Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-27
MORE BLOCKADE RUNNERS ES.
CAPE WITH COTTON. 9 orr
A bill in the Confederate Con-
gress for Conscripting -
Foreigners. .-rn. b
The Steamer Hercules captured
and burned by Guerrillas.7 ~
$40 sick Soldiers arrived at Cairo
from our Yicksburg army.
The Smallpox prevailing among
the French troops In Mexico.
Melancholy Accident at Baltimore.

Melancholy Accident at Baltimore
| CAIRO, Feb. 10.
The steamer Perry has arrived with Mem
lphis dates of the 18th. The most importan
news has been anticipated. 81
Passengers from Vicksburg say there i
great lack of medical stores in the army, who'll
brigades being without an ounce of quinine
Some of the Surgeons seem utterly unfit fo
their positions-som drunk, and others be
coming hardened to suffering and inefficient
A member of the Ohio Sanitary Commis
sion informs me that during short stay a
Vicksburg he had occasion to visit the Sur
geon OF the S3d Ohio regiment eight times
and that seven times out of the eight he foun6
him beastly drunk and in bed, while many ir
his regiment were suffering and dying 70,
want Of attendance. A Lieutenant of ths
regiment corroborates this statement.
The remains of Lieut.. j. M. Mead, 2eth
Wisconsin, Co. D, came up this morning.
He died at Helena, of typhoid fever.
The 9th Wisconsin arrived here last night
from Chicago.
The Ohio is again rising at this point.
! fNoTE.-The Vicksburg dispatch of the 18th
as published in the Journal of this afternoon,
is incorrect 1t is rebel dispatch, and a
proper understanding of it should have beer
credited to the Richmond paper. r.-REPoRrER
This noon the jackson (Miss.) Crisis states
that telegram announces new appointment
has been made for Gen. Holmes district, and
that Sterling Price will be placed in active
command Of all the troops in that Department
taking with him all the Mississippi regiments
in the Army Of the West.
Worlds Special. ..
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
The Republican confirms the statemen,
that Gen. Butler is ordered to an impol tant
command 1t is not New Orleans, but it is
considered an important field of operations
probably an entire new department.
The Ways and Means Committee have de.
cided to place an additional tax on whisky
No decision yet on tobacco; probably slight
tax will be added. The Committee have de-
cided to reduce the duty on imported prin ting
paper. The exact amount to be left off is
unknown-probably not under five per cent.
The Times dispatch says that persons in a
position to know state that at least $25, ,000,-
900 have been stolen in the Quartermaster' S
Department in the last few months.
Gen. Burnside will at once enter upon his
new command. He left for New York to-
day.
Col. Van Volkenburg, of the Goth Indiana,
has been dismissed from the service for dis
loyal and unbecoming conduct.
The Herdld's dispatch says that yesterday
the detective corps of Col. Baker, Provost
Marshall of the War Department, arrested at
Berlin, Maryland, A. T. N. Filley and Mr..
Land, both belonging to Loudon county,
Virginia, with $4,000 in confederate money
upon them, directed to Rev. DR.. McGill, Rich
mond. Also large number of letters for
various parties in the South. They had
$4,000 worth Of contraband goods in wagon.
They came from Baltimore with pass from
the military authorities there.
| ..- BALTIMORE, Feb. 10.
This afternoon while Gen. Butler was in
company with the reception committee, Gen.
Schenck and staff, visiting the forts around
the city, melancholy accident occurred
They had visited Fort McHenry, Federal Hill
and Fort Marshall. Here salute was fired
just as the party passed along the ramparts,
out Of the range Of the guns. The gunners
supposing the party had passed, fred a 80
FOUNDER, but unfortunately, some of the par
ty who had loitered behind, came up. One
of them, Com. Maxwell Wardhill received the
whole charge, which blew the flesh from his
lower limbs and caused his death in few
minutes.
New YORK, Feb. 20.
The steamer Eagle has arrived from
Havana.
Mexican advices represent the small pox
and dysentery making sad havoc among the
French troops.
The French war steamer, Lance WAS
burned and abandoned at Tampico. Three
vessels, one laden with ammunition, and the
| others with provisions were also abandoned.
The Mexicans claim to have beaten 1900
French at Elorgans, causing them to retreat,
with loss of 26 killed, 80 or 40 wounded
and have also occupied Jalapa.
The French have established hospitals at
Perale and Quechalac. In the former are 1000
sick. 4a 'ar' o.l u :
The steamer Mcclellan from New Orleans
the 10th, has arrived. Nothing relative to
military movements has transpired. The
Delta had been suppressed by Gen. Banks,
but the employees waited on him and repre-
senting that their subsistence depended on its
continuance, Gen. Banks permitted its contin
uatINV ohOCA WIG L4dhhSCluCllt VI Lue OOOk
keeper. " a;E>t 4t .1
Rumor says the rebels attacked the block
ade fleet at Mobile, but the report is uncon-
firmed.
The Brooklyn and another steamer were
blockading Galveston. aa
New YORK, Feb. 20.
Col. Charles Carol Hicks, of the rebel
army, and late detective for the rebels in
Richmond, was arrested this afternoon at the
| st. Nicholas Hotel.
The Post has information through a gen.
| tleman from Richmond that the rebel army
has done growing. Every man in the South,
between Is and 45, who can bear arms, is
now in the service. There is a bill before
the rebel Congress, conscripting even for
eigners and Marylanders.
The supplies Of the rebel army, with the
exception of shoes, are better than they have
been. They are reported short of powder,
and forage is scarce, while the people along
the route to Fredericksburg are at the point
of starvation.
Our informant is certain that there is a
formidable rebel force in front of Hooker, and
laughs at the assertion that Lees army has
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.
The Committee on Ways and Means, in
their report accompanying their bill estab-
fishing a branch mint in Nevada, say the dis:
coveries of the precious metals warrant the
belief that it will in few years, in that res
pect, surpass even the Golden State. s,yy
The Judiciary Committee have given much
attention to Utah affairs They are now con.
vinced that the Territorial at,,ro' bv H.