, 1861-05-24


Price, who WIS President of tie stato Con.
ve1tioL-but on the occasion Of the Camp
Jackson a1iair, came out ticrce secessiouist
then accomplished lila purpose without COM
promls lslnr Gov. Jackson's official position, and
the upshot Of tho interview Is the paper
called BY some ian agreement" and 81 tho
secessionists q <skuce,'-referred to sRnTe
The Democrat Of this morning giycs # nns1i.
fed approval. The Republican, chuckIes over
It, ond aecret1y reiolcea, probably, that Il nav
be construed asa slight backing down Of Tic
ney. The Anztfger regrets its appearance, bns
takesa conservative view Of the subject and
says time will deTelop It's wisdom. Il Is un-
dtrstood that the action Of Gen. Hatney meets
with the appreciation Of Col Frank ?. Blair,
j., and Frank Is not the man to endorse any.
thing that Is not right.
There is much need Of publication in the
manner in which the army. business Of this
State Is carried on. In the first place the old
style Of doing things is unaltered, and the
work OF the officers from Quartermasters aud
Commiseary m Subsistence down to the 10 ~
est ranks u kept in the bands Of men whose
sJmpathies aEe adverse to those who now
prCstde at the head Of affairs in Washington
Heceseionlsts and sham Union men have tbs
ear OF these. men. Take the case Of Gen.
Hnrney, who Was controlled more BY the i'd
vice Of Wayman Crow On Thursday than ali
others combined Who Is Wagman CroWe
Why the man who supported tho Conditional
Secession ticket for delegates to the State
Convention. Who publicly proclaimed that IL
the worst came, the interests Of st. Louis and
Missouri were With the Southern Confederacy.
Whose three partners in the Wholesale div
goods trade arc ayoHed secessionists, 80
much so that their wives ere now preparing
lint and baudsgcs for the Southern ConEad-
eracy This Is the style Of maa who
Il kao ~ {]1 l..
Union:men., Secondly, MAJOR Wasa1nan who
haa had the buying Of tho principal army sup
plies for this divislon, has bought everything
he could from secefsion houses. He bought
dcur for months from SHitzer, Platl & c.,
aTowed Eecessionists, and agents for the Har.
Iieon mills at BelleTille, Ill (By the wa5, If
will call the -attention of the owner
Of the Harrison mills to this lact) He
hns patroniRed Corbett d Kuhn, saddlers aud
harness dealers, and worse than all, Thornton
Grtmaley d Co For months past Grimsley
has been one OF the most blatant secessionIsts
IN 81. Louis; contributing money and counsel
to the cause Without stint. Ali the time ho
has been thus engaged in conspiracy to break
down the Government. Loads after loads Of
boxes marked "U. s. Army" aud destined for
Fort teavenHorth, Camp Crittcnden, Fort
Laramie and other army posts, has been ship.
ped from his store. Major Wagamau has re.
signed, and It is sold viii join the Southern
Gon1ederacy. Now mark the rest. Captain
helton was appointed his SUCCESSOR. as soon
as Ae arrived in town, Wagaman and ono or
rWo other army officers toted him around, and
introduced him to every secession firm in St.
Louis VINO had anything Tnateser to sell need.
firms as carefully as If they wese poisonous.
There would be no complaint Of such conduct
IN Ordinary times, but does it not behooye the
Government, in an emergency like the present,
to patronize its friends before its enemies, Il
y M notorious Lat every' staunch and loyal
cessionists. Debts due them by citizens Of
The South and interior Missouri are wautouly
Iepudlated. Should the nation pay money into
the Golfers of traitors It seems plain thas
there can be but one response to this question.
=. Affairs at the Arsenal here are quiet aince
me location OF several thousand troops in the
suburbs, The number at the Arsenal has d.
minished, and the place Is not so lively as It
WIS fortnight ago. Gen. Harney has his
headquarters at his residence, corner Of Fifth
and Walnut streets. Gen. Lyon and Col
Frank F. Blair, Jr., are residents Of tho Arsen.
