New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-24

his State. As Secession Is always arrogant, is,ol-
Grant, noisy and demonstraye, its disciples, 10 Ms-
.our at frat frighteped many Of the loyal citizens
rom their propriety, and by threats nd violence,
Iroye thouaands Of them from their homes to seek
shelter and support where they AID. II is not I'M
reasonable TO estimate that hu ,sred thousand loyal
men, women and children b. &c thus been driven
rom their homes during the at few month";. These
refugees, not from justice, tut from robbers and muir
ierers, have sought ter Iporary shelter in St. Louis
and in the neighbour 4 Free States. Some of them
saved enough to I'VE upon for a few months, and
others are deP' ndent upon the liberslty Of those
among whom they have cast their lot.
Some OF obese exiles were merchants in the coun-
try town n and have lost not only their goods, but
every dollar that was due to them from Secession
cuff >6ners. Others we're mechanics, who were glad
IT, sacrifice the neat cottage and the thrifty shop and
leecspe with their dependent families and a kit Of
tools. Others still had fine farms, with pleasant
gardens orchards, meadows, and wheat fields,
which, with their wellfnrnisbed farm-houses, have
been given up to the spoer. This whole region of
country looks as if it had been Cursed by pest-
lence. Towns are nearly depopulated, and the few
inhabitants left wander about the desolate streets
aimess and hopeless without occupation or apparent
PURPOSE. Semnaries and churches are either closed
or used fo' hospitals; hotels are unfrcquented,
houses untenanted, merchants unoccnpied, mechan-
les unemployed, gardens INTENDED, farms untitled ;
the wheels of commerce are rustDg upon the rail,
the hammer on the anvil, and the plow In the fur
row. Many districts Of the country remind one for
chilly of Taeituss description of the track of the
Roman armies, where "they made solitude and
called It peace p
But, thanks TO Providence and Federal bayonets,
this gloomy picture OF present desoatOn is beginning
TO show some bright spots. The people are slowly
coming to the conviction that Uncle Sam ill give up
Missouri to the tender merces Of Secession when be
gives no his right TO navigate the Atlantic Ocean,
and not before This wholesome conviction is giving
courage to the tuid and with the departure Of the
Secession horde to follow the fortunes Of Price and
jackson, hundreds Of eXied families are already on
the return to their once happy, but now desolate
homes With the spoilers driven out or kept in abty-
ance, few months viii restore the exiled citizens 10
The towns and farms from which they have been
driven, and Missouri viii be hereh again,
This Punishment of loyal citizens simply because
they loved their country and ils dag, WA the first
fruit of attempted Secession in Missouri. II may be
cal ed the Spring and Summer crop Of 1861 while
the Fall crop that is ut maturing is Of quite q
different character and likely TO be Of much more
value to the State al large. The Secession leaders,
having brought about the military occupation Of the
State, condition of things utterly incompatible with
the existence of Slavery hundreds, nay thousands,
Of Secession Shareholders gathering up their
two-egged obattels and departing through the only
avenue left open for Dixie land The Southern hori-
ION is already dark with the crowd of unwilling fugi-
tves.
Gangs Of hundreds pass on the principal roads of
Southwest Missouri almost every day, and il may
be reasonably calculated that two,hiTds of the slave
population of Missouri viii be gone before Christmas.
IL il still the old story Of QHeza deus nit Prdere,
pyiMs demenlat." These men were perfectly pro-
tected under the General Government, but they
would 60 mad on the subject Of Secession and rebel
lion, and their madness has ended in their destrac-
ton. That which could not have been accomplished
by the laws Of emigration labor, and oma,Ology in
less than geneniion, will now be fulfilled in q
single year. and 1862 will see Missouri practically a
Flee State.
VINO ~ 70 hii the Nacuun creuteu oy INC Foiuitary
withdrawal Of Secession shareholders and their col.
ored property from Missourii This question is al
ready being answered by thousand, in the present
army Of occupation, who have already been won, by
our genial climate and fruitful soil, to cast their
future lot in this land Of the olive and the vine.
With the war cloud once departed, aud the slaves
with H. Missouri with her rich but cheap lands, her
mineral wealth and great channels OF commerce. will
recuperats faster than any other State in the Union.
Of inhabitants.