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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
Interesting from Missouri.
ST I.ouIc Oct

ST. LOUIS, oct. D.
A special to the St. Louis RepasbH-
can, dated Jefferson City 18th, says:
/" Generals Fremont and McKinstry
left for the West this afternoon.
cit is stated here that Gen. Wool
is now on his way to St. Louis and is
to be followed by fifty thousand troops,
half of whom are to stop at Cincin-
natl and 60 into Kentucky, while the
other half are to enter into active ope-
rations in Missouri, and supply the
place of Gen. Fremont's army.
Information has been received here
that about three weeks ago, slave in
surrection was attempted in Jasper
county; that about thirty-three of the
negroes were killed, and number of
others to be hanged. The discovery
of the plot proved that the instruction
was wide spread, and that the slaves
intended to murder their masters and
perpetrate all manner of barbarities..
GA report is current that 2 900 rebels
are twenty-six miles from Hermann,
marching toward the Gasconade river,
with the intention of burning the rail-
road bridge across that stream. These
rebels are said to be headed by MiskeE
johnson.
cit is Gen. Fremont's intention to
follow Price rapidly and continuously.
After leaving Sedalia he will march
from twenty five to forty miles per day,
according to the condition of the road,
and if necessary he will enter Arkan-
sas. He says he does not want any
more men; that he has sufficient force
to 60 anywhere through the South.
He seems to have entire confidence in
his army, and his officers and soldiers
repose great trust in him.
"The information having been re-
ceived here that McCulloch's forces
were on the South bank of the Usage
River, few days since, with the de-
sign of cutting off Fremont's commn-
nication with St. Louis and then march,
ing on that city, strong and experienced
scouting parties have been sent out to
scour the whole Lower Usage country"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
New YoRK.

NEW DIRK, Oct. B.
The 7Ei5une's special Washington
correspondent says: "The cargo of
the Bermuda which ran the blockade
at Savannah, consisted of eighteen
r'ned cannon, S2's and 42's, and 1913 fb.
canister guns, with all the necessary
shot ana shell all ready for Immediate
use also, $500 Enfield rifles, between
100000 and 3,oOo,ooo cartridges for
the same, 5000 pairs of army shoes.
10000 blankets, $50 barrels punnow.
der, a large quantity of morphine.
quinine and other medicine stores. and
very many other articles of more than
money value to the rebel army. Her
armament was two l2-pounder rifled
guns, one on each side. She is now
hitting out for active service, and is to
be employed in cruising for returning
California steamers, Commodore Tat
nall will command her. My informant
states positively that the mate of the
Bermuda informed him that more IRON
clad steam frigates are expected from
England on the Southern coast, by the
18th of October.
:The Bermuda is owned in Eng.
land her cargo was owned in South
Carolina. While she was loading, and
at the time she cleared, it was supposed
in Liverpool to be a supply ship for the
royal navy, although Downing street
knew much better. She cleared for
West India port.
All information received at head
quarters show that the enemy are
prodigiously strong, numbering nearly
200,0 900 men, and that no offensive
movement is at present intended.
"JohBson and Smith favor an active
policy, but Beauregard insists on stand
ing on the defensive.
"None of Gen. Fremont's commits
sions are recognized by the Presi-
dent, and they are therefore rendered
worthless. Mr.. Gurley. M. c., who has
been active in organizing western regi-
ments, was in some embarrassment at
Washington on learning this, but the
President has endorsed or promises to
endorse his acts.
The Worlds dispatch says: GA
young lady named Harriet Morrison,
lately school teacher in Tennessee,
has arrived near our lines, having been
six weeks in escaping. She is intelli-
gent and is possessed of valuable infor-
nation. She states the Notifications at
Manassas have three lines of entrench-
ments, one behind the other. On
Monday last she saw Davis, Beaure-
gard and Smith. This information
comes from her guide, as she was un-
able to get through the rebel pickets.
In the morning Gen. Smith will send
out several companies of infantry and
battery to drive in the rebel pickets
and capture the young lady, provided
the rebels have not already taken her
away"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

