Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-07-26

II than fifty killed, among them five CAPTAINS ar
# SIX lieutenants. Another source reports Il
% works carried by the Zouavcs and Massach
;r sets 5th.
| There is no doubt that the enemy is no
J. falling back, and the report that Manassas ";
occupied is perhaps only little premature.
d WAsnINToN, July 10.
An official dispatch to the War Departmer
l. received to-day. announces that the advant
: Of Gen. Mcdowell had not moved on Manas
l. sas to-day.
An official dispatch received at the Wa
t Department, dated o'clock this A. NJ, give
particulars of the loss of the Federal forces
: the engagement at Bulls run Yesterday.
: states that our less is only - killed and 4
wounded
c The contending armies were in sight of eacl
t other the hour the dispatch was closed.
There has been no fighting since yesterday
The Federal forces are reconnoitreing the DO
l sition.
BULLS Run, July 10TH
p. M.-From casual enquiry and persona
observation the number wounded on the rebe
side amounts to sixty and the killed forty.
The concderates are still in possession o
their principal battery.
With spy glass large bodies of rebels ar,
seen moving at right and left apparentl,
forming their base line of operations and no
retreatng.
Batteries are being erected on our side com
manding theirs which are of substantial
character
The indications are that there will not be a
general forward movement before Sunday
morning unless the enemy should provoke
one.
This afternoon an order was read to the
troops under Mcdowell, both at Centerville
and Fairfax Court House, prohibiting theft OF
every description, and enjoining respect for
persons and property, and stating that the
heaviest penalties will be visited on them for
infringement Of this order; also that soldiers
will not at any time constitute themselves
judges of the acts of Southerners.
All rumors of fighting to-day are untrue.
WASHINGTON, July 10.
learn from sources entitled to llnques-
tionable credit that the British government
acting in concert with that of France is about
to request of the United States government
the exemption of one southern cotton port
from the blockade, so that they may get a
needful supply of the staple You may rest
assured the administration will under no cir
cumstances concede to it.
WASHINGTON, July 10.
| An army officer who arrived here to-day
from Gen. Patterson's division, and who left
there yesterday, states that he had already
commenced his line of march for Winchester,
but that the Union Division was moving
slowly and with great caution
Upon the representations of Col Frank P.
la fbn of
battle in Missouri, has been made Brigadier
General
Fr MONROE, July 10.
At midnight party consisting Of Capt.
Holiday, Capt. Edward Jenkins, Lieut.. John
son, and private; also I. Edward Rawlings,
Major Of the Kentucky Cavalry, and R. W.
Shurtletf, of the New York Illustrated Neus,
left Hampton without permission on scout
ut half-past this morning the party were
surprised in the woods, a short distance be-
yond Newmarket bridge, by 90 rebels Raw-
ings was instantly killed by bullet through
his head. johnson and Shurtlcff were also
seen to fall, and they must have been carried
oif as prisoners. The others escaped. Three
companies went out and brought in the body.
My. Rawlings arrived here yesterday morning.
lie was formerly connected with an illustrated
paper in New York.
The Confederates fired some heavy guns
last evening.
The Quaker City picked up man in a sail
boat, from Norfolk. He reports only what
was well known, viz: the raising of the U. S.
ships-ot-war in Norfolk harbor, and the rihng
OF cannon at the navy yard.
There are not 10000 troops in Norfolk and
vicinity.
He says that the rebels feel sure of success,
and they are determined to fight to the ex-
tremity.
There was much depression on account Of
the rebel defeat in Western Virginia.
BosToN, July 90
The inward freight depot of the Boston &
Maine Railroad was destroyed by fire this
morning. \ considerable quantity of rlcr-
chandise stored there was badly damaged.
ST. LOUIS, July 49,
The Republicans Santa Fe correspondent
says it is probable that Comfy will soon
send force to recapture Fort Bliss, Texas,
where there is a large amount of army stores
belonging to the Federal Government
DIR. Porter, from Springfield, on the evening
of the 18th, arrived tonight, and reports
Jackson and McCulloch's forces at camp, 10
miles south Of the Missouri line and Yeville
Ark. Their pickets extended as far as Neo-
sho, 80 miles from Camp Walker.
Gen. Pope left to-day for st. Charles, where
he will establish his head quarters. His COM
mand in North Missouri will be 1000 strong,
so posted that Jefferson City, Boonville, Lex
ington, and all principal points in the north
part of the State, will be in easy striking dis
tance.
The Federal troops and Home Guards at
Jefferson City will be in camp outside the city
limits during the session Of the State Conven-
ton.
New YORK, July 20.
The brig Costa Rica has arrived from As
pinwall. She spoke the Brig Cuba off Cape
Antoine, which replied that she had been a
prize to the privateer Sumter, but had got
away and had disarmed the prize crew, and
put them in irons. Two of them were put On
board the Costa Rica and Brought to this
port.
The priyatcersmen say they were obliged
to ship or starve, and that number of the
crew are Northerners, and will escape therrfr
opportunity; that the officers are .sperate,
and will blow up the vessel rather than be
captured.
Two men and a midshipman of the prize
remained On board the Cuba.
New York, July 90.
A Washington dispatch says it is rumored
that the Bulls Run battery is taken, but is
doubtless false.
The force Of the rebels at the Run is esti-
mated at 10000.
Fourteen Of our wounded have died, and 80
more arc lying in the stone church at Center
vile.
| Secretary Cameron has gone down but is
expected to return tonight.
WAsaISGroS, July 20.
We have intelligence from Bulls Run up to
I o'clock last evening, and from Fairfax up to
6 o'c.ock this morning The fighting had not
been resumed except by picket guards, who
are very near. The two armies are only
mile apart, ours being on the ground Of the
| battle Yesterday and last -ight, and the enemv