, 1861-11-11

at ETedtTich1oun, etc., etc.
Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune.1
CAMP HovEr, IRoEToN, Mo-, Nov. 6.
In my anxiety to give you the news and all
important facts concerning this post, have
carefully avoided communicating that which
should not be Known to the enemy; but as
the following statement Of the troops now
here was made yesterday in little paper pub
ieted at the head quarters OF the command.
ant, Col Calm, there can be no impropriety
in repeating if.
There was, here and at Pilot Knob, yester,
Gay, the following Engineers: Three com
mieaioned and three ZOE commissioned Off
eers aud twelve privates, at work on the forti-
dcstions. At 1ronton-the Eighteenth regi-
ment Of Indiana Cavalry, Col Baker; Haw.
kins's Missouri Cavalry, Company A; First
regiment Missouri Light Artillery, with bat
tory Of four 6pounde1s, F. II. Manter, Cap
tain /; Pu1cel2s battery, two Mpounders; the
Thirty-eighth Illinois regiment, Col Carlin;
the Thlrty.third Illinois, Normal Col Hc-
vey; the Twenty first Illinois, Col. Alexander;
the Twen: y-fourth Missouri, Col. Boyd; and
the Eighth Missouri, Col. Murphy. There are
also surdry guns of heavy ea1iber, 1t various
pciIte, commanding roads, passes, &c,
marned By Company e Of the nli1ois Thirty
third. To-day more troops ale reported as ar
rivirg at "the Knob )" and portion of our
little army is just now making "forward
movement" while write. They 60 with all
a1ms, artillery, cavalry, infantry, aud eDgi-
nee1f, with baggage trains and supplies tor
twentydays. This means that they are going
somewhere, md intend to do Something
,she5e ard rhet vii inform you in my next
them, Col. HoVey, Ct the Normal, remains in
! command
We are rapidly completing our fort 1T this
place, and will soon be ready for mounting
the ht ayy gus which are already hsTe. TIE
interior is to be furnished with bomb proof
. qua1!ers for an entire regiment, and our mag
! az;ne is already completed, out Of the reach Of
: | sLel:, SHOT sid the eut my. Whatever msy be
eald cf Fremcnts extravaganza, this fort is q
good investment The material costs but
little; the soldiers do the labor and when
finished ,st will enable small body Of men to
, hold this post against very great odds.
But is Fremont really removed? Ae an ed
ltor, suppose you ought to know. think
the TRIBUNE approved his famous proc!ama.
T. tlon, il an not mistaken; as good I" Dong
E esesN officer of this and other regiments with
: WhGm have conversed. 1t has already al.
, | mLst made Missouri free St2te-not by con.
fseatirg the I've eha:tels, but BY frightening
their rebel owners into running them OF
+ South. At least three fourths Of ali the slaves
:, which we're in this region six months ago
. hare DISAPPEARED, msny Northward, but more
: to the 6outh. Afew a1e employed AZ servants
i for wsges, in the various regiments here-jua1
|. as white men a1e-Without asking them AMI
| questions. We neither " steal " them, nor re
turn them, when they take 1t into their head
e:f to ateal themselves
e Ip4ssed along the Iron Mountain Railroad
G to day, over its whole length. Its numerou
- ! bridges are now more strongly guarded thai
heretofore; and our own detached companies
o and those from other regiments, are place
n under single commander, and eystem O
~ scouts and signals hsye been 90 arranged thu
!. they can Ill be rapidly called to each other
J. assistance. But the late terrible defeat G
q. JEFF. Thompson's men has done much tor tn
a rebels Who reside along that road were i
III 9hompeon's army, ard quite number Of ther
v were found among the dead, after the late ba
of tie. Several others are low confined at thl
"a post, together with the prisoners taken I
3 FrederickstoRn, and one OF these last has bee
q identified as one Of the men who fired Bl
j River bridge. 1t Ffedericktown, after th
Al battle, parties there Who professed tobe Unio
~ men md women before, had to call upon I
tande, killed In the battle, and = considerab
# number Of others were found turning up Il
. faces Of the dead to be sure that they vera N
% near relatives. I eatlsf1ed mY6eH, By conve
90 saticn with an intelligent German there, th,
9s there we're but two tue Union men In Il
" town. ard that one only escaped JEFF. Thom
9 9 sons halter by the haste with which that reb
al Of humanity and the rules Of war, to burn Il
30 town, but the Government would NO doul
0l make money BY buying it and then burning
e5. QUI VIvH.