Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-08-09

and their troops belonging to the Confsder,,o I
States, who have invaded Missour; ars na.
fed that it is against the will of the neonle o oe
Missouri that they should continue pndn ~. u.
soil of this State, and that their continnonoo
in Missouri Will be considered an act of war
which Missouri desires to avoid. They ,ro
therefore notified to depart at once from the
State.
[Signed,l p q HAMILTON R. GAMBLE.
Since the Governor proclamation was writ
ten the following dispatch has been received
WASHINGTON August 3.
To His Eacellency H. Il. Gam bic, Governor
Of Missouri:
In reply to your message addressed to the
President, | am directed to say, that if by a
proclamation you promise security to persons
! in arms who voluntarily return to their alepi-
ance and become peaceful and loyal, this GOV
eminent will cause the promise to be respected
[Signed, SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
Especial to the Postl
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.
A despatch from Richmond says Col. Cor
| coran told his captors in that city that he
went into this business with his whole soul.
and that he wouldn't accept parole if it were
offered him.
There is a great scarcity of ice here, caused
by the danger of navigation to vessels on the
Potomac.
FORTRESS MONROE, Aug. 4.
COL Bendix has sent in his resignation, but
he still remains at Newport News.
More order and discipline prevails since the
prohibition of intoxicating liquors. Hereafter
all packages sent to Old Point belonging to
officers or privates are to be examined by the
Provost Marshal, and the liquors found in
them will be turned over to the hospital.
Gen. Butler has gone home.
The steamer Spauding will carry to Boston
the celebrated Winans steam gun.
LaMountain has discovered that the rebels
are mounting very large guns on Sewall' s
Point, probably with the idea of annoying the
shipping at Old Point, if not the fortress it's
elf
MEXICO, Mo-, Aug. 3.
| By tomorrow night or next morning the
county seats of Warren, Montgomery, Lin
coin, holloway, Audraine, Pike, Rails, Mon
lroe, Randolph, Howard Macon, Shelby, Mari
on, Lewis, Knox, Lynn, Scotland, Clarke and
Livingst n counties, by simultaneous move
ment, will be occupied by strong bodies of U
IS. forces, the commanding officers of whom
will appoint a committee of public safety
from among the most responsible citizens Ct
the county, whose duty it shall be to preserve
the peace in their respective counties
zach committee shall consist CT net more thar
five persons, and whenever it can consistently
!, be done, the proper county officers shall be
selected as members. NJ enc thus appointed
} shall be permitted to decline, r shall fail tt
! perform his duties, under such penalties as
) the commanding control may affix.
These committees are charged, according tc
general orders issued by Gen. Pope, with the
duty Of maintaining peace and order in Their
respective counties, and shall have power to
call out all citizens of the county to assemble
, at such time and place, and in such numbers
as may be necessary to secure these objects
: Any one who shall refuse to obey such call
J will be turned over to the military authorities
If the people of the counties respectively are
: not able or willing to enforce the peace among
, themselves, and to prevent the organization OF
companies to make wa upon the United
States, the military force will perform the
service but the expenses mustbe paid by the
county in which such service is necessary
To secure their prompt payment, levy of a
sufficient amount CT property or money will
; be made and collected by the officer in COM
) mand under the call of majority of the Com
mittee Of Public Safety in each county
) Troops will be sent to such locality, but as
such expeditions are for the benefit of the
people concerned, who have in nearly every
| case the power to discharge the service them
selves, the troops thus sent on will be quar-
} tered upon them, and subsisted and trans
ported by the county in the manner above
specified, the whole period it may be necessa-
ry for them to remain. If, in consequence of
disturbance not reported by the committee,
the General commanding finds it necessary to
send force into any county to restore order,
they will be in like manner biletted upon the
county, unless the combinations against the
place are TOO powerful to be resisted, or the
parties engaged in it were organized in other
counties, and brought on the disturbances by
actual invasion, the forces will be at the cx-
pense of the county or counties where the
marauding force was organized, and will in
like manner be quartered upon them. Where
peace and good order are preserved the troops
will not be required. Where they are dis
turbed they will be restored at the expense of
the county.
). To preserve the peace is the duty of all
good citizens, and as all will alike suffer from
the breach Of it, men of every shade of po-
discharge Of duty as full of interest to one
as to another. All persons who have hereto
foie been led away to take up arms against
the Union arc notified that by returning to
their allegiance and laying down their arms
at the nearest military post, and that by per-
forming their duty hereafter as peaceful and
law abiding citizens they will not be molested
by military force.
| BURLINGTON, Iowa Aug. 5.
| The Iowkeye received the following special
dispatch this p. NJ
Keokui, /oua, Aug. 5-Ab ut 1900
mounted rebels attacked 800 Union men at
Athens, No., this morning, having 2 cannon.
They were repulsed and fed, with a loss of 90
killed and many wounded. a number were
taken prisoners and GO horses captured. The
Union men, under Col Moore, were greatly
aidedby Capt. Belknap's City Rifles and Capt.
Samples Cavalry of keokuk, on foot, using
the long range rifles The. battle lasted about
two hours. Our troops we're reinforced by
McDowell's division CT 400 men, which left
here this IN rning 800 troops left this P. NJ. |
under Col. Wcrthington
(SigneO GATE CITY OFFICE.
ST. LOUIS Aug. 5.
Yesterday was the hottest day of the sea-
son, the thermometer standing at 1862 in the
shade. At 3 P. NJ. fifteen deaths from the
effects Of the heat were reported by the coro-
ner.
Six new regiments are nearly ready to, be
mustered int service for the war.
Twenty car loads Of shot, shell, &C., have
reached here since Saturday; also, large
number of Enfield rifles, and considerable
quantity of powder.
Five car loads of ammunition reached
Cairo Saturday by the Hin is Central r. R.
[Heraldi Dispatch.1 90 /
WASHINGTON, August 5.
information has been received here to-day
that letters are constantly going south from
Washington, and Notwithstanding the prohi-
bition of the Post Office Department the rebels
have a daily mail from Baltimore. For several