, 1864-10-19

I6p:cisl Dispatch to the Chicago T.1bune]
ST. Louis, No., Tueed1y, Oct IS.
Prices headquarters are undoubtedly e1
Lexington. This information cones rounl
via the Hannibal and st. Jo2eph Railroad aud
direct from Sedalia. Gen. Pleasauton has
driven the rebels from Warrensburg. Gen.
Custie has tclegraphed that ho drove body
Of rebels from Independence on Sunday. In
formation had been previously dispatched
TINT Independence had been captured BIZ
rfbe1s supposed to be the advance Of the IN.
vadiIg army under Price.
trnin of cars, With eight hundred sol
diers, which left this city on the North Mis-.
souri, Railroad, on Sunday morning, reached
Macon City, the terminus Of the road, ut G
o'clock last evening. The train met with no
distractions AID wes In no manner inter.
tered with.
A duel came OF yesterday at secluded
Iatt of Concorda Park, between Mai Grebe.
Of Gov, aall's staff, and Capt, Fred Hansen.
Of tne 4th Missouri Caynlry, which resulted
IN the la,ter receiving wound In the left
t1esst " "hich will probably prove fatal The
origin Of The affair is unknown, as the
friends Of the parties are using every posst-
ble mears to hush it up, with The rie1 Of
saving tue princlpa1s from the fatc they de-
ssrve, being cash1ered, as provided in the ar
t1cles Of war.
Reports are current that many Of the en-
rolled nfll.ia Of sedalia joined JEFF TLomp-
SENS gang.
ST.. Louis, Tuesday, Oct. Is turns out
| that the rebel force which occapisd Indepen-
tence Oh Thursday, was not Price's advance
guard, but party Of rebel scouts. General
Lurtfs yesterday telegraphed that he occu-
pied Independence on Sunday, driving the
1ehels ont. Ills advance Is fifteen miles cast
OF Independence. This intelligence suggests
that Prices main army Ia not moving toward
Kansas Uith much celebrity, and that Lis
progress In teat direction. if steady, does
not indicate any special haste. It Is thought
lere that up to yesterday noon Prices ad-
vance hid not pa sed west Of Lexington,
apd that Lis main force was now In Lafa5 5ette
county.
About one hundred rebels, under Captain
Ra'heurn, entered Lexington yesterday
morning. We have no report,o any damage
inflicted By them. They represented they
were from Price's advance, and that he was
Rtin at Boonville, where he had Established
permabent headquarters, and intenoed to re-
msfp. u,ahipg 1t the capital Of the State.
Gen Pltasaut0u, a dsy or two sfuce, tele.
grophh That Price hAd departed from Boon
VILE. -,
A repe IT also reached the city that Price's
main t'ooy was retreatiny south through
Warn aud johnson counties. a column
OF his force may haye taken that direction,
or may have merely diVerged thithsr tor
plnnder. .-.'' -
The rebel Gen. Clark's torce, on the north
side ol the MISSOURI, is not Yet reported With
drawn, hut is said to have occupied Bruns-
wick, in Charlton county, and is now NOV
ing On Key ytesville, in that county. As Char
iton lies beg ond Howard county, In which
C1ark crossed from BuonvIile, the inference
Is that all the. Important towns in Ho ward,
including Fayetts Bluff, Port Glasgow and
Charlton, have been entered By the invaders.
Glasgow was reported reoccupied By the
rebels. and the statement vas denied. PROB
ably 1t is true.
The retention of Clark's forces across the
Mtssouri appears to be another indication
that P1ice'6 movements are not hurled he
seeEs to be collecting plunder, and, it com.
PEELED to leave the Suite, doubtless expects
to leaVe.with millions Of her wealth Ia his
sr. Lor1s, O,r17-Upou information de-.
rired from Mr. AcKissock, the efficient
superintendent Vt the Pacific Railroad, we
are elabled to state the precise condition in
which it and the Southwest Branch has been
left By the invading rebels upder Price mud
bis lteutenants. The mail train can run d1ly
to Wat Arlington at 8 A, H. and return without
interruption, and the franklin passenger
train leaves daily {sundaY's excepted) at
O'Clock ?. II. The invaders have not heen
epar1De In their action in the matter Of burn
ing bridgts. The four structures between
Washington md Herman, namely, At Beuf
creek are burned. These are being rapidly
reconstructed and We learn that trains will
run through to Herman By Friday, 22d inst.
Between Herman and Jefferson City the Cola
creek, Gasconade, Bailey Creek, Osage and
Moreau bridges are destroyed. These were
an burned by the rebels except the More]u
hrf1 f3t1A > ,Yh H.
Colonel Phillips Of the 7th Missouri cavalry.
Tbese works being heavy and expensive,
many weeks must elapse before the road can
again be open to Jetlereon City. The whole
amount OF bridging burned On the maln line
Is 3, ,42 linear feet, and on the Southwest
Brsnch .02o feet making nearly one mile.
Dcrots uod station houses were burned at
franklin, GIey's Summit. Sonth Point, Wash-
ington. Miller's Lauding. Herman, Ossge,
Leoktnt, California and Smithland, on the
main line, and on the Southwest Branch at
Mose}]e, ct. Clair, Stanton, Sullivan, Bour-
bon aud Cuba: The cost Of repairing the
damage thus dore is estimated at S250,0o0.
ard the loes of business to the roads for tvo
months must amount to nearly $500 900.
Thus loes Of one-half a million Of dollars
directly accrues to the corporation, fndep-n-
dent If TINT which may be remotely calcu-
lated rs proceeding from damage to the crops
and business Of tt sectiobB OF country that
loss to the city Of st. Louis falls upon every
interest in our Midst, and ia vastly larger
than mere moinentary thought would s1g-
gtst it to be.
Hearier than all else, In an estimate OF the
general loes, mnst be included the long CO.
lay that has been caused to our city 10 secur.
ing I'LL carly connection With the Union Pa
citic railroad now under constru .tlon in q
westward direction from Knusas. At the
time Of this destructive raid, the main line
~as biting ope.ated to Wa11ensburg-two
hundred and eighteen miles from st. Louis,
AID the track was nearly laid to Holden,
which is fourteen miles further on. Holden
VAS only 1hirty-nine miles from Iudepend-
tnce, aud the Directory were in confident ex-
ptctation Of reaching Kansas CitY within the
lcxt four or five months. The necessary
irtn tad been purchased, and much of 1t de-
'ivertd; the ties for the whole distance were
Oh the ground and paid Tor, and the gra1iug
Was in vigorous progress over the entire line.
Now, tie men hare fed, the contractors with
their teen1s nave left their sections, uud there
is 20 Ir6spec: OF & resumption OF work BE-
fore nt2t spring,
FRD@ LA CROSSE.
Grand Union !1nss smeetfng-Tsse Cam
pa1.n in WIac0natn.