The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-08

rps Cream whore wall OF solid limestone, two hundroo
yards in length forty high thirty feet at the paso
and six feet wide at the top neck formed oy
bend in brakes creek and encloses peninsula Oh TWO
hundred acres elevated hundred ana Ten ee'
she river On the top OF this natural MOUND Is m area
three acres enclosed by wall and ditcn forming one
Of the strongest fortressss m the world u not mpro
b.b,e thai the fortunes Of may cause this old fort
cation-but IL supposed, aniecedent to race OF men
vho held the country when discovered by Europeansto
be occupied by hostile force, and made 70 pAy prom
neut part In tbs civil contest.
Randve the county Of Ballard county, 10 another
place Of some Importance just now az IL may be termed
the advance post the rebel army II is town Of some
seven hundred inhabitants miles south Of Cairo, oieht
miles east Of the Mississippi river and Is connected with
Columbus Paducah and Mayield by excellent turnpises
On Friday last rebel engineers busy thsre surveying
for line OF ntronchments and Saturday strong re-
bel force occupied the town. probable that the nrst
battle on land will be fought near there
Cumberland Gap in the eastern pat OF Kentucky near
the Tennessee line is most important point for military
operations One OF the rebel organs IN the State
expressed the conviction that the strategical line
from which the North could make most
successful development Of military force agaAsu -.
South is thai which win run from Cumberland Gup0A
Chattanooga Tenn that it conceives TO DO the obS
the United STATES
N discussing the subject, says
Is 10 The last named army that General Robert Ander
son fths gaaal MAJOR Anderson, OF Fort Sumter fame ~
assigned with headquarters ~ Louisville Kentucky.
IL il for The use Of Andersons c0lumn that muskets
artillery and millions OF war are pouring INTO
Kentucky the railroads coavergng from Covngton
and Louisville II Is for this that camps are conmc ICED
nj Hoskins and Crab Orchard elsewhere; this
that RoussealS briga5c moved from Indiana into
Kentucky for this that ',reen Adams is attempting
by speeches TO the People the mountains, for
hal NelSt d H. OF
by all these means, by Oh through Kentucky,
tanned by the Gnien party ol Kentucky march OF tede
raj troops from the North protested IN their by
Campments IN Kentucky, composed nomina iy H not fy,
Anderson achieve the object of obtaining Possession
the great line question That would be calamity 70
the South and the end the No til Also IL wo9d
only result proionging the for the pretended but
Ia il asked why the OF this nr from Cumber
land Gap Of such stracgca importanceY We answer,
because il dvi the connections Of tho pats Of the
South from each other separates the Caroinas fr, m Ten
States renders the Conf derate States into bundles
OF Fragments of which could support sustain
the other. and o wh ch each. its turn, may be
whetmed by VAST SUPERIOR force u any II by its
the federal hop hat East Tennesee W II revolt az ls
ths State government and The Cuidcratc States and in
that event tho game of John CARLISLE Co., paved III
Western Virginia Of setting up bogus State COVE nment,
would be played out on second theatre inevitably
ing civil war Ia Tennessee giving to Scnts basis Inc
and depot OF mlnons 81 all tn support do vab,
from people thoroughly sbi gated he could sire.
II he y that lin he ST Ike each lave State
east OF the Niss eippi both hanks at tho
With Fast nnessee In hand, he coriaai column
upon Nashv lie ifem his by the nsviga of the Cam
berlard or ssissipp, and ut the time by rail g.
CarSsvlle and IL Nashville set rom directions.