The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-10
The stGap- between Henderson and
Paducah.

The sGar, between Henderson ana
Paducsh.
Our enterprising cotemporaries, the Lou
isv.lle Journal, Cincinnati Commercial and
Missouri Republican have suddenly discov-
cred that something must be done to stop
the smuggling across the lines between
Henderson and Smithland. Months ago,
we called the attention of the military au-
thorities to this matter, ind yet it has been
suffered to go on unmolested, while thou
sands of dollars worth of goods, and letters |
containing important information, are daily |
taken across the river and sent to the
Southern Confederacy. 1t is a fact so noto-
rious that the neglect to remedy it can only
be attributed to misconception of their
duty, on the part of the commanders of the
Departments of the West and Cumberland.
Ten thousand troops, we are told, are shiv-
ering in their tents, in Wisconsin, ready to
move. If they are not needed in the field
and it is very evident we have no work for
the force already there-why cannot they
be used to garrison these towns. A battal-
ion of infantry ought to be stationed at
Henderson, Mt. Vernon, Uniontown, Shaw
neetown, Cave-in-Rock, Elizabethtowu,
ForPs Ferry and Caseyville, and every man
or woman landing at either of these points
or entering from the interior, should be
searched carefully, and if they can give no
satisfactory account of themselves, they
should be locked up. Every package and
| trunk, and bale ought to be scrutinized
and female inspectors appointed to investi-
gate the crinoline Of certain "ladies' who
travel up and down the river, meeting their
co-workers in treason at this and other
points. It is no time to stand on ceremony,
and if the war is to be, paradoxically speak
ing, war of peace, then let rs carry out
the "peace" measures with snch efficiency
as will lead to some fruitful results. We
know that regular express runs from
Nashville to Cave-in-Rock, and various
towns on the river. This is true likewise
of Owensboro and HawesVille. We ere
told by respectable citizen of Cannelton
that a seeessionist carries letters from
Hawesville and Greensboro to parties Soutr
every week, charging ten cents for every
letter so transmitted. 1t is well known
that Southern Illinois is full of traitors, an,
they are not dead or asleep by any means
and they are assisting in this work of for
, warding supplies of medicines, militar.
goods, &c, to the rebel army.
> The tgap" between this point and Pa
I ducah is also the great through route t
{ Dixie for travellers. For the last tire
( months, expro,5 coaches and wagons hav
been running to the interior from Casey
n Vile and Unionlown, and the registers Q
the packets prove that large proportion c
, the travellers bound down the river, get o
r at these points or adjacent towns, fror
v whence they go southwark. The import
n ance OF attending IL this matter is becom
? ing more apparent, because it seems 8
If though the government was relying upo
v the blockade to crush the rebellion an
-e yet while it is impossible tC ship from thi
d city bale of sheeting, even to a Unto
10 man, if he lived in a suspected localit.
le from Vincennes, Olney, and other towns o
4. the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, goods al
st daily landed from cars, loaded into Wagon
If and driven to the rebel army by the wa
is of GRANVILLE, Carmi, and the ferries on tt
n river.
II A gentleman who came from New O
= leans last month, informed us that the St
"a cessionists in Nashville said they intende
b. to keep this way open, as they had man
valuable men" in the North, who woul
g join the rebel army through this ront
N These valuable men carry with then
RS the number of our troops where they al
Of stationed, plans of our Notifications al
of other important information, and yet
lg steps are taken to arrest them or prevel
lr their going to the rebel camps. We ayr
rs with our contemporaries that 4" it is hp
n time, the matter should be investigated
-. QSSE1 The WASHINGTON cOrreanondaat.