The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-07-19
Startling from Northern Mis-
souri,.
TWO FIGHTS, AND THE REBELS RE.
PULSED WITH LOSS.

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Die Vernon, from Hannibal, and brings
the following startling intelligence:
At about two o'clock Wednesday morn.
ing camp of Federal troops, under COM
mand of Colonel Smith, of the Sixteenth IL
linois Regiment-300 of the Sixteenth Hi
nois, 300 of the Third Iowa, and near 100
of the Hannibal Home Guards-numberiDg
about $50 men, were attacked by l,6OO
rebel troops under Jackson's Brigadier
General, Thomas A. Harris, not far from
Monroe station, thirty miles from Hanni-
bal. The Federal troops, although COM
pletely surprised, jumped to their arms, and
successfully repealed the attack, driving the
rebel forces back, killing four, woundiDg
several others, and capturing five prisoners
and seven horses.
Capt. McAlister, of the Sixteenth lii
nois, was MORALLY wounded, being shot
through with five balls. Some three or four
others of the Federals were slightly wound
ed. While the fight was going on at the
camp, company of three hundred mounted
rebels, under Capt. Owen, of Marion coun-
ty, Missouri, went to Monroe station and
burnt the bridge, the station houses and
some twenty railroad cars and tore up the
track. The whole of the rebel force re-
treated in the direction of Monroe station,
and were holly pursued by Col. Smiths
command. Arriving at the station, an
other skirmish took place, in which the reb-
els were again repulsed with some loss not
ascertained.
Col. Smith took up a position in and
around the female seminary, and dispatched
a messenger to Hannibal, ordering reinforce
ments from Quincy, Illinois, through Lieut..
Nettleton of the Home Guard. The steam
er Black Hawk was Immediately dispatched
to Quincy for troops, and had not returned
when our informant left Hannibal at IL
o'clock last night. The rebels had sur
rounded the federal troops, and were COM
mitting all sorts of depredations upon per-
sons nd.property. They had deliberately
shot down Union man, by the name Of
Hotchkiss, formerly of Hannibal putting
seven balls through him. 1t was thought
that Col. Smith would be able to hold out
till reinforcements could reach him, when,
if the bridgeburners and murderers would
fight, they would have an opportunity
Most of the rebel troops under Harris are
mounted men.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July II.
1t is definitely understood that Colonel
Smith has been relieved from the trying po-
siton in the College building at Monroe.
No pale rag was hung out to the miniODs
of Tom Harris, but on the contrary, Col.
Smith had commencement exercises at the
institution Aforesaid, and issued certificates
of leave to the $500 surrounding auditors.
Harris had two pieces of artillery and
kept his men beyond the reach of musket
shot, but as soon as be had placed his guns
so as to play upon the building. Smith ad-
vanced and dsmounted them, scattering the
rebels in every direction and taking many
prisoners. The command of Major Harris
arrived at the scene of action just as the
rebels turned to retreat. A desperate eff
fort was made to capture Harris, but it was
not successful.
ST.. LOUIS, July Is.
A detachment of Home Guards occupies
the Democrat building to night, the rebels
stall threatening the office with demolition.
An arrival from Springfield, July 9th,
says no second battle was fought near Car
thage. Gen. McCulloch was in the fight,
with Arkansas troops, against Sigel. A
guard of one hundred men, left at Neosho
before the battle, had been captured by reb.
els. The MissOurians wanted to shoot them,
but McCulloch refused to agree to it. Gen.
Rains son was killed, but the General is
safe. Gov. jackson and Gen. Price are
both with the troops, and the avowed in-
tentlon of the rebels is the occupation of
Jefferson before the 22d, by that means pre-
venting the Convention from assembling.
The rumOr in town to night that Gov.
Jackson was taken prisoner, is hoax.
ST. LOUIS, July IA.
Accounts of the Carthage affair received
from Memphis, confirm the report that Ben
McCulOch was 10 the fight, and also at the
capture of Sigel's guard at Neosho. He
released them on taking an oath. The reb-
els compute our loss at five hundred killed,
and theirs at nothing.
A dispatch from Springfield to the Dem.
ocrat says the Neosho prisoners arrived
there safe. The men are armed and STA
toned as guard at Springfield, the oath
binding them not to bear arms against the
Southern COnlederacy.
Considerable apprehension continues to
be felt here that Jefferson City may not be
entirely out OF danger.
ST. LOUIS, July Is.
The Springfield correspondence OF the
Republican says Indiana entered Missouri
with Arkansas troops.
QUINCY. July Is.
Brig. Gen. Hurlburt, OF the Volunteers,
has issued proclamation to the citizens OF
E stern Missouri, denouncisg false and de-
signing men who seek to overthrow the gov
erDment 1t warns them that the time for
the liberation OF treason has passed, and
any man or body of men who venture to
stand in defiance of the supreme authority
OF the Union peril their lives 10 the attempt.
He says further that the Character of the
resistance which has been made to the gov.
eminent is in strict conformity with the
source from which it originated. Cowardly
assassins watch opportunities to murder and
become heroes among associated bands by
both saughteriDg by stealth those whom