Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-05-09
The French Minister AdmOniShes
the Rebels TO Cease AOStilit1os.
REBELS SURPRISED AND DEFEATED
AT LEBANON. TENN. aH
JEFF THOMPSON AGAIN ON THE
RAMPAGE IN KENTUCKY. ee
Herald's Special.

WASHINGTON, May 4.
1t is the intention of the President t. is
sue proclamation, in few days, opening
the pe rts of Newberne, Beaufort, Savannah,
Fernandina and New Orleans, to the trade of
tho world. This important measure will re-
lease the Administration Of any international
embarrassments, and largely tend to restore
the eatsnte cordial between the sections Of
the country. .J
D. The Senate Finance Committee have deter
mined to report the tax bill tomorrow, or
Tuesday. at farthest They have been IN
able to make many important changes con.
tenplated. and will probably leave whisky
and tobacco untouched. 1t is singular
fact, worthy of note in Congress, that no re-
monstrance from any quarter has been made
against high tariff upon these articles, but
the dealers and manufacturers are all in favor
of placing it q. the highest figure. This will
probably be done, ending either in the Sem
ate or by committee or conference.
Special t. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, May 4.
We have news from Richmond, via Fred
ericksbuIg, Of importance. The people Of
the rebe! capitol are panic stricken. The
wealthy citizens are packing up their furni-
ture and sending it into the country. An
apparently intoxicated person the past week,
passing by the tobacco ware house, where
our soldiers are confined. cried out to them,
"Cheer up, boys-McCella or Nc Dowell will
be here in a few days" The sentinel shot
him dead.
Our commanding General galloping into
Fredericksburg yesterday afternoon, with his
staff, was received with closed doors. Not q
door open Of house or store, not face TO be
seen except now and then that Of curious
damsel peeping through talf closed blinds at
the ca-alcade of Yankees.
WAsHfNGroN, May A.
The following important circulars have
been addressed to the foreign ministers an
nouncing the re-opening of communication
with Southern localities re-conquered from the
insurgents:
Department of State, Washington -
Sir: have the honor to state for your infor
nation the mails are now allowed to pass to
and from New Orleans and other places, which,
having been heretofore seized by insurgents,
have since been recovered and are now re-
opened by the land and naval forces Of the
United States.
1t is proper, however, to add that mill
tary surveillance is maintained over such
mails, as far as the Government finds it
necessary for the public safety.
am your obedient servant,
WM. H. SEWARD.
Department of State, Washington, May
5th.-Sir: have the honor TO to state. for
the information Of your Government, that =
collector has been appointed by the President
for New Orleans, and that the necessary pre-
parations are being made to modify the
blockade, SO as to permit limited shipments
to be made to and from that and one or two
other ports, which are now closed by blockade,
at times and upon conditions which will be
made known by proclamation. lErs
I am, sir, your obedient servant.
WIN. H. SEWARD.
% PHILADELPHIA, May 5.
The Inquirer has special dispatch from
Fort Monroe, giving the following particulars
in regard to the evacuation of Yorktown:
I One mile beyond Yorktown, Sunday, 10
o'clock, a. m.-All day yesterday the rebels
kept up hot fire on Gen. Porter's Division.
No one was hurt. Our parapet gun at
Farmholdt Court House occasionally answer
ed them. All last evening and up to mid
night lively firing was kept up About tina:
time their fire Stacked considerably, and at
o'clock stopped altogether. We fired one or
two more batteries at them, but got no
answer. About o'clock this morning
building at Yorktown was fired and Prot.
Lowe and Gen. lleintzleman went up in bal
loon and found it was their store house at
Yorktown wharf. At day break they re-
ported the forts empty AT o'clock we oc.
cupied Yorktown without gun being fired.
Of the guns Of the enemy nearly all were
spiked and dismounted BY the side of the
river battery we're large piles of ammunition
balls, shells, &c. Eighty guns
were in Yorktown, which is surrounded BY
semi-circls. The earthworks were all con-
structed to cover one another in every posi-
ton, but they must have eventually yielded.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, May A.
Hon. T.. M. Stanton: Your dispatch is re-
ceived. A soldiers highest reward for ser.
vice is to merit and receive the APPRECIATION
Of his superior officers.
An expedition from Bridgeport crossed the
river, May LIST, advanced towards Chattanoo.
@, IL mics. and captured . store and al
Southern mail from como railroad. A panic |
prevailed at Chattanooga. The enemy is now
moving all his property in the direction of
Atlanta. Gen. Leadbeater was chastlsed for
at Bridgeport. There were not !
more than 1000 troops at Chattanooga. They |
destroyed . ssltpetre mandatory in cave,
and returned safely with the captured prop.
erty.
Another expedition penetrated to Jasper,
md found strong Union feeling In the
,ame day they had stirn ish with the enc.
smy's cavalry at Athens. Our outposts were
lriven back, but on being reinforced the ene-
nv retreated in the direction Of Florence
There arc struggling bands Of parties Of citi-
ems scattered along my entire line, threaten
ng the bridges, one OF which they succeeded
n destroying
(Sirned] O. N. MITcuELL, Z
Ne; (lnn ComrnaadinU |