The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-07-14

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the Ohio river); and that he Judged they
to move in a South-easterly dl-
rection to some point East of Madison
get across the Ohio. They got guide
near Vienna-we did not learn his name,
but it deserves to be made Immortality
infamous-who showed them the way to
Dupont, and pointed out the bridges near
that place, two of which they burned,
one over Graham's creek, very high
and costly structure, which it will take
several weeks to eepair, and another
over smaller stream at Dupont Hav-
ing accomplished this destruction the
whole body moved off Southeast. Citi-
zens of Dupont state that the force was
two hours passing through that place,
riding four men abreast. This would in
dictate at least double the force hitherto
reported to have followed Morgan across
the Ohio. And in addition, BAIL Duke
was said to have 800 men somewhere
to the west but where or what he was
doing nobody knows. 1t is probable that
Duke had joined the main body before
they arrived at Dupont, and that from
that point, or some place near there, he
started off again with a small detach-
ment, and that it was this body which
burned a bridge on the Ohio and Missis-
sippi Railroad at Osgood, and then adj
vanced to the Cincinnati Railroad at
Sunmans, where it was beaten off by
Col Gavin's Decatur county regiment.
He probably intended to cut both roads
and then strike southwark to the Ohio
and meet the main force near the river
at Aurora, or at some point between that
place and Vevay But this is only con-
lecture. Nothing is certainly known, or
even reasonably suspected, about any
of the rebel movements General Val
lace, when Majors Schlater und Lord left,
had resolved to follow Morgan, but it
seems he was subsequently ordered to
fall back to Columbus, as his infantry,
with no railroad facilities could hardly
hope to overtake Morgan.
A numper of prisoners were taken by
our men; Major Schlater could not tell
how may, but he judged, from the num-
| bers he saw on the streets in Vernon and
those who were being constantly brought
in by our scouting parties, that there
were between fifty and one hundred. A
great many stragglers were falling into
our hands during all yesterday morning.
The rebels were armed with carbines,
rifles, muskets, and all varieties of fire.
arms. They all had pistols, but none had
sabres. At Vernon they took great
many horses, and all along the way they
passed they played the same liberal game.
After the departure OF Majors Schlater
and Lord, messengers arrived at Vernon
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he and Colonel Wooltord's Kentucky
cavarly had passed Dupont. and were
within four miles of Morgan rear, press
ing it hard; and that, up to that time,
Morgan seemed to be unaware of their
! presence so near him.
The chances of Morgan's escape seem
to be very slender. The Ohio has risen
SIX feet, and there is now no point at
which it can be torded between Cincin-
natl and Louisville, except at Grassy
Flats, thirty miles below Madison, and
even there it can be crossed only by
swimming a considerable distance over
the channel The three gunboats above
Louisville can easily make the river i'm
passible, if they are notified in time.
With large steamer it will take the
better part of a day to ferry over 5000
or 5000 men and as many horses, and
in that time a gunooat eau run up Ito
almost any point above Louisville.
Adequate forces for any emergency
have been rapidly sent out from this
city, but whether they can catch the agile
thief or not is the difficulty, though all
means of escape seems TO be cut off.
There is very general impression that
Morgan will somehow get away 1t is
pretty certain that he don't mean to make
good his boast of coming to this city
A dispatch from Mitchell, last night,
stated that it was reported there, that
$1,000 more rebels had crossed the river
at Brandenburg, had burned the town of
Palmyra and were ravaging farms and
villages with unsparing cruelty. What
the foundation of this rumor may be, we
have our idea, but we doubt if any rebel
force of that size could pass through
Kentucky without its being known at
Louisville. 1t may be true, but it is not
credited. If it is true, we shall have
some fighting of harder kind than the
cowardly thief, Morgan, is likely to share,
unless like penned up rat, he fights
through mere desperation. ..
il p. M.-The information received
at this hour leads us to believe that the
main column of Morgan's forces have
been all day marching toward Aurora,
with the intention of crossing the Ohio
at or near that place. He expects to be
able to seize a number of fatboats and
with these to ferry his men over, but in
this he will be thwarted, as measures
have been taken to destroy all craft that
could possibly be used for that purpose,
not only at Aurora, but at all points be-
tween Louisville and Cincinnati At
last accounts, Morgan-s main forces were
at Dillsboro, in Dearborn county.
Since the report Of the skirmish at
Sunman between Colonel Gavin and the
rebels, we learn from report of the ope-
rator at Morris, that the rebels came
back and cut the telegraph line at Sun
man. A bright light, seen in the direc-
ton of that place, was supposed to be the
depot burning. Colonel Gavin, immedi-
ately after the fight pushed on toward
, Lawrenceburg, which accounts for the
rebel operations at Sunmau.
The rumor OF the crossing of large