The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-01-28
News and Items.

Brigadcr General.
News and Items.
The correspondent Of the Richmond
Dispatch, in an article upon the capture OF
Holly Springs, gives the following invcnto-
~ Of captures, and spolations: 2:lOO
privates and Us commissioned officers
prisoners, $l,5OO,OO0 worth Of ordnance
stores; $500, 900 Of quartcrmastcr's stores
100000 worth Of commssary stores
81 100000 worth Of medical stores 1000
bales Of cotton; s6oO,O worth Of suffers
stores; sixty cars. two locomotives, and
contents. The annals Of modern warfare
show no more disgraccfu surprise, nor
greater loss of stores, than the above.
Late European adviccs are very cncour
aging, and there is no apprehension Of
Intervention for months to come.
The long talked Of Merrimac No. 2 is
said to be a complete failurc-beng too
top heavy. She now lies at the Roc kcts,
James River, kept aHoat by an Immense
scow on ei her side.
Mound City which has long been occu-
pied as headquarters for guerrilla bands has
been burned by detachment Of federal
troops. BIT two houses are left standing.
Our killed and wounded ut the battle of
Arkansas Post are now placed az high as
600. -.
The federal feet since the capture Of
Arkansas Post, has started down the river
in the direction Of Vicksburg.
Capt. Geo. S. Pierce, formerly popular
clerk Of one Of our up river packets, and
now in the 10Th U. S. infantry has lately
been presented with magnificent sword
by his old friends at Dubuque.
Judge Doolittle has been reelected to
the U. S. Senate from Wisconsin.
The trading boat Forest Queen was cap
tured and burned by guerrillas at Com
mercc on Wednesday evening. Officers
and crew were parolea. INK s.E
Col. Murphy Of the 9Th Wisconsin, for
infamous conduct, at Holly Springs, has
been dismissed from the service. Served
him right.
There are said to be but 3 900 rebel troops
in Mobile, and in the harbor four wooden
gunboats, and an iron ram. Buckncr threat
ems to burn the city if he cannot otherwise
prevent its capture. To this the citizens
protest jeff Davis addressed the citizens
Of Mobile on the goth ult. there was no
enthusiasm. .....
At Memphis on the goth the mercury was
but three degrees above zero. That is near.
ly as cold as it has been this winter at NJ:
Gregnr
1t is stated that will be some time before
tho next movement will be made upon
Vicksburs. Gen. Grant is still at Memphis.
Gen. Fitz John Porter has been adjudyed
guilty by ahr court martial, and the PreSi
dent has approved the sentence which dis
misses him from the service
The number Of Major Generals awaiting
adiers lat.
Money has been sent from Washington
to pay the soldiers in Grants and Rose
scran's armies. Good news. Burnsidc's
army is about being paid.
BY recent railroad catastrophe on the
Memphis & Charleston r. R., forty soldiers
were killed and wounded.
An unsuccessful attempt was recently
made by rebel steamer, supposed to be
the Huntress, to run the blockade. Failing
in the attempt, she was burned with her
cargo, consisting Of 400 bales Of cotton.
The u S. steamer Columbia, is ashore
at Masonbow Inlet. Her commander, two
Off GERS, and twenty-eight men are prison
ers. " ....a. s.E.a
Ben. Wade has just been reelected to
the u. S. Senate.
On the 10Th the rebel guerrillas seized
and burned the steamer Nary Crane, on
the Cumberland between Fort Donclson
and GAINESVILLE. The boat and cargo -
worth 500, 900 are a total loss. E
The Wcehawken one of the new iron.
clad Monitors has just nnstrated good
sea going qualities. Waves thirty feet high
rolled over her, in storm which she ex
pcrenced off Delaware breakwater. She
arrived however, at Hampton Roads with
but little damage.
President Lincoln has settled the guag
Of the Pacific Railroad ut five feet, which
will prevent the running of sleeping cars
from off connecting roads.
| w. l. Baker, American consul at Wa.
zattan has been killed by the Apache Indi.
ans, while visiting silver mines.
1t is positively stated that Gen. Butler is
to be rcinstated to his command in New
Orleans.
The House committee on territories have
instructed their chairman to report bill
for the admission Of Utah as state, with
the prohibition Of polygamy as one Of the
conditions Of admission. The same chair.
man is authorized to report bill for the
erection Of new territory Of Shoshona
which will include within it's limits all that
part Of the old territory Of Oregon inhabit
ed by the Shoshona Indians, all the terri
tory Of Nebraska west Of the 9th parallel
fr m Washington, and that portion Of Da
cotah territory lying south Of the 4Gth de-
gree Of latitude.
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On the Gath, the snow crushed in tn.
roof Of the market house at GAINESVILLE
F Ohio, causing the death Of seven persons
| and the wounding IF many more. Is