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An exploit in the Northwest.
--Our reader may remember that we published not Federal account of a "battle" in North western Virginia, copied, we believe, them the Wheeling We never respect to get anything like a truthful statement through a Federal medium, but this was the most remarkable case of exaggeration that has yet appeared in print.
We have it to lay before our readers a cor- account of the affair, just received from Northwest.
The exploit of John will be placed on record as one of the incidents of the war.
-pears that Righter, a true Southern whose house had been destroyed by the determined to visit Marion county -pose, and made his way successfully, through the Federal at great personal risk.
He represents there were Northern soldiers there small guard stationed at Farming- and they were in the habit of a place called Worthington for the -pose of getting drank.
Righter de- to attack them, which he with some fifteen men, and drove them of the pl
From Western Virginia.
the mails — death of Col. Spalding--the defence of Gauley, &c., &c.
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier Co., Va. Sept. 30, 1861.
The mails here from the East are three days behind hand.
We have no mail from Richmond since Friday last.
A traveller by some private conveyance came through yesterday with a copy of the Dispatch, containing, as I hear, news of the taking of Lexington, Missouri, after a hard-fought battle, and a great victory for the Confederates.
I have not seen it, (the paper,) but the news is the cause of much rejoicing among the people, who have been a little depressed at the long pause in the movements in Virginia beyond the mountains, and the infringing of the enemy in the West upon the Alleghanies.
The cause of the delay in the mails — always slow enough in this region — at this time is an immense flood, which happened at the close of last week.
The mountain streams at this <
A negro stealing war.
--A letter from a large slaveholder in Leesburg, Loudoun co., received yesterday by his son in Richmond, says that the Lincolnites have taken every negro as far as they have gone.
Among those in that neighborhood who have suffered are Major Nutt, who has lost all his negroes, fourteen in number, and Mr. Summers, who has lost ten, all he had. The purpose of this war is evident from these facts.
Upon the Peninsula, in Western Virginia, wherever the enemy have a foothold, they show, by deeds like these, the real character and object of the invasion.