The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-08-28
News and Items.

commerce, Mo-, which was occupied bx
the rebels on Sunday, 18th, was retake,
on Monday night by force from Cap.
Girardeau. The rebels retreated on tn
approach Of our troops.
Indiana will have eighteen moro regiment
in the field within three weeks, maxim,
thirty seven from that State.
The Western Virginia Convention ha
passed an ordinance creating new State
to be called Kanawha, embracing thirty
eight counties. The ordinance is to b
submitted to the vote Of the people OF thes
counties on the oath Of October.
Capt. Eugene Carr, of the first U. S
Cavalry, has been appointed Colonel of tn
Third Illinois Cavalry.
Gov. Magoffin, of Kentucky, has sen
Commissioners to the President and to jeff
Davis to request them to respect the neu
trality of the State.
The steamship Canada has arrived at st
Johns, N. F., with dates to the 18th inst
The English journals devote themselve.
largely to American affairs. Russell, il
another letter to the London Times, assert.
that there were no daring deeds on either
side at the battle OF Bull Run.
Secession accounts state that great des
titution and sickness prevail among thu
rebel troops in Virginia.
The secessionists have risen, near Rolla
Mo-, and arc arrssting and imprisoning
| Union men.
A camp Of instruction is to be formed
at indianapolis, by order Of the War De-
| partment.
William B. Reed, late Minister to China,
has been arrested, in Philadelphia, by orde,
Of the government.
Sternberg's elevator, at Buffalo, was
burned on Monday night 10th inst, with
| $4,000 bushels of grain.
Gen. Fremont has official reports con
firming the rebel defeats at Charleston and
Commerce, Mo.
1t appears that Gen. Sigel was at one
time in the enemy's hands, but was res.
cucd.
The rebel General Price reports the loss
in his own division, at the battle of Spring
field, to be 156 killed and 527 wounded.
An effort was made to organize a live
abolition society in chicago on the goth
inst, to be called "The Advance Guards Of
Liberty" Sixteen persons responded to
the call and the organization was made
A new evening daily paper under the
editorial management of c. c. Flint has
been started in Chicago.
We see it stated that G j. Prentice, son
Of Geo. D. Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal has been appointed Adjutant Gen.
eral in the staff of Maj. Gen. Yell, com.
handing the Arkansas army.
England, France and Spain are about to
NEEDLE with affairs in Mexico. It is to be
hoped they will not interfere in our quar-
rel.
Official reports show the federal loss at
the battle of Springfield, Mo-, to be 223
killed, 72l wounded, and 291 missing.
On the 22d the Union men at Paducah,
KY, seized the steamer w. B. Terry, and
the rebels the Evansville and Paducah mail
boat.
Gen Banks has taken possession Of VIM
chester.
In skirmish which occurred in the Kan
awha Valley on the Goth inst, the rebels
were defeated with loss of fifty killed.
and many taken prisoners, Union loss
light
The Governor Of Kansashas been auth
orized to raise three regiments-one for
home services and the other two for duty
in New Mexico.
On the 21st inst, a recontre occurred
between Capt. R. E. A. Crofton and a man
in the employ of the Northwestern Railway
Company named F. Kraatz, in which the
latter was run through by the officer
sword and died almost Immediately.
The train which Gen. Sicgel brought
away with him from Springfield is said to
have been worth million and half of
dollars. McCulloch was too much cut up
to pursue and capture it.
1t is alleged that the secessionists are
spending money freely to circulate peace
arguments throughout the north. The N.
Y. News and Day Book derive distance
from them.
The steamship North Star has arrived at
New York with $1,l76,00O in specie. The
British steamer Drover was ashore on
Managone Reef The New Granadan revo.
luton still continues with victories on the
side of the insurgents, Mosquera had taken
Bogota and proclaimed himself provisional
President. -.
Gen. Shields is to raise an Irish Brigade
5000 strong. as~s.s.e. ...-
The Congressional Investigating Com
mittee are still wedding out all the clerks
who sympathize with the rebellion.
w. II. Russell, London Times CORES
pendent was fatty refused pass to visit
our lines on the south bank of the Potomac
He is in bad odor in consequence of the
complexion Of his late letter.
A new rebel battery has been discovered
on the Potomac, ten miles above Aqua
Creek. A captured nego reports that there
are five hundred slaves at work erecting
batteries on the river, and, that at the bate
ries near Aqua Creek there are several
thousand troops.
The rebels have report that the COM
mander Of the British Gulf squadron has
| received orders to see that British merchant