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The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Western Virginia. (search)
nce 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 place rose higher than they have risen since '42, and the old people say they have not been higher for fifty years. Much damage has been done to farms in washing lands and sweeping off fences. Some farmers on Greenbrier river have lost heavily in the drowning of cattle, sheep, and hogs. The roads were