Litchfield enquirer., 1861-09-26
NsWs nf tI,s Week.
IMPORTANT FROM MISSOURI.
REPORTED SURRENDER OF THE BRAVE Cor.
 MULLIGAN

gins in this city tomorrow Orders to that ef- feet were issued on Saturday.
 A special dispatch to the Times, sent from Quincy at one o'clock this morning, says that the Mail Agent of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad who arrived at seven o'clock Saturday night from St. Joseph, states that Col. Mullgan and his whole command, at Lexington, surrend- cred to Gen. Price on Friday morning at five o. 1 clock. The siege continued from Monday until the time of the surrender. Col Mulligan and men were without water during Thursday and Friday, and were completely exhausted. They l fought desperately, but were compelled to yield to superior numbers.
 The Union loss in killed and wounded is said be from eight to nine Hundred, while that of the rebels is some three or four thousand, with pro- portionate number of wounded.
 The report of the battle and the result is fully corroborated by passengers on the same train. The news was brought by stage to Hamilton, ! which is the nearest point on the railroad to Lexington, being . distance of fifty miles. Of the fact of the surrender there can bs no doubt.
 The Sd Regiment of Iowa Volunteers, who ] were on their way to reinforce Col, Mulligan, date not given,) suddenly and unexpectedly | came across body of four thousand rebels at Blue Mills, Mo-, when a battle commenced and 1 continued one hour and half The Iowa Regi- ] ment was about to retire, when the rebels re- treated across the river just in time to fall into the hands of Gen. Lanes brigade of 4,00O who were also marching to reinforce Col. Mulligan. | The Unionsts captured seven or eight hun dred and killed two hundred.
 The rebels fled and recrossed the river, when the Iowa Regiment started in pursuit. 1 In the first encounter the IoNans lost nineteen killed and thirty wounded.
 Ten or twelve rebel prisoners were brought into Quincy from St. Joseph, on Saturday, two or three of whom are known to have been con- cerned in the burning of the Plate Bridge few weeks since
 | A special dispatch to the Tribune from the headquarters at St. Louis, says that the surren- der of Col Mulligan was not believed there, but that reinforcements were pressing toward him from four different quarters.
 GENTLEMEN just arrived from Kentucky speak in cheering terms of the enthusiasm prevailing among the Union men there. They say if Ken lucky has been slow to move, it is evident that she is moving now with will and heartiness that will not be checked until every rebel in arms is driven from her soil. Tho people are responding with enthusiastic alacrity to the re solutions of their Legislature, that the invaders must be driven of. The rumored approach o the scoundrelly spy and traitor Buckner, by way of Bowling Green, towards the city of Lonis vile, has reused the deepest indignation, and tue Home Guard are rushing torepel his advance without waiting for endorsements. These however, are rapidly going forward from India na and Illinois. There is probably by this time concentrated ia Burnetts benighted district 8 sufficient force of the Kentucky Home Guard and Union volunteers from other States, to drive Generals Polk, Buckner and ZollicoEer back ia. to Tennessee, and to follow up the advantage thus gained. Their attempts to subjugats Ken lucky has fired the patriotism Of tho Dark anG Bloody Grounl," and will recoil with crushin; force.
 Tie following proclamation hss just been is sued:
 1 KEsTUcKIANs: Called by the Legislature O this my native State, I hereby assume command of this Department. I come to enforce not tt make laws, and God willing, to protect your pro perty and lives. The enemies of the country have dared to invade our soil. Kentucky is il danger. She has vainly striven to keep peace with her neighbors. Our State is now invaded by those who professed to be her friends, but who now seek 10 conquer her. No true son o1 Kentucky can longer Leistate as to lis duty te his State and country. The invaders must, and God willing, will be expelled. The leader ot the hostile forces who now approaches is, 1 re- gret to say. a kentuckan, making war on Ken lucky and kentucsians. Let all past differen ces of opinion be overlooked. Everyone who now rallies 10 the support of our Union and our State is a friend Rally, then, my countrymen around the Flag fathers loved, and which has shielded us 80 long, I call you to arms for self defense and for the protection of all that is dear to Free.aen Let us trust in God, and dc our duty as did our fathers. ] (sisnsd) ROBERT ANDERSON, | Bricsdier-General U. s. A. Il Gov. Magofhn has also issued his proclama- tion, ordering Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden to ex. ecute the purposes contemplated by the recent resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature in refe- renee to the expulsion of the invaders. Gen. Crittenden has ordered the military to muster forthwith into service.
 NEws FROM WAsHINaToN.- Vashington Sept 21. Neither Beauregard's promise to his army, to take the city of Washington, nor that given about crossing over into Maryland, have yet been fulfilled. The formidable appearance of the Union forces at every assailable point pre- cludes the one, and the dissolution of the seces- sion Legislature of Maryland renders the other proGtless as well as hazardous. The same quiet that has prevailed for days still reigns through out the whole extent of our army of the Potomac. Nervous people have been startled by occasional discharges of artillery, which were traced to sa- : lutes to General Mcclellan and the Prince de Jonville, or to firing for practice in some of the various Notifications. The fact is, the prospect of a grand assault upon our works by the con- solidated rebel army grows ''smal by degrees and beautifully less.''
 It is now generally conceded that there will be no battle of consequence in this vicinity, unless General Mcclellan himself directs the army un- der his command to assume an offensive attitude There is no immediate probability that this will be done, in view of the fact that the rebels