Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-10

sentiment, O. CELL 4s tbs asNsP Of saE ATgps. Tl,s
danger q il failing 70 DO s;theF unls5s our authogi
ties correct man7 mistakes they SIZE frequently
making A little nore freedom Of 'Ehe pisa W.T.
work good in some of these.
From Missouri we have the most sxcitiHs news
Gen. Price has, after severe conflict, and with .
loss his side $50 say the latest accountsl Of 500
men, taken Lexington and the whole Of Col. Multi
gan's command-soms 2 500 men. The Cincinnati
Gazette says:
1--WE should not forget that besides prisoners q
large amount ofmatsriaI of war, thousand horses,
and two boats with ammunition which had been sent
TO his relief have fallen nto the hands of the rebels
The loss of this important point and of this army
by an overwhelming force, when its march on Lex
ington was known in time to have reinforced it. and
when the means for reinforcing 1t undoubtedly ex-
listed in the Western Department demands formal
inquiry into the reason and responsibility Of this
| disaster"
This is truly great loss to US and endaEgers
BoOnville and Jefferson City.
General Price released on parole all but the com
ned officers, and g 900 of them have passed
home to Illinois, thus closing their campaign for
/ this war, as they cannot again take up arms. How
many of Col Muigans men we're Killed of the 2. 5O(
| is not stated.
Il Is very difficult to tell where all the troops il
Missourfare stationed of either the Federal OF
| Confederate armies as all the news we get comes
very scattering through st. Louis, and vast amoun
of it coming from lip to lip until it reaches tbs
imagination, or diminished, as the case may be-
Kentucky, most unfortunate Kentucky, has gont
into the war troubles in great earnest. Her posi-
ton of peace and neutrality has only, from all ap
pearances, whetted her appetite for bitter eOnten
! TONS Armed men are already forming in ever
part of the State, hostile TO each other. Louisville
is already camp, and so with many other towns
| We quote again from the GIzstte:
"If, as reported. Backner and his forces are a
OwensbOrough, Ky, they are 10 position mos
threatening TO the lower counties in Indiana, anl
should they not be driven out can control the nayi
cation of the Ohio river. 9wensborough lie tn
caplt'l of Davis county, and lies not far from hal
way between Paducah and Louisville. ROckport
the near St important town on the Indiana shore i
but nine miles distant. The present is no time fol-
delay. The enemy is at our very doorsw
Both the North and the South have passed laws t
confscate the property of each other. The very
thing Of all others in the way of war measures they
should never have done; for whatever may be thu
end of this most unfortunate conflict those confsca
ton acts will leave the longest scores to SETTLE IN
less the ends in the utter determination of ont
party or the other, which few believe or few de
sire shall be the result and which foreign nations
evidently will not permit if both parties here shoulG
attempt such closing up of the sorrowfui Scene.
| JEFF. Thompson was called out by the citiZans o
| Memphis on Wednesday eveBing last, and made
speech from the balcony Of the Gsyoso House. H.
assured his hearers that large majority Of the
| people of Missouri would show themselves for tbs
! South whenever their voices could be heard and
that the ultimate political associations of the
State with the Confederate States was to his mind
certainty He also impressed upon his hearers thai
TO aid the people of Missouri in their struggle with
| Federal power was the best means of securing
Memphis and the lower Mississippi Valley from ms
VaslOn.