Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-11-15
LATE NEWS.
7~o Days Aews.-No signs Of Rebellion.
Tile troops Enthusiastlc.-Posjtiom Of

IU0 DGyS NeUS.-NO signs OF Rehelta0M
! Tile toops Enthusiastlc.-Posjtion Q
{ the Enemy.
| Especial to Missouri Democrat.
| SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Nov. 6.
According to information received BY Gen
Hunter, it is thought that Price has no inten
ton of advancing to give us bate, and thai
# pursued farther 10y US will either scatter
to the four winds, or leirest to Fort Smith
and await development on Tie Pc Omac and
IN Kentucky. lt berg doubtful! whether
the pursuit Of Price would result in any ina
| tcrial success, think it extremely uncer
tain whether any further advance on the
part of the main body of the army will DC
made ;eyond this point. Further intelli
sencc concerning the position and numbers
81 the rebel army may change this pro
.ramme. however
General hunter has taken four companies
IF FIRST NJ ssouri Cavalry for hi body
guard This includes the two companies OF
Maj. Whites scouting battalion, Gen. Sge
las been appointed commander of the post
aud acting Brigadier General Wyman Pro
vost Marshal. The latt has issued proc.
amatlon strictly iorhidL,rg the officers from
leaving their camp; inviting all the tarme; S
n the surrounding country having pToduc $
Is dispose OF, 10 brio,, them in, assu,ins
them o! an unobs,ructed passage through
the lines
Gen. Hunter was employed yesterday in
taking a survey Of the country about "pring
fell, visitng the different divisions. and eX-
amining into the general condition of the
army.
This morning be has just left on reconnoi.
towards the l.1ti!n a. -Hu,H M, X. lis nm
Creek. He was accompanied by his body
gard, dctachnents from the various caval-
ry regiments, battery of artillery ard 400
infantry, the latter had Il numE,ar OF pick
,Xes and spades, and will bury the remlins
of the soldiers still lying above ground.
Col Totten. while visiting the battle field
yesterday, discovered a pile of no less than
thirty or N ore bodies. probably of Union
troops, VIII en- had thus been thrown aside
10 the thicket
Col. Merrill was sent out on reconnoi-
sance yesterday afternoon, with l 400 cavalry
and a section Of artillery. lie proceeded TO
the battle ground of Wilson's Greek, and
thoroughly examined that section of country,
but without succeeding in discovering the
enemy. He learned, however, that on Sat
urday last 400 of the cncmy's cavalry camped
there ior the night but left early Sunday
morning.
If there had been any more Of the enemy
there, they have been in such small force that
they succeeded in Guiding the vigilance Of the
country people thercabouts.
General Hunter has lii tie faith at present in
their having any dispositn to attack u.s. He
will, however, i'll the course Of few days, be
in possession of such reliable information of
their numbers, disposition etc, as can satisfy
him on the point, and to decide his future
course.
| am most agrccably disappointed in regard
to the feeling among the troops in regard to
the removal Of Gen. Fremont, While there
has been a general feeling o. regret among a
portion of the army at III untimely removal
of Gen. Fremont, | do not think that in any
instance has it manifested itself except in
words. The reports of various companies
and regiments having thrown down Their
arms, can trace TO no reliable source
To-day the troops are apparently as enthu-
Siastic rs ever and the more they canvass the
merits of their new commander, the better are
they satisfied with MIN. Gen. Hunter pos
sesses great strength in the universal high
opinion entertained Of him by all the Old ar
my officers, who without exception testify to
his great military abilities, as we'll as his in
tense hatred Of the nstigators of this unnat.
ural warfare
I'm happy to STAT, that Gen. Asboth has
to remain in command of his Divi- !
Sion
Col. Albert, acting B'igadicr General, will
also remain. The latter is a most valuable
officer, having in Europe participated in no
less than twenty-siX engagements. Several
other valuable foreign officers, who at first de-
cided to leave, will remain.