Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-23

HARRISBURG, Oct. 10.
Reliable returns come slowly Curtin's
majority is certainly $4,000 to 100000
ST. LOUIS, Oct. Is.
The vote of Iowa soldiers in this city yeG-
tordav give Stone 482 and Tuttle A.
The vote Of Ohio soldiers at the Home
Refuge Hospital give Brough 60 and Vaan-
dshan none.
CGNCINEATr, Oct Is.
Retnrns from 81 counties give Brough 52,-
14l maj; gain OF 47,777. OF these coun-
ties - gave Vallandigham maiorities The
large,t is in Fairfield, l27, all of which give
heavy Union gains. Complete returns of
Cincinnati give Brough 6,476 majority. His
majority in Hamilton county will be G, ,753.
CINCINNATI, Oct IS.
Seventy .one counties give Brough 81 900
majority.
| PHILs DELPHIA, Oct. Is.
| The Union Leagues reports from most of
the State, giving the majo'ities claimed
| by thu Democrats in the balance of the State,
figure up as follows:
Curtin, 55,3oS Woodward, 34,9s6; Cur
tins majority, 2O,422
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 16.
! The official vote of this ity is as follows:
Curtin, 4l,27t; Woodward, %, 1913; majority
for Curtin, 7,03l.
MEMPHIS, Oct. IA.
| The electian in The Ohio ard Iowa regi-
ments yesterday was quiet. Each soldier was
allow,d to vote as h. crosse. l give the vote
of the OHIO brigade commanded by Col. j.
| W. Filler, which is fair sample of the SOL
d ers' op MONS 9th Obi Iufantry, Brough,
463; Vail ndigham, 29; Brnugh's majorit,,
435. 39th Ohio Infantry, Brough, 539; Val
iandigi am, Q; Brou h 5 majorit', $50 43d
Ohio Infantry. Is ough $40; Valland CHAM,
81; B'oog IS mjorty, 249. 63d Onlo In
tantr,, Brough. 375; Vandgham g;
Br ugh's majority 372. Total for Trough,
1861; Vallandighem, 81; Brougn's maj rity,
| 1890
| Col. Hatch engaged Chain ers two miles
sou h Of Bolivia, on Monday, and after three
hours sharp ,kirmish and fgh ing dove
tn N south He followed tn IN all day Tucs-
day, sl,iTmishiug wi their rear every hour Of
he y, and at last accounts was still engag-
ing them within a mile of the Tallahatchie
River.
Times Special.
New YORK, Oct Is.
The surplus hag1a Of the Army of the
Potomac has be n moved to the rear, and
the army Is StripPln5 Tor night.
NJ ade's s;ton yesterday morning was on
the north bank OF the Rappahannock, his
right flank resting on the eastern slope of
Bull Run Mountains. Since then, however,
h. HIS fallen back to the neigh oorhood Of
Manassas Plains.
Lees whole fore has crossed the Kappa
hammock, and Were yesterday pressing our
rear A battle is morning is considered
tact irbr
terville.
LATER-11 A. NJ.
Rumors are rife that general engagement
began at daylight this morning, on the old
Ball Run battle ground.
The commaod of the Army of the Potomac
of course Is fatal. Gen. Meade in his turn
has been compelled to give place to some
other man. His removal from command seems
to have been determ ned on. His successor
is sad to be Maj. Gen. Dan E. Sickles.
New YoRK, Oct. Is.
Morris Islqnd correspondent of the Times
stat that Lieut.. Glassel and sailing officer
To rnbs declare an expedition against the
Irons des.
The citizens Of Charleston are pinched for
the simple commodities of life, and unless
the harbor ran be forced so as to admit ves-
| sels laden with supplies, most serious conse-
que ces will ensue.
Tae jmes VI Washington special says
''Rumors are excessively thick in Wash
ingtnn, toni hit. Among o her improbable
ruuors is one that the Baltimore & Ohio r.
R WAS cut by the rebels, at Marlinsburg."
| Tnc following dispatch was received at this
Bureau, this evening, from W. ii. Smith,
Master of Transpor alton on the Baltimore &
| i+o;Ir md oil Cfran laCO of
the many absurd repor = now in circulation:
There is no foundation fer the report that
orr lire ha> beer cut, nor has there been any
reason to believe it will be. All our trains,
both passenger and freight, are running reg
ularly"
There are now six thousand vacant beds in
the hospitals here.
Th'e ee hundred and seventy.fve wounded
arrived here TO night from the front. They
were wounded in various skirmishes in our
front.
The Confed rate War Department has made
two new and inderendent depar rtments in
North Carolina. Wilmington and the region
Of Cape Fear has been assiened to the COM
mand of Gen w. II. c. Whiting, while the
balance is undej charge of Maj. Gen. Geo. E.
Pickett.
Gen. Hcintz imam has b, en- relieved, and
Gen. Auger temporar ly assigned to the COM
mand of tie defense5 Of Washington.
NEW YORK, Oct Is.
! The Tribu-e has the foil wing:
| HEADQU RTEEs ARMY 'F PoToMAc,l
Octob IA.
| Last evening our cavalry encoun cred the
en,Iay near G tlett's Station, toward Warren
ton A brisk artillery fire opened and con-
tinued till late.
FRI g wts resumed this morning, lasting
all he for noon. In the afternoon heavy
canonading opened or our lines in the direc-
ton OF Manassas, lasting till evening. It
seemed evid Mt we had driven the enemy
back
1t is thought Lees entire army is in front
of Meade's.
WASHINGTON, Oct. Is.
Dispatches have been received at headquar
.ers to-dav, from General Schofield, one Of
which is dated 81. Louis, 18Th, stating that
General Brow had beaten the rebels under
Shelly three times and is still pursuing them.
Another dispatch. dated the 14th, states that
Gen. Brown brough the rebels under Shelby
to decisive engagement when the rebels
were C, mp etey routed and scattered. They
lost al their artil cry and baggage, besi es a
large number of prisoners, &c. Tn" enemy's
loss in killed and wounded was very la ge.-
We ere still pu suing them.
CAIRO, Oc'. IS.
The Memphis Bulletin, of the 10th, has in
formation from Union refugee just escaped
from the blool hounds of the conscriptors in
Mississippi tntt Joe johnston's force, except
one division, was sent to reinforce Bragg
Not over 10 000 rebel troops were in the State
Of MssiSs ppi.