Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-21


camp equippage, provisions, and mcdica
stores. Only one indianian was slightly woun
ded. The victors returned to Cumberland
the same day.
Times Dispatch.1
WASHINGTON, June u.
1t is learned that the rebels are entirely ou
of leather, their movements are restricted fol
want Of shoes and harness for the artillery
&c There are but a few small tanneries r
the South, and if the government will only
enforce its embargo by land and sea, the reb
els will be greatly embarrassed They arc
also short of material for making percussion
caps, although they have constructed a ma
chine for making them at Richmond They
are also out of chemicals for making detonatine
powder, and therefore cannot employ shells for
want of fuses.
One of the shots fred at the Freeborn from
non, similar to the James prOiectiles, but the
shell was not charged.
Official accounts from Ft. Monroe reports
there were but fourteen men killed and forty
five wounded on our side, in all, at Bethel
Twelve were killed in the fight before the bat
tcries. There were three batteries opened on
our troops-from the right, left and center OF
the road to Yorktown in all about thirty can.
non served, many of them being rifed. Lieut.
Butler, who was present during the conflict
thinks at least 200 rebels must have been
killed and wounded. But four prisoners were
taken by the Federal forces
1t is stated positively, tonight, that Gen
Sickles has been ordered by Secretary Cameron
to have his brigade mustered into service
The President referred the whole matter to
the Secretary who thus determines it in favor
of Mr.. Sickles
Mr. Harvey will not be recalled from Por-
tugal-at least not at present.
[Herald's Dispatch.1
Six more Ohio regiments have been ordered
into Western Virginia from Camp Dennison,
near Cincinnati. They will Immediately pro-
ceed to clear the valley of Kanahwa river of
secessionists.
Six regiments of Union volunteers will be
Immediately organized in Western Virginia
and equipped by the Federal government.
Prof. Lowe was to-day ordered to proceed
Immediately with his balloon to Fort Monroe.
FORTRESS MONROE, June -.
va. Baltimore 18Th. Further accounts
of the Great Bethel affair say that on the dis
appearance of the Federal troops, the whole
force of the enemy, fearing an attack under
better auspices, left the entertainments and
hastily withdrew toward Yorktown, carrying
away their artillery and burning the adjacent
buildings
The Captain of the Zouaves with their as
sistant Surgeon, to-day, have gone to Great
Bethel with flag of truce and bearing let
ter from Gen. Butler respecting the burial of
| the dead They have not yet returned
Major Winthrop fell, mortally wounded,
into the arms of Vermont volunteer. He
was aid and acting secretary to Gen. Butler,
and author of the brilliant 7th regiment ar
| ticle in the June number of the atlantic
Nonthly.
Brigadier General Pierce has not vet given
an official account of the unfortunate affair.
The weather is intensely hot.
LOUISVILLE, June 13.
The interdictiOn of arms and provisions
| from the North, and the previous transmits
| sion Of both South of this point, have render
ed the Louisville market bare Bagging and
rope only are now in progression Southwark
and it is anticipated that these will be entirely
interdicted within day or two.
Trade is utterly stagnant, and merchants
expect an utter prostration of trade with the
South Immediately
| Postal matters, as to letters, is entirely sus
pended 1t is supposed newspapers will come
from the South here until July 1st, and ther
be discontinued
| The steamboat Medaro, from St. Louis tt
Cincinnati, exploded boiler fiue, near this
city, yesterday. William Cox was fatally
scalded, and two coal boatmen drowned
Leonard Striff, prominent German O
Frankfort, Ky, publishes an address to his
countrymen, advising them to beware of al
tricks of disunionists, and stand firmly by
the Union. They have sworn to support ant
vote for the Union men and measures.
Three citizens of Louisville, detained a
Memphis, undertook to walk here, and wer,
arrested twice and once hung. They saw
near the road man lying helpless and in
dying condition, with his head shaved, and hi
ears and nose cut off, His crime was being
of Northern birth.
| The Macon telegraph says company o
volunteers at Portsmouth, Virginia, were ar
rested for voting for the Union
The Louisville Journal this morning accus
es the secessionists with taking an oath t
support the constitution so as to obtain arms
at the same time claiming the oath is no
binding.
The Nashville papers yesterday report tina
at Bethel 1900 confederates, under Col. Nc
Grader, repulsed 5000 Federal troops, with
hundred dead left on the field.
| PHILADELPHIA, June 13.
The entire State loan of three million dol
liars for the war has been taken at Lar.