Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-11
The war I'm Nffssouri.

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fu Mention County, and after q Battle
Of Several Hours, Is Beaten, and Re
stg'edts-Othe7' Meas.
| Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Eve. Journal.
| ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8.
The following dispatch is taken from
LeavenwOrth paper:
| NEOSHO, Mo-, Oct. 3O.-On the 18th
instant, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
after marching all day and night previ
ously, came up with Price ut New
tonia, with FOrd's and JennisOn' slbrig
AIDES of my division. Price had gone in.
to camp in the timber south of the
town, thinking we had quit the pursuit
| Upon discovering our advance he form
ed one line of battle in the edge Of the
timber, and another in front on thu
prairie, developing almost ten thousand
men. l moved forward rapidly and at
tackled him with vigor. The fight lasted
from 3 O'Clock until dark. With my
two brigades I held the field without
support until near SHUTDOWN, when San
born came up just in time to form OH
umn of the enemy. We then drove
them from the field in confusion. They
retreated hastily, and moved all night
on the Gassville road.
My loss in killed and wounded is
about llS, and about 175 horses killed.
"A rebel surgeon, who came with a flag
of truce, reports the enemy's loss over
POO. Among their killed are two Col
0nels.
A spy of ours who has been with them
for several days past and during the bat
tie OF the 18th, has come in, and reports
that Price has 5000 men armed and
10000 unarmed-that he has still about
400 wagons, mostly loaded with plum
der. He says Price will not fight unless
compelled to, to save his train and the
unarned cOnscripts, but will move rs
rapidly as possible to Red River He
also says Price intended, if possible, to
make his headquarters this winter at
Kansas City. This is also corroborated
by most of the prisoners we have taken
Price told the Missouri recruits that
Kansas could not raise force enough to
disturb him in carrying out his pro-
| ,,ramme.
| General Curtis ordered his troops to
march yesterday morning at 3 O'Clock,
and vigorously follow up the pursuit,
but before the hour arrived, an order
came from Gen. ROsecrans for all tie
forces of PleasantOn to abandon the pur-
suit and return to the headquarters Of
| their respective districts. Yesterday |
removed to this point to recruit my
stock and rest the men, and be within
supporting distance of Forts Gibson and
| Smith.
Orders have just arrived from Lieu
tenant General Grant, which will, /
hope, enable lis yet to do the enemy
more damage. JAMES G. BLUNT.
| Jackson, u notorious guerrilla, is play
ing the part of Bill Anderson in north
east Missouri -.
| Captain Edwards, with detachment
of the I'd State militia, killed twenty OF
Colonel Birthrights rebels, on Satur-
| day, near SilIestOn, southeast Missouri.
Six hundred an twenty rebels, inclu
| ding forty-seven officers, captured by
pleasanton. arrived here yesterday, and
were taken to the Gratiot Street Prison.
| They were the dirtiest raoredeet, most
| riiiaiiiOuS looking set Of men ever seen
| here. Nearly all OF them claim to have
been conscripted, and many are anxious
to take the oath and enter the Union
army. .-...
There are still large number of pris-
| Oners ut Fort Scott, Mound City, PaOli.
Kansas City, Fort LeavenwOrth, indie
pcndence. Lexington, Sedalia and JEFF
ferson City, to come forward. The cap
tured artillery is expected to arrive to-
day Among the prisoners are Major
Cook. Of Freeman's brigade, and Major
| Carleton, both of whom are very much
exercised in regard to which one OF
them will be shot in retaliation for the
murder of Major Wilson.
During one Of the charges of our cav
airy on Price. several of his officers were
ridden over by our men, and only es-
capped from the fact that they wore no
uniforms.
The Arkansas troops are very bitter
against Price charging that they were
only an escort to the Missourians, who
were given the advance and got all the
plumber.
| Posi- OFFICE RULEs.--A formal but
| most essential rule makes letters once
posted the property of the Postmaster
| General until they are delivered as adj
dressed and they must not be given up to
the writers on any pretense Whatever
One or two requests OF this kind related
10 us, we are not likely soon to forget
one one occasion a commercial traveller
| called ut an Office and expressed II fear
| that he had Enclosed two letters in
wrong envelopes, the addresses OF which
he furnished. 1t appeared, from the ac-
count which he reluctantly gave, after
the refusal to grant his request, that his
position and prospects depended up
on his getting his letters and correcting
the mistake, inasmuch as they revealed
plans which he had adopted to serve
two mercantile houses in the same line
of business, whose interests clashed ut
every point. Another case occurred in
which Il fast young gentleman confessed
| to carrying ON a confidential cOrrespOn-
dence with twoyoung ladies at the same
| time, and that he had, or feared tn at he
| had, crossed two letters which he had
written at the same sitting. Writing Of
| this. we are reminded OF a ease in which
| /. country postmaster had a letter put in
! TO his hand through the office window.
together with the following message, de-
livered with great emphasis: I" Here's
letter; she wants it to ga along rs fast
rs it can, cause there's a Teller wants to
have her here; and she's cOurted by an
other Teller that's not here, and she
wants to know whether he is going to
have her or not. " e..t--
THE CAT AGE.-The palmy days for
cats were in the time of Egypt's power
as nation. some five hundred years b.
G. They were held there as sacred AS
dogs or croco,iiles, and death was the |
penalty for killing them. From their
nocturnal habits and glossy fur, the
Egyptians deemed them syinbolcal of
shipped at Syene Herodotus tells us
some marvel about them. 1.-THE Toms" |
it seems, in his time, had peculiar
liking for making away with Kittens
Il very fortunate thing, too, for the land |
would have Ovcrrun with cats. Crown
ing wonder Of all, when fire breaks
out, the sole care of the natives is to |
keep the eats from it; TO do which they |
post themselves as guards around the |
burning house, and take no thought for |
putting out the flames. A divine inn
pulse, however, says the chronicler,)
seizes the cats. They dart under the
men, or leap over them, and fling them
selves into the flames then great |
mourning takes possession of the land.
If found l,aI L., ~