Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-07
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Pricc's MOvements-Depred on
the Pacific RailrOad-TOwns Plum.
dcrcd - Colonel HiIlry RcOccupies
CharlestOn- Two Railroad Trains
Burned by GuerriIIas-The Notori-
GUS Boat Burner ut Large.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 4.-An official dispatch
from Jefferson City says sixty of Colonel
Fletchers men, of Gen. Ewing's command,
reached Hermann. No details of their ex-
perience are received. Gen. Ewing, with
the principal portion of his troops, arrived
at Rolla. All quiet at Jefferson City, no
enemy having yet appeared in that vicini-
ty.
The rebel army is between the Pacific and
Southwest Branch railroads, with train of
two hundred wagons, apparently aiming at
ROlla.
The Pacific road is reported not materi-
| ally injured, but the Southwest Branch is
almost entirely in the hands of the rebels,
and depots and other railroad property at
st. Clair, Sullivan, Harrison and Cuba, and
bridges across the Merrimac, are burned
Nearly all the goods in Franklin were taken
by the rebels, and Arcadia was completely
gutted. Irondale and Potosi were partial
ly sacked, after Prices chief of staff and
other officers had assured the citizens that
private property would be respected.
A dispatch from Cape Girardeau says
Col. Hillry, commanding there, has reoccll-
pied Charleston and sent a. force to Bloom
ington. Two of his outposts and cavalry
are scouting the country in all directions.
The train which left Hamilton yesterday
morning for the West ran of the track II
miles from Palmyra, and soon afterward
was visited by a band of ten guerrillas, who
co rf.h hnI M trai fn,. lao
express, containing about twenty thousand
dollars, took 30 revolvers from passengers,
and then compelled one of the employees
on the train to fire the cars. The freight
train, which arrived shortly after the acci-
dent, was also burned. Three soldiers were
on the cars, but through the aid of l,assen-
gers they managed to change their uni
forms for citizens dress, and escaped de-
lection.
Robert Louden, the notorious boat burn
er and rebel mail carrier, under sentence of
death, escaped from the guard to-day. while
EN- route to Alton military prison. He is
thirty years old, five feet nine or ten inches
high, dark hair, large blue eyes, surley ex-
preston, and weighs l60 to 40 pounds.
Gen. Ewing's IL etreat from Pilot Knob
Price Moving on Jefferson City
Gen. Mower Heard from.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6.-Gen. Ewing and sew
eral officers of his command reached here
last night, having marched from Pilot Knob
to DE Soto with an escort of fifty men, and
thence to st. Louis by railroad. His retreat
from Pilot Knob was unmolested till about
twenty miles from Harrison Station, where
the rebels attactcd him in considerable
force, but were driven back by artillery,
with loss. Two other attacks were made,
both OF which were repulsed. On arriving
at Harrison Station Wednesday night, he
entered some slight breastworks, and there
planted cannon and fought the enemy pretty
constantly till Saturday z. NJ, when Col.
Beveridge, with six hundred OF the 18th
Illinois cavalry. arrived from Rolla, and
the rebels retired.
Early Sunday morning the command
started for Rolla, which point they reached
the same evening, with about seven hun
dred men and all the artillery. The total
loss OF the command, including the siege
of Pilot Knob, skirmlShing on the retreat
and engagement at Harrison Station, is
about three hundred, the larger proportion
being prisoners.
Dispatches from Franklin report all quiet
there. Gen. A. j. Smith commands the
force at that point, including enrolled mill
tia under General Pike.
Latest advices from Price place him six
miles west of Union Tuesday, on the Jeffer-
son City road. His force consists of $4,000
fighting men, cavalry, mounted infantry.
and about 5000 camp followers. Camp
talk was that all movements indicated de-
sign to take Jefferson City, install Tom
Reynold Governor, and hold the State for
the Confederacy.
Gen. Mower has been heard from, but his
whereabouts are contraband.