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Kentucky Legislature.

Louisville Sept. 13.
--The Senate has passed the resolutions adopted by the House, instructing the Governor to order off the Confederate troops from the soil of Kentucky.

Louisville, Sept. 13.--Mr. Hustin, from the Committee on Revised Statutes, reported a bill to prohibit and punish rebellion in the State of Kentucky. The bill has been made the special order of to-day. One of its provisions makes the waging of war on the United States, or the enlistment of troops for the Confederates, or inducing other to do so, or the joining or parading with a company with the intent of joining the Confederate army, a felony, and punishable with from one to ten years imprisonment. Another provision makes the invasion of Kentucky by any of her citizens as Confederate soldiers punishable by death. The act is to go into effect in ten days after its passage.

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