Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-12
TEEEeR APHIC.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM RICH
cioa MOND PAPERS, G0E
Prisoners to be sent Further
rs. .4al South.


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The Rebels Raise the Seige o.
- -4s7 Newbern. SD
Gen. Sickles to 60 to Arkansas
Gen. Butler to be Relieved from
Rebel Out-lawry.
A Cavalry Expedition left Mem.
phis, Tenn.
DAYTON, Feb. 9.
Thomas Parrot, Of the firm Of Parrott
Son, linseed oil manufacturers Of this city
and one Of our oldest and most respectable
citizens, died this morning after short i'll
ness.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 10.
Tho Senate yesterday passed the House
bill for q new State Convention. The bill
defers the election of delegates until Novem
Der next.
The Memphis correspondent of the Chica.
60 Journal, under date of the 4th, says, adj
vices from Vlcksburg are that Sherman'a
army left that piece last week, the 10th corps
under Hurlbut, following the 18th, under
Mcpherson, which has the advance.
Gen. Smiths cavalry expedition left Mem
phis for Corinth on the evening of the Sd,
and will soon be heard from in the interior Of
Mississippi and Alabama.
The Union forces in Arkansas are also said
to be preparing for IN early move southwark
which will put McGrnder's army between
Steele's command North, and Banks columns
on the South.
The Democrats Leavenworth dispatch
says the joint resolution for election to-day
passed both Houses under gag rule. Pro.
tests already begin to come in from various
counties, and indignation meetings are being
held all over the State. The people are ut.
terly opposed to the fraud, and will vote il
down BY IN overwhelming majority At the
first State election.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.
Refugees from the South say Atlanta will
be destroyed rather than fall into Grants
hands, who is expected to move on it in the
spring.
Refugees say there will be no starvation in
the South as sweet potatoes are abundant.
The Richmond Wing says tho Virginia
Legislature has. been occupied, in secret. with
the resolution requesting the Confederate
authorities to suspend the ban of outlawry
against Gen. Butler until an exchange Of
prisoners 10 effected.
New YoRK, Feb. 10.
The 7ribuae's Washington dispatch states
that officers from Fairfax Court House state
that contraband reports his escape from a
considerable force of rebel infantry and cav
airy, six miles south of that station. A force
was dispatched to ascertain the truth. They
had not returned this afternoon.
In the House to-day Mr.. Arnold, of Illinois,
bill for investigation into the
proposed improvement of the Chicago harbor.
The Times Washington dispatch reports
the arguments of whisky merchants are pro.
ducing effect, and it would now seem the Sem
ate amendment to the whisky tax may be
adopted by the House.
The President has acceded to the wishes of
the State Committee of Arkansas, and ordered
Gen. Steele to hold an election on the day
designated. In other respects he has renew
ed his Instructions to Gen. Steele to make
sure Of avoiding collision between the militia
~ and civil powers. He has commissioned
Gen. Sicklss to 60 to Arkansas with full and
authority to keep things straight.
Gen. Butler has commenced tho establish
ment Of the common schoo! system in Nor
folk and Fort Monroe precisely like that in
Massachusetts,. 1t will insure the education
Of hundreds Of children.
Commissioners from the Dominican Re-
public which was suppressed by Spain in
1861 are here applying to be recognized As
belligerents. Seward laid the case before the
Cabinet to-day. 1t did not receive very con
siderate treatment.
New Yo1K, Feb. 10.
Richmond papers to the 9Th are received.
The Examiner reports the arrest Of A. W..
Heinz, baker, charged with be;rg connected
with an organization to release Yankee pris.
oners, assassinate jeff. Davis and destroy the
government buildings and work shops in
tlichmond. Other arrests were likely to fol-
low, as the roll of members was seized, along
with Heinz
The arrest of Hon. Robert Toombs, at
Savannah, for treason and disloyalty, was
in Richmond, but it proved to orig
mate in the fact that Toombs attempted to
get aboard train at Savannah, and was put
off by the guard. a-st 49,.
Major General Breckinridge is appointed to
relieve Samuel Jones in command Of the rebel
Department of Southwest Virginia.
A rebel dispatch from Orange Court House,
Of the 7th, says:
The enemy crossed in large force on Sat
urday, At Morton's Ford, but after a sharp
contest, were repulsed by General Ed. John
sons Division, and driven back over the river
aud persued. Our troops returned, and this
morning the enemy also attempted to cross
At Burnett's Ford, but were repulsed by Gen.
Scates' North Carolina Brigade. The casu-
alties on our side were slight. -. .,
A letter from Walpallo, S. G., Jan. oath,
states that Western North Carolina and towns
in the county ofGeorgia were recently invaded
by $500 Yankee cavalry, who pillaged indis-
and carried off negroes, horses,
food, &c. They captured two Confederate
soldiers, whom they handed over to the
bushwhackcrs Of Western North Carolina and
Tennessee, who shot them.
Inc letter says the bushwhackers have muir
rebel Lieutenant Colonel Walker, his son, Mr..
Young, Colonel Davidson's son, and others.
The Savannah Republican. Of Jan. 30th,
sees no indications of formidable attack in
that vicinity. It reports, however, An attack
on the rebel pickets At Whitemsrch, and the
shelling of Thunderbolt battery by monitor,
without effect.
Lieutenant Governor Weston, of South
died on the 25th OF January. !
1t was officially stated that the whole num-
Der of troops enlisted for actual service since
October is 100000. s<' @.A
Morgan was at Columbus. Il
Bragg had left Montgomery for Richmond.
s Nsw YoRK, Feb. 10. =
A Herald correspondent, captured by the
rebels in Louisiana, and recently exchanged,
writes that the entire rebel force west Of the
MiccScoinni 1onuarv lat nn0