The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Preparations to Overawe Kentucky.

‘ It has information from a source of the highest respectability that Garrett Davis has procured a large quantity of arms for the exclusive use of his partisans. From thirty-two to forty boxes, containing 1200 stand of arms and ammunition, were known to have been brought across the river from Cincinnati to Covington, shipped on a special night train, and delivered in Paris before light on Saturday morning, and put under guard of a strong patrol awaiting to receive them; and before daylight, two wagons were loaded and sent off to Georgetown. Fourteen boxes were retained at Paris; the remainder, it is presumed, were dispatched to Lexington and Winchester.

The arrival of guns and ammunition at Paris — muskets — was the signal of great rejoicing, manifested in the form of wasting ammunition by many discharges of musketry.-- The guns were promptly distributed to those deemed faithful, Mr. Davis being on hand, the foremost figure in the foreground.

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