ns to touch anything on board any boat that passes, except articles resulting in war.
There are said to be about 2,000 men at Cairo, and the number is increased by every train.
The officers said, when the Perry left, that they already had about 25 guns mounted.--The Swallow, when she went up to meet the Perry, had two guns mounted, with a large lot of soldiers aboard.
Later.--Since the above was written we have conversed with a gentleman who spent two days at Cairo.
He says Colonel Prentice, the commander at Cairo, is kept perfectly posted as to the cargo of every boat leaving St. Louis for the South, and hence it is impossible to get any arms through there.
But what is singular is, that no steamboat destined for the Ohio river has yet been stopped at Cairo.
Even boats for Louisville are permitted to pass without molestation.
But all boats coming this way are closely watched, and whatever guns they may have on board, it is almost certain will be captured.
There are abo
Position of Kentucky.
--Mr. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, has written to his brother in Washington, expressing the opinion that Kentucky will go out of the Union.--Prentice, however, asserts his determination to die in his tracks before he will surrender his position as a Union man or desert his business.
Position of Kentucky.
--Mr. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, has written to his brother in Washington, expressing the opinion that Kentucky will go out of the Union.--Prentice, however, asserts his determination to die in his tracks before he will surrender his position as a Union man or desert his business.
From Kentucky. Louisville May 23.
--Neither Harney nor Prentice, who had been summoned to Frankfort to give evidence before a Committee of the Kentucky House of Representatives, relative to the introduction of arms into the State, went there.
The Senate bill gratifies the States-Rights men.
The Governor is included in the Commissioners.
The bill provides for Home Guards.
The Legislature will adjourn to-morrow at 12 o'clock.
Some incidental appropriations were passed unanimously.
Major Breckinridge was within the bar of the House, surrounded by many friends.
The Governor has not yet signed the Stay Law bill.
us position.
Delay but increases the gloomy prospect for her, no matter which side she takes.
Delay but embitters the two parties into which she is being divided and which will be thrown into hot and bloody conflict, no matter which side she takes.
This might have been avoided.
Her people might have been comparatively united had Mr. Crittenden died or gone to the shades of retirement two years since, and had there been no such men as Guthrie, Garrett Davis, and that unscrupulous editor, Prentice. Providence has otherwise ordered it; and a day of woe, we fear, is in store for Kentucky should the war last long.
That she will go with the South, we believe is inevitable.
Every argument, every interest, every honest sympathy of her's, plainly force her to that position.
But the mismanagement, if not treachery, of some of her leaders have so obstructed her course, so imbued her public mind with conflicting views and bitter animosities, that we deeply apprehend that there is yet to be
inst.
we take the following in regard to the state of feeling in Kentucky:
Numbers of gentlemen, who have returned to this city from various parts of Kentucky within the last few days, bring us the most gratifying intelligence of the reaction which has recently commenced to sweep over that State.
We are reliably informed that Lincolnism is doomed for the future among her people everywhere outside of that miserable sink hole of submissionism-- Louisville — where traitor like Guthrie, Prentice and Harney hold temporary away.
The Confederate flag is said to wave along the railroad line from the Ohio river to the border of Tennessee, and a new born enthusiasm has suddenly seized upon the people, which promises to very soon consolidate political sentiment in favor of the South.
Shouts for the patriot Day's, which a month ago would have been dangerous, now make the welkin ring in every town, county and community, and the cry gains ground, for deliverance from the oppressions of
me of the Federal troops from Cairo on the previous day. In a conversation between General McClellan and ourselves, which was marked by unreserved frankness and great courtesy on his part, he did distinctly state that he and General, Buckner, a few days previous, had agreed upon terms for the mother governance of each in respect of the neutral position of Kentucky.
He did say that he had agreed that not a soldier should touch Kentucky soil; that he had no expressly issued his orders to General Prentice.
He did say that Kentucky was to be left to take charge of her own citizens, and positively stated to us, that if any application was made to him for assistance from any of the citizens of Kentucky he would extend no aid himself — and he did say that the agreement was that while the Federal force was by him to be kept out of Kentucky he would not himself attempt, or claim the right to expel any Confederate force; but that if any such force did enter the State, that General Buckner was
candor.
To affect neutrality while remaining a part of the old Union, bound constitutionally or politically by all its acts, was in keeping with the factious of Crittenden and Guthrie Leslie Coomes and Joe Holt, parson Breckinridge and partisan Prentice. This was the artful dodge by which those cunning men beguiled over from the ranks of the Secessionists proper, the great body of the good people of Kentucky.
This is the delusive bait by which they have succeeded in hooking a great and gallantrevented them from following John C. Breckinridge, Magoffin, Powell, Burnett, Stephenson, Brown, and the other true men who would have led them into the Southern Confederacy.
The time has passed for the secession of Kentucky. Crittenden and Prentice and Guthrie have done their evil work.
The people have been beguiled and deceived by a honeyed word cunningly contrived for their undoing.
All further proceedings in Kentucky must be revolutionary, violent and convulsive.
There is no legal pa
l proportions of manhood's size, with the heart of a baby, and kicked and cuffed from side to side, would cry and throw up his hands to guard, not resent, the indignity.
He is a true representative of the great Kentucky interest, (?) the Louisville Journel; and a fit representative he is Loud in declamation, truculent in thought, hold and arrogant in expression, abusive and vulgar in lauguage, there is no responsibility where person has to answer for the ribald tongue.
He scorns, like Prentice, the exposure of his person when called to account for his blackguardism.
Of all men he is the fittest to be the auther of such a bill, which to be kicked out of the Legis but the consideration of which was amicably postponed until Monday.
A mean, craven-hearted wretch, regarded as such by all who know him--one who would let his jaws be slapped and his face bespit without resentment — he is the fit instrument through whom such a bill should be presented for the consideration of the p
l proportions of manhood's size, with the heart of a baby, and kicked and cuffed from side to side, would cry and throw up his hands to guard, not resent, the indignity.
He is a true representative of the great Kentucky interest, (?) the Louisville Journal; and a fit representative he is Loud in declamation, truculent in thought, hold and arrogant in expression, abusive and vulgar in language, there is no responsibility where person has to answer for the ribald tongue.
He scorns, like Prentice, the exposure of his person when called to account for his blackguardism.
Of all men he is the fittest to be the author of such a bill, which deserved to be kicked out of the Legislature, but the consideration of which was amicably postponed until Monday.
A mean, craven-hearted wretch, regarded as such by all who know him--one who would let his jaws be slapped and his face be spit without resentment — he is the fit instrument through whom such a bill should be presented for the consid
