Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-05-23

special TO Cnlcago Post. 1r..
CAIRO, May IA.
By the City of Memphis, from Pittsburg,
we learn there is great dissatisfaction among
the rebel troops. Some want to go home, as
their time of enlistment is out, and others for
being taken from their business by force.
No news from the fleet to-day.
The weather is getting very hot here.
The City Of Memphis has $50 sick. They
are going to keokuk, undcs charge of Dr..
Turner.
Gen. Mtchells division has arrived at
Farmington.
A iamentabl casualty occurred on board
the steamer Gladiator, as she was passing up
the Tennessee on Tuesday The 4th Min
ncsota regiment was on board. " hen the
steamer was Just above Paris Landing her
upper works gave way, killing or and in
iuring several others.
Tribune's Dispatch.
CAIRO, May ID.
Memphis papers ofthe 9th, 10th and 18th
insts, Just received by special express, state
on the authority of dispatch from Natchez
that the Federal fleet had returned down the
river to New Orleans.
The Appeal, commenting upon the grow
ing disposition Of the people of Memphis to
refuse Confederate notes, characterlzes the
parties as traitors and threatens to publish
their names in it's columns
The same journal says that the only con-
sideration upon which the South will accept
peace is the recognition of the independence
not only of the cotton States but of every
border State whose people desire an alliance
with the Confederacy.
rla 1o,.,,oI oontn;o, M ,ooo,,,4 &c ~ ,
surprise and the capture of the Federal cav
airy by Col Clairbanda, with 1900 cavalry
near Dresden, substantially as have before
telegraphed. The prisoners were taken to
jackson, Tenn. 1t also has the following
telegraph dispatches from Corinth:
Corinth, Hoy sth. The anniversary OF
| Palo Alto opened with sktrmisiIing between
Gen. Pope's forces and Gen. Prices troops
on the Farmngton Rienga roads. At 2 o'clock
the firing of a; tillery was brisk. Cox's Ala
bama cavalry had several wounded There
was heavy infantry firing late in the evening
in which the enemy were driven back with
great loss. Surgeon w. r. Thrall, of the
9th Ohio, and Msj. Arlington, of the 42d
Illinois were killed.
A flag of truce was sent by the enemy
yesterday, asking for an exchange of 1t. Col
Adams, OF MO-, ana was refused.
The telegraph Office at Pennington is com
municating directly with Washington City
| The AoaIanche, of the 10th, says that il
was learned f'om reliable sources that the
actua Federal loss at the battle of Shiloh ex
ceeded 100000 The Provost Marshal o
Memphis has or 1ered the arrest of all person.
refusing to accept Confederate money in pay
ment of debts or tor goods purchased. Moth
ing in the least degree calculated to discredi
the operations of the government will be tol
Grated
The appeal, of the 18th, says we have Ger
tain intelligence that Gen. Halleck has los
over 5000 of his army by descrtion. Tn
country between the Tennessee river ant
Kentucky is full of them. The whole of tn
4Oth Ohio deserted and dlsbanded after tn
battle of the 7th. Numbers of Kentuckian
and Missourans have followed their example
in consequence of the late antl-slavery move
ments in Congress. One entire Kentuck
regiment had unceremoniously quit Halleck'
army and gone home. Five hundred Feders
cavalry and one thousand infantry had occu
pied Paris in consequence of the attack mad
by our cavalry on the Federal camp at Dres
den. few days ago
report is brought from Little Rock ths
) Gen Curtiss division of the Federal army hs
commenced to march upon the capital of A
kansas, Gen Steele is marching upon tt
! same point from Pocahontas. a - -s