Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-05-02
Rebels Whipped on st. Johns
leland, =. e.
The Fall Of New Orleans COnce.
ded at Norfolk.
THE REBEL FORTS At PENSA COLA
ABANDONED. r
New YORK, April q

A letter from EdlStO Island, s. o., 18th
reports brilliant affair on St Johns Island
resulting in the total rout of 200 rebel cayal
ry, by about 60 Of our men The party con
sisted of Capt. Rhind, DR.. Britnall, Masters
Mate Nelson, 30 men and howitZer, from
the U. S. gun boat Crusader, and 80 mer
from the 9th New York, 55th Pennsylvania
and Sd New Hampshire Regiments, under
Capt. Dow, of the latter regiment The reb
els lost about SO killed and wounded. Nc
one on our side was killed.
The combined movements ordered by Gen
Fremont against the guerillas in Webste,
county have proved eminently successful
Lieut. Lawson, with one detachment EN-
ployed in this service, has returned, and 9th
ers were returning, after severe running
fight Of 7 miles with the guerillas, and to Ok
ten prisoners. The town of Addison, thu
only one in the new county, being deserted
was burnt. 1t had been guerilla haunt.
formidable organization in Braxton, Webster
and adjoining counties is entirely destroyed
and the leaders proposing to surrender. i
is understood the guerlllas taken will b,
promptly shot.
Gen. Milroy's scouts, an the 23d inst, at
tackled the r ar guard of the enemy, ten miles
East Of the Shenandoah mountain, the bound
airy of this dep rtment. They killed ont
lieutenant and two men, and captured lieu
tenant and one man. None OF our men were
hurt. The rebel conscripts are DESERVING il
large numbers, swearing Unionism and re
turning home. -
Reports from Stanton say the enemy
sick and wounded and large trains of soldier,
are pa1SinO on St a ard hv rail
Snow fell eighteen inches deep at Monter
ey, Oh the oath inst.
Tribunes Dispatch.
Fort MONROE, April ~.
It is stated by a contraband that intens,
excitement exists around Norfolk and the,
have great fear of an attack by Burnside
Nearly all the troops have gone to South Mill.
to repel any advance be might make.
Contrabands state that the new PROV OF
the Merrimac is l2 feet long, of wrought iror
and steel-pointed Many citizens of Norioll
are leaving. The fall Of New Orleans is con
coded by every one.
HARR1soNBuRG, April 26-P. NJ.
The pickets of Col. Donnelly's brigade, sta
toned 8 miles hence, on the Gordonsvill.
DAD, were attacked by large force of Ash
by's rear guard and driven back. The re-
serve OF the 46th Pennsylvania and sec
ton of Hampton's battery then advanced
and repulsed the rebels. They retired to .
wood where several of our shells burst in
their very midst, and wagon gathering up
and carrying off their dead and wounded
Owing to the bud state of the roads Donnelly
has been ordered to take up new position
nearer the town until the roads get better.
NEW YORK, April %.
The steam gun boat Connecticut has arriv.
ed from the South West Pass, on the 18th
The Connecticut brought the sick and wound
ed seamen from the Gulf Squadron. When
she left the Mississippi all the ships of the ex.
petition to New Orleans were inside the Pass.
es, and had loaded their decks and were all
ready for action. ..,-...
New YORK, April %.
Advices per the Connecticut state that the
rebel ship Florida has been captured by the
U. s. bark Pursuit. .4.sls
Forts BarlancaS and McRae have been evac-
uated by the rebels. .a
The Connecticut brought ex-members Of
the Galveston artillery, who escaped from
imprisonment.
Every fort except Tampa on the coast OF
Florida Is evacuated by the rebels.
Tmos' Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, April %.
The President has just received special
dispatch tonight, from source entirely diff.
ferent from that through which the informa.
ton came yesterday Of the fall of New Or.
leans, confirming the same.
The news from Rappahannock is unim-
portant. Our troops have not yet occupied
fredericksburg, but stay in Falmouth, on
the opposite side of the diver Information
recently received renders it pretty certain
that there is a large force of rebels in the
ready to dispute Gen. Mellow
ellis progress towards Richmond. Report
places this force under the command of Gen.
6. W. Smith. a 0sa
Fir. MoNRoE, April %.
A flag of truce to-day took dispatches and
letters for the Union prisoners. No news
papers came into the hands of the reporters
for the press.
The city of New Orleans has been taken
by the Union forces. The telegraph operator
having left there, as previously reported, no
particulars have been received. It is stated,
however, that the operator subsequently at
tempted to return, but found the city in pos
session of the Union troops. 1t il probable
he city surrendered without resistance, after
he fleet made its appearance. There is
'eport that the enemy's much-boasted iron
run boat, built there as second Merrimac,
vas, while on its way, destroyed by the U.
J. steamer Pensacola.
The weather and tide to-day have been
cry favorable to the temperance of the
derrimac here, but she has no; been Ren.
It is reported that some rebsl gun-boats in
be James river attempted, this forenoon, to !
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