Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-05-09
INE, low j., FRIDAY. MAY 9, 1862

PITTSBURGH LANDING, April 80.
i, To E. NJ. Stanton, Secretay Of Nov
]. ments continue. The roads are hard and re
i quire great deal Of work for heavy trains
The reconnaissance to Purdy was success
Q full. They destroyed two bridges on the Mo
e bile and Ohio Railroad, and captured one To-
Q comotve and train men. [Signsd i
THos. A. ScoTr, Asst. Sec'y.
FoRr MoNRos, May l.
t A flag Of truce from Craney Island thil
. afternoon brought down an English noole.
man and several newspapers, giving the par.
! ticulars of the capture of Fort Macon and
some additional particulars of the fall Of New
Orleans, with other interesting items
The Norfolk Day Book, Of this (Thurs
| day. morning, says no telegraphic messages
were received last evening.
The Wilmington Journal of Tuesday, has
the following in confirmation of the repor,
Of the fail Of Fort Macon, telegraphed from
here yesterday: 1--WE have just learned that
the fire upon the fort was opened a quarter
before six o'clock, on Friday morning, and
that the engagement between the forts and
Federal batteries was kept up until Z o'clock
that evening, when the fort became wholly
untenable, and was surrendered, as above
stated. All the guns inside the fort opposite
to the side attacked were 6ismounted, and
all but three of the guns bearing upon the
enemy's batteries were also dismounted.-
The enemy's central battery of preaching
guns was within 100 yards of the fort
The right and left hanking batteries were
more distant. 1t turns out that the report
ofl5 Of our men having been killed in q
scout some days since, against the enemy's
pickets, is untrue. One man only was
wounded, and none were killed until Friday
| last, the day Of the attack upon the fort"
From other accounts it is gathered that du-
ring the bombardment of Fit, Macon, seven
rebels were killed and great many wounded.
Col. White and 100 men were rel ased on pa
role by Con. Burnside sTsg}r ..t %
A Suffolk correspondent of the Pittsburg
EIpress, under date Of April 8Oth, says all
| were expecting to hear something from the
Merrinac, this morning, but the Norfolk
Day Book is silent. - 81 ss-ua. -s-}
The Petersburg Esprsss, of to day, says
that many rumors were in circulation, yes
terday. Among them, one Of the evacuation
of Memphis and Corinth. Also, q report of
the capture of Wilmington, N. e., by Gen.
Burnside.
Gems. Breckenridge and Hindman have
been made Major Generals, and Col. Beal
Brigadier General ..s! e r-.ss
The Richmond Diapatch Of to-day, says:
1.-THE panic on the subject of a scarcity of
food is one of the most CO useless imaginable
The road from Danville to Greenhoro is rap
idly completing, and will open North Carolina,
Tennessee, and even Georgia and South Caro-
lima for supplies to feed the whole State of
Virginia"
How causeless the panic above alluded to
is, may be inferred from the fact that in an
| adjoining column of the same paper is chron.
icled sale of butter at 81 40 per pound in
the city market. Il
Six Yankees, seven domestic traitors and
one recusant Confederate soldier arrived at
Richmond, yesterday. The former belonged
to an Ohio regiment and were captured in
Bath county, Va.
The Richm ond Dispatch, of Yesterday, re-
cords the execution, on the 29th of April, of
Timothy Webster. Mrs. Webster, who was
arrested with her husband. is still at Castle
Goodwin. Webster is said to have been the
first spy yet executed. The Federal Govern.
ment should commence hanging spies.
The following additional items regarding
the fall of New Os1eans are all that can be
cleaned from the papers: Com. Farragut
had proposed terms of capitulato on to Mayor
Monroe, which the latter accepted, and the
city of New Orleans was at last accounts held
b.; battalion of marines from the squadron.
Gen. Butler forces were within few miles
OF the city, having landed on Lake Ponchar-
train.
Information was received at Norfolk, yes
terday, that Capt Mcintosh, the supposed
Commander of gun boat Louisiana, at New
O.lears, had been badly wounded, when or
where, not stated. From the same source it
was also learned that Capt. Thomas Huger,
supposed to be the Commander Of the McRae,
was mortally wounded in the same engage
ment.
Times Dispatch.
FoRr MONROE, May l.
Three or four rebel boats, off Sewell's Point
this morning, appeared to be placing buoys to
mark the channel.
Gen. Preptiss, and seven hundred federal
prisoners, had arrived at Selma, Ala. The Of
ficers are to be sent to Tallahassee, and the
privates to Montgomery.
CON- Holins passed through Columbia
Saturday en- route to r chmond. He is anna
zed at the fall of New Orleans 1t is stated
that there were one hundred heavy guns in
position between Fort Jackson and the city;
that the Louisiana was ready and waiting; that
numerous boarding parties were organized to
take national vessels, at all hazards. and that
the Mississippi, though unfinished, could, if
necessary, be brought into action.
| The rebel General GLADDEN. had died from
wounds at Shiloh.
| FoRT MoNRoE, May l.
| To Hon. E. NJ S anton, Secretary of War: !:
Capt Worden, of the navy, with dispatches
from Gen. Burnside, has just arrived. He
reports that Ft Macon vas taken after IL
hours bombardment 400 prisoners were
taken. Col White, late of the Ordnance De-
partment, commanded Ft. Macon. The loss
ON our side was one killed and l wounded.
[Signed] JNo. E. Wool.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala, May l.
To Hon. E. VI. Stanton: Early yesterday
the main land, and captured two 6-pounder
cannon and their ammunition.
Theinhabitants peport the enemy to have
[Signed] O. MITCHELL.
! Brigad.er General.
| PIrrsBURG LANDING, Tenn, May Q.
A general order was issued yesterday trans
ferung Maj Gen. Thomas's division from the
army Of OHIO to the army of Tennessee. and
Mai. Gen. Thomas takes command Of the army
formerly under Gen. Grant, of which the di
vision Of McCiernaad and Wallace are to con
stitute the reserve under McClerns nd. Major
i General Grant will retain command OF his dis
trict, including the army corps of Tennessee,
but in present movement will act as second
in command under the Major General COM
manding Department.
CAIRo, May l.
On Tuesday, Col. Dickey, with large rec
of cavalry, NADIA reconnaissance towards
J Purdy, 10 miles north of Corinth. Some