Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-16

within few week from large and fre
quent LeinfOrcements. Our skeleton
regiments are filling out to the old pro
portions which they exhibited in tn.
first stage of their campaigning. Brig
AIDES are beginning to show an unusua
numerical force, while divisions are be-
coming something like appropriate com
mands for our General officers. With al
this, there is decided Improvement in
the spirits and health generally Of the
troops.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Rebel papers
announce the arrival of the Tallahassee
at Wilmington and list of twenty.
three vessels, principallyscho cap.
tured by her. 1t ispublished she is pre-.
pairing to go out again.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 12-An Indianap.
oils dispatch to the Gazette announces
the capture there of Quantrell, the Mis-
souri, guerrilla. He was recognized on
the street by refugee.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE Poro-
MAC, 10 o'clock p. M.-Firing has been
kept up all day on our centre and right,
The rebels seem to have got excited by
the surprise of last night and appear de-
termined to annoy our pickets as much
as possible. 1t was the Goth Indiana
and 99th Pennsylvania cavalry that
made the charge that captured the rebel
line of pickets. Lieutenant Colonel
Nickel of the Goth Indiana was shot
through the hip and died on the field.
His body is being embalmed to be sent
home
OswEGo, Sept. 12-The schoone er
Opechie, Captain John Climent, which
cleared from Toledo on the Cd inst. for
here with a cargo of wheat, is sup
posed to have foundered with ali aboard
IN the late gale on Lake Erie.
WASHINGTON Sept. 12.-The Captain
OF the United States steamer Santiago
de Cuba, under date of Sept 5th, informs
the Navy Department that on Saturday.
when on his way to Hampton Roads for
coal, he discovered, chased and captured
blockade runner, which proved to be
the English steamer Advance, from
Wilmington, n. c. She was an iron
SIDE wheel steamer two years old, very
last and had on board some 40 bales of
cotton and some turpcntine. Her full
cargo can not be known until it is taken
out in Boston.
Rear Admiral Lee in a dispatch dated
Beaufort, September 7, says the Elsie
run out of Wilmington on the 4th inst,
ana was captured next day by the King
ston Stat and Quaker City. The Elsie
was seen and fired upon when she ran
out by the Nephon and Britannia and
was chased off by the Santiago De Cuba
until lost in darkness. At 1890 next
Gay she was seen and captured without
papers and flag. A shell from the Qua
ker City exploded in the forehoId of the
Elsie and destroyed about $50 bales of
cotton. Part of the cargo was thrown
overheard in the chase and here are now
about 80 bales on board, The prize will
besent to Boston. The Elsie is now of
light draft.
HALIFAX, Sept. 12.-The blockade
runner, Old Dominion arrived Saturday
night, and the City of Petersburg, Sun
day morning. They have $50 bales of
cotton on board for England, said to be
payment OF the the interest Of the rebel
loan, She left Wilmington last Sunday
night. They report the pirate Tallahas-
see was to have one plundering cruise
OH Sunday night, they also report two
more blockade runners to leave the same
night The famous Alexandria, now
called the Mary, arrived here SATURDAY
ID e..
Blockade runners are also in port:
Steamer Little Hattie, New Orleans,
repairing, Constance, Flamingo, Lady
Sherlv, Condor: besides the above is the
steamer Asia tender to the rebeI fleet.
New YORK, Sept. 12.-Gold opened at
Evening EXchangeat S2,214
and sold down to s., ,209. After the call
large sales We're made at 3, 20 and down
to S2,l5t, closing at s., 10.
At the Richmond county Democratic
Mr.. Thos. E. Davis was
elected delegate to the Democratic con-
yention and VIM. Harcourt alternate
CAIRO, Sept. IA fire broke out at
two o'clock this morning on Commercial
avenue, between Sth and 9th streets, and
all the buildings on the west
side of theavenue, except Winters brick
block, then extended to the opposite side
of the avenue and destroyed the United
States Hotel, spread up 8th and 9th
streets, consuming Browns Hotel and
other buildings and houses on CONNER
cial avenue, including the Planter House,
House, stove, hardware, gro
sery, dry goods, clothing, book and other
stores Among the principal losses Oh
the avenue are Calihan's three story
brick, with an entire stock of stoves, tin,
iron and copper ware, loss $40, 600, in
sured 5000; VIM. Wayne's grocery,
loss S15, 900, insured $3 900; J. L. Brown,
liquors, loss $l3, 900, INSURED $500; Mar
tin Formens, Shamrock House, loss
S75 900 no insurance. The total loss
will probably reach S200,000, insurance
about $40 900.
The steamer John J. Roe, bound for
New Orleans with battalion of the I'd
Missouri cavalry, sunk in thirty feet
water above New Madrid. No lives lost.
All the horses on board were drowned.
The steamer Robert Burns, from Mem
phis to Cincinnati, has 164 bales cotton.
She will take on so bales here.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 12.-The upward
train from Bardstown this morning was
captured by 16 guerrillas under Major
Major, who destroyed the locomotive,
burned one car and robbed the passen-
gers.
The Jou77,a! says the following dis
patches have been received at Gen. Rous-
seau's headquarters in Nashville:
MUFREEsBoRo, Sept. s.-Maj. B. H.
Polk, A. A. G.-Col. Thomas Jordon
of the 9th Pennsylvania cavalry with
25O men surprised, attacked and
routed hlUO1c > VI etuC VI -,Ooo eiU iNCttdy
vile yesterday, killing and wounding
many and capturing 1870 prisoners. Our
loss, one killed, five wounded and four
The bridge over Stuarts creek
the only one injured by Wheeler is re-
paired.
(Signed) H. H. VAN CLEvE,
Brigadier General.
MUFREEsBoRo, Sept. 10.-To Maj. B.
H. Polk, A. A. G.-The Nashville road
is in good order from here to Chattanoo-
ga. The train left this morning with
the mail for the army at Atlanta. The
rebels are retreating by way OF McMinn-
vile.
(SigneD H. H. VAN CLEvE,
Brigadier General.
A public dispatch of the 9th says Gen.
ROsseau had concentrated all the forces
of Steadman and Granger with his own
and were pursuing Wheeler toward the