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

lngS tn0C every fyWnefc met tn6M. Inc Tel
press is wholly under control Of tho poll
clans, and does not speak tho peoples fe
ings. The secession element is principal
4 composed Of lawless portions of the commul
ty, who overawed by violence the order-lo
ing UIion citizens. -l
At Savannah Lieut.. Phelps learned that
rebel cavalry regiment encamped about mi
: distant He Immediately ordered . compar
of one hundred and twenty Marines, und
COL Quinn, to march against them, but Il
rebels, learning of the movement, fled in
panic, leaving everything behind them
Their camp was burned, and considerab
quantity of arms and stores were capture
Only one steamer (the Dunbar) now hoa
on the Upper tennessee.
LEAvENwoRTH, Feb. IL.
Maj. Gen. Hunter made formal call o
Senator Lane yesterday. Aatters in regar
to the Hduthern expedition remain IN stat
quo. Lane has not resigned the Senatorshil
No movement of troops Of particular MI
ment has taken place within the last tw
weeks The 18th Wisconsin have gone
Fl. Scott The 1st Kansas is on furloughf fl
10 days.
| Special to ChfoAes Ts1Ssas
aQ5. 7 agiys. WAsHnorox, Feb. IS.
Mr.. Msgruder, . wealthy boot and sho
merchant, has been arreated for giving treas
able information to the eneay, BY order Of tn
State Department. He IL very wealthy, an
has extensive family connections among th
| rebels. ,.,.
The bill introduced BY Senator Wilso
providing for the establishmens Of Nav
Foundry. originally contemplated il to be 10
Gated at Bloomfield, but through the exeYtion
of New York and New England men It Va!
altered to allow it's location on tho waters o
Hudson river. 1t author zes the Secretary o.
War to appoint . Commission Of Ordnance
Officers and Scientific and Practical Civilian,
to select the sight and prepare plans for build
ing the foundry Immediately. It appropri
ates one million dollars for the purpose.
Secretary Stanton is so much better as to
be in conference with the President at the
White House. .,.....
A private letter from naval officer at Ft.
Henry says the rebel Gen. Tilghman had the
hearing Of one ear destroyed by close shot
and q marine lorgnette knocked from his hand
by apiece Of shell. In addition to the plans
and specifications of our gun boats, diagrams
were found in the fort illustrative Of what was
supposed to be their weak points.
President Lincoln voluntarily appeared be-
fore the House Committee, to day, touching
the delivery of portion of his last message
to Wyckoff before sending it to Congress-
Wyckof was then recalled and answered that
he obtained the copy from ex-Lieutenant
Watt, the White House gardener, who figures
in the report of the Potter Committee.
Senator Morrill,, from the District of Co.
lumbia Committee, reported bill abolishing
slavery in the District, and giving compensa-
ton to an average of $500 for each slave to
loyal mssters-three commissioners to dec dc
as to the validity and value Of the claim, the
testimony Of the slave as we'll as the master
to be admissible. The bill is accompanied
by report, saying that slavery in the Ma
tional Capital partakes Of the quality of pub
lie indecorum, showing that from the time
of the Jeffsonian ordnance to the passage Of
the bill in 1850 abolshing the slave trade in
the District and declaring slaves brought here
for sale free, the government has shown a
disposition to sever itself from slavery and
has exercised all the power required in the
premises.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 49,
The notorious Jennings, lately of Jeff
Thompson's command, who was captured at
Poplar Bluffs, arrived here to-day, and is
confined in the military prison.
oncrs lately sent to Alton, returned here to-
day, and is confined in the military prison
He has been allowed to purchase full uni
form of the Missouri State Guard.
Reports from Lebanon continue to men
tion the horrible muddy roads south of that
place.
Tribuns's Special.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.
Senator Summers resolutions on the rela.
tions between the United States and the rebel
territory were laid on the table on his own
motion, where they can be called up when
ever he thinks best. A bill organizing the
rebel territory into governments on the prin-
ciple of these resolutions will shortly be re-
ported by the Territ rial Committee of the
two Houses. A bill establishing Provision
sane 'ioned in an important quarter. No de-
cision has been had yet.
1t is believed o decision has been reached
by the War Department in the Hunter and
Lane matter. General Lane is still waiting
at Leavonworth for news from Washington.
We have the authority of Mr.. Covode for
saying that be made the original arrange
ment with Sec. Cameron by which the Gov
ernment agreed to furnish Gen. Lane with
the troops he wanted, and that throughout
the negotiations Gen. Hunters name was not
used, and there was no intention that any
one except Gen. Lane was to have the COM
mand.
D. @. McCullom, formerly of the New York
& Erie Railroad, and confesscdly among the
first in his profession in this country, was ap-
pointed by the Secretary of War to take charge
Of and operate the railroads taken possession
of by the Government. The Office being
military, the rank and pay Of Colonel were
conferred with the appointment.
1t is probable that an important command
in Texas will be entrusted to Gen. Fremont,
and for reasons of obvious fitness the troops
assigned to him will be Germans.
President Lincoln to-day voluntarily ap.
peared before the House Judiciary, and gave
testimony 10 the matter of the premature
publication in the New York Herald of q
portion of his annual message. ChevaiieI
Wyckoff was then brought before the Com
mittee and answered the question which he
refused yesterday, stating, as is rumored
the stolen paragraph was furpished to the
Herald by Watt, the Presidents gardener,
who was reported as disloyal by the Potter
Committee, and whose nomination to a lieu
tenancy the Senate so decidedly refused t
confirm.
Gea. Sherman, at Beaufort, proposes tha
the Government shall take change of th'
plantations coming into its hands, and shal
raise the cotton, employees to pay the ne
groes. and keeping the latter under stric
out kind discipline Of overseers. He ais
proposes that suitable teachers be provides
for the blacks, and that religious instruction
be given. .a. l.s 5as t
41 FoRr MONROE, Feb. 13.
The gun-boat Stars and Stripes arrive
here this noon, from Burnsldes expedition