Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-24
CONFLICTING REPORTS FROM
THE POTOMAC.
The Hostile Armies Watching Each
Other.
Another Battle Expected Soon.
arrest Of a Wealthy Copperhead
in Montgomery County, Md.
The Gunboat Cuyler Takes a Prize.
Interesting from Port Hudson and
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Rumored Surrender Of Johnston
to Grant.
Three Steamboat Loads of Nor
gan's Men Brought to Gin
@ a cinnati.
Arrest Of a Wealthy Copperhead
in Montgomery County, Md.
The Gunboat Cuyler Takes a Prize.
Interesting from Port Hudson and
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Rumored Surrender Of Johnston
to Grant.
Times Special

~, r,re WASHINGTON, July %.
This evenings Republican contains the fol-
lowing: From the best information at hand,
it appears Lees army is near Winchester, or
above that point, while our own army occu-
pies such position he cannot get back to
Richmond, without fighting at disadvantage.
The rebel General is either holding his posi-
ton to gather supplies from crops in the val
ley, or with the aid of such reinforcements as
he may have obtained, to give another battle,
or series of battles to the Army of the Poto-
mac. -4~ H---1 's--- N,''tH
Our army is ready to fight him-anxious,
indeed, rather than return to another cam
paign in those districts of Virginia which
have been thoroughly devastated by war.
We may expect stirring news from Gen.
Meades army soon.
WASHINGTON, July %.
| From an official statement of the public
debt on the LIST Of July, furnished by the
Treasury Department, the following is taken
The total public debt Of the United States,
July LIST, as shown by the books of the Trea-
sury Department, is 81 ,o97,274,366
~ s&.E. New YORK, July %.
New Orleans letters state that Gen Weitz-
els and Dudley's brigades, under General
Grover, left Port Hudson on the evening of
the 9th and went to Donaldsville to clean out
the rebel batteries near there When few
miles from there the 30th Massachusetts, was
attacked, 800 men killed and wounded and
three field pieces captured. Every effort will
he made by Banks to recover Brashear City,
ON the Opelousas railroad. .... 10y
| At last accounts the enemy were reported
as falling back to Bayou Lafourche.
An expedition is said also to have gone by
the river to Alexandria. ...r ....'
| The gunboat Sciota was sunk in the Mis-
issippi, in collision with the gunboat An
tonia.
! An expedition from the squadron off Gal
weston has destroyed three schooners and
800 bales of cotton, in Galveston bay. On
the return of the party, Lieut. Davenport was
severely wounded by the rebels in ambush.
New York, July %.
The 7Sibune's Harper's Ferry letter of the
Dist states that the main body of our army
is % miles south of Berlin, with no present
appearance Of a forward movement. 1t is
not impossible they will return to Berlin.
Lee lies between Martinsburg and Win
chester. His pickets occupy the Potomac
river from Cherry Run, Is miles west..of Mar
tinsburg, down to Harper's Ferry. Friday
night they drove in our pickets at the Ferry.
They are quite in force, too, at Shepardstown,
Martinsburg and Charlestown.
New YORK, July %.
Washington specials state that Gen. Grant
is to be appointed Major General in the regu-
lar army, in place of Gen. Wool, retired.
Hazel B. Gushing, a wealthy citizen of
Montgomery county, Md, had been arraigned
before court martial, charged with furnish
ing information to Stuart's cavalry where to
find drove of thousand government cattle
and the troops guarding them. Two wit
nesses testified 10 the facts.
1t is rumored that Lee has re-crossed into
Maryland, but it is unconfrmed. The latest
unofficial intelligence leaves the two armies
watching each other. The rebels on the
West, and the Federals on the East side of
the Blue Ridge.
New YORK, July %.
The steamer Creole from New Orleans 10th,
arrived at midnight. She spoke, off Florida,
the gunboat Cuyler, with prize side wheel
steamer in tow.
The following is copied from the Era: A
dispatch from Port Hudson on the evening of
the 18th, from Gen. Irwin to Gen. Emery,
states that Gen. Sherman has driven John
ston out of Jackson, and was pursuing him
| rapidly. Nj
Col. Checkering, Provost Marshal at Port
Hudson, has sent a large number of his men
to New Orleans, including all commissioned
| officers, who are not to be paroled.
On the evening of the 9Th, seven trans
ports left Port Hudson for operations in an
other quarter.
NEW YORK, July %.
The Times has the following from Wash
ington, 22d: There is rumor in town Of john
ston's surrender to Sherman or Grant, but it
is impossible as yet to get it sufficiently au-
| thenticated.
III e... New YORK, July %.
The steamer City Of Limerick, from Liv-
erpool, has arrived.
News anticipated.
l CINCINNATI, July %.
Three steamboat loads of Morgan's men ar
| rived here this morning.