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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

Russelville, recently taken possession
of by the Federal troops, is situated in South
ern Kentucky. 1t is the capital of Logan
county, and is place of about 5000 inhab.
itants. 1t is located between Cumberland and
Green rivers, about 35 miles from each. The
place derives its present Importance from the
fact that when, a few months ago, the rebels
established Provisional Government for
Kentucky, it was selected as the State CAPT
tai. A bogus State Legislature has already
held one session there, and bogus Cover
nor (Johnson) has been installed in power
A rebel force, 5000 strong, has been station
cd for its protection; but now Governor,
Legisla' ure, and rebel troops have fled, carry
ing with them all the paraphernalia or their
Ridiculous Government. All Of Kentucky,
excepting Columbus, is now clear of rebels.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

MoDERATE-As our war is costing the peo-
pie something in the way Of expense OF all
sorts, and especially in the matter of support
ing hosts of officers, it is well that they
should know how the Office business is pro-
crossing. The New York TTibune's Wash
ington correspondent states that in the course
of discussion in the Senate on the 18th ult.
the fact came out that Gen. Mcclellan has
forty-oficers on has staff, not counting those
detailed to other generals. Apropos Of this,
Senator Grimes remarked that Sir Colin
Campbell, when commanding the British army
in India during the Sepoy rebellion, had only
three such aids; that Wellington at Water
loo had but seven, and that Marshal Maguan,
commanding quarter Of a million Of men at
Paris, has only two. To this he might have
added that Gen. Washington never had over
six aids, or Gen. Jackson or Gen. Taylor over
four.
But we presume the Generals above named
did not have so many to provide for as have
figured in the rigorous operations at Wash
ington for the past six months.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

- Our people have little idea OF the
amount CT taxes paid by the people Of Great
Britain. Among less than thirty millions Of
people who inbabit the United Kingdom
proper, there were raised in taxes and Gus
toms of all kinds last year, the enormous
amount of s343, ol9,3 1855. In 1860 the reve'
nue. from all sources amounted to $354,o00,'
900. ...
The expenditures of the British govern
ment, for all purposes, are almost as great IN
peace as ours in war. The mystery is,
how the people of that country can sustain
such an enormous burden and still enjoy
prosperity and accumulate wealth to an al
most fabulous extent.
All the nations of Europe are taxed enor-
mously, but that fact does not make high
taxes here the more agreeable.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07
Special to Chicago Tribune.
COLUMBUS, Ky., Mar,

CULUMBUS, NY, HarCtI z.
At 10 o'clock this morning the 9th, SD
and 55th Illinois Regiments hoisted the stars
and stripes over the rebel Notifications at Co.
lumbus.
The gun-boats Cincinnati, fag-ship, Louis
vile. Carondelet, Illinois and Lexington, four
mortar boats in tow of the steamer Lake
Erie. and the 9th ILL.,, Col. Buford, SD ILL.,,
Col. Roberts, 55th ILL.,, Maj. Savage, Acting
Colonel, upon the transports Alex. Scott, III
nois, Magil, and Ike Hammitt, left Cairo
this morning at o'clock for Columbus.
The feet arrived at Lucas Bend, about two
miles above Columbus, At 6 o'clock, and was
drawn ND in line Of battle. The drums beat
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

7a WHAT SLAVERY DOES. Out Of sixty-eight
Confederate prisoners, taken by Captn OIL
yer at the Blue springs settlement, in jack
son county, No, only fourteen could sorite
their names. The written vouchers of this
fact are in the city, and can be exhibited
The large proportion Of the prisoners from
Fort Donelson, s0ho cannot read, is notorious.
This is one of the sadd.st fruits of slavery.
and Of the character of material composing
the staple of rebellion, which this war has vet
revealed. A free and popular government
cannot prosper with an uneducated people,
md the tendency Of slavery is to enshroud
them in ignorance St. Louis Democrat.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

e~ The evacuation of Columbus leaves
Kentucky free from any organized rebel force.
Missouri is in the same condition. Both Of
these States were claimed by jeff. Davis, in
his recent message, as belonging to the scce-
ded States. With what grace the claim can
be maintained we leave our readers to infer.
With the exception of Memphis. no consider
able body Of the rebels is known to be in
Tennessee, and soon we expect to see them
driven from that State also. Thus the ano-
conda closes It's fatal coils around the mon
ster secession.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

