Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-17
The Rebels Transferring their
Prisoners to AndersonvilIe, Ga.
A Draft for 100000 More Men
~ Expected.
ontrage- by the French in
Mexico.
Official Dispatch from Gen. Bur-
bridge---3O0 of Mqrgan's
Men Killed and 400
Captured.
Special from Davenport--Account
of the Burning of the
Railroad Bridge.

"au DiIuSt'
WAR DEPARTMENT, WAsHINGToN
June l3-midnight.-7o Maj. Gen. Die:
| we have dispatches, from the Arr>,, 30
the Potomac as late as s O'clock fbiS
morning. The movement at that hour
was in progress
NO reports to-day from Sherman.
Inc following dispatch from Bur-
bridge, commanding our forces in Ken
lucky, has just been received:
II attacked Morgan at Cynthiana at
Gay light yesterday morning, and after
an hours hard fighting, completely
routed him, killing 800, wounding near
~ as many and capturing 400, besides
recapturlng nearl y a hundred of General
HObson's command and over thousand
horses.
| Our loss in killed and wounded is $50.
"Morgan's scattered forces are fiying
IN all directions. They have thrown
away arms and are out of ammunition.
Ihey are wholly demoralized"
Dispatches from Butler, up to o'clock
This evening, indicate no change in his
command
No further intelligence has been re-
ceived from Hunter.
[signedI L. NJ. STANTON,
| Secretary of War.
| NEW YORK, June 15.-1he Tribaaas's
special from headquarters of the Depart
ment of West Virginia, in the field on
the 10th, uid Beverly, 18th, says:
Hunter, with the combined forces of
crook ana Averill, moved from Staun-
ton at 5 O'Clock this morning.
q. We destroyed over three million dol
lars worth of rebel property at Staunton.
two large cloth factories, a boot and shoe
factory and several extensive boundaries.
| Gen. Stael was wounded in the
shoulder during the battle of Piedmont,
Whlle galluntly leading his men. He
retlred from the field for about half an
hour, while the wound was being dress
ed, when he again assumed command.
Ihe expedition sent to Waynesboro
has just returned, having DESTROYED sew
feral railroad bridges and torn up the
track.
Imbodsn's command is thoroughly
demoralIZed. There is now no force of
any account in Hunters front. unless
they are reinforced from Lees army.
Our prisoners not paroled numbering
Lao We're sent through Buffalo Gap and
over the mountains, and arrived safe at
Huttonsville, inside Of our picket lines.
on their way North.
| The Worries special from Washing
ton, 14th, says: There are rumors in
town to-day that Sheridan has reached
Gordonsvllle, on his way to join Hunter
and destroyed the Richmond & Lynch
burg Railroad, one of the principal ave-.
hues by which the rebel capital was
supplied. 1t is understood that he will
pay a visit to Charlottesville Immediately
and accomplish all the damage possible
to the railroads and depots in his path
way, he is accompanied by large
cavalry and artillery force, and is fully
able TO cope with any body of the enemy
with which he may fall in. 1t was srs-
pected at the time that Sheridan started
that he would pass around to the sonth
side OF Richmond and sever the railrt
communication leading out of that Gil
put TINS portion of the campaign hi
probably been entrusted to Kautz, WI
once before raided over that territort
and is therefore familiar with the coui
try. Since Sheridan's destination ha
been disclosed, the importance of hi
movements have been made aDDarent.
Hunters column intended to act Wig
llant!y and effectually in the territory in
winch he Is now engaged. His mission
IS understood to be not only to capture
Charlottesville and Lynchburg, but. to
complete thorough destruction of the
railroads connecting there with Cor
louisville. With Sheridan's assistance,
he may be enabled to penetrate still
further into the country and capture
Danvllie: 1t is well known that the
railroad lines leading to the rebel CANT
tai are now taxed to their utmost capac-
lty in supplying the inhabitants of
Richmond and the immense army of
Lee: The people in Richmond are al
ready suffering from short ratiOns, and if
the railroad lines leading to the i'm
mense fields and repositories in Western
ana southwestern Virginia and the
Shenandoah Valley are cut off. the reb-
els will be compelled to send away all
non-combatants and place the city in a
state of siege
A Times Washington special of the
l4th, says: A scout from the front re-
ports that Sheridan has not been heard
from, but is supposed to have reached
Charlottesville on his way to Lynchbure.
The 1ri6u'ae's correspondent with
Sherman, under date of June 1st, says
concentrated movements of gigantic inn
portance We're successfully ACCOMPLISH
ed to-day by Mcpherson and Hooker's
commands.
The nature of these movements the
public should not know at present. and
though the object for which these bold
and somewhat hazardous operations,
undertaken in the face of the enemy
may be executed before the copperhead
press could tell their Southern readers
of our plans, yet I prefer to wait the
progress of events before disclosing
them.
We are on the eve of bitter struggle.
and forty-eight hours will develope the
plans of two cautious and determined
Generals intent on the humiliation of
each others legions
A Irtbnne's special from headquarters
at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 10th,
says comparative tranquility reigns
along the lines to-day, and the men are
resting securely within the trenches,
but occasionally rifle balls or shells from
the enemy's works give evidence of his
presence and readiness to defend him
self
New YORK, June ia call is issued
for Union Conservative National Con-
vention at Chicago, on the 4th of July.
81 lSlgnedJ r. F. STEVENS,
Secretary.
NEW YORK, June 15.--The Worlds
Mexican correspondent relates from per-
sonal observation, most horrible outrages
by the French troops on their march
and in several places captured by them.
BY order of Gen. bona, lula was burn
ed, the male inhabitants butchered, all
the women and girls raped in open day,
and the place given up to the beastly
soldery for three days. The same out
RACES were repeated at Guadalajura.
Tabasco after Al days siege has been
taken nv tho T,iharaIS tOrathar with Tho