Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-01-17

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reseE tatives Roscoe .Conkling, Thadde,
Stevens and Corning, and Majors Zagon,
and Savage, Of Fremonts staff. -.
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 8.
The Convention is still in session. Charle
II. Lamphier was elected printer for the Coz
vention. ' aE
The Convention is in the hands of the olde
Democratic members, who, so far, have mar
aged with moderation and fairness. go
CAIRO, Jan. 9.
Twenty-Five thousand troops are on thei
way here from st. Louis and other points. A
soon as these reiniorcements arrive move
ment will be made from here with 10000 t
! 10000 troops under Gen. Grant This vii
be but the advance column. A still large
force it is rumored, will follow. The desti
nation is supposed to be Nashville, Tenn
When a junction with Buell's command i
effected, an army will be in the field which
will soon sweep the country to New Orleans
Seven companies of the 22d Illinois ant
five companies of the 18th Illinois and 1Otl
Iowa, under Col Perczel, left Birds Point
this morning, and went beyond Charleston
in search of Logwood's rebel cavalry. Oul
troops were in three divisions, one of which
enquired at a farm house if the rebels hat
been in that vicinity ard was answered ir
the negative. They had not gone far wher
they were fired upon by rebels, who were il
ambush, killing four and wounding ten o.
our men.
Our force returned the fire on the enemy
but with what effect is not known. The
rebels fled in confusion. The man who ren.
dered this false report was taken prisoner by
our men and brought here. He will prob.
ably be hung, or should be.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 10.
The Cairo correspondent of the Republican
telegraphs that the great expedition is
ready to start. All of the soldiers,
and most of their wagons, are embarked
on steamers, which will leave as soon as
the dense fog which overhangs the river is
dispelled. The troops are in the highest spir-
its and impatient to be off. The fleet will
ascend the Tennessee river some distance.
The final destination of the expedition is not
known. A considerable body of cavalry will
start some time soon from Birds Point, and
proceed through Kentucky, joining the main
army at some point Of debarkation on the
Tennessee river.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, 10.
Col. Samuel Colt died at o'clock, to-day,
of an acute attack upon the brain. His de-
cease was rather sudden and unexpected
He had been ill for several days.
New YORK, Jan. 10.
The steamer Oriental, from Port Royal, the
9Th, arrived this morning. She met the At
lantic going into Port Royal.
Nothing special had occurred since the
sailing of the Vanderbilt.
Gen. Stevens still held possession of the
main land, and was awaiting reinforcements.
Two regiments had returned to Hilton Head.
Twelve vessels were awaiting storage for
their cargoes at Port Royal, and new store
houses were to be Immediately constructed.
Our force at Tybce Island has been increased
some 5000 from Port Royal. Fort Pulaski
kept firing and one man had been killed
skirmish took place between a part of
Gen. Sherman's force on the mainland, on
the 9Th, resulting in serious loss to the
rebels, besides seven prisoners.
Com. Dupont had sent $500 men to rein.
force Gen. Sherman, and to make active oper-
atoms on the railroad between Savannah and
Charleston, and had severely censured Gen.
Sherman for want of activity.
Rclnforcements are daily arriving at Port
Royal, and all troops are in good health and
eager for fight.
Progress is being made in the condition of
cotton, and negroes are continually arriving
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
The U. S. Agricultural Society adopted
adverting to agricultural education
and proposing a premium list for series of
experiments on the culture of cotton in the
Middle and Northern States; also, of hemp
md flax. The awards are to be made by the
central agricultural societies of the States in
which the competitors reside. Arrangements
ire also perfected for a National exhibition of
Native Wines, to be held in this city in JAN
lary next.
SEDALIA, Mo-, Jan. 9.
Intelligence, known to be reliable and true,
has just been received here from johnson
county, to the effect that part of Jennison's
Regiment was at Holden and that they had
made descent on the neighborbood where
government wagons were burned and had
fired the houses ofthe most prominent rebels
engaged in that affair as we'll as made an at
tack on Major Hough's command The houses
Of the notorious Ward Cockerell, Methodist
preacher, and Tompkins Brady, Methodist
class leader, in the same church, have been
fred, together with the houses of rebels of
lesser note,
The rebels in arrensburgh are reported
to be in high state of excitement, consequent
upon the near approach of Jcnnison as they
well know they have committed all sorts of
outrages on the quiet and peaceful Union cit
izens of that county, and that if justice be
meted out to them their houses will be burnt
Ward Cockerell has gone to Prices camp
with 300 men.
MADISON, Wis, Jan. 10.
The Legislature convened yesterday. Gov.
Harvey's message first alludes to local mat
ters and the healthy financial condition of
the State In reference to the war tax to be
levied, he says the loyal people of Wisconsin
do not value property or life itself, weighed
against the existence of the Government
which has so long blessed and protected them
in both. He recommends economy and wise
administration to meet this tax; also, recon-
mends tactics and drill to the public schools,
and strongly urges memorial to Congress
for an army, naval and arsenal depot at Mil
waukee, its capacious harbor water power,
cheapness of ship material and accessible po-
sition rendering it the best point on the
lakes. .. t.-
Abiding to the rebellion and the rebels, he
says: "Surely few lessons more will teach
u.s. if indeed we be not already taught, to un-
derstand what treason means, and to regard
these rebels with that horrid aversion in
which the royalists holds the regicide. They
are the attempted regicides of the best govern
ment under the heavens s..- ID.
t''The contest must come to be fought on the
principle that the protection of the Union
alone gives sacredness to the soil or institu-
tons. No soil, or person, or any species Of
property, have any sacredness OF claim to re-
gard outside the constitution and in rebellion
against the laws Slavery is, moreover, the
contest which the plotters for Southern
monopoly have relied upon to alarm and
unite their section, until that whole