Year: 1861

Effect of the War In Missouri.


The St. Louis correspondent of the Sac
ramento Bee, writing November 7th, says :
Sometime ago mention was made in this
correspondence of the systematic course of
the rebels in driving out the inhabitants
or at least the Union-loving portion-in the
interior. 1t would seem that hundreds must
leave or starve, for they have been stripped
of the means of subsistence, aud though
they could now live in peace and have
plenty for the winter. but for the robberies
of Price and his men, they will be compelled
to leave or starve. A party of SO came in
from near OsceOla yesterday. They were
of the better class we'll todo. merchants,
farmers and mechanics. They leave be-
cause they say it will be impossible to get
enough from what is left of the produce of
the whole country around the Usage to
keep half the inhabitants. Many of these
had been stripped of all their personal prop.
erty. One merchant had a fine stock of
dry goods, groceries, ETC., to the value Of
about $4,000 taken on the retreat from
Boonville last June. Farmers had horses,
and cattle taken at that time, which Grip
Piled them so much in securing their crops
that it was only after immense labor they
were enabled TO store enough for winters
use. And then after all their labor, along
comes another rebel army-P:ice on his re-
treat from LeXington-and clean out the
garners to the last grain. Potatoes in the
field yet undug, the troops turn in under
orders, and clear q patch 10 short order
A few who were sharp enough to secrete
some provisions, 10y burying in out of the
way places, will get along well enough un-
less another band Of rebels comes along
and hunt up their hiding places That
whole region of Prices march is marked
as with the passage Of u hurricane - the
track they took is left as a scOrched and
withered waste. A lady Of the party said
that tea, coffee, sugar, salt, thread, buttons,
boots and shoes, were not to be had in the
whole country. Since the passage of Ere
mont through there in pursuit of Price,
matters have improved astonishingly-in
feeling Confidence is again restored. Im.
proved and excellent farms were offered
two months ago at SO per acre, that have
now suddenly risen in value TO $40 per
acre, or full half what they were considered
worth year ago. The driving out of the
rebels is the cause Of this.


One farmer informed me that he tried his
best to sell his entire farm of three hun
dred acres, with good buildings, for 5000
cash, and could not do it. Now, although
he is compelled to leave it, he says he would
not take less that $4,000. Confidence is
restored. The stability of the Government


is established in the minds of the people
once more; and while hundreds must leave
or starve, they go with the determination
of returning again to enjoy in peace the
improvements they have made. The pro-
slavery Secessionists that have negroes are
trembling in their boots. They fear the
confscation Of their property, and hence
are using every effort to run off what they
can Of the peculiar institution to safer To-
calites in the heart of Dixie. No man can
tell the amount of property thus wasted in
this Stale by the war. In the varying tide
of wars, successes and reverses both sides
have suffered, and millions Of dollars would
not make our people whole again, to say
nothing Of the many, many precious lives
sacrificed.