Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-21
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
THE REBELS IN HANNIBAL
Iowa Troops Ordered to Hannibal.

! From the Keokuk Gate City, 18th.
About one o'clock this morning, the longest,
widest, shrillest, most terrific steamboat whis.
tie ever heard on these waters, startled those
who were awake, and awakened those who
were asleep. 1t suggested fearful troubles
below, and people ran down in anxious haste
to see what was up The JEANNE Deans came
in from Quincy, bringing orders from Gen.
Lyon to Col. Curtis to move his regiment i'm
mediatey to Hannibal. Word was brought
that foundry III Hannibal had been detected
in making cannon balls and sending them off
to secessionists. BY order of Gen. Lyon, the
Hannibal Home Guard Union mem had taken
possession of the foundry. This caused great
excitement among the traitors, and they
threatened serious collision Fears were also
entertained that they would break up the
Hannibal and ST. Jo Railroad.
Accordingly, orders were sent to Quincy
for troops, and some 400 went over yesterday
evening, to sustain the Union men. The
the Iowa troops. Col Curtis having received
the dispatches, all the companies of his reg-
ment were hurriedly reused from their quar-
ters Men We're seen and heard running to
and fro all over the city, and all the boys were
|
began to march down to the levee, and by 5
o'clock the whole regiment was on board, in
Guiding Col. Curtis and his staff
| A vast crowd of excited people was gath
cred on the levee, and as the noble steamer
moved off the welkin rang with cheers from
the people and the gallant volunteers The
latter took with them good supply of cart
| ridges, and Mr.. Clcghorn gathered up all the
nrOviSiOnS and other uacacSarv articloC thot
could be got before the boat left He is busy
to-day gathering up what was left by the
boys, besides quantity of camp utensils that
were under contract which will be forwarded
to-day.
We learn that Col. Curtis will. have COM
mand at Hannibal, and we believe it is his
intention to take immediate possession of the
Hannibal and ST. Jo Railroad for the Govern
ment.
Co. Bates is going down with the 1st regi-
ment to-day, and will act under the command
of Col. Curtis, although his commission is the
oldest.
TREASON OF JouN BELL.-The late John
Bell made speech at Knoxville on the 7th,
Of which the Register gives synopsis. The
inebriated condition to which he ascribed his
first secession plunge still continues. We
give the following extract as specimen:
For himself he had taken his position
The moose was probably around his neck, but
he was frank to declare himself rebel He
had counseled resistance to the invasive poll
cy of the Federal Government, and that made
him REBEL and if there was any punishment
to follow it, he was willing to incur it-he did
not seek to evade either the charge Or the re-
sponsibility."
Still the speech was not fully satisfactory to
the secessionists. He denounced the first Sc
cession, and Buchanan as traitor for not put
ting it down; but he said when Lincoln came
in it was too late. He called the acts of the
Legislature unconstitutional, but said the I'm
ion Inch must submit if voted out, even if
there was fraud in the election, for elections
were often tainted with fraud. 1t is evident
that Mr. Bells condition is what the moral
Mr.. Pecksniff called chronic"