Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-07-06
Affairs in Missouri,

| tcrday afternoon, says the Richmond OisputCh
of yesterday, direct from St. Louis, furnishes
the subjoined statement, which he says was
supposed to bo true at the time lie left 1t
confirms us in tho belief tllat tho, Bluck Re.
publican controllers of tho Western telegraph
nave wiiiuiiy n,isrepreseutcd the iucis;
RICHMOND, Va, June "a, 1861.--I loft
St. Louis Oh Wednesday evening last, the 10Th
inst. We had received authentic news from
of the 18th instant. Gen. Lyon, in command
of 5000 Federal troops, left St. Louis on tho
10Th instant for Jefferson City; arrived on
the 10th; took possession quietly without any
resistance, where he left 1000 of his troops,
under command of Col. Bocrnstein, and he
(Gen. Lyon continued on to Boonvllo, SO or
go miles above Jefferson City When arr-
wing near Boonvile, General Price, in COM
mand of the 1900 State troops at that place,
made partial retreat, taking 1000 of them,
which he thus succeeded in dccoying Lyon
and all his mon on land, save few hundred
left on board the Iatan.
Gen. Price had masked batteries in small
skirt of woods, from which he opened brisk
cannonade Immediately after Lyon drew his
men up in line of battle, which resulted in
the rcpulsc Of the Federal troops with loss
of 300 killed and 700 taken prisoners Gen
Lyon himself was captured, and six pieces of
caLnon, and 500 stand of arms. The steamer
Iatan, with the few hundred who were left on
board, w:s shot to pieces and sunk into the
river, the remainder, about 1900 or 1000,
rotrcatcd towards Jefferson City. All their
boats were captured Bocrnstein, who was in
command 1T Jefferson City, Immediately after
their defeat tclcgraphcd to L. p. Blair, jr,
who had command in ST. Louis, to send up
all the forces he could possibly spare. Upon
reception of tho dispatch he sent up 5000
troops from St. Louis tho evening before left
! Upon the rcccption of the news from Boon
vile, the Seccssionists in st. Louis turned out
about 5000 to 1000 in number, greatly ella
ted, and cheers for jeff. Davis, Bcauregan
and Gov. Jackson. They expected to make
an attack upon the Dutch that night, who
were under command of Blair, at the Arsenal
and supposed to be about 5000 in number.
The battle at Kansas City took place on
Monday morning, the 17th. Thirteen hun
drcd Federal troops madcan attack upon about
the same number of State troops, under com
mand of Capt. Kelley. After desperate
fight the Fcdcrals were rcpulscd, leaving 200
killed on the fold of battle, $50 taken prison
crs, four pieces of cannon, &c. Loss of State
troops, 45 killed and wounded,
EXECUTlvE.-The Governors Head Quar-
ters are temporarily at Edyemood, his resi-
dcncc in this immediate vicinity. Of course
he holds himself in readiness to go at mo-
mcnts warming to any part Of the State
where his services may be ut all necessary
But until such necessity arises we presume
he will remain at his home, at least for the
greater portion of his time. Communications
will reach him readily mailed to this point;
and should unusual expedition be desired
dispatches viu the Telegraph Office ut Au
gusta will be promptly forwarded
We learn informally from his Excelency
that applications for arms have crowded the
department. beyond it's abilities to meet. 1t
is hoped that parties thus applying will re-
member that tho governor has not recourse
to all overflowing armory, but rather to one
that has already been we'll nigh exhausted by
the demands of the war. Not only have
arms been supplied to the troops of our own
State, but the necessities of the crisis have
required that large help be afforded in this
respect to the States of North Carolina, Ten
ncsscc and Florida which has been DONE
The Governor is still doing al! he can to meet
the applications that press upon him, and has
recently furnished the Hampton Legion with
a park Of artillery, besides five hundred new
ly.riAcd guns,-thc best he could do without
deprving certain efficient troops for home
service, to which he would not CONSENT
Such in fact is the present difficulty in this
business, that the Executive has been com
pcllcd with much regret to declare to Col
Orr his inability to supply his legion with
any arms. True, it is tho part Of the Con
tcderatc Government to afford arms to it's
troops. but our State Government has hth
crto done all it could auxiliary to this ond,
and we arc sure that Gov. Pickcns will still
cndcavor to do SO, as far as the means arc
within his CONTROL. EtIycfcM Adeertiser
TIE CONFEDERATE COMMISSIONERS IN
FRANcE-Thc Paris correspondent of the
London Star writes, June 9th:
"The Ministers of the United States have
hardly left Paris when the agents make their
appearance. Mr. William Rost has arrived
charged with an extraordinary message from
President Davis to the Emperor of the French
Many Amcricnns--it is hard to divine why
| they venture such an asscrtion-say that the
Southern envoy and his friends arc vcry SAN
| guinc as to the ultimate success of his mission
| Mr. Rost is accompanied by several other gem
| tlcmcn, some of whom set out Immediately for
st. Petersburg, Prussia and Austria; and
others try and engage on their side the sym
pathics of the manufacturers of Francc-
Nothing is said about the Manchester men,
in connection with this new mission but it
may fall strangely on English cars to be told
| that most of the slave owners staying at Paris
appear to be under tho impression that somo
of these days English men .of.war will be de-