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^'9® Cinoinn*ti. Etok of UtM ram ora Jmus its believers, ud if they go on inoreM-in number and magnitude, ike lastKalo will dwindls by ths aids of tka uxL es« are the simple foots: No foroe of rebels of any importance, are in southeast era Kentucky; nor could any such find subsistence there. Cluke was endeavoring to escape through Pound Gap, and would be exceedingly fortunate to avoid being cut. off by Colonel Wilson’s party. Gilmore’s organisation of soouts and spios during the last few weeks, has boon admirable and effeotivo. The real invading foroe of rebels is the same oommended by General Pegram, that were prevented from cooperating with Clnke, on aooount of bad roads and high rivers, impassable for artillery and infantry. Cluke, with oevalry, orossed the Cumberland below, and hovered. about Winchester, expecting re-enforcements, until foroed out via Hasel Green toward Pound Gap. Pegram’s forces are oouated and his plans known perfectly well by the Department. The only* fear is tbat he will not carry them out. If, as is probable, ho has crossed the I Cumberland, and there it no hitch in our military arrangements, his fata will bo easy to predict, and the people of Kentucky may await the result with oonfidence. When the plot thtokens General Gilmore will take the field ini person.Paris is in Otigh stats of excitement today. A United States Marshal came in this evening with tke report that Cluke, fearing capture, kad returned through Haxel Green, burned Mount Sterling, and eapiured some two hundred and fifty of our troope there atweven o’clock* this morning. The return of Cluke is probable, but the rest of the story is not._ e « __.____« • «« ■ • M _ ___
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Mar 24, 1863
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