Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-12-27
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.

Boston, with dispatches from the Americ'
Minister at London to Secretary Seward.
The contents of the dispatches brought hit
er by the Queens messenger, to Lord Lyon
had not been communicated to our Cove.
=, ment up to o'clock M.
/ FREDERICK, Md, Dec. II.
Gen. Kelly is prog essing steadily TOWARD
Winchester, from Romney. lie has dali
skirmlshes with the rebel advance guard.
Fr. MONROE, Dec. 49,
s The steamer S. r. Spaulding, which le
Port Royal last Sunday, arrived at an earl
hour this morning. She stopped at Hattera'
leaving that place yesterday, and brings
mail and a number Of passengers. Every
} thing is quiet at Hatteras. Nothing has haE
pened to disturb the usual monotony ther
except the usual storms.
The schooner Charity, said to be owned b.
Senator Simmons, of Rhode Island, arrive'
at Hatteras on the 10Th inst, with an assert
ed cargo, including large portioR of whis
key. She also took q Collector to Hatteras
On arriving, he procured building from tn
commissary, using it as Custom House.
The Charity papers, however, were very ir
regular, and on the 18th inst, Capt. Warden
of the steamer Stars and Stripes, took tht
Charity as a prize
There is little Eews of interest from Por,
Royal. The Federal troops have fully occu
pied the town of Beaufort. Large quantities
of cotton continued to be gathered and
brought to the coast.
BY flag of truce, to-day, we have Rich
mond papers of this morning. We extract
from them the following news:
Nashville, Tenn, ola New Orleans, Dec.
l hn ~
the Union and american says the Yankees
advance force, of from 5000 to 5000, are at
Green River with some artillery, but have
shown 20 disposition to cross the river
They are repairing the bridge.
Paduha, KY, advices represent Humphrey
Marshallas steadily advancing towards Lex
lngton, and meeting with little or no opposi-
ton. Agentleman who left Paducah n the
18th inst states that the Federals had only
5000 thef, 10000 at Cairo and Birds
Point, and I % at Smithland, Ky.
A dispatch from Frankfort, dated the 9th,
says that Gen. Crittenden was at Cumberland
Gap on Saturday with large force, and that
5000 men at Morristown would join him.
1t is feared that Crittenden will invade Ken.
lucky fromthat point
The Brownsville (Texas) Flag, of the 2lst
ult, gives anaccount Of an attack on the
city of Matanoras, by Gen. Caravakal. He
commenced tie attack on the Goth. Great
carnage took llace, and at the hour the Flag
went to press both larties claimed success.
Gen. Floyd1 army has been ordered to
Bowling Green Ky. The removal of this
army to the far west, says the Richmond
Dispatch, leavs very large portion of Vir-
ginia exposed tothe enemy. The effect upon
the tempe: of he people in the exposed
counties will be extremely untoward.
Baltimore, De- 9.-The Richmond Er-
nminer, of the 16h, says we are assured that
resolutions have leen introduced in the ret-
Ell congress offering eympathy to the people |
Of Maryland, and rging such policy in the
conduct OF the waras to open the way for |
her admission intoIthe Southern Confeder- |
acy.
On Saturday last the Hastings Court en-
tered an order directing all free negroes to |
be sold who do not ply their tax by the JAN
uary term Of court.
Confederate State binds, of the SIS ,OOO,-
900 issue are quoted t 9S@9S4.
N,w YORK, Dec. 10.
The British ship Cheshire, from Liver
pool, in attempting to fqn the blockade at
Savannah, was capturedby the gun boat Au.
gusta and has been sent here in charge Of
prize crew. The cargo onsisted chiefly of
coffee, salt and army stors.
Special to Chicago vabuue.
WAsuINsoN, Dec. 10.
No messenger has yet come from Minister |
Adams, but the Boston agent sent a special |
courier, thinking the mail bagof the Africa
more important than it turned ut to be-the |
English Government not havin. commnicat- |
ed with Mr.. Adams. Indeed, the British |
Government had not replied deosively to Mr.. |
Adams, touching the Nashville. 4
The messenger to Lord Lyons arrived at mid |
night, paying $470 for an expresstrain from
Boston. Our messenger, with tn mail bag, |
did not arrive till morning. LordLyons had |
an interview with Mr. Seward, whdwas sent |
from the Capital for the purpose but he |
made no communication touching be Trent |
affair.
No Cabinet meeting has been he'd since
Tuesday.
The rumor finds extensive credene that |
our Government has decided not to return |
Mason and Sldel but careful inquiry satis- |
fies me that it is unfounded the more 20, as |
so early decision would be in bad tase. 1t |
is believed to have been put afoat bs the |
British Legation.
Private letters from England say that. the |
anti-American excitement is unparalleled ex- |
cept by that after the Fort Sumter bomhrd- |
ment. Secession flags were for sale on the |
streets of London, and at the Adelphi tlea |
tire, where the stars and stripes had previois- |
ly f1oated over the Octoroon, which was run
ming an engagement within. The rehl |
flag waves instead. The flag of JEFF. Davs
and Great Britain are crossed. The Toria |
and Ministerial parties arc with each other IN
this anti American talk-the Outs striving I'd
get in, and the Ins striving to keep in.
Seward has letters piled two feet high, con-
tanning advices touching the English ques-
ton.
The British man -of-war Rinaldo II guns,
did not 60 to the squadron, but to Annapolis
1t is said to have been sent to take Lord Ly-
ons on board, for home. A leading Senator
said to-day that it would not take him,-that
Mason and Slidell would not be returned, and
that there would be no war.
The Executive Session Ct the Senate, to-
day, was on Mexican affairs.
Voluminous dispatches came to the Navy
Department, to-day, from the Southern coast,
concerning the capture of the rebel privateer
Royal Yacht, on the 18th, and other mat
ters.
The sloop vincennes, and Mississippi
River steamer, were captured off the north
east pass of the Mississippi, while attempting
to run the blockade, as was also the English
bark Huntress, from Janeiro, with coffee.
Commerce between New Orleans and Mo-
bile has been broken up. Four steamers and
two sloops, loaded with molasses, have been
captured. Large quantities of freight remain
on the New Orleans wharves, awaiting trans
portation, which, with Ship Island in our
hands, and gun-boats briskly navigating the
inland waters, they will never have
The Committee of the Senate and House,
on the conduct of the war, will rake matters
fore and aft They were a selection made by
Hamlin and Grow
The Government has intelligence Of the
arrival of additional troops from the South,
at Manassas v hither the rebels seem to be