, 1864-07-21

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ISpceia! Dispatch to the Chicago T,ibune.1
| ST LOUIS, Wedneeday, JulS %.
Gen. Fisk has issued . stirring address to
the people Of North Missouri to raise S 600
volunteers for one hundred day troops agaiust
| gueri]las.
Itappears that st. Joe, Atchisor, Kansas
City and Leayenworth are filed with fusi-
tives from guerillas, and the ayengiug troops
| pursuing them. Between the two forces the
country in Platte aud Clay counties Is beiug
used up. The conservatives are already coul-
planning that Jennison Is running OFT negroes
into Kansas.
Papers captured from tho guerillas indicate
an intended concentration Of several bands
On the 18th, for raid into Kansas, which
didn't come off.
There is n heavy demand here for substi-
tutes. The brokers here hare loug lists Of
orders ahead, and to. day refuse to take any
new names. Prices tange from 1915 to $50.
The steambontmen. against their true inte-
rests, are asking Gen. Rosecrans to modify
his orders for protecting steamboats,, so as
to allow steamers to lie along the leyee when
unemployed.
A number Of guerillas. who reported that
they lately belonged to Shelby's rebel COM
mand, came into Pilot Knob yesterday morn
ing and surrendered themselves. They say
Shelby is coming to Missouri as soon as his
borses are in good trim for a raid
ST. LOUIS, Wednesday,, July Ca dis
patch from st. Joseph says Colonel Ford bus
killed forty OF Thornton's gucrillas, and that
the city and the country are wild with excite
ment. band Of one hundred guerillas were
seen twelve miles from St. Joseph on Sunday
night. Reports cay Ford attacked Thornton
at Arnolasyil1e On Sunday, but the result Vas
not known. Another body, numbering f1om
| eco to GOO, are encamped oil the GordoH-farm,
in Platte county.
The people were constantly going into st.
Joseph from the country, and nj my were
leaving for other points. The ripe grain is
!s1t unea1Eested, and much suffering is an-
II is slated on official information that 200
more Platte and Clay county Pawpaws have
| Joined Thornton.
collision has occurred in Atchison coun-
| II, but IFS extent Is not known.
Governor Hall has commissioned Cop
/ perhead to command the Andrew county nil
litia, md trouble will 40 doubt follow.
General Fisk has returned to st. Joseph.
The st. Joseph Tribune learns from u pri-
yate source that Major General Pleasanton,
formerly noted cavalry officer Of the Army
Of the Potomac, and, for some time past, on
duty in this department, will soon supersede
General Fisk il command Of North Missouri.
| This Is doubtful.
Thornton's gueril1as, broken into small
bands, are trayersing the country, robblng
| Eorts Of depIedatione.
Brig. Gen. Fish, commanding the District
Of North Missouri, has issued IN appeal for
5000 loyal men, each with horse, and such
arms and ammunition as he may have, to raj
j. for the protection Of life nnd property aud
hn Nf Has krs
whackers generally in Northwestern Mis-
sonr. He says the emergency is 80 great
that be cannot wait until the details can he
made By the State authorities or United
States troops be transported from other dis
tricts; that loyal citizens are being murder
ed and their property given to the tories;
houseless widows and orphans ore feetugto
the military posts; the ha1vests are going to
waste; and hundreds Of Unf0niets are daily
pleading at his headquarters for the protec-
tion that he Is unable to gilve, in consequence
Of the limited force ut bis command. He
therefore appeals directly to the people, and
Ia the name Of loyalty md humanity, urges
them to rally, and ut once to save their c0un-
try from the destitution and deso1ation which
have fallen upon the southern and western
Vous Of this force have been established ut
St. Joseph and Chillicothe. The sams dis
clpline will govern this organization Us pre-
walls among other troops, and commanding
! officers will be held strictly accountable for
the conduct of their men.
