Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-02
Later from the Seat of War.
The Troops SurpsissdAby q Cow. Gfsa'
Excitement. .fai5lL LgE1AtM

| CHARLEsrowN, Va. Nov. %.
Gov. Wise left Harper's Ferry this morn
ing for Richm ond, after receiving 8 dispatcl
from, Gov, Packer, Of Pennsylvania, tender
ing him the services Of Eve thousand men, anc
Offering to station guard along the dividing
line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
Gov. Wise returned his thanks for the offer
with tho assurance that Virginia was able te
protect her honor. After the departure oi
the Gov, COL Elliott addressed tho military,
tbiliug them it was possible they might have
to undergo arduous and perilous duties, and
he felt satisfied that if the venerated Com
monwealth should be invaded, they would
effsctually wipe out the stain. -'
J Last night ut 9 O'Clock an alarm was given
by one of the sentiaels firing his rifle. The
military orders were Immediately sounded
from one end of the town, to the other, and
the panic among the women and children
and some of the men, whose nervous systems
have become much disordered by the late
events, Was very great; shutters were closed
and lights extinguished in quick time. The
excitement continued until 10 o'clock, when
it was ascertained that the sentinel had
mistaken a COW for man-that she would
not halt when commanded and ha fired !! r.
Another alarm, at O'Clock this morning,
was occasoned by the report of three guns.
A sentinel came rushing in and reported
having killed three men, who, instead Of
halting, fired on him. Scouts were sent out, =,
bat no man could be found, and the town
was in an uproar for the rest Of the night
The fact is, the soldiers regard their present
occupation as q frolic, and it is believed
that some of them, under the influence of
whisky, Were playing ptanks on th,ir com
rades. All has been quiet to-day.
HARpER's FERRY, Nov, 23.-Maj General
Taliafero arrived on the express last evening,
and assumed, by direction of Gov. Wise,
the command Of all the forces. Gen. T. does
not superceds Col. Davis, but Was entitled
BY rank TO the command of the whole iorces.
Col. Davis has been disfranchised under the
anti -dueling act from holding any office,
civil or military, in Virginia. lie has acted
here as an advising officer. ---...
A rumor was afoat to- day that there was
q party of marauders in the mountains, near
Cherry Run. The sentinels at Charlestown
are reported to have been fred on last night
Gov. Wise exhibits no sort Of fear of rescue,
but thinks it best to have q good force out
In reply to the General, who asked him this
forenoon if he had any fear, he said, 81
never had the least; but consider it the
finest opportunity ever offered to put the
State in military training. can now teach
my boys how to carry buiscit in their KNAPP
sacks, and to arrange bullets in their cart
ridge boxes."' t,s.-
CHARLEsrowN, Va, Nov. 26.-All is now
ativeiy quiet. We have exciting
rumors occasionally, but we are getting
used to them. They have been SO numerous
that if genuine attack was made, the peo-
pie would be, likely to consider it. hoax.
The Howitzer Company, of Richmond, who
returned with Gov. Wise, arrived here to.
day. Gov. Wise processes to have received
after his return which induced
him to send them back. The barn of j. II.
Willis was set on fire yesterday and de-
stroyed. Loss $4,000.