Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-12

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81 Baton Rouge has been abandont
by our troops, and is again in the po
session of the rebels. We still ho
Memphis and New Orleans, but bot
points are threatened. Should the
tall, the Mississippi will again be in Il
possession Of the conspirators. If IL
SIX hundred thousand new troops, callc
Ator~and now pouring into Washingto
'shall prove sufficient to protect tn
4'f'base of supplies Of the army of til
Potomac, We hope portion of the Nav
may be released to save New Orleans.
2 ---- The horrors of the Indian up
rising and massacres in Minnesota, con
tinue with the almost certainty of
general Indian war along cur Who'll
frontier. Those blood thirsty savage
are as cruel, if not as perfdious as tn
SeoStthern conspirators who instigat
them. No age or sex isspared By them
au 1.-THE last papers announce tha
Northern Alabama is to be abandoned
by our troops. The rebels in larg,
force have passed to the rear of G en-
| Buell. and are sweeping over Kentueky j
towards the Ohio. 1t is said, and i.
probably true, that if the rebels had
let Gen. Buell. alone, or had not gone
into his rear so as to cut off his "sup-
plies hewouid have had his magni6
cent fortifications finished before win
ter. As lis, it is hoped that by an extra
ordinary exertion of the Government
and the Fastening of the new levies Of
the Western States to- his rescue, he
may yet be extricated from his perious
position. f9Fsa aa 54.osos @.E issr
=. y terrible battle and slaughter
of our troops took place recently near
Richmond, Ky. Our forces consisted
of some. eight thousand men, mostly
new, recruits. They fought bravely,
but for want of discipline, and compe-
tent leaders,. were overpowered and
routed with great slaughter, three thou
sand being taken prisoners by the reb-
els, together with all our artillery, and
an immense wagon train of stores and
supplies.
1.-The rebels are supplying them
selves bountifully from our resources.
They say-but in this, probably, they
exaggerate-that in the disastrous re-
treat of Mcclellan from Richmond, thew
captured eighty first class cannon, in
good order, two hundred that had been
spiked and abandoned, sixty thousand
stand Of arms, six millions Of dollars
worth of stores and ammunition, and
eleven thousand prisoners. These sup
plies, probably, enabled them to assume
The offensive, which now menaces Wash
lngton and the Northern States. The
The rebel Generals, Kirby Smith, Hum
phrey Marshal, Morgan and others, with
aree armies, are sweeping through KY,
their forces as they go, to-
wards Cincinnati, in which city the
most intense excitement prevails. Gin
,innati, Covingtou, Newport, &c., are
lnder. strict. martial law. Business is |
entirely suspended, and the people, en-.
nasse, are called out for military duty.
Every railroad leading into the city is
employed to lis utmost capacity in !
bringing in the patriotic citizens from
III parts of the State, who have left |
heir homes at an hours notice. and
With their rifles and shot-guns have
zone to repel the threatened invasio n.
Thousands of citizens are employed, day
nd night, under military authority, in
ortifying the hills in Kentucky oppo-
ite to the City of Cincinnati. To show
he intensity Of the feeling of danger,
he negroes are called to the rescue
nth the rest, and are working in whole
rigades. When it is considered that
is one of the highest crimes known to
he laws of Kentucky, for a free negro
0 land on her sacred soil'' for ana
urpose, it must be admitted that the !.
ecessity is great. Whether they will
c. given up to be punished by Ken
lcky, when the work is done, for the vio-
alton of her laws. in coming into her
srritory to do the work, remains to be
cen. The penalty, we believe, is
eavy fine, and slavery, if unable to pay
Viii the "Union be as it was;;' if these
egroes are allowed to return to their
ONES when the Notifications are com Il
leted?
---- Another instance of the ex-
,eme danger to which Kentucky is ex- {;
osed, is the fact that the authorities
here have deemed it absolutely neces- :,
lry to suppress the circulation of the
incinnati Enquirer in that State for the !
resent. As the commanders who have
cen constrained to adopt this measure
n the see7rity Of their State and country. I
re lifelong Democrats, no party feel
lg could have Influenced their action. {
is q significant fact that nearly ayerv
in the Border States has ;
1t constrained to prohibit the circula .
on Of the Enquirer within his command.
---- Coming nearer home, we have I
ad our share of excitement. On Tues