Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-12-27

cs cotton had been burned The attempt at til
by same time had been made to drive off tn
i'll niggers, but many had escaped, some of thei
number, they said had been shot, Th
D, scene was one of complete obstruction. Tn
m smoking ruins, and the covering figures Q
the negroes who still instinctively clung t
er their birth place. although there was no long
al er shelter for their heads, was o most melon
choly sight. Most Of the negroes, in desti
te tute condition, had collected at Otter Island
at Com. Drayton had directed they should b.
supplied with food until some disposition
1t could be made Of them.
Nav YORK, Dec. 20.
s. The steamer Africa sailed this morning.
g Dispatches were forwarded in the usual man.
ner. Dispatches from Lord Lyons were also
IS placed on beard the British gun. boat, which
sailed Immediately for Bermuda.
d The British gun-boat Rinaldo arrived here
this morning from Halifax.
FoRr MONROE, Dec 19.
s A flag of truce brought copy of the Nor.
: folk Doy Book. There is little news in it,
1 We, however. extract the following:
Charleston, s. O., Dec 13.-The Mercuru
: TINS morning says the Federals now occupy
Beaufort anu Port Royal Island, with q force
supposed to be 5000. They have erected
battery near Port Royal Ferry of twelve 12-
Founders, Porrott guns, and are throwing up
entertainments on Port Royal Island. It is
J reported that Federal vessel was fred into
by our troops, and Z killed.
The Nashville Gazette is informed that %
Federal soldiers to-day entered the lines of
den: Aollicotler's army, stating that after
reading Llncoln's message they could no long
er bear arms against the South, and were
Saoannah, Dec. 13.--Nothing has vet
been heard from the Stone Fleet. A part of
the Port Royal expedition has sailed South
The Norfolk Dry Book has report that Mr.
Q. f. Adams, U. S. Minister to England, de-
manded his passport, on the announcement
Of the Queens proclamation.
The health of Vice President Stevens is
much improved. Porches Miles continues
very i'll.
New YoRK, Dec. 90.
The steamship Atlantic, from Port ROYAL
18th, has arrived. She has cargo of i2,-
600 pounds of Sea Island Cotton, gathered
under direction of Government agents, by the |
negroes.
Gen. Stephens brigade of 1000 men now
occupies Beaufort, Lady Island, St. Helena
and Bay Point.
Gen. Sherman had issued orders that all
reporters for the press should leave the place
Immediately. The number of troops at Port
Royal and vicinity was about 10000. Four
hundred thousand pounds Of cotton had been
secured when the Atlantic sailed, and would
be shipped in the next steamer
part of the stone fleet were at Savannah.
and part of them had gone to Charles
ton.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.
Further information has been received from
the west this morning, to the effect that, in
addition to the account of the expedition un-
der Gen. Pope routing the enemy at or near
Clinton, another part Of his force under
Capt jeff. c. Davis and Major Marshall, sur
priseI another camp of rebels on the
eighteenth instant, near Milford, a
little to the north of Warrensburg.-
A skirmish ensued, when the rebels finding
themselves surrounded, sur ,endered as p,is-
oners, including colorcs and II captains,
1000 stand Of arms, 1000 ho ses, 65 wagons
and large number of tents. baggage and
supplies. Our loss was 2 killed and wound
ed. Rebel loss is not yet known.
Information from Glasgow states that our
troops captured about 3 tons Of gun powde,
buried on Cliab Jackson's farm. Mai Hub
bard captured sixty rebels day or two since
in johnson county.
The troops in Kansas have been stirring
during the past week and good news is ex-
pected from there daily
Special to Post.
WAsHINGroN Dec. 20.
The dispatches Of the British Ministry are
represented to be more BILE and moderate
than repr sente6 by the English press. No
thing presumptory or imperative is addressed
to our Government and nothing, in short,
which cannot be settled by Diplomacy The
general fteliug here is favorable to peace and
cancellation, and to the reference Of all dis
puted questions to an international commits
sion but no one is in favor of relinouishing
particle of our rights.
Gen. Burnside arrived at Annapolis this
morning, and Immediately commenced his
preparations for the departure of the expect
ed expedition to the South. A grand review !
of 1O regiments of the Generals command
took place to-day. The men are in excel ent
condition, and eager for the start. Four oil
the vessels belonging to the expedition ar
rived at Annapolis last night, making total i
of twelve, which are in readiness for depart. :
ure.
New YORK, Dec. 20.
Four hundred of our men on the 10th a
crossed to the main land towards Charleston
and Savannah Railroad. They had an en-
counter with rebel force of 1,5OO who re-
treated after firing a volley to no effect.
A special dispatch to the Tribune from
Port Royal l4th, gives rumors of dafeat of
Hallins and the sinking of a ship by the
steamer Massachusetts. Unusual depression q
is reported throughout the South. New Or 7
leans is particularly desponding.
A great negro insurrection is reported in
Mississippi, and an immense amount of prop
erty had been destroyed 10000 on the
Quitman estate alone.
A special Washington dispatch to the
World says that the government dispatches
concerning the Mason and Slidell difficulty
will be of dignified, but of most conciliatory,
nature. They will, satisfy the English Cab
met that no insult was intended. There is
not the slightest doubt but that the affair will
be speedily and amicably arranged.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20.
The Bulletin says that his informant must
be mistaken about the Merrimac sticking on
the stocks. Another informant says that the
Merrimac was in the dry dock, and that her
upper works were cut down so as to bring1
her water line on almost level with the
water, that she was covered with heavy tim
Der and sheaihed iron. 1t is probable that in
taking her out of the dry dock her weight was
so great that she would not float, and that
she sunk and can never be raised. E
XXXVITtll Congress -. LIST Session,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.
SENATE-Mr. Trumbull presented petition
asking for the removal of Jesse D. Bright