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Affairs in the West--accounts from the North.

Mobile, Aug. 25.
--A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register, dated Tupelo, yesterday, says:

Louisville papers of the 18th and Cincinnati papers of the 19th have been received. They furnish the following summary of news.

Several new points in Kentucky have been occupied by rebel guerrillas Richmond 23 miles from Lexington is now occupied by three thousand rebels.

Eighty Confederates, supposed to be on their way to join Morgan, a ere captured at Mammoth Cave.

Bodies of cavalry, supposed to be the advance of a large force, have appeared at London and Somerset Bull Nelson was at Nashville on the 18th. Trains are running through from Nashville on the Chattanooga road.

A large body of rebels, collected in Jackson Mo., threaten, an attack on Kansas City. The Kansas militia has been ordered out en masse.

At the ovation given to Col. Corcoran at Washington. Col. Wilcox declared that the rebellion was stronger now than ever.

Cassius M. Clay has been assigned to an important command west of the Mississippi.

The Emperor of Russia expects to visit the United States.

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