Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-06
The Richmond Examiner says this
is the last year Of the War.
Execution Of Richmond.
Gen. Banks Report Of his late
Battle.
Army Movements in North Caro-
liIa.

Army Movements in North Caro-
liIa.
Successful Expedition up the
WaShita.
WASHINGTON, May g.
The Richmond Eraminer, of the 29th ult,,
says: "If we hold our own in Virginia un-
til the summer is ended, the North's power
of mischief everywhere will be gone, but if
we lose, the South's capacity Of resistance
will be broken. The Confederacy has ample
power to keep its place in Virginia, if its
means are employed theoretically and con-
sistently. And this is the last year of the
war"
The Inquirer Of the 3Oth, says a company
has been organized with a capital of 81 ,OOO,-
600, of which $3.50, 900 has been paid on SUBJ
scriptions. 1t does not disclose the object of
the enterprise, but says the company aspires
to great results. 1t will have a fleet at least,
and there is now every prospect of success.
Mr.. Longs speech is published in the Raj
eigh, Consero atiue, and spoken of as bold
and manly, and one of the most remarkable
speeches that has been delivered in Yankee
dom.
Special to the Times.
WASHINGTON, May 8.
Mr.. E. A. Paul sends the following to this
bureau:
All quiet with the army of the Potomac
to-day, and everything is in readiness for a
movement at the proper moment. Our troops
are in excellent spirits, and anxious to adj
vance against the enemy under their new
commander. in chief.
Gen. Burnside's command is in q favorable
position.
Deserters from the enemy all agree to Lee
making extensive preparations to meet Grant.
These people alss profess to believe that
Richmond is being evacuated.
A numbe of generals met in caucus to.day
to agree upon q united course in regard to
the restoration of Frank Blair to his com.
mand in the army. They decided to support
the resolution refusing to recognize Blair as
q Major General in the military service, and
recommend his dismissal from said service,
on the grounds that he holds his commission
in violation of law.
Banks, in an official dispatch to the War
Department, relative to the Red River cam
paign, admits a surprise and reverse on the
9Th Of April, but claims that the battles of
the 9th and 10th resulted in terrible disas-
ter to the rebels, and was on the W hole q VIC
tory to our a,ms-the cost to rebels in
killed and wounded being greater proportion
ately than ever suffered in any battle during
the war.
The receipts in revenue during the month
Of April are upwards of $10,OO0,0O O
Special to the World.
WASHINGTON. May 3.
An officer formerly of the 18th North Caro-
lima, brought here to-day, having been cap
tured on the Potomac, says that the general
belief in Richmond is, that Lees entire army
at present numbers about fifty thousand, and
Longstreet, who was at Charlottesville when
he left, had twenty thousand. He states,
should Richmond be beseiged, they could
not hold out one month. The Republican
says it begins to be feared in high military
quarters that Lee is endeavoring to escape
from the Rapidan to works in the neighbour
hood of Richmond.
New YORK, May 4.
The Herald's New Orleans letter, Of the
26ih ult., confirms the statement that Gen.
Banks had fallen back to Alexandria IN COM
sequence of low water in Red river.
All our gunboats and transports, except
the Eastport, were down below tho Falls.
Six gunboats, which went up the Black
and Washita rivers to Monroe, returned with
2, 900 bales of cotton and 900 contrabands,
besides conveying the steamer Ruby, with
4S0 more contrabands.
New YORK, May 4.
The Herald has a Newberne letter of the
30th ult., which states that the rebels, under
Gen. Hoke, approached Little Washington
on the Goth.
Gen. Beauregard is now in command OF
the rebel forces in North Carolina.
The rebel ram from Kingston came down
the Neuse river within four miles of New
berne, and there stuck fast. She draws niue
feet, and evidently will never be serviceable.
The river has fallen and in some places was
unnavigable.
A rebel brigade under Gen. Corse, 10000
strong, is between Newberne and Kingston.
Mai. Gen. Peck, relieved from the command
of the forces in North Carolina, is to be sue
ceeded by Brig. Gen. ]. N. Palmer.
Deserters report that II regiments of the
force which took Plymouth We're sent towards
Kingston and Newberne, and an attack may
be expected at an early day.
The rebel ram Albermarle is at Plymouth
leaking badly, and held up by " tug boats.
WASHINGTON, May 4.
Letters from Admiral Porter of April 18th,
say that ar expedition which was recently
sent up Washita river as far as Monroe, cap
tured 5000 bales of Confederate cotton,
brought away 800 negroes, and destroyed
much rebel property. The expedition was
under commander Foster.
A new principle has been adopted by a
recent act, viz: Authorizing the Post Master
General to refund to Post Masters the sums
of which they may have been robbed by
Confederate forces or rebel Generals.
Fort MONROE, May 8.
The steamer o. l.. Clark, from Port Royal,
has arrived. She reports that on the 1st
inst, off Frying-Pan Shoals, she spoke the
gunboat Vicksburg, cruising for blockade
runners. The Vicksburg captured on the
| 3Oth ult.. the schooner India, loaded with
palm oil and segars, evidently for Whining
ton. She also chased a side.wheel steamer
the same day, but lost her that night.
BALTIMORE, May 8.
The AmSriean's' special Annapolis letter,
says that the flag of truce steamer New York
arrived at the Naval Academy wharf yester-
day morning, from City Point, with thirty
four paroled officers, and three hundred and
sixty-four men. Such was the condition of
the latter, that every man of them was ad-
mitted to the hospital One hundred and
fifty of them had to be carried from the
boat. Their looks and words abundantly
show that their miserable condition has been
produced by starvation, and many are IN
doubtedly past the reach of medicine Of
~nourishment. Among the officers, is Col.
Rose, of the 18th Pennsylvania regiment,
who was chief engineer Of the tunnel, by
which so many Of our officers escaped in
February last. he having been recaptured.