New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-09

One Of Con Ewels staff officers Ii now Q prisoner for
getting up drunken scene at the Lindell Hotel and
| depouncing the Yankees az informal towards. etc.
These fellows steer clear OF the interior. whore they
know their impertnence would DO followed by bullet
n tho head
The country not yet free from desperadoes whose
bloody footsteps In several counties Twenty
armed Rebels entered the town Of Portland Galway
Co. last Monday and robbed the stores of about g. OOO
worth Of goods The same gang left track ofrobbery and
blood through Galloway and Boone last week. Similar
instances might be recorded in other counties few
Rebels tried the robbery game in johnson County but
the people turned out and hunted them down. Their
leader was hanged to-day at Warrensburg by order of
Gen. Dodge. and executions will rapidly follow convic.
ton wherever such scoundres are caught. Since the
murder of the Sheriff of Laclede County, the Union
men have been regular Rebel hunt At least thirty
Rebels have been killed in retaliation. and the Union
men have registered VOWS that returned Rebels shall
live in their midst 1t is tring affair which prompts
men to adopt such resolutions these.
An ingenious mode of obtaining an immediate dis
charge from the army has been discovered In this CITY,
II has been ascertaned that through negligence and
stupidity combined, the part Of surgeons hundreds
of soldiers by fegning illness have gained admission
into hospitals and after remaining there few days
received their final discharge under the recent ORDER
Of the Secretary of War. Some Of these men bave
been in the service only few mOntbs and received
large bounties. The evil became great that Gen.
Dodge has been compelled to issue order warning
Surgeons and hospital stewards 10 prevent the
admission OF men not manifestly unfit Tor duty.
Gen. Pores promptness in ordering the seizure of the
steamer Magenta, for the disloyolty OF her officers
aud in fayoTins tie Rebel soldier passengers and
treating the sick Union soldiers SO nh0uany was wise
proceeding. If the truth ali told. 1t would be
found such scenes are very common on the river.
and that nine tenths of the Mississippi and Ohio River
stesmboatm are Rebels at heart Passengers who
witness such things, however. are seldom willing to go
to the trouble to place the evidence on record
which may form the basis Of military action. The
steamer has been released from custody but the dsoya
officers still under arrest and viii be tried for dis
10y atty by Military Commission.
The election on the new Constitution comes of next
AS both sides predict with great confidence
that the opposition viii be defeated. Is impossible to
predict the result. All depends upon the amount OF
perjury at the polls The oath is very stringent-so
stringent that person who has sympaihized with
treason by cord or deed vote If all who have
been Rebels at heart vote then the Constitution Will be
lost. If otherwise. 1t viii be carried.
The Mayor of the city undertook the Jacksonian role
lately by forcply preventing street railroad company
from running their cars on newly paved street. be-
cause a claim for the work not settled. He was
clearly In the wrong in nsing violence and Is IN hot
water about il with suit for false imprisonment hang
ing over his head already Gen. Jacksons are not
numerous nowadays.