Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-08-30
PROCLAMATION OF GOVERNOR (EoGrsl GAMBLE
JEFFERSON CRY, August 25.-Thc following
proclamation has been issued:

I
BILE Governor Of the State Of Missouri, do
hereby call into the active service of the Stale
~, 600 men, of the militia Of the State, and
assign 5000 as the quota for each military
! district, which is the same rs Congressional
District. The force tins called into service
will be, as far as possible, a volunteer force
and will consist of 10000 cavalry and 81, ,0O6
infantry.
If the number volunteering exceed the re-
QUESTION, the excess vii! be held as reserve
corps. If there should bea deficiency, it ua7
become necessary 10 resort to draft. The
Adjutant General will issue to the Division In
spcctors of the several military districts the
orders necessary to carry this re4ulStlon into
effect The force called out will be for six
months, unless peace in the State shall be
sooner restored Arms will be furnished as
rapidly MS they can be had.
Given under my hand md the seal of the
! Stale, at JEFFERSON City, this 2iLh day Of Au-
| gust, in the year 1861.
II z GAARlE
By the Gnvcrno.,
". 0LlvEE, Secretary Of State.
EoLLA, Mo, AuS. q Lieut.! Col. Albert,
Of the Third Missouri, and eight Gr ten other
officers who have been prisoners al Springfield,
arrived here this morning. They were rclca,
ed on parole, subject, however, TO snch az
rangcmcnt as may have been easeral into
between tho ConlcdcraIes and the United
States
There are great many contradictory re.
ports us to the presen! and future movements
Of the encmy, bu: their real purpose can only
be cunjvcture, They seem nos to BE- more
anxious to obtain subsistence than to make
offensive movements for any other purpose.
TIE WOUNDED At srgN@rIELD.
ST. LOUIS, August 25.--Tkc correspondent
ol the Democrat publishes The following
letter:
SpRISGFIELD, August l7.-General Rains
issued On order soon after his arrival to seize
all the medicine and hospital stores in the
Federal hospital, thus depriving about 400 Of
our wounded troops OF medical treatment. y
part Of the medicines were subsequently re-.
stored by order Of General Price.
With few exceptions our sick aud wound.
cd are doing well, and will be able to return tn
| their homes in q few days. All our wounded
could not be brought off tho field in consc-
quencc OF the scarcity Of wagons, but they
were treated where they lay.
JEFFERSON CI1Y, Mo.-George R. Smith, Oi
Pcttis county, has been appointed Adjutant
General OF the State, and John Hoye Police
Commissioner Tor St. Louis.
! LATER.
TRoSToT, Mo-, August 26-Reports receiTed
here to day give information that Gen. !Iarclrc :
forces are withdrawing from Greenviile to-
wards Hecvc's Ferry, where they are terrifying
slightly also to Peytons station, nearer he
Arkansas line. This seems to confirm pre-
rious reports that the Eastern division Of the
Confnleratcs are fastening to join General!
| Pillow. 4 strong body Of Gen. ThomrsUn's
forces are represented 50 have occupied Bcn
ton, eight miles back of Commerce, wher"
they are throwing up fortifcatons.
TIE VAIL OF Il "UNl0S" MAN.
[Fron, the Baltimore Exchange.
We are permitted through the kn'lnes' "l
| merchant in this city, to make The folo.ns
extract from letter uSt received by him from
friend in Missouri:
GLASGOW, No, Ang 30, 1871.
| The Federal forces We're badly whipped and
cut to pieces ut Springfield. ami thousands. are
now l0cklIg to Jackson :; and M:C!llough'S : ar.
mics.
We are having awful times in Missouri. -
| Secession would ruin us, but tsko lie vote 10.
day, and Missouri would 60 OH: By large ma,
jority.
Had our Gcvcrnor-Provisiona GoyernaT
| Gambie-honc right, We would have iad peace
| Both he and the iinTrTnnicrit have hone wroT-.
| They Ouet.L i.ot l., have lG.t TIA; :n,ringh=ii
battle.
Union men are very scarce here TIE action
Of the Cnnvcnliun will never be sustained Il
has drawn all the sympathy to JackSon's side.
| His bitter enemies that we're are now his beSf
friends The State forces under McCullonsh
and Price will be very arge in lew days.
We are all ruined Truly, your friend,
! INTERESTING POINTS IN MISSOURI = SPRf%GfiELD
AND KoLLa.
The late battle between the forces under
| Lyon and Mccullough, the chiefs Of the two
contending armies, on Saturday week, CAV" to
the two towns Of Springfield ond Rolla no lit
| lie interest.
Springfield is hourishing town in South
western Missouri, the capital Of Greene c3un-
| ty, and will be one OF the principal stations Of
the Southwestern branch Of the Pacific Rail
road. 1t is situated Oh high ground, and has
court house, two newspaper Offices ani Il
bank Its population is estimated to be about
| 900. From St L)us it is distant about 233
miles.
Rpl!a is small place not laid down in or.
dnary maps, nor mentioned in the Gazetteer.
1t is the capital of Phelps county, made in
1857 out of portions ofPulaski and Crawford
Counties 1t is ono hundred and thirteen
miles from ST. Louis and about IN equal dis.
tance from Springfield, lying in direct line
sent terminus Of The Southwest branch Of The
Pac6c Railroad from St. Louis 10 Spring
field.
Tho battle first began on Davis Creek, in
Greene's Prairie about nine miles South. west of
Sprng6ed; SO that when "a Federal tronI's
made their retreat they ": .. back from Da
Wis Greek to Springfield, nj. niles, and from
| Springfield to Rolla, one h' lred and thirteen
miles, making the distancs 'Re hundred and
| twenty-five miles.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH TlIs 'GoEDED STATES iN.
TERD1L tEp.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-The following order
has just been published J." the Postmaster
| General:
Posto6ice Department, T. nst "a, 1861.
| The President OF the Fmi', / States directs
| that his proclamation -! !. 10th instant,
interdicting commeric:I Intercourse with
| the sG-uallsd Confederate States snail
| Ue hPplCI ~ 'ShNS Will NHS9S
States, and ha: devoiycd on this Department
the enforcement ol so much OF il: interdict as
relates to such correspondence. The officers
and agents Of this Department will, therefore,
without further instructions, lose no time in
putting an end TO written intercourse with
those States by causing the arrest Of any ex-
press agent or other persons who shall, after
the promulgation Of this order, receive letters
to be carried to OF from these States, and will
seize all such letters ant! forward them to this
| Department.
(Signed.) NJ. BLAIR,
Postmaster General
GUNPowDER FoR THE SoUTn.-We were yes
terday on board the steamboat Nrac Voon and
seeing large lot of kettles, between twenty
and thirty, some Of great size, and the men at
work getting steam engine on board, we in.