Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-06-27
Occupation of Holly Springs, Miss.
CAIRO, June 21.-Gen. Halleck has occu.
pied Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Foreign News.


Foreign News. -....
New YORK, June "a.
The Etna from Liverpool 18th and Queens.
town 18th arrived this morning.
The Great Eastern arrived in the Mersey on
the 18th.
The steamer Columbia left Plymouth for
Nassau with warlike stores, believed to be for
the Confederate States. Two other steamers,
the Merrimac and Sylph, arrived at Plymouth,
supposed to be for the same destination.
| The brig E. Fleming, from Charleston, had
reached Liverpool with cargo of turpentine
and rosin. She left Charleston in company
with seven other vessels.
The Times regards the defeat of Banks as
one of the most important successes of the
Confederates, on account of the lesson it
teaches the North, showing that efforts and
sacrifices, greater than any that have gone
BEFORE must be made if even a border State is
to be won back to the Union. Hopes of an
early solution must be dispelled and in the
meantime increasing debt and mutual hatred
tend to make union more and more impracti-
cable
The Daily Ners treats the defeat Of Gen.
Banks as quite unimportant, and not in the
|
McClellan's plans. 1t was nothing more than
a raid of the Confederates.
| The Morning Post denounces in the Bit
terest terms Buffers proclamation relative to
the ladies' of New Orleans, and thinks the
Government is bound to recall and court
martial him, and says such an act as this, if
not promptly disavowed, would soon turn the
scale finally and decisively in favor of the
Confederate cause.
Parliament was not in session.
The Paris journals announce that it has
been decided to send reinforcements to Next
co, but not till October
The tete at Rome in celebration of the jap
anese martyrs was magnificent and orderly.
The Bishops, in an address to the Pope.
deplore the oppression of the Church, and
declare temporal powers necessary for indie
pendence. They approve all the Pope has
done, and entreat him to remain firm in
resistance. ..
The Pope deplored the spread of revolu-
tionary spirit, and oppression of the Church
and efforts against the temporal power, and
urged the Bishops to redouble their efforts in
arresting these errors.
Liverpool 11M, p. m.-Bigland Athya and
others report flour quiet but steady at 24@
30s. Wheat in fair demand at full prices
winter red western 9@3 and 1908; southern
1903 and los; white western II and Hoo.
HALIFAX, June "a.
The Arabia from Liverpool 18th and
Queenstown 18th, arrived at A. NJ.
Questions have been put in both Houses Of
Parliament in relation to the rumors of me-
diation in America and Gen. Buffers procla-
nation relating to the ladies of New Orleans.
Earl Russell and Lord Palmerston said the
mediation rumOrs were unfounded
No propositions ON the subject had been
made and there was no present indications of
such step. Z
Gen. Buffers proclamation was denounced
and the hope expressed that the United States
government would disavow it.
Breadstufs firm.
az Major Stone, who, by the way, is a
good talker, tells some very entertaining
stories connected with his captivity in Dixie.
The rebel account of General Prentiss' speech
making at Memphis is all bosh The prison.
ers were sent south from Memphis, and at all
the railroad stations, people collected to see
them in large numbers, all, men, women and
children, being apparently violent secession
lists and full offght. At one of the stopping
places, a very demonstrative female of about
forty, skinny, with sharp features and
cracked voice, told the prisoners that when
the Southern men were all killed the women
would take up arms and that she, shaking
her fist, would fight one of them herself One
IF the prisoners told her that they had Fed
,ral Colonel aboard who could lick any wo-
nan of his size in Mississippi.
''Fetch him outlet me see him." shouted
he Warlike little woman her ewes flashing
md frame dilating with anger. 81 can whip
linn myselfw
Thereupon, Federal Colonel was BROUGHT
ut on the platform, who is six feet four inches
ugh, and weighs over 300 pounds This
Ias too much for the equanimity of the crowd.
Tho sent up shout, and even the beligerent
ecesh female had to laugh at the sellSBur-
ngton Hawkeys.
A PATR1orIc CouSrY.-We see by the Mus.
stine JOURNAL that the thirteenth company
now nearly completed in that county, for
he war against rebellion. Over fifteen hum
red men have shouldered their muskets in
uscatine county, since the fall of Fort Sum-
r-over fifteen hundred of her bona tde cit
ens-and gone forth to sustain the Govern
ent on the field of battle. No other county
the State has sent forth so many soldiers,
I'd yet Muscatine has only about 1000 in
Ibitants. All honor to the patriotic county.
Dubuque Times.
There are now about $50 rebel prisoners At
rt Warren, which number will probably be
creased very soon. Three only are kept in
se confinement Keene, priyateer.
Generals Buckner and Tlghman.