, 1864-10-12


Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribunal
ST. LOUIS, Tuesday Oct. II.
Adsfces from Jefferson City on the 10th state
th=t our cavalry we're sktsmfshiug with the rebels
nearly I'll day yesterday
In the afternoon the rebels entered California,
and burned the depot ard train Of cars. Gen.
Price iatued proclamation, stating that be had
Il me into The Stnte intending to remain. He de-
sired to make friends, not enemies, and that the
cepredalions he had committed were done as mill
tary necessity.
About O'Clock crr fo1ees planted battery ont.
tide Ct town, AID toward dark succccded driving
the rebels ont. We killed. wounded and captured
ever huEdrcd of the enemy. Our loss Is n0nt,
except few elis hl1y wounded.
The Ia.lioad track Il torn up for mile on each
side OF California, ard ut m2hy places further this
ride.
been at TpiOn yestc1day evening at O'Clock, with
500 men. lie was making III the direction Of
The rebel M.tor Bowie and Lieut.. Key have
b:en Et1lcd, aid Col. shsoks Is also nostal'y
F1ora a cl izen Of Jefferson City who partlcl-
Ea,cd sr thp t1ons in the fight On Friday nc nayc
WIS hnrIea by our noops under orders Of Col.
Phillips. The tnemy anFanctd 1ording tho creak,
"a vtth sstt,,ssy; an$ LETT It sboat r
70 guns. and fred rapidly, bnt hts snos and shell
iated 10 reach the fort1neatleus. Only few citl-
Is
leIy repaid the rebel hre IN good interest. After
| vaih}y 1rying TO make a breach il the works on
right, apparently determined: # possible, to ind
| cut rome weak epot. The effort vas satn. Tne
casas.ment lasted about three hours. with INFER
| walls OF c,eeation from firing. Tee rebels were
near the fair e1euuos within one mile OF the city.
Their loss. our informant estimates ut 10 Killed,
60 OF 10 prisoners. and several hundred ~oundeo.
hAnn ttpEF Tr4fn
Gu. san!.orn and aiteen hurdrca cavalry were
Int on Friday morning entered it to share In the
Gen Pieascntcn aId eone 5000 cavalry and
ta. ensny and we1e room engaged: The report
was That Gen. Curtis and Col. Jeunl.on 1eers i'd
yapcipR from the north TO meet the elenY in 'front.'
t;eas. 3eNei1, sanboin sna Fix ~ 9e4e a attsc.ioF
| his rear. The destruction Of BRIDGES. has been
much ete:ter ths9 ttaed ,aa lsw d4,s aso Ths
Het, ind on the Southwest Br,nch e05 ,eet, al Of
TH,rst di.patches recelyed by Gen. Roserans up
iet. H Il Boenev,lle On Mondsy morning 'oi Lezuetor.
IT, r. IL H. neen iotuea hy B Anderson. Tasa m
Perslus and Thornton, with perhaps ! 900 men,
md has ffseeu Thousand cavalry and ,lipeteen
}nsded down ~ith plandsr. sIpoe leaving Jet{er-
son ar hey have left three hundrea d=aa horses
| On thelr route. ,
KaneaE. Gen Sanbo1n il pursuing him with
| large force.
We have news Of second invasion of Missouri,
rebel force Of COO trfaas1J ard sgo cavalry G2us.
nabt cd hy Mag11der, az tn1e1ed so9thMe:t Mts'
fonrI ARD occupied Far1uington and fredcficE
towD. The cavalry ere in adssnee seonttng aio1SG rs
the line Of march, 10 see that the coaet IL cGat 1o
Infantry. 1t Is not yet known what the plan Of
| tbih new movement II.
Col. Thomas G. Fitch arrived 11Et. evening tf9u
FrsIk!ir, having reached shat place yes1esan!
morning with MI escort Of fltctn men rom ho!.a
lie IL the beeret of dispatches 10 Gen. K9stcsans
and etsrted with the da,y Of restoring
| and railroad communication with Rol!a. a lofct
OF ECO men are eneneed In repalr1tE the faEsoao
and have 1t completed a. far east As sta9nton. N
work Will probably be finished to Mo'eHe ny 70
, morrow. Trims car then run from that noint u
| the terminus oi thu Southwest Branch. There ~
brloGes intervening. 4 locomotive and ttat
werc lit be5 ond the Mosel'o bsoce. when It " 2,
+ | buried. It is Thought the telegraph to ROLL
Efu d be IN working order today.
1 | ST. Ioule, Tueshay. Oct H.-r5hsns afe !an
Eli r frcm here TO W:phl1gto on ths Pacific h1h
i road. Nearly three hundred passengers e1p
no a laft niRht from Jefferson City. From sou
IT theas on rsons learn th1t u the battle AZ tha
+ nlace ~ Friday the tzidge oyer Moran Cf ek VI
burned BY our troeps. T.e enemy then fo1ded tn