Year: 1862

THE REBEL DEFEAT AT MILL SPRING, KY.


The Richmond Dispatch of Friday shows that the rebels
arc much perpexed at their defeat in Kentucky The
Dispatch says 49,


regret say that the report Of the federal victory
in kentucky conveyed US on Wednesday night from
Northern sources Is than confirmed by intelligence
received here at the War department. IL appears that
defeat was moro decisive than even the Northern
accounts had led US to believe.


The editor says that this disaster in Kentucky and the
apprehension has excited for the safety OF
tion with the Southwest through Virginia and Tennessee
and the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and the
possible interruption of our intercourse with the South
via the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad by the Burnside
expedition attention the vital importance Of
completing the connection betwocn Richmond and Dams
vile and the North Carolina railroads.


from the Petersburg Express, Jan. 25.1


The tdings OF the heavy reverse which arms have
met ID In kentucky gloomy and bad enough to dis
courage US Providence has for some wise purposes
running in onr favor, and we bow submissvey the
dspensaton We believe 1t will be ultimately for
sood although at present we may not DO exactly able to
how. We believe that Heaven is directing events
to in the end grand and glorious issue to the
struggle in the complete demolition OF the Yankee power
and the establishment upon firm and lasting foundation
OF the independence and sovereignty Of the Southern
federacy and its inco poration in the family Of nations
Our FIRST and full trust in the Divine favor-in the
ruling Providence Of Him without whose smiles
on earth can prosper. So far we have had the most
cheering evidence that He is side, and in the
cent disaster at Somerset nothing to shake
faith trust in His protection On the contrary.


moro deeply impressed than ever with the that
He s directing the course Of this inq tous war in way
70 oonfound its guilty authors and to plunge than in r
redeemable ruin and shame Two dscomIttres are not
to be weighed against nearly dozen signal victories


The Lincoln journals will now spread themselves. At
last hai been achieved q success which gives them
which we have received but by means cast
down. sOne swallow does not mako summer, - and
this Yankee trum doss not begin to make conquest
OF The South 1t will only serve to rouse and strengthen
the emerge or her sons and give now vgr and impetus
70 their onsiaughts We have lost battle but are not
In the least dispirted by it. Defeat has no terror for
any than had for the Romans when almost under
the walls OF their city, their armies were beaten by
Pyrrhus and afterwards By Hannibal Not of the
generals who leaf tho armies Of Lincoln Is Pyrrhus
Hannibal, or the shadow of cthor, while have many
commanders thy OF comparison with the scipos and
Warehouses who achieve the devcrance tf Rome from
infinitely formidable uvasiens than this or the
Yankees.


We feel unutterable sorrow for the loss OF the brave
Zolcoer, who, like the lamened Garnelt, has fallen
martyr to the glorious cause for which he so earessy
fought, and whose memory will be eubsmsd anec
tiof OF his country for generations to come. He
noble specimen Of the patriot and hero and his loss 10
grcvously TO be dsplored and scrnly TO be avenged


Since hs foregoing written. have received q
special despatch from Knoxville which will be found
der the tescg 7aphc head. Il furnishes important add
tiona particulars Of ths battle II win be seen that the
Confederate defeat, although bad not disastrous
rst represented 70 be. Except three surgeons
none OF our men were taken prisoners The guns
all spiked, ana many Of thsm thrown in the river. and
although Lost to they equally lost he enemy
Our list OF killed and wounded Is q very moderate one,
considering disparity Of forces the severity and
duration c battle The federal loss from their own
account, heavy-no doubt nearly double what
Our army rscrossed the cumberland, and were
treating hout much confusion. Whether the enemy
crossed the river in pursuit is not known We presume
that they did not, they must have been in q very
crippled condition after such long and bloody fight


On the whole opinion from the lights before Is
that victory good deal like that Of Pyrrhus
tho Romans ut Asculum which caused that
ed warrior to exciam after il was gained that
such would bo his undoing.


We have doubt when the whole truth comes to be
known that the fighting In this battle, the Confede-
rato side Of the desperate character and that
the heroisn displayed in IL by officers and troops
has not been surpassed In any conflict that has taken
place since the war began.


Especial despatch OF the Petersburg Daily Express.l


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Jan. 24-P. n.


General Crittenden rallied at Monticello, Kentucky,
and will make a stand there.


The disaster to Confederate has greatly ex-
aggoratcd by frightened fugityes who have come in.


Monticello is the county seat Of Wayne county, Ken
tucky Immediately adjoining Pulaski, and about twenty
five mi distant from Somerset, in southwesterly d
rectioD. We have every to believe that
s much better in that portion Of Kentucky than
we had supposed.