The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1861-11-08

NOTES Or THE REBELLION.
WHERE GEN. PRICE Is HURRY1Na.

N.
WHERE GEN. PRICE Is HURRYING.
The Leavenworth Times has advices that
General Prices army is being concentrated
at Cowskin Prairie, in Mcdonald county,
Missouri, at the extreme southwestern cor.
ner of the State. 1t says:
1t is reported that the Arkansas troops have
been throwing up extensive Notifications in
Mcdonald county and will there fight to the
last. Their pickets are said to extend for ten
miles northward from the entertainments. with.
in which are mounted some heavy guns.
A large number of Cherokee Indians are
with McCullOch, who has been experimenting
the fortifcation since the fight at Springfield.
The army is well supplied with provisions from
Arkansas and the Indian country, and it is be
lieved in some localities that the Confederate
forces will number nearly if not fully 40, 600
men, which we may well believe, if they have
concluded to make stand.
We do not know how much confidence to
place in these reports; but they have an air
of probability, in view of the mystery which
has surrounded the famed Texan chief since
the fight at Springfield. If, in reality, the re-
bells have ehtrenched themselves in this posi-.
ton, it will need all Fremont's strategy and
force to dislodge them.
THE LEEsBURG BLUNDER.
A correspondent of the New York Post
writes from Washington that the Leesburg
reconnaissance was made without any cons
sultation with General Nc ClelIan, and that
General Scott ordered it, or Stone executed
it, without orders. The writer adds that
General McClellan's friends assert that he
will roc;rp ;f ouob ,,,ovo,,o,+, ono 90 Lo
made without his authority, while he is at
L east nominally commander. 1t is said that
General Scott, without the assent of Nc
Clellan, ordered General Stone to cross the
river for simple reconnaissance.
GEN. Lanes PROCLAMATION.
General Jim Lane has issued his procla-
nation to the people of Western Missouri,
now occupied by the Kansas Brigade. 1t
is characteristic of the man and his mode
of treating rebels in arms. He informs the
Missouri people that his brigade are not
thieves, or plunderers, or jawhawkers, but
soldiers-soldiers regularly mustered into
service and sworn to obey the rules and ar
ticles of war--that his brigade is fighting
for peace-to put down a rebellion--to cause
the stars and stripes to float over every foot
of American soil, sc. To secure peace and
protection, General Lane conjures every
man in arms to return to his home and re-
sumo his business--and he gives the people
sound advice on a variety of topics, as well
as invites the County Commissioners, Magis.
trates and Sherffs to visit him and talk
over matters face to face. After talking to
the rebelliously inclined Missourians like
father" General Jim Lane thus warns
them of the wrath to come if they do not
give heed to his peace councils
| Should you, however, disregard my advice,
! the stern visitatons of war will be meted out
! to the rebels and their allies. l shall then be
| convinced that your arming for protection is a
! sham, and rest assured that the traitor when
caught shall receive traitors doom. The cup
! OF mercy is exhausted. Treason, hereafter,
will be treated as treason. The massacre of
innocent women and children by black-hearted
traitors, lately burning bridge on the Hanni-
bal and st. Joseph Railroad, has satisfied us
| that traitor will perpetrate crimes which dev-
ills would shudder to commit. They shall be
blotted from existence, and sent to that hell
! which yawns for their reception.
The two roads are open to you, People of
Western Missouri. choose ye between them.
The one will lead you to peace and plenty,
| the other to destruction. j. LANE,
Brig. Gen. Commanding Kansas Brigade.
! PROMOTION FROM THE RANKS.
The Secretary of War has directed the
promotion of twenty sergeants, on account
of meritorious conduct, to the position Of
Second Lieutenants. Among them was
William Griffin, sergeant, who served
twenty years under the heroic General Ly
on, having shared with him the dangers OF
every battle in Missouri, and earned the
deserved admiration of his officers for cour-
age and soldierly conduct. The only favor
the Iamented Lyon ever asked of the Gov.
ernment was the promotion of Sergeant
Griffin.
| A SECESSION BAROMETER.
Baltimore is perfect barometer of the
war. If you would see how the National
| otobu3 yOu uuNC OuC " uOtC tuC
state of feeling and its manifestations in
that divided city. Let our arms meet with
reverse-up goes the secesh mercury {;
let the Government show the tusks of pow-
er, and down sinks treason to the lower
registers, though only to lie perdu till an
opportunity comes. A fortnight ago, Mon
umental City poled splendid Union ma
jority But the disaster at Balls Bluff has
made reason once more rampant, and Balls
timore is reported again all feverish and
unsettled. Happily. while secession pro-
poses, Fort McHenry disposes and Gen.
Dix is altogether too keen to be dixied.--
Nep York Times.
FLAX CoTToN CALICo.-The Providence
Journal, speaking OF prints made in that
neighborhood from a combination of fax
and cotton, in the proportion of twenty