Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-09-27
tTribune's Dispatch.

sitiOn of 1000 slaves at Fort Monroe. Gel
5 Wool sends here for a solution of the difficult,
The most of those at Fort Monroe are to /
r sent here and put to work
5 There is good grounds for believing thu
England will recognize the Southern Confe(
! eracy should it gain second victory like tn;
: at Bull Run.
r Thirteen mere contrabands escaped fror
Matthias Point. They confirm the report tha
no guns are mounted there.
Especial to the Chicago Tribune
) Quincy, Sept. 90.
A correspondent from Canton to the Whil
this afternoon, says party of about fifty Q
Col. Woodward's command who had been t
carry provisions to their families, in the vicin
ity of Edna, were attacked upon their return
by party of concealed rebels at the Monti
cello bridge, just as they We're crossing, VIII,
fired upon the front and rear of the party
wounding two Union men and killing on,
horse. The Union men stood their crount
and fired at the bushes, from whence tn,
smoke proceeded, but with what effect is no
known.
COL Moore had previously entered into s
peace treaty with the citizens of Monticello
and this is one of its earliest fruits. The cit
lzens OF Canton are preparing to pursue the
rebels If overtaken, they will be severely
handled.
| Especial to Chicago Timesl
| ST. LOUIS, Sept. 20.
The following is from the st. Louis Evening
Nesos:
We have received intelligence from Lexing.
ton down to Wednesday night at 10 o'clock
through Mr.. King, son of ExGov. King, OF
Ray county Mr. King came to this city by
the Hannibal and st. Joe Railroad, in compa.
ny of Mr.. Watson, OF Ray County, who left
the opposite bank of the river from LEXINGTON
at 10 o'clock Wednesday night.
The rebels under Price were estimated at
from fifteen to twenty thousand in number,
who opened fire with artillery on the federal
garrison early Wednesday morning. The
garrison promptly responded and the cannon
aiding from both sides was kept up all day and
until ten o'clock Wednesday night, though it
was much weaker than during the day. The
garrison were behind the cmbankmentsa at the
outskirts of the city and about mile from the
river. The confcderates were making their
main attack on the south side of the city, but
had also taken possession of the city, thus
placing the garrison between two fires. They
had seized three steamboats, that had been
sent up from Jefferson City, with ammunition
and stores for the garrison, taking possession
of boats and cargoes.
The garrison appeared to be making gal
liant resistance and the general belief was that
if their ammunition held out they would be
able to maintain their position till the arrival
of reinforcements
Gen. Sturgis, with two thousand men, was
at knoxville, Ray county, twenty miles north
of Lexington, at noon on Wednesday, and
could, by forced march, reach the river op-
positc the town by II o'clock that night, but
there was TO boats or skiffs on the north side
of the river. 1t is difficult to see how he
could get across in time to take part in the
engagement.
Mr.. Watson likewise states that there were
thousands of persons, men, women and chill
dren, from the neighboring country, gathered
on the bank OF the river, watching with in
tense interest the progress of the battle. They
could not get across the river, however.
Nothing was known as to how many had
been killed on eitller side, nor whether the as
sailants were gaining any advantage
1t is probable the attack was resumed yes
terday morning, unless Gen. Sturgis had sue
ceeded in some manner in crossing the river
in the face of hostile army.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 81.
1t is rumored that Buckner has advanced
on EilZabethtown, but the rumor cannot be
confirmed in season for the afternoon papers.
The Federal troops are preparing for any
emergency.
The following proclamation is just received.
"7o The people Of Kentucky: The Legisla-
ture of Kentucky have been iaithess to the
will of the people. They have endeavored to
give your gallant State a position in which,
under the guise of neutrality, the armed forces
of the United States must surely prepare to
subiugate alike the people of Kentucky and
the Southern States. 1t was not until after
months of covert and open violation of your
neutrality, with large encampments of Federal
troops on your territory and q recent official
States not to regard your neutral position
coupled with well prepared scheme to seize
an additional point in your territory which
was of vital importance to the safety and de-
fense of Tennessee, that the troops of the Con-
federacy, on the invitation of the people of
Kentucky, occupied defensive post in your
State. In doing so the commander announced
his purpose to evacuate your territory stimuli
taneously with similar movement on the
part of the Federal forces, whenever the Leg
lature of Kentucky shall undertake to enforce
against both belligerents the strict neutrality
which they have often declared.
81 return amongst you, citizens of Ken
tucky, at the head of q force the advance Of
which is composed entirely Of Kentuckians.
We do not come to molest any person, what
ever may be his political opinions Unlike
the agents Of Northern despotism, who seek
to reduce us to the condition Of dependent
vassals, we believe that the recognition of the
civil rights of citizens is the foundation Of
constitutional liberty, and that the claim of
the President of the United States to declare
martial law, to suspend the privilege of the
writ of ha6eos corpus, and to convert every
barrack and every prison in the land into a
bastile, is nothing but the claim which other
tyrants have assumed, to subjugate a free
people.
"The Confederate States occupy Bowling
Green as a defensive position. | renew the
pledges of the commanders of other columns
Of Confederate troops to retire from the terri
tory of Kentucky on the same condition;
which will govern their movements. | fur
thur give you my own assurance that The
force under my command will be used as az
aid to the government of Kentucky in carry
ing out the strics neutrality desired by it
people, whenever they undertake to enforce i
against the tw o belligerents alike.
| [Signedl S. 3. BUcKNER
Brigader- General G. s. A.
"Boscling Green, Sept. 49,"
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 81
In order to corrrct confusion and the man
contradictory statements relative to the pos
ton of Lexington and the opposing forces
Col. Mulligan and Gen. Price, it is deeme
necessary to make the following explanation
The general direction Of the Missouri River
t Lexington is from west to east, the city lyin
on the south bank. The early settlement no
called Oldtown, is situated back of the hi
and is superseded by New Lexington, fu
n ther up the river where the steamboatlandir
is and which is the main city. Mullgan
e Notifications are on ridge running at rigl
o angles between the two towns with the rive