Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-10
TuE SITUATION IN KENTUCKY.

Tine present aspect OF 2HaiIs III
far more encouraging than it was thirty uAyS
AGO. The whole force Of the enemy under zen
RuIL in this department, as we have before
published, is thought to be about one hundred
and ten thousand strong. Against TINS army
we are enabled to state, upon satisfactory data
,b., the Confederate government can bring a
force of between ninety and a hundred thousand
men. ali OF whom are now under ams in Ken
lucky.
A Federal column Of eighty thousand has long
been threatening Bowling Green, and has led TO
the very probable opinion that the great battle
of the war in tine West viii be fought within that
vicinity. Our latest advices from this point are
derived from 8 personal interview with the Hon
JoIN w. CRoCKETT, a member Of the Pro
yisionsl Council of Kentucky, whom we had the
pleasure Of seeing in the city on yesterday. In
consequences Of the apprehended advance move
ment on the part of The enemy, Gen. JOHNSTON
has been active and energetic in his preparations
Of defense. and has had large accessions to his
army from various ENTHUSIASTICALLY large,
we are happy to learn, to raise the general ex-
pectation that he viii go and hunt the enemy
the latter delays his attack very much longer.
II is generally surmised by our military OH
GERS aIat if BUELL does make an advance it will
be in three eolumns-one movement in mont and
two on either flank To prevent hanking on the
right Gen. FLoYD's brigade is now stationed on
the GLASGOW and BaTdstOwn turnpike, which IS
something over twenty miles east of hesdquM-
tiers; and Bigadier-G General CLARKE is stationed
a. Hopklnsvile, with FIVE or SIX thousand men,
to oppose the successful advance Of Gen. Tom.
CRrTrENDEx, who, when last heard from, was
At Calhoun, sixty-fve miles from Hopkinsyille
an. eighty from Bowling Green. Gen. JOHN
sroN's position is thus well guarded, and is
deemed very nearly i~mpregnable.
Gen. ZOLLICOFFER still remains nine miles
south of the Cumberland river, well fortified, and
ozIy twenty miles from Gen. ScHoEF, who, with
a small force. has made a stand at Columbia
the county seat Of Wayne county, in Eastern
Kentucky.
Gen. HUMPHREY MARSHALL, who entered
the STATE with only three thousfsd men, has
been pressing steadily northward, increasing hs
gallant little command at every step. When
last heard from he was at PrestOnsburg, will
7OOO men, and was moving on towards th'
Blue Grass region. His advance guard was a
Halle Green, eighty miles from Lexington
Large endorsements are said to be fOcking to hin
daily from Bourbon, Bath, Montgomery, Har
rison and Nicholas counties, and he hopes to or
gauize an army by next spring large enough :
capture Lexington Gen. POPE, the Fedora
commander, occupies the latter place at presen
with 5000 men, who were to have been rein
forced by as many more recently sent from
BUELL's column.
The Provisional government Of the State, a
will be remembered, has voted to Iase thirt
regiments Of twelve months volunteers TO b
placed under command of that Distinguish
K-entuckian, Gen. WM E. PRESToN, who is cor
sHtuted commsnderin-ehief Of the State forces
Whether this effort be attended with q cOmplet
or only a partial success, the situation in Ker
tnky iustifes US in the conviction that souther
arms win be attended with a series Of successes j
that State upon the opening of the spring can
paign. altogether commensurate with the arder
hopes Of our people. As II is fully understood
throughout the South that no treaty of peac
can ever be accepted in this war that does NJ
Yield Kentucky, and the other Slave States I
our Confederacy, the future movements Of Gel
SYDNEY JOHNSON, 50 pregnant with vast n
suits, viii be watched by the country with til
deepest sOIcitude.