New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-02
Railroud Facilities for the Rebels.
From Our Own Correspondent.

From Our Own Correspondent.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 81 1861.
We are beginning 10 get wide-awake here. From
the ashes of burned Neutrality, bird has risen
which if not eage-eyedfn every respect, keeps one
eye open. Buckners bold expedition has aroused a
sleeping lion in the people of Kentucky. Invading
their soil in the teeth of legislative action and the
Governors Proclamation, s TN argument Of South.
ern rights" which they cannot comprehend. Young
men in Louisville, whose mouths, but few days
since, were full of rebelious cant, declare now Ley
are done with Secession. oh, what pity Il is we
had not watched more closely our military nesessi
ties while praying to God and the Legislature for
moral effect Then Bowling Green might have been
ours. Then our pickets might have been in Tcnnes-
zee. But late is better than never. What FORE
thought could have held, proves must take. Can
the Government nor zee that the railroad through
Tennessee to Virginia is the spinal column Of rebel
lion? VIII II, even at this late moment, make
mighty effort to break that column
While every other channel of speedy communica-
ton il closed the great rivers being all in our posses
zion, Rebel regiments are being poured into Kentucky
BY rail from every point which can spare regiment
Had the road been broken up, by sudden, unex-
pected movement, the forces at either end must have
given battle, whether prepared unprepared.
Neither horn Of their dilemma could have relieved
the other, while our inDumerable railways would
have borne our soldiers across the continent to the
points Of greatest need. Now, we are upon the de-
fensiye. They are menscpg one Of our greatest
thoroughfares, the Ohio River. They are devastat.
ing Kentucky, whereas we might have been captur-
ing armories military depots, and powder mills in
Tennessee. Having consumed the States under the
iron heel Of their usurpston, they making des-
perate effort TO quarter their soldiers in the plentiful
regions Of Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
And they have the railroad on which TO transfer
them at pleasure. Where there IL something TO steal
thither they Can throw their starved and naked egi
ments.
Already it has been widely rumored that two
regiments reached Bowling Green from Virginia.
The report has been discreded; stilkt may be true
On the heels of this comes the report that 5000
Mi,sirsippians have Joined Buckners army. What
is there incredible in either statement The one
may come in the direction of Memphis, by rail; the
other through Knoxville by the same means of con-
veyance. The transfer is rapid, ard a regiment
here and there can be spared, without materially
weakening the aggregate force at the several points
Why did not this occur to us' Simply, 1 suppose,
because we deal In moral suasion while they con-
slider military necessity. Let us thank them for that
word, and begin 10 act like men dealing with An
enemy.
Kentucky has benefsctor in Gov Morton, whose
noble seryces should fasen her with hooks of steel
to Indiana. II there were score of Indanas, and
Gov. Morton for each. the war might be ended this