GoLp D1scoyERY.-The Desomlnes Regis-
ter announces that a pan of pulverized quartz
vas taken out of lead in that city last week,
weighing nine ounces, which yielded frac-
ton over Of pure gold worth $3.50. It init
mates that the article might have been import
I'd bv pixies Peaker. % Quite likely. . nj lo
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07
orc.n, S,avmaker's death. we are in

e~Capt. Slaymaker's death, we are in
formed, was caused in singular manner. A
bullet struck his pocket knife, in his left
pocket, shivered it to pieces and drove the
blade into his body, so that it and not the
bullet severed the artery. the rapture ofwhich
caused his death. Pieces Of the knife were
found in his wallet.-Dov Gdz. IN r.5of-3f
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. This place, upon
which General Thomas is now marching with
a competent force, is the county seat OF Knox
county, and has population of near ten
thousand souls. 1t is situated at the junction
Of the Olinch and Frenchbroad rivers. whose
united waters form the Tennessee. Ii is the
head OF Steamboat navigation and the centre
ofthe large valley of r Oh and productive lands.
Knoxville has connection by railroad with
the les of Charleston, Savannah, Nontgom-
cry, Nashvic and N mphis, MS wen as other
important points of the South and West. Its
occupation Ivy Federal traops viii will be of
immense advantage in the further prosecution
of the war. -...-.-.-
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

Boy FROZEN TO DEArH-A boy in jackson
Township about ten years old, whose name
we did not learn, was frozen to death a week
ago last Sunday. He had been away from.
home attending school and on that day start
ed to see his parents. lie got within a.quar-
ter Of mile of home, bit was so overcome by
cold and fatigue that he sunk down among
the snow drifts, where he was fouad stiff and
stark the next day.-Linn County Registrs.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

WEST VIRGINIA Bound TO HER IDoLs-
The Wheeling Intellgsncer says that al
though large majority of the, delegates to
the Convention just adjourned were elected
as Free State men, yet they were outwitted
by the pro-s!avery delegation from the Kama
wha region, and so entangled in the meshes
of parliamentary law that all schemes for an
absolute free State Government failed. The
Kanawha members were smart enough to do
his, and the others were simple enough to
let them. .-.-.,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

Hon. W. G. WooDwARD's LEcrURE.-The
lecture Of Senator Woodward last evening
was listened to by a full house with undated
interest during the course of one hour and
fifty minutes. The subject was treated in a
manner to give prominence to those phenQ,n-
enas connected with the science, which take
the strongest hold upon the imagination. At
the same time the system ofscience was kept
fully in view, which made it instructive as
wella Observation-Disclosures Times, 28th.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

Twenty four prisoners fsem Fort Dons,.,s,,,
have been Internationally re!es. .d, bv s n'"
Haleck, being only visitors - tn. R.,t - a.
see their friends there, A"As y"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

A NoRrHERNER's ABUSE OF THE NORTH. -
The Richmond Dispatch, is one of the most
intense of the secession organs, as Jealous III
the cause as the Charleston Mercury, and as
coarse as possible in its vituperatlon. Inc
editor of the Dispatch is Mr.. Oliver Perry
Baldwin, a native of Columbia county, N. L.,
and son of gallant officer of the navy, VINO
named his son in honor Of his friend, the he
roic Perry. In early manhood he studied for
the ministry but having become ardentIy at
tached to Virginia lady, married her, aban-
doned theology, and betook himself to lire
eating politics.
The following passages from the Dispatch,
upon the Fort Donelson surrender, are from
the pen of this uniineal son OF patriotic
Northern sire:
"The crisis Of the war is upon us, a"I re.
verse upon reverse comes in quick success on
We have scarcely recovered from the deprcs'
sion consequent upon our defeat at Fort lien
nv and Roanoke, ere we are called on to meet
a still heavier calamity in the fall Of Fort
Dcnelson, and the surrender Of our brave
troops holding that important post.
s'If these bloody barbarians, 'choss hands
arc soaked 10 the elbo,cs in the life blood ct
men defending their homes and fireside,s,
dream that they are one inch nearer the sub.
iugation of the South than when they started
on their internal mission, they prove them
selves to be fools and mad men as well as sac
oqes and murderers. They have taught US a
lesson, we admit; they have admonlshed us
to be more wary aad circumspect, to husband
with greater care our limited resources, and
not to underrate our enemy.
ether success at Fort Donelson, gained
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

