Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
TELEGRAPHIC.
MOVEMENTS in VIRGINIA.
Union Troops Occupy Cedar
Mountain,
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The Rebel Army gone into Winter
Quarters.
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Valuable Cargo ofCotton Captured
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Valuable Cargo ofCotton Captured.

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has not abandoned any point. It's known Maj
Gen. Butler, who has superseded Meredith
has no such instructions. The prisoners
have been placed under his orders, and he is
authorized tc conduct the exchange man fol-
man and officer for officer of equal rank with
those paroled and sent forward by himself
The object is to make an even exchange al
far as the prisoners in the rebel possession vii
admit, and governed by humane motives.-
The effort will be made first to procure thu
release of those who have for the longes
time been held as prisoners. Colored troops
and their officers, in conducting the exchange
will be placed on equality with other troops
and so with colored persons in civil employ
ment. This is one of the points hereafter t,
be adjusted. The honor and dignity of tn
Government in the protection of such per
sons will not be compromised.
The recent visit of Gen. Hitchcock to TT
Monroe was to see Gen. Butler and commu
nicate to him the orders of our Government
on this subject. The object is to secure tn,
exchange of an equal number of prisoner.
on each side, leaving all other questions fo
future determination, the excess being largely
in our favor. .....-... ..
.l.- CAIRO, Dec. %.
The sunken steamer Fannie McBurnie has
been deserted with no hopes of her being
raised.
Gen. Mcpherson, commanding at Vicks
burg, has Issued orders for changing Col. B
&. Farror's I'd Mississippi artillery into cav
airy to operate against the guerrillas which
infest the lower part of the river.
The large steamer Chouteau has beer
placed at Col. Farron's disposal. Severa
pieces of artillery have been furnished him.
The steamer John j. Roe, from New Or
leans the 18th, had So bales cotton and 29(
hhds. sugar for St. Louis and 255 bbls. mo
lasses for Caro-. .... 3. -
The steamer Hope, from New Orleans the
18th, had so bbls oranges, 5ls bbls. molas
ses, 159 hhds. sugar and 81 bales cotton fol
st. Louis.
The steamer Good Friend, en- route from
Memphis to Cairo, had 500 bales cotton ant
a lot Of sugar.
The steamer Silver Lake, from Vicksburg,
has $50 bales cotton for St. Louis.
Y Times Special
WASHINGTON, Dec Is.
Officers from the front tonight say small
cavalry force holds the north bank of the
Rapidan at Raccoon Ford. Our forces occu.
py Cedar Mountain.
There was little skirmishing Saturday, oc.
casioned, it is supposed, by our army extend.
ing its picket lines on the right.
The rebel army has gone into winter QUAR-.
tiers between Gordonsville and Orange Court
House.
Gen. Rufus ingalls,, Chief Quar- ermaster,
and fol (Nla,G Nb,.f % ~.
Army of the Potomac, were to-day relieved.
Gen. Ingalls, successor has not yet been an
nounced. Col. Clark is ordered to New York
Maj. Wilson takes his place. a s-..
The exigencies of the public service require
many more officers for the colored regiments,
principally line officers. Gen. Casey's Board
We're hard at work examining candidates, but
were unable to supply the demand. Sixty
officers are wanted Immediately, and one
hundred and fifty would be received in the
next two weeks if they could be obtained.
Of 500 horses sent to Gen. Butler from
New York, for cavalry service IN this depart
ment, 700 were condemned as worthless.
investigations into the affairs of the Quar-
termaster's Department at Alexandria are still
progressing, and Old Capitol receives almost
daily some of the parties implicated in the re-
cent frauds. Contractors come in for full
share
Maj Davis, Assistant Inspector, late of the
Army of the Potomac, has been announced
as General Inspector of the Department of
New Mexico. r
1t is stated that Quartermaster General
Meigs is to be reinstated in his Office here.
Mobile, "a Two white regiments sent
down to Fl. Jackson, had not recovered the
fort, and were fighting on Saturday. -....-
The Richmond papers are gloomy oyer the
effects of Averill's raid.
CINCINNATI, Dec 20.
The City Council yesterday passed resolu-
lions authorizing the construction of a rail-
road track through the streets, connecting
the Little Miami & Indianapolis and Cincin-
natl Railroads.
The cash receipts of the Sanitary Fair up
to Monday were nearly So, 700. ef.
q 4 NEW York, Dec. 20.
The 1ribune's Washington dispatch con-
tains the following: Chief Justice fancy is
lying at the point of DEATH
1t is said that in such States as Wisconsin
and Michigan, in which the first draft is not
yet completed, the Government will secure
hardly any of the drafted men, the commu-
ation money being almost una nimously paid
The Tribune learns that the United States
steamer Huron captured an old river steamer
with 300 bales cotton, valued at 100000
while attempting to run the blockade.
The expedition planned by Gen. Gilmore,
Eor attacking Savannah was abandoned in
Of the return of the rebel troops
who had been to Bragg's assistance.
Several expeditions are ahoat, from which
good results are anticipated. A ..-f
The Worlds Washington dispatch says
It is rumored tonight that Hooker has been
suddenly ordered to Washington.
@ i.- New YORK, Dec. 20.
The steamer Harmonic, from Southampton,
lrrived this forenoon No news.
The steamship Roanoke, from Havana the
I'D, and the Tubal Cain, from st. Domingo
he 9TH, have also arrived here
The rebellion at st. Domingo is still pro-
crossing. j s'-.
There are about 5000 Spanish there, but
hey cannot penetrate into the interior on
'ccount of the bad roads and guerrillas.
The Spanish war steamer Elba was burned
It Canary Island. causing the total loss of
large quantity of stores, muskets, SC.
ia d. tesr7 NEW YoRk, Dec. %.
A Charleston letter to the Baltimore AMER |
can, dated on the feet, Dec. Oath, says:
''As intimated in my last, we have settled |
lown here into the expectation of a month or
wo more of inactivity. The strike among
he engineers at the North, which has delay |
d the completion of the monitors and de- !
rived our iron-clad feet of reinforcements |
which were expected here more than a month |
ince, has been the primary cause of the
clay. The disaster to the Weehawken, and |
he coming Of the winter season with its con-
tant storms, has still further enforced this
clay. .szgf s.f .. . ~ v.-
"rwo months hence spring will be advanc-
here, and with our iron-clad force increas-