Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-05
PROPOSED MEDIATION OF THE
FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
Important from Virginia.
Great Battle probable iss the Ciciss.
jty or .acqMtn Greek.
REBELS FORTIFYING FREDERICKS.
BURG.
rwO Federal Cavalry Companies
Captured.
Gen Burnside an Con sulfotion ,cilh
Lincoln and HnNeck!
GEN. GRANTS ARMY MOVING i
Large Number of Vessels at New Or
Is leans.

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Large Number of Vessels at New Or
leans.
Powerful Squadron Concentrating in
the Mississippi.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
given notice that the tax stamps for kilograms
are ready for delivery, and the senders oil
messages will be required, on and after Mon
day next, Dec. 1st, to place stamp on each
telegram, and cancel it with the date and ini-
tial of the writer. The Telegraph companies
throughout the country will require compli-
ance with the law on and after Monday next.
| New YORK, Nov. 20.
letter from Suffolk, Va, 26th, says:
Yesterday Col. Dodge, with two battalions
of his mounted rihemen and one howitzer.
had spirited but brief engagement with the
enemy at Zcnni, on the Blackwater. Having
no orders to cross, he could not pursue his
advantages, and afer driving the enemy back
from the river, he returned to his post. The
only serious causualty on our side was the
severely wounding of private Jones, of the
battery. The enemy's fire was very heavy,
and their force in the woods on the opposite
side of the river and behind their entrench-
ments strong, but they had no artillery at
first and our grape and canister troubled
them. They evidently lost several men, for
they fought under cover and had dense
forest in their rear.
After they had left and our forces were four
or five miles on our way back, we could hear
the fire of a battery, which they had brought
down from liver, where they have heavy
force stationed.
.. New YORK, Nov. 20.
Advices from Port Royal give an account of
an expedition by the colored regiment to Du-
boy Sound. The negroes behaved very COM
mendably. The expedition brought back
2OO, 900 feet of sawed lumber. Three of the
negroes were wounded.
1t was rumored that Beauregard has pro-
nounced Charleston indefensible, and the in
habitants are moving their property.
New YORK, Nov. 20.
The Presidents message will be sent in full
on Monday night. A brief abstract will be
sent Monday noon or in the 4 o'clock report.
NEW York, Nov. 29.
The steamer Tentmin sailed to-day, at
noon, for Southampton, taking out $374, ,436.
The steamer Etna also sailed at noon, tax
ing $608, S37 in specie
New York, Nov 20.
A Washington dispatch says that Secretary
Seward looks upon the proposed mediation
OF the French Government as an act offriend-
~ power, simply to secure an interview be-
tween the bellgerents, without prejudice to
what they may do afterwards, and that to
prevent continuance of the war, or exercise |
the least pressure on either party, directly or
indirectly, is in no manner expressed or hint |
ed at in the documents.
The Presidents message will make between |
four or five columns.
There is reason to believe that Gen. Grants
recent order providing for the purchase and
sale of cotton for the benefit of the Govern
ment foreshadows the policy of the Admins
tration on that subject.
A dispatch from Sigels Headquarters says
that jackson passed through Salem, White |
plains and Warrenton, probably on his way
to join Lee.
No enemy is in sight from Aldie, Thor
oughfare Gap, Bristalow, and tho intervening
places.
New YORK, Nov. 20.
The army correspondent of the Philadel- |
phia Enquirer, from Acquia Greek, says:
Daily, hourly, in fact momentarily, we ex-
pect to hear the first gun fired that will inau- |
gurate the first grand battle of the campaign, |
for it is in this vicinity that not only almost |
the entire rebel army is concentrating, 100,-
900 strong, but also the three grand divisions |
which 60 to make up the Grand Army of the |
Potomac.
A dispatch to the Philadelphia Press says
that last night the indications were that Gen. |
Burnside's army would soon move, and that |
we are on the eve of one of the greatest bat |
ties of modern times
Especial to Post.l . |
. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
It is understood that the annual report of
the Secretary of the Treasury is completed
and will probably be laid before Congress on
Monday. .......z,...s .s7-
The reports of the Secretary of the Interior
and Of the Postmaster General are also ready. |
The Presidents message was read to the
Cabinet, yesterday, but will not be closed un-
til Sunday night. The President will with
hold his signature till the last moment, in Or
der to avail himself of any additional inform
alton that may be received.
LIE MESSAGE VIII ~ intO OOHSTeSS dI HULL
on Monday, and Immediately after the reading
shall have commenced the document will be,
sent off by telegraph. .~
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF PoToMAc,l
November 29.
The rebels continue to raise earthworks
around Fredericksburg, but no new batteries
are visible to-day.
Early yesterday morning some rebel caval-
ry, said to be the Hampton Legion, crossed
the river some distance above here, evading
our pickets, and made a descent upon two
companies of the Srd Pennsylvania cavalry
in Gen. Averill's brigade, near Harwood, cap
turing nearly all of the two companies.
The roads are improving and supplies are
now coming with regularity. @
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
Maj. Gen. Burnside arrived here last night
and spent this forenoon principally in consul
tation with President Lincoln and Gen. Hal
leck. He has already returned to his head
quarters. ~ 5ss8ag
It is supposed that Stonewall jackson was
to-day at Culpepper, designing to move to
fredericksburg. ub ,,su
The outstanding demands upon the Treas
urv are less than $14,000,OOO. These, it is