eir destruction.
Gen. Schofield, with his staff, left St. Louis on Monday for the bounder, to give his personal attention to affairs there and to inaugurate energetic for ridding that region of the brigands under Quantrell.
The funeral of J. W. Collamove, late Mayor or .. took .. Thursday afternoon, Dr. Garnett in Boston.
The schooner Ella, recently arrived at New York from Nassau with a cargo of trait, has been discovered to be the same vessel which, under the name of the Retribution, the rebels used for some time as a privateer.
She has been seized by the authorities.
Gen. Jeff. Thompson and Capt. Hay his Adjutant General, have been committed to the military prison in St. Louis.
He managed to destroy all his important papers before the Federal officer captured him.
The New York gold market was highly excited Friday, opening at 134½ and closing at 133 ½.
On Saturday, at the morning board it was quoted at 131.
In Baltimore Saturday gold was quoted at 134.
and which are now in possession of the military here — an amusing incident occurred.
Lieut. Miller, ordnance officer of Gen. Grandall's command, hearing that Jeff. Thompson was in Pocahontas, went to see him.--Unaware of the presence of Federal troops, he rode quite unconsciously into town, by mere chance passing the pickets in tand a d — d big lot of them, too!" Just then Captain Gentry walked up to Miller, and said "you are my prisoner!" "Aint you joking?" asked Miller, still believing Thompson was "in command." "Aint he joking, General," appealing to Jeff. "Yes," replied the latter, "but it's a coutounded serious joke." Then the truth flashed on the benighted and confused mind of Miller that he was in a town surrounded by Federal cavalry, and that, in stead of Thompson holding those "blue coats" in the room as his prisoners, he was theirs.
The Lieutenant resigned his sword without further parley.
Progress of Burnside's army.
The Cincinnati Gazette has the following fr
y.
Laurel and Point Branch bridges on the Washington and Baltimore railroad were burnt by the rebels on Tuesday, and the railroad, cut in five different places.
The Chronicle says it will take some time to repair the road.
Sumner, of Mass, was on board the train with Gen. Franklin, but not being recognized escaped capture.
The Chronicle says the crack of the rebel rifles are heard in the very environs of Washington.
A letter from Nashville, dated July 7th, says the final and decisive battle for the possession of Atlanta must shortly ensue in the vicinity of that city, and adds should Johnston stand, Sherman will probably cease flanking and deliver battle.
Owing to the interruption of the telegrapic communication the Chronicle has no dispatches north of Baltimore.
Generals Ed Johnson, G. H. Stuart, Frank Gardner, J. J. Archer, and Jeff. Thompson, have been placed under the rebel fire in forts near Charleston.
The Florida has captured five more vessels.
Marmaduke and Clarke are there, while Cooper and "Bill Anderson" are swelling the train.
The enemy attribute the commencement of their misfortunes to the scandalous defeat of Banks on Red river last spring.
Since that time we have crossed the Red, the Arkansas, the White, and now the Missouri river; so that, instead of having the Red and Wachita rivers as a line of defence, the enemy have now their old work to do over again — to drive us from Northern Missouri.
Price has taken Jeff. Thompson's old racing ground, leading from Clarendon, in Arkansas, to Batesville and Pilot Knob, in Missouri.
He attacked Pilot Knob and Shepherd mountain in a way quite unexpected by them, cutting all communication with St. Louis, and attacked the garrison in its rear.
He pursued the affrighted Ewing towards Rolla, and compelled him to give the order to his men to scatter and save themselves.
Then turning his course towards the Osage river, he burned the bridge over the Gasconade and marched
oth on the pike and on the back road.
They drove their cavalry back for some distance, until, somewhere in the vicinity of Woodstock, they met their infantry, who proving too hard for them, they were compelled to fall back.
Their cavalry taking advantage of this, made a furious charge upon our column, which caused them to break and run.
This proved quite a disastrous affair to us; eleven guns of Breathed's battalion of horse artillery were lost.
