, 1864-06-23

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ST. LoClT, June2l, 1854.
@-AtTo time during the last. two years. has !.
:. husawhac king .'been So lively In the interior
as a present, and never has the activity ofthe
: buFlNhackers been marked with. mora l,or,
! >rib)e'attroci Quantrelra men arc. in the.
'1eld with the; knife; Ehuilet and. torch, and,
/ they hago: already, given evidence ..of their
blood-th1rsiEess by numbering some twenty
flye or thirty men in johnson; md Jackson :.
conntIss.. Tie telegraph has. bornd.the ins.
tslltgence Of the murder iof seyenteen SOL
diers Of the Missouri State Militia, uho:wefe:
captured By guerillas in, Johnson county.
az event which In the time Of peace. wonld.
have thrilled the whole North with horror p
The instances Of menbrutally killed; Of !
whom no record is kept, of houses burned,
F families robbed, negroes .mutilated and other
atrocities, would fila column ii published.
The scene Of these horrible outrayes on clyl-
lizatlon lies chiefly In jackson county, where
the guerillas have had full swing for several
weeks, although several attempts have been
made to disperso or capture them, but it Is
Invariably the same, when our forces start
in pursuit the guerillas retreat to some
| hiding place, and when our cavalry AaYe
passed in, the guetillos come ont
= AS QuantrrlI is the head devil in all these
internal atrocities. the border between Kan-
:6as md Missouri Is highly excited. The peo-
| pie are fleeing from their homes even In Z .n-
sas. and, in autfcipation Of q raid into Kansas,
| the farmers and able.bodied inhabitants are
nrmIng and drilling. Qnantsel's men have
almost block,ded Lexington and indepen1-
tnce with bushw wflackcrs- They have com
t luitted many rob6erfes within cannon shot
Of both places, and last week succeeded IN
| producing panic In Le1ington. The COM
| rnan1er Of the post WITS advised by the seces-
siorists to surrender In case Of IN attack, but
| he didn't see it, and on the contrary barricA-
| dcd the streets with hemp-bales, and made
| preparations for vigorous defense. At In
I dependence it is declared unsafe for either D
citizen or sol1ier to venture outside the town
halt-mile. The stages, bare ceased running
| into the town, and II is only because some
seceesi6niste own stock in it, that tue tele
graph wires are not constantly down. 4 par
I ty Of telegraph operators were prevented from
4 accomplishing their work one day last week
by the threats of guerillas.
The same stat- OF atl1irs exists IN the
Southeast, only modified by the diminished
number OF the Inhabitants in that region
compared to Others The cavalry stationed
at Pilot Knob have recently been relieved BY
the 13sd Illinois (Lundred DAYS meu), and
have entered upon vigorous system Of
scouting, which means hunting bnshwhack-
ers, with q lair degree of success. Tharc
i arc no less than three OF four bands Of guer-
illas ut large in this section, numbering in
the aggregate not less than three hundred.
Many Of Item have been serving In Prices
army, and nro now bushwhacking in order to
get even with the world for their bad luck
, heretofore. They have plundered every
piace and every body having anything worth
J }.Etealipg, within territory tifty miles long
. by thirty broud, and have also killed mauy
cilizens. Our cavalry hare tgobbled" about
forty Of them In one week, and for example
| shot them! :.
