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hem. In St. Louis a procession was assailed and partially broken up one night, and a clubroom demolished, and a meeting dispersed with damage to limb, if not life, in another. On two succeeding evenings the office of the Republican was threatened by riotous demonstrations for merely hanging out a banner inscribed with sentiments which every patriot must approve, and none but a man totally lost to all his obligations as a good citizen or member of society would condemn. In Kansas city, Judge Birch was unable to proceed with his canvass, his life being threatened by a mob. In Troy, Lincoln county, a McClellan meeting was fired into by some soldiers, no doubt set on by low demagogues more responsible than the soldiers; and among the peaceable, good citizens there assembled for a lawful purpose, and in the exercise of rights which no man should dispute, one individual was killed and two wounded. In Jefferson city, an attempt was made to break up a McClellan meeting by rowdies, who wer