Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-01-17
HIGHLY INTERESTING NEWS FROM
THE SOUTH.
OF BILOXIE, MISS,
BY THE FEDERALS.
GENERAL slGEL's EXPLANATION
Illinois Constitutional Convention.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8.
A special dispatch from Cairo to the Dem
ocrat says that $4,000 troops are on their
way there from different points, and as soon
as they arrive column of from 10000 to
$4,000 strong will march from there and Pa
duca, under Gen. Grant The destination of
this force is said to be Nashville, when, if
junction can be made, the entire force will
proceed to New Orleans The movement
will undoubtedly be made within six days.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 9.
The Democratic Convention made the fol-
lowing nominations this morning: For Sec
rotary of State, James S. Nathan, of Clark
Treasurer of State, Mathew L. Brett, of Da-
Wis; Auditor of State, Joseph Rislne, of
Fountain; Attorney General, Oscar B. Hurd,
of Decatur; Superintendent of Public Insti-
tutions, Milton B. Hopkins, of Clinton.
Adjourned sine die at II.
ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 8.
The Provost Marshal General has issued an
order, requiring all publishers of newspapers
in the State of Missouri (the st. Louis city
papers excepted) to furnish his Office with a
copy Of each issue for Inspections failure
TO comply with which will render the paper
liable to suppression.
Great excitement occurred in the Chamber
of Commerce, this afternoon, on the occasion
of the election of officers, which resulted in
the disruption of the Chamber by the with
drawal of Union men. Measures were subse-
quently set on foot for the re establishment of
Union Chamber of Commerce, which will
be Immediately carried. The trouble occurred
in consequence of Secession members refus-
ing by their vote, to admit number of
Union candidates for membership. a
Special to Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.
A final vote on the amendment to the bill
for the construction of new iron clad steamers
substituting the name of the President in
place of that of the Secretary of the Navy,
will depend on how the Democrats and bor-
der State Senators vote upon it.
The steamer Telegraph, plying between
Washington and the lower Potomac, stove q
| hole and sunk in four fathoms of water, last
night, seven miles below Alexandria. Her
passengers we're all saved. a. s.s
| A colonel, direct from Hilton Head, reports
that residences even ten miles in the interior
are abandoned and great fright is everywhere
prevalent. Hebelieves that with isregiment
he could take Charleston. -a .nE, -
A rumor comes through Catholic channels
that flag of truce, bearing red cross on
white ground, was recently presented to a
regiment at New Orleans. 1t was blessed by
father of the church, who predicted that on
the close of the war it should become the ma
tional flag. nrn,av s ssis
Representative Fenton introduced bill for
the payment Of six per cent. interest on
claims against the Government, the same to
run from one month after the presentation oi
the demand or claim for payment. .e
P. McDonogal Collins, now here, says that
the inter-continen:al telegraph, by way Of
Bhering's Straits, is rapidly progressing
TWENTY-FIVE hundred miles of the line east
from ST. Petersburgh will ba completed next
spring, and fifteen hundred more in the course
Of the year. In the spring there will be q
beginning westward from the mouth of the
Amoor river. -4.,.,,f ..d, ,,.e s,.s
The Commissioner of the Land Office has
decided that the oath, of allegiance must bs
required of all persons claiming certificates O
! donations of land ON pre- emption rights, ant
all taking contracts in the surveying servic,
in any part of the United States. -, sass
There was IN atroci0us and damnine at
tempt to burn the Alexandra General Hospi
tai, tonight, in which there are six hundre'
patients. A number of rebels in the neigh
borhood have been arrested on suspic,oa o
) completely with the crime. i79a1'a ~ 81
II Congressman Frederick A. Conklin rive
: ts dinner to Gen. Fremont and lady, tonight