THE MONEY TAKEN AT LEXINGTON.
The St. Louis Republican states au-
thoritatively that, after the surrender
of lexington" the money committed
to. the charge of Colonel Mulligan in
the entertainments was taken by Gen
eral Price and Colonel Mulligan, con-
veyed by their orders to the bank, and
there in their presence counted. The
whole sum, coin and bank notes, was
100000, and this sum, except sl5, 1000,
in three packages of $4,000 each, was
received. The $4,000 in notes, it is
conjectured, was stolen by Federal
troops about the time of the surrender.
and when less strict guard was kept"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
The Violation of the Blockade by the
British Steamer Bermuda.

A special dispatch to the Tribune,
Washington, Oct. 9th, says: "The
publicity given to the violation of the
Savannah blockade by the British
steamer Bermuda is said to have pro-
ceeded from Lord Lyons dinner-table.
Information from the village of Thorn
son, Conn, gives me reason to believe,
that part of the freight of this vessel
was 20 tons un-powder, 1000 Enfield
rifles, 10 rified cannons, 6O5 pair shoes,
a large quantity of blankets and cloth
ing, and an extraordinary amount of
quinine and morphine. RESPONSIVENESS
against her sailing and completing her
cargo were made by Charles Francis
Adams, in London, but the Foreign
Office did not feel at liberty or would
not see its obligation to avert the un-
lawful voyage.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
FIENDIsH CRIME, AND RETRIBUTIvl

FIENDIsH CRIME, AND RETRIBUTIvE
VENGEANcE.-An attempt was made
to destroy tho train containing Col.
Steedman's Fourteenth Ohio regiment,
which left Louisville last Monday night,
by placing rails upon the track. One
of the perpetrators man named Allen
Nevil, was caught, and upon the arrival
Of the train in Lexington on Monday
forenoon, the prisoner was marched
through the city on his way to Jail,
when an Irishman, name unknown,
stepped up, and, on learning the crime,
dreao a knife and cut NeuiPs throat
from ear to ear. He was Immediately
arrested and taken to Jail. When the
train left Lexington in the afternoon,
Nevil was not expected to live.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
ENEMIES AT WASHINGTON.

ENEMIES AT WASHINGTON. - The
Philadelphia Press asserts that nearly
all the diplomatic representatives of
the European monarchies in Washing
ton, are openly in sympathy with the
rebels of the Southern States and that
at a convivial gathering, about the time
of the Bull Run disaster, the congratu-
lations exchanged among them over the
humiliation of American Democracy
were loud and unaffected. The most
rabid Of the gang is Lord Lyons.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

Col. FREMoNT's CHARGES. = The
charges and specifications of Gen Free
mont against Col. Blair, including Col.
Blair's letters to Postmaster General
Blair, were published in the St. Louis
Democrat of the 5th. Col. Blair was
arrested a second time for writing a
letter which he addressed to Adiutant
General Thomas, after he was released
by Fremont, and because he declined
to resume his sword and take command
of his Regiment, then on their march
to the battle, when ordered by his com
mander. Gen. SCOTS release of Col.
Blair is understood to be peremptory,
until such time as charges can be made
against him.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
Michigan and the War.

