, 1864-10-21
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE wAR IN MISSOURI.
ne surrend der OF Gtasgow-Htgh3y =
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7he Surrender OF G1asgow-Htsh!y
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Especial Dlepatch to the Chiesgo T:ibuue-1
sr Louis, no Thurrds7, Oct. 70.
| TIE SIEGE OF GLASGOW.
Information OF rEice's movements Is 8canty
n-n'ght The fighting at Glasgow commen'
| Geo en- Saturday morning. At daylight the
ehel1s Of the rtbela commenced bursting In
the streets, being fred from the opposite side
et The river from Shelby q guns. ltappeared
tnat Shelby had two or three thousand men
on that side. Abouteight O'Clock some four
tnonsand men, constituting the better part
ot Aasmsdu9e's division; temporarily under
command Of John 3. Clarke, advanced upon
the city On all the roads leading to 1t. Clark
nao crossed over the evening previous at
arrow Rock, with two pieces of artillery.
he scon surrounded the town and com
mencced shelllng 1t. He made several
charges, which were We'll repulsed
oy the gallant little garrison OF
5oo or GOO men, who were without single
piece Of artillery. Meanwhile Shelby WAS
vigorously Smelling the place from the oppo-
After holding out until o'clock, being
gradually driven in on all sides, Col. Hard-
Ing was forced to surrender the garrison, OBJ
tainipg as conditions that his.men should
be ps1oled and furnished an escort through
the rebel lines, aud that the officers should
pc permitted to wear their side arcs aud
Keep their horses md Gther property. Be-
TWEEN 500 and Goo soldiers and 200 or 800
citizeEs surrendered
~, Ihe rebels lost heavl)y-between 200 and
fad nd TaA NnSon
eight men Of the 9th Missouri fought nearly
an hour In q tobacco warehouse after tue
garrison had surrendered, not knowing the
Iact. They laid out sixteen dead rebels
there.
Lteut. Col. D. J. Hynes, Of the 17th ILL.,
Illinois Cavalry, who waa conspicuous for
gsilantry at talasgow, and taken prisoner
there, gives his opinion That the rebels can
not tight mounted, and that our Infantry
are lar more than match for them; but be
says We uuderrate their numbers They en-.
tered ths State NTH i. .oo0, but Eight Us, If
these, at least, will be cow4rdfy Coppsr srhead
lec1uits, who would have voted for McClel-
Ian If Price were rot In the State
MOVEMENTS OF OUR FORCES.
Gen. Curtis has advanced into Missouri,
and arrived at Kansas City on the 10th, a.
Will hate e. .00O men at Kansas City. FIT.
teen thousand Ut The Kansas State militia are
With him, aud S 600 volunteer troops OF the
national army. Thtre fs force of {. COO men
under arms here The men Of KANSAS haye
responded promptly and nobly to meet Price
nLu bis robbers. Gtuerdls Blunt and lin
Lave and Col Moonlight hays commands in
in Gen. Curtis' army,
Gen. Rosecrans has forca of 40, 600 at and
on this eide OF Jefferson City. HI Viii move
against Price from that direction this week,
and Curtis will cooperate from this side. II
IT1rAsR hat Ak
1t Will certainly get squeezed to death.
The DtmoeTaa'a Jetter: on City special, dated
last light, says: Everything looks much
more favorable to.niknt. Tie news from
Curtis Is most cnesting. Gtn. Rosecrans
took the field to-day. To night be IL many
tdent hitherto, but tonight / feel that the
combinations look far moTe like success than
at Ely other time.
Inc ml'!tja and citizens Of Independence
rave retu1ned, and the place Will be held at
oil bazards. Gen. Jim Lane has command.
Of l,50O militia. Fire Thousand tro2ps are
on duty at Leavenwortb City
handolph county Is nbont depopulated Of
the adult male residents, who are Ia The
rehel or the Union army, Or are citizen refu.
gees.
On Saturday companies A and E Of the
regiment lately raised at Macon City, or Of
parts OF mcst companies stationed there,
visited the residences OF various citizens r.
ported to be rsbel sympath,zers, and some
oi them sald to hare been accused Of nar'
boring bushwhackers, and killed them In re-
tsllation for the many barbarities and cold
blcoded atrocities lately perpetrated upon
de1encelsEe citizens By Anderaon'e gang.
PRICES OPERATIONS.
Official dispatches say Price's westward
movements ore slow, and thar Ills muin force
Is stu cast Of Lafayette and johnson coun-
i IL mill n},v
an opportunity to make com bination which
Wtll compel Price to fight him, In which
cate no fear need be felt TOR the result. 1t
is already stated that Piire will have to cut
bis way out, and that two days will solve |
the problem. The stores Of all the mer-
chants at B0onvil1e were freely robbed by
the rebels, and families plundered Of every
thing val69nable, including nohey and Jewelry. |
About 400 aF1ns were captured from the |
militia there, and 900 at Glasgow.
About sixty nilltia and thirty home guards
were captured at Paris, after fighting two
hours. hour Nobody was hurt on either side.
Ihe garrison was paroled, the town was
robbed, and all the horses carried off.
at the capture of Otterviile, some days |
aeo, two white mtn were shot, three negroes
klned, the town robbed, and all the railroad
property burned.
The Bank at Fayette, Howard county, was
robbed BY. rebels Of slS0. 900 belonging to
the county. Tho funds OF the bank nul peeu |
sent aRay for safety.
Five sen were kt1led at Syracuse when the
re bells entered that Town.
Price declared an amnesty to all desertefs
from his army who have been bush whack-
Ing, ard they ase gathering to him. Bill An
defson will Join him In q few daye, If not
eobbled mp by our forces. QusntreIl Is to be
to Brigadier General, and Jack1nan
Is to hare q division. Holbedou, with his
zapg, is also to report to Price for duty.
!, Shelby said to General Clark at Glasgow:
y God d-u you, John Clark, you nre too
II anything goes the
Southern Confederacy may 70 to he'll for all
u me-" Thts was bee 4use Clark treated the
Ear. The butchers have tie ascsndency In
Price's army, and they will triumph over
u ch men So Fagan and Clark. They want
Price to ralee the black flag, and he viii be
oIced to yield to them. Price eald at Boon
'ille, to deFutRtlon Of citizens, that be was -
:enscripting every man between IS md Is,
lie Ea5s be has settled down to this policy.