Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-09

| Lord Palmerston. referring. TO the
war In America in a speech at a ban
quet given by the mayor of Shelf.
Held, said that the government had
thought it their duty to advise their
| sovereign to preserve q strict and
rigid neutrality. He was con-
WINGED that the course which the
British government had pursued was
the only course which became that
country. and that 1t had received, and
would continue to receive, the ap-
proval and sanction of the British
people.
August 9, 1862.
An order issued from the war de-
partment of the United States to pre-
vent the evasion of military duty and
suppress disloyal practices, and auth
orizing the arrest of persons discour-
aging. enlistments.
AT Macon City. Mo-, twenty-six Con-
federate prisoners were shot for vio-
lating their paroles.
Hundreds of citizens of the west
and other portions OF the loyal states
were reported to have fed into
Canada to escape the draft. Several
persons were arrested at Baltimore
while attempting to escape.
Colonel Mcneil with a Union force
overlook Porter's irregulars at Stock
ton, in the western part of Macon
county, Missouri. and defeated them,
capturing number OF prisoners,
among whom were many who had
taken the oath Of allegiance and given
bonds.
The National forces under General
Banks engaged the Confederates UNI
der General Jackson at Cedar noun
tain, eight miles from Culpepper Court
House, Virginia The battle lasted two
| hours. The Confederates withdrew
from the field at the end of that time.
| The Nationals lost 1900 men In killed,
wounded and missing.
The secretary of war issued an or.
der directing the governors of the
loyal states to proceed forthwith to
furnish their quota of the 100000 men
asked by President Lincoln. He also
ordered an enrolment OF all able
bodied citizens between the ages of
eighteen and forty-five.
At New Fairfield, Conn, FIVE per-
sons mutilated themselves to escape
the draft some by having their right
fore-fnger cut off, and others by haw
ing all their teeth extracted.
August 10, 1862.
Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war
OF the United States, issued the fol-
lowing order: ''The temporary re.
strlctions upon travel, deemed neces-
sary to prevent evasions of liability
to be drafted into the militia, were
not intended &c apply to couriers with
dispatches to and from the legations
of friendly powers in the United
| States. All authorities. civil and mill.
tary are consequently required to al
low such couriers to pass freely. with
out let or investigation"
The national steamer Freeborn ar.
rived at Washington, d. c., bringing
twenty-five prisoners, FIVE sailboats, a
number of canoes, and lot of mer.
chandise which was captured on Fri.
day and Saturday nights previous
| near Blackinston Islands The pris-
oners had been engaged in regular
commerce between Maryland and Vir-
ginia, taking over salt, etc. and bring
ing back wheat.
Commander Richard Wainwright. u.
S. NJ, died at New Orleans.
A Confederate steamer was cap
tured at the mouth of the Savannah
river, Georgia. by Union tugboat.
and towed under the guns of Fort
Pulaski.
The town of Donaldsville. Louisiana,
was partially destroyed by a party of
men from the United States sloop Of
war Brooklyn.
August II, 1862.
A number OF citizens of Baton
Rouge who had been permitted to re-
tain their arms, having been found
dead on the battlefield near that place. |
General Butler, commanding the
Union occupation OF louisiana, issued
an order depriying all citizens of their
arms.
Bayou Sara was occupied by the ma
tional forces, who seized all the sugar
and molasses in the place.
A body of irregulars under Colonel |
Hughes defeated the Seventh Missouri
Union cavalry and captured the town
of independence, Mo.
A party Of JEFF. Thompson's irregu- |
lar Confederate cavalry surprised a
body Of Union troops near Helena,
arkansas, but were driven on
A detachment of the nth Illinois !
cavalry attacked and dispersed body |
of Confederate partisans at Salisbury. |
Tennessee. near Grand Junction.
A series of skirmishes occurred /
near Williamsport, Tennessee, be-
tween body of Union troops under
Major Kennedy and Confederate ir-
regulars.
Union cavalry under Colonel Guitar
defeated a force OF Confederate parti- /