The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-02-06
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aated SOC, 600 More.
]. Anolher Draft ordered
GOVERNOR GAMBLE DEAD
Probable lllaek ~ Mobile
REBELS chr HOLD ENOUGH
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WAsnINoToN. Jan. 81 - DISPATCHES re-
ceiyed by the War Department. from
Gen. Kelly's command state that sup
lply trains on the way to Petersburg were
attacked by a rebel force. !. .,..:@+. ,.s5.4 \.
After a severe resistance on our part
| the escort was captured By the rebels
A force has been dispatched in pursuit
of the rebels. 2%-.<. :...o. =,
New YoRk, Jan, 3l.--A New Orleans
letter says: r..+.. 49,. .<.5s,.s IS
There are no signs Of forward move
ment by our army >. s.: 3y.3g.. r5sst,
The same correspondent says that an
attack is expected at Port Hudson and
! Baton Rouge. ". 49, ..,:E. c-,tss :,
Large achievements have been sent
toboth places. -..#@@ I +.
FoRrREss MoxRoE. Jan. 3d. Richmond
Papers yesterday, from Charleston 18th
says FIVE shells were fired at the City last
night. ..-....:. . ...-...+ 49, ~
Enemy still at work on the, batteries at
Cummings Point, and hauling ap1muni
tfon to Gregg and Cummings Point bat
,tefies. No change of position on the
9Th. One hundred and three faze shells
were fired ON the City on The 2lst.
New YoRk, 3l-Hayana adyices report
Jaurez at Monterey, and would retire to
Texas If hard pushed. ~
News from st Domingo reports no
! fighting there.
CHICAGO, LIT is ordered that draft
| of FIVE hundred thousand men, to serve
/ Z. i ha lLa do
on the 10th day of March next, for mill
tary service of. the United States, credit
ing and deducting there(rom, SO many
as may have been enlisted or drafted
into service prior to the first Of March,
and not heretofore credited.
Signed, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
From recen, information received at
the navy department, it appears that
few distractions at Charleston have been
washed away. About three hundred
feet fioated down at one time, and all
that has drifted towards the fleet were
RATS built by the rebels to cripple our
vessels. +....
WASHINGTON, Under the call in
| October for three hundred thousand men
about half have been rrisad by valun.
|
now made for half million, interpreted
| by gentlemen acquainted with military
affairs TO ioclude the above call, being in
effect an additional call for two hundred
| thousand. Volunteering is supposed to
! furnish at present an average oil two
thousand per day. ,...
BALTIMORE, 1.-The American is as
Sured by gent just from Richmond, who
had gone to Washington to communicate
with Government that the rebel authori-
| ties are taking steps to propose to the
Federal Government to lay dswn their
arms provided the Presidents Proclama-
tion be extended to the leaders.
CHICAGO. Feb. lst-The statement tel
egraphed few day s sine hat hundred
thousand men enlisted in October is be-
lieved to be erroneous. The dispatch
probably meant to say that o hundred
thousand men have enlisted since Octo-
Der, which is pretty near the truth.
ST. LOUIS, 3lst.-Governor Gamble
died to-day.
LOUISVILLE, 3lst. An officer Just from
Knoxville reports that about week since
the rebels drove of ight hundred cattle
within three miles of Knoxville, and he
says our army writer apprebends no at
tack.
A reconnaissance was made ! lst Sunday
which discovered that Lougstreet had
made hasty retreat and gone beyond
DanLridge.
New York. Feb. lst.-Spocial to the
Tribune says that intelligence of the pro-
ceedings of the Arkansas Convention -
Having reached the President after he
had written letter to Gen. Steele, an
other letter was written not materially
different, but so altered as TO approve the
action of the convention. 49,.
Special to the Times says the Secretary
of the Treasury declares the ports, New
bern, Brownsville, and Fernandina to be
re-opened to the commerce of the world.
Whisky men here are confident that
the Senate Finance Committee will great
ly modify that portion of the Revenue
bill taxing the liquors on hand.
LONDON. 19th.--The Times city article
says that demand has been sent to
Denmark by Austria and Prussia for the
withdrawal Of the obnoxious constitution
on pain of immediate occupation of
Sehleswig, which produced depression
in MI foreign securities. g..
The Daily News city article says that
Paris advices state that applications for q
new French loan oftwelve million pounds
sterling is expected to make astonishing
total. The belief of some is that the ag.
9regate of hundred and sixty million
pounds will he obtained. .<~..'.T n
The Post $ays the Aushian and Prus
sian representatives will doubtless Quit
Cope. hagen, and war may be formally
declared but still active hoatilities may
not instantly follow. ~ .'"-
FORTRESS MoNRoE, 31st.- Richmond pa
pers contain the following: -
PAscAGoULA 25th.--E nemy's gunboats
with six transports entered the mouth of
the river taking possession of Madison.
vile and four mills which our forced ne
elected to burn. They threw out pickets
to the Covington road within two nlilss
OF town, and also on the sfadisonSifle