Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-11-14

AIRY of War, in which he asserts that the
South has not as yet accomplished her indie
Dendence, and must be regarded as q bellige-
rent, holding an uncertain position in an I'M
decided war
The British will in no way and at no time
during the continuance Of the war recognize
the Southern Confederacy as one Of the ma
tons of the earth, or interfere to limit the
duration of the war. ft
While the soldiers who enlisted TO fight are
at Drury's and Chapin's Bluffs, in
telling trees and ditching, up to their knees
in mud and water, Richmond is full of free
negroes and slaves, the extent of whose occu-
patton is obstructing the markets. The Yam
KEGS set an example to our authorities in
their employment of negroes.
Gold is selling in Richmond at $2,2O@$2,-
25-a decline of 10 cents within the week.
From Northern Virginia it is rumored that
Gen Lee, having decoyed the enemy into q
trap at Snickersville, fell upon them with
great slaughter We have failed to obtain
from the War Office confirmation Of this
pleasing story
WASHINGTON, Nov. H..
The following farewell order was read to
the troops composing the army of the Poto-
mac, yesterday morning, at dress parade:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF PoToMAC,1
CAMP NEAR REcToRTowN, Nov. Z.
Officers and So ditrs of the Army Of the
Potomac An order of the President de-
wolves upon Maj Gen. Burnside the command
of this army. In parting from you, cannot
express the love and gratitude bear you
AS an army, you have grown up under my
care. In you | have never found doubt or
GOODNESS. The battles you have fought under
my command will proudly live in our nations
history. The glory you have achieved, our
mutual perils and fatigues, the graves of our
comrades fallen in battle and by disease, the
broken forms of those whom wounds and
sickness have disabled, the strongest associa-
| tons which can exist among men, unite us
still by an indissoluble tie. We shall ever be
comrades in supporting the Constitution of
our country aud the nationality of its people.
(Signed,) GEO. B. MCCLELLAN,
| Major General u s. A.
| The Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
has decided in regard to the tax on advertise
ments. Proviso of Section 8 of the Excise
law eXempts newspaper whose circulation
does not exceed 1000 copies, from all tax up
on advertisements, and the last proviso but
one of the same Section, exempts the receipts
for advertisements to the amount Of S. 900.
Consequently they will be assessed only ON
the excess over 81 900, and then only where
their whole circulation exceeds 1000 copies.
The agent of the Associated Press is auth
orized by the Secretary of State and Secreta
ry of the Treasury, to say that the reports OF
Cabinet decisions upon the measures of the
Administration, which gained some currency,
are altogether groundless.
CAIRO, Nov II.
The Memphis Bulletin says Holly Springs
has been evacuated by the rebel forces. In
later article it contradicts the statement,
and says, Gen. Emond arrived at Memphis,
who left Holly Springs Friday noon. At
that time the rebels still held it, He also
says, they had thrown forward force of 49,
900, as far as Lomar, ten miles.
From highly creditable source, and one
which has later news, we learn that the rebels
are falling back, and the advance spoken of
was simply to cover their movements.
We also learn, that the advance guard of
the Federal army was within few miles of
Holly Springs.
Our informant, says one subdivision of
Pemberton's army is back of Tallahatchie riv-
err Another has gone to jackson, and still
another to Meridian
A letter from Holly Springs to the Mobile
Tribune, says there are not thousand blank
cts in Prices army corps. Nearly all the
blankets and knapsacks were thrown away
in their retreat from jackson and Corinth,
and there are none to supply them WITH
Socks and under clothing are equally needed.
| Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, announces that
the Union Dioceses of Texas, Miss, Ala,
Ga, S. c., n. c. and Va, is complete, under
the name of the Protestant Episcopal Church
of the Confederate States of America, and
the first general Council will meet in Angus
ia, Ga, on Wednesday Nov. 10Th
One cause of the rebels evacuating Holly
Springs, was general loss of confidence i'm
Van Dorm. A battle under him could not but
prove disastrous.
A dispatch to Gen futile, from Gen Ros-
seau, Fort Donelson, says: ''My command
arrived here to-day, and leave for Paducah,
via Fort Henry. tomorrow. We have march
ed $50 miles and had to fight with Wood
ward The 9Th gave him grief We killed
| l6, wounded 40, and captured 90 men and
100 horses and mules. and any quantity of
arms and hats, and drove him to the other
side of the Cumberland''
! BALTIMORE, Nov. II.
A letter from son of Mr. Fulton, editor of
the Baltimore american, dated Pensacola, on
board the Hartford, Oct. 29th, says that the
U. S. steamer Montgomery came in that
morning, with a fine side-wheel steamer as a
prize. loaded with munitions of war, which
she caught about fifty miles off Mobile, after
a chase of seven hours. She was originally
called the Arizona, bnt was changed to the
Corona. She was commanded by Captain
Forbes, of New Orleans, formerly of Amboy,
N. J. She halls from Havans
When overhauled, her crew commenced to
throw overheard the arms, &c , on board, but
they did not succeed in making away with
many. ~ .ai