Joe Shelby, the rebel cavalry leader, who
| took Dardnnclle, On the Arkausas, and start
ed for Missouri with such flourish Of trum'
} pets, has not made his appearance yet In thi;
i few days ago still in the White River Valley;
Agueril1a lately taken prisoner near Rolla
states that Shelby was recruiting bis mer
and Aorses, and when both were restored tc
first rate condition, the forward movement
, on Missouri would certainly take place
: The first excitement about Joe Shelby has
. eubsidcd, and citizens who know the prcpa
8 1ations made to receive him are now feurinp
!, that he won't come at all. There are &C
; many thousand rebels still living In the lnte
: r1or that 1t is IN easy matter at any time tt
get up an alarm abont an intended rebel raid
c firmly that they convince their neighbor;
a that the story il true, and then tho alarm
. spreads to St. Louis -,..-
The militia force is about played ont. Tht
s seventh regiment being y volunteer orxanI;
= Iation, regularly drilled and pretty well dis
d ctplined, turned ont with patriotic prompt
/ tude, and its members have done good ser
vice; but the rest of the enrolled militia Il
virtually consc7ipt organization, called In
e to existence by this mandate Of Gov. Gambl'
;. and continued BY Gov. Hail Bat even thi
d condition Of the militia might have bec1
turned to good account, If the State authori
r. ties had appointed flrst-rnte officers and in
j. splred little energy into the organic ltlol
9 OF each company by jndicious management
d Instead Of that, the otlcezs, with . few az
l. ceptiona, are sticks, md tho parade Of th
L enrolled militia (always excepting the eey
y enth regimcnt) the langh Of the town. Nov
y there Is q fresh row. The Governor has call
. ed ont the Sth and 9th regiments Of militia
"A which embrace the companies composed 0
the employees of the several newspaper ol
i fees. When the militia Were originally eu
- rolled, the proprietofs of the different ne vi
papers were informed, that if they Woui
J. form companies Of their employees, the
Il would be exempt from active service, unles
y the rebels we're At our doors, etc. That We
i two years ago; a1nce then the chief commau
l. Of the militta has been changed several tfmet
Ie Now the original understanding il Ignore
and the different ofi1cers arc In quanaarJ
+. If their employees ,are forced into service
,e their business must come to dead stop.
a. The Copperhtad Stale Convention, Whic
IA met here last week, was gay affair. Th
IA delegates seemed to have been tmporte
a. a. from South Carollna for tho purpose The
y were intensely pro-slavery, and at heart Ii
"a tcnse1y rebel, but their treason only cfoppe
"a ont in fierce dcnunciatlons of the war an
te the Abolitloniets. There WAS 8 strong fee
It Ing In the Convention In favor OF an oat-aut
:, ont rebel platform, and one of the mos
=. prominent leaders took the ground that q
10 underha1ded gamc was going on to prever
ID the bone and ainew Of tho Democracy fro,
r asserting their sentiments. But while 1t wa
e. apparent q large majority Of the Conventio
G. were in full sympathy T'ith JEFF. Davis, th
n working politicians, who have axes to Erint
OF succeeded in curbing the violence Of the
Is friends, and prevented the adoption Of
"a There will be . fight in the Chicago deleg'
"a tton upon Mcclellan and Yallandigham, th
er instincts Of such men as D. H. Armstron!
le r. II. Rcnick, and others who have been
he the military prison, inclfn1ng them to go fC
"a an ont-andout Peace Democrat.
al The proposed fusion with tho Frepontel
I'll did not take In the Convention. The mem.
IN ry Of Fremont's proclamation and his sever
a. II towards rebels, while In command In MI
n souri, was too strong. The Germans hal
e. the CoppcrheadB and rebels with too muc
is sincerity to accept any ataliation with the
n principles. If the Fremont game at Chtcae
ar has any strength, 1t must originate elseWh5i
than ID Missouri.
ot The Claybanks are still fishing for son
er cxcuse to refuse to support a Lincoln elect
1e raj ticket composed Of Radicals, and, to til
Ie end, are aasaulting the Jefferson City Co
ID vention which nominated = radical Sta
Of ticket Tho Clay ybanks profess to
In willing to divide the State Offices with Il
al Radicals, halt and half A ludlcrous prop
sltion In view OF the fact that it is well d
,n derstood that the Clay banks do not reprcse
ho one tenth Of the voting population since tt
d. Copperheads aloughed of into separa
IN party. !
er There IL one question which will soon
ch presented TO PRESIDENT Lincoln IN prActic
Y shape. The campaign for Lincoln and job