Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-10-11
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
REP0RTEp xxPREssLY roR TIRE JOURNAL.

;. REPORTED KxPREssLY roR TIRE JOURNAL.
% Return of DIR. Hayes Arctic Ell
petition.
HALIFAX, Oct. 9.
DR.. Hayes, of the Polar expedition, arrive
}. party are all we'll. Two have died-namely
. August Sontag, the astronomer, and Gibso
Caruthers.
K DR.. Hayes reached Smiths Straits on til
26th of August last year, but could not pen
= season or this. He wintered at Port Foulke
9 near Alexander, and with dogs and sled
reached latitude 80 49, May 18th, this yea,
IL New York, Oct. 6.
! Turks Island dates of Sept 21st., stat
! that there had been a moderate demand 70
. salt this week, and most of it had been soil
for cash. The quantity on hand is steadily
: diminishing, as the rains so far have prevent
ed any quantity being gathered; 7sas are pre-
: sent prices; export duty half cent.
Especial to Commerciall
LOUISVILLE, Oct 7.
There was fire at the corner of Water
street and Center alley, Memphis, on Sept
: Goth, which destroyed $50, 900 worth ofprOp
: erty. 1t extended round to Front Row.
The Memphis Apalanche has absorbed the
Bulletin.
Memphis papers say that 80 cases Enfield
rifles, part of sc, 900 which came into a south.
ern port some time since, arrived at Memphis
Columbus was literally alive with soldiers on
the 10Th.
lad ! ~
con, Ga, on the 14th.
The University of Mississippi will be closed
for want Of patronage.
Governor of Mississippi
The PocahOntas Advertiser says j. G..
Hindman obtained 1000 more men from
Arkansas for Hardee and command
Ex-Gov. Lewis Low, of Ind. has escaped
Richmond.
Isaac Davenport of Richmond, of the firm of
J. & B. Davenport, who gave check for ten
thousand dollars, owing to Northern creditors,
Commissioner of Northern Bank, suspended
specie payment, at the instance of Gov. Moore.
The merchants of Nashville have agreed to
take treasury notes for debts and goods.
Hardee's command has fallen back to Pitt
mans Ferry, on the Arkansas line.
S. B. Jones, formerly editor of Philadel-
phia paper, is Secretary in the War Depart
ment at Richmond.
Gov. Moore, of La, has ordered all the pork
| to be secured from New Orleans spectators,
who have advanced it to $50 per bbl
The estimated Yankee property in the
State of Virginia, under the law of sequestra-
ton act, amounts to $4,000.
Mobile papers say the defences south of
that city are vigorously going on.
The municipal authorities Of Mobile are
issuing shin plasters in small amounts.
Confederate soldiers, especially in Western
Virginia, are suffering for tobacco.
A vessel with a thousand bushels of salt
from Laguayra had its cargo taken from Bra
EOS river to Richmond.
A prize schooner was captured near Gal
weston recently with 200 sacks of coffee and
100000 cigars.
Humphrey Marshall has escaped into the
Southern Confederacy.
The Journal, tomorrow, will state that
Gen. w. S. Sherman will supercede Gen. An
derson in the head of the department of the
Cumberland Anderson retiring on &C
count of ill-health.
A Richmond dispatch says Harris has been
Internationally released.
The Confederate government authorize
Gen. Winter to arrest all Yankees who may
return there in concern for their former right
of property in the South
1t is reported that Jas. Ferguson, member
Of Parliament, and Hon. VIM. Burlee, of Eng
land, arrived at Nashville, Sept. 30th, en- route
for Richmond.
The Bowling Green CORRESPONDENT of the
Nashville Union d. american says Buckner
is advancing on the Ohio river, driving the
home guards before them
j. }. Wycks, chairman of the Military Con-
vention at Memphis, says it is desirable that
no more cotton nor tobacco be shipped there
until further orders, and if planters don't stop
shipping the authorities will send the cotton
back in the country at the owners expense
The Fort Smith Herald says the Chero-
KEGS will furnish three and the Creeks two
regiments and the Seminolcs one ba ttallion.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 9.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the paper in
which all Blair-Fremonts charges, letters.
&C., appeared original, in answer. TO Fremont's
dispatch, exculpates the General, or any men,
Der of his Department, unqualifiedly, from
any responsibility in their publication. The
papers were obtained through an entirely diff
ferent source.
New York, Oct 7.
This morning, Capt. Michael Berry, late
commander of the steamer Columbia, was ar
rested and sent to Fort Lafayette, on charge
of being employed in the service of the reb-
els. The police have been searching for the
Captain since the Oath Of September last but
he managed to evade them until this morning.
From the course adopted by the prisoner du-
ring his stly in Charleston, in hosting the
Palmetto flag, and from his conversation sub
se9uently, there appears but little doubt of his
completely with the rebel government.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Oct. 4.
Joseph E. Brown has been elected Governor
of Georgia by a majority of between 5000 or
| 10000.
DARNEsTowN, Nd, Oct. 6.
1t is the opinion of officers that the rebel
army which last week moved up the Potomac
has passed over the mountains in Western
Virginia or retired back on the mountains, as
it has not been seen for several days back.
Everything has been quiet along our lines
to-day.
Especial to Chicago Tmes)
| ST.. LOUIS, Sept Z.
loJ T