Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-27
VOL. XIV--NO. 81.
request to SO define. their duties that no
further difficulty may occur. - -
CAIRo. Feb. 90,

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| -..t -l'ts. CAIRO, Feb. 90.
The US. hospital steamer City of Mem
phis arrived from Vicksburg to-day with $40
sick on board. They are principally from
the 29th, 30th, 31st and 32d Missouri, (Blair's
brigade, new regiments that had not yet got
hardened to service when the expedition up
the Yazoo was first undertaken There are
also representatives from the 25th, 3Oth and
3lst Iowa, 77th, 10th and 131st Illinois, and
| 9th and G9th Indiana regiments Seventy
two have died on board since the 7th instant.
After short stay the boat proceeded to st.
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A band of thirty mounted guerrillas, by
some means yet unexplained, captured and
burned the steamer Hercules, few miles
above Memphis, on tie 18TH She had in
tow seven barges loaded with coal, mostly
| belonging to Government. One barge was
sunk in shallow water, and the rest, it seems,
were saved. a'e. So q. l. -sI. l.rf r=F7l--
From the bullet marks on trees, and other
appearances on shore, the crew made good
defense. A deck hand was killed and his
body left lying on the shore. The rest of
the crew were taken prisoners, and their fate
is not yet known. ...'.,.-. .- .-, y
There is report in Memphis that the reb-
els are approaching the Charleston railroad,
some 4 900 strong, near Lafayette, with the
intention Of cutting off communication with
Corinth ~ .-' n "st
The steamer White Cloud arrived this eve
ming, under guard. Pilot Conner is the per-
son who had charge Of the rebel mail on
board. Three cigar smugglers are also de-
tanned as prisoners.
Samuel Brush, Co. F, Capt. Snyder) S5th
Iowa, died yesterday Of smallpox.
Special to the Philadelphia Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.
Scouts report that Col. Fitz Hugh Lee is
at Culpepper Court House with 1000 cavalry;
that his pickets extend nine miles, to Hazel
river, on the road to Warrenton, and to the
Rappahannock on the Orange and Alexandra
railroad. tf- fl- .. f 81
No rebel force is now North of the two
points, except Whites farmer guerrillas near
Leesburg.
Col Bakers detectives have captured 12
persons engaged in running goods to Rich
mond. Upon them was found s., 900 in notes
on Southern banks, and $4,000 in gold. They
had passes from Gen. Winder to 20 beyond
the lines, but not through Leesburg, nor
South of James river.
HALIFAX, Feb. 81.
The Europa from Boston arrived yesterday.
Among her passengers was George A.
Sanders.
The Canada from Liverpool the 7th, and
Queenstown the 8th, arrived to-day. Her
dates are one week later. r
She brings l59 Lancashire operatives sent
by Messrs Coultz.
The Queens speech contains very little of
Importance, excepting the following
Her Majesty has absained from taking any
step with view to induce cessation of the
conflict between the contending parties of the
North American States, because it has not yet
seemed to her that any such overtures could
be attended with probability of success
Her Majesty has viewed with the deepest
concern the desolating warfare which still
regns in those regions, and she has witness
ed with heartfelt grief the severe distress and
suffering which that war has inflicted on a
largesclass of her subjects, but which has been
borne by them with great fortitude and ex-
emplary resignation.
1t is some consolation to Her Majesty to be
led to hope that this suffering and distress is
rather diminishing than increasing, and that
some renewal of employment is beginning to
take place in the manufacturing districts.
CAIRO, Feb. 21.
Gen. Hurlburt has issued the following Or
der dated Memphis, Feb. 18th:
By direction of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, COM
manding this department, General Order No.
4 from headquarters is revoked. All restric-
tons heretofore imposed on the circulation
of the Chicago Times are hereby rescnded.
The order prohibiting the circulation of this
sheet having been revoked by superior mill
tary authority, the General commanding this
corps directs that all proceedings and arrests
for violations of such order be Overruled.
New YORK, Feb. %.
The Times Washington dispatch states
that the War Department has information of
. disaster to our forces at Port Hudson
Gen. Butler was offered the command of the
expedition against Vicksburg, but. declined.
The Mercury's dispatch states that long
list of officers who have uttered disloyal senti-
ments has been prepared. They will be dis
missed and the list published.
The Heralds dispatch states that the Virginia
roads arc becoming good, and army move.
ments are becoming possible.
= FT. MONROE, Feb. 90.
The hag-of-truce boat brought down, last
evening, about 300 exchanged Union prison.
erS.
The Richmond Enquirer says there are ru-
mors of an advance Of the Yankees on Middle
Tennessee. Cannonading was heard in front,
and also in the direction of Beech Grove,
where Gen. Buford, with his brigade of Ken
lucky Cavalry, is stationed. Gen. Forrest
has crossed Buck River, north of Columbia,
with cavalry and artillery.
The Texan Flag of the I'd inst. has &C.
counts of an invasion of our (rebeD soil by
Mexican banditti, who are stealing horses,
cattle, &c. Capt Bellordo's Company was
attacked in Lahata county, and all their
horses stampeded. They also captured and
hung Guardo Beller, Chief Justice of Lahata
county. About 500 Mexicans have been or
ganized for the purpose Of plundering our
frontier, and their acts are approved Of by
the Mexican authorities. The banditti, at
last accounts, were on the Texas side of the
Rio Grande, and some of them were under
the United States flag
The flag of truce brought from City Point
80 or 80 of the crew of the u S. gunboat
Isaac Smith, recently captured at Stono Inlet,
10 U. S. officers being the remainder of those
captured previous to Jeff. Davis proclama-
ton.
The following United States prisoners have
died in the hospitals at Richmond since the
last report
J. B. Corey, private, Co. A, 1st Wiscon-
sin, Feb. Sd,pneumonia F. H. Caswell, pri-
vate, Co. Z, Feb. 10th, fever.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %.
There is no Increased tax on whisky in
the proposed amendment of the Committee on
Ways and Means to the Tax Bill. The tax
on ale and beer, however, has been reduced
to sixty cents per barrel until April /, 1864.
The paper question will be hereafter con-
sidercd by the committee. ,-.@
Representa- tive Arnold and Father Darn of