flatterFt part
ofdhe1nf liedswith 81 Rna1he astt1wlth
threatenings but the more general impression
il. that O conspi1sty is On foot for getting up
bloody. collision somewhere upon The rlFag.. }
:.Ifhe Goye1rnaent of the Confederate States
has appointed Gen. Pillow to the command,
or recognized him as the commander Of the
Tennessee: :troopai and. te=lts sadH tEathe is to
%ake an assk Xs5y e G29 GpG9 thH i f
thermo-e sad, and. by; very y;RelieeEed>
that the Kentucky troops at Paducah, with,
The. Sattery Of sig fefd pieces recently taken
from this city upon the Nashville Railroad,
VIII ID operate with the Tennesset troops in
the attack. We Do not kSoW that this is the
gpfnns sImmediate atteutioRt.. # ,the. Project,
a. reported to be entertained, ,ba carried out,
his Excellency, Unless he' Shall haye used the
most 4agesuus :ef5urtA to prevent 1T; will be-
held through all time responsible taE tAe ds.
plSlayaE geatiersn I rom Hickman, Ii this State,
who has just eome from that place through .
portion Of, Tennessee, informs us that the ex-
|: citement all along his 1Dnte was immense He
says.that at least giX hundred m en- Os1naon.
lists from Tennessee: andHthe lower part Of
Kentucky; are OF. watch nightly at. et.Cnlumbus,
|, On the Mississippi river, twenty miles beloF
,Catro, and that Gen. Pillow was TO be 1T Union
CITY, few miles from Columbus, yesterday,
I with Thousand n men,san1f that ansttack upon
Cairo was certainly the object We have no
|. chrract information IS to the numbeE tTdu47s
We su pppaa eood authoritp, ID fayeGumbered
| the, other day 6000. We deeply regret to
haye 70 speak Of the probabilities of q
! bloody collision at the junction Of. the Ohio
| and Mississippi rdGers,, tos" any pubAca'
tion Of facts and speenlatio1ns 1 seem 6 m likely to
Create IN fhe-Ennds offaa peop!e, IN non me
| slageholding and non-slay yeholding States Of
| the border; al SexeIteEnent- most unfav cradle
| to the maintenance Of peace; and yet It e
proper for Dis to Five 3 statenent Of the great
| events in progress, partfy that the public may
not be too suddenly startled by the unexpected
shock Of battle, and mora especially that our
| State authorities, who ought to consider them
selves nnder-au the SOLEMN and mighty res.
possibilities that helQng to conFeryators oi
| the peace may not hare the excuse OF lgncr'
ance for the non-perfoemapc their duty.
:. If Cairo shall be attacked, as we fear aud be-
.lie7e 1t Win be, the immediate pnrppse, ai tAe
Gttacck Viii be- 'to.provoke exaaperate md re.
taliations, and cannonadings, and all sorts Of
collisions hlong the whnlb1fvsr fram its mouth
/ to its source, and, by means Of the general
] fea1ing Of fury growing out Of :these things te
/ Induce the Kentucky Eegis1atr1e to furfy or,
i State out Of the Union instantly, WitAoqt the
i usages whatever. We have n6 doubt that the
/ contemplated battle At Csiro has heen fi1skd b
i the<Dmanion- censpitatoFst vii ifsetrcfer
i ence to the meeting Of our Legislature. t..Hf