The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-12-07

On Saturday last Gen. Hunter sent SIX
companies over into Missouri. to look after
the rebels in Plat county. 1t is to be
hoped they will liberate Captains Rabb and
Moonlight.
Reports have reached Kansas City that
there are 10000 rebels at Pleasant Hill.
The Conservative thinks this an exageration
but has no doubt there is considerable reb-
Ell force there. We fear We shall sll have
reason to think the withdrawal of the troops
from Springfield, and placing them at st.
Louis, military blunder. Some of them
should have been left down in that region
anyhow. Secession was nearly dead in
Missouri when Fremont left.
Gen. Price has issued proclamation a:
Neosho for $4,000 men from Missouri to
to sustain the Southern cause. BE says
only 5000 men have come from Missouri as
yet to aid him. Unless his call is respond
ed to he hidts that all will be lost and the
Lincoln Hessians will have control of the
State.
The advance guard of Prices forces are
working their way up towards Sedalia, com
hitting depredations as they go. 3 :
It is reported that Lexington has again
fallen into the hands of the rebels.
The Iri6ume's Washington dispatch of
December lst, says no fear need be enter
tanned as to the position the President will
take concerning the seizure of Mason and
Slidell. He will hold that Capt. Wilkes
did right but that he should have seized
the steamer Trent also.
Mr.. Ely, now prisoner at Richmond,
has sent word that he shall take his seat in
Congress this session.
Reports from Richmond say the rebels
are terribly excited concerning Federal op-
erationa on the coast. Southern troops de-
clare they will go home and leave Virginia
to her fate. e.
Upon the renewed application of George
D. Prentice, Secretay Seward, on Saturday,
ordered the release of Calhoun Benham and
Elk Senator Gwin, from confinement in Fort
Lafayette.
The Secretary of the Navy in his report.
after mentioning the capture of Mason and
Sidell, says that the prompt and decisive
action of Captain Wilkes merited and re-
ceived the emphatic approval of the Naval
Department, and if a too generous forbear-
ance was exhibited by him in not capturing
the vessel which had rebel commissioners
on board, it may, in view of special cir
cumstances, of its patriotic motives. be ex-
cused, but it must by no means be permit
ted to constitute precedent hereafter for
the treatment of any similar case.
Thirty thousand troops were expected at
Fortress Monroe, and an order was read to
those there on Monday that they viii not
be furnished with winter quarters. This
seems to indicate an advance. sto,.r=
The Richmond Dispatch reports 5000
Unionists in the mountains of East Tennes-
see under Parson Brownlow and Major
Gillian, doing more mischief than the
Yankees in Kentucky.
Commodore Wilkes had an enthusiastic
reception in Boston on the 25th and made
the following speech ..5g n
''Mr Mayor and Friends Il am deeply
sensible of the kindness you have shown
me. depended upon my own judgment in
doing what you all have fattered me for"
[ Applause. =
Waldo P. Johnson, being rebel, will
fail to return to the U. S. Senate, and it is
probable that Governor Gamble will appoint
Col. Frank P. Blair to fill the vacancy.
There is general exodus of Union men
from Southern Missouri. If they had Ia
ken up arms months ago they would not be
now compelled to take up their beds.
New Orleans is intensely alarmed on ac-
count of the threatened attack on Colum
bus. it' n.
Government has recently made large
purchases of ships in New York and caused
them to be well armed. The sea-coast con-
test is as yet only in its infancy.
A rumor that 10000 volunteers will be
called for in Canada to defend the frontier,
is current. = ga
Capt. Gordon of the SLAYER Erie has been
sentenced to death in February next. .sa,asa
McCulloeh's forces are said to be on the
way TO Arkansas. Troops under the Rebel
General Rains, occupy Springfield.
It is said that Prices intention is; If he