Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-02-07
7alk Of Compelling Fraudulent Con-
tractors to Iisgorge.
Latest from Hattcras and the
Burnside Fleet.
BISHOP HUGHES AND THURLOw WEED WRITE
ENC0CRAGlNGLy FROM EUROPE.
Tribuns's Special.

Letters continue to be received from emil
nsnt bankers favoring the legal tender bill.
There is reason to believe Gen. Butler was
assured before he LIFT Washington that he
should have II .jor Generals Commission,
rs we'll as the title. He will land several
brigades at point on the Southern coast no
now occupied by Union soldiers. The cap
ture will be NOR important than yet made.
Secretary Stanton in.isted tha' Butler
should have what he wanted, although Nc
Clellan disapproved.
Times Dispatch.
A movement is making here by members
of Congress fr m the west and northwest,
headed by Frank Blair and Mr.. Arnold, to
have Gen. Sigel made Major General. Ii
will probably be successful.
Herslds Dispatch.
The Select Committee Tn the de!enc"s and
fortiticat ons Of the great lakes and rivers are
prepa' ed to make report. They will recon-
mend the erection of such Notifications at
Mackinaw as will make it Gibraltar, as it is
really the key of our northwestern frontier
Their re ,.ort will provide also for the estsb-
lishment of Naval Departm mt and National
Armory upon Lake Michgan-prooably at
or near Chicago, and that preparations be i'm
tned,at-ly made for the accumulation Of the
necessary arms and munitions to arm the
whole Of the American vesse.s engaged in the
commerce of the northern lakes 1t is esti-
mated that there are in this trade 1900 Amer
ic4n vessels 10 $50 British, and 1900 Amer
lean sailors t. 5000 Brush. lti- represent
ed by the committee that the majority of the
population of the loyal States is west of the
Ia of NJ 1sb
coast exceeds tho who length Of our Allan
| tic co st and that our commerce on the lakes
10 greater than our while foreign :trade. To
complete the def.n.cs and render communi
cation with all parts Of the northwest secure
fron interruption by fore. On foe, it will
also he recommended that military railroad
shall be 'mmed atty cons ructed from the
month Of the Menominee, from Bad naque,
on Lake Michigan, to Marque,tee on Lake
Superior, ami that ship canal shall be built
from Chicago to the Mississippi River. 1t is
said these recommendations have the approx
al of Gen. Mcclellan. The report will prob
ably be made on Tuesday.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.
| 1t is known that number OF Southern Sc
cessionsts arc in Canada, whose business is
to collect money from sympathizing iriends,
and to forward and receive dispatches from
Europe and place them in such secret chan
nels that they my reach their ultimate des-
tination. 1t i. not likely that such proceed.
ings will be much lorger continued.
1t. Col. Sir p. Windham, late command
ing the 81 brigade of the Italian army, has
been appointed Colonel of the Michigan Regi
ment Of Lanc:rs.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.
| So vast an army has been marshalled in
tbs district that no proper arrangements
| have been made for even decent interment
| Of those who die in our hospitals. This mat
| ter is under consideration and will receive the
immediate attention of Congress.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
The result of the examination recently ir-
| stituted by the telegraph interests shows that
| the Cumber Of 'Ees'ags S transmitted over the
lines during the past year was 100000,
yielding a total amount Of 1882 600
Should Congress, in the next tax bill, impose
3 cents on each message, little over 1874,
900 would be realized from that source, ,r
81 per cent on the aggregate amount OF bust
| ness.
TIproN. Mo-, Feb 8.
The division under Gen Davis has been
much retarded by bad roads and swollen
streams. Wagons and artillery have sunk
axle deep The Big Travier, stream ordina-
rily unimp 7rtant, was swollen beyond its
banks and occupied two days in crossing
A sharp frost having set in on Thursday
| night. the roads will " support, and if un-
| lmpede1 by further obstacles the column will
vance rapidly.
Gen. Prentiss, with his command, is ad-
vancing on Lebanon, to combine with forces
under Gen. Davis. Price. though SO formid
ably menaced, >hows no signs Of falling back,
and from present appearance Sc ms deter
mined to give battle. Sh uld he maintain his
position, within two weeks Springfield will be
the theatre Of another bloody contest, such as
has made the place f.mous in the history of
the war in Missouri.
TOLEDO, Feb. g.
Lieut.. Waterman, U 8. A., stopping at the
Oliver House, in this city, shot himself on the
LIST. Hewa supposed to be MORALLY wounded.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 8.
Capt. N. W. Fogg, of Nashville, member
Of Zollico6er's staff who was wounded near
Somerset, is dead. Maj Cliff, Surgeon of
Zollicoffel's brigade, was taken prisoner. and
will b. sent to Bow ling Green on Tuesday. to
b exchan gcd. 1t is thought Gen Buell. will
ar snge for the exemption Of al. surgeons from
arrest hereafter.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
The following communicat on has been re.
ceived at the Navy Department from Capt
John Marsfon, dated U. s. Steamer Roanoke, |
Hampton Roads, Feb. 1st.: ~ have the