Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-05-02

The Whitworth battery of six steel guns,
presented to our Government by loyal Ameri-
can citizens in England and Ftanee, is in act
i've service before Yorktown.
Gen. Popes army, with the exception Of
one Brigade under Colonel Ex-senator Fitch.
of Indiana, has gone up the Tennessee river
to reinforce Gen. Halleck.
The people of Nicholas county, KY, recent
w held a meeting, and resolved that none
Of the absent traitors should ever be permit
to return.
There are now regiments Of East Tennes
seeans in the national army--Colonels Carter,
Spear and Houk commanding the first three.
The organization of the others is not entirely
completed. ..-
The occupation of Fredericksburg by Gen.
eral Mcdowell has proved stunning blow to
the rebel sympathisers in Baltimore. 1t is
on the road to Richmond, not via, but in spite
of Yorktown.
William B. Astor's income is $4,000 pei
day. He has his hands full to take care of sc
much money. 1t is enough to make a saint
miserable. Thank Heaven! we never expect
to be reduced to such a wretched condition
A letter written from near Yorktown state.
that among the wounded men was one young
fellow who had entirely lost his voice, from
the bursting of a shell near his head. Ii
other respects he was unframed
Gen. Mccall, the rebel commander at Is
land No. 10, was brave man. He stood al
one battery after every man had left, and thu
balls flying all about him, before he would
start step. He was taken prisoner at his
post.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that while the
Lauding, wounded rebel, who had been
most abusive to the kind party who cared
for him, deliberately committed suicide by
jumping into the river.
Pea Ridge is still generally believed, and
claimed in Secessia, to have been a rebel vic
tory, and 1t is thought in the South that Price
and Vandorn have been for some time on their
way to st. Louis with an excellent prospect
of taking the city.
The Washington Republican AYERS that not
one-fourth of the sum appropriated by the
Emancipation Bill for the compensation of
slave owners, will be needed, so many OF the
slaves having already been run off by their
masters in anticipation OF the passage Of the
act
A military commission in session at Col.
umbia, 80, has sentenced to be shot for
bridge burning, James Quisenberry, James
Law, and ". F. Petty. The sentences of the
two former have been committed in conse-.
quence of their youth and penitence, and they
have been released on bond
Gen. Fremont has sent out one column
from his Department., (Mlroy 50 to make con-
nection with Gen. Banks in the Shenandoah
valley, and now another under Col. Piatt has
been started south from Gauley Bridge to drive
back Heath's rebel army which has wintered
It ewisburg, 50 miles distant, and to break
The rebel communication between Richmond
and East Tennessee.
Steel shot are now being made for Govern
ncnt use in the army and navy. In the late
ttack upon Fort Pulaski solid balls were driv- |
n through walls six feet thick, from guns
90 feet distant Experiments in the use of |
lew steel projeetiles have succeeded in driv-
ng them through eight inches of solid iron.
,ankee ingenuity is astonishing. not only
. rebels, but to our old fogy neighbors across
he Atlantic.