The Nevada County picayune., 1912-01-26
January 21, 1862.

by General McClernand in the direc- tion of Columbus, Kentucky. return ed to Cairo. The expedition. consist ing of nearly five thousand men. left Cairo ten days ago and penetrated to point within a mile and half of tEs Confederate defenses about Co lumbus The Confederates, seeing the enemy Tn such force, expected and prepared for ali attack. The Union force withdrew. after ascertaining the position. extent and strength of the Confederate defenses. The expedition resulted In the acquisition of yalua- ble information concerning roads that were not marked on the maps in the possession of the Federal officers. as well as a knowledge of the Confeder- ate position
 Adjutant-General Harding reported the number of citizens of Missouri that had enlisted in the Union army for three years at B SS2.
 Lieutenant Ammen, commanding the United States gunboat Seneca. re- ported to Commodore Dupont that the negroes in the neighborhood of Port Royal, South Carolina. which was In the hands of the Federal army and navy. were anxious to be fur nished with guns.
 January 22, 1862.
 The Memphis Argus published the following: We are every day called upon to publish the farcical freaks of the Federal legislation which trans pire in the Lincoln congress- as part of the extraordinary history of the times. =. We notice a bill which one MT. Hutchins. of Ohio, has announced he will soon in. troduce into the lower house of that august body The measure very humanely proposes that the enlight- ened and Christian north shall as- sume complete control over the igHo- rant and barbarous south. reducing all her states to the condition of a terri torial or provincial government. and then immediately abolish slavery within their limits But. hap oily for the south, the issue is not now one of legislation, but of the sword. not of the ballot, but of the bayonet"
 Marble Nash Taylor. loyal progis- onal governor of North Carolina, made the arrival of General Burnside an occasion 10 issue a proclamation from Hatteras. North Carolina, con graduating the people of the state on their deliyerance from thraldom by the "invincible arms of the republic" !" calling upon them to cooperate with the army in restoring their rights, so recently lost, and appointing the 22d of February as the day on which the ordinances of the provisional conyen- tion of November IS should be sub mitted to the people for ratification He also called for an election of United States congressman for the same day to fill the vacancies ther existing in the representation of North Carolina in that body.
 January 23, 1862.
 Maior-General Halleck. command ing the department of the Missouri, threw into jail citizens of St. Louis who endeavored, by legal process. to escape his general order No. 24. under which sympathizers of the south were obliged to pay assessments for the benefit of the southwestern fugitives. 1 Samuel Engler, a prominent merchant. refusing to pay his assessment. suf- fered a seizure of his property to the extent of his assessment and a pen. alty of twenty-five Der cent added. UPon an attempt to recover the prop ert.s. by repleyin, both he and his at torLay were seized and thrown into the military prison. and subsequently expelled the Union lines. with orders not to return without special permis- l sion General Halleek justified his l action under the plea of martial law.
 A force of one hundred Confederate l cavalry entered Blandville. Kentucky. | and carried off the books and records l of the county The captain of the i band assured the citizens that any 1 who had suffered at the hands of the 1 Union soldiers CT who should be made to suffer would be reimbursed out of levies on Union sympathizers.
 The Confederate steamer Calhoun was captured off the southwest pass of the Mississippi river by one of the bloekading squadron The Confeder ates deserted the vessel after firing her. but the fire was extinguished by the Union sailors and the steamer taken off
 A stone fleet was sunk by the Fed erals in the channels of Charlestown harbor to further block the entrances to the port
 January 24. 1862.
 A large meeting in honor of the late General Zollicoffer. killed in the bat tie at Mill Springs. Ky. on January l9. was held in the St Charles ho tel. New Orleans. The following reso lutions were adopted: Resolved that we have received the intelligence of the death of General Feliy K Zol