The Mississippi Creole

Another Battle at Nauvoo.

The St. Louis Reveille, of the 15th learns from the officers of the steamer Alvarado, which arrived there on the previous evening from Warsaw, that the Mormons and anti-Mormons had a second battle on the afternoon of the 12th, which ended, as before, in the Anties retreating to their camp. The report of the first fight (says the Reveille) was a wildly exaggerated rumor, only one Mormon having been wounded in the heel, and several Anties badly frightened—the main bodies of the opposing forces not having ventured within musket shot range. We annex the Reveille's account of the second battle:

An eye witness, who watched the progress of the second battle from the top of the Mormon temple in Nauvoo, describes it as a very spirited engagement, in which the new citizens and Mormons prevented the advance of their foes at every point.

The anti-Mormons have thrown up three breastworks at about one and a half miles from the city, towards the road leading to Carthage, and behind these the defending forces are posted, with five pieces of artillery. At about twelve o'clock, M., the new citizens fired two six-pound shot into the Anties' camp, upon which the latter sent out a flag of truce, with a request to hold another "talk;" but the citizens of Nauvoo returned for answer, that they were done talking with them, and that hereafter they should fight until the others became desirous of a peace. The action now commenced from the artillery on both sides—over 80 discharges of cannon were heard from both parties during the course of an hour and a half. They now closed in and commenced discharges of musketry at each other. A movement was then made by the Anties to outflank the Nauvoo right and pass their breastwork, which was here defended by the Spartan band of Mormons, with "sixteen chamber rifles;" the latter drew out from the breastwork to repel the advancing force, and succeeded in beating them back. During this skirmish on the right, a man named Anderson, the leader of the Mormon Spartans, fell, shot through the lungs by a rifle-ball, and almost instantly expired. About the same moment, his son, a boy about fifteen years of age, who was engaged in another portion of the ranks, was struck by a six-pound shot on the right shoulder, and his body made a crushed mass of bones, the whole breast being torn to pieces. Another Mormon was struck during this part of the fight with a cannon shot, and killed instantly. His name was Norris, a blacksmith. The fight continued for two hours and a half, and every attempt the Anties made to pass the position of the Nauvooites, they were successfully beaten back, until, at length they were forced to retire to their camp, leaving the field in possession of the new citizens and Mormons.

During the progress of the fight, an invalid Mormon was posted upon the top of the temple, with a spy-glass in hand, watching its progress; and the wives of the citizens, with their children, were gathered at the base of the building, with upturned eyes and painfully anxious faces listening to his report of the battle, which, from time to time, he related to them from above. Our informant says that he heard many of these poor Mormon mothers declare that they would perish in the streets of Nauvoo, defending it against this mob, if it should drive their husbands in from the field where they are posted.

The number of killed on the part of the anti-Mormon force is unknown. At Carthage they only acknowledge to six badly wounded—Capt. Smith, one of the number, mortally.

Every preparation was made on both sides for another battle.

All capable of bearing arms in Nauvoo are engaged in the fight. Many of the women and children of the new citizens are in the city without the power or opportunity to leave: their husbands are in the field battling against an unreasonable mob, and they are left a prey to the worst of fears.