Condition of Affairs in Kentucky--very little sympathy for the Lincoln cause.
The following correspondence, taken from the Cincinnati Commercial, though written by a Lincolnites, will show that the Confederate cause in Kentucky is onward. Our readers will find it interesting; though, doubtless, there are many things said in it about the Confederates which are absolutely false: Owensburg, Ky., Oct. 24, 1861.
Eds. Com.: Several refugees arrived here yesterday from Bowling Green, having escaped from the rebels.
A young man, one of the number, attempted to leave the place one evening, but on reaching a point some miles out, suddenly found himself in the hands of a dozen or more pickets, who kept him all night, and in the morning sent him to town under a strong guard, when he was released.
He says the rebels have over 60,000 soldiers in the vicinity of Bowling Green, and that more than 6,000 of them are on the sick list; that there are a great many Indian warriors and Texan rangers connected with the army, and that drunkenness and rowdyism prevails to an alarming degree.
The families of nearly all of the Union men have been driven from their homes, and their dwellings are now occupied as hospitals by the rebels.
A widow lady who kept a large boarding house, was waited on one morning by General Buckner, who told her she must leave the house forthwith, as he wanted the house and must have it. She told him that rather than have her house occupied by traitors she would set fire to it and burn it to ashes.
But in her case, as in too many others might prevailed over right, and in less than an hour her house was full of soldiers, and she and her daughters turned into the street without a shelter to protect them, or a friend to advise or aid them.
Since the occupation of this place by Union troops, it has been as quiet and orderly as most places in this region; but one can easily see that the fire, though smothered, is still burning, and that it needs but a breath to fan it to a flame.
Indeed, I am satisfied that the capture of this town by the rebels would be the occasion of great rejoicing by more than two- thirds of its inhabitants.
Many of the leading merchants here are doing no business at all — some because they are known to be traitors, and therefore, can get no goods, and others because they are afraid to lay in a stock, not knowing how soon the rebels may be upon them, and appropriate their goods without money and without price.
There are two regiments--one of infantry, commanded by Col. Burbage, and one of cavalry, commanded by Col. Jackson--located at the Fair Ground near this place, but they are filling up slowly.
The fact is, Kentuckians in this section are not disposed to fight for the Union, but, on the contrary, the presence of the Union troops seems to annoy them greatly.
Three full companies of rebels have been raised here, and are in the Confederate army, fighting with traitors like themselves, against the Government that has always protected them, whilst not a single company is yet full who are willing to fight for our flag and our dear native land.
Indeed, I believe that two-thirds of the people of Southern Kentucky are ready and willing to fall into the arms of Jeff. Davis at any time; and nothing but the presence of the gunboats, and a large force of Union troops on the border, prevents a general uprising in favor of the Southern Confederacy. 