Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-02-18

small for his years, at that would
look, bouncing into room in which a
great hurley secesh Lieutenant and Mir-
teen men had taken refuge, and disarm
ing and taking the whole squad prison.
ers, and marching them off in triumph 10
the court honse sqaarc That's only a
specimen brick However, Iowa has no
claim to that boy lie belongs to the
30th Wisconsin. Well, is it any
wonder that, after performing such a
prodigious feat, he should have told the
officer who claimed from him the sword
and other iixings of the rebel Lieutenant,
in the name of Uncle Sam, that she
couldn't have 'em unless he (thc Major
was better man than he wdsf' DO |
believe the story Ahem beg your
pardon, | only quote.
- But seriously, ii seems to have been
providcnlially ordered that the 18th Iowa
was sent to Springfield to recruit. They
were just in the right place at the right
time, and don't hesitate to believe that
they stood up to their work just AS an
Iowa regiment should, and will do when
ever and wherever occasion calls. And
the con,alescen.s must have fought no
bly,, too, for the enemy was beaten, badly
beaten, n,-and somebody must have done
| ii.
Lieut.. Cavendish came up from Fay
ettevilIe the other day, and has been stay
ing with us ever since; he is waiting for
the present extremely y cold weather to
moderate, and the snow to go off,
when he expects to 90 to Springfield
perhaps to ST. Louis, and probably home.
lie is just as well as ever he was, except
that he can't use his right arm at all, the
collar bone being broken. 1t is proba-
ble that it will be several months before
he will recover its use.
He reports that the sick and wounded
are nearly all sent on from Fayetteville to
Springfield. Indeed, have seen several
squads slow y vending their way to the
latter place. There are not more than
$50 or 300 left there now.
The post (Fayetteville) is held by the
eth Arkansas Cavalry aud detachment
OF the 10th Illinois Cavalry.
When we were at Cross lIollows | was
told that scouting party, consisting of
one company OF each OF these two regi-
me IS, had started for Van Buren the day
before. Lieut.. c. lett Fayetteville after
they had returned. 1t appear, that there
is nothing to hinder them from going to
Van Buren Just AS often as they please.
They captured two steamboats,, burnt
one, and let the other 90 because she
had load of sick butternuts on board,
bound from Fort Smith to Little Rock.
They took all the arms that they found
Oh board, parolled the soldiers-some 25o
in number-who didn't choose TO come
North with them, as some few did, and
let them 90. ! would have burnt that
boat, surc.
The Lieutenant SAYS that he has seen
several families OF cmigrants who have
ceme North from the other side Of the
Arkansas River, passing through the
rebel lines without molesta,ion. This
fact, taken in connection with the other
fact of the formation Of a body OF ''home
guards" at Fayetteville, already number
ing over | 200 men, who have enrolled
themselves as Union soldiers since the bat
tie, shows that it is not too much 10 claim
for Prairie Grove, that it was the field
on which the cause of jeff. Davis met its
fate, so far rs North western Arkansas is
concerned
Indeed, the war in this vicinity has
now dwindled down TO an occasional shot
fired by an occasional bush whackcr, the
last reported case, and the revenge which
followed it, may be interesting.
About ten days ago Lieut.. c., in com
pany with three or four others, who were
like him, anxious to 60 to Springie d,
hired private conveyance to take them
there. They started from Fayetteville
without an escort, and proceeded as far
as Cross Holows without anything OF in
terest happening. They stopped at Cross
Hollows, and learned that on that very
day, and scarcely more than mile from
the place where they then were, a bearer
of dispatches had been fired at and killed
OF course they went back to Fayetteville,
and waited for an escort. The next time
they started North they came in compa-
nv with an escort commanded by Capt.
Worthngton, Of the lst Arkansas CAval-
nv. This same Capt. w. is one Of the
most efficient officers in his way, aud a
very necessary way it is, in the Army Of
the Frontier
On arriving at what there was left
| III want mnrhl of the VILLAGE Of Mind
Town, Capt. w. called on the cit zens
of the place to tell him if they had
seen any Confederate soldiers or bush
whackers near there lately ''Oh, dear,
no. They hadn't seen any gentry ofthat
sort for so long a time that they had
forgotten how they looked" This was
probably the very answer which the wor.
thy Capt. expected. At any rate he had
| a speech ready Just As well adapted TO the