Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-10-11

tiers in the mail from Virginia. The party ar.
rived here together, coming up the river this
morning.
Herald's Dispatch.
Doctors Homisten and Stoolen, of the i4th
Brooklyn regiment, who were taken prisoners
at Bull Run, arrived here this evening via Fl.
Monroe, from Richmond. They were released
on parole, and came with the 81 wounded
prisoners.
They give most deplorable account of
the condition of our wounded, and the man.
ner in which they have been treated by the
rebels. According to their account, our
prisoners have suffered the torrents Of the
damned, and the wonder is that any of them
are now alive.
1t now appears that the 81 wounded whom
| they released were cases the rebel doctors
could not cure, and therefore were permitted to
return home.
| The rebel government had learned some
thing regarding the probable expedition
South, which produced the greatest excite
ment throughout the Gulf cotton States. 1t
was believed that vast numbers of the troops
now in Virginia would be called back to their
respective States, where these attacks were
apprehended.
There was a great scarcity of provisions,
and also of medicines
Our wounded frequently had to 60 without
attendance in many critical cases.
Tea, coffee and sugar were almost impossi-
bic to be obtained, for love or money.
The question of successor to jeff. Davis
was being agitated throughout the South,
and the general belief was that A. II. Ste
phens would be agreed upon. The feeble
state of Davis health was used as an argu-
ment against him. In the event, however, of
permanent restoration, it is the intention Of
the rebel government to make o permanent
General of him.
Gen. Wise, accompanied by Gen. Hem
mingsen, had arrived in Richmond; the for
mer will probably be court martialed.
as A statement in the Galveston "News,"
makes the number of Texan troops now in
the field 10000, of which 5000 are in Vir-
ginia, 1000 in western Missouri and Arkan-
sas, and 1000 in Arizona and New Mexico.
There is general growl throughout the
Confederacy at the inefticiency of the mail ar
rangements.
N. Porter, of the LIST Michigan regiment,
died at Castle Pinckney on the End inst, of
typhoid fever.
The health of other prisoners is said to be
good.
A DESPATCH dated New Orleanr Sept. %,
says the steamer Nicaragua, a sloop of war
was off the southeast bar, and steam frigate
at the South West Pass.
The sloop-ofwar Vincennes, and the gun
boat Water Witch, were inside the South
West bar.
The Governor of North Carolina has issued
proclamation forbidding any bacon or cot
ton being sent out of the State.
= The Memphis argus of the 3rd, contains
the following proclamation concurring entire
ly in the views expressed by the cotton fac
!. tors of New Orleans, in the annexed commu
nicaton, petition from business men, pray
ing that no cotton be sent to New Orleans du
D ring the existence of the blockade
81 have determined to take the most deci
sisivc means to prevent the landing of any
cotton in this city. Notice is hereby given t.
all masters and owners of steamboats, and 9th
er water craft, that from and after the 10th o
! October, no cotton must be brought to New
. Orleans or within the limits embracing thai
\ section of country between the Notifications
a above Carrollton and those below the city, ant
; extending back to the lake. All steamboat
=, n or other water craft arriving within the pres
! ent limits will be forthwith placed in charg'
of an armed force and escorted above thu
. point indicated. This course will be adopted
4 in all cases, whether the quantity of cottor
brought be large or small.
The railroad companies have already ISSUED
r orders in furtherance of the object of this
proclamation and no violation of them will b,
. permitted
= Signed, THos. O. MOORE"
81 shall cooperate with Gov Moore in the
9 enforcement of the above order.
Signed, E. TwIGGs,
n Maj. Gen. Commanding"
l. New YORK, Oct. 9.
: The balloon which was seen over Wash
, ington, few days ago, proved to be LaMoun
: tain's, which safely landed in Maryland
y appears that after rising to a certain distance
n and finding the current right, he cut the rop,
and rose to a height of3 miles, obtaining
z movements which impor tant news he ha.
communicated to the War Department.
, LOUISVILLE, Oct 8.
y Richmond papers ofthe 1st, and Charleston
papers of the Sd inst, were received on the
evening of the GOTH Gen. Lee joined Floyd
with four regiments and pieces of artillery,
: at Readert Bluff Floyd's forces are repre-
l. scented to be greatly demoralized since the
S battle of Carnfx Ferry, and Wise's general.
: ship is seriously criticised by the Richmond
+ papers. The Enquirer says the relations be-
n tween Gems. Floyd and Wise are painful
enough to explain all our reverses in West
r ern Virginia.
: Col. Mckee, late editor of the Louisville
e Courier, Will take command of a regiment TN
der Buckner.
: The Citizens Bank of New Orleans is circu.
Y latng os cut in two, each piece to represent
: 50 so.
Thirteen hundred Indian warriors crossed
t the Arkansas river near Fort Smith, on the
r 25th ult en- route for McCulloch army. Gen.
5 Whiteficld late of Kansas is also moving to-
t wards Northern Missouri at the head of a
} BODY Of hoops.
The Federal prisoners seat to New Orleans
: were escorted to their quarters in that city by
9 colored company. )
An exchange Of shots and shells took place
on the Goth uit, between the Federal nan-of-
!. war Water Witch and the rebel steaInet joy,
without damage on either side. A boat from
the Water Witch, landed some men at the
, telegraph station at the head of the Pass, who
; carried off the instruments.
/ The Confederate steamer South Carolina
had captured Mexican steamer off Calves
4 ton, Texas.
1t is reported that $4,000 rebel troops are
between Green River and Nashville, and
about Regiment per day were arriving at
Nashville from Southern points.
The rebels claim to have 10000 men in
Kentucky.
The rumor of the capture of New Orleans
is revived at Nashville, and details thereof are
said to he received there. Tomorrow morn
ing's Journal will contain the correspondence
between General Anderson and Halderman,
late editor of the Courier, relative to the sus-
pension of that paper, and his exodus into
the Southern Confederacy.
i T. Gov Holm hos tal1ar tho oa4h Of allour;