The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-01-09
GuRboats Corral . Rebel Battery!
Charleston to be Blown Up
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New YoRk, Dec. 5th.-The Tribune
rouches fer the genuineness of the fol
lowing letter, which intimates that the
city of Charleston is mined with powder:
r#z Charleston, Nov. 9th.
Dear Cousin - Fred has consented, at
last, to let me come TO Macon, SO you
may expect me In few days.
. The other daya Yankee shell exploded
Just around the corner, from our. house,
tearing the building to pieces and setting
two Others on fire. Nobody injured. |
don't believe there are 200 ladies in town
able TO get away. Most of the families
have gone to Dorchester, Summeryille
Combaho and even Walterboro. Every
house in those places is crowded. j ma
.iority have left most Of their furniture in
their houses. expecting to return to them
in few weeks, but of course they know
if the Yankees take the city their prop
erty will ell be destroyed, Gen. Beaure-
guard has caused the information to
reach all that if he finds it impossible to
hold the city he will leave it mass of
ruins. No one will complain Of this, as
they know the baTbarians have sworn to
destroy every vestige Of the secession
/
ever enter the city you will hear of the
greatest earthquake ever caused by hu-
man agency. 1t will be consolation to
you to know that should the vandals ever
get here they will never be able to reach
Macon. Beauregusrd is confident they
could never get ten miles beyond the city
in any direction, and equally confident
they can never reach IT "
1t is mournful 10 20 through the streets
and see them entirely deserted with the
exception now and then of one of our
colored people or squaljd Irish women.
NEW YoRx, 4.-The Herald's special
says dispatch from reliable sources saws
Cen Early, with three brigades of EweIl's
corps, perhaps, 5, 900 in all
Fitz Hugh Lees cavalry are in Shenan-
doah Valley and west Of it towards Pc
tcrsburg. Brig. Gen. Sullivan and Aver
i'll are in good force and wide awake.
1t is understood to be definitely ar-
ranged that Rosecrans is to lake Scho-
fields place in the department of Mis-.
souri,.
Herald's West Kentucky corrcspon-
dehee states that the naval operations in
West Florida are active and successful
The extensive salt works of the rebels
were destroyed in st. Andrews and St.
Andrews City lev:led to the ground by.
the crews. of the steamers. BIoomer and
Restless. The salt works were valued at
three million dollars. -. !
NEW York, s. Freedmeu's celebra-
ton Of the anniversary of the Ernanci-
patton Proclamation, took place at the
Cooper Institute, last night Addresses
were delivered by Rev. Drs, Bellows,
Cheeyer and others. Letters were read
from Gov. Andrew; Ch2s Summer, and
Others. The principle portion Of the au-
dience was c-lorcd
Admiral Faragu expects to said TODAY
IN the flag ship, Hartford, to take com
nand of the eastern blockading SQUAD
ron.
CAIRO, j. Memphis steamers report
the thermometer IL degrees below zero,
the morningof the LIST, and L. below the
same morning, here, and a number of
persons were found frozen to DEATH Ten
negro soldiers persisted on the island
Three nriyates of SD Ills were also frozen
to death six miles below Fort Pillow.
No serious damage was done on the
Memphis and Charleston road by Forrest
when his forces crossed it. Grierson is
still in pursuit. At last accounts they
were south of Cold Water.
Lee had reinforced Forrest from Aka.
iona. -.,
The guerrilla Gen. Richardson crossed
our lines on the 18th. on his way South.
All quiet in the interior Of the State
since his departure
Gems. Ord, Neitcla, Hunter, Sowler, and
Sherman are at Memphis.
NEW York, JAN. Avery IMPORTANT
seizure OF counterfeit bonds and treasur,
notes a1hounting 10 100000, was made
by c. S. Marshal Murray's detectives.
\ large quantity Of plates, dies, ard ma
c!'nery was seized, and the parties arrest.
Cd.
WASHINGTON, Dec, 4th.-By a recent
decision Of the Commissioner of the Cen
vrai Land Office, n homestead settler has
not Il complete legal ri ht but merely an
inccptive title. liable to be- defeated for
non-peTiormance of conditions, He can
therefore only use timber for fencing.
building and repairs He is permitted
10 acquire Homestead in the public do
main, for agricultural purposes, on con-
ditlon-of settlement and cultivation for
) wears. Until this condition is satisfied
he cannot commit waste by telling tim
Der for market. as the land reverts to the
I, s. on failure TO compile with the terms
of the law. As to any supposed purchase
by . party from homestead settler, no
right can attach to the sale. The home
tcad settler has no power to sell, kence
the timber cut by him is liubic to seizure
CHICAGO, Dec. 4th.--At the time OF the