The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1862-10-17
The News.

We have some little news of Importance
this week. and that little is of a character to
make us very anxious for more of the same
sort. In the fight at Corinth on the Sd and
18th. we fear that our army was badly worst
ed, though not as badly whipped as Yankee
accounts indicate. Our forces fought gallant
". and slew the Fede1als in piles, but they
were oyerpowered by numbers, and forced to
retreat. The battle was bloody and obsti-
nate, and the loss on both sides very heavy.
The forces of the enemy were about $4,000,
and ours only about $4,000, and the former
had the additional advantage of strong forth
fications. Altho' this reverse is to be regret
ted-deeply regretted on account OF the gal
liant men who fell--it is no cause OF dlscou-
ragement However much we may desire 1t,
we should not expect, in operations SO extern
sive, to be always successful. Disasters Will
occur. The way to mend them is, to rally III
the true spirit, trust God and keep our pow
der dry. We have whipped them out Of their
entrenehments and out Of their brceches in q
dozen consecutive pitched battles, and should
not falter or repine at one little reverse.
On the line of the Potomac, all seems to be
quiet. tits thought by some that the Yam
KEGS are again threatening Richmond with an
army at Suffolk and another at, Centreyiile,
numbering in all some IS, 900 men. Oaridea
is, that they are feignirg to threaten our ca
pital to save their own. They want to coax
Lee from his present position. He is too old
bird to be caught with chat, and doubtless
understands their naauouvres. All viii week
right in that quarter.
Our Western army when last heard FROM
was at Holly Springs, Miss, ready for ano-
Their fight IF the President will put Gen.
Price in command, we will hear Of no more
repulses. This is or opinion.
Of our Kentucky forces, we know but lit
tle The Federal accounts say that they have
retreated back to Crab Orchard. We don't
believe it. If they have fallen back to that
point, the NOV ement is strategic, aad was not
forced upon them. At last accounts, heavy
skirmishing had occurred on the Barastown
road, some IL miles from Louisville. Kirby
Smith was at Lexington or Frankfort, and
Gen. Marshall at Mount Sterling Thousands
of Kentuckians had joined our armies, and
we have an abiding faith that they will hold
and redeem the State. Northern accounts
State that Lincoln has called for 400 600 more
men, making his new leyies million of men,
We don't care If he marshals every man, wo-
man and child in Yankeedom, we II lick them
in the end.
LATER.
Thenews we publish to-day from Kentucky,
is glorious. twill be seen that we give both
the Northern and Southern account, and that
they do not materially differ. Some of cur
contemporaries seem to he puzzled about the
locality of Perryyille By reference to the map
in Cornell's School Atlas, it. will be found to
be about 10 miles southwest Of Danyille, a
bout the same distance south Of Harrodsburg,
on the road leading from the latter place to
Lebanon, and about IS miles south of Frank
fort This victory will make up for our re-
verse at Corinth, and strengthens the hope
that Kentucky's redemption is fixed fact.
God grant that it may be so, and that the last
invader will find his last resting place on the
Ozark and Bloody Ground. y
For cheering news from several points, see
next page. It came by Thursday morning s
mail, after our form had been made ready for
press.