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LEBANON. 



LEXINGTON. 



humbly submitted himself to the Holy Father, 

 and on his return announced his determination 

 thenceforward to know no other guide than 

 the Church. He now gave his whole mind to 

 preaching, and his conferences at Notre Dame 

 drew a large assemblage of eminent men, at- 

 tracted alike by his eloquence, his fervor, and 

 his free discussion, under a religious guise, of all 

 sorts of political and social questions. At the 

 end of two years he again visited Kome, where 

 he was favorably received by the Pope, and 

 where he wrote his Lettre sur le Saint Siege, 

 published in 1838, which is a solemn protest and 

 argument against his former views as developed 

 in VAv&nir. On his return to Paris he again 

 preached for a time at Notre Dame, and then 

 entered the convent of Minerva, and in April, 

 1840, took the Dominican habit, and added to 

 his other titles that of founder of a new order 

 of Dominicans. "While in the convent he 

 wrote his Vie de Saint Dominique, Paris, 1840, 

 and in 1841 returned to Notre Dame, and with 

 shaven head and white robe ascended the pul- 

 pit there and preached with a more intense 

 fervor and a more burning eloquence than ever 

 before. The ancient cathedral was crowded to 

 hear him. In 1848, at the outbreak of the rev- 

 olution, he was elected to the Constituent As- 

 sembly, and took his place with the most ultra- 

 radical members ; but finding himself in uncon- 

 genial society, he soon resigned. In 1853 some 

 pointed political allusions in one of his sermons 

 caused his temporary removal from Notre 

 Dame, and the following year he retired per- 

 manently, and assumed the direction of the Col- 

 lege of Sorreze in the department of Tarn. In 

 Feb. 1860, he was elected to the French Acad- 

 emy as the successor of Alexis de Tocqueville. 

 His health, which had not for setae time been 

 firm, and which he had impaired by the rigor 

 of his asceticism, now failed, and he became 

 sleepless and suffered from an intense exalta- 

 tion of the brain and nervous system, which 

 rendered the touch of even the most delicate 

 fabric a torture, but gave to his intellect a 

 preternatural activity. He dictated incessant- 

 ly, and with the most extraordinary eloquence 

 to a corps of amanuenses, who relieved each 

 other in turn, and continued thus to pour out 

 his thoughts till his days of suffering were fin- 

 ished by the utter exhaustion of his physical 

 system. Besides the works already named, Fa- 

 ther Lacordaire published Considerations phi- 

 losophiques sur le systdme de M. de Lamennais, 

 Paris, 1834, 8vo. ; Memoire pour le retablisse- 

 ment en France de Vordre des freres precJieurs, 

 1840, 8vo. ; Conferences de Notre Dame de 

 Paris, 1835-1850, 3 vols., 8vo. ; Conferences du 

 R. P. Lacordaire prechees a Lyon et a Greno- 

 ble, Lyons, 1845, 8vo. ; Sermons et Eloges Fu- 

 nebres, 1844-1847, 8vo. 



LEBANON is a small village in Boone Coun- 

 ty, Missouri, about forty-two miles north by west 

 from Jefferson City, the capital of the State. 



On the 13th of October, a sudden dash was 

 made upon a body of Confederate troops num- 



bering about three hundred, by a Federal 

 force, a few miles east of Lebanon. The Con- 

 federate force had gathered on the side of a hill 

 on the right of a road running eastward, and 

 were drawn up in line of battle, expecting an 

 attack from a corn-field on the opposite side 

 of the road. In this position they remained 

 an hour and a half, when, suddenly, two com- 

 panies of Federal cavalry, under Capts. Mont- 

 gomery and Switzler, advanced over the brow 

 of the hill in their rear, and plunged forward to 

 within a hundred paces, delivering, at the same 

 time, a destructive fire on the enemy, who were 

 scattered and retired precipitately on the road 

 towards Lebanon. Several of the Confederate 

 force were killed, and thirteen taken prisoners. 



LEESBURG is a handsome town, and the 

 capital of London County, Virginia. It is situ- 

 ated near the Kittoctan Mountains, three miles 

 from the Potomac Biver. The streets are well 

 paved, and the town is built in a substantial 

 manner. It is 150 miles north of Kichmond, 

 38 miles northwest of Alexandria, and about 

 20 miles south by east of Harper's Ferry. It 

 is the termination of the Alexandria, London, 

 and Hampshire railroad. All the buildings of 

 this road were destroyed by the Confederate 

 troops when they evacuated this place on the 

 15th of June. This evacuation was immediate- 

 ly followed by its occupation by Union troops, 

 under Col. Stone, who subsequently evacuated 

 the place, when it was again occupied by Con- 

 federate troops, who remained in posesssion 

 until withdrawn from northeastern Virginia. 



LEXINGTON has been a thriving town, and 

 the capital of Lafayette County, Missouri. It 

 is in a high and healthy situation, on the right 

 bank of the Missouri River, 120 miles, by the 

 road, west of Jefferson City. The population 

 was about 5,000. 



On the 29th of August a body of Home 

 Guards, with some United States regulars post- 

 ed at Lexington, were attacked by a large Con- 

 federate force. The Federal force numbered 

 430, and was intrenched. The assailing party 

 had no artillery, and were repulsed with a con- 

 siderable loss, and subsequently withdrew. 

 This attack showed the importance of sending 

 forward reinforcements. Accordingly, on the 

 9th of September, the town was occupied by an 

 Irish brigade under Col. Mulligan, which, in 

 addition to a small force there, consisting of 

 Home Guards, a few Kansas troops, a portion 

 of the Missouri Eighth Regiment, and seven 

 hundred of the Illinois Cavalry, swelled the 

 number to 2,500 men. Soon after a Confeder- 

 ate force under Gen. Price threatened an at- 

 tack upon them. No time was lost in the work 

 of intrenching their position, chosen about mid- 

 way between the new and old towns of Lexing- 

 ton, which are about a mile apart, connected 

 by a scattering settlement. Midway stood a 

 solid brick edifice, built for a college, and about 

 this a small breastwork had been already be- 

 gun. By Col. Mulligan's order this was ex- 

 tended, and the troops commenced the con- 



