The national Republican., 1861-08-23
TIL CAMPAIGN IN MISSOURI.

~ DNu OlHb OH ne lOtn, lnere Wers iOuf
regiments under Colonels Macarthur. Wallace.
Dougherty and Lswler.
At Rolla, on the l6th, there were four regi.
ments the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
Illinois, and the seventh Missouri. Two more
regiments, which had been under orders
thither, had been countermanded. and directed
TO proceed to Ironton, to join the column of
General Preniss. intended to operate against
General Hardee
General Siegel's force, now camped within
II few miles of Rolla, must be reduced to low
figure. 1t consisted of only $500 men before
the battle Of Wilson's Creek, 2,40O of whom
were three months men, whose time had either
expired, or was about expiring. The discharge
Of these men, aud the heavy loss in battle,
cannot leave General Siegel much more than
1000 effective men, out of the force with which
be retreated from Springfield.
The national force at Ironton, ten days ago
was 5000. Two more regiments have certainly
been sent since. and probably many more by
this time. An offensive movement may he
looked for from this column.
General Hurlburt, with brigade holds the
line of the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad
General Pope, with large force, commands
at Jefferson City.
General Fremont is personally organizing in
St. Louis large forces Tor the war, out Of dis
charged tAree months men. and out of new
material.
Indiana which seems to be as exhaustless in
soldiers as ever Hungary was, is beginning to
urn one OF her streams of men towards Mis-
sonri. The twenty-second Indiana regiment
commanded by Col. Davis, (who was in For
Sumter during the bombardment), ps.set
through Terre Haute, on the l6th, bound t.
St. Louis. The Terre Haute Express of tn,
18th says: ..
-Four Indiana regiments Of Infantry. one O
Two OF cavalry, and perhaps one or two com
panies OF artillery, are now fully equipped
and VIII go to st. Louis to Join Gen. Fremon
A. once. They are the 18th, 23d, Path, and 25th
The Fix regiments of three months men will bs
re.organized with the least possible delay, and
will follow in the same direction
Illinois, still more populous, adjoining Mis-
souri,, and already having many regiments il
service there, has now. as appears by procla
nation Of Gov. Yates, issued on the 18th. oh
tained carte Blanche from the War Department
to put into the field as many soldiers as will
enlist for the war. This means, in the presen
temper Of the Northwest every able bodie
man who is not kept at home by urgent reasons
As TO military supplies, every day bring
accounts of enormous quantities being lande
g the st. Louis Arsenal. In this connection
We notice that the Ptlsburg Ta-ehe, of th
l4h, states, that On The day previous. q, 90
maskets passed tnrre IN route for Gen. Fremon,
Without pretending to any knowledge O
military affairs as n specially, we know that
other things being equal. more vigorous an,
hardy men are recruited in temperate climate
than in warm ones that the loyal Northwe2
ourpumbers the rebellious Southwss est in tn
proportion of four to one; that Gen. Fremont
Who commands in the valley Of the Mississippi,
wel.trained soldier, Of extraordinary talent
and unbounded energy: and that he is not au
will not he hampered by any control frol
Washington, or be obliged to obey any orde
except the order to reach and reduce Ne,
Orleans and all the intervening country in th
shortest possible time. From these data it /
>aie 10 conclude, that the restoration of the oil
political unity of the valley Of the Mississippi
established by the sagacity Of our fathers, vii
"oon be restored not again to be disturbed /
1vr day and generation.