Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-21
Important from Missouri.

The Jefferson City correspondent Of the
st. Louis Republican, writing under date of
the 18th, says;
SECESSION LITERATURE.
A scout recently showed us pass, given
him by rebel Captain, which reads thus:
"To the Missouri Stat Garde Pleas let
the barer pas-fne knothin rong about him."
1t would be singular, If not altogether ma.
tural, that ignorance and Secession should
60 hand in hand, for where intelligence is,
the absurdity and evil Of disunion are clearly
understood.
GROSS MISREPRESENTATION BY THE REBELS.
From various reliable sources, learn that
the rebels in this State, as elsewhere, are in
the habit of indulging in the most outrage
Gus Misrepresentation concerning the acts
ofthe Federal leaders and soldiers attributinp
to them the cruelties and barbarities that
they themselves commit. AS an instance of
this, it was reported and currently believed
in several counties adjoining this, that Major
Sturgis had taken seven hundred Secession
lists prisoners near Rolla, and had them all
shot.
wRETCHED CONDITION OF THE REBELS.
From conversation with several persons
who have for months past been employed as
scouts in Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton,
Henry, johnson, Pettis, Cooper and other
counties in the State, learn that the rebels
are very poorly clad, many of them being in
rags; that they are totally undisciplined, and
many of them returning to their homes either
discouraged or ill. Chills and bilious fever
prevail largely among the Secession soldiers,
rendering them totally unfit for duty.
THE CAUSE OF THE sECEssGoNIsTs DARKEN1NG.
The idea appears prevalent that the cause
OF the rebels in this State is hourly growing
lnF hD 1lgarr fr-nr say l.. IL,
and as they have destroyed many of the
bridges, they can not cross it, and they are
apparently hemmed in by triangle formed
by that river, the Missouri and the Kansas
line, where Montgomery and Lane are sta
toned with several thousand troops, with
Pope and Sturgis on the North west.
THE REBELS TO BE DRIVEN FROM THE STATE.
So far as l can learn, from conversation
with military men, they entertain little
doubt that the rebels will be rendered pow
erless or driven from the State in few
weeks. A powerful blow will soon be
struck against them, from a quarter perhaps
where they least expect it; and, some fine
morning, they will discover, to their painful
amazement, that they have lost their hold on
Missouri forever.
THE EFFECT OF THE AMENDMENT OF FREMoNT's
PROCLAMATION.
The effect of the amendment of Fremont's
proclamation, it is belived, will be generally
good in this vicinity; though most of the
loyal shareholders with whom have talked
say they liked the proclamation as it was at
first; but they think its present form will de-
prive the rebel leaders and sympathizers Of
all excuse for denouncing the Government as
abolition in its tendencies.
SHAREHOLDERS VIEWS OF SECESSION.
Several Shareholders that have met say
they have far less fear of losing their property
through the free State men than through the
Southern Secessionist whom they abuse
more outrageously than l have ever heard
them abused in the North. They declare
they do not want the traitors driven out to
have them return, but wish to see them ex.
terminated.
The people of Missouri have had practical
proof of the evils of Secession, and it is not
strange they detest the cause that has brought
| go much evil upon them.