"Their success at Fort Donelson, gained
only by vast superiority Of numbers, will on
" have the effect of converting the whole
population of the South-mcn, women and
children-into an immense army, who will re-
sist them at every step, and everywhere
welcome them with bloody hands to hospital
graves"
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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07
TELEGRAPHIc.

lElEGkAPHICu
E the Rebels. h
Interesting from Fortress Monroe.
~ Coz (
Gov. Banks' Division at eharlestcwn, Va
.. --~>~-s 81. .=it
Provisions Of the Federal Tax Bill
.,...-...,,. ,..,' - soi gu.
PASSAGE Of THE IoWA TAX BILL.
-s>.-- So 5as
Jeff ThOlnpsOn's Rebel BAN j
l.. Routed---AO OF his Men
..,,.. .... -., Captured. ,d">-,
DESTRUCTION OF A REBEL BATTERY
ON THE TENNESSEE.
DEATH OF GENERAL LANDER
Coz. Krkoood at Cuiro. The Glorious
90 Flag of the Iowa I'd.
| ,.s ....,.+- 1850. ,,uai. .-.s' .
-..- ......,. -s~.------ -, I'm
COLUMBUS EVACUATED AND BURNED,
All the Rebel Gtli:s Taken Away.
NOMINATION OF MORE BRIGADIER
/ AND MAJOR GENERALS. I'd @
All Legal Gentlemen of Missouri Re
| quired to take the Oath.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

erals debts with. With the next issue the
Western aud Southern will be paid.
The House Military Committee is consid
cring the proposition for national cemetery,
by which 300 acres will be apportioned among
several States. ,... .e -.,. ..,-, .-.-I :
Gen. Blenker was before the Senate Mill.
tary Committee today. Gen. Philip St.
Georgs Cook was reported favorably. .,r.
Andy John on's nomination as Brigadier
General VS. sent into the Senate and CON
tirmed unanimously. lie leaves for Tennes-
see speedily ....s.. ......1 lob
Rober, & Kirk, late Governor of Ohio, has
been nominated Minister to the Argentine
Confed racy. 1884,. --.. ....t..--.l, ..,...r ID.
Secretary Chase sent the excise bill to, the
Committee of Ways and Means too late for
nse in this dispatch. Itmakes taxes much
heavier-in some cases SO per cent-than
the bill before reported. ....s -
Ex-Congressman Aoram Wakeman was
nominated pest master Of New York City to-
day.
Gen. Thos. Merritt is appointed general su-
perintendent of sun-boat construction in the
West. Twenty new steamboats, are to be
built. -.r ti .......
Mr.. Cowan made a pettifogging speech
against Mr.. Trumbulls confscation bill to-
day. He was fittingly congratulated by
Powell, Salisbury and Wyckliffe. ..... ,,.,-,
Morrill, has the floor tomorrow.
Five or six members are absent from the
Washington Common Council, otherwise
they would give about tie vote On the aboli-
ton question. r., ..., ,,.,ss....,t7
The statement that Blair procured, or at
tempted to procure, an appointment as Major
General for Sge is wholly untrue. 6,i9
atlanta. Ca, FEB. 2S.-The Gentedsracy,
his morning, states that Gen. Bushrod John !
ION escaped from Fort Donelson, and reached
durfreesboro last Saturday. .a. ,lazs
Heavy rains have recently fallen and the
Dads from Nashville are greatly damaged
The Richmond Dispatch says "Cols. Cor
oran and Wilcox and other Federal prison.
IS, to the number of 100, arrived here on !
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friendliness for the United States is growing
in England. r.,,.-
The Spectator, and other leading journals
are about to send correspondents hithcr wh<
shall counteract Russelrs lying prognostica
tons.
Flocks Of New York reporters have JUS
arrived at Winfrcd's, keen for coming bat
ties. They have had no chance as yet tc
draw the pen.
The Republic of this morning says, from
various sources we he hear of the cruel and
relentless treatment of Col. D'Utossy, by
Col. Bcnker. He is in close confinement in
an unhealthy prison and watched by armed
deepest dye. The official charges allege that
he was in some manner connected with the
publication of certain articles in German
newspapers. A court martial for the trial
of D'Utossy will be convened. ......e.
White cravats arc distributing. Beggars
throng Washington. One modtstly asked
Gerrits Smith for $4,000 to-day. He hadn't
the change about him.
A telegram from Gen. Lander's Assistant
Adjutan, General, announcing the death of
the General, says he was exhausted, worn
out up to the handle, and for "a hours before
his death his pulse scarcely moved. Prob.
ably his decease was fastened by physicians
the effect of an ardbous march, and by
mental anxiety.
Secretary Hale to-day called attention to
the report of the Conference Committee on
the Civil Appropriation bill concurred in
last Thursday. TIE report intro
duces new matter in violation of parliament
tary law-thc appropriation of $4,000 for
plate fer the Presidents house. Mr.. Hale.
moved to reconsider.
Mr.. Browning said the bill had already |
been signed by the President and had become
! law. This is known as ''thc Id spoon |
previously rejected by tie FL
vance Committee. ~ ~ 1'.5
The conference which worked it through
Eas composed of Senators Pearce, Doolittle
nd Clark, and Representatives Stevens, Wal
On and Tram. .Aassis lss.I yas .@-i--s
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,REPoRrsD KxPREsoLY ron THE JOURNAL.l
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07

