The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-12

The telegraph furnished us Yesterday mornino
with confused, and rambling and obyiopslv ron.
Trajectory account OF three several cnoao,en,o,,,
which have taken place in Missouri Eetweep tho
STATE and Federal troops; in which orc Gc,
however, is plainly apparent on each occasion
the latter were badly beaten. If We NAV crad;,
the Fort Scott Democrat from which paper the
statement is taken, Col. SIEGEL in command IF o
body of Federal troops, numbering ! 500 mon
encountered, near Carthage from 10 600 10 X mn
State troops, under Governor JACKSON and q ono
raj RAINS; broke their centre, and would have mt
them to rout, but for the incurabe ohstinecv of
the tanks, who coud not hear the order ia retreat
AS the TANKS, with that remarkable ohtusancps
which is evidently a quality peculiar to all the
forces that have been thus far opposed 10 the Fed
eral soldiery, did not know when they were
beaten, Col. SIEGEL, like prudent commander,
concluded to abandon the contest and fall bacI,
upon Carthage, "retreating slowly as the ar
count has it. He appears, however, to have been
vigorously followed up, for il is admitted that
at the crossing of Dry Fork his lines "cama very
'near being broken" and that they were only
kept together 'hy the timely arrival Of reinrn-ce
"ments." In this running fight the loss, On the
part OF the State troops, is said to have been very
great, and as 70 or 50 wounded were seen, it il
alleged by the informant, in the field and in the
houses by the wayside, the telegraph bclaIv chron-
ices the actual loss at from 800 TO 5o0l OF course
the Federal troops met with, as usual, but few
casuaties-the total loss being set down st 9
killed and MORALLY wounded. Their retreat.
however, we are assured, "was conducted in q
"Style worthy of veteran troops" and Colonel
SlEGEL is consoled with the reflection. that al
| though the State troops were victorious. sthe
real victory was with him.n The belief is,
| moreover expressed that his retreat was onIv n
mastery msnguvre after al!-his supposed object
being to fall back upon Carthage and draw the
State troops after him, which lie certainly sue
ceeded in doing most effectually. On Joining his
reserves-4G0 strong-at Carthage and with the
| additional assistance of reinforcements from Sar-
coke and Neosho, he expected to turn upon
his pursuers and put them to the rout /
such were his expectations he was not f,ted 10 re-
alze them, a second despatch Informs US that
he encamped two miles southeast of the town,
that the State troops fell upon him during thu
night, and that in this unexpected attack his com
mand was "badly cut up''-his loss being estima
ted at 400 killed and GOO taken prisoners. 4
third despatch places his loss at from 800 TO / 600
and that of the State troops at from 900 TO O0C
which must be very gratifying to the credulous
But the marvel does not cease here. We are tot,
by the same despatch that Governor JACKSON
though in command Of victorious army, mum
bering from 0,000 to Is 900 men, had announce,
his intention of fortifying himself nj Carthag
until reinforcements should arrive; whilst Col
SIEGEL, retreating with the remnant CT his fore
IN the direction of Sarcoxie, was joined by 9, 90
men from Springfield under Col Brown: an
that on the day subsequent to the battl
BEN. MCCULLoUGH and Gen. PRICE arrive
at Neosho, twenty miles south of Carthage
where they surprised and captured 200 {
SIEGELs men, and from whence thew sen
forward 5000 men to Carthage, to assist Cove
nor JACKSON. fourth despatch. headed 9Th
"Latest,'' and dated St. Louis July 10th, on Il
u authority of officer who left Springfield on IL
y 6th-the attack on SIEGELs camp took place &
II the night of the 5th-states that General Svr
e NEY had joineti Col. SEGEL with his emit
: 'tofce," and that al The last accounts that ente
prIslng and extraordinary officer after snfIaring
previously, wGs pursuing the State troops ne,
pernonN We leave it to others to reconcile the
: discrepancies, although we know full well III.
nothing is impossible to Federal troops and Fed
raj officers, if we accept the narrative of their @,
pioits as given in Federal kilograms. II is. how
ever, conceded " all the accounts received. III,
, S1EGEL' force was GLADLY cut uD'' on the niU}
OF The 9Th; that 200 Of his men we're cnntured
Neosho by Ben MCCULLOUGH, and that the repor
eo engagement between detachment of FEEDER.
troops under Col. WALLACE and body of Sta
troops, which resulted in the death Of Col. WA
LACE and the loss of thirty of his men, is correc
all of which would seem to indicate that the Fet
eral troops in Missouri have been rather roughl
handled of late.