, 1864-08-04

sr. LOUIS, Aug. l, 1884,
The errose Of the Vallandigham conspiracy,
is the event Of the last week. It Is consid'
cred good joke that the exposition came
ont one day before the Provost Marshal Gen.
eral General intended 1t should. The manu-
| script made about seventy pages Of foo 'acap.
/ snd- vas not received by the editors OF the
Dtmoerat until o'clock P. m. on Wednea,
day. The officers 1t the Provost Marshaps
Office thought it wou1d be 4 phys.
ical impossibility to set the type in
time for the next mo-nings issue, and
were very much surprised to find the whole
story published On Thursday morning. An
accident prevented the readers Of the TRIBUNE
from getting summary Of tho particulars
the came morning. A lengthy dispatch waa
handed In by your "speci2l" on Wednesday
night at the telegraph Office, but the Chicago
wires were do.n, and no dispatches went
through, so the dispatch was spoiled. The
truth Of this e1psse is beyond controversy,
however much the particulars may be view.
ed as exaggerated OR Of no importance. Col,
sandc1son has copies Of the printed rituals,
osths, obligations, secret pass words and
badges Of the Order, and the atidavits
and reports Of several confidential
agents In several States who Ill agree as to
the traitorous character Of the Order. The
testimony Of agents In this city concerning
Lodges or Temples Of the 0. A. E. right IN,
der our own noses is too ci ircumstantIal and
positive to be contraaicted, and The only an-
swcr the Coppe1heada and conservatives
hsye to make Is, that they don't believe the
devil Is ! 8 black rs he Ia painted. Col. San,
dcrson has on several occasions received inti-
nations Of rebel movements through this
Order, and knew Of the rebel raid INTO Mary.
land feW weeks ago, in time to warn Gov.
Curtin Of Pennsylgania Of the fact These
sneefed down. They add weight to the rev
e1atic MS made.
The connection ofthe Mcclellan movement
with the 0. L. E. is one Of its curious fea
tnres, and tends to wash away the delusion
which has been carried on by the Copperhead
Was antagoni6tic to Mcclellan. Here are
proofs, numerous and strong, that the o, 4.
K. exists in the city of New Yorg under the
name Of the McCIellaA Minute Men, and that
it is an oath bound Organization, designed to
resist 1ss .,t1 the Government upon any prete1t
South. When certain proofs now ia pro-
Eress OF completion afe' secured, and the
agents Of the Government watching
the traitors arc safe from their wrath,
smother chapter In this conspiracy
more sensational than the first will be given
tremble for the next chapter are, Governor
Seymour, Fernando Wood, and John 4
Green, Of New York Chauncey c. Burr Of
Pen1sylyania; Tbomas Il Seymour, Of Con
neetacut; Ex-Governor Jones and D. L. Ms
honey, Of Iowa.
Thornton, during his stay Ia Northwestern
Missouri, advised the Conservatives to 70
tor VallAndigham for President, and If they
couldn't get VAL, to take Mcclellan.
The guerilla war-in this State is still eeri-
ons, though the uprising OF Union men in
geted the bushwhaekess in some lnstances.
The most serious fight reported took
IN Platte county on Wednesday, between
battalion Of Union militia under Major Coz,
and 90 guerillas under Thrailk1l1 0urforce
wac made up chiefly Of the volunteers who
ed OF an attempted ambush by ThralIkill, aud
had quite struggle for commanding posi-
lion. The rebels fought stubbornly but were
driven back with heavy loss for the force en-
gagged Our men we're victorious, but they
tell come hinge stories ofthe amount Of shots
ing tifes, rerof!ers. and repeating catbines,
these stories were true. One state
ment is that every rebel. under
lhIonEiu carried nineteen shots upOn his
person, which he could deliver without re-
OF this advantage. Their aim must have
The proof Of the presence Of hundreds of
Price'e men In the bush, carrying on the lgu-
ertIla warfare accumulate In every case
WHERE he rebels nave been brought to
old veteran eoldieEs-an experience Alto
gtther new in fighting guertllas In this State.
They hare not healtatc1 when captured to
clsim The rights Of prisoners Of war, and to
tsn their captors that thsy. belong to the
never been discharged. One Of them, shot
By Col CatherHood's command, pleaded for
his life on this ground, and said, in addition.
that Price promised ell his men who re-
turned to this State to carry on bnshWhack-
ting in case they were not treated as prison.
erB Of war. It is about time for Price to
comDence-hi8 men are treated as outlaws
sud are shot down as fast as caught every
where in the interior. The loyal men who
have volunteered TO hunt bushwhaekers are
bent on making clean work this time, and
resident rebels are feeling the blow which
they hoped and expected would fall upon
Onion men, and especially upon the Radicals
The clrcum6tances Seem to favor the hope
and suspicion that Quantreu Is. really dead.
GeneralE. B. Brown, who was In town
suspicion is based On tact. After he first re
ported That rebel had been Killed. who was
supposed to be Qnantrsll, be was led to
doubt it by the pereistency Of the rebel do
mails, but when the body vas disfnterIed
and more accurately described; and the
character Of the letters taken from the clo-
thing ascertained BY comparison with inter
cepted letters found on QuantreII, the
previous disbelief was reversed. Then
captured rebels, and the home reb-
els living In different counties miles |
ali this e the knowledge that Quantrelrs
name has not appeared tn*B far In any of the
skirmishcs, captures or outrages of gnerillas,
this simmer. and Gen. Brown thinks there Is
no doubt the Lawrence butcher has gone TO |
his long rest. May the hope be verified.
The rebel raid on the Hannibal and st. .Io- |
It was Impossible to guess where the blow |
would fall. They meant mischief to the |
North Missouri railroad 1t Allen and Renick
more than 2 week ago, but were dissuaa-
Cd irom It b sesesslonists near the
in shelbina and in Shelby county
because the inhabitants are radical, and the
retr1lutiun Of the Union cayn1ry could hurt
but few rebels in that vicinity. The damage
Has done doubtless hy Blu AndeIson'e gang,
syer infested the State. They Threatened
when they left to interrupt the road at IN
other point, and coolly left a message for the
Superintendent of the road to the effect that
be NEEDN'T take the trouble to repair the
track, as they meant to keep 1t cut This
was the story among the Hannibal passeu-
gers Of Tnursday morning There 'fs not
twenty miles OF rntfroad in the State, out
eide Of this county. which could not be torn
up easily in few hours BY herebels, II they
SO determined.
The Conservative counties are trembling
now from apprehension that their inability
or ois1nci.aation @ . % % arl5e on t6e guer'llas
the job for them, The Conservatives prefer
suelillas To Raafcola and tnnte at,rtehaz.