The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-23
FROM SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.
Camp Wsadham Robertson - Arany Movements i,
Kentacky-Suocsss Of 6eneral Marshas!-Price o
Provisions, &c.
ESPECIAL CORRESPOND OF THK DISPATCH
CAMP RoBgRTsoE, NEAR ABINGDON,

hEADSCAkTE ERS .N6tn Re&. va. OiS.,>
December 10, 1861.
From these headquarters named in honor
of WynGham Rob ts0n, tSQ and over
locked by interminabie knobs, write this
letter. The location in respect of wood and
water is desira abie, but besides being on the
North side of Al elevated knob, where the
sun is not visible uatil 10 O'Clock, the land
has been in cultivation, and when thawed be-
comes quite miry. member of company
ga has Just witnessed q most unusual spec
tscle III one of the gorges-frost two ana a
half inches in thickness. He expresses the
opinion that the rays of the sun had not
visi ted tia hollow ';since the flood
am able to lay before your readers some
interesting facts in reference to aTfiirs in
Kentucky The status of the enemy shall frs !.
engage my attention. Zeigler, with a force
amounting to TWO thousand, is at Catletts
burg, at The mouth Of the Big Sandy. Laban
Z. Moore, who represented Kentucky in the
Federal Ion gress last year, is at the head OF
about eight hundred men at Louisa. These
troops, learn from gentleman just from
that section of the State, are in a deplori. bic
condition of i'll health. Gen. Buell. and Gen.
Rou usSeau, the latter of whom WAS some time
since reported to have resigned in conseq uence
OF failing health, backed by an army or sixty
thousand men, are at place called Gam p
keyin, but whose proper name is Camp II o.
lin, on tle main Louis lille and Nashville
Railroad, and distant from Bowling Green
80 miles
This large army is said to be in good fight
ing trim, and 1t will, possibly, give General
Johnston some trouble, though not more
Lnan that distinguished officer can success
FULLY encounter. The nagnidcence of the
army OF the latter is represen ted to me by an
eye witness 10 be far beyond nything he has
ever observed. In discipline, drill, courage,
and military equippags, il probab bly, snrpasse &
any other division of the Con federate forces.
/ am happy to be able to renew the asSur
ance that General Marshall is meeting with
great success. His brigade, like 4 ball OF
snow, in creaseS as it rolls along. 1t is conf
IDENTITY estimated that before long fifteen
thousand men will be under the command of
the gallant Kentuckian. l shall not say
whether he intends to effect a. union with
any other Confederate General but, ii he
should desire to do SO, it can easily be accom-
plishe ed. Col. Moore's regiment is now on
the march to join Gen. Marshall who is now
in the vicinity OF Prest0nsburg, but avows his
determiI alton TO reach the " blue grass coun-
try" before many moons.u
Pork is worth only five dollars, gross, at
Prestons burg, and corn thirty cents bushei.
These articles are still cheaper in the inte-
rior.
Mail communication, twice a week, by con-
rierR, has just been established between
Abingdon and General Marshaii's headquar-
ters The promptness of Judge Reagan, and
MIR. Willis Roberts, his agent, in opening so
important route, deserves commendatlon.
Mr.. Roberts tells .9ne that he was compelled
to leave his home, near Lexington, to escape
swallowing the awful mouthful CT Lincoln s
oath. This gentleman is on G among the many
who have not seen the loved ones al home for
long and weary months. He IS an old mar
and the blood boils when his wrongs, like
those OF thousands, are recited. And the
prayer involuntaTi!y escapes the lips that
the despzcable tyranny which weighs so hea-
Willy on Kentucky, may soon be removed. and
forth "erect with native honor clad -
OCCASIONAL.