Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-12-13
More about the Union Feeling in
North Carolina.
BEAUF FORT OCCUPIED BY U. S. TROOPS
Escape of a Brother of Gen. Anderson
from Texas.
EX.MINISTER FAULKNER GONE TO
RICHMOND.
FORT PULASKI TO BE sToRMED.
FALSE ALARM ON THE POTOMAC
BALTIMORE. Dec. 9.


There has been no arrival from Old Point
to-day. No boat will be due till tomorrow
The following items were taken from late
Southern papers:
lMiledgeuille, Ca, Dec. "a resolution
has been introduced into the State Senate thai
the banks suspend specie payment and issue
confederate notes.
Memphis, Dec 1.-THE AUalanche, of to
day, says that the Federal force between
Bowling Green and Louisville is $4,000, ant
that Gems. Johnston and Buckner are fully
prepared for them.
Birds Point, Dee. Con- Friday last thu
steamer Grampus took y Federal lumber boat
anchored above, with $4,000 feet of lumber
and brought it to Columbus.
Federal troops have left Cairo and Paducal
in large numbers. 1t is supposed they arr
going to New Madrid to cut off jeff Thomp
son.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 9.
Gen. Halleck has issued orders stating tha
the Mayor of the city will require the NUM-
cipal officers to Immediately subscribe to the
oath of allegiance prescribed by the State
Convention, in October last, and direct the
Provost Marshal General to arrest all State
officers who having failed to subscribe te
such oath attempt to exercise their duty in
defiance of law.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 9.
The Savannah News says the Fedora
troops have entirely evacuated Tybee Island
EAST PENSACOLA, Dec. 4.
| The Florida and Pamlico engaged Fed
eral vessel off Horse Island. The Fedora
vessel retired.
Considerable excitement prevails in Ten
nessec. in consequence of drafting. They de-
sire troops raised on the volunteer system.
G. w. johnson, Provisional Governor Ct
Southern Kentucky, has issued a long mes
sage.
Col. John S. Winanis troops, numbering
400, are at Pound Gap, and are suff, ring
greatly for the want of shoes, blankets and
winter clothing. They are calling on ladies
for socks and flannel shirts.
RICHMOND, Dec 6.
Congress unanimously ratified the conven
ton between r. M. S Hunter and the Mis-
souri, commissioners.
The Acalanche speaks the Federal victory
in Morristown, East Tennessee, and thinks
Mai Gen. Crittenden will overcome tho force
1t is rumored at Memphis that the Federals
Cairo and Paducah are being evacuated by
the Federal troops, who are going to St. Lou
is with all possible dispatch.
The New Orleans Bulletin says that the
Federals captured two rebel steamboats,, sup
pose to be the Henry Lewis and the Califcr-
MIA; and the California escaped by throwing
overheard part of her cargo and forty head OF
cattle.
The Charleston Mercury says Gen. Ripley
has ordered every pound Of cotton likely to
fall into the hands of the enemy, to be burned.
The Savannah Republican says the Sum-
ter was not captured but wrecked off Trini-
dad
Hollins' battering ram or turtle passed
Memphis on the 18th, for Columbus
New York, Dec 9.
The Secretary of the Navy has dispatched
one of the fastest and most powerful vessels
in the navy and swift gun boat to inter-
cept the rebel steamer Nashville on her re-
turn. The instructions of the officers are to
approach the British coast as near as the
neutrality law will permit and to cruise off
the coast until they capture the steamer. The
Nashville is lightly armed, and if the u. s.
steamer falls in with her, she certainly will
be taken. A writ of attainder on the part
of the loyal owners of the Nashville has also
gone out in one Of the late steamers to be ex-
ecuted in Southampton.
t,.s WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.
Refugees represent that in Weakley, Hen
derson, Carroll and other counties of Tonnes.
see, the unon feeling is very strong The
inhabitants only await the approach of the
Federals to make great uprising.
1t Is understood by the President that the
Legislature of Kentucky will abolish slavery,
reimbursing loyal masters.
The lords dispatch says small pox is
getting prevalent, by the carelessness of the
Surgeon General in allowing cases of this dis
ease to be in the same hospital with other
patients.
The Heralds dispatch says negro from
Centerville states that the rebels had a review
of 80, 900 troops there few days since, during
which panic seized them, consequent on q
rumor that the Federals were marching on
the place. They fed from the field, leaving
guns, wagons and everything else.
LOUISVILLE Dec 10
Parson Brownlov publishes card IN the