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erent places along the Ohio is thus given by our informant: At Henderson, 3,000; at Paducah, 11,000; at Cairo, 4,500; at Byrd's Point, 15,000. On Friday last fifteen 32-pounders arrived at Cairo. The report published in our last, that three of Lincoln's boats had landed troops at Lucas's Bend, is confirmed, but our informant states they were after forage. George McK. Lukin, a printer, formerly President of the Typographical Union of this city, is at Cairo, to spot such Southerners as he ays, "there is not a word of truth in the Times dispatch about 100 rebels being drowned by the fire of the Monticello, near Hatteras inlet." A Rebellious Bank in Washington. The Bank of Washington refuses to take the Treasury notes, and Lincoln's minions want Congress to close the "disloyal institution." A Union newspaper has been established at Alexandria. Gen. Harney was expected in Washington on the 10th. From Western Virginia. Elk Water, Va., Oct. 10. --Gen. Reynold
e present time, he concludes as follows: I would speak of these things with the simple solemnity which their magnitude demands, yet it is difficult to restrain the expression of a just indignation, while we smart under such enormities. Mr. Lincoln has thousands of soldiers on our soil, nearly all from the North, and most of them foreigners, whom he employs as his instruments to do these things. But few Kentuckians have enlisted under his standard, for we are not yet accustomed to his pHas Kentucky passed out of the control of her own people? Shall hirelings of the pen, recently imported from the North, sitting in grand security at the Capital, force public opinion to approve these usurpations, and point out victims? Shall Mr. Lincoln, through his German mercenaries, imprison or exile the children of the men who laid the foundations of the Commonwealth, and compel our noble people to exhaust themselves in furnishing the money to destroy their own freedom? Never, while Kent
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The last letters from the correspondent of the London times. (search)
h, and plenty of cotton for all the world." Fernandina may possibly go soon; there is an eye on Pensacola also, and New Orleans is by no means safe. The condition to which the blockade has reduced many classes in the South is bad enough — it will become worse. Tea, coffee, and clothing, are nearly exhausted, or have, as the American phrase has it, "given out," because there is none to give out at all. Lead, sulphur, and salt, are very scarce. Shoes, flannel, quinine, beef and butter, cloth, tin, and leather, are in the same category. If the blockade be enforced, the distress and want of all things, save natural produce, will be intense. The mass of the South are fighting for a Union of their own, to which they have insensibly transferred their loyalty and their national feeling, which unquestionably is great, in the old flag, and believe they are fighting an alien enemy--one Abe Lincoln, who is aided and abetted by the powers of darkness and their Yankee co-efficient.
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The last letters from the correspondent of the London times. (search)
echanics, ragged agriculturists, riots in the cities, discontent in the country, wars between employers and their employees, burnt manufactories, murdered capitalists, anarchy, distress, and despair throughout the nation. It would foreshadow the approach of an era distinguished by the establishment of enormous poor rates and fresh taxes to support them. All these things have been in England, and in all human probability will be again. And to the probability of their existing in Yankeedom, Mr. Lincoln alludes with the most philosophic calmness, and tells his people they can carry on this war if they will voluntarily reduce themselves to the condition which they indicate. But it is not true. The Yankees are not as able to support the coming debt, in proportion, as the English were. The resources of Great Britain are infinitely greater than those of the Yankees. What resources, indeed, have the Yankees? Take away the Southern trade, and they are the poorest people on earth.