The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-09-21
PROGRESS oF THE WAR.
KENTUCKY AL RIGHT
Uaisa trssps from Nsrth Carelina'
rrenrrva on TaaE MISSISSIPPI
NEW YORK .NEwSs SUSPENDED
suBseRIPrloss TO TIE POPULAR IoAs'+

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The nevs from Kentucky i sery inRoF-
tans and highly gratifying. The Les's's-
,urs has adopted resolatiou direossss
the Governor to issue . proclamation
ordering the rebel troops nov tncanpsd
IN that State 20 svacaats the soil OF Ken
lucky. The resolution Was passed oy sns
Legislature. and cent TO the Governor TOT
his signature, and was BY him returned UNI
signed. II was then taken up By the Legs.
la,ure and passed over the Governors veto,
by vote of sevepsy-one yeas against twen-
ty- six nays. A cou inter- resolution ordering
both Union and rebel troops 70 leave the
State was negatived under the rules oforder.
This action of the Legislature demonstrates
the loyalty of Kentucky to the Union, with.
oas the slightest shadow Of question or con-
,radic,ion, she occupies hereafter, no half
way ground, no neutral position, but has
taken her and, clearly and Enthusiastically,
ia the Union, and for the Union.
Charles Henry Foster, Union Congress-
man elec, from North Corolina, called upon
the President, a few days ago, and rendered
the services Of brigade Of loyalists for
the war.
From Cairo tiaings have been received OF
an engagement between the Union gunboats
Causs.oga and Lexington, and the rebel
forces. The vessels encountered battery
Of sixteen guns at Lucas bend, on the Mis-
sour shore near Columbus. Near the bat
terry were two rebel gunboats. The Union
vessels silenced the rebel batteries aud dis
abled one of their guaboats, the Yankee,
which would have been captured, but from
the strong support which she received from
the shore when opposite Columbus, at which
place there are fiji cen thousand rebels 10
camp, and reiuforcemen,s arriving rapid.
ly.
At Fortress Monroe vigorous measures
are being taken for fitting out expeditions
from old point to tbs Southern coast, and
the military department. has, under Gen.
Wool, attained to high state Of efficiency
in discipline, ths troops being impatient
for an engagement with the rebels.
Reinforcements and supplies have been
forwarded to HIT eras Inlet, at which place
General Reynolds has been appointed to
chief command.
The batteries at Aqua Creek are reported
to extend for about SIX miles along the
coast, to be in good condition, and to be
able 70 throw a shell from their rihed guns
to the opposite pshore--a distance Of four
miles. About fifteen thousand rebels are
estimated as the force in this vicinity.
The Pensacola dry dock has been entire
ly destroyed by fire at least it is so report
ed by rebel newspaper.
A contract has been made in Cincinnati
to furnish Gen. Fremont, by the lst of o.
tobsr, five complete batteries Of steel aud
brass guns, with al! iheir-s equip este, in,
GLIDING horses, harness, wagon and ammu-
milton. There will be thirty cannon in oil,
sixty wagons and two hundred and forty
! horses.
An ordinance has been introduced in the
Board of Council Of Memphis, Tenn, au-
thorizing the police force Of that city to i'm.
press women into the service OF hospital
duty. The motion, after considerable de.
bate, was finally rejected.
The will of the late Gen. Lyon, United
States Army, gives all his properly, worth
thirty thousand dollars, to the Government
Of the United States.
The Indiana Zouaves, Col. Lew. Wallace
are again in service, having full regiment
Of Iloosier.. Their exploits in the Cumber.
land neighborhood are not yet forgotten
and we shall doubtless hear Of them again
from Missouri.
The report circulated that Gen. Fremon,
is to be superseded by Gen. Meigs /.
contradicted by the highest author.
i'ty. Gen. Meigs' visit to the west is on
business connected with his department,
| 1t is reported by Unionists from Martins
burg, that thu rebels have taken up the en-.
tire track Of the Baltimore 4 Ohio Road
from there to North Mountain, distance Of
nine miles, and transferred the rails to Win.
chester for the extension of the AleYandr,