Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09
TELEGRAPHIC.
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESI-
DENT. -..-
Thursday, Nov. 26th, Appointed a
day of Thanksgiving.
Sensation Reports Concerning
Rebel Doings.
A Crew Of Rebel Pirates Captured.
Important Mexican News.
Union Mass Meeting in New York.


by the President of the United States:
The year that is drawing towards it's c'ose
has been Il led with the blessings Of fruitful
fields and coudless skies. To these bounties
which are so constantly enjoyed that we are
prone to forget the source from which they
come, Others have been add d VIII icH are of so
extrao' dioary nature that they cannot fail
to penetrate and soften even the heart which
is habit,ally insensible to the ever watchful
providence Of Almighty God. In the midst
of civil war Of unequalled magnitude and
severity, which has sometimes seemed TO in
ve and provoke the aggressions of foreign
States, peace has been preserved and all
order has been maintained, the laws have
been respected and maintained, and order has
prevailed everywhere, except in the theater
Of mill 'ary conflict. While that theater has
been greatly contracted by the advancing
armies and navies Of the Union, the needful
diversion of wealth and strength from the
fields Of peaceful dustry to the National de-
fensc have not arrested the plow, the shuttle
or the ship. The axe has enlarged the bor-
ders of our settlements, and The mines as well
of iron and coal as the precious metals, have
yielded even more abundantly than hereto
fore; the popul ton has steadily increased
notwithstanding the waste that has been made
in camp, in seige and on the battle field, and
the country rejoicing in the consciousness of
augmented strength and vigor is permitted to
expect a continuance of years with a large in
crease of freedom.
No human council hath devised nor
hath any mortal hand worked these great
things. They are the gracious gifts of the
most high God, who, while dealing with US
in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless re.
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and proper that they shc ud be solemnly, rev.
erenty and gratefully acknowledged, as with
one heart and voice, by the whole American
people l do therefore invite my fellow citi-
zens in every part of the United States, and
also those who are at sea, and those who are
soourning in foreign lands, to set apart and
observe the last Thursday of November next
as day of thanksgiving and prayer to our
benificent father who dwelleth in the Heav-
ans, and | recommend to them, that while
ttering up the Inscriptions justly due to Him
for such singular deiiveranceS and blessings
they do, al o, with humble per.itence for our
ma nal peIver enesS end our disobedience,
commend to His tender care all those who
have become widows and orphans, or suffer-
ers in the lamentabe civil strife il which we
are unsvodahly engaged, and fcrvently i'm
plore the inte,positon Of the Almighty hand
to heal the wounas of the nation and to re-
turn it as soon as may be consistent with the
divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of
peace. harmony, tranquility and Union.
In testimony whereof, l have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the Un ted
States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington, this, the
Sd day of October, in the year Of our Lord,
1868, and of the independence of the United
States the SSth.
[Signed ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By he President,
WM. Fl. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
New YORK, Oct 3.
Memphis letter states that Gen. Sher-
man is on his way up the river with a large
force.
FThe Herolds sensation Baltimore cores
pondence has news that Johnston's army in
Nor hern Georgia numbers 135 900, including
Langstreet's corps of 10000 with "a batter
les. Lees force amounts to 81 800 infantry,
$4,000 cavalry and 294 guns. unless EwelPs
corps has been sent to Johnston, which would
reduce his army to 10000.
The rebels expect to regain Chattanooga
and Knoxville ard IN fact all of Tennessee
and then send back for Lees and Longstreet's
corps with $4,000 additional men to attack
Washington.
The same correspondent says rebel Mill
tary Council, composing Davis, Lee, John
ston and auregard, was held at Richmond
the last of August, and they agreed to arm
all slaves in the South immediately, and ex-
pected thus to add 400, 900 men to their army,
and as many more in a year hence.
New YORK, Oct. 3.
Tho cta w hi cto from Nov, n laopo
2bth has arrived New Orleans papers con-
tain nothing relative to army movements.
The steam tug Levia han was captured at
her wharf at Southwest pass. by gang of
rebels, provided with documents from Mallo-
ry, I, bel Secretary of the Navy, by which
the officers and crew were lot entitled to pay
but to subsist and find their reward in plum
der
It. Herrick, in the steamer Crescent, soon
after start, in pursuit and joined the gun
boat Desoto. Tney captured the pirates after
few hours chase.
The reported capture by the rebels of the
steamer Calhoun, is untrue, but on he con-
trarv she has destroyed a rebel steamer near
Pascayula and captured another, besides Sc
veraIy punlshing a rebel battery at Grants
Pass
New YORK, Oct 8.
Mexican dates of the 18th ult. confirm the
fact that Doblodo has been placed at the head
of .Jaurez's Cabinet he proposes the follow
ing plan to con6ne the war to the mountains:
To gather independent men of all parties to
form national party to agree to such inter-
vention as proposed in the tr atty of Landon,
adding also to the United States and disown
all political acts now done in Mexico.
Durango had been attack by 400 MexI-
can interventonis's who were repulsed.
Cen Ura.o is Mi lister of War and Nunez
of the treasury, under Jaurez.
l. consequence OF the American Consulate at
Manz zanla accept ng an executive from Jabas,
opp n nt OF Jaurcz, he has been removed by
the American Government ami Minister Cor
via instructed 10 put another person in his
place. ...
4 rumor is prevalent that Minister Corwin
has received his passports, but Mexican
papers do not allude to such step.
New York, Oct 8.
A mass meeting was held at Cooper Insti
tute last evening, under the auspices of the
National Club, a German political organiza-
lion. to welcome Hon. B. Gratz Brown, Hon.
G. P. johnson, Hon. e. Pretoricas and other
Missourians Of the delegation which has re-
Gently VISITED the President, to solicit from
him relief in regard to gries ances alleged to
be endured at the hands of Gov. Gamble and
Gen Schofeld. The meeting was large and
enthusiastic. -'.' 90