Johnson's company lost four guns, Thompson's three, and the Baltimore artillery four guns.
Only three are now left — the guns of Shoemaker's battery — which had not quite gotten up, and were not in the fight.
I have not yet heard the amount of loss on yesterday.
Several of the cavalry wagons and some horses were certainly taken, but it is now impossible to a get a correct statement of numbers.
You may expect to hear from me again soon.
The universal opinion is, that there was a great want of discretion or of general
d General said, when he started on his campaign, that he went there to maintain the Confederate Government in the State, and on his own dear soil, or his bones should be there to whiten on the prairie.
He is treading with a determined step.
Jeff. Thompson, the wily swamp fox, is on his old trail.
He will not forget his imprisonment at Johnson's Island and his having been placed under fire at Charleston.
He has taken Sedalia.
The Yankees say he paroled or shot the militia captured there.
If taken Sedalia.
The Yankees say he paroled or shot the militia captured there.
If the militia were Missourians, Jeff. Thompson would not shoot them; but they were, doubtless, an accursed and thieving set, who have come into Missouri since the war and taken quiet and unlawful possession of the homes of true Missourians, who have either been murdered or are in the Southern army.
Missouri will doubtless be redeemed; and any Yankee will rue the day he ever set foot in a Missouri homestead.
rman and Grant look out for it. Jeff Davis, when he visits the rebel Army of the Tennessee, always sends a large part of it to some distant point.
Take care that he don't send this part to Virginia.
Capture of Sedalia, Missouri, by General Jeff. Thompson--General Price moving on Lexington.
A telegram from St. Louis, dated the 16th, gives the intelligence that Sedalia has been captured by the Confederates.
It says:
About two thousand rebels, with two pieces of artillery, under JJeff. Thompson, attacked Sedalia at 2 o'clock yesterday, and drove the militia out of the place.
A few of the militia in the fort resisted the attack, but finally surrendered, and were paroled or shot.
The citizens were released without parole.--The rebels left during the night, and a Union infantry force arrived there this morning.
The rebels robbed stores of several thousand dollars' worth of clothing, boots, shoes, &c., burned the water station, but did no other injury to the railroad.
The
no more men than we have, and his raid has produced no military result.
Additional from Missouri--capture of another town — Lexington occupied.
A dispatch from St. Louis, dated the 16th, says the Pacific railroad has been repaired, and troops are rapidly being sent to Lamine.
General Pleasanton had gone from the city to take command of the cavalry and attempt the capture of General Price's trains.
Price's forces were reported to be divided.
General Sanborn was in pursuit of Jeff. Thompson.
A later dispatch, dated the 17th, says:
Bill Anderson and forty of his murderous crew entered Danville, Montgomery county, on Friday evening, murdered five citizens, mortally wounded another, and burned eighteen buildings.
A few citizens occupied the block-house in the centre of the town, and undertook to defend it, but the rebels burned the house, with all the county records, and the law offices and papers of three prominent lawyers.
The rebels then went to High Hill and
port shows that, on March 1st, 1865, the United States forces numbered as follows:
Available force for duty602,598
on detached service132,538
in field hospitals or unfit for duty35,628
in general hospitals or on sick leave143,419
absent on furlough or as prisoners of war31,695
absent without leave19,683
grand aggregate965,591
the numbers of the Confederate forces at the time of the surrender were:
General Lee's army27,805
General Johnston's army31,243
General Jeff. Thompson's army7,978
Miscellaneous paroles in Virginia9,672
Paroled at Cumberland, Maryland9,377
Paroled in Alabama and Florida6,428
General Dick Taylor's army42,293
General Kirby Smith's army17,688
Paroled in Washington3,300
Paroled in several States of the South
Surrendered in Tennessee5,629
Aggregate174,223
In conclusion, the Secretary says: "Looking to the causes that have accomplished the National deliverance, there seems no room henceforth to doubt the stability of the Fe
