Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-24

soldiers, who are extremely anxious to move
South and have fight, even if they have to
go to Louisiana after it.
Rebels, or those who declare themselves
such, are very scarce in this vicinity, though
the thousands who have returned home from
Prices army, since the evacuation of Lex
ington, will cause renewed troubles, and
repeat their ouirages as soon as Fremonts
army departs for the South, unless they are
held in check by Federal bayonets.
SYRACUSE, NO., Oct Is, night.
Everything is very quiet here tonight,
but active preparations are making for
movement on quarter least expected In
crease means eff transportation are arriving
here, and more are expected.
1t is now believed in military circles that
the rebels design an attack on st. Louis, and
that the burning of the bridge sixty miles
south of your city, is part of the programme.
The secessionists seem to have no designs
for the present on any poiut in this section
of the State Georgetown, Boonville, and
Sedalia remain quiet.
SYRACUSE, No, Oct. l6.-Gen Fremont
yesterday removed his camp still further
south towards Versailles, and is now with
his forces twenty miles from Upton.
Gen. McKinstry and his division will
move as 5000 as they can obtain transpor-
Satitus HulCn Will plODdUiy DC IL d ddJ Vi
two, and Mex, will then combine his forces
with those of Fremont.
Gen. Pope viii leave here to-day, and as
Siegel has already quilted Sedalia, it is sup
posed that the five divisions viii ere long
make q juncture with each other and pro-
coed together in body.
A detachment of 800 cavalry was sent
out from here day before yesterday, to scour
the country for twenty miles around, under
command of Lieutenant Kelly, of the regu-
lar service, for the purpose of securing all
the wagons, horses and mules he can seize.
One of Gen. McKinstry's scouts arrived
this evening, having left Sterling Prices
camp south of the Osceola, ON the Osage.-
The scouts passed three days in the rebel
camp, where there were about nineteen
thousand fighting men, all State troops, who
were in wretched condition, poorly clad
and with hardly any provisions Their
arms were of varied character, but mostly
shot guns and old fashioned rifles.
Price was anxious to get further South,
as he had heard and believed Fremont Was
pursuing him with sixty thousand troops
1t is reported that he expressed great dis
appointment in not being Joined by McCul-
lough's forces from Arkansas. If Price
does does not find them soon he will hurry
into that State, and it is not improbable he
has crossed the line by this time.
The wagons and mules for transportation
from the adjacent counties, come in slowly
here.
Military officers here express great regret
that the conduct of this war is SO much in
fuenced by politics, and a distinguished
General declared this evening, that on this
account the Federal cause never looked so
dark as at the present hour.
1t is rumored that Adjutant General Thorn
as was challenged recently by Gen. Fremont,
at Upton, because he believed the latter was
the source of many of the gross misrepre-
sensations against him, but the latter de-
clined q duel on account of his belonging to
the church