Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-07-11
VOL. XIV---NO. 2.
WASHINGTON, july 4.

WAsHINGToy, July 4.
The Richmond Ernmine', of the I'd, gives
| the following in relation to the battle Of
Monday: It says on Sunday morning Gen
erals Hill and Longstreet, with their divisions,
t crossed the, Chickahominy, and late Monday
afternoon attacked the enemy about miles
northeast of Darbytown, on the New Market
road. The conflict was terrible, and at $50
p. NJ. the enemy had been driven back a
mile and a half. At half past nine, being
heavily reinforced, they made another stand
The loss here, on the rebel side, was terrible.
The situation being hopeless against such an
overwhelming force, Gen. Hill fell back. At this
moment, seeing.their adversary retire, the most
vociferous cheers arose from the whole YAM
kee line. The fight ended there for the night
The Examiner thinks the division which
went into the fight on Friday $4,000 strong
could number only 5000 for duty on Tuesday,
and that the loss of life exceeds that of any
battle or series of battles yet fought
About o'clock Tuesday morning, the Es.
ansiner says Jackson's and Huger's divisions
attacked McClellan's left flank, on the west
side of the Chickahominy, II miles from
Richmond. Later i'll the day Magruder fell
upon his right faux. Fighting was going on
till Tuesday night. Heavy firing from the
glnboats on James river was heard on Tues
day morning. A number of Federal trans
ports are in the river, with reinforce1nents
from Burnside, but they have not yet landed
| The above extracts from the Eramiot7 are
relative to Tuesdays battle, in which Gen.
McClellan's dispatch, of yesterday, said the
enemy were badly. beaten.
Advices received at the War Department
show that there was no fighting on the Pc
ninsula up to $50 P. NJ.
WASHINGTON, July 4.
Accounts from Warrenton state that
there is no enemy there, the 200 rebel cavalry
seen on Wednesday having disappeared. -
Some of the women threw dishes and other
articles from the windows at our forces.
The soldiers at Manassas and Catlett's are
celebrating the day Of Independence.
Accounts from Fredericksburg represent
the greatest possible distress among the in
habitants, the 10th (Va.) regiment, raised in
that town, having been cut to pieces.
CAIRO, July c.
Gen. Grant issued an order on the Sd that
wherever loss is sustained by the government
at the hands of guerillas, sufficient amount
of personal property shall be taken from citi-
zens in the immediate neighborhood and sym
pathizers with rebellion to remunerate the
government. Also that persons acting as
guerillas, without organization and without
uniform, are not entitled to, and will not re-
ceive, the treatment of prisoners of war.
The Memphis avalanche has been sup
pressed. The Bulletin is to take its place.
Hundreds of men come to the banks of the
river above Vicksburg and beg to be taken on
on the Federal boats. They are flying from
the conscription Of the Confederates.
A dispatch from Vicksburg, dated 2sth,
says the Federals have planted a park of ar
tillery on the bank of the river opposite the
city.
Yesterday, as the train was coming from
Humboldt to Memphis, a car loaded with cot
ton caught fire and was burned up.
An order has been issued closing the
Mound City hospital.
Fort MONROE, July 5.
Two steamers with sick and wounded from
Harrison's Landing leave here for New York
this forenoon. Many are very slightly woun-
ded
Parties on board the steamer which came
in from there report they heard heavy can
nonading from A. NJ till 2 P NJ Others say
it continued till 6-the time the steamer left
Harrison s Landing.
Mcclellan sent 5S5 rebel prisoners to-day
to Ft. Monroe. Many of them had clothes on
taken from our soldiers. Among the pris-
oders are SO officers
It is stated the rebels were driven back and
retreated 10 miles Thursday, July Sd, with
great loss.
CoR1NrH, July 5.
z a former employee on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, from Mobile via Lapello, says two
gunboats and a ram are in Mobile Bay, and
abont 10000 troops below Mobile, on the
Shell Road; that the Notifications around
Mobile commenced a month ago, are compile
ted. The inhabitants are sanguine that Mo-
bile cannot be taken. He says Bragg is in
command at Lapello with from 40, 900 to 5O,-
900 men. Breckenridge had left there with
10000. All the troops were short of cloth
ing and provisions. They have bacon twice
each week.
They think the time will come to re-take
Corinth, and the rebel impression is that q
majority of our troops have gone East. 1t is
the unanimous testimony of the deserters and
spies that tho rebel troops except cavalry have
gone East.
GALEsBURG, ILL, July 5.
Hon. Julius Manning died suddenly, at
Knoxville, last evening.
BALTIMORE, July 8.
The steamer Daniel Webster as arrived
here with large number of soldh rs wound
ed in the recent great battle before Rich.
mond.