--From an article in a late number of the Louisville
Democrat, it appears that the spirit of ‘"rebellion"’ is yet alive in
Kentucky.
A correspondent of that paper, writing from
Burkesville, May 29, says:
‘
"Our town is again full of Secesh, numbering about one hundred and twenty-five, under the command of
Champ Ferguson.
It is impossible to tell what depredations they will commit on this visit, since they were shot at by five or six Union soldiers, who chanced to be in town at the time they came in.
Ferguson has placed a guard around the bank, and swears that he will clean out the whole concern — books, money, bills of exchange, and all included."
’
We subjoin an extract from the
Louisville Bulletin. showing that somebody in the
West is supplying the ‘"rebels"’ with powder:
The Cincinnati
Commercial says, that during the past few weeks larger quantities of gunpowder have been shipped over the Kentucky Central railroad than during the terrible month of preparation in the early history of the rebellion, and the wonder is that it is allowed to go on unchecked.
The Surveyor of Customs at
Covington has grown alarmed at the increased shipments of this article, and has very properly refused to allow any more to pass through without permits from the
Custom House,
Cincinnati.
The description of powder shipped is that used for blasting, but that is the same which is used for cannon, and there can be no doubt that little individual shipments of from two to six kegs go to swell the aggregate, now large in the rebel portions of the
State.
One fact is significant, and that is that all the recent shipments have been to well-known rebel sympathizers in the interior, while staunch Union men find no trade for the article, probably because rebels would hardly apply to them for an article the use of which is so unequivocal.
