, 1864-10-15


Especial Dispatch to tie Chicago Tntuue.1
ST. Lou1s, Ffiday, Oct H.
Late adylces report Price's headquarters
still at Boonville, Cooper county. The pres.
ence Of Price at Boonville is now regarded
hs plheed beyond doubt. His latest demon.
stration there is rhetorical1y q speech, ia
which his mind seems to have eadty reverted
to the failure of Missouri to respond to hts
celebrated summons for fifty thousand men
lie Ia reported to hare announced that be
had come to Missouri In order to redeem the
people-that this is to be his final effort in
their behalcthat if they would promptly
flock q. naasse to his standard all would be
well, ard he would 1eign to tarry with them;
but If they noW declined to rally to tle sup
port Of the Confederacy, 1t would never again
offer to redeem them from their oppression.
Reports Of rebel force having crossed
the Missouri Rirer Is confirmed, Shelby Is
said to be In command Of It, and to be con-
scsirting and piliaging, with three or four
thousand men, In the counties OF Howard
and Randolph. Ball Anderson's gang are
reported to have crossed to the north eide Of
the Missouri River, and Joined Prices col.
umu. Cla1k's men, fifteen hundred strong,
left Fayette and occupied Glasgow on Tues
dsy morning.
4 dispatch from Mnj. e. Il. Williams, con-
mardlug at Pilot Knob, states that our forces
found left In the rebel hospital and In private
houses at 1ronton, Col. H. G. Thomas, Of Fa-
gan's staff; Maj G. ". c. Bennett, 10th Mis-.
sonri rebel cavalry; seven captains, 121feuten-
ants, three sergeants, three hospital stewards,
one surgeon, tour assistant surgeons, and
1S3 enlisted men. Total 215. Host OF these
hare been paroled. In addition to the above,
we are reliably informed that over 800 graves
of rebels have been counted In the vicinity
of the destroyed fort, md seven men Of their
wounded left in the hospital and in houses at
0yerton, they are found scattered along their
march, in residences en- route from Arcadia
Valley to Leesbnrg. Seven Of the officers
named as at the hospitals ere mortnlly
wounded. It is further known that on the
retirement Of the rebels, they sent 4 wagon
train OF wounded eonthward Of men known
to Unionlsts Of the regiou to be particularly
obnoxious a. guer1llas, who dared not
be left to the tender mercles Of those tor
whom they bnd shown no mercy. Our iu-
formant saw 150 stray rebels at Pilot Knob.
There appears no donbt that the original
rport Of 800 rebels killed and wounded In
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limits of truth.
Col. J. P. Sandersou, of the 18th q. 8. in.
tontry, and Provost Marshal Of this Depart
ment, died at talEpast II O'Clock this morn
ing.
81. LOUIS, Friday, Oct. 14-some three
or four thousand rebels, under Shelby and
Clark, were in Woodfo1d, Randolph, Boone
ard Galloway counties plundering and con
EcrptiDg nearly all the male citizens, and
many entire families are fleeing from that
region, and the small ga1risons at Fayette,
Fulton, Huntsville, Glasgow, Sturgeon, and
other towns. have evacuated these posts, ano
are concentrating at Macon City. under Gen.
Douglass. Glasgow has been occnpied and
Fulton plnnde red by the rebels. Al the lat
ter place considerable Federal clothing and
Blankets were taken, and stores aud citizens
stripped Of everything valuable, amounting
to twenty or thirty Thousand dollsrs.
The report that Columbia was burned On
Sunday is not true.
The ed brigade of st. Louis militia have
gone to Jefferson City, and it is rumored
that General Pixies command has been or
dered to fo1tifY and hold the town Of Wash
1t Ironton the rebels are known to hare
robbed stores Of thirty five Thousand dollars
worth OF goods, besides plundering private
| houses of everything valuable At Pilot
Knob and Arcade the loss ia goods alone, Ia