Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-12-13
General IHalleck's Orders for til,
s. Department OF the We,t.o o.
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REPORTED ABANDONMENT OF TYREE ISLAM
| BY THE U. 8. FORCES.
C0TT0N GINS WORKING IN S. c.
FOR UNCLE SAN.
PREPARATIONS AT CHARLESTON
FOR DEFENCE.
Savannah Threatened !
SIXTEEN US. VESSELS OVER THE BAR
A Company Of Rebel Cavalry Caught
p zoo with Telegraph Wires. a12e
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Gov. Letchcr Urges an Advance
OF the Esebelu.
.3 G{r sstsr@ lItfEffJ UP IA
INTERESTING FROM MISSOURI.
McCull0ch IN Wanter Quarters, an
.4TE1nSne
SIXTEEN US. VESSELS OVER THE BAR
A Company Of Rebel Cavalry Caught
p Ig with Telegraph Wires. e1Ifc
Gov. Letcllcr Urges an Advance
OF the Esebelv.
INTERESTING FROM MISS OURI.
80 .r.-is.gs.
McCullOch IN Wanfer Quarters, an
arkansas.
Especial Dispatch to N, X, Tribune.1

Especial Dispatch to N, X, Tribunel
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.
1t is understood by financial people tha
the forthcoming report of the Secretary
of the Treasusy will present banking sys
TEN and the government policy in respect tt
it, in light that will tasten the attention
of the country upon it. The claim OF gov
ernment to supply the circulating medium Of
all kinds will be presented impressively on
the ground Of both principle and expedency
and on constitutional right and financial ne
cessity. --,,.-, -...s-
Times Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.
Information was received this evening that
the rebel forces are now in possession of An
nandale and have their pickets posted this
side. They have large force of cavalry
Information has been received that there
are twelve forts around Centreville, defended
by field peices only-no heavy guns.
Four regiments of the enemy lately left
Ccntreville for Leesburg where there are now
abont twelve thousand men.
The pickets of Gen. Smiths division were
fired upon last night at Lewinsvilie but no in
jury was done.
Last night rebel deserter named Williams
entered our lines. He is an Englishman, and
was taken out of his bed at Char lesion, on the
night of June 18th, and pressed into the re-
bel service. He was a private in the 14th
South Carolina regiment, but has been for
some weeks servant Of Beauregard. He es-
capped on Monday last He was dressed in a
blue uniform like those of the New York sol
ders, having the New York buttons on. He
said the whole regiment was supplied with
such uniforms only a week since, and that the
current report was that they had been receiv-
ed in the South from Boston. He says that
there is an abundance of good shoes for those
of the men who can pay for them. He paid
six dollars for the pair he had on.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. s.
Gen. Halleck has issued lengthy general
order with reference to the affairs Of this de-
PARTNER t, the principal points of which are
as follows: ''Lt. Col. B. NJ. Faran has been
appointed Provost Marshal and General of the
Departu ent Commanding officers of dis
tricts, posts and corps, are directed to arrest
and place in confinement all persons found in
arms against the United States or who give
aid, assistance or encouragement to the ene
my. All property belonging to such persons
which can be used by the army, will be taken
possessian of for that purpose, and all other
property will be examined bya board of off
GERS and sold according to the army regua-
tions. All persons found in disguise as pre-
tended loyal citizens or under other false
pretenses within our lines, giving information
or communicating with the enemy, will be ar
rested, tried and shot as spies. Persons not
commissioned or enlisted in the service of the
so-call1d Confederate States, who commit acts
of hostility, will not be treated as prisoners of
war, but punished as criminals and be shot or
less severely punished, according to the rules
of war. In consequence of large n mbers of
Union families and non-combatants having
been plundered and driven from their homes
in destitution, and thousands of such persons
arc now finding their way into this city, the
provost marshals are directed to ascertain
the condition of persons so driven from their
homes and under the military law of retaia-
ton, quarter them in the houses and feed and
clothe them at the expense of avowed seces-
sionists, who, although they do not themselves
rob and plunder, give aid and encouragement
to their fellow rebels"
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.
Vice President Hamlin has appointed Sem
ators Fessenden and Tru,nbull Regents of
the Smithsonian Institute, to fill the yacan-
cies occasioned by the death of Senator Doug
las and the treason Of Mason.
Assistant surgeon j. Herndon, of Virginia,
has been dismissed, by direction of the Presi-
dent, from the army, for desertng his post !;
also Mai. Lynde, Tor similar reason and for
subsequently surrendering his command to
an inferior force of insurgents in New Mcxi-
co. ..-. .-.. ..-..
A Richmond paper of the Sd, says -
"Messrs. Bell, Garrett and Conard took seats
in Congress To-Day from Missouri"
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.
An army order, just issued by the Secreta-
ry of War, directs all officers and enlisted
men of the volunteer service, now prisoners
in the hands of the enemy, or reported as
missing in action, or that may hereafter be
= taken prisoner, or reported missing, be trans
ferred to skeleton regiments, to be formed by
the Governors Of the respective States, and
to consist of entirely such missing officers and
, men. The vacancies thus occasioned in the
regiments will be filled by the Governors OF
various States to which the regiments be-
long.
New YORK, Dec 5.
The following dispatches have been received
from rebel sources:
Saoannah, Dec. 2..The Republican o
this morning says the Union forces have evac
uated Tybee Island. One ship had left o,
Saturday afternoon. A large ship stood i,
for Warsaw Inlet. Com Tatnalrs fleet wen
after her but she disappeared. There wer
six Union vessels off Tybee Island last eve
ming.
The schooner Waterman, for Charleston
was wrecked off Tybee, on Friday. She fe
into the hands of the blockaders.
y The cotton aud provisions on Hutching'
i Fenwick and adjoining islands was destroye
J. by fire on Thursday night last, by the propri
l. etOrs. A--
l. New YORK, Dec 5.
r A private letter from Port Royal state
m that one Of the Quartermasters, on his ow
r responsibility, has set about 40 gins to worl
in The negroes as an inducement to work al
: to receive 8 cents per pound on all market
s. BILE cotton, and they have gone into tho bus
mess, it is represented, with enthusiasm.