, 1862-08-22
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
THE FIRE on TIE PRa1RlES.
4 GOOD AceoURT FROM ill.Ee.s.
Grlefs Of our Knights Of the
Golden Circle.


SPHIEaF7ELn. August II, 1852.
The following correspondence between
Governor Yates and the war department /
took place By telegraph, and will speak for
Itself Well done, Illinois:
srRIsGF1ELp, Aug. 20, 1862
To Gen r. Buckingham, Washington:
Il is impossible to-day to give the details
required in our dispatch Of yesterday. be-
lieyc there are 4, 100 enrolled men In this
State to-day, and By the Ped there will be
50,Cn.
Atout thirty Of these regiments are full and
others nearly SO. For want Of sufficient
detail Of m1retsriug officers, but four regi-
1nents are Jet mustered in. None have gone
ders. BY tie LIST of September think
can have organized fifty regiments without
ne* enlistmentE after the 22d inst.
send my adjutant generals report this day
bv mail. Cur State Is much neglected in the
failure Of the government to supply our
troops @ith arms, tents, aud camp utensils.
Thousands are sleeping on the naked earth
without any covering.
{Sigred) RICHARD YATES, Governor.
HASH13iIO~, AuSaSt Oil Ao9@s
TO His Excellency Gov. Yates:
The prompt and patriotic response Of yonr
State to the calls Of the president have far cE-
| cesded the calculations Of this department.
Arms will be forwarded as soon as possible.
ordinary tents sire Ont OF the question. There
| is no cotton to make them. The quarter-
Master, Oh your requisition viii provide board
barracks, or any other shelter that the soldier:
| can supply. The men should. if, possible.
| bring their Own blankets, as it will save the
necessity Of their purchasing them from the
government, and their clothing a1lo~ance il
mo1ey will receive the benefit.
| Every possible eXertion is being made tt
| manufacture an 3ther camp equipage, aud i
will be furnished as rapidly as possible
{s;cncd} C. P. BEcKIscnAsz, l. 4. G.
United States Marshal Phillips rsturnet
+ ON Southern Illinois last night, with th
following, per:cns in custody. They are SSH
| tc be K. G. C's, and charged with obstruct
! liz eu1istments and being members of a secre
organization for that purpose: ?. l.. Reedei
| CHESTERFIELD, Nacoupin county; Dr.. VIM
Sihith, Ta1naroa, P.rey county Q. T. Nj
Ccrycy, do; II. A. Hairs, IT. !. Hawkes., d.
Bedford Turnon, Or. Ross, do; e. II. Nes
land, Franklin county; Dr. Israel Blanchart
JzcAEon county; Bushrod n. Biodgett.
Congressman Allen, Judge Duff, and tb
states attorney, of the Cairo district, hay
| been tc1d there to answer charges Of treaso1
The proofs against them ara said to be owe
| ,ehelning.
.. The Bloomington Times was destroyed /
the people Of that place yesterday, for seee
sion stntiuents. It is said the editor took Il
; | cath, and afterwards, having declared he i
tended to disregard it, the mob would ha7
, hurg bim had he not fed.
Companies are still being offered here. Pc
ple in many southern, and in q f-w northe
!, counties, are petitiouiug tie government
!. leave to raise home guards to protect perso
d and property from secret secesslonists,
view Of the departure Of volunteers. In sol
II counties much alarm is manifested.
t. Gov. Yates has to day issued one Of
f. !oul-stir1ing proclamations to the people
J.. The State, calling On 1:ein to forTara vcge
=, D1es aud fruits to the soldiers in the field q
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