The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Condition of Missouri.

--It is pretty certain that B. McCulloch is making his way to Missouri to maintain the State-Rights party of that State. A letter from St. Louis, to a Memphis, Tennessee, house, dated the 21st June, gives the following gloomy view of the state of affairs. McCulloch will not arrive too soon. We doubt not Tennessee will come up to the rescue in good time. Kentucky, too, will be on hand:

Things are hard here at present, the ‘"Hessians"’ having full sway. Why don't your people send us some troops to help us to clean them out? We have the disposition but not the arms to do it. Large numbers of dead Dutch are arriving here daily from South-Western Missouri, although the fact is denied. It is reported that Ben. McCulloch has been cutting Gratz Brown's regiment to pieces somewhere on the South-West branch of the Pacific railroad.

The State troops have had a fight with the Hessians at Boonville — the Missourians to the number of 300 making an attack on a whole regiment of Dutch, and if they had not been ordered to retire I believe would have killed every one of them. I have not had a pop at them yet, but expect to soon.