Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-05-21

aaTsCgLLANK0Us NEWS Erxaas.
Tie President has psosapsly n&sxiad sas
General Halleck,a Recommendation 70
nominate Brigadiar- General Sherman a
Major General for gallantry at Shiloh,
and the senate has promptly confirmed
the nomination. -
The Richmond Whig intimstes that
the Confederate Congress adjourned In q
grand scare, and ridicales tAe stampsdsrs
numerically.
The body Of Governor Harvey, Of Wis
eonsiu, was found fosty miles below sa-
vannah, on the river bank.
Austria has sent over two naval engi-
neeza to America to inspect the Monitor
and MsrTinac, and the new coast fortif-
cations. This is one of ahe signs Of the
stir created on the othsE side Of shs pond
by orr progress in war. z. '''@
There is war going on in Persia, in
China, and between the Turks and Mon
tsn@ins. ssasz s@R t4
A wiiter in Blaokwood says "man ia
the only animal that laughs. Did be ev-
or hear horse laugh2 Besides, . little
friend Of ours declares that her pet Italian
greyhound laughs, or, mars properly
speaking, smilss. Man L The only ami
NAL thai "smiles." 4 jolly individual
Of our acquaintance has taken the tenn
peranee pledge, and to him has been
applied line of Poe's: 'sHe Laughs
bat smiles no mora"
General Scott is reported To h&xa said
that the war will surely be virtually over
By the first Of July next. We certainly
hsps 20 bat when she war is virtually
over, We ought to be able to disband the
army. Shall we be able TO do it in July
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7 Tie Richmond Dispatch says that all
the Federal successes depend upon our
gunboats. Take away them, and the
DspGtek thinks the Confederates will
always beat.
Lieutenant Gwin reports that the reb-
els have neither boat nor gan On the
Tennessee river.
A great amount Of sickness is reported
in Gen. Hallsek's south army.
a State Convention Ia called by the
Governor Of Missouri. The principal OBJ
iars stated is 70 re-aistidt the State,
The,Nashrille Union says many Ten.
esseeans hitherto disloyal, are daily oom-
ing forward and taking the national oath.
In Nashville, however, the Common
Council has refused to require school.
teachers to take the oath, though they
still use the Confederate primer J" and
in cast Tennessee, which the rebels still
possess, martial Law has been declared,
and the Union citizens compelled to leave.
Cotton has been freely arriving in Nash
vile from the interior, and considerable
cotton land tobacco, also,) has been re.
eeived in CINCINNATI from Nashville.
The soldiers at Yorktown informed the
rebels Of late Union victory, by catch
ing a seoesh dog, tying a tin kettle and
a newspaper to his tail, and sending him
bone. .m- z.s-.#s
The Richmond Dispatch mentions two
instances where the rebels in that city
have buried their sick soldiers before
they was dead.
Brigadier- General s. D. ssnrgis has
ssuod gen eral order, under date Of
April Is, forbidding the mastering o:
Indians into the United States service IN
the District Of Kansas.
The officers Of the Sumtsr pEivateer
have left their vessel at Gibralter to be
sold, paid ofihetr creso, and gone to
Southampton, England.
1t is reported that preparations are
making to muster IN black regiments nj
PoEt loyal on TIE plea OF fhe climate
The story goes that Governor Yates
has commissioned Mrs. Reynolds, wife Of
Lieutenant Reynolds, to be Major Of tbs
18th Illinois regiment, for heroic conduc1
at the battle Of Pittsburg Landing.
The first execution of a spy, by tbs
ConfedsFates, took place at Richmond
April %. The victim was Timothy Web
steE.
Astronomer Mitchell, who is starring
it in Alabama, has been made a major,
General.
| Tho Lane ougomerF Brown,
Jeunison people In Kansas have called 9
State Couvsntion for the 9th inst, ant
threaten largely what they are going tx
| do.