Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-03-07
INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS
n-fH VIA FORT MONROE.
ROANOKE PRISONERS RELEASED ON
PAROLE.
RHODE ISLAND UNION NOMINATIONS.
Columbus and FOi tify
Island No. 10.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs
will report reduction of the salaries of ma
val officers of 25 per cent On the highest
grade, Is per cent on the intermediate and
10 per cent on the lower; also, the abolition
of all navy agencies and naval storekeeper
officers and the hemp and live oak agencies,
transferring the duties heretofore performed
by those officers to paymasters on duty or
near the different navy yards and stations,
under regulations to be made by the Secreta-
ry of the navy or order of the President.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 81.
The Navy Department has received dis
patches from Commodore Goldsboro, dated the
10Th inst. He had received the official ac
counts of the visits of our vessels to Edenton
and Carrituck canal The light house at
Hatteras may now be lighted with perfect
safety.
Tho names of the men-of-war destroyed by
our vessels since the feet reached Hattcras
are as follows The Seaboard, (hag steamer,)
the Curlew and the Fanny, Gall steamrrs) the
Black Warrior, "a schooner.) The steamer
Ellis was captured. A new gun-boat on the
stocks at Elizabeth City was also destroyed,
making 7 vessels in all. Each Of the first
six were remarkably we'll armed as sun-boats.
All of them were destroyed or captured in
the attack on Elizabeth City.
Our forces took undisturbed possession of
Edenton. Part Of flying artillery regiment,
variously estimated at from one hundred and
fifty to three hundred, fled precipitate!y,
without firing shot. Many of the inhabj-
| tants also left III consequence. The are no
fortifcations at or in the rear approaches to
Edenton. Among the results of the expedi-
,ion are the destruction of cannon and one
schooner on the stocks at Edenton. Two
schooners were captured in the Sound-one
having four thousand bushels Of corn. Six
bales Of cotton were TAKEN from the custom
house wharf. There were no public stores
in the town; the custom house was empty.
Commodore Goldsbo.o says he remained
two hours abreast of the town and was vis-
tied by the authorities and others, many of
whom professed sentiments Of loyalty to the
old Union.
| A proclamation, dated the 18th inst, and
signed jointly by Commodore Goldsboro and
Gen. Burnside, to the people of North Caro-.
lima, says the mission of the joint expedition
is not to invade any rights but assert the au-
thority of the United States and to close with
them the desolating war brought upon the
State ny Co"P"i "s''e'y ~" AA'eA Ia 'iA~AA
midst. -...-.
The proclaim alton concludes as follows
1--WE invite you, in the name Of the Cousti-
tuition and Of virtuous loyalty and civilsza.
ton to separate yourselves at once from their
NAL gn influence to return to your allegiance
and uot compel US to resort further to the
force under our control The government
asks only that its authority may be recog
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it desire to interfere with your lave, constitu
tionally established, your institutions of any
kind whatever, your property of any sort, OF
usages in any respect"
Sr. LOUIS, Feb. ~.
CO.. Woods cavalry has driven the enemy
out of Dent, Texas and Howell counties, Mo.
and taken 60 rebel prisoners
A Cairo dispatch SAYS heavy rumbling ex
plosions were heard yesterday, in the oirec
ton of Columbus enemy supposed to b.
blowing up their entertainments.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 26.
Gems. Buckner and Tilghman passed her
: this morning, for Fort Warren, under charg
of Col. Coates. 4b
FoRTREss MONROE, Feb. 26.
! The reported loss Of the Express is un
founded. 1sat
: Special to Chicago Tribune.
@7f WAsH1SeroN, Feb, u.
It il thought that the army certificates Z
;, indebtedness, under the law Of Congress pass
!. ed yesterday, will reach $3O,oO0,0O0 befor
the issue of the new Treasury notes. S
great is the strait for these latter printed note
that but few days notice can be- given to tn
bidders for engraving and printing them an
furnishing paper for them. -..,, ....r
There will be 500, ,00O, 900 divided in equ
sums into SIS, los, 20's, SOS, zoos, 500
1,O0O's. Of registered bonds five millior
q are to be 5C's, fifteen millions zoos, fort
t. millions 1,0O0's, fifteen millions 5,OO0's, an
ID ten millions 10.0OO's. OF coupon bono
70 eighty millions will be 1,000s, and twen'
millions 5,O0O's. - a<sd 'a
, An officer just arrived from Roanoke stat
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