The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-01-29
News and Items.

iSS' 'eht yIei uiSu AS .nlcnmOnQ
the 18th inst.
A law has passed Congress prohibitir
the publication Of war news in newspaper
! Martial law has been proclaimed throuc
the district of Santa Fe.
| Under decision of the Supreme Cou,
OF Kansas in the case Of Crawford VS. Rol
inson, Robinson holds over for anoth,
year.
A new military department for Re
West has been created.
The chain cable stretched across III
Mississippi by the rebels at Columbus ha
been broken by the ice. 20 = s.'' q
A sixty-twe 10. shell, pitched by tn
Esser into the rebel Notifications at Co,um
! bus, is said to have produced an impress
sion of seriousness upon the minds Of tn
rebels.
A bill reported ia the House on the 90,
provides for issuing one hundred and fit,
million dollars of treasury demand note.
and making them legal tender, Tn,
same bill also provides for the issue of tiy,
hundred million dollars Of six per cent
bonds.
A despatch from Goldsboro, N. c., datct
the Goth, published in the Norfolk papers
states that on that day one hundred YES.
sells belonging to Burnsides. expedition
were inside Of Pamlico sound, and twenty.
five large transports lying outside of Hat.
teras Inlet. Private information I'D 10
the belief that an attack would BE- made
simultaneously upon Newburn, and Roam.
oke Island. ..t .-a~ ..,.y ..r.rr .Fa
p Dispatches from Savannah, of the e1st
state that from forty to fifty vessels are in
side Of Broad river, Is miles from Port
Royal. Over sixty vessels were at Port
Royal when the atlantic left, and big
things were expected to be done. Fort
Pulaski has been abandoned by the rebels
Z, The news Of the release Of Mason and
slidell produced great joy..in England and
consols Immediately advanced II per cent
1t is now conceded that Bright will be
expelled from the U. S. Senate. :"' 'o'
Gen. Price is at Springfield, Mo-. with
10000 men awaiting an attack from the
troops now on the road from Rolla.
President Lincoln has sent in the nomi.
nationHof Judge Swayne, of Ohio to the SUP
rene Court Bench, vice Judge Mclean,
deceased. ~ ..... q. So
: Advices from Mexico state that the
Spaniards are bssicgcd in Vera Cruz
Supplies ar. all cut off from the landward.
The American steamer Star recently arriv-
cd at Vera Cruz with 1000 guns and
small quantity Of powder for the Mexican
Republic which was Immediately Seized
and confiscated by the Spanish.
Horn Island Pass at one Of the mouths Of
the Mississippi, is to be closed by the sink.
ing Of four vessels loaded with sand.
The federal loss at the battle of Somer-
set is put at SO killed, and 1877 wounded.
There is very strong evidence accumu.
lated to show that Secretary Welles, of
the Navy Department, has been priyy to
extensive frauds in contracts. .- -
The homeopathic system of practice is
to be introduced into some Of the military
hospitals of the country. ~
"A committee Of German citizens Of New
York and Brooklyn have waited upon
the President to secure proper recorni-
ton of the claims Of Gen. Siegel, have re-
ccived answer that official notice OF Sic.
gels resignation has yet been received, that
he had no idea of accepting such resigna-
ton should it be made, and that when on
portunity offers for tho appointment of
another Major General, Gen. Siegcl shall
be prominent in the Executive mind In
the meantime Siegel is in active service at
Rolla.
The Times Washington correspondent
says the postal reform bill introduced by
Mr.. Colfax provides for taxing each tcle.
graphic dispatch three cents except such
as are on business for the government or
the company. a
Dispatches from Hancock, on the 22d
report that the Potomac within few DAYS
had risen 25 feet.
There are 145 inmates in the military
prison at St. Louis.
Recent orders from Washington require
all the bomb ketches and gunboats Of the
river to be got in readiness i'm
,nedately. Gen. Hallcck is also required
to provide the men necessary to man them.
On the 25th the gunboats St. Louis and
Essex took the 9TH Iowa and the SD Him
OILS regiments up the Ohio to Smithland, at
the mouth of the Cumberland river.
Sixty-onc barges from the pantoon bridge
at Paducah have broken from their moor
inss, and but fourteen of the number have
been arrested. The rem aindcr have gone
down into secessia. The Ohio rive, is we'll
up and still rising.
Cincinnati papers Of the 25th contain full
accounts of the battle at Mill Spring, near
Somerset, Ky. 1t was fair, open battle.
The rebels fought well, and were overcome
only by the superior fighting on our side.
According to rebel accounts, their force
consisted of ten infanty regiments, three
batteries, and some cavalry, altogether some
10000 men. They fought IN bush-wlack-
ing style, from ravines and behind trees,
bushes, and rocks. The brunt of the bat
tie on the Federal side deyolyed on the
fourth Kentucky, second Minnesota, ninth
Ohio, and tenth Indiana.
For nearly three hours the roar of mus.
kerry was kept up. Shortly after IL