Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-30

we can give the assurance that were our ear
long enough, we would hear busy notes o
preparations r,s.o. -.. i
Transportation is greatly headed just now
Commissary and Quartermaster's stores a
Columbus are being transported to Memphis
by river. Henceforth Grants army will
draw its supplies at Memphis. Columbu!
will supply Jackson and Corinth. ...a.a
1t is reported that Forrest is again withir
half days march Of Union City, Tennessee
and that he threatens another raid on thu
Mobile & Ohio railroad. ail,a.
sa- 90 f3stae @ New YORK, Jan. 22.
Washington dispatches announce the cap
ture, within our lines, of Capt. John H. Boye
and Charles Powell, of the rebel Stuart's
command. Both are liable to execution as
spies. l@-
Judge Otto, of Indiana, has been nomi
mated as assistant Secretary of the Interior
Mr. Dawes, Of Massachusetts,, will resign
his place on the Committee on Elections, oi
which he was chairman.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF PoroMAc,l
Camp near FALMOUTH, Jan. 20.
GENERAL ORDER NO. SEVEN.
The Commanding General announces to
the Army Of the Potomac that they are about
to meet the enemy once more. The late bril-.
liant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee and
Arkansas have divided and weakened the
enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspi-
cious moment seems to have arrived to strike
great and mortal blow to the rebellion and
to gain that decisive victory that is due to the
country. Ae ,H1tslt l4iaeait 1 -U
Let the gallant soldiers of so many brilliant
battle-felds accomplish this achievement, and
reward most glorious awaits them. The
Commanding General calls for firm and
united action, and, under the providence Of
God, the Army of the Potomac will have
taken the great step towards restoring peace
to the country and the Government to its
rightful authority. ''
BY command Of Maj .-Gen. Burnside.
=. ..es oue LEWIS RICHMOND, A. A. G.
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
Money to pay the soldiers of Generals Ro-
secrans and Grant, has been furnished, also,
the greater part necessary to pay the North
Carolina and Southern soldiers, have been is
sued. sa t5.itrra q. l--, ..., e....
Burnside's army will soon be paid.
The Navy Department has information of
the safety Of the iron-clads Nahant and Wee
hawken.
The President to-day made 60 military
nominations to the Senate, including Generals
Heintzelman, Hooker and Sumner, for meri-
torious services, by dating their commissions
back to embrace the different battles when
they distinguished themselves.
Twenty Brig. Generals, to be Maj. Generals,
63 Colonels, to be Brig. Generals and 8 hos
pital Chaplains. -'' '''
FT MONROE, Jan. 81.
The United States agent for the exchange
of prisoners has demanded from Mr. Ould,
the Confederate agent, that all the United
States officers now in the hands of the rebels,
should be released at once, in compliance
with the cartel. Ould has replied, that all
the officers now in the hands of the rebels,
and captured before the 18th of January, the
date of jeff Davis message, will not be re-
leased on parole, but will be exchanged for
those of corresponding rank. All officers
captured after that date, will be handed over
to the Governors of the States in which they
were captured. Non commissioned officers
and privates will be released on parole as
heretofore.
There are now at Richmond 1000 Federal
prisoners. Three transports will leave Fort
Monroe next Friday, for City Point, to bring
Cuem uOWn.