We find the following letter from
Senator Chandler in the New York
World of the 9th inst. This letter not
only speaks the truth, but 1t speaks the
feeling Of Michigan and the entire
Northwest
SIR: My attention has been called to
an article in your valuable and patriotic
paper, in which you say ''The extreme
Northern States, from Maine to Michi-
gan, have not done their duty. and tits
high time that state pride arouse them
to emulate the noble EXAMPLE of New
York, Massachusetts,, and Rhode
Island" As l am sure you would not
willingly do injustice to Michigan, Il ask
you to state editorially, the population
and number of regiments in the field
for the war from each of the states
whose example is to be emulated.
Michigan had at Bull Run one three
months regiment (now recruiting and
in for the war; and three regiments for
the war, and not q oriUate soldier IN
camp in the state. Since that time she
has sent seven regiments for the war,
making ten regiments now present
with the army, in addition to which
she has furnished to other states over
two thousand men, mOao IN the field, for
the reason that government would ac-
cept no more regiments from Michigan
at that time, and the patriotic ardor of
our citizens could not be restrained.
We have now in camp nearly 1000
men, and shall send two more regi-
ments this week and two more within
a very few days. The Northwest has
done her whole duty; how is it with
the East? The Northwest has exceed
ed every call made upon her, and yet
you lack men, and are denuding over
two thousand miles of border territory
of troops for the defence of Washing.
ton. If New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and the New England
States cannot defend Washington, in
Gods name what can they do ? The
Northwest will defend the lines from
the mountains of Virginia to the Rocky
Mountains. She will sweep secession
and treason from the Valley of the
Mississippi-aye, and will defend the
Potomac, too, she must but is not
this Union worth as much to New
York, Pennsylvania, and Massachu-
sets as to the Northwest Why then
SO tardy in supplying troops? Had
five of the forty northwestern regi-
ments now on the Potomac been with
Lyon, he would have won the battle
and cleared Missouri. Had FIVE been
with Mulligan he would now be in pos.
session of Lexington. Could ten OF
them be sent into Kentucky tomorrow
lin addition to what they have,) they
would clear the State of secession in
ten days and threaten Tennessee.
Could ten be sent to Rosecrans he
would clear the mountains of Virginia
and threaten the rear of their grand
army. But no; this cannot be done
because the East will not do her duty
If she does not at once, the whole world
will cry shame.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
T. CHANDLER.
DETROIT, Sept. 80.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

LEXINGTON, Mo.-Lexington, Mis-
souri,, is the capital of Lafayette county
and about $50 miles w. n. w. of ST.
Louis, Jefferson City being about mid
way between the two points. The city
has a population of between 1000 and
5000, and is located mile and quar-
ter south of the Missouri River. Some
fifty miles west is the Kansas line. The
Pacific Railroad extends from st. Louis
to within fifty or sixty miles of Lex
ingtOn.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

NATION for governor. He was elected
that fall by majority of some 5000
votes; and served as governor during
1855 and 1855. In 1866 he was re-
elected governor and served as such
during 1857 and 1858, and as the SEN
atorial term of Hon. Chas. E. Stuart
of Kalamazoo was about to expire, Mr..
Bingham was elected to the United
States Senate at the session of 1859,
for six years from the 4th of March,
1859. - u
During his brief senatorial career, in
the midst Of appalling public events,
he did not fail to exhibit the same
steadfast attachment to his principles
that had ever distinguished him; and
his ardor in promoting every measure
to put down the present pro-slavery re-
bellion has been CONSPICUOUS both in
and out of Congress. One of his sons
he sent as a volunteer at the first call
of the President to defend the capital /;
and had he supposed that he himself
could have better served the cause OF
the Union, the cause of liberty and
good government, by going to the wars,
his heroic feelings would have impelled
him to "mount the breach" The
blood of the brave Martin Scott ran in
his veins, and he seemed to partake of
the dauntless spirit of his relative.
But he has gone. No friend of the
Union and freedom who shall visit the
pleasant but unOstentatious spot which
was the home of Bingham, will fail to
drop tear over his grave.-Det. Ado.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
w Five thousand six hundred

az Five thousand six hundred
dollars of the SIS, 900 stolen at Lexing-
ton by the Federal soldiers was found
in the possession of a returned soldier,
named Kelley, at Detroit, on Friday
last.
Kelley admits that he got the money
from the buried treasure, but says it
was about to fall into the hands of the
enemy, and would be used against the
country; he thought he had as much
right to it--and little more--than they
did, so he took it.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
AUTHENTIC INTELLIGENCE. = T.

