Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-30

to learn that when the division advances
Colonel Rousseau will be placed in command
of brigade. Besides the Kentucky boys,
an Ohio regiment has paid him the high |
compliment of asking to be attached to his |
brigade.
The position Of the enemy at Green River |
is a very strong one, and it is not improbable |
that they will bring up all their forces and
make strong stand there. The hill beyond
Green River, rising TO considerable hight
on the north side, falls off but few feet on
the other side, and then spreads away in a
high plateen. Thus formidable natural
breastwork is formed the brow of the hill
protecting the enemy in position from
which he can command the passage Of the
river. OF course it is useless to fire round
shot against the side of hill, and conse-
quently, when we yet to Green River, we
are likely to witness the spectacle styled
Smelling the rebels"
THE MOUNTAINS FOR THE UNION.
friend of ours who has just returned
from q business trip through the counties of
Mercer, Boyle, Lincoln, Pulaski and Wayne,
brings the most cheering news. The Union
cause is hourishing everywhere. Even
the Secessionists have declared for the Z MON,
and have taken up arms against the Tennes-
see invaders.
Pulaski County will send nearly one-half
of her men TO help defend the soil OF Ken
lucky. Captain John Griffin, who was a
member of the last Legislature from Pulaski,
and one of the twenty-three Disunionists
who voted against raising the American flag
over the dome Of the Capitol last winter, has
volunteered and shoudered his gun to drive
out the robbers from Tennessee.
In Lincoln County both parties have held
public meetings, and resolved to unite in
driving out the invaders.
All along the road from here to the Ten.
pessee line may be seen squads of men on
their way to Camp Dick Robinson.
The mountains are alive with zeal for the
Union, and the people declare that no Dis.
nnionist shall live among them who will not
defend his State when actually invaded.
GLEANINGs FROM KENTUCKY NEWSPAPERS.
The Frankfort Commonwealth. - At the
seat of Government, amid the comforts of
cosy homes, in that rich valley, full sense
of personal insecurity is partially realized.
The Commonwealth republshes paragraphs
from st. Louis papers, which recite the bold
ness and barbarity of Secession marauders in
Missouri, intimating that the dwellers in 1.-THE
Blue Grass Region" are liable to be sufferers
from the ruffian's bludgeon, the assassin's
knife and from arson by prowling midnight
house burners. 1t makes a personal appeal
ITO the Fathers and Brothers of the Eighth
Congressional District"
What have we of this Congressional Dis
| trict done to protect our homes from similar
outrages2 How many companies have been
| furnished to General Anderson2 Have we
| furnished one, even? Ii one, we have not
| heard it. The Eighth Congressional District
| has always assumed reasonable share of
| courage, bravery and Kentuckianism. But
| when Kentucky is invaded North and South,
| by traitors, we, in "The Blue Grass REGION
| are compelled to send to the mountains for
men to come and protect our wives, daugh-
| ters and sisters from the anticipated depreda-
| tions Of anticipated invaders. 1t is CALLING,
| damnable and disgraceful truth, that brave
men from the mountains left their homes,
which were actually invaded, and came to
protect US from an anticipated invasion.
The following is spicy paragraph of let
ter from Camp Dick Robinson, for the whole
of which we have not room
Colonel Welford's regiment of cavalry is
composed principally of mountaineers, and,
mounted on their fine horses, armed with
Sharp's rifles, they are a formidable looking
body of men. 1t was three hundred of these
men, filing into Lexington, with the gallant
Colonel Letcher at their head, who rendered
such efficient aid to j. @. Breckenridge iu
making up his mind to allow the United
States guns to pass through that place en-
route for camp.
THE SCHOOLS AND THE WAR.
The Kentucky Legislature, by a vote o.
60 to II, agreed to the report of the Com
mittee on Education that the Common
School tax should not now be suspended.
TWENTY DAYS GRACE To TRAITORS.
The Legislature evidently designs that the
invaders shall have reasonable time to with
draw, and disloyalists to enlist, as twenty
days are to transpire before the following
law, recently enacted, is to take effect:
l. Any citizen OF this State, who as
soldier or officer of the army of the so-calleC
Confederate States, aud as part of an armed
force, shall invade this State, to make wa
upon it, shall be deemed guilty of felony
and, upon conviction in any court having
jurisdiction thereof, shall be confined to the
penitentiary for any period of not less thar
ole nor more than ten years, at the discre
tion of the jury.
2. Any person who shall, within the limit
of this Stale, persuade or induce any perso
to enlist or take service in the army of tn
so called Confederate States, and the perso
so persuaded or induced does enlist or tax
service in the same, shall be deemed guilt
of high misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be fined in sum not exceeding $ ,00'
and imprisonment not exceeding six month
Captain John Kurfs, founderyman
Louisville, formerly Councilman of the ThiI
Ward of this city, Is raising volunteer cay
airy company in Louisville. John will b
on his high horse.
The Government gun.boat Conestoga is 6
: Hawesyille and the Lexington at Owen
{ | boTo.
9 The Hettie Gilmore has left for Owensbol
' with Government stores.
Trabues River Brigade, composed exclI
z siVely Of river men, is in camp near Oal
land.
Lieutenant Alexander f. Drake, son
Mrs. Alexander Drake, of Covington, KY,
with the Second Infantry, stationed
= Georgetown, D. @. He is New Yorker
e birth, but he entered the army from Kel
g lucky, and would be glad, as he states,
b come 10 the defense of Kentucky, if he W
IS allowed to do so by the Secretary of Wa
! He is commanding Company D, Second
It fantry, United States Army.
: Last Wednesday night the GoVernmel
G seized at Hawesville the steamer Storm
l. coal-tug, suitable to go through Green Riv
p locks--said to be owned by aSecessionist
It Memphis. She was towed by steamer GiELu
IS down TO Evansville, Ind.
v
n PHILADELPHIA papers announce the death
/ William b. Wood, the original "supertluo
Al veteran" of the stage, and once thevery "mo
le of FORM" He was born May 26, III
3 and made his first Iappearance at I
John street kThaatar in the citv of NJ