The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-28

scouts have all been wiibe,rawn from the re-.
g.on OF country between Bowling Green
GhfsgoW, aad Green sbrfg, andTny in fornait
L clearly OF opinion tnas IL would b. fatal 10
Geli. Roueseaa command to cross the Green
river with anything like the present force IN
der his Command =
There al ~ present many military gentle
men III Lebanon from your city.
FROM EAsrE&S kEs7ucky-pRIGHr OF rnE LIN
CoLsiJEs.
The Cincinnati ComHsrciat publishes the
following letters from CT lizeps OF por tsmouth.
Ohio. II is certainly refreshing to see with
what cool iinpudence these Ohio niger steal
ers talk OF coming over TO Kentucky and
''e!eaning out" her brave people. They will,
we asprehend, get heartily sick OF the job be-
fore they get through with it:
BacxT FrkxAcK, Oct. ), 1861.
There is 4 terrible excitement up here
Every person rs MP in arms. We have been
keeping out guards and spie3 since Mon
DAY, AND 10 not think there has been man
bnt what has slept ON his g1n every night
last night thore were three reports came in
about three O'Clock in the morning. The
rebels had taAeH ONO Hill, and were coming
tIis way. John i. X {IcliH and Henry Il.
PoRhe went up what is called Triplett and
stopped All night at Norehead with two hun
area ana Itiiy men, on their way 10 seCesh
camp ut Prestonsburg. They say there is
about four thousand there. and two thousand
~ Pike.
The supposition hcre is that they are get
llhg q very heavy force and in tend 10 clean
cut GFayson and this place as they de-
eefialnen TO nave revenge ;OT taking them
prisoners and kilIin. thu TWO at Graysou !
sllHk l ne best thing that could be done would
De 10 form a camp TT Grftyson, as the whole
upper end Of this State is pretty well Trimmed
out OF men, ana The seeesh are recruiting from
tennessee anu also from the lower end OF
Virginia and ken lucky: SO, they are collect
ing very heavy force, and there is something
know.
We have the Jefferson Home Guard here
rom kinney brock on guard tonight, as our
guards are all tired Gus. Iney have bad =
pretty hard tramp OF IL marching from Gray
son, and then standing ON guard for Two
nights. And the best thin-, that Portsmouth
euuiu do wouid be TO help get up camp
somewh here ia The upper erd OF this state
II would be Il great protection for her, for il
they should clean out this place and ClfaysUn,
tAey would have clean sweep toy her
As an Il sergeant OF the guard tonight, /
thought l. would write and give you the fun
PARTICULARS OF ctr proceedings cut here.
letter from CatIetsburg, Ky, dated Oet.
y, nom ). $. Hampton, Lieut. Col 9TH XIV
regiment at Camp Douglas, (Lincoinite)
says.
We last Ugh; learned through some 4hirt,.-
Ave Union men, who scattered through the
woods and arm ed here rom PtEe COUNTY
that the rebels nave come into Pres 70 1.sGury
in force, from Virginia, 10 the unlnoeI of
seven thousand, well armed aud GO pped and
nave extended their pitso Is down ueer Peach
| Crchar 8, forty miles nom this place livery
person !. neei8g before tlen. DO WIN ever
| you can il laen and Arms. / have Just re-
c.Ive3 letter from MAJOR Thomas d. Green
| f Portsmouth lie says the Gov rnlnent
will do alI ln,tt can be done.
The Union Men are pouring IN IL large
| mum bers, Uut We have neither SUPPLIES nor
| rus. Nj GaHop, who has been 10 Louis
vile for Col. MOOces regiment, reports sty-
| anteeu esilneAts ahead oi him Ter supplies
| md thet they cannot he furnished.
PrestCnSbusg - SKY .lFc ulies uD the Big
| Sandy, ana PlAetoA is one hundred an. ~ e
| miles up JAH same. estOlsourg Is ia Iloyd
| .0uutV, a4a is connected with i binEdoa
| Va, which is situated On the Great southern
| R4IIruau, 10y Il good road, along which vast
| 4atutItits u kentucky STOCK have been
trivrn tOI The southern army.
