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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for June 20th or search for June 20th in all documents.
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Affairs in Missouri.
A dispatch from Louisville, June 22, says "there is no news from Missouri, the line being interrupted by a heavy storm." The latest newspaper account is from the Missouri State Journal, extra, of June 20:
An eye-witness of the fight at Booneville, on Monday last, at 8 A. M., about miles below that town, gives us the subjoined facts:
Major-General Price was ill on Sunday, and issued an order for the retirement of the State troops toward Arkansas.
He, himself, left for his home, at Brunswick.
The forces under General Lyon landed near Rocheport, on the South side of the Missouri river, and marched thence toward Booneville.
A few companies of State troops met them about six miles below Booneville, and attacked Lyon's forces Company B, Blair's Regiment being the party receiving the fire.
About ten of said company were killed and wounded, as the result of that fire.
The company firing then retreated.
Several other State companies, at this point of
From Washington.
--The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun makes the subjoined statements in his letter of June 20. It is evident that the writer is not fully posted in regard to every matter for which he vouchsafes to speak:
Many people have doubted whether we are actually in war or not. Whether war exists is an important question.
Congress, at the late session, was shy of every proposed action that looked towards war, or that provided means or gave powers to carry it on. But the question is at length judicially decided.
The decision of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in the case of the schooner "Tropic Wind" and cargo, is that war does exist.
Referring to the President's proclamation, Judge Dunlop remarks that these facts so set forth, with the assertion on the right of blockade, "amount to a declaration that civil war exists." It belongs, says the decree, to the Executive to decide whether insurrection has grown to such a head