Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-07-25

which is thought to be preparatory to an at
tack on Suffolk, but the story is not generally
beieyed
M6rgon's exploits in Kentucky still contin-
ne TO create great excitement not only
throughout that State, but also in Ohio and
Indiana. At Louisville, 8rigadier- General
Boyle, commanding the Federal forces in
Kentucky, issued, on the 18th instant, q pro-
clamation calling upon every able-boded man
to take up arms, and prohibiting every man
who refused to do so from leaving his house
during the next forty-eight hours under a
penalty of being shot down if he quilted it,
This order was made to apply not only to
Louisville but also TO Lexington and its vi
entity and We presume was promulgated at
other places where Federal troops were in
sufficient strength to enforce it. AT Cincin-
natl, the Commercial Of that city warns the
citizens that the call for men to turn out ia
the public defence was never more urgent
than now. The gazette regards the danger to
Cincinnati itself as being most imminent.
The last mentioned journal tells its readers
that 1t would occasion no surprise to hear
at any hour Of Morgan cavalry being on the
hills opposite Cincinnati - that the way is
open and they know il that there are guns
and Notifications back Of Covington, but
there are no men, and that all the forces in
Kentucky are on the defensive, whilst two
thousand men under Morgan are doing pretty
much as they please. Since the capture of
Cynthiana, in Harrison county, Kentucky,
the Confederates have taken Henderson also
in the same State, and crossing into Indiana,
have occupied Newburg, where they made
prisoners of two hundred and forty sick
Federal soldiers, and seized two hundred and
nifty stand OF arms. At the last advices it
was believed that they were receiving con
slant acccSsious to their force and were nov
ing steadily northward. " Another davis
hard riding in this direction" says the Gin
cinnati COMMERCIAL" and there is no ade4
qaate force to detain thcm-and they are at
our very doors" On Thursday evening last
one hundred and forty Confederates were Ell
camped within eighteen miles Of Coyington-
opposite Cincinnati
According to the New York Tribune the
mission of Governor Sprague of Rhode ISL
and, to Corinth, was for the purpose of ten
dering to General Ilalleck, in behalf Of the
President, the command Of the armies Of the
United States. The Philadelphia News be-
lieves that there is good foundation for the
report that Gen Mcclellan has resigned the
command of She army of the Potomac but
the New York Post throws doubt upon the
story by assigning to General Haleck -who
was spoken of as Mcclellan successor-im-
porlant duties at New ork
Gofdonsylle is not occupied By the FEEDER
al troops as previously reported. We now
learn that General Ewell is there with a
body Of Confederate forces.
Forty aboitionists, inhabitants of Farm
ington, Maine, quilted that city few days
ago 10 avoid die expected draft for soldiers.
The Boston Coarier expresses the conviction
that to make up the complement Of three hum
dred thousand men, called for by Mr.. Lin
coin, drafting is indispensable in all Of the
New England States. Notwithstanding the
liberal bounty that has been offered, the sue
cess in obtaining volunteers is, we are told
far from fiattering Even in Massachusetts,. -
says the Courier, ''thero is this lamentable
shrinking from stern but necessary duty
TUESDAY, July 22.-General Pope com
handing in the Valley of the Shenandoah,
reports to the War Department that cayal-
ry expedition under General King, left Fred
erlcksburg on the evening Of the l9th inst.
aud making descent at daylight the follow
ing morning Upon the Virginia Central rail-
way station ut Beaver Dam creek thirty-fye
miles distant from Richmond destroyed a
| portion OF the railway track, cut the telegraph
wires, burnt the depot together with a guam
tity Of musket ammunition captured one pri-
soncr, and returned having made a forced
march of eighty miles in thirty hours. A
I telegram from Warrenton assures us that the
Federal troops burned the railway bridge
over the Rapidan river by mistakes but we
are consoled with the information that there
are iords by which they can cross whenever
an advance Sonthward may be ordered. Sigel
is in command at Sperryylle. There is said
to be daily skirmishng between his pickets
and those Of the Contederates who occupy
Luray. report WAS current at Washing
ton that an engagement had taken place al
that point and that Sigel had been defeated:
hfaa a.
effect.
Yesterday it was announced that General
Ewel was in command OF the Confederate
forces at GorGonsville. We are now told
that Stonewall Jackson is at or near the same
point, with large force.
The Memphis Appeal publishes telegram
from the Richmond EhqHrcr Of the 10Th
inst, which states that, although the Con-
iederate lines have been brought closer to
Richmond, large force has been left iInme-
diately in front Of General Mcclellan. On
Monday, the l4ih inst, General Steuart IS
said to have again made the circuit Of McClel-
lan's position, reaching james river, below
the mouth Of the Chickahominy, ana opening
fire upon a large feet Of Transports one Of
which was sunk, aud several others crippled
The excitement caused by Morgan's move
mehts in Central Kentucky had not cllmed
down at the last adyices. The Cincinnati
papers contain many Interesting details in re-
iation 70 the condition Of affairs in that quar-
ter. The town Of Cynthiana was captured
on Friday last, aud all the troops which had
been hastily sent forward TO assist in It's de-
fence, were either Killed, wounded or made
prisoners Of war. The town Of Paris 0eing
threatened it was abandoned by the Federal
troops that weG stationed there, who fell
back upon Lexington. A detachment Of
Home Guards was attacked between MouEt
Eden and Rough and Ready, a few were kills
ed and the remainder taken prisoners. A re-
port that Morgan @as marching on Shelby
vile created such panic among the Home
Gua@ds AZ thai place, that they left, rs the
Cincinnati C0amerciW sarcastically remarks
in every direction, EXCEPT the one in which
the enemy were reported to be advancing"
Al Lebanon, three days previous 10 the TAX
ing Of Cynthiana, Morgan captured "a small
body Of Kentucky troops in the Federal ser
vice, together with o few Home Guards, de-
stroJ ed the ordnguce storcs, burned The wa
CONS and hospitals, aud distributed The coul-
unssary stores among tie poor Of the town.
" in the Government depos," writes a cor
respondent Of the Louisville J0lrHaL, were
sugar -four, bread, &C., aud the destruction
was immense. Guns we're bent double by
striking them across rocks powder, car
ridges, and percussion caps, we are told /,
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