The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24
NEW SERIES-NO. 800
DiSunjOnists Routed I'm Missouri

From the Missouri Democrat 18th.
The Union men Of Washington county
having been threatened with determination,
and some of them having been driven from
Potosi, the county seat, complaint was made
to Gen. Lyon, of the St. Louis Arsenal,
and that brave and gallant officer deter
mined to give the Union Iaen in that Sec
ton OF the country protection. Accord
ingly an expedition was planned and put
under command Of Capt Cole, Company
A, Fifth Regiment of United States Vol
unteers. They arrived at Potosi at three
O'Clock A. NJ ;, on Wednesday, and immedi-
ately threw chain OF sentinels around the
entire town. Guards were then stationed
around the dwellings of the most prominent
secessionists, and shortly after day light,
some $50 men found themselves prisoners
and marched off to the Court House.
The Union men were recognized and re-
leased, amounting to over half of those ia
ken prisoners. Some fifty of the secession
lists were also released, on parole OF honor,
after subscribing to the usual oath, not to
take arms against the United States, and
nine of the leaders were marched off to the
cars The guard then made descent on a
secession lead mandatory, and captured
some four hundred pigs of that very useful
article in time OF war, which belonged to
man who had been furnishing lead to the
Southern rebels. The guard captured sew
eral pistols, rifles, shot guns, and quantity
of secession uniforms, most oil them
unfinished; and some uniform cloth.
Or their way back, the train made halt at
DeSoto, in Jefferson county, where there
was to be grand secession /" love feast"
and flag raising. Here they found a COM
pany OF secession cavalry drilling for the oc-
casion, which took to their heels as soon as
they got sigbt.of the United States troops.
In their fight, the cavalry left some thirty
of their horses, which were captured by the
troops and placed under guard. The pole,
one hundred feet high, on which the rebels
were going to fly the secession flag, was
soon graced with the stars and stripes, amid
the widest enthusiasm of the Union men
and government troops. The next move
was to capture the rebel flag. After search
ing in vain for some time, DR.. Franklin, of
the Fifth regiment, thought he observed
the lady of the house sitting in rather
an uneasy position, and he very polite.
ly asked her to rise. At first the
lady hesitated, but finding the Doc
tors persuasive suavity irresistible, she rose
slowly, and 10 |! the blood red stripe of the
rebel ensign appeared below the lady boopA
The Doctor, bowling graceful "beg pardon,
madam" stopped, and quietly catching hold
of the guady color, carefully delivered the
lady of secession flag, thirty feet long and
nine feet wide. The Doctor bore off his
prize in triumph to the camp, where the
troops greeted him with wild shouts, and
characterized his feat as the GROWING glory
of the occasion. Here the troops captured
another rebel leader, and after placing thirty
men under Lieutenant Murphy, to guard
the Union flag and the thirty horses, Cap
tain Coles command started on their way.
At Victoria, the train stopped moment,
when another secessionist came up hurrah.
ing for JEFF. Davis, and quick as thought the
ardent rebel was surrounded by half-dozen
bayOnets, and marched into the cars pri.
soner of war, and the train moved' or
They arrived at the Arsenal about 6h
o'clock, P. NJ, where crowd of soldiers and
visitors awaited them. The spoils were un-
loaded, and the prisoners marched to safe
and comfortable quarters.
The names Of the prisoners are as follows:
John Dean, taken out OF the cars at the
Arsenal in the morning w. A. Mathews,
Stephen Z. Dunklin, Joseph Dunkln, VIM.
j. Slater, G. 3. Clark, Ed. Willoughby, l..
w. Casey. Patrick Doyle, n. B. Buck,
editor Potosi Miner, DR.. Wyatt, of Jeffer.
son county, and d. Smith, of Victoria.