Price and Jackson would do nothing, unless the United States troops were first sent out of Missouri.

Lyon and Blair would not consent to any thing of the kind, and so the conference ended.
Jackson and Price left St.Louis on a special train for Jefferson City, on the afternoon of the 11th.

On the way up the road, they set fire to the bridges over the Gasconade and Osage Rivers, the former thirty-five miles from Jefferson City, and ninety from St.Louis, and the latter within nine miles of Jefferson City.

If the conduct of these men had been neutral up to that time, this act made an end of their neutrality.
General Lyon left the conference fully satisfied there was no longer any reason for hesitation.

The course he should pursue was plain before him.
Early in the forenoon of the 12th, he learned of the destruction of the bridges over the Gasconade and Osage Rivers.