Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-17

tain Kidd, who arrived some days since with
a flag of truce from the rebel camp at Spring
field, Mo.
"HnAD-ouARTERs WESTERN De
"PARTMEsT, September IA, 1861.
Colonel q q Taylor, Commanding, at
"S1R: Yours Of the 9Th inst, containing
an erroneous construction of my proclama.
ton Of the 30th ult., has had my attention.
understand the object of your note to be
to inquire whether it was my intention to
shoot the wounded who might be made pris~
onsrs by the forces under my command. The
following paragraph, extracted from the
proclamation, will be strictly enforced within
the lines prescribed against the class of Of
tenders for whom it was intended, viz; 'All
persons who shall be taken with arms In
their hands within these lines shall be tried
by court. martial, and, if found guilty, will
be shot
"The lines are expressly declared TO be
those Of the army in the military occupation
of this State. You have wholly misappre-
hended the meaning of the proclamation,
without undertaking to determine the con-
diiion of any man engaged in this rebellion.
desire to be clearly understood that the
proclamation is intended distinctly to recog-
nize the usual rights Of an open enemy in
the field, and TO be in all respects strictly
conformable to the usages of war. 1t is
hardly necessary for me to say that it was
not prepared with any purpose to ignore the
ordinary rights of humanity with respect to
wounded men or to those who are humanely
engogssdi in alleviating their Sg spfeTi1g fsT6gu
"Major General Commanding
JEFFERSON Cry, September lathe cor
respondent of the st. Louis Democrat says:
"You may prepare yourselves for stirring
tidings. During the present week General
Price will be re-enforced by Rains with fif-
teen to twenty thousand men, and Claib.
jackson in their midst to give color of le-
gality to their proceedings ,is advancing upon
our lines. Wherever he goes the Secession
lists flock to meet him, and are rapidly swell
ing, his ranks.
In the affair of the steamer SiouD Gty at
Glasgow day or two since, ten rebels were
seen to tumble out of their saddles from
the effects of shots fred by the troops
on the steamer. Couriers Just from
Georgetown, announce that General Parsons
with four thousand men is posted just out
side the town to prevent the passage of re-
endorsements to Lexington"
Special Dispatch to the st. Louis Republican,
JEFFERSON CITY, September l6.-General
Price, at the head of fifteen or twenty
thousand men, attacked Lexington, on
Thursday, but we have no particulars of the
battle, nor do we know the result. The
troops at Lexington were strongly in
trenched.
General Pope, at last accounts, was at
Hamilton, with six or eight thousand troops.
CAIRO, September l6.-A deserter from
Columbus, KY, reports that on Friday last
the rebels, to the number of ten thousand,
under General Johnson had marching orders,
destination Paducah. He also reports that
JEFF. Thompson's forces are at Belmont, Mo.
The crew of the steamer John Gdult, seized
by the Government few days since at Pa
ducah, were released to-day.
A force of eight hundred infantry and four
pieces of Captain Taylor's light artillery,
reconnaissance below Norfolk, Mo-, on Sat-
urdsy. They saw three hundred rebels, who
fled on the approach of our troops.
All quiet here and at Paducah.