Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-31
MEADE'S ARMY RESTING ON THE
# RAPPAHANNOCK.
He Throws a Pontoon Bridge Over
81 the River.
Rebel Report Of their Loss at
Charleston--Great Consterna- =.
ton in the City--lt -.-.
Must Fall. ,...r
Pegram's Rebel Force Defeated
at Paris, Kentucky.
Morgan Taken to the Columbus
Penitentiary.
Sentence Of a Spy Revoked.

New YORK, July 30.
A Washington dispatch says: 800,
''It is reported here by officers in
from the front that Gen. Meade threw his
pontoon bridge across the Rappahannock,
near the railroad, yesterday There was
some opposition made by the enemy
The Herald has the following:
NASHVILLE, July %.
We are permitted to send you the following
facts, collected here from deserters Just in
from Bragg's army: In the fight on Morris
Island the rebels sustained a very heavy loss
Of killed and wounded; at first reported at
$780, and then reduced to $50. Among the
killed is Brig. Gen. Geo. Smoot, Col. Lang
don, Col John Bee, and Major Tate. The
body of Col. Bee is in Union hands; the 9TH
er three had been brought into Charleston.
Great CONSERVATION prevails in the city
Women and children are leaving. All free
negroes are being pressed into the service,
and the only hope for Charleston, says it's
friends, is by the bayonet. ..#-
CINCINNATI, July 80.
Yesterday morning, Pegram's and SCOTS
forces, numbering $500, left Richmond,
crossed the Kentucky river and marched to
Paris, where they arrived yesterday after
noon and attacked our forces. After two
hours sharp engagement the rebels were de-
feated and driven away. 1t is thought they
will make flank movement on that place
A large Union cavalry force is in the rear of
the rebels 1t is believed the movement
against Paris is for the purpose of destroying
the bridge there. .,............. u
Squads Of Morgan's men are being brought
into Columbus by citizens and military,
There are now 1900 at Camp Chase
Morgan will be removed to Columbus this
morning, and confined in the penitentiary
~:..-..s..... New York, July 80.
The Times has the following:
Army ofths Potomac, Va, July 29.-This
army to-day occupies practically the same
line it did two months ago. The recent ac-
tive movements will be necessarily followed
by period of comparative inaction, during
which it will be recruited and recuperated.-
For the next few weeks the cavalry will do
most of the fighting. .... ,1.,..,......... ..
As have before stated, Longstreet's and
Hills commands, after passing throug h Thorn
TONS Notch, have encamped7 between Cul-
pepper and Gordonsville. Ewells command
covered their rear by guarding the Blue
Ridge passes. The bulk of this corps is now
moving down the Valley, and detachments
threaten our lines. ~ lr
At 2 o'clock A. NJ. yesterday, our pickets
were driven in near Amisville, and indica-
tons to-day are, that our out-posts are liable
to be forced in at any moment by superior
detachments of the rebels. s
There is but little sickness, and the men
are more literally supplied with rations than
ever before. This, taken with the recent
Union successes, creates general good feel
ing in the army. u '. ..'5. ''''s.f 3.a ~
A larger number of officers have recently
been detached to bring in drafted men. f..
f.,.- New YORK, July 80.
The Times Washington dispatch says
Gen. Gilmore has been promised all the rein
forcements he needs. Charleston must fall,
and that too, speedily, if energy, celebrity and
fifteen-inch guns will accomplish the result.
The statement that Gilmore's losses in the
recent assault were one-third of his total
command, is pronounced incorrect. His
losses were not near so heavy as at first rep
resented. In the last action he did not lose
over 700 men, and his total losses since he
began the campaign will not amount to over
1000. '.' ''" .-''a p.
New YORK, July 80.
In case of J. G. Lisle, tried and sentenced
to death at Cincinnati, as a spy, an order
from the War Department revokes the SEN
tence, on the ground that evidence has been
produced that he was a member of Cluke's
rebel regiment, and he will be held a prisoner
of war 49,. 49, d.. ,..,sre