Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-03

< REBELS DES PROYING PORTIONS OF
= TIE B. & 0. r. Il.
0 The Richmond Enquirer Claims Vic
tory at Antietam-Tha Petersburg Ix
press gives up Maryland
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT NEAR
! BALTIMORE.
RUMORED RESIGNATION OF SECRE
TARY SEWARD.
.. WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
Rear Admiral Dupont reports to the
Navy department, under date of the 18th,
that on the 10Th inst the T. S. brig Braziliero
captured the schooner Defiance, of Nassau and
Sabello Sound, while attempting to run the
blockade. Her cargo consisted of salt, kero-
sine oil, &C. She also had, in cargo, about IS
boxes, containing cases of gin, which was
placed in the spirit room of the Braziero.
The crew of the Defiance will be sent Nol tn
the first opportunity. They all are said to be
citizens of rebel States, engaged in the bust
ness of running the blockade The captured
vessel has been sent North in charge of prize
crew.
Gov. Stanley, having transacted his officia!
business, will Immediately return to North
Carolina 1t is understood that the relations
between himself and the Government are cn-
tirelv harmonious.
1t is evident that the rebels have not l4Ct
the Upper Potomac but are vigorously operat-
| ho Roll G. Poll hot
Harper's Ferry and Cumberland. They re-
Gently, it is believed destroyed some impor-
tant bridges west of Martinsburg, including
that over Black river.
Letters addressed to persons on board of
any vessels in the navy should be directed
to the care of the Navy Department, whence
they will be forwarded, by the first mail, to
the squadron to which the vessel is attached
..t WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
Special to Tribune.
Hon. Eli Thayer's scheme for colonization
by armed men of Southern States meets with
much favor by the President, Secretary of
| War and others. 1t has been discussed several
times in Cabinet meetings, and will probably
soon receive formal official sanction.
| The project contemplates an expedition Of
1000 colonists enlisted for months and
supplied with transportation, subsistence,
arms and a guard by the government whose
business it shall be to hold, occupy and pos
sess the public lands of Florida and other
lands belonging to rebels, and seized under
the law of the last session of Congress, for
non payment of the direct tax.
Mr.. Ihayer promises, if allowed to carry
out his plan entire, to bring Florida into the
Union as a free State by the first of February
next. Texas and Virginia are already talked
of as States to be subjected to the same pr,-
| cess.
This, like the proclamation of this morning,
will be another step in the path of more
vigorous policy which the Administration, in
its proclamation of freedom advertised that it
should henceforth pursue.
Surgeon General Hammond has returned
from the battlefield of Antietam, where he
has been stopping at McClellan's headquar
ters. He thinks the whole number of Union
killed will come within 1900, and from
careful inspection of hospitals and lists of
those broug ght off, judges that the wounded
will not exceed 5000. Maj Davis, Assistant
Inspector General, informed him that he him
self had caused to be buried 5000 of the rebel
dead left on the field, from which he estimates
their wounded to be at least 10000.
Sergeon General Hammond saw, as part of
the fruits of our victory, twenty seven stand
ards, which we captured from rebel regiments,
and also reports among our spoi|s twenty or
thirty thousand small arms, mostly those left
by the enemy along the line of their retreat.
A man signing himself R. p Noble COM
municated to this evenings Star statement,
which he processes to make on direct informa
ton, that Col Ford did not evacuate Maryland
Heights until he had received the fourth and
peremptory order from Col Miles to do So
and besides, his long range ammunition had
been exhausted. He asks suspension Of
opinion.
The rebels left about 5000 wounded within
our lines, for whom they begged medical at
tendance, removing all who were wounded in
upper extremities and leaving on the field on
" those who were wounded in lower limbs.
The total loss of the rebels cannot be much
less than 5000 killed and $4,000 wounded.
...-..l HARRISBURG, Sept 25.
The morning freight train on the Northern
and Central railroad, and troop train, bound
!, Northward, came in coisi m at Parkton sta
ton. Both engines were smashed, and Star
der, of the 32d Ohio regiment, killed. This
regiment was among those taken prisoners at
, IIarper's Ferry, and paroled, now Ell route for
the Western border.
) A passenger train going to Baltimore came
} in collision with wreck of destroyed engines
No one was injured.
! A number of rebel prisoners were brought
in tonight and sent to Camp Curtin.
New YORK, Sept. 26.
: The Herald has extracts from rebel jour
70 <ho o1ofo hotf1 inn md
The Richmond Inquirer claims the battle
! Of Antietam as great rebel victory. 1t was
E directed by Lee in person with $4,000 mer
our force 15O,O O,O0O jackson commanded tn,
left of the rebel line-EIll the right-Long
street the center. 1t is admitted that our ar
tillery was used with fearful effect, and that
upon the wi ole, the battle was the most Sc
we're of the entire campaign.
y The following is a list of commanding off
GERS killed and wounded in the engagement
Gen. Stark, of Miss, commanding jackson
/ division, killed Brig. Cen Branch, of n c.
y killed; Brig. Gen. R. II. Anderson, wounde'
J. in hip, not dangerously; Brig. Gen. Wright
E. of Ca, flesh wounds in breast and legs; Brig
Gen. Lamton, wounded in leg; Brig. Gen
J. Armistead, in foot; Brig. Gen. Ripley, il
ID neck, not dangerously; Brig. Gen. Ransom
i, of n c.. slightly.
The Petersburg Express makes the signif
er can't admission that all hopes OF Marylan
of uniting her destinies with the South mus
now be banished. The experiment to rails
her people to follow the fortunes OF the reb'
su army is proclaimed to have been a dead fail
- ure, and the devoted adherence of the Stat
Government, the press, and the majority, i,