Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-25
LATEST MISSOURI INTELLIGENCE,
FROM TIE RLACK REPUBLICAN
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Special to she ST. Louis Republican,
AFFAIRS IS MISSOURI
SYRACUSE, No. October l6-Gen. Fremont
yesterday removed his camp stll further south
toward Versailles, and is now with his forces
twenty miles from Upton.
Gen. Mckinstry and his division viii move
as soon as they can obtain transportation.
which viii probably be in day or two, and
Mex. viii then combine his forces with those OF
Fremont
Gen. Pope viii leave here to-day. and, as !
SiCel has already quilted Sedalia, it is supposed
that the FIVE divisions viii ere long make june
tuTe with each other, and proceed together III
body.
One of Gen. McKinstry's scouts arrived this
evening, having left Sterling Price camp south
of the Osceola, on the Usage The scout passed
three days i'm the rebel camp, where there were
aboutuineteen thousand fighting men, all state
troops, who were in a wretched condition. poorly
clad and with hardly amy provisions. Their arms
were of varied character but mostly shot guns
and Old fashioned rifles.
Price was anxious to get further south, as he
had heard and believed Fremont was pursuing
him with sixty thousand troops. it is reported
that he expressed great disappointment i'm not
being ioiupd by AIgCuilochs forces from Arku
sas IfPrice does not find them soon me viii
hurry into that State, and it is not improbable
he has crossed the line by this
The wagons and mules toTuansp0rtation from
theadiacant counties come in slowly here Two
of the cavalry detachments arrived this afternoon
almost empty handed.
Gen. Fremont thinks there is a prospect OF
fight with the rebels on the Usage, and perhaps
a skrmish near Warsaw
special TO the st. Loui- Democrat
JEFFERSON CRY, October l6.-A scout ar
rived here tonight reports Prices army on sun
day, at Clintonvine, Cedar county, which is
twenty-five miles south OF Papmsyille, on the
| Carthage road The whole army have effected
/ the passage of the Usage, aud are still in full
retreat. They spent two days in crossing the
/ Deep Water, having tomarch near its source in
! Bates county to find ford. The scout corrol-
crates the report of dissatisfaction and distress in
! the rebel army. Half the troops are bareto6ted,
and the greatest suffering viii follow the ap-
proach of cold weather.
| Ben. McCullochi is at Camp Walker with 5000
men.
| Special dispatch to the Chicago Times
! ST LOUIS, October IA dispatch to the
Iron Mountain railroad Office says that the en-
| emy, I'm force, supposed to amount TO ten thou
! sand. are advancing ag5inst Pilot Knob.
Superintendent Phillips was asked TO come
| down to take charge of trains In case of emer-
| gcucv as a battle is hourly expected.
Mr.. Phillips has Just gone ON an engine.
The Federal force consists of four companies
| of the path Missouri.
Samuel Gaty was discharged to-day by the
! Provost-Marshal. the canuon-boriug implement
! found at his fOundeTy proving 10 be made last
| spring for Claib. Jackson, and never finished
! Samuel b. Churchill member of the State
! Senate, and Uriel Wright. member of the State
convention, were arrested to-day, and consigned
to the military prison.
/ Churchill was one of the original advisers Of
| Claib. Jackson, and has brother and other rel
! atives in Prices army.
! j. W. Tucker late editor of the State Journal,
has turned mp in Boone county. where be made
/ a speech to one hundred of Prices men. He
/ has been in Boone county for several weeks.
The Columbia Statesman l0arls that q good
many members of the Legislature have recently
passed through Lexington for the South
! 1t thinks that Claib. Jackson has called a
/ special session of the Legislature at Carthage.
| Springfield, or Mount Vernon, to pass an ordi-
nance Of secession, and to attach the State to
the Southern COuiederaCv
Gen. Hunters immediate command is at Tip
Ftou. Ii consists of the 18th and 18th Illinois
infantry, Isl Missouri cavalry, and three bate
rios of Indiana artillery.
The 18th Illinois regiment have one hundred
and twenty sick.
a detachment of cavalry captured a rebel
officer and tweuty-tour priyatas, bound south.
Two men in the 9Th Missouri regiment We're
poisoned with bread bought from a country
/ wagon.
