Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-25
From Missonr1.

WARREHToN, Mo-, Dec. 24.-Ehe damage
/ to the North Missouri Railroad may be
summed up as follows: Bridges at Stur-
seon, Centralia, Mexico, Jefferson and
Warreuton, burned, also one station and
perhaps twenty cars, from 80 to go culverts,
! large and small, three or four water sta
TONS, 10000 ties, from 200 to 300 tele-
, graph poles miles of iron and 10 miles
of wire rendered useless. Two trains, one
having eight carloads of hogs and several
cars of hemp, and the other having two
cars of merchandise, are in the possession
of the rebels, and four engines are lying
where they can be seized by them.
Some of the men who belonged to the
trains have arrived here, from whom we
learn that the persons who did the damage
are yet enCamped along the road, about 500
being at aigh Hill, and other bodies at or
near Martinsburg, Mexico, Centralia, Stur-
geon and Allen.
At Centralia they went within half
mile of the camp of the Berge Sharp
shooters, and destroyed u bridge and a
captured within four miles of the camp of
detachment of the SHINE force at Reneck.
! The work was directed by practical
/ railroad men, and the right course was al
| ways taken to make the destruction COM
plete Where the track was taken up the
rails we removed, the ties gathered in
piles and set on fire aud the rails thrown
across the pie, so that when the center
of the rails became heated the weight of
the cold ends bent them so as to render
them useless.
In destroying the bridges the fires were
| kinoled around the corners where they
I would sooner throw the bridges down, and
| the trusseI girders which SPAWNED the open
culverts were burned, with the ties to heat
the rails, also the frames on which the wa
ter tanks stood.
The houses Of RriIroad men and of all
I Union men in the vicinity of the road were
surrounded, and the inhabitants assured
! that no harm was intended them while they
4 remained ia doors. We hear Of scarcely
any pillage or any other outrage beyond
I the destruction of the road and telegraph
| line. The damage TO the road cannot fall
| short of $500, 900, aud at least a month will
be required to repair it so train can pass.
! By arrivals from Mexico, we learn that
the bridge over Salt River, which is the
longest and most costly on the road, ex-
! cept that ut Perrulue, which the rebels
/ spared on Friday night, was entirely de-
stroyed on Sunday night. The station
! house at Jacksonville WAS also burned, to-
| gether with four or Eve cars
J
bridge is repaired, and the culverts between
here and Jonesburg and the track at that
place will be tomorrow, if the men are not
/ interrupted, and the repairs of the telegraph
line keep pace with the mail
OrTERy1LLE, Dec. 24.-The cavalry
which Gen. Pope sent to Lexington have
! returned In addition to the ferry boats
and foundry which they burned, and the
| rebel officers and privHtes captured pre-
viously, reported they killed tue notorious
| Arkansas Robinson and drove every band
of rebels from the country for miles on
either side of the route. They report the
country quite clear ofrebels.
JEFFERSON CtrY, DAc. IA gentleman
who has been with the rebel army several
I weeks, arrived here to-day. reports that on
/ Thursday last, Prices camp at 0sceola was
thrown into confusion by news that the
! Federals were upon them. They beat a
hasty retreat, and when last heard from
were at HamansvilIe, hurrying South.