The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Gratifying intelligence from Missouri--formal Secession of the State.

A bearer of dispatches from Missouri arrived in this city yesterday afternoon, bringing intelligence of the formal secession of that State from the United States, by act of her Legislature. This body is the regular Legislature of the State, elected more than a year ago; and is the only existing representative of her sovereignty. Application will at once be made for the admission of Missouri into the Confederate States.

By the same hands we learn that on Tuesday week last, when our informant left Gen. Price's camp, that officer, with his gallant army, was in face of the enemy near Springfield, expecting an early engagement. Northern dispatches of a later date represent that Gen. Hunter, the successor of Fremont, has retreated with his whole army eastward, and was making his way to St. Louis. The bearer of dispatches was five days on his way from Memphis to this city, having been delayed by the interruption consequent upon the doings of the bridge-burners.