Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-02-21


ng, a salute was fired and loud cheers went
up when the American flags were visible. No
,ilicer in the army had an idea of Fl. Donel-
.on's defenses, until they had been examined.
Several reg ments when out Of ammunition,
rushed forward and although exposed 10 the
ull fire ofsthe rebel artillery, CALAMITY drove
heir foes back with the bayonet, and captur-
I'd their guns. as-ss- 1s.5s-a
rebel officers captured: Col. Garrett, Col.
VOORHEES,, Col. Forest, Col. Brown and Col.
Alternately. G.+
,rs CAIRO, Feb. II.
The steamer Memphis arrived from Fort
DonclsOn this evening, bringing regiment
Of Mississippi prisoners, and fifty or sixty
soldiers, who were left at Mound
City. Eight or nine other boats are on their
way with rebel prisoners. The rebels who
escaped are supposed to have gone to Nash
vile, where, or at Clark sville, it is supposed
the Contcderates will attempt to make another
stand. .,. -- ... .-,-e '.t ..oi r..
This evening great light was seen for
several hours in the direction Of GAINESVILLE,
anu it is supposed that the rebels have either
burned the town or their steamboats, in the
river to prevent them from falling into our
hands The rebel officers admit that if we
take Nashville the rebellion in Tennessee is
gone up. .T... r. ss .s.
. The prisoners will probably be sent to
Camp Douglas, Chicago. 3. co.,.
i -. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
The Navy Department HIS received the
flag which most prominently wa, ed over Fl.
The Navy Department has no other ds-
matches from Savannah than those received
through the Associated Press agency. Jig
I"'a f. BALTIMORE, Feb. 10.
1t is rumored by passengers on board the
Old Point boat that news had reached Nor
folk of the surrender of Savannah without fir
ing gun. Our dispatch from Fit. Monroe
makes no mention of j.. The report is there
fore given as mere rumOr.
Special torChcags Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
President Lincoln's boy " lillian is still in
q critical condition. ......,
The bill which the Territorial Committee
Of both Houses are maturing will organize
he rebel territories on the principle that by
rebellion ose States committed suicide, aud
that with it their local laws and peculiar in
situations have died.
Congress has passed joint resolution d.
recting Commissioner French to. illuminate
public buildings in honor Of the recent veto
torres, Saturday evening. An illumination
private dwellings will probably be request
cd as a means OF distinguishing loyal from
disloysl cltiz ms. y.., ..
In q spe CHI in Starke's case, Carlisle, of
Virginia, today foreshadowed pro-slavery
>licy in the lrcatm mt Of the rebt States,
say ing the Senate must receive persons duly
accredited hereafter by the Legislature Of
Miss. ssh PIP, even if they have been in arms
against the government. ....
1t is coming to be generally hoped Carlisle
viii; be obliged thus to give his seat back to
Mason.
Secretary Stanton has recently said that
the victory at Fort Donelson Is due to GIN.
Hallcck, who submitted plan to the Prtsi-
dent, who recommended it to Grant, who ex-
ecuted the campaign. e..
Noah L. Wilson, President of the Marietta
and Cincinnati railroad, is here. The B .lti-
more and Ohio railroad is expected to open
within 80 days.
Very few private flags have been display
ed in Washington for our late victories.
| An order was issued to-day, at the request
of the entire Indiana delegation, term mating
the furlough under which Capt Hazard, OF
| the army. was allowed to serve as Colonel of
tn. 37th Indiana Volunteers. He is charged
with tyranny to his troops.
The Senate District of Columbia Committee
to-day summoned a number of witnesses to
investigate the truth of allegations in deputy
jailor Duvnlrs letter, relative to barbarit,es
practiccd within the ii ON an alleged fugi.
tive slave. .
Senator Harris introduced bill to-day
making the rebels outlaws, so far as civ,
ri hts are concerned The fact of the
plaintiffs treason is TO be complete defense
In bar of any action. ...
Trumbulrs coniscaton act is the special
order in the Senate to morrow
| Grant will not be confirmed as Maj. Gene
| raj till his official report Of the battle has
| been received.
| tol. Mcconnell, of the inchoate and consid-
ably my thical Sd Maryland Regiment of Vol.
unteers, has at last been mustered out of SER
| vice.
Upon evidence that recruiting was going
on in Philadelphia to fill up the, anks of 10y
al Virg MIA brigade being raised by John Z
Underwood, an order was issued to-day
breaking up the organization.
Schuyler Colfax has sent 100 to Quarter
Master Pierce, at Paducah, to be expended for
the re ief OF the soldiers wounded in the
attack on Fort Donelson.
Captain Craven, in command of the Tus
carora, is not ike other plains who have
pursued rebel privatecrs. If he catches the
Nashville he will blow her out of water,
avoiding capture, if poss BILE.
A subscription is on foot at Alexandria
among the women for the purchase of a flag
| to be present, to Farnsworth's Illinois Cav
airy Regiment.
A bill reported from the Naval Committee
of the House, framed after consultation with
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Fox,
provides for ten grades of naval officers.
XXXVHlih Congress ..- list Session.
WAsHlNGToN, Feb. II.
HoUsE.-Mr. Colfax asked and readily CD.
tanned permission to make statement rela-
tive to Fort Donel on
Amid profound silence Mr. Cclfax said that
Gen. Mcclellan had author zed him to in
form the House that he had just received
a dispatch from Cairo informing him
of the arrival Of the gun-boat Carondelet
bat ~ Ii Al. A.