AUTHENTIC INTELLIGENCE. = The
recent information from the rebel army,
representing that their strongest posi-
ton is about a mile and half in the
rear of Manassas Junction, where the
entire available reserves of the South
are being collected, is considered relia-
BILE, coming as it does from person
who has recently, in the interest of the
Government, visited all the principal
points, from Richmond to Leesburgh.
He fully confirms previous reports OF
the dissatisfaction and decentralization
which exists in the rebel army, in.
creased to great extent by the recent
National victory at Hatteras, and by
the i'll success of Floyd, Wise and Lee
in Western Virginia.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
From Fortress MOnrOe..Escape of Col.
Devilliers.
BALTIMORE, Oct.

BALTIMORE, Oct. b.
The Old Point boat brought up a
number of refugees from Norfolk, in
GLIDING some released crews from prize
vessels.
Col. Devilliers, the instructor of Col
Ellsworth, who was taken prisoner by
ex-Gov. Wise in Western Virginia,
came up in the boat, having escaped
from prison and made his way along
James river to Newport News. He
escaped along with twelve others, who
were arrested and taken back. By
Disgusting himself, and affecting lame
ness he succeeded in escaping. He
describes the sufferings of the prisoners
as great, and their treatment as bar
barous, one of them having been shot
from the street by woman. He has
gone to Washington with much impor-
tant information CLEANED on his journey.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

THE LAST DEGREE OF INFAMY.-
The rebels have robbed the State In
sane Asylum of Missouri of all the bed
ding and blankets, and stripped the
poor lunatics of their spare clothing.
should be quickcned by
this news, SO that the bottomless pit
may speedily receive its tenants. The
devil is to be pitied when these hends
enter his precincts.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
How 1t Happened that the Secessiouists
Did not take Louisville.

The fact that General Buckner did
not take the city of Louisville instead
of stopping at Green River, when he
invaded Kentucky on the line of the
louisville and Nashville Railroad, is due
not to any foresight or force of the
United States authorities or of the I'm
ron men of Kentucky, but to the loyal
ty, courage and tact of one obscure in
dividual. The secessionists had laid
their plans to appear suddenly IN Lou
sville with powerful force. They
had provided for transportation four
hundred cars and fifteen locomotives,
and had eight thousand men, with ar
tillery and camp equipage, on board.
They had secured the services of the
telegraph operators, one of whom for
warded to louisville dispatch explain
ing the detention Of trains on the road,
and were moving forward at grand
cate. Everything was going well with
them, and Louisville, with perhaps the
exception of few secessionists, was
unsuspecting and unguarded, General
Anderson being innocent of any knowl-
edge of the movement, James Guthrie
President of the road, totally in the
dark, and Gen. Rosseau lingering in
camp on the Indiana shore. But at a
station just beyond Green river, there
was young man in the service of the
road, who was warm friend of the
Union, and who, comprehending the
meaning of the monster train, when it
came up, seized a crow-bar used for
taking up the rails to make repairs,
and while the locomotives were being
wooded and watered, wrenched the
spikes from four rails. The train came
along at good speed, the rails spread,
ehelocomotive plunged into the ground,
the cars crashed on top of it, and ii
was twenty-four hours before the train
could 90 head. In the meantime,
Louisville was saved. The here of the
occasion had not had time to get on,
of the cut before the crash came, and
was taken, but in the confusion and
excitement got away, and is safe.
These facts are related by DR.. II. S.
Newton, whe was in Nashville when the
secession army advanced, and detained
there several days subsequently,, heard
the circumstances narrated there, and
was told of them afterwards by Gen
Bucknor and other officers of the Con
federate Cincinnati CONNER
ciak.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

A SEDITIoUs LIEUTENANT. = The
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
says that Lieutenant A. Morton, of one
of the Illinois regiments at Camp Ben
ton, has been arrested for uttering
seditious language. Tuesday night, he
spent the evening in drunken jollifi-
cation, and in the presence of large
crowd said Lincoln's Government was
"played OUT" and he was in favor of
the Southern Confederacy, and would
join at the first chance.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

