The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-04-02

q, ehsY Subsequent lY sent two sum
meme 70 surrender. each tina refused
the rebels then scattered through thi
tpWn and con aked theunselre With plun,
Idering houses arid destroyins propsrtv
tse aaarteFnaslerss buildings were dc
ssroyed, toftnnately they contained bssl
small quantity ef stores largo mum.
Der Ct other buildings, including ths
ra'iroad depot and one steamer on Til
| stocks was harmed the h6sises nearesl
the for. which sheltered the rebel sisarf
shooters, were all destroyed By our guns.
The negro are reported TO have beilavsd
admirably. The rebels remained In the
vicinity until Saturday uGognine when
they latin the direction oa CSIumbus.
The gunboats fired 600 rounds and had
three men wounded.
NEW YoRx, March 29.-Ths Times
special says the pressure for the removal
of Meade are such that they can no lonl
ger be disrcgarded; Hooker Is spoken
of as his successor.
REw YoaK, % Herald's special Gays
Gen. Blair is about resigninE his seat IN
Congress to return to the army.
There are Indications that the report
/ is true that Grant desires Mcclellan and
| Fremont to have commands.
The Worlds despatch says the Ways
and Means committee spent the whole of
Monday on the.tax bill.
AdYices from Richmond, state that the
rebels plans have been formed for recla-
nation of Tennessee and Kentucky to
rebeldom. - :" !.
def Davis believes Riehmone almost
fmpregnable and the great bulk of the
rebel forces will be concentrated at the
West, where they intend to recapture
Chattanooga and to reach the Ohio and
again close the Mississippi.
NV YoRK. 29--The funeral services
of Owen Loyejoy took place yesterday
at Brooklyn, his body will be taken to
Princeton, Ill. |-
WASHINGTON, March % "A number of
paroled prisoners have arrived Mt Annap.
oils, and been paid. A large number of
officers left for the North, on twenty
days leave of absence. Eight or ten
died. Some fifty more will probably die,
from prixsfions undergone in the Libby
Prison. :*@...
Further proof of placing gunbowder
under prisons by the rebels is furnished
by these prisoners 49,.
Nav YoRK, March 2o.-Vienna te1e-
grams of the 10th, from Berliu, to-day
said to be derived from autheptic sources,
state that Denmark is disposed to accept
an armistice and conference in their
their essential points.
NEw YoRk, March 2o.--The Posts
Paris correspondent says it is evidently
the intention of the Sovereigns of Aus.
tria and Prussia to occupy, eventually,
Copenhagen, and then probably dictate
peace.
WASHINGTON; March o9.-Gov. Bran
lette and ex-senator Dixon leave this
afternoon for Kentucky. 1t is under
stood they had free interchange of opin-
ion with the President aud Secretary Of
War, and both parties are in concert and
harmonious as to the enforcement of the
draft in that State, under the enrolment.
CHICAGO. March 20 Rumors Of seri-
Gus riots in Charleston, Coles county, in
this State, are received, but of con
fused and contradictory character. DR..
York, surgeon 54th Illinois, and another
man, are reported killed. Col. Mitchell
and several others were wounded.
Nothing reliable of the origin yet re-
ceived. The excitement in the vicinity
is said to be Intense.
CHICAGO. 30.-Advices from the Red
River expedition say:
The rebels are concentrating atShreve-
port all divisions except Gen. Harrison's
which it at Columbus.
Gen. Bank 8 advance cavalry reached
Alexandria on the 10th. The remainder
of the army is within two days march,
and when it arrives the combined forces
will proceed by land. The supplies will
be sent by water.
Fort DeRussy was blown up on the 18th
accidentally, killing four and wounding
six.
Several rebel steamers we're at Alexan
dria when the place was occupied by the
federals, but were moved up the river
Our gunboats had made captures of FIVE
thousand bales of cotton.
NEW YoRK, 29.-Sales of gold certifi-
Gates at the Treasury to day reached
nearly forty thousand dollars.
CHICAGO, March, 30.-A detachment of
the 54th Illinois left Charleston on Mon
day night to attack 800 rebels intrenched
Golliday's Mills. ten miles flotheast of
Charleston. A portion of the same regi.I
ment is stationed at Madison for the pro-
lection of the place, it being threatened
from Shelby and Moultrie counties.
In fight at Charleston on Monday a
surgeon and three privates and two Union
citizens were killed. Col. Mitchell, FIVE
priyates and two citizens were wounded
Two C@pperheads were killed and several
wounded, and were taken off by their
friends.
LOUISVILLE 20th.-Tn pursuance with
directions from Gen. Schofeld, Kentucky
is divided int two military divisions
The western district comprises all be-
tween the Nashville railroad and the
Cumberland river, under Gen. Ewing
The eastern district is all between the
Nashville road and the Big Sandy, under
Gen. Hobson. That part of Kentucky
west. of the Cumberland river belongs to
the district of Tennessee. ~.s H..
The express train which left Louisville
~, Manlay for T,phan0n WAS "a ptlred no