Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-10-11
SLAVE ms DIRECTION IN MISSOURI
Position of the Enemy at Manassas
THE MERRIMAC RAISED BY THE REBELS AND
PLATED WITH STEEL.
Especial to the Chicago Tim es.1

WASHINGTON, Oct. ..
Gen. Wool was certainly offered the COM
mand in Missouri, but he demanded more
troops than the government was able to send
him, and asked other conditions which the
administration thought it not proper to grant
The administration Is satisfied that the Union
cause in Missouri can never be successful
while Fremont remains in command there,
and you may rely upun it that he will be re-
called Just so soon as the right man tosucceed
him can be found.
Gems. Banks, Meigs, Blenker, Harvey, Nc
Dowell and others are spoken of, and their
merits discussed with much freedom.
The President is unwilling to remove Ere
mont, but prominent politicians urge upon
him the necessity of his immediate removal.
A Cabinet meeting on Fremonts case was
held to-day, without concluding the business.
Efty-seven prisoners, wounded at Bull Run
who have just arrived at Baltimore from Rich
mond, confirm the statement made by per-
sons who have formerly arrived from there,
that the rebels had 100000 troops at Manas-
sas, including those recently semitic Kentucky
The rebels have erected several batteries on
James River
JEFF Davis health, though improved, is far
from good.
JAMESTOWN, QctaxD
The firing heard yesterday at Conad Fer
ry was from an attack by a body of rebels,
and our response to their guns.
lTripune's Despatch.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.
The report of large rebel force being des-
patched from the Potomac westward, is un-
founded. Detachments from the Sickle's
brigade which has been securing Lower Ma
ryland, report the dominant sentiment as vi
olently Tebellious; not more than three Union
flags were seen.
Gen. SCOTS order, issued ten days ago, for
the release of Col. Blair, has not yet been car
ried into effect lie is still confined in the
barracks at ST. Louis.
CIV. Cole, type founder formerly of Brock
Ign, lately of Richmond, left the latter city
two weeks since, under jeff Davis proclama-
ton ordering off foreigners, and has arrived
here. He left 1000 troops in Richmond. but
oniy three guns mounted. Three or four
thousand negroes were building numerous
forts. Twenty one hospitals waYflll. Out
of a Florida regiment 100 stehg, only 500
answer at roll call, ~
There ars regular asaaB 10 and from Balti-
more and other places north,
Three hundred pounds of agate type had
Just arrived from the North and passed as ste
reotype plates from the Methodist Book Con-
Germ.
John H. Lester, a native of Connecticut,
and recently citizen of Brooklyn, and one
man named Sloat, and other portherners were
engaged in altering four hundred rpuskets a
week, and manufacturing sewing machines.
A number of internal machines had been
placed on the James River. There is COM
pany manufacturing them in Richmond.
Joseph E. Sereiter has been appointed AS
sociate Judge Of the Superior Court Of Ne
braska.
New YORK, Oct. 9.
The steamship Ericsson has been chartered
by the Government and will load with horses.
She has steam on awaiting orders.
Especial to the COMMERCIAL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.
Justice johnson decided, yesterday, that,
under the act Of Congress, forbidding the sale
of liquor to soldiers, it is not illegal to give it
away This striped pig decision is so opposed
to the express enactment of Congress that the
Government will not submit to it. If this
local magistrate continues to hamper the Coy
with his absurd decisions, Gen.
Mcclellan will administer 4 dose Of martial
law to both liquor and justices.
A slave was yesterday restored to his mas
terday by Pennsylvania regiment. A file
of soldiers escorted the contraband two miles
beyond our lines.
Rey. Father Aycketts, of the Gonzella Col
lege, Catholic institution, has been chosen
chaplain. Of the Sickles Brigade.
The heavy rains Of the last "a hours have
swollen the river to such al extent as to pre-
:lude its passage by the rebel force. 1t can
now be crossed only by the bridges, all of
which are in possession of our army.
!, The official record Of charges against Ere
mont have not yet reached head quarters, and
he case remains in stata quo.
On Saturday last, by order of Com. Craven,
Lieut.. Cash, 3. s. N. with detachment Of
en- men, accompanied by two detectives, pro-
,eeded to St. Mary's river, on the Jacob Bell,
md on Sunday arrested John Thomas Ira
,erse, of St. Mary's county, who was charged
Nth aiding the transportation Of men and
provisions from the rebels of Maryland to the
ebels of Virginia. While on the expedition,
landing was made at Great Mills, II miles
rom Piay Point, and 10 miles from Lenards-
own. a rendezvous of the St. Marys county
ebels. The mails were seized as well IS the
nail lust received from Baltimore. The post
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