Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-07-18
Liberal bounty for Recruits II,
Maine.
Matters on James Rivera Skin.
mish at Williamsburg.
Skirllaisll at Pleasant Hill, Kan
S:is.
Capture of British Ship in Mobile
Bay, Loaded with Supplies for the
Rebels.
FoRT MONROE, july 10.


captured by our re connoitering cavalry.
We learn by an O. Ulcer of the Michigan 9th,
who was one of the 107 Federal prisoners
which come from Baltil more hospital yesterday,
that the treatment they received from the
rebel officers having charge of them while
held as captives, was universally kind and
humane; so different FROM what they had an
ticipated that it was surp Using to themselves.
A sutler who was at White House at the
time of the evacuation tho, ,ght twas not safe
to take away his money and buried some
5000 He went up on the flag of truce boat
John Tucker and made known his case to a
rebel officer who went with him and helped
him to get his money.
VASE INGroN, July IA.
To the Officers and Soldiers of the Army of Virginia:
By special assignment of the Presi-
dent of the United States l have as
sumed command Of this army. have spent
two weeks in learning your whereabouts,
your condition and your wants, in preparing
you for active service and in placing you in
positions from which you can act promptly
and to the purpose. l have come to you
from the West, where we have always seen
the backs of our enemies, from an army whose
business has been to seek the adversary and
| to beat him when fOund-whose policy has
been attack and not defense. In but one in
stance has the enemy been able to place our
Western army in the defensive attitude.
presume that | have been called here to pur-
sue the same system and to lead you against
the enemy 1t is my purpose to do so, and
that am sure you long for an opportunity to
win the distinction you are capable of achiev
ing, and that opportunity I shall endeavor to
give you. Meantime desire you to dismiss
from your minds certain phrases, which, am
sorry to find, in vogue among you; | hear
constantly of taking strong positions and
holding them of lines of retreat and losses of
supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The
strongest position a soldier should desire to
occupy is one from which he can most easily
advance against the enemy, Let us study
the probable line of retreat Of our opponents
and leave our own to take care Of itself. Let
us look before us and not behind. Success
and glory are in the advance ord s..i.saster
should Turk in the rear. Let us act on this
: understanding, and it is safe to predict that
, your banners shall be inscribed with many a
glorious deed and that your names will be
dear to your countrymen forever.
[Signedl JOHN POPE,
Maj. Gen. Comd'g.
NEW EoKS, July "A.
: The following names are among the list of
, officers who are prisoners at Richmond:
Mai. Gen. Mccall, Brig. Gen. J. F. Rey-
: nolds, Brig. Gen. Rankin, Brig. Gen. Sumner,
Bria. Gen, Meade, I'd Lieut.. P. L. Hubbard
of company /, 1st Michigan; Capt. c. j..
Whitney Of the 9Th U S. cavalry Col. Stock
ton, 18th Mich; Capt W. P Cambliss, 9Th
l U. S. cavalry, wounded in six places Capt.
D. P. Fisher 10th Mich; Maj. Davidson, 4th
U. S. A.; Col. Mark Britton, 9Th regiment
Sickles Brigade; Adj. j. n Stiles, Goth In
diana.
3 WASHINGTON, July IS.
Applications for the offices of collectors of
taxes in the various collection districts are al
ready counted by thousands and the number
is rapidly increasing They are addressed to
, the Secretary of the Treasury and require
, the daily labor of many clerks to assert and
endorse them.
CAIRO, July IS.
Halleck is not East; he was in Corinth
yesterday.
i Guerrilla bands are plenty about Boone
Vile and are very saucy.
J Conscripton has forced the aristocracy in
} Georgia into the ranks as cavalry.
Gen. Grant and family are now at Column
bus.
Two persons were arrested on the steamer
Graham on her last trip down for smuggling
> whisky as salt and eggs.
Cotton continues to arrive. 200 bales arri-
we'd this morning on the steamer Won Phul
Piled upon the wharf, it looks like a southern
port.
J The rebels at Paducah have been unusually
+ saucy for the past few days. Rows between
, them and the soldiers are frequent.
MEMPHIS, July II, via Cairo IA.
Gen. Grant has ISSUED an order requiring
the families of the following persons te move
south beyond our lines within five days.
list, All persons in the rebel army.
End, All persons holding Office under or in
9 the employ Of the so-called Confederate gov
eminent.
Sd, All persons holding any State, coun-
ty or municipal offices, who claim allegiance
to the so-called Confederate government and
whs have abandoned their homes and gone
south.
Constant communication between the rebel
army and their friends and sympathizers in
the CITY has been carried on despite the orders
, heretofore issued and efforts to enforce them,
rendering it necessary to issue the above
order which has produced intense excite
ment since June 9th.
Parties who went into the interior in quest
of cotton have been captured by bands Of
, guerrillas.
PHILADELPHIA, July IA.
! The Bulletin of the city has copies of the
Richmond Examiner of the 9th, and Of the