New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-11
EIiO,. MISSOURI.
Politicians Using Military Renown for
Party Pnrposcs-Eushwha hacking ON the
Incrcase-LaH Congregational CONTEXT
Progress. Of the Northumberland
ness on the Negro Question, &c.

Incrcase-Late Congregational Contest
Progress Of the EnroIiment- Sensitive
meas ON the Negro Question, &C.
/ vrom Oar Special Correspondent
ST. Louis, Aug s. 1863.
! Mai. Gen. frank p. Blair, jr, returned here on
Sunday las, and Immediately gave IN his adhesion to
tho Gradual Emancipation party Our citizens re-
spect and admire the gsllsntry of Gen. Blair ss
a military officer. aud would have delighted to do
him honor irrespective Of party feeling. Bat the
Clay nnk politicians took possession of the General
and have used him to create party capital The fall
ing fortunes Of the Conservative Emancipation need
ed some such event TO revive It's spirits.
Tie infanou, Lu,hwhsekes are still at work in
the country rerpera,ing all manner OF atrocities and
crime. Abingdon. Hall bias offered reward Of
1900 for tie scoundrels who committed the barbar-
iiies a, Florence Ia Morgan County some time since
II caught they should be saot hanged without the
tomfoolery Of trial by n criminal court. The En-
rolling Oficer in WAYNE County was made prs-
opeT on Monday within few miles Of Pilot Knob,
while Ell route for this city. lie was carried Of TO
Agkansas - a hostage for the Rebel Proyost-Mar-
shal Of Bloomfield, Who was captured by cavalry
about three months sgo. Ire enrolinent bsts were
destroyed by the Rebels.
II il reported that gu.rrillas lately tore down the
Starr and stripes Ia town IN Saline County. and
threatened 70 tAfu VIC ANNi II
ted The nag 10 be raiod again. IN. people sent for
q militia company. armed themselves, and hoisted
the flag once more in twenly-fonr hours The guer.
rilla. have appeared between Sedala and Lexington
s w T.1' a rS% hi S. i'Is' ,s .fysss
ton. The came remark appiits 10 several portion.
Of North Missouri, although there have been many
tyrrenden to ros, Commanders during the lasi three
weeks.
An election for Member Of Congress in the Illd
District, to supply the vacancy accustomed by the
death OF Gen. John W. NOEL came Oh the I'd inst,
and from the meager returns received It is probable
that the Copperhcad candidate, John O.. Scott, mas
been elected over Col. Lindsay, the Emancipation
and Joseph bOgy, tho Conservative candidate
Iron, Perry. Rnd Cape Girardeau Counties voted for
Lindsay, but Mississippi, ST. Francis Washington,
ana Ste Geneyeve and perhaps Others Went for
Scott Had tbs Union vote been united, Il IL more
than probable Lindsay would have been elected
and the Administration have saved the member from
this District. A. II turns out, the election OF Scott
II "A loss, the deceased member being Republican
The fault lies AT the door OF the Federal office.
holder party IL Missouri who brought out Bogy at
the eleventh hour, after Lindsay had been ia the
field for several weeks, and was recognized the
chief candidate against tho Copperheads Bosy
receives only haudial Of votes, but bis candidacy
in oil human probability, elected Scott. Let the
responsibility for this result be placed on the right
shoulders.
Nothing further has OF late transpired concerning
the daft in this State The enrolment IN the inte
rfot Aittricts Il 40 Glow and imperfect that weeks
must elapse before the final preparations are made
soue counties have not been visited 10y enrolling Of
6cor. and il will require the presence OF soldiers 10
nro,ect officers while getting the names. Bythe-by
m, R,Dubhcan raves at TIE IRiBuSE correspond
cut for ssy ing that that paper pertstenily nlimstei
the mode OF drafting TO be unfair. The editor pro-
ceeds 70 Justify the charge 10y informing the public
that he did say that certain things ousht 10 be clear
10 remove all cause OF complaint, &c. This is sim
py hair-sp,ting The intination is quite clear that
n ANYTHING needed 10 be done 10 remove causes OF
complant that such existed, and 30 existing,
interlered with the fairness Oi the draft.
IL ~ surprising how very sensitive the military
authorities Of this State on tho subject of return
ing negroes 10 their pretended ownersl who have
received free papers lt l. notorious that negroes
have been thus returned warrants Issued 10y jug
lice. OF the Peace. Col. Broadhe,d, the lawyer who
was appointed Proyoet- Mar,hal-Gcneral by Gen.
scbo6eld when the latter assumed comuand OF this de-
ps,,mcut 10 lately made himself ridiculous By trying
Ia involve the ptolretors Of The Democrat III some
sor, Of u personal encounter with himself by de-
/ noupeiug them individually by name ne wiilful and
deliberate liars. The origin Of this lies III the bile
which the officer named Inns been accumulating for
| many months toward The Democrat Office; but the
immediate proyocuion Is the charge that negroes
have been returned 10 their masters by the Provost
| Marshal General.
THIS practice, whether the fault Of Col. Broad
/
enormous evil. When negroes can be jerked up on
Justices warrant. here IN the Free Soil City Of
St. Louis, and kept,p public jails until their Kid
nappers ready 70 run them or your readers Gun
imaginc how much worse tho evil must be IN the
country where Pro-Slayery Constabes, Sheriils aud
Judges are not only ready but engef to pursue fuei-
tive negroes Of yore. The slave Of noted Rebel,
who wls expelled by the State Convention for dir
loyalty, recently of from this city by this
process. Tie slaves OF u Rebel who was MAJOR OF
reyeral companies of Rebels, with whom Gen. Nc
Neil lad fight near Fulton, Galloway Coahty, III
October, 1861 were returned TO him by Tie same
plan. In brief instances are innumerabe, and many
OF them sufficiently outrageous TO cause thriii oi
surprise that such things are allowed.
| The steamer Ruth, lately burned near Cairo, was
one of the ines: boats on Wcrtern waters. Steam
{. bOatnen and others here are nearly unanimous IN
their conviction that the fire tho result of incen-
diarism, proceeding from wicked designs on the
=, JOO,0O0 on board, IN possession OF the paymas-
ters. When the steamer Dlckey was burned, come
time ago, discovery Of this sort was made. Ihe
Ruth was n new boat, launched last January al
Louisvie her owners have doubled her value IN
profits since the boat commenced running, aud can
we'll afford TO lose the boat. The loss OF liio has
IRss.y A,.,; s..yv. s.ry-s 100 .--'s,s 49, '-O.