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im.--Referring to the fight, he says: "We met them with twelve hundred men, and after fighting them two hours, retired in good order. We ambushed them at every turn of the road, cornfield and thicket, and are here (at Greenville, Mo.,) with more men than we started with, and the whole force in one thousand per cent, better spirits than when the campaign commenced." Sympathy for the South on the increase in Kentucky. A correspondent, writing from Hopkinsville, Ky., under date of October 23, says: When Gen. Alcorn marched his troops to this place it was in the possession of one of Abe's servants, Captain Jackson, who had under his command six or seven hundred troops; but on the approach of our gallant little band of Mississippians, amounting to some 500, they made good their escape, and are now far up in the inferior of the State. This brigade is composed of the first and third Mississippi regiments, one Kentucky regiment, and some 300 cavalry, mostly Kentuckians.