Quincy ILL., July 10—A band of six bushwhackers visited the residence of a Union man named Pratt, sixteen miles from Canton, in Lewis county, Mo., on Tuesday last, but not finding him at home, plundered his house. Soon after they left the house, they met him and shot him dead. Fourteen buckshot were found in his body.
Yesterday a band of about eighty robbed the store of a Mr. Thurston, Monticello, near Canton, of every thing of value that it contained.
The citizens of Canton arc preparing to defend themselves, in anticipation of an attack from these rebel guerrillas.
An order was issued yesterday by Col. McNeil, commanding that division, prohibiting the sale and circulation of the Qincy Herald in northeast Missouri. The Chicago Times will probably be attended to next.
Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, IL