Rebel Barbarities

J.'rom the Bt. Louis Democrat. The account jiubliafÜéd by us on Saturday, in the telegraphie dispatehes, from Leavenworth, of the brutal and cowardly murder of the escort of General Blunt, is another inSkanCe of the barbarities practiced by tho rebels that stamps theui with eternal iufamy : Says tbc account referred to : " Tbe whole numbor killed from General Blunt's escort of oue huudred meu, was seventy-eighf' " All of his clerk's, order] s, and band weresbot through tbe head, after beiag taken prisoners." '"■■ Mhjof Curtis was found thrown froin his liorse, shot tlirough tho head, and murdered after he was a prisoner - as well as the rest." The mnrder, in cold blood, of not nierely siaff officera and the body guard of Gou. Blunt, but also of the non-couibatants who accompanied him - for sueh tho clerks at least inay bo cousidered- is an aet of damnable atrocity thafc will not, wo imagine, bo suffered to go long unpuuished, and that ii an appropriute manner. If overtaken bv Blunt - aud it seems that he had started in pursuit of them - with anything like an adequate forcé to cope with the murderers, it will bo a short shrift, pvobably, that they will get after this, at his hands. When tho scène of horror above alluded to occurred General Blunt, it appears, was ou his return from Fort Scott, the present hcadquarters of his district, to Fort Smith, on the Arkansas river, where he proposed establishing them for the future. This latter point had been held by the rebela ever since tho war Win nnt.il nhmif. tkn lst of September wheu Blunt, haviug routed thora and driv'en thcm down to near the Tcxas boundary, returned suddeuly and captured it. He retnained there, until about the middle of September, sick, aud then camo up, via Fort Blunt (forraerly Gibson,) to Fort Scott, to arrange some business there preparatory to a removal of his headquarters to Fort Suiith. These faets are communieated in a letter frora Gen. Bluut to Major Yan Antwerp, luspector General on his staff, wlio is now in this city. Major V. A., it will be remembered. accompanied Gen. Blunt all through his vigorous and brillinnt oampaign of last fall, ombiaéing the baúles of Öld Fort Wayne, Caite Hill, Prairie Grove, &e., and which terminated in driviug Hindraan, with his army of 30,000 men, beyond the Arkansas, and utterly dispersine it. Major Van Antwerp met with a serioug accident some montlis ago - the breaking of a tliigh bone- that iucapacitated hirn for agaia taking the field with General Blunt Üio present season, and he is now here aeting upon Court Martial duty. - Proni the subjoined letter, very reeen tly receired by Major Vaa Antwerp"from General Blunt, which we have been permitted to cop y ; it appears that the latter proposed leaving Fort Scott about this time (Oetober 12th or 1-lth) to return to Fort Smith. and desired Major Van Antwerp to accompany ïim, if he had rccovered sufliciently to make the trip. Yery sooo after iho date of Gen. Blunt's letter, news reaclied Fort Scott of newlytlireatened difficultias in the neighborhood of Fort Smith, and, with his usual pronaptjess and celerity of movement, within four ïours after he reeeived it he was iu the saddle and on the marola of two hundred miles, the distance from Fort Scott, to Fort Smith, to his new headquartors, accompanïed by two or three üf the mctnbers of his staff, his body guard, clerks, orderlies, &e. tt was whileon this march that his escort was attacked, and the most of it massacred, as stated in the account from Leavenworth sublished by us on Saturday.