Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-08-14
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Important Expedition Organizing
-das 'oa at Vicksburg.
Gunboats Blockading Red River.
Death Of the American Consul at
ro.r- Vera Cruz. ii 90 ssa.5
French Capture efa British Vessel
aaoaa with Arms for the Rebels.
Rumored Peace Propositions Ex-
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jeff. Davis Address to the Rebel
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Gunboats Blockading Red River

jeff. Davis Address to the Rebel
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| =, WASHINGTON, Aug. Z.
Articles appearing in the journals of this
city and elsewhere, represent a war with
Great Britain as imminent. The assumption
that these articles are authorized by the Gov.
ernment or made upon any knowledge of its
plans is without foundation. -n.,-. .....
......r... -..... ...e5 NEW YoRK, Aug. Z.
! The Posts Washington correspondent
Esays': ai1l ,s4"' - -'IiyJ i--iit - .'a ~ -1'
Il The chronicle of this morning says move
ments are in progress which are morally Ger
tain to result in the capture of Mobile.
Stirring news is expected shortly from that
Quarter. n aeH col L.fo 10 i'i''3' VIZ
At Atlanta, Georgia, ien the 9th ult., Gold
was quoted at $l2.9 81 t.u. 2 a7- 9l -a
Officers. arrived from the army this morn
| ing bring nothing new. The heat continues
and the streams arc drying up. 70.
-.,.. New YORK, August Z.
The steamer George Washington from New
Orleans 1st, has arrived. Ex-Mayor Stith of
New Orleans had arrived there, being relieved
from Fort Pickens; also Ex-senator Leathe
They have been at Pickens since last Septem-
ber. 3 -
Gen. Orme, of Gen. Herron's command had
arrived in New Orleans. rag a.tf-e ea-
| ,. The Q. s. steamer Tennessee, the flag ship
of Admiral Farragut, had arrived at New Or
leans. '"
A large number Of irvalids from the rebel
garrison of Vicksburg had arrived at New Or
leans, as had some fifty registered enemies
from st. Louis. Their destination was Mo-
bile.
The new monitor Neosho is at Vicksburg.
The Usage was expected there. The Choc-
taw and Pittsburg were blockading Red
River. ........,. ..-.. .,.-., i..., -.. : .-.'o
| An important military and naval expedi-
ton was on foot at Vicksburg.
Gen. Grant had some dozen skeleton regi-
ments of negroes organizing at Vicksburg.
Vera Cruz advices to July 18th report the
death of the American Consul on the 14tb.
No American or English vessels of war
were on the coast. French vessels were
seizing everything English and American
On the Sth French steamer arrived at Vera
Cruz with an English steamer in tow, which
was captured in the Rio Grande, with car
go of arms valued at 100000, which were
inte' ded for Texas rebels, though the schoon-
er cleared out from Liverpool for Matamoras.
Her officers report five more loading for
Matamoras.
10 57a1; 9a, BosroN, Aug. 7.
The correspondent of the Boston HeraM,
in letter dated off Charleston, Aug. I'd, says
that the new battery erected by Gen Gil
mour. on Morris Island, is mounted by the
largest guns ever cast at the North. When
these batteries are opened against Sumter
there will be dreadful scattering of bricks
and legs, arms and bodies. One hour and a
half is allowed for the bombardment of that
fort before it will be compelled to sur
render. r.s
| .r-.-s.- .-.. WASHINGTON, Aug.7.
A statement appeared in some of the
Northern papers after the fall of Vicksburg
and the defeat of Lee, that the question Of
peace had been discussed in the Federal Cab
met, and that Cab'ne crisis he'd been
caused by proposition of Seward to issue an
amnesty to the Southern people, These
statements were not thought of sufficient i'm
portance to demand attention. 1t seems now
that they went to Europe and were made the
foundation there of new castles in the air,
built by the European enemies of the United
Stales. 1t is, therefore. proper to say that
these statements had no foundation whatever
in facts, and no peace propositions or any de-
bates or proposition on the subject of peace
or of such amnesty has been made or had in
the Cabinet, nor have any such differences
arisen. ..4a..l.i . .s.t.es...
NEW YORK, Aug. Z.
The american Of this evening has Rich
mond papers of the 9Th, which contain the
following address of the President to the
soldiers of the Confederate States:
After more than two years of warfare,
scarcely equaled in the number and magni-
| tude and fearful carnage of its battles; war
fare in which your courage and fortitude have
illustrated your country and attracted not
only gratitude at home but admiration
abroad. Your enemies continue struggle in
which our final triumph must be inevitable.
Hi shly elated with their secent successes,
they imagine that temporary reyerses can
quell our spirits or shake our determination,
and they are now gathering heavy masses for
grand invasion in the main hope that by
desperate efforts success may at length be
reached. You know too WELL, my country
men, what they mean by success. Their
malignant rage aims at nothing less than the
determination of yourselves, your wives and
your children. They seek to destroy what
they cannot plunder. They propose, as
spoils of victory, that your names shall be
numbered among wretches whose atrocious
cruelty has stamped infamy on their Govern
ment. They design to incite servile insurrec-
ton and light the fires of incendiarism where.
ever they can reach your homes, and they
debauch an inferior race heretofore docie and
conented, by promising them the indulgence
of the vilest passion as the price of their
treachery, conscious of their inability to pre-
vail by legitimate warfare, not daring to n axe
peace lest they should be hurled from their
seats Of power. The men who now rule in
Washington refuse even to confer on the sub
ject of putting an end to outrages which dis
grace our age, or listen to suggestion for
conducting the war according to the usages
cf civilization.
Fellow citizens, no other alternative is left
you but victory or sutjugation, slavery, and
the utter ruin Of your slaves, your families
and your country. The victory is with you,
and to reach it you ne, d but to stretch forth
your hands to grasp it. For this al that is
necessary is those who are called to the field
by every motive that can nerve human hearts,
should promptly repair to the post Of duty,
should stand by their comrades now in front
of the foe, and thus so strengthen the arms
of the Confederacy as to insure success.
Davis then appeals to those who have alb
sented themselves from their posts, to return
to duty, and declares general pardon and
amnesty to all now absent without leave, who
shall without delay return to their posts or
within twenty days after the publication of
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