Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-04
Lj 10 all. For the Muscstiue Journal b,
Dick DlcCann-His Gapture-Ten.
nessee l1Oyalty-Ieebel Brutality,
&c. sc. ' o." ''H '-- ~

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-.s4 10 9.1..,., NASHVILLE, Aug 81. +,
| For some months past the loyal citizens o.
Hickman and adjoining counties have beer
continually harassed by the horse thieving
nurderous doings Of one Dick McCann, a
noted partisan ranger, or more properly, guer
rilla Chief, and his fo lowers One day last
week Maj. Gen. Granser's body guard, Co. F,
lst Missouri Cavalry, undsr the command OF
Capt. Clifford, start, d out on scouting ex-
pedition, and yesterday sent in detachment
under the command of Lieut. Myers, with
Dick, his brother Ben, and thirt en- others OF
his party as prisoners, having captured them
on Tuesday near Weam's Springs, in Hick-
man county. gaf Tet s.s--.t q, lu.-..
Dick is former resident of this city, and
| learn that his wife is living here at this line.
| noticed that while he and his companions
were standing, under guard, in front of Gen.
GraDger's headquarters, he recognized and
poke to several citizens who happened to be
passi' 6 along the street. - g.- .. ..
Int g last aesidential campaign he was
supporter OF Douglas, and ran for elsctor on
that ticket in this district He now wears
the star on his coat collar, indicating the DO
sltion of Major in the rebei service Being
now safely lodged in the Peniten,iary here,
IN all probability his career, both political
and military, has come to an end. b.
The loyal portion of the population of this
section of the State appears to be about as
numerous as il is in Muscatine county, though
the rebel element, notwithstanding the pres
ence here of our army, is evidently more
openly vindictive. All public places and
gatherings, such as the market-house, thea
tres, &c ARE guarded by Federal bayonets
and the streets are constantly patroled, day
and night, by soliiers. Isl. 5aa :.
Strong hopes are entertained that East
Tennessee, which has suffered longer and
more from the brutality of rebel rule, and
has had more numerous evidences of the
chivaric manner in which the Southern lead.
ers treat defenceless women and children
than perhaps any other portion of our coun-
try, will soon be released from the thradom
OF rebel authority-the body of this death -
May the expectation be speedily realized
AS an evidence of the extent of brutality to
which things have been trried there, | ap-
pend the following paragraph, clipped from
the Nashville Union of to-day
"REBEL BRUrALlTY.-The statement given
in our columns the other day. that the rebel
conscript officers in East Tennes -ee were ac-
tually going through that afflicted country
sr'pping aohite wonaen aohile at cork IN the
fields, under ps etence of asccrtalning whether
or not they were men disguised in female
garments to escape conscription, seemed al
most too revolving for belief, and yet, beyond
all question, it is true. People of Tennessee,
consider the damnable brutal ty of these min
ions of the Southern Slave Confederacy -
What think you of this handling, stripping,
and inspection of the mothers. wives and
daughters of your fellow citizens, for the pur-
pose Of detecting disguised Lincolnites ?'
Shall the women of Tennessee be subjected
to rnder insults by these soldiers of a 'icen-
'ious slaveocracy, than are offered to public
prostitutes: Are the matrons and maideus
of our State to be treated as a slave dealer
would treat a FINALE slave on his auction
block? So say the slaveocracy, who have so
long sroddsn on your necks; the polishei
Southern chivalry who seek to perpetuate
their tyrrany?" -.......... q.
TO what will they not resort in their fen1-
ism efforts agains, the Government ?" **