Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-13

Upton, that there are out 800 under COM
msnd Of Stevens, Morris and Bell con c. ipt-
ing and robbing. A merchant named Jones,
of Some' vile, was sh i, his own door,
beside his rife, on Monday. The party of
guerrillas who committed this atrocious mur-
d r had made o purchase at Jon s store and
off red in payment Chattanooga money-be
decl ned rece wing it, when they compelled
i'm to take it OF mona. AS the, pass d out,
Jones' W fe remarked: 1--WE II light a. well
give away goods as ke such money! wh.n
one of 'hem turned and fired on Jones, caus.
ing death soon after. Tha part Of the coun-
try represented in dreadful 20 di,ion.-
The crops are all destroyed. acd many people
are dependent on what they get thi ough the
Union lines r support.
From the New Orleans papers Of the 10th
ult. we learn that owing to the few Western
arrivals. there is scarcity of breadstuffs and
provisions. Cotton is arriving in C nsider-
able quantities. The receipts for October, up
tn the 2Sth, were: Cotton, 1880 bales,
1876 sacks. The sugar crops are very light,
owing to the scarcity of fuel and labor.
Yesterday squad of guerri.las entered the
village of Plantvile, Ballard Co.. KY, twelve
mi es from Cairo. and captured mail carrier,
with very small mail. two horses and two
contrabands. The telegraph operator fed to
the woods Our cavalry came into the town
in less than five minutes after the guerrllas
left. rss
NEW YORK, Nov. z.
The Hsrnlds correspondent gives the fol-
lowing details Of the late battle at Wauhatchie:
The attack was through a surp Use movement
and was net by only small portion of Gen.
Geary's command. Tn had to sustain q
separate, Independent fight for two hours,
against heavy odds, without Notifications OF
ary kind; besides, we knew nothing of the
topography of the ground in the neighbor-
hood. We had just arrived that night and
even received orders to be under arms day
light. Although Gen. Hooker sent reinforce
ments with orders to press forward and make
| junction with Geary at the Garlic possible
moment, still such reinfOreements did not
participate in Geary's fight, and had the re.
inforce'nents arrived in time and had Gen.
Hooker's particular o der been sti more
promptly and literally ca ried out, it is not at
all improbable that we would have captured
goodly portion Of whole brig de.
| Three times the enemy made an attack,
boldly charging on Geary's center, for the
purpose of capturing hi. artillery. and each
time they were dr. ven back signaly and with
heavy loss
! The figh ing by our men was of the coolest
and bray: st kind. Every attempt to ou;hank
our small force was checked at once.
| The enemy commenced to retire. All their
wounded that could walk were taken # thu
field, the rest being left. One d.,c1 c,ntain-
ed twen.y men and two officers In front of
our line we found fifty wounded. No snail
number of dead rebels lay still in sight, an
a great number are scattered through The
woods.
We took prisoners from the lst, I'd, 81,
4th 9th, 6tsl and 7th South Car"lina rsgi.
m,nts, the Pam ito S1arpshooters and
Hampton's Legion All th~se were of Jen-
hins' Division Capt. John II. Brown, L cut.
W. F. Harxood and others, were taken with
parts Of their re civ comma' DIS
On our side, the 10Th NV York and 52l
Pa Volunteers, under comnand Of ''ap,ain
Il Der, and the 1llth Pa Lieut.. Col. Wa ktr,
were IN line on the front and center, and i'd
the hardest fighting The 18th and l4s NY;
were on the extrm right and had Inc bari
fighting. The Goth Pa, Col Russell, was
dol g the entire p cket duty of he command.
FoxrE ss MONROE, Nov 7.
The Richmond Whig, of the 5th inst, con-
tains the following dispatches:
CharIeston. Noo. 4.-Thc bombardmert Of
Fl Sumter continues furi ,usIy. l. was Lept
up furiously all last nigrt and is still going on
this morning.
Pr sident Davis has si'ed James Island
and FITS. Pemhertcn and Johnston and all the
batteries along the shore.
Charleston, N0v 5.-There is slow firing
to-day from the enemy's mohi ors ard land
batteries 5s7 shots have been fired in the
at "a hours. N, casualties On our sid..-
| lad ha fn Io1
The Ironsides ST. II remains qiiet. Three
monitors are taking in ammuni i'm to day.
atlanta. IT,, N,v. 4. The Yankees re-
tain possession Of Raccoon Valley, having
been heavily reinforced.
The va ,kees shell our forces incessa- tly.
Floods in Tennessee have demo ished all
the Yankees portoons.
The Yankees advance had reached Flor.
ence.
We occupy Loudon, which pla"es US with
in % miles of Knoxville, b,hind the defences
of the enemy.
The enemy is raiding the country near
Huntsville, committing lreat depredations.-
Their raids are more disastrous than any of
their preceding ones in Madison and Hunt
ersville counties.
Bragg has it in his power to muzzle the
telegraph bus he can't muzz'e the mails.
The enemy has gained important advsnta.
ges within the last 48 hours, VIII ch, unless
they are counteracted, will pace que. ton of
subsisting his army in Chattanooga beyond
doubt.
WASHINGTON, Nov. T.
1t is reported in the army Of the Potomac
this morning that the enemy is crossing the
Rapidan in grat haste, probably wi view
of se-Occupyn. fredericksburg in force, ap
parently anticipat ng movement of the forces
of Gen. Me de tow"rd> that place.
Gen. Meade has changed hi, headquarters.
| HAVANA, Nov ..
The steamer Pizzaro arrived Sunday, hav.
ing lett San Domi go City en- tae 18th.
A nephew Of our t'apta n General and his
only male relative left, his been killed, and
TN. Gandara is reported wounded I he
rebels have always been so fortune in cutting
of the chiefs or leaders OF Their enemie., as
to rend this report centrally e'ievei.
Gn. Santana is reported to have had
bat lie which lasted an hour and half, the
result of which was one can on and several
prisoners captured from the rebels.
| There seems to he some doubt an mystery
in regard t" Santana and some say positively
that be has been killed.
On the 9th Gen. Forey arrived here. on
the steamer Panama, and was rec wed with
grand hono S, after which he subsided mo
mere Frenchman.
| We have had no blockade running lately,
and exc pit some sm,!l lots fr IN Metamcras
no cotton arrived hrr.. Prices have co So
qnen ly gone up. - .a EH