Two New Regiments to BIO Called Out.
Governor Blair has given his consent
TO the raising of two new regiments
from this State-one to be commanded
by Francis Quin, of Niles, and the 9TH
err by Charles E. Stuart, of Kalamazoo
-on condition that the General Gov
eminent expresses its willingness to &C.
cept them when raised. Information
has been solicited on the subject from
the War Department
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10
ARREST NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Chi

ARREST EXTRA oRDINARY.- Chi
cago Journal of Monday says that
William III. Russell, IL. D., the CORES.
pendent of the London Times, who is
spending few days in Illinois, shooting
prairie game, has been arrested near
Wilmington, in Will county, at the
instance of residents in the vicinity, for
shooting on the Sabbath, contrary to
the statute.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

CoRREcTIoN.-Mr. Ctas. Vassar, of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, who died few
weeks ago, was not, as has been stated,
the founder of the Vassar Institute for
girls. 1t is his brother, Matthew Vassar,
who has devoted large part of his
great fortune to this object. He is still
living, and in excellent health; and
himself superintends the erection Of
the school buildings, on which good
progress is making.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

JEFFERSON CRY, Oct. g.

JErrERsoN CRY, Oct. 8.
A special to the st. Louis Democrat
saws: CDR. White, of Mulligan's Bri-
gade, arrived. here in the Sedalia train,
ct an early hour this morning, and
brings information from Lexington up
to Monday night. Price had left Lex
ippton with the main body of his force,
and is moving southwark for the pur-
pose of effecting junction with Nc
Culloch, after which he will give FIRE.
mont battle.
DIR. White represents that Price is
decided upon this point having been
elated and intoxicated by his victory
at Lexington. He says that Price an
tieipates an easy victory over Fremont,
at this point, and will then move on st.
Louis, where there were no less than
$4,000 secessionists ready to rise and
welcome him, with arms in their hands.
"Dr. White thinks that the rebels
will endeavor to get between us and
the forces at Georgetown and surround
and cut off Davis and Sigel then meet
Fremont near this place. The rebel
forces have nineteen field pieces, and
are expecting rifled cannon from the
South.
Seen. Price told the DIR. that the
Southern Confederacy had loaned the
State of Missouri one million dollars
for the purpose of carrying on the war
against the federal government.
"The rebel troops are confident of
victory, and are clamoring to be led
against Fremont.
CDR. White gives sorry statement
in regard to the conduct of the rebels
towards the wounded at Lexington.
They took away from him all his hospi-
tai stores, not leaving him even a
sponge.
The DR.. thinks Prices force num-
bers fully 10000.
CDR. White says he heard, on his
way here, that Is, 900 rebels had parted
from the main body and marched to-
wards Georgetown, with the intention
of attacking that place before rein
forcements could arrive from Jefferson
City. rHos ~ sra e1
A miller, who left Georgetown yes
terday morning, says he was turned
back by the enemy pickets twenty miles
from that town. The DR.. believes that
the rebels have no idea of quitting the
State, but intend to make demonstra.
ton in vast numbers upon Georgetown,
Jefferson City and st. Louis, and they
are perfectly confident of their ability
to take them. No immediate attack is
feared on Georgetown, and our forces
there are prepared to receive them.
An officer here, formerly of Multi
gan's Irish Brigade, who left the vicini-
ty of Lexington Monday evening,
places no confidence in the truth of the
above. The officer says at the time he
left not more than 10000 rebels had
Quilted Lexington, and that nothing re.
liable was known of their intentions or
course, or of what policy Price had
concluded to pursue.
Boonville and Glasgow were quiet
at the latest advices, but our forces are
on the alert for a fight. Many persons
think there will be no great engage
ment since the reputed evacuation OF
Lexington, but others think he will
very soon strike blow in some quarter
where he is least expected, and the
prospect of a battle is now increased
rather than diminished"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-10

FREMONT Nor TO BE RRMovED.-
Secretary Seward, has telegraphed to
Brigadier- General Curtis, St. Louis,
that Gen. Fremont is not ordered 10,
Washington, nor from the field, neither
has any court martial been ordered con-
corning him. This of course will set
the matter of Fremont's removal At
rest.