Newbern weekly progress., 1862-01-21
THE SITUATION IN KENTUCKY.

The present aspect of affairs in Kentucky is
far more encouraging than it was thirty days
apo, The whole force of the enc ry under Gen.
Buell. in this department.. as we have before pub.
1isbed Is thought to be almost one hundred
and ten thousand strong Against this army
we are enabled to state. upon satisfactory data,
that the Confederate government can bring q
force Of between ninety and hundred thousand
men, all of whom are now under arms in Ken
lucky
4 Federal column of eighty thousand has
long been threatening Bowling dreen' ana mas
led to the very probable opinion that the great
battle of the in the West will be fought
within that vicinity. Our latest advices from
this point are derived from personal interview
with the Hon. John w Crockett, member OF
the Provisional Council of Kentucky, whom we
had the pleasure of seeing in this city on yester-
day. In consequence of the apprehended ad-
vance movement the part of the enemy. Gen.
johnson has been active and energeuc In MS
preparations of defense. and has had large acces-
sions to his army from various quarters-sufn'
ciegtly large are happy to learn 10 raise the
general e pectation that he will go and hunt the
enemy, if the latter delays his attack very much
longer. . =.
1t is generally surmised by our military otf1-
GERS that if Bnell does make an advance it Will
be in three columns-one movement in front
and two OH either f1aak. To prevent hanking on
the right Gen. Floyd's brigade is now stationed
on the GLASGOW and Bardstown turnpike, which
is something over 70 miles east of headquarters
and Brig Gen. Clarke is stationed at Hopkins
the successful advance of Gen. Tom. Crittenden'
who, when last heard fiom, at Calhoun,
65 miles from Hophinsville and ~ from BOW
ling Green Gen. Johnston's position IS Thus
well gu arded, and is deemed very nearly I'm
pregnable. ,
Gen Zolicoffer still remains nine miles south
Of the Cumberland river. we'll fortified and only
twenty miles from General Schoef, who,
with small force, has made stand at Coin'n-
bia, the county seat at Wayne county, Eastern
Kentucky
General Humphrey Marshall, who entered
the State with only 5000 men, has been
pressing steadily northward, increasing his gal
liant little command at every step. When last
heard from he was at Prestonburg with seven
thousand.
He was moving on to the Blue Grass region
His advance guard was at Hazel Green, eighty
miles of Lexn rton. Large reinforcements are
said to be docking to him daily from Bour
bon Bath Montgomery, Harrison and Nicholas
couuties, and he hopes to organize an army
by next Spring large enough to capture Lexlng-
ton.
Gen. Pope, the Federal commander. occupies
the latter place at present with five thou
sand men, who were to have been reinforced ny
AS many more recently sent from Gen. Buell. s
column.
The Provisional government of the State, as
will be remembered, has voted to raise 3O regl-
ments of twelve months volunteers to be placed
under command of that distinguished Kentuck,
ian Gen VIM. E. Preston, who is constituted
commander In CnleI Oh tH0 Stdto iotSoo w ho'Ii-
er this effort be attended with complete er only
partial success, the situation in Kentucky justi.
fies US in the conviction that southern arms will
be attended with series of successes in that
State upon the opening of the spring campaign:
altogether commensurate with the ardent hopes of
our people AS it is fully understood throughout
| the South that treaty of peace can ever be &C.
cepted in this that does not yield
Kentucky. and the other Slave States to our Con-
federacy the future movements of Gen. Sydney
Johnson so pregnant with vast results. will be
watched by the country with deepest solic1tude.
-Mem. appeal.