Three hundred sick men, from the western az
I my, have been brought TO the government hOspi-
ral m this city.
An old man named DishIcr was taken from
his house in Ozark county, and shot by rebels of
Captain Bray's company.
ST. LOUIS. October Ig.-The R0lla correspond
eHt Of the Democrat furnishes the following
items:
A scout has just come in from the west, and
reports that Price has made a stand at Carthage,
sixty miles from Springfield.
The Legislature is 10 be called together on the
4th of November.
/ The rebels at Vienna have dispersed, portion
going home, and the remainder will Join John
stOn, who has been placed in command of all
| the rebel forces in Missouri and who has issued
q proclamation orbiddiug the transportation of
any more property (meaniug slaves from the
State. It is not stated whether Johnston super
sedes Price.
The rebels who burned the Big river bridge
the other day were maauding bands from st.
Genevieve and ST. Francis counties, numbering
about six hundred. JEFF Thompson has not
been in that region for some weeks Capt Lip
pfncott with i'm men of the 3-th Illinois. met
! this force two miles below Big river and cut his
way through them, iuhicting a loss of seven
killed and a considerable number wounded
2 !
crol wounded, but none killed.
In the engagement below Ironton. on the
Eth, the rebel loss is known to be thirty-siS
killed and wounded, and It is believed to be
larger, AS quite a number We're carried off the
field. The Federal loss was ten wounded, one
mOrtaly. The rebel force was about 1000 and
! believed to be the advance guard Of a much
4 larger body some distance below. Officers at
r Pilot Knob say there were Louisiana, Tcuncs
see and Arkansas regiments among them. Cit
liens were fleeing from the vicinity, and IN,
troops were under arms expecting an attack
The State convention adjourned Yesterday
4 subject 10 "a call from the Governor, until th,
meeting OF the Legislature to be elected in 1862
ITricl Wright, q member of the State couyen
- ton, Samuel b. Churchill, "a member of tn,
y Legislature, and John T. Chappell, all notorious
n Secessionsts, were arrested to-day by order o
! the Prov ost Marshal
1t is now believed chat the large number O
men reported to have deserted from Gen. Price
army, including some five or more thousan,
said to have been disbaudcd after the fall O
o Lexington, are still IN the service of the rebel
+ lion, and Will form in bands IN various parts O
the State for bridge burning and general ma
raudiHg purposes
SYRACUSE, No, October 2O-It is reporte,
h that Acting Brig Gen. Wyman, who left Roui
It several DAYS since with about , 800 men has al
4lNti at LINN NNfA Ni'lt Ll' 4iH lltlsfl a bOt
Il of rebels, killing a considerable number, taliu'
n over 200 prisoners, and Tecapuring eightee
e wagon-loads Of goods, belonging TO McClurg !
e Co, prominent Union firm, whom the rebel
o had robbed.
Il Advices from Gen. Fremont are to o'cloc
Il Friday L ght He is still at Warsaw, and tn
g poutoon bridge across the Usage was to be inisl
y ed on Saturday.
d Gen. Sigels division had crossed the river
It Il was reported IN our camp at Warsaw tia
IS Price had been largely reinforced by AIcCuIloci
y aud that their combined forces were fortifyin
l. OsceOla, where they intended to give Fremor
is battle
ST. LOUIS, October 20-A special to I'll
Democrat, jefferson City, 20th, says; "Maio
WilOc, of the First Missouri Scouts arrived hcl
to-day on the steamer Sioux City, and report
that, ON the 10th, 100 Of his regiment, Und,
v. Nsjur White, surprised the rebel garrison
be Lexington, and recaptuled the place and all I'll
1- sick and wounded. together with a quantity
guns, pistols, and other articles which the Tebe
threw away in their flight Two pieces of ear
non, which We're Ia the fort, were also capture,
The Sioux City brought down about OF
hundred Of our sick and w0unded-among the
to Colonels White and Grover, who are slowly II
OF covering.
20, The rebel garrison numbered 800.
tx "The pcllets at Usage bridge were fired O
n last night, and matters are somewhat unseltle
Il. in Galloway conty.
as s rebel company is being recruited in S