Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-08
:FEtECRAP'RE'
ATTACK ON GUERRILLA CAMP
Five Federal Z Soldiers and fou,
|1ol'aq Rebel Prisoners Frozen asd
0oa'.tf nsq3 to Death 9,5'seq q 5i 1ooi
$1,000, 900 Confederate Bonds and
'@a5o ,@sB = Treasury Notes Seized .aoidi a hi

IsJE,Pa4u5-s al --O--- 70 H9V96 80
account of the Attack On th,
ns ~ Gunboat Marblshead, in 5aa
!" a. L.iw 9 Stono Inlet. saa d'aao5
lIg9a 9f.j 81 b9iIT7 sEa % l5Asaa49g g7Gd
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|nps9;f. 81 ,3; iNEw YoRk, Dec. 81.
The 7ribunes dispatch from Washington
CONTAINS the following, j Private adyiccs from
the lower counties Of Msryland, and the coun
ties Of Virginia this side Of the Rappshans
mock, state that the amnesty proclamation d
the President is received with very gensfa
satisfaction there, that the time for such
proclamation hadsarfived.
e ltsis believed Gen. Butler has written
statement Of six rebel Sergeant confined a,
Point Lookout. affirming thatlhe prisoners
E9qIt, ia believed that a larger number than
n 600 rebels would express q wish to take
the oath but for the intimidation Of the more
violent of their comrades. q 'o9uTg ef't isdi
no.It isreported that rebel called for three
cheers for Gen. Butler on the occasion Of the
Generals recent VISIT to Point Lookout, and
that the man was at onee kneeked sdoSno by
others who remembered JEFF Davis procla|
nation on that subject. yGs 1T 'bfu slei171
b The trial of Daniel Davis and Thomas
Darnsey, for recruiting inen within the lines
of the Uni'edj States forces, for the rebel
army, has ended. They were found guilty
and sentenced to be confined at hard labor,
at FIT. Warren, near Boston, or such other
prison as the. Secretary of War may direct,
for the term Of Is years. q 1Hcds j.guoId
/. sd 2 isza NEwBERS, N. G., Dec. 80. /
= The North Carolina Times says: A five
dollar gold piece was sold at auction for $3.50
Confederate notes, at Danville,a a few days
ago - ''i 70 --' - e''0i'",',4sii'' N7',
The same paper heartily endorses Lincoln's
Proclamation and advises the people OF the
State to accept il. TT also copies remarka-
BILE article from the Richmond Whig, which
contains the following significant paragraph:
-, Slavery has stabbed itself to death,
has sinned against the light, committed the
objectionable sn-it must die, r.,.f" .-l, n
The Raleigh Standard and the Raleigh
Progress are very severe on JEFF. Davis mess.
age. They publish President Lincoln's mess.
age and proclamation with favorable COM
ments. III ,...f - - -, .,f.
i The North Carolina Times notices the Brit
ish steamer G. 0. Bigelow. " hich was cap.
tured by the United States steamer Fulton,
and then abandoned, made her way into port,
unloaded her salt and was about to run the
blockade in ballast, when she was caught and
burned BY one of the United States steamers
p. 2. -.--rs ,.r.s 1sdi 5LouIsyILLE,, Jan. g. J
II The Journals statement this forenoon re-
specting the freezing of five Confederate
prisoners at Jeffersonville, is entirely aincor-
rect. They are we'll cared for and neither
death nor; suffering has occurred among
them.a eff .tb oI oe besa9ig ede 1870
ii sni01oiH saJ 81 agssvSr. nLouIs, Jan. o.
2oiNery little business transacted to-day, Oh
account of the weather. o Since the heavy
storm on Thursday the weather has been in!
tensely cold, the mercury having !fallenito "a
degrees below zero-unparalelled in this
region. All the railroads leading out of the
city are blocked with snow. No trains have
arrived or left for two days. The river was
closed this morning, and teams and pedes-
trians crossed on the ice all the forenoon. =
Large numbers Of cattle and hogs were frozen
to death on the weather bound trains On
the Northern Missouri train quite number Of
frost bitten passengers are reported, some oi
them of a serious character. VI . 5}3iA-
- BosroN, Jan 2.
The duty on imp,sts received at this port
for the year ending December, 1858 = will
amount; to Sc ,063, ,974. The number of tor
eign arrivals for the year amounts to 3,129
being seventy-eight more than that Of the
year previous. ~ H3-' 2" 5fFl iis''-.< /
,,..-+,. .,5- ... .. Boston, Jan. q
- The first anniversary of the Presidents
Emancipation Proclamation was celebrated
here yesterday by salute cf 100 guns aod
by a public meeting in the fremont Temple,
at which speeches were made by Messrs. D,
Kirk, Rev. A. a. Minor, and several colored
orators. - -. -
tefs -rrt!gq. oH 15go BUFFALO, Jan. O.
b A very severe snow storm has, bern raging
here since Thursday night, the wind blowang
gale from the west. .anI 3sai 10 9sed svr5il
The water in the lower part of the city il
higher than has been known for yesr. r5s.I
aaa ,bs'A2a1Aa9? VIZ WAsHisGroN, Jan. O.,
The attendance Of the diplomatic BODY
upon the President on New Years day with
felicitations which was evidently as cordial as
they were demonstrative was among the
cheering auspices with which the country be-
gins the new year. The entire corps was
present, with the exception of the estimable
Minister from Nicaragua. who being detain-
ed by illness sent to the Secretary of State q
respectful and most friendly spology. ...s
New YORK, Jan. 2-Midnight.
!. Bishop Hughes still continues to live, but
is in a very low condition. "A few more hours
may be added to his life, and he may die st
any moment. He is beyond recovery.
ST, JOINS, N. B., Jan. 2,
Lewis Zeely, another of the Captains Of the
Chesapeake, was arrested to-day and lodged
in jail. lle1''s- -l :. I'm ~ "a
z,o~ -. -, New YORK, Jan. 2-Midnight.
At this hour the wind is blowing north
erly gale and the Thermometer stands at LOO
above zero. p. -, ~ -,-feO sf.s,-
q-g0ri5 esqy ..,.4 ~ ri BUFFALO, Jan. 2.
p Two hundred feet of the Niagara Falls
Road near this city has been washed away.
No cars have left the depot here since Thus
day. s Trains, however, are running from
Black Rock to Suspension Bridge Business
in the city is almost entirely suspended. The
worst of the storm is now over, although it
is still showing This evening the weather
is intensely cold. The thermometer at mid
night on the Slst stood at 4 deg. above zero.
Last night it was 8 deg. below, and this morn
ing at . o'clock it was deg. below zero. 1s"
81 vTe'egrsphic communication with the West
is interrupted. .TsWi ,tne7r9s luliiisl naed
T. Evans Ridge, in the lower part Of the city,
has been carried away, n9h " G97oT5 sa'a
u. -.sxa II .Far9n3f} !a.sM ~ aoieeit-a.o3- aid
97i-.lge9 7 WAsHINq!oN, Jan. ~
Secretary Chase strenuously insists on linn
ting the appropriations TO the meanss and in
p,oyiding BY taxation for every dollar appro-
pria;ed beyond the amount which can GER
tainlyi be Obtained by loans and that without
too largely increasing the public debt, sdi o.
g&saS 10 9na.9z s1tCAfE RACE, Jan. 9. q
- The steamship City Of Baltimore, from Liv-
erpool the .43d and Queenstown the 24th,