DALTlM'kH, MATCH De
Hon. Reverdy johnson was to-day elected
U. s. Senator by the Maryland Legislature
for years from March next:
WASHINGTON, March 5.
The Senate to day confirmed the nomina-
ton of Jas. Fl. Spears, of Tennessee, and Maj
Samuel D. Sturges, to be Brig ,dier Generals
of volunteers. .... lec,.
Official information has been received that
the Portuguese government is devoting its
a teniion to the cultivation of cotton in its
African possessions. ..-......- "a
3 49,. Special to the Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, March 8.
Lieut.. Col. Emery, of tine 9th cavalry, and
Coils. Quimby and Patrick, Of New York, have
been nominated for Brigadier Generals. =
Gen. Lander will be buried at Rev. DR..
Hults church, under military escort. His
body guard will be company of sharp
shooters from his native city, Salem, Mass,
who have been with him since the fiyht at
Ferry. Half of the pail bearers are
to be civilians, Gen. Lander not having cher
ished special love for the regular army. The
body arrived this morning attended by large
number of his officers and men. 1t has been
already e,Dbalmed and will be sent to Salem
after the funeral .'A
Philadelphia and New York merchants
have petitioned Congress for a resumption Of
etter and newspaper mail to Panama. A bill
will be introduced soon reorganizing the cid
nail. At present there will be no mail COM
nunication with General America, the
company positively declining to
AIRY letters or newspapers without the au-
hority of Congress. .....--
The testimony of returned prisoners cap
ured in July at Falling Water, before the
onduct of the war Committee, leads to show
bat with more energy Patterson might have
ausht johnson before Bull Run. tt..-.
The residence Of the French Minister, NJ. |
lercier,o at Georgetown, was burned las.
light. Loss $4,000. The furniture might
ave been saved by the provost guard, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-01-28
Latest from the Burnside Expedition.
THE EFFECT OF THE STORM.
A LARGE STEAM TRANSPORT WRECK
ED, WITH THE Loss OF But
THREE MEN.
ALL THE REST OF THE EXPEDITION
COLLECTED INSIDE OF HAT
TERAS INLET.
THE CARGO OF THE TRANSPORT
LOST, &c.

A bearer OF despatches-Mr. Sheldon, of N.Y.
from Gen. Burnside reached the War Department
at 10 O'Clock a. m. to-day. He brings the latest
and Of course authentic Information from the ex-
petition, which is embraced in the dispatches
which her bears.
Through him we learn thai the storm mot yet
over scattered the vessels Of The expedition upon
the coast Sc that the last Of them had just got in
az he set out from Hatteras. All Of them are safe,
but not little battered by the elements, except
one of the large steamer transports Of the expe-
dition that beached with the loss Of her cargo
provisions, stores and some munitions arms
and horses. But three men-a Colonel Allen,
and others, lost their lives by drowning.
The effect of the storm was of course calculated to
delay the subsequent movements Of the expedi-
ton, which will doubtless set out from the inlet
as soon as the ordinary damage to the vessels
from such a storm can be repaired, most Of them
being slightly injured. The delay this account
can hardly be longer than day or two,we appre-
bend.
Exaggerated rumors Of the injury done to the
expedition, as described above, come to us o-day
by telegraph from Baltimore and Fortress Mo nroe,
which we know from the tenor Of Gen. BurnsYde's
dispatches to be untrue.
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WAR GAZETTE.
OFFICIAL.

