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Trouble in Green Count). Illinois.4 1Minnesota Soldiers Sent from St.. Louis to Assist the Authorities,RAILWAY TORN UP AND TRAINSF\K(HED.From the Jacksonville Sentinel, 20th.THE EXPECTED BAID.Our citizens were thrown into a bigh state of excitement on Monday last by a report that a band of armed men from the borders of Greene and 8cott were marching on Jacksonville, tor the purpose of rescuing some deserters who were arrested by the Provost Marshal.On Wednesday the passengers on the train from Manchester reported that when the train reached the neighborhood of Woodson, some seven miles south of this city, they found the track torn up and; a body of some twenty-five armed mounted men drawn up by the road, who ordered the passengers from the cars, and then searched the train, for the purpose, as they are said to have informed the conductor, of rescuing any arrested deserters that might be on board. There being no prisoners on the train it wTas suifered to proceed, the rail being replaced by the men on the train.From t^e sameARREST OF DESERTERS.A squad of soldiers came up on the train; from Manchester yesterday, with seventeen prisoners. Sixteen of these are Greene county men, most of the® captured with arms in their hands and prepared to mount their horses. Two of them, father and son, named Fisher, were arrested at the house of the elder Fisher, the son being a deserter, and the father charged witl# harboring deserters and encouraging resistance to their arrest. The seventeenth man is a yonng man named Cowan, who has been residing in the neighborhood of Woodson, in this county, and who was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in tearing up the track on Wednesday. iFrom tiie Springfield Republican, 22d.ARRIVAL OF SOLDIERS—DIFFICULTY IN GREENECOUNTY. . : IA detachment of soldiers, one hundred and fifty strong, from the 10th Minnesota |* infantry volunteers, under cemmand ofMajor Michael Cook, arrived in this cityyesterday from St. Louis, tinder special order from Gen. Schofield. The detachment prooeeded on the afternoon train to Jacksonville. They are en route for Whitehall, Greene county, to assist in the arrest of a band of deserters in that locality, which has offered serious resistanceto thf authorities endeavoring to arrest them.At St. Louis the ferry boat *was orderedto remain at the wharf until the soldiersoould amve, and the train ior this city waa also delayed by order of Gen. Schofield until the troops could get aboard. What the extent of the resistance in Greene county is we are not advised.BUM0R8.Our streets were rife yesterday with rumors of a serious disturbance and fight at Jacksonville and Manchester, said to have occurred in the morning. We are unable to trace these reports to any reMable source, and as no official mrelligenc# has reached here up to 8 p. rl* it most be a canard, issued or started by some parties with more wit than wisdom, and very lit* tie of either.
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Saint Paul Weekly Minnesotian And Times
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Fri, Dec 04, 1863
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