Important from Missouri.
reported retreat of Price towards Arkansas.
Strauss, Mo., Oct. 20.
--Major Scott, of Gen. Siezel's staff, who left Warsaw yesterday, says that definite and satisfactory information had been received at Siegel's camp that the rebels under Gen. Price had broken up their camp in Cedar country where he arrived last Sunday week, and where it was said he would make a stand and give battle, and continued their retreat towards the Arkansas line.
Lexington Retaken by the U. S. Troops.
Jefferson City, Oct. 20
--Major Milne, of the first Missouri scouts, arrived here to-day on the steamer Sioux City, and reports that on the 16th one hundred and fifty of his regiment, under Major White, surprised the rebel garrison at Lexington, and recaptured the place and all the sick and wounded, together with a quantity of guns, pistols, and other articles, which the rebels threw away in their flight.
Two pieces of cannon, which were in the fort, were also captured.
The Sioux City brought down about one hundred of our sick and wounded, among them Cols. White and Grover, who are slowly recovering.
The rebel garrison numbered three hundred.
The condition of Lexington is reported as deplorable.
Portions of the town have been stripped of everything, and many of the inhabitants are actually suffering for the necessities of life.
Rolla,Mo.,Oct. 20--The capture of Lynn Creek is confirmed.
The place was surrounded on the 14th by Major Wright's cavalry, the same that routed the rebels near Lebanon, and a company of rebels under Capt. Robbins, and a number of other prisoners, including the sheriff of the county, were taken.
A rebel captain and lieutenant were killed in the affair near Lebanon, and Lieut. Col. Somers taken prisoner.
All the prisoners taken at both places, seventy-four in number, have arrived here.
St. Louis, Oct. 20.--Work on the fortifications has not been suspended, and no order to that effect was ever issued.
The fight near Lebanon.
St. Louis, Oct. 20.
--In the skirmish near Lebanon, on the 12th, between two companies of Major Wright's cavalry and about 400 rebels, previously reported, the latter lost 62 killed and 17 wounded, 4 mortally, and 36 were taken prisoners.
Maj. Wright's loss was only one killed and a few wounded.
Capture of scouting parties by the rebels.
Hudson, Mo., October 20.
--Messengers say that a scouting party from Cameron, numbering one hundred men, have been taken prisoners by some six hundred rebels at Micabam, Cald well county.
A detachment of four hundred United States troops at Cameron were ready to march to the rescue when the train left.
Another party of from forty to sixty rebels was in Carroll county, and had captured seventeen of Colonel Morgan's men.--Colonel Morgan had started in pursuit.
Movements of the rebels.
St. Louis, October 21.
--Union scouts report the total number of armed rebels in Southeastern Missouri at six thousand.
A man direct from General Price's army, says Jackson's rebel Legislature is in session at Stockton, the county seat of Cedar county, which place Ben McCulloch was approaching with from 6,000 to 12,000 reinforcements for General Price.
The statement of the Washington correspondence of the New York Tribune that Captain Prince, the commandant at Fort Leavenworth, refuses to recognize General Fremont as his superior officer, is untrue. 