OFFICIAL.
Order appointing Reverend Bishop Ames and
the Honorable Hamilton Fish Commissioners
to visit and relieve the prisoners Of the United
States.
Ordered. That the Reverend Bishop Ames OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Honor
able Hamilton Fish, Of New York, be, and they
are hereby appointed Commissioners to visit the
prisoners belonging to the army Of the United
States now in captivity at Richmond, in Virginia,
and elsewhere, and, under such regulations as
may be prescribed by the authority having custody
Of such prisoners, relieve their necessities and
provide for their comfort at the expense of the
United States, in pursuance Of the order hereto
fore made on this subject and the said Commits
sloners be requested Immediately to signify by
telegram to this Department their acceptance or
refusal of this appointment, and report in person
st Washington without delay.
EEwIN NJ. STANTON, Secretary of War
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Mr.. CoLFAx AND THE PROPOSED TAX UPON
NEwsPAPERs.

Mr.. CoLFAx AND THE PROPOSED TAX UPON
NEwsPAPERs.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 81, 1852.
To fhs Editor Of the Star $50 far from {" Mr.
Colfsx proposing to legislate with reference to
the penny press Of the country" by the imposi.
ton Of stamp tax, or tax circulation, a. you
state In the Star, am and have been inHexibly
opposed to It. understanding that the Ways and
Means Committee intended to propose such a tax,
% as to raise about two millions from the news
paper press, endeavored to anticipate and su-
percede 1t by raising nearly that same amount in
another way-namely: by requiring all papers
sent 20 mail trains, on routes sustained by the
Government at heavy cost for carrying the mails
TO pay postage to the Department, Irhsthsr inside
OF outside Of the mail bags. This, IL successful
would have insured the defeat Of the other The
press, however, condemned 1t severely and caused
is rejection. But I shall nevertheless oppose the
other plan, believing II unwise and unjust
Respectfully, SCHUYLER CoLFAx.
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AFFAIRS OVER THE RIVER
rrSAscrAL.-From the N. Y. Evening Pos,

FINAscrAL.-From the N. Y Evening Post of
yesterday: .s.
noticeable feature Of to-day's market is the
improvement In bank stocks Some of the low.
priced descriptions are 2s3 per cent better, in
,estors probably turning their attention to these
on account Of the very high prices Of good railroad
bonds.
The Government list is steady but quiet. The
skies OF 1881 are Kay peg cent higher than on
saturday. The hves Of 1871 and IA are arm at
79Xas0. ... -
There Ii less doing In the 80 Treasury notes.
The principal sales are at o7Ka9s for clean, and
96ka97 for indorsed.
money meets with fair employment on call ut
5kao per cent, with some business at S and 6k
Per cent. Some Of the banks are seekiI borrowers
at per cent
Gold 10 less active to-day and rather lower.
Three millions and q half dollars more OF 30
Treasury notes Of Oct I, 1851, have been received
from Washington, which makes o.; 600, 600 notes
on hand and q 600 900 stock. The loan commit
tee will make a further distribution among the
banks In few days. sgs.4e;.-sa :
The Assistant Treasurer has hads call upon
the banks for % 062 500 account of the six per
cent. stock, which leaves an even ten Der cent
due. This II payable to morrow and demand
notes and past due notes will be received
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BOWLING GREEN TO FALL WITHOUT FfeHr.
The opinion seems to be daily gaining ground,
In quarters where opinion are weighty, that Bow.
ling Green is to fall into our hands without the
striking of blow. Ii is known that there is a
very influential party in the South who oppose
the Idea Of their army making any stand in Ken
lucky, and have continued to discourage t..
Hitherto this counsel has been unheeded The
recent defeats Of Marshall and Zollicofer WILL IL
Is thought, cause their views at last TO prevail IL
IL mere than likely that another cause, still more
forcible-the fear of being surrounded-will lead
them to surrunder il they ever do.-Cinetnnati
Eaxgffs
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APPLICATION TO COMMUTE GoRDoN's PUNISH
MENT.-Ex-Judge Dean, the counsel Of Captain
NathanieliG of the SLAYER Erie who was SEN
fenced to be hanged for engaging in the slave
trade, has presented to the President petition
signed bya number Of influential citizens Of
Maine, and headed by ex Senator Evans, of that
state, to commute Gordon's punishment. On
Friday last United States District Attorney Smith
understood that he was opposed to any Interference
with the sentence The general impression in
w ashington is that the President will decline to
Commute the sentence Y EpentnR Pnst