New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-25
AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI.

sr Louis Monday Dec. %, 1867.
DISPATCHES received at headquarters say that the
command sent to Lexington by Gen. Pope burned
two ferry boats and oundery at that place, and took
two captains, one lieutenant, iour men, and several
horses.
ST. LOUIS Tuesday, Dec. -, 1891.
Abou. 900 Of tie rebel prisoners taken by Gen.
Pore arrived here late last night, and were allowed
to remain in the cars until this morning, when they
were escorted by their captors, under Col. DAVIS
to Dr. McDowells Medical College where they
will be taken care Of for the present.
WARRpsToS, No. Tuesday, Dec ~ l'6l.
The damage to the North Missouri Railroad may
be summed M rs follows Bridges at Sturgeon Cen
traa, Mexico. Jefferson and Narentown burned;
alec. one station and perhaps 90 cars; from ~ 10 90
cnlyerts. large and small: three four water sta
tons. 10. coo ties, from 200 to 300 telegraph poles
and five miles of iron Destroyed and 10 miles OF wire
rendered useless.
Two trains, one having eight ear oads OF hogs and
several cars of hemp, ard two ears OF merehandHe
are in the possession of the Rebels. -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 ] learn that the persons
who did the damage are yet encamped along the
road about 500 being at High Till and other bodies
AT or near Martnsburg Mexico, Centrala, Sturgeon,
and Allan. At Centraia they went within hal a
mile of the camp of the Berge Sharpshooteis aud
DESTROYED bridge aud water station. Two freight
trains were captured within four miles OF the can
of detachment Of the same force.
! AT Renick. the work was directed by practical
railroad men, and the right course was always taken
70 make the destruction complete. Where the track
WAS taken up, the rails were removed, the ties
gathered in hills and set on FIRE, and the rmf
thrown across the Pile 30 that when the center Of
the rsils became heated, the weight OF the cold
ends bent them 40 az to render them useless.
In DESTROYING the bridges the fires were <ndIed
around the corners where they would aoon throw the
! bridge down and the rrssel guides which spanIed
de open culverts were burned, as were also the
frames on which tie watertanks usually stood
The houses of railroad men, aud OF all Union men
in the vicinity of the road, surrounded and tie
Inhabitants assured that no harm was intended them
while they remained in doOrs.
We hear Of scarcely any pillage or any other out
rage beyond the destruction of the road and teie-
graph line.
The damage to the road cannot fall short OF
rtUUUU, Al citct one ibohiu WIZ VIC
repair II 60 that trains pass.
BY arrivals from Mexico we learn that the bridge
over Salt River which is the largest and most costly
Oh tie road excep, that at Perrgue, which the rebels
spared on Friday night, was entirely destroyed on
Sunday night.
The Station-liouse ut Jacksonville was also
burned, together with four five cars. The repairs
progress rapidly here. The bridge Is repaired, and
the culverts between here and Jonesburg, and the
track at that place wll be tomorrow, il the men are
not interrupted, and the repairs of the telegraph line
keep pace with those of the road.
OrrrRvILLK, No.. Tuesday, Dec u. 1851
The cavalry which Gen. Pope sent 10 Lexington
have returned. In addition To the two iery-ooais
and the rebel .oundery which they burned, and the
rebel officer and priyAtes captured previously re-
ported, they killed the notorious Arkansas Robinson,
and drove every band Of rebels from the country Tor
miles on either side Of the route They report the
county quiet of the rebels.
JKFFEKsos CRY, Tuesday, Dec n, IDOL
A gentleman who has been vito the rebel army
several weeks arrived here to-day, and reports that
ON Thursday lat Price camp at Osceoa was thrown
into confusion by the news that the Union troops
were upon them They beat hasty retreat, and
when last heard from were at Hamm onsvilc, hurry
ing South.