Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-08-30

The Postofiice Department having au.
thentio Information that the mails have been
repeatedly violated, and can not be carried
safely in that part of Kentucky named herein,
il is ordered that the Postofioes at Hickman,
Columbus and Paducah, KY, and all other
Postoffces and post-routes in Kentucky west
Of the Tennessee River, be discontinued, ex-
cepting as follows: Route No. $685. from
Russellville Cid CadiE and May6eld, is con-
tinusd as far as Milburn, and all Postofiices
on that route, except Aurora, are continued /;
also route No. 9,69A from Eddeyille to Olive
and the postotices thereon, are discontinued.
WASHINGTON, August 29.-All volunteers
in the service who have been taken prisoners
by the rebels, aud released on parole, will be
discharged from service.
RosroS, August 2a.-The report that the
SECRETARY of War had called five additional
regiments frem Massachusetts has aroused
the patriotism Of our citizens.
Senator Wilson's regiment started with
three hundred recruits.
The 6yst instalment of the Government
lNAn NJ ten millions was formally accepted at
The meeting OF the Associated Boston Banks
to-day.
HSAvvsrOwS, Mn, August 2s.-A gentle
man fum Harper's Ferry reports that the
lnioniSis are leaving in great numbers.
There was no Secession force IN the
peighhorhood except one hundred and fifty
cavalry,
News from Martinsburg says that the
rebels are taking up the railroad track,
taking down locomotives, and carrying off
the machinery of the company's workshops.
1t is said they will take up sufficient track to
connect Winchester with Strasburg.
There were vague rumors to-day that the
rebels intended making demonstration at
EdUardss or Nolan's Ferry,
LOUISVILLE, August 29.-Surveyor Cotton
has published card, threatening to seize all
wagons, vehicles aud steamboats, transport
ing articles for aiding the rebellion, after Sep
tember l.
A special to the Richmond Dispatch of the
9th says President Davis is still confined
with an attack of chills and fever, which
may induce Congress to postpone its ad-
journment
Vice President Stephens is sick at Manas-
sss junction.
Congress appropriated $500, 900 for floating
defenses at New Orleans, and $l60 900 for
two iron clad gun. boats, for defense of the
mouth of the Mississippi River and the city
of Memphis.
The Memphis Appeal says Lincoln refuses
to disband his camp in Kentucky, and insists
that the Confederate forces shall advance to
meet the foe, instead of awaiting his arrival.
RoILA, Mo-, August 29-The correspond
ent of the St. Louis Democrat furnishes the
following:
Gan atteEaPs was made yestorday to blow
up the train due here at a quarter to flve in
the afternoon. As the train reached point
eight miles East of here, an explosion took
place beneath the locomotive, covering it
with dirt and gravel, and slightly wounding
the engineer.
"On backing the train to the spot it was
discovered that a keg of powder had been
buried between the rails, which was exploded
in some unknown manner when the engine
passed over it. The explosion occurred on
ah embankment fifteen or twenty feet high,
abd had its force been spent in an upward
difection instead of laterally las was the
caae) the train would, doubtless, have been
thrown from the track and several lives lost.
"a company of cavalry sent down the rail-
road to reconnoiter last night found several
rails torn up in deep out near jamestown,
and fred upon three suspicious characters
on the track close by, but with what result
is not known.
General Mcbride with one thousand five
hundred rebels is reported to be on Spring
Creek, twenty-five miles southwest from
here"
BALTIMORE, August 29.-Daniel Decker,
editor of the Hagerstown (Md.) Nail Sc
cesson paper, was arrested to. day, by the
Government. General McKaig, Senator
from Allegheny County, was arrested in
Washington County. Both will probably
be sent to Fort McHenry.