~, however, and may be fornd there at al
t1nes. About five hundred additional re-
Teek. The Potosi prisoners have Ill
been released but four Among the four
retained is the editor Of the Potosl Union,
sec ssion sheet, mud John Dean, proprietor Of
the lead 1aetory. It has been expected that
ha5eas corpus would be issued to release the
latter, but for some cause 1t has not be IN done,
The troops On the 1aland, opposite the Arse
nal, have been comparatively idle for several
days rast In oveThaulirF steamboats,. nwinn
to the Almost total annihilation Of tie riYeP
trade below this city By the sonthe1n rebel
lion. The boat stopped Sunday morning waa
Tue Lake City. Three shots were fired across
her bow before she stopped her wheel The
Arsenal authorities have the steamer Iatan w.
ing alongside the pier front Of tie grouds with
banked tires and ammunition aboard ready for
service ct moment'a notice. The troops now
inside the walls number less than two thous-
and, Including some five hundred regulars,
who do sentry duty md attend to the gates.
Many improvements have recently been made
IN the Arsenal grounds, and among them tho
Introduction OF Water pipes and IN ample sup
ply Of wafer from the city reservoir. Tie
ccntraband articles taken from Camp jackson
are in safe hands now. They attract much at-
lention from Visitors, and really make . very
force they could Offer on effective resistance to
my opposing ormy. On the whole, the cap
tured spoils ara valuable additiont to tha ord
nance department Of the Arsenal
:. The secrets Of the memorable period when |
the secealon forces were surrendered to Can't. |
on the day following the Camp Jackson affair
private meeting took place at the Office Of |
6; Taylor, Mayor attended by Robert |
Campbell. JAS. E. Yeatman, Hamilton R, |
Ga1nb1ee, Capt. Eaton, Henry s. Turner,
Mayor Washington King, (esent of. the Adams |
There we're aomo others present whose ] names
have not been made known. Tho de1ibera
tions were kept private for some time, but |
1nally II came ont thnt the removal of Capt,
Lyon from this post by the Federal Govern.
ment vas the ult1matum Of this self-constitu-
3elcgate t. the Border S1ave State Convention
It Eran ktort, Kentucky, and WAS supported by |
both the conditional aud unconditional Union |
parties for the State Convention in February
ast, ard JAS. E. 4eatman, q merchant of in |
ssnsely Southern proc1lvitlcs, we're appointed !
7ith mem orial to effect the removal Of The |
offensive Lyon. They departed from the city
Immediately afterWBrd, and designed settini- !
he matter before Gen. Scott without giving !
Capt Lyons friends . chance to protest. For
.uuntely Capt: JAS. B. Eads and franklin A. |
Dick were In Washington when they arrived,
U as soon IS their mission was made known.
hesErs. Dick md Eads counteractcd It by !
PROPER repres entations. The result is con-
mission IRON the Secretary OF War appointing I
Capt. Lyon Brigsdier General Of the lst Mis-.
ouri Brigade.
Several days ago commu nication appear
ID In the RepuNiean, signed by 7. ]. CAN'T,
'$NAA4t<At4A~N ~ oF0GVEANf4QH4u43 LIE EQStt1Q0
# the State Of Missouri, and defining the
aW Of treason. It was an able document and |
1talt death-ltke blows at tho Eecess1onl6ts It3 |
:s'nclnsion was extremely weak7 it declared |
Lat Missouri should remain ncutral Mr. Gantt
stated that the paper had been, signed by
'wenty lending citizens, with q yieH Of |!
circulation throughout the State as aa
address TO the people on the present crisis.
some OF the signers, however, had Withdrawn
heir names, and others bad expressed reluc. |
ance to go into print. Thereupon he hll
concluded to publish the address to the world,
Without any signatures at all and let it 20 for
+ mt It was worth The weakness of the in
iiEidnass who put their names to paper Of
his character, aud then from abiect coHjafd;ce
withdrew then, ,was the subject Of considerable
Comment In this city at the time, and the
general remarks were by no means complia-
nenta1T to the signerB. Wayman Crow was
It the meeting where the address was read,
nd said be endorsed every word of it, but as
John Bell Of Tennessee had just shiited his
3os1tton, and as he had voted for Bell, he did
rot care about signing such papcr-anotber
OF his coWard1y Unionism. Among
he signeIs, however, were James E. Yeatman
'efore alluded to, James H. Lucas, the
Eea1thlcst citizen Of the Mississippi valley,
de1Fy S- Turner, Thomas T. January, Jno. 5.
McCune, the iron foundry man. Mr. Adolphus
Meyer, we'll known German, rho has ac,ed
n opposition to the Republican party, put hls
l0ne to the address nnf 3ras H,{T1fpy r. tna1 |