Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-05-16

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- crate nloaey, ven at heavy discount WI
- do they meahYoi Are they in reality abo
tionists? We think it base treason in a
'a! man thus publicly to proclaim himselfopDoa
to the South
T NRw YORK, Nav 10.
Nassau papers, Of the 3Oth, contain ney
: from Charleston, obtained from the rc,,
schocners, which had, run the blockade. Z,
,dI h. Adderly appears to be general agen. f
all secessiondom st Nassau. '''
The Chaflestotiians were expectinp 10 7
= attacked soon, and considerable exciteme,
prevailed there. Business was almost entire
"a, ly suspended. Forts Sumter and Mouitr
were being furnished with heavy guns, an,
there was general uneasiaess as to the re
7 suit of the successes of Mcclellan at York
town. l.qaf 5 ss,l~ ..... -
Five schooners had arrived at Nassau. from
Charleston, with cotton and turpentine.
n The steamship Ore, with arms, arrived OF
J the 28th ult., from Liverpool and the steam
ship Skeltin Huffman, arrived on the 2Sth
with an assorted cargo, both to Adderlee &
Co. l ''' '2' W. :
4 The steamer Kate had also arrived from
Charleston, with cotton, consigned to Adder
lee y Go. Her adylces state that the people
Of Charleston were in suspense about New
4 Orleans, as the telegraph communication had
been cut off, - l'sf'2fi''a'ff fs7s'
a!i1aga PHILADELPHIA, MAY 10. o
The iron-clad steamer Ironsides was sue
cesstully launched at l0s this morning.
! b.g rorg FoBr JACKSON, April 80.
To my deor, For: Everything goes on
gloriously, just as you said. The official
will tell you all Com Boggs is going home.
lie fought his ship splendidy, and is not in
fault for her loss. He is man of determi-
nation. Give him a good ship-be deserves
it. My respects to Mr. Blair. --''
'-' Yours, truly. BENZ. F. BUTLER no
To Asst Sec'y Navy. rIs fs57a
| - BUFFALO, May TO- q
The official report of Com. Farragut was
received last night, which, though long and
interesting contains no facts in addition to
those already sent BY telegraph. sD0 q
| The report of Capt Boggs, of the Verona,
in relation to the rebel steamer Morgan, says:
81 have learned that over so Of her crew we're
killed and wounded, and she was set on fire
by her Commander who burned his wound
edwith his vessel" -s' Ane arf-as .anIrq
-lt.-L" 70 'H WASHINGTON, May TO-
AS our Government was prompt in making
restitution for the illegal capture Of the Brit
ish ship Perthenesy, by our blockadng squad
ron, it is presumed that the British Govern
ment will not hesitate to restore the ship EN-.
lie st. Pierre, in accordance with the demand
of minister Adams
An army Medical Board will assemble in
Washington on the first of June, for the nom
ination of applicants for admission into the
medical corps of the army. Applicants must
be between 81 and % years Of age
Special to the Chicago Journal
s---,. CAIRO, May 10.
The steamer j. J. Roe, from Pittsburg
Landing, yesterday afternoon, has arrived.
The army was again in motion, but pro-
crossing very slowly z..
1t was reported at the Landing that one
hundred ofour cavalry, while reconnoltering
fl ON the left wing, on Thursday, were sur
prised by superior force of rebels, and cap
tured. ..s-e. al
. John Roberts, native of Zealand, former
ly seaman on the Liverpool and New Or
leans packets, who has resided in Memphis
for seven months past, arrived here to-day
He left Memphis on Saturday last, cane
through Grand Junction and went North on |
the Mississippi Central Railroad, as far as
Medon, from whence he came across the |
T.,
river, where he hailed the gun-boat Tyler |
and was taken on board. He saws that troops
had arrived at Memphis in large numbers
from Arkansas and Texas, and were imme-
diately sent to Corinth The Provost Mar /
shal commenced burning cotton last week,
and had thrown most of the sugar and molas- |
ses into the river The rebel government
has seized all property in Memphis and sent |
II tn COlunh,rS Misc Sforo, oro Ill xIocoJ /
and the government has promised to paw
merchants for their goods months after |
treaty of peace with the United States.
jeff. Thompson was securing the country |
around Memphis with his gang enforcing the /
conscription act. Several deserters from
Beauregard's army at Corinth were met on
the way who report that troops are put on
half rations and that provisions will last but |
forty days. All infantry which was stationed |
at Fort Pillow had been withdrawn and ser t |
to Corinth. . +
Grand Junction was not fortified and but
one Tennessee regiment (Col Harmon's) was |
there. Some six hundred citizens of Mem
phis and vicinity have been arrested within |
the present week and imprisoned for ex-
pressing doubts as to the success of the re-
bellion, but in anticipation of the early ar
rival Of the Federal feet most Of the Union
citizens remained, while the rsbels were
flying into the interior in every direction.
1t was cur emily reported in Memphis on
Saturday that the Federal feet was below
Baton Rouge
On Thursday the city was almost deserted.
All stores are closed, the Government having
appropriated the gooos of most of the mer-
chants, and promised to pay for them three
months after the treaty of peace. Cotton,
sugar and molasses, which have been stored
at Memphis, were removed to Ft Pickering,
8 miles below, and destroyed, last week, BY 4
the Provost Marshal, in anticipation of ap.
proach of the Federal feet. 80,
| The conscript act is being rigidly enforced
and has been the means of causing a general
stampede into the interior. p
| There are men enough remaining at Fort
Pillow to man the guns. All the infantry
have withdrawn to reinforce Beauresard at
Corinth. 1t was the general opinion among
the officers of the feet that the Fort would
be evacuated or surrender within one week. A
Prominent men acknowledge it is useless
longer to attempt defense of the Mississippi
river and are urging withdrawal of the few
troops which still remain. Memphis will bel
surrendered without . struggle. 1t was be-
lieved IN Memphis, on Wednesday, that the
! Federal feet from below was before Vicks-
burgs, but no reliable information con-
cerning the report had been received.
The whole country on the lower Mssissip.
pi was submerged by the flood. which had
caused immense destruction of property in
j the low lands g1 = ID
i News from Pittsburg is unimportant. Our
army was again making slow and cautious
nrOpreSS All rumOlS that ReaureOard ia
svaeuating Oorinth arc discredited by high
military officers, but his position is consider.
ed untenable, and he will be compelled to