Gentlemen from Huntsville, No., recently
robbed bs guerillas, say the property Of most
of the rebel sympathizerB was undlsturbed,
! while that vi nea11y Ill the Union men WIS
cleaned ont. In some instances the property
| and snoucy tskeu from symp :thizers was re-
stored, This raid has greatly emboldened
the dis1oyullsts, who boast that all the radi-
Gals or abolftlonists must leave. The result
of this raid Is said to be that the best UDton
men In the region of Huntsville are leaving.
Merchants IRE packfog up their goods for re-
moval, while dis1ot alists are in St Louis pur.
chaeing new stocks: It is notorious that
bushwhacking is under the control Of disloy-
alists, and when they are held responsible
for the acts Of the Guerli1as and made to suf-
fer bY them as well Us Union men, then this
robbipg and plundering sill cease, but prob
ubly not till then.
ST. loU1s, July 20-4 p. m.-The steamer
War EAGLE, on her trip down the Missouri,
was flted on By bushwhackcrs, ut Roch3port,
but-no one WIS injured
Ten miles below, the Minnchaha and I4tau
were met with troops for Glasgow and st.
Joseph, under Lieutenant Colonel Henkey,
md $50 OF these troops were landed below
Rocheport, NTH orders to 60 to to the rear
Of the town md divert the attention Of the
guerillae but the result Of the expedition is
The St Joseph Herald Of the 10th says:
400 refugees from Platte county. Tho city Is
crowded with these people, and hundreds
are said to have gone to 1eavenworth aud
other places. The panic extends throughout
the whole country.
all the business houses in Weston are
closed. und the people II constant fear OF q
r1fd.
About fourteen buildings were burned in
Platte Clty, u few OF which belonged to Uu-
lou men. Some Of our troops we're men
who had been driven from Platte for loyalty,
| and could not be restrained.
TIE following letter was captured by otr.
troops. 1t shows that Thornton, after faw
| days devoted to plundering, intended to cf-
feet his escape into Kansas:
CANT NEAR PAnKvuLE.
FRIEND GkzcK: We arc about ready to concen-
the statc of things. Would like to cross below
rarky1'le and ford the kansas River to the west
ats 10 ri an9 hn
and activity In the Southern cause. Don't hill to
| send the word. Your friends,
T1oENToS tE TopD, Commanding.
Thornton has been in Plnttc county more
| than eight months, md, accordiug to his
| own statement, lie has recruited twelve hum
/ lred men. lie has been barbored, concealed,
! plloted, aided and subsEsted while preparing
ior foray before joining the rebel army,
! and the people who have lately suffered ut
| the hands Of onr troops richly deserve their
punishment. The wonder is that the troops
| did no more.
| Mr. Gaulsbury, member Of tue Legislature
| from Charlton county, has arrived hera, aai
says only flve citizens of that county have
taken to the bushes; TINT all The guerillas in
| his section came from the south side Of the
river, doubtless from PRICES urmy.
| Private letters from Lexington cay from
| three to nine hundred bushwhackers nre re-
| ported in Rny county. Some Federal troops
| had fight with them on Sunduy, In which
| six or eight Of the litter ara supposed to have
| been killed. On Monday the gueeilIas were
ut Elkhorn, about 800 strong. Col Jennlson
| WIS at Liberty on Sunday. Col McFarren
| was to leave Lexington for Ray county with
his men on Monday.
Accounts from Carroll county sag nine cit
| liens were killed by guc1illas in that county
last week, four OF whom were dischlrged SOL
dlers of the 18th Missouri regiment. This
gang of murderers committed all kinds Of
| depTtdations and atrocities, and gave out that
| they were from jackson county:
FROM CINCINNATI.
| HIatters In I1eptuclkY-,Rebel Sympa-
| tlltxerh..-The New Cal1--0hlU
| Matters.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribane.]
C1se1SSAT1, "Wednesday, July 20.
/ Rebel s: mpathlzers living along the line