Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-20

service of the 100 days men is out, a |
draft to fill their places will be ordered
to take place July 1st, by which time
new enrollments will be completed. No
order is yet issued. ss
Especial to the N. Y. World.I
WASHINGTON, May 17-MIDNIGHT.-l
acknowledgements amount to e, 600.
Indications are that he will avoid anoth-
er battle at Spotsylvania by a flank
movement, and move towards Rich
mond. Lee is massing his right, evil
IDENTIFY anticipating such design. Lee
is declared to be depriving other points
of rebeldom of troops, to check Grant,
and will contest every inch.
CAIRO, May 18.-The blockade of Red
river below Alexandria is confirmed.
The partial blockade of Arkansas river
below Little Rock has been effected and
preparations are being made to blockade
White river also, but it is believed that
Gen. Candy will soon attend to these
matters.
CLEVELAND, May 1S.-G. B. Senter
was elected Mayor of Cleveland yester-
day, in place of Masters, resigned.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1S, las P. MA
Washington special to the Bulletin says
Gen. Wadsworth's body has arrived and
will be taken north tomorrow. The
rebels had inferred it in black coffin,
but it was too much decomposed to en-
balm.
A telegraphic operator employed in
Petersburg, who has just escaped, says
that Beauregard has been reinforced by
Ransom's division, and the rebels were
crOwding their forces into Richmond by
way of Greensboro and Danville. He
states that there are five iron-clads at
Richmond, and that there are heavy
batteries on the river, from Drury's Bluff
to Warrick's. He believes thatthe rebels
are making every effort to put their
strength in Lees army, against Geh.
the country around Richmond is that if
they can hold the capital during this
campaign the war will terminate, con-
sequently every effort is directed to it's
defense. The rebels have great conf
dence in the generalship of Lee, and ex-
press the belief that the city of Rich
mond would have fallen before under
any other commander.
, Especial to the N. Y POST
WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Information
received at the War Department leaves
no doubt that the rebels are sending
large reinforcements from the South to
Lees army. Both armies are actively
preparing for the next conflict. The
weather is good for military operations
1t is reported that an order will be is
sued tonight for draft for 800, 600 men,
The time fixed for the draft is the 1st of
July. The rebel prisoners captured by
Grant have been sent north by steamers.
WASHINGTON, May 49, Although
this morning there was no official pro-
mitigation of the fact, it Is confidently
asserted by leading congressional friends
of the administration that it has been
determined on to call for 500, 900 more
troops.
NEW YORK, May 1S.-During the last
three months about 60 pieces of cannon,
10 and 15-inch rifled and smooth bore,
have arrived in Jersey City for the de-
fence of New York harbor. This morn
ing five more arrived and will be mount
ed at Fit. Richmond.
By holding Newborn, the place just
captured by Gen. Crook, communication
between Richmond and the rich west
Wyoming, Monroe, Mcdowell and 9TH
CIeI 10 SCNSiSNs
SANDYHooK, May 1S.-The steamer
Persia, from Liverpool, 18th, via Queens
town, Sth, has arrived.
| London, Nay s.-Berlin papers say
that the Germans will agree to an ar
mistice on the condition that Denmark
raises the blockade and gives up Alsen.
They have evacuated Jutland, the new
contribution having been paid.
New YORK, May 1S.-At an early hour
on Wednesday morning a fraudulent
proclamation signed by the President
was delivered in manuscript to each Of
the editors OF the morning papers in this
city. By direction of the executive COM
mittee of the Associated Press, and with
the approval of the publishers of the
Journal Of Commerce, Tribune, Express,
World, Times and Herald, the associa-
evidence as may lead to the conviction
of the author Of the above mentioned
fraudulent document. d. H. CRAIG,
General Agent Associated Press
NEW YORK, May 1S.-The second edi-
ton of the World to-day says the Jour
nal of Commerce and all the city morn
ing papers were made the victims of a
malicious hoax, by some scoundrel, who
initiated the manifold copy of the Asso-
ciated Press, by introducing the extraor-
binary proclamation which appeared this
morning. Surprising it was all right,
the night editor published it in good
faith, and its falsity was not discovered
until this morning, after the edition was
nearly worked off. The World does not
stereotype its forms as do some of the
morning papers, and as it is now working
Oft very heavy edition daily We're COM
npIlad RI n ylrncS at NJ, l1n,1cIa1l- vi
hour.
The Journal Of Commerce was deceiv-
ed in the same manner as the World,
and of course quite as innocently.
The Herald, we understand, printed
the false proclamation in large edition,
but fortunately for them, discoveries lit
in time to suppress it i'll their regular
edition. We regret exceedingly the
publication, as we have just pride in
publishing none but reliable news, but
it was one Of those ineXplicable acct
dents which is liable to happen to any
newspaper establishment.
PITTSBURGH, May 1S.-The office of
the Inland Telegraph Company was
closed tonight by the Provost Marshal,
and the employees put under arrest.
New YORK, May 1S.-The Tribm,e's
special dated Headquarters, 18th, says
the enemy still holds his line northwest
of Spotsylvania. H.-.
The full supply of rations to our men
is kept up, and there will be no delay on
that account.
Breckinridges and other rebel forces
have not joined Lee, but are kept busy
guarding Lees communications
The Iribune's correspondent with
Sigel SAYS that his loss is 900 and that of
the rebels 1000.
ler's headquarters, on Friday, says, to
an inquiry from Gen. Butler, Admiral
Lee gave as the reason for the delay of
the fleet in cooperating was owing to
shoaI water in the Trent, the draft of
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