Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-26
to occupy the town. No report Of the loss
was given. ir gj.3.9aE 4
The town was greatly injured by the Union
bombardment

| Lie toWH was SiedIiy AJuTeu ~ tue ChtVi
bombardment.
| taris .sa-,aaI NEW YoRK, Dec. 10.
A special Nashville dispatch, dated the 18th
to the Tribune, says Gen. Dodge, with his
cavalry, has been fighting the rebel Forrest
all day in the vicinity of Corinth. Forres,
has 1000 and Dodge $500 cavalry. The lat
ter has five pieces Of artillery. m
| Morgan is reported as moving to cut off the
Louisville and.Nashvile railroad. Sass ...ss-.
| 1t is reported that Van Dorm, with 5000
men, has arrived at Stevenson, Alabama, to
join Bragg. one
Kirby Smith is reported as moving towards
Lebanon, to support Morgan.
| The whole force Of the rebels in Tennessee
is estimated at 10000 They had 25, 900 at
Murfreesboro, yesterday.
| The rebel outposts are about eleven miles
from Nashville. -5 ra f..
| Gen. Roscncranz has dismissed large
number of officers for drunkenness and DISC
bediencc of orders. le
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 49,
The Secretary Of the Treasury, in answer
to resolution Of the House, has sent a COM
munication to the Speaker, in which he states
that the acquisitions of the Secretary of War
for money for the payment Of troops have
always been promptly met at the Treasury
when an absolute want Of means did not pre-
vent He says since the 1st Of July last the
sum Of $66,554,2S1 has been paid on such
acquisitions as follows: For bounties on
enlistments, $7,500,0O0 recruiting, collect
ing, drilling and organizing troops, $1o,173,-
$50; ordinary pay, $4s sS1, ,931.
NJ. 20 ,.,ck Il
ton now in the Treasury Department unpaid
| is $2S, 100000. These unpaid acquisitions
are about equal to the amount required for
pay during one bi-monthly period.
! When the resources of the Treasury be-
came inadequate to the demands upon it, the
Secretary of the Treasury communicated the
fact to the Secretaries of War and the Navy,
requesting them to designate the particular
acquisitions which they regarded as most i'm
portant, to the amount of about one millcn
dollars daily. To this extent acquisitions are
daily met, from customs, from internal reve-
nue., from the proceeds of conventions of tenn
porary loans, and from the new issues of
United States notes. These resources, though
large, are, as Congress has already been in
formed, inadequate. @.
CAIRO, Dec 49, j.
The rebels at Vicksburg are said to be fol :
tifying as fast as possible. Report says they
have extended their works back from the
river eight miles that they have 70 guns
mounted along the river, and 200 guns in all
in position This is undoubtedly an over
estimate.
Six thousand Confedera.es, it is said, have
gone from Vicksburg to jackson, where their
force numbers about 10000. 1t
Nearly all the woods on the hills along the
river bank south of Helena have been burned,
and cotton-burning is still practiced. Mon
day 600 bales of cotton were burned at San
der's Point, Miss, valued at S75 900, and be-
longing to planters who were trying to bring
it to Memphis.
Several transports are aground below
Helena.
The telegraph wire between Columbus and
jackson ceased working, and some apprehen-
sions are felt that it has been cut by the
rebels, who have been in the neighborhood of
Jackson for several days
Later.-The line is working to Jackson.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY PoToMAc,
December 19-Evening.
All has been quiet to-day, except couple
of shots which were fired to disperse the
gathering of bands of rebels on the plain op-
posite. .....ef -.. Z
The enemy has strongly picketed the river
along our front. 10
Official reports of our losses in the lale bat
tie make the number less than reported, being
less than 400 killed and 800 wounded. A
large portion of the wounded were only
slightly. We lost 500 prisoners, and captured
about as many.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 49,
Rev. DR.. McPheeters, of Pine Street Church
has been ordered by the Provost Marshal
General to leave the city in ten days, for en-
couraging rebellion and sus.aing disloyalty in
his church. Three members of the church
were appointed Trustees, and directed to fill
the pulpit with loyal man.
| Special to Chicago Journal. .a4
CAIRO, Dec. 19.
| Memphis papers have been read. The
| bulletin says two rebel regiment were seen
up Yazoo River at the time of the explosion
of the torpedo, but this is positively denied
by officers who were on board of the Cairo
The rebels are said to be fortifying al
Vicksburg, and that there are 20 guns
mounted on the rivo-20O in all mounted.
Their Notifications extend miles back
Most of this is extremely improbable. They
have no such number of guns nor no such
fortifcations It is even doubted by good
Judges whether the rebels will fight at all al
| Vicksburg.
While Gen. Hovey's late expedition was in
Mississippi, some stragglcrs who followed him
went to Miss Hills plantation in Cold Water
twenty miles from Friar's Point, and robbed
her of $50, 900 in gold, a lot Of Confederate
scrip, go mules, and other property. On
Saturday she was at Helena, trying to recover
her property, Gen. Steele giving her all the
assistance in his power.
| Mrs. Gov Harvey, of Wisconsin, came uI
from Memphis this morning. .f
The Sally List, Just from Vicksburg, where
she has been with load of provisions, reports
everything quiet along the river as she was
coming up. @1' 1
| -..,-5....,a .... New YORK, Dec. 20.
The Washington Star, Of yesterday even,
ing. SAYS that a caucus of Republican Senator:
was held on the 10th, and resolution Offered
requesting the President to dispense with th'
services of Mr.. Seward was discussed. Th'
vote was 16 in favor, against 13.
On the 18th another caucus adopted sub
! stitute, recommending the President to par
| tiallv remodel his Cabinet was unanimously
| agreed to- The conservatives believed i
would be regarded as general invitation t.
the whole Cabinet to resign. On being in
formed of the act, the Secretary and Assist
ant Secretary of State, sent in their resigna
tions, requesting their immediate acceptance
New York. Dec 90.
The Washington Star says it is confidentl.
4 reported on the streets that Gen. Burnside ha
rendered his resignation of the command Q
the Army of the Potomac. .3 s
i WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.
| About 200 poroled prisoners, taken by tn
. enemy at the battle Of Pittsburg Landing, o
A. ell, &c rr;l 1acf orrived in thiS citv thi