Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-11-01

numbers and of his ability to defeat them,
out under no circumstances to bring on a
general engagement between the main forces
of both sides.
| From Cairo.
Gen. Benntord and select party pay a
friendly Uisit to 'he rebel, at Coiumbus.-
Erchpnge of Prisoners. Important In
formation regarding the Re6els. 81
Dispatch to the Chicago journal.
CAIRO, Oct "a.
A company, consisting of Col. Buford,
Capt. Dresser, (aid to Gen. McClerrand,) DR..
Summons, Mr.. Chapman, (of the n Y. HerahD
1t. Burns, q. S. Cooper and DR.. Brighton,
went to Columbus yesterday, in the propelle,
Samson, under flag of truce, with dispatch
to Gen. Polk, conveying three confederate
| prisoners who had been Internationally re-
leased, The prisoners were 1t. a. A. Wood
ward Lewis You g, and L. Penny
The party landed at the levee at Columbus
The steamer Equality, with Gen. Pillow and
staff on board, came alongs e, when the Fed
| ,Ial party wet on board the IT bel steamer
Gen. Polk came on b ard soon after He and
| Col. Buford were old class mates at v est
Point. here was cordial greeting between
them. The levee was covered with confcder-
ate troops, who cheer,d Justify wncn the oil
GERS greeted each other
Gen. Polk released l6 of our prisoners ia
ken in Missouri which a tug brought to Cat
ro. The tug arrived back at ten o'clock last
night without mlshap. Dresser Chapman,
Cooper and Burns with the two Doctors went
OH shore with Capt. Bethel.
| Columbus is well fortified. A battery of
eight 24-pounders is placed at the upp end
of the town on the river bank. Another OF
one l2-pound gun stands on bluff one mile
above town. Two forts are briloing a mile
and half above the town but no guns are
mounted yet. The rebel camp is on hill he
lind the town, and is strongly cntr,nched.-
There are also camps on the flat below the de.
pot. There is another camp on the shore op-
poste Columbus.
The r.. bel force at Columbus is not over
10000.
Gen. Polk and Pillow and party Of con-
ieierste officers escorted the Fcderals back to
Norfolk.
They had good time. The rebels have
good wine and brandy, but no ice The best
of feeling prevailed throughout the whole in
terview.
ff0ssA E3sssDtSri.
| Sickness in the FeGe al faH,Ds- Hardee in
Psce's Cdnsp-Prsce Aei,Jortea fom tie
South
Special to Chicago Journa.l
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 90.
This EVENINGS Nem8 h S Just received
special di>pacth from. S, ,1acuse, stating there
was considerable sickness in the Federal
csmps. 700 are IN the hospital at Syracuse,
and $50 at Ottervile.
| One OF our citiz ms arrived here this morn.
ing from Galloway Co and reports having
met on bis travels a rebel Captain from
Prices army, who had returned home to at
tend the burial OF his wife, The rebel officer
distinctly states that Hardce was in PRICES
camp last week attending count il Of war.
Tie also states that Prize had received rein
forcements from the South under command
Of young Houston.
Sixty Thousi, nd Eastern Troops
to be sent to sile West.
[Washington Correspondence of Philadelphia Press.
1t is now decided by Governm' mt to push
sixty thousand Eastern troops into the West
one half of them through Kentucky, and
the other portion into Missouri. These, with
the West, rn troops going forward, will swell
the " estcrn and South western armies to
vast proportions. Out of those pushing on
into Missouri another wing will be formed,
under new command, to proceed with the
new gun boats and transport steamers down
the Mississippi during the autumn months
Gen. Wool, it is thought, will command the
river feet and amy. In these three branches
Of the Union army there will be no less 300
900 men, and the Government will expect
the most energetic movements at the hands
of the officers in command, and no rest until
the Union has asserted its authority and re-
bellion has been thoroughly crushed out.
From Bowling GreeR---Breckill-
ridge Intends tn stesasn.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 25.
The Courier, now published at Bowling
Green, publishes Breckinridge's card avow-
ing his intention to resign his U. S. Senator
ship.
A passenger firm Nashville reports great
suffering and sickness among the rebel troops
at Bowling Green, Hopkinsville, and other
contiguous points.
The rebels claim to have 10000 troops in
these localities.
A letter from Hopkinsvlle says 700 out of