The Nit Sterling {ky.J rug, OF the lltu,
| has NJ following particulars IL reference 10
| he d" rebel encaIn pment near Pres ton burg
Floyd ecunu. which has been chrisi2ne4
camp Dixie
There are between 1000 aud 900 men in it.
| aud more coming in every day. Not half Of
| these have arms. i}reCkinriCge left some ten
Or fourteen days ago tor Richmond 10 get
arms and ammunition, an / additional troops
| He succeeded II EetIug uearlJ enough arms
and ammunition IL equip these now III camp
but failed IL getting additional troops iIatne-
didteIy, though The hope Wa Red OuJ 10 him
that Il might nor be long before they would
be forwarded. lie sent word back TO fhis II
lect to Co!Cdei Williams and Bob WoO!ly
who l-f, GA Friday list 70 make arrau ge!lenJs
= have th"U shipped.
We gGr JDis from man who was II camp
knew williams veil, and had il from his own
'lps. Il Ona-leEged fellow ny the NAM CT
Henifer, and john 7. tIChlin, Of BAH alp
the drill CoIuneis. Before Williams gets
back. 1t is understood lie viii have his COM
mission r. BriEadIeT- u General ci the forces -
The men are represented IS Il motley crew.
COniotIS in bias pEeIuy, desperate of character
and fortune, rcCkleEsly brave, iOhd Of c&rGs
ana Whlskey, combining men OF the highest
intelligence with n mass o fD2Sotted Ignorance
that Talk about the AboIitionIsts waging this
var IL steal "cUr nigSers, yet one half Of
chs IN couldn't buy even q baby if full grown
ringers were selling III ten cents dozen
| Judge MoJre, OF this town, ana the Billiards.
who murdered Capt, Jef.ries by laying in am
bush in this county two weeks ago, Were IL
camp = dig as life"
gne TrOcps. CT the mob, rs Il 1li ght be more
| properly called, are not al in camp ii one
| PLACE. They are scattered APP and uown the
| sandy, 50 that Lhttr range for forging may
! bemore extensive. From one Of lie letters
| written By one OF these renesades back 10 his
friends, ana which through The vigilance of
the Union scouts found lt> vF.ty into Ur Office
! We learn that party OF them had QUi,e bat
| tie ip one Of these foraEip& expeditions across
| the SANDY, killing twenty Ual0n men, or
| uigserl tes - Is the writer called Them, The
! crime q these people was that they were Tor
| tAe Union, and chose IL defend heir property
LAShi titlH LtttA S.NA4i5 Pa he is 10
| IenlaiA :. permanent one Ior the reception OF
| tbs orecssscnistS Of The interior, and TO keep
| open tte Virginia road, which j. the on y
| outlet leit the traitors to ship contrsband
| from Kentucky.
| The following letter we copy from The Lot
| Vile Journal:
CATLEIsBrRs, Ky, Oct -.
!. aIa sure i yea were here today the ex-
| element would make your head swim The
| Ine belonging to Hon LHban I. Noore's re-
/ - q nm dor
| pecting all attack every aoor. The town IS
! tEii OF reports from the cOuItry-C'- prsd:t-
| tionS being committed in different parts Of
| laurence county. In I.ouis4, the county sen l.
! L Is said that several houses were burned
! last night. And now the report comes in
| that SIX OF seven thousand were marching on
! Louise yesterday afterEC on, and Were .E-
| ptcted there last night. 1 he men have nearly
| all left that part of the country and are COM
! ing down here for assistance. II the abels
ava * this placed think they Will get a warm
! reception. Bat VIII not brag before the aght
| comes OF.
You may wish TO knew where these six or
! seven thousand men came from. l will tell
! yQu what Is said here. Some gent!etae. who
| came here a Few days since from Pike county
! say that the advance guard Of an army came
| to the house Of = farmer who lives in tina I
I county, took 20 or 30 head Of {; tile killed
, them, and demanded of the citizens other sap
! plies for four thousand men. This report is
! eisouatie from the fact that there r. an ex
! Ctllelt road which passes through Pound ,
! or ~ .undtng Gap from NIrsiult, 90 WI
! Sandy to PIestonsburg; besides this, = mum.
| Der OF other reports from persons who Iivein
! the vicinity Of Pres tons burg, all 90 ID show
I that there are about seven thousand troops
! there.
hone you will urge on our military an
thoriiIes The necessity of zendIug some COM
! petent man 10 take charge CT this particu-
! lar part of the State, ana give him Il suftt-
/ Gent number OF Men TO break this camp IN
he n n i