The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-12-17
Stringent Measures Against the Rebels.
Prices Army Melting Away.


meeting OF rebel recruiting officers and the
4 formation OF rebel camp in the timbers.
The federal troops in this district are kept
actively employed. Squadrons or com
panies or battalions Of cavalry and sections
) OF light artillery, if required, are ordered
out by Gen. Pope with silence and mys-
terry which is always productive of good
results. The commanding officer alone
knows where the blow is to be struck, and
rebel spies in camp are thus thrown off
the track, aud the expeditions so sent out
are almost invariably successful Scarcely
a day passes without bringing news of
skirmish and capture of squad of pri-
ce's recruits. The expedition sent north
a few days since, under Major Marshall,
routed band of rebels under Joe Shell
| by and captured four Captains, two Adiu-
tants, one Lieutenant, and forty men, with
arms, horses, wagons, mortar and other
articles. The capture of leading seees-
sion recruiting officers and the breaking
up OF their embryo camps is doing much
to restore peace and quiet. Those who
are disposed to lay down arms and return
to allegiance are suffered to do so. Prices
army is on its last legs His men are
leaving in large numbers, and if the pres
ent vigorous policy against those in arms
or who furnished aid and comfort to the
enemy is pursued better state of things
is sure to follow.
Gen. Pope, who is now in command of
the district embraced within the lines Of
the Missouri and Usage rivers, has estab-
| lished Schools of Instruction for commits
stoned officers at each environment, post
and station within this district, and the
most rigid rules are observed for acquisi-
ton Of military knowledge. The School Of
Instruction for company officers is presi-
ded over by Colonels of regiments, and
the school for regimental field officers by
brigade commanders, to whom two recita.
tons in tactics and regulations are made.
No officer is permitted 10 be absent from
those recitations unless on guard detach-
ed service or sick in hospital, and in such
cases Rotations are required as soon
thereafter as practicable, Regimental and
Brigade officers are held responsible for
the strict observance of these orders, and
names OF officers who are careless or in
attentive, or who fail to acquire the les
sons set for them, are To be reported to
head-q quarters, and such officers will be ex-
amined by board appointed for the ex-
animation of volunteer officers Divs-
ion commanders will be present az least
once day at some of the recitations of
the schools within their divisions, and
will give such strict and constant super
vision as will assure them that the re-
quirements of this order are fulfilled -
The General commanding the district
will, at least once in two weeks, visit ey-
cry cantonnent, post or station within his
command, aud will assure himself either
by personal examination orthrough an Of
hcer designated for that purpose, that the
officers of this command are making that
progress in acquiring knowledge necessary
to enable them properly to discharge their
duties which ought TO be expected, aud
he hereby notifies all officers within this
district that no considerations of rank
nor personal feeling will deter him from
the promptest and most stringent meas
ures against any officer who does not de-
vote himself assiduously and earnestly to
the acquisition of that knowledge which
alone can fit him To hold commission.
A cantonment has been established on
I.amine river, and Mai. Corse, of the 9th
Iowa, is appointed Provost Marshal there
Of. All Colonels Of regiments are to be
held responsible for their regimental trans
portation and are required to keep it in
effective order and ready for the march at
any moment Any failure in this regard,
when called out the march or for review
aud inspection, viii be considered and
treated as gross neglect of duty. The
sale OF liquor is positively prohibited in
every camp, post or station in the district,
and all liquor now ut such points is order
cd to be sent to some distant place at the
risk and expense of the owner
From copy Of the Army Argus, pub
lished in the rebel camp at Osceola, ed.
tied by j. w. Tucker, formerly of the
State Journal, which was suppressed, and
who is now under thirty thousand dollar
bonds for trial for treason, We learn that
Gen. Price has issued an order from the
Head Quarters Of the Missouri State
Guard, in which he states that the Con-
federate goyernmet proposes, in accord
ance with The terms of treaty between
Cabell g. Co., and the rebel government, to
receive into its service as many troops
from Missouri as may volunteer for twelve
months. These are to be enlisted as State
troops and to be under command of Maj
Gen Price. Muster rolls are to be sent
to the Secretary of War of the Confed-
crate government, and the President will
commission officers and provide for ard
pay the troops, but until the troops are
transferred they will be- paid by the State,
Confederate States guaranteeing, however,
that they will be paid A bounty Of $50