The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-02-06

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NKw Yoax, Feb. 2d.-A special Ia The
Herald dated Headqnartels Western Wiz.
ginia ID, states that Col. Muliigari this
morning drove the enemy from and re.
occupied Burlington and Moorfeld juno.
ton. IN Patterson Creek Valley.
Al noon five hundred rebel cavalry
attempted to burn the North Branch and
Patterson Creek bridge and cut the tele.
graph wire. They were driven of with
out doing serious damage. ~
NRw YoRs, Feb. sd.-Tha America.
from Bremen. via Southampton the 10th
has arrived. The rebel loan il 34(043
discount. =
Admiral Hanlin died yesterday.
CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-The Matches Intell-
gencer of the sd says:
Deserters who entered the federal lines
q few days previously, report rebel gen.
eral with two brigades of Louisiana and
Texas troops marching from the interior
OF Western Louisiana, opposite Rodney,
intending to blockade the river, tempo.
rarily, In order to get arms and afnmnni-
ton across from the eastern side;. also
that Bragg and staff expected to cross
there and assume command of the rebel
forces at West river. -. =. .t.> -
The enemy succeeded, week before
last, in crossing a fat boat containing q
thousand stand of arms and q large guam
Gty of ammunition. ....: -.
A company of the Goth Illinois mount
ed infantry Is reported to have been cap
tured fifteen miles in the rear of Eatchez
by the rebel cavalry, q few days since,
BALsrxoRE, Feb. at has been salts
factorily ascertained that the rumor of
the rebel Imboden having crossed the
Potomac Is q conard.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Am ammend-
ment Of the Senate Finance Commi ttee
to the House Bill to increase the internal
revenue was to-day reported by Fessen.
den. It strikes out the provision for
tax of twenty cents additional on recti
fed spirits, and also that which taxes
whisky on hand after January Nth
They increase the tax on whisky after
July lst and prior to January next, 70
cents; after January LIST, 1865, to 80 cents
duty on imported whisky; after July and
prior to the lst of January next, increas-
ed from As to so cents, and after January
next to 90 cents. $3.50
i Headquarters Army Potamac, Pin.
tercepted letters from rebel ladies, show
that of 5000 cavalry, sent into the valley
during the recent cold weather, not over
500 returned. Many we're frozen to
death others were frost bitten. The en-
tire movement is a total failure.
AT last accounts Ear1y's force was rest
ing on Middle river near Mount Craw-
ford. having abandoned the enterprise.
Deserters continue to arrive from the
front and report great scarcity of provis-
ions, forage, and clothing, also large num-
bers waiting for an opportunity to avail
themselves of the Presidents Amnesty
Proclamation.
FORTRESS MONROE, 2.-The steamer
Union, captured Jan. 18th, the rebel
steamer Msyfower, in Saarzols Pass, for
ida with cargo Of cotton.
On 3lst of Jan. an expedition went up
James river and Pagan Creek, to Smith
field, to join the expedition up Chucki-
tax, under Gen. Graham, to destroy pro-
visions and supplies. T."
An expedition consisting of 90 men
and howitzer landed at Smith6eld to
march to Chuckitak. When FIVE miles
out they encountered rebel force 200
strong with two pieces of artillery, rout-
ing them, but receiving false information
of heavy force betw en- them and
Chuckitak, returned to Smithfeld, and
sent for the armed transport Smith
Briggs, which owing to the fog did not
arrive till Ia next day. The enemy,
500 strong, with four pieces of artillery,
attacked Capt. Lee, at daylight in Smith
field entertainments. They held out
against several furious attacks of enemy,
till the Smith Briggs arrived. The enc
my was repulsed in each attack with
heavy loss. They sent three flags of
truce, demanding surrender all of which
Capt. Lee refused.
On the arrival of Smith Briggs they re-
treated on board, when the enemy opened
q heavy fire of artillery upon them. The
chief engineer was wounded, and the
second missing this prevented the boat
from working off Finally ball struck
her boiler and she was disabled. Capt.
Lee and portion of the men escaped By
swimming across the river, the others were
captured, and among them Capt. Rowe,
who was wounded. Our loss in killed,
wounded and missing is one hundred and
eighty, owing to their superior numbers.
Soon after the capture of Smith Briggs,
she was blown mp.
IrALY.-Divetto has been seized for
publishing Garabaldi's address announe-
ing the formation of q committee to pre-
mote the Italian Union.
Berlin journals assert that Denmark is
ready to participate in the conference
proposed BY England if France will.
Prince Charles leaves Berlin on the
10th with his staff and thirty. two thous-
and Prussian troops, He dispatched to
Holstine via Hanover, who would cross
the Ebe without hating.
The Austrian troops for Schleswig were
forwarded on the twentieth by special
trains carrying q thousand man each, via
Berlin. =.
It il asserted that the Austrian lower
House refused the ten millisns credit de-
manded by the Government for the ex-
penses of the occupation of Schleswig.
La France asserts that Prussia and Aus
tria's first act will be to order Prince Au-
gustinburg to quit Holstine. =,