Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-08-17

psnv orgauix,ng there. be ha., or 10 to BE- sent
tor / understand
Last Fridsy uight about one one o'clock We
we're si rn-d ny the booming Of the Columb-
lad at Fort D-6.nce. the regiment Vas imme
ria,ely called out sud formed ioio ise, the
IL regiment wss alec out, - w.re sleo the
troops 10 Cairo. We expected ~ attack every
moment, there has been % many rumory OF
Piiiow's army bel g Near. but sf,es being kept
STA ding IN line about tvo hours, ve broke
ranks End returned 70 our bisokcts, without
the hight that the boys we're schlng Tor. The
cause Of the alarm wss two fat boats which
tried 10 run past tue blockade. Three or four
shots vere fired 1t them and the Go slDneut
Ferry boat started 10 pursuit. end found them
tied up mile or two below here, the Sners
heving left to svo capture. They were
brought M and found to be loaded with hoop
poles nd lime, but u vas thought that there
was something contrabAnd underneath them,
but hefor. they could be examined they both
caught tire AMI were consumed Ly the lime
getting vet. understand there WAS acoth-r
o'e caught last night try ing to run past 10 the
same way
Our company has given ur the twelve pound
how'tzsr thst We ave had charge OF for some
time psst, u divided up the CONT any too much
" take the guo squad out. snd 90 We deliver
ed It up to compsny B who has chsrge.ot both
OF them row. We sill have the riArd csunoD
captured by Lieut. S.aymaker in ST Jo. it is .
great euriosiiy 10 the boys "f the other regi
meLts, and there 70 . crowd Of the curloue
round II most OF the time. great many get
the Doulds aud run q ball. to eend home as a
curiosity Our regiH ent has = first rate name
here II is.poken Of in the papers as the splen.
did I1wa second. The first night ae came
out on parade there was . crowd Vi officers
from the o her reg ments to Us one Of cur
hoys overhe. I'd . capisil Of the l9sh Illinois
regiment say tina he thought that they had
the largest aud finest hooking men Of any rig
'meht OUT, out tnat they we're NJ where beside
the Iowa I'd There has number nt officers
IT The regiment resigned lately. among tH4m
re Lieut. Col. futile. Capt. Huston, Co. A.
Capt. Me'z'er of Go. H. lieut. Thompson Of ca
ii. and Lieut.. HawleY Of Go. X, and some
others are talking Of resigniug.
The old Davenport ferry boat, the John Will
son is h re- runoiug as . goverpDeot ferry. She
has been running here = coal boat, and lie 60
remOddlcd should not have re c0gn nixed her II
| had not been told che VAS here
We IRE preparing to meet Pillow and give
him q warm reception il he viii only favor US
by cor ing this way. Br- astwO works ere being
'nrown up aud intrenchments dug around the
caMp.
Last week q proposition vas made TO the
BOYS to work IN the trenches, and r ceive sev
ensy five cents per day. (of 10 bours) in addi-
tion to their res nlAs ray. The fret day there
Vas sou $50 w4nt out, your hu4 he servau
among them the next day about 200, an the
third sbou, 100; when l concluded l never
vas intended Tor an Irishmau, aud retired il
disgust. siuce which tune l have h ard 9TH
ing from tn. nce Their was SIX 32-pouhders
and on "a pound caLnons landed hare las,
n'5ht from tue slealu-r l. ,uisiana. LII. 4eb--
raj health OF the Regiment is good, aud the
toys spiIing for hight"
Our company has but two or three in the
hoepitsl. and are getting along vel with thr
exception Of con.id rabe disqualification ex-
,-,ing in regard t. come Of cur officers. W.
do not hsAr IRON the First kreim.ul
they will 20, be dishaDd-d. We have n.~
Conn. issarv, Lieut.. Eaton Of Company r.; the
o'd one resigned We are IN hopes lha, j,
vii b- a change for the better, in regard TO
.ur provisions At any rate tl+re is yl-nt,
"t room Tor Improvement. l will try u, d k--p
you posted ~ regard to matters Of interest &c
curing in our re-iment, and viii be needed
~ re than ever slLce Your former corr spond-
ent rom this company has in tu.n deserted the
u zette forgot to cay that We did no r.
20 our new gone on arriving here. The
ones brought down were not the kind 1t wa-
designed We should have. aud they were se, /
lack to ST. Louis We shaIi probably get III {
uew ones lately received ty Fremont