Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-31
GEN. BURNSIDE ON HIS WAY TO
WINCHESTER.
.Mos.e English Fossils Captured
The President Z determined that Soldiers
shall be well Clothed and
Promptly Paid.


formation from semi official circles in Europe
that England and France have decided upon
the recognition of the Southern Confederacy,
if the Joint offers of mediation and armistic,
for four or six months, to be proposed to Mr..
Seward, are not accepted They fear slave
instruction in the South after the first of
January, says the Ezprfss, and it is to afford
ii cir own citizens residing there ample pro-
lection under the agis of their regularly APP
pointed agents that England and France will
claim the necessity of recognizing the new
Confederacy.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 81.
The Press, of this city, publishes a state
ment from Fortress Monroe, dated Friday
last to the following effect:
Gen Henry A Wise, with 10000 men, is
advancing on Yorktown. He has reached
New Kent Court House
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. u.
The Baltimore Amae,icnn, this morning
contains dispatch from Harper's Ferry.
dated Sunday evening, announcing the move
| ment Of Gen. Pleasonton's cavalry across the
Potomac, the people everywhere receiving
them with acclamations of delight. From
thence they moved forward to Waterford, and
it is expected they will reach Leesburg early
this afternoon.
Gen. Burnside's corps crossed at the same
point. We expected to rest at Louisville
and move forward on Monday morning. The
troops on Bolivar Heights are under marching
orders, and will move forward on Monday.
| Active movements are on foot on the Upper
Potomac
BosToN, Oct. p.
Hon John H. Clifford declines the peo-
PIES nomination for Congress in the Isl
District, and says his s'pport of the Presi
dent is uncondi ional and without qualifca
| ton.
MILWAUKEE. Oct 81.
The Typographical Union of this city is on
strike for an advance on present wages.
WASHINGTON. Oct. ~.
A new story having just been added to the
War Department building and the roof not
yet completed, the heavy rain yesterday did
much damage to the structure. Owing to
the OVERLOOKING of nearly all The rooms, bust
ness is being temporarily transacted in a
neighboring house The papers Of the De-
partment We're saved from material injury
a week will be required to prepare the prem
Uses for re-occupation.
VIM. G. Barney, New Yorker, who has
been a prisoner at the famous Libby prison
for the last five weeks, has just arrived here,
having been discharged on Thursday last
BOSToS, Oct. u.
The U. S steam sloop-of-war Kearsay left
Gibraltar on the 30th of September for the
Azores, to sea ch for the pir te Alabama.
The following is from the executive com
mittee of the Associated Press, and is for pub
lication The Associated Pr SIS consists of
seven newspaper establishments in the city of
New York-the Journal Of o1amerce, II r.
nd. Iribmus, lines, W"rfd, S"n and Lr-
press. These papers hold various political
principles, as should be well known to the
press in all parts of the country Complaints
have recently been made that Geographic
news and special dispatches relating to polit
ical meetings and elections, have been more or
less tinged with political coloring, on one
side or the other. 1t is the object of tn S no
tce to call the attention of all agents and
correspondents to the rules of the Associa-
ton, which forbid any such dispatches % be
sent over the slres They are instructed to
send news, and only news, Facts can always
be stated in words that are free from obiec-
ton, and it is especially important that no
slang phrases and pc itical nicknames be used
in dispatches sent to the Associated Press -
1t is the object of the Association to receive
news which shall be acceptable to all the
members, without giving offence to any b.
the terms by which it is conveyed
Chas I. Train declines the Peoples nomi- |
nation for Congress in the 7th district, on ac-
count of private business and for the special |
reason that he entirely sympathizes with the
Presidents emancipation proclamation and |
the policy Of the Republican party.
The steamer Honduras, from Pensacola,
18th, reports the health of the troops good
Commodore Farragut was then, with the
Hartford, Brooklyn, Susquehannah, Preble
and Potomac, waiting orders to attack Mobile
CAIRO, Oct 81.
Gen. Rosencrans passed through here to-
day on his road to Cincinnati. He will at !
once proceed to his new command.
Our reports from the vicinity of Bolivar are
conflicting One is that there has been Skin
mishing between Prices advance and our
pickets. Another is that all is quiet and the
rebels have not made their appearance.
The reconnaissance sent out from Corinth
failed to find any large body of
rebels.
On Friday last the rebels captured forag-
ing party, eight or ten miles from Helena, and
all their wagons, thirty five in number The
rebel Generals Cheatham and Holmes are re
ported to be in that vicinity.
DR.. Boucher, Medical Director of this Dis
trict, has been ordered to report at Bolivar.
T. he gunbo at Eastport arrived from below
his evening"
LOUISVILLE, Oct. ~.
The Grand Jury indicted Gen. jeff G.
Davis for manslaughter, in killing Gen. Mel
son. |,
WASHINGTON, Oct. %.
The Navy department has received the fol-
owing information:
The United ates forces in the Gulf have
destroyed the rebel salt works at ST. An
lrews and St. Joseph Bay, both capable of
making over 400 bushels of salt per day.
The bark j. S. David captured the English
schooner Isabel, while attempting to run the
blockade off St. Marks, with u cargo of cot
on.
The steamship Prescott, on the 22d inst, 1
aptured off Shelton Inlet, North Carolina,
he English brig Ro'ert Bruce Of about 200 8
ons burthen, loaded with clothing, medicines,
&C. 1t is alse learned that the United States .
teamer Albatross captured the scho nerT Two
listers off the mouth of the Rio Grand on
&c 2lst inst She was flying the rebel flag
t the time, and rebel regiater was found on
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