Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-02-23

command of General Jeff G. Davis, left
Versailles. Missouri. on a march for
Springfield.
The War Department directed Gen.
eral Mcclellan to arrest General
Stone, who commanded the Federal
army in the Balls bluff engagement.
on charges too indefinite to be speci-
fed.
January 20, 1862.
Messrs. Mason and Sidell. the Con-
federate commissioners to England
and France. respectively, who had
been taken from the British steamer
Trent by Captain Wilkes of the San
Jacinto, and afterward released by
the United States government, arrived
in Southampton. England, after an
adventurous voyage. The left Bos-
ton, where they had been detained In
Fort Warren. on board the British s.
s. Rinaldo, bound for Halifax. Owing
to heavy storm, the Rinaldo was un-
able to make Halifax, and put about
for Bermuda, whence the commission
ers we're transferred to St. Thomas,
where they boarded West India
packet. They were received at South
ampton by the officers of the Confed-
crate steamer Nashville and other gen.
tlemen. No demonstration was made
on their landing.
Lieutenant-C Colonel John Burke, with
fifty men Of the New York Thirty
seventh, General Heintzleman's Union
force. attacked house near Occoquan
Bridge. where members of the Texas
Rangers were holding a stag dance.
shortly after midnight. The Rangers
returned the fire of the Union men
through windows and portfolios cut
through the siding of the house. Aft
er a number Of rounds, the Federal
troops were notified that the occu-
pants of the house surrendered. On
entering, It was found that all had
been killed excepting one man, who
claimed that he had been engaged to
fiddle for the dance. and had urged
the men to surrender from the first
The Nationals had one man killed and
four wounded
The House Delegates of Virginia
passed resolutions, in secret session,
thinking General Joseph E. Johnston
for his distinguished service and con
ferring on him for life the right to
appoint two cadets year to the State
Military Institute.
The Confederate General Earl Van
Dorm issued an order assuming the
command of the Transmississippi Dis
trict Department, embracing the state
of Arkansas, part Of Missouri, the In
dian Territory west Of Arkansas, and
Louisiana as far south as the Red
River.
January 80, 1862.
The Monitor was launched from
Sneeden's ship yard, at Greenpoint.
Long Island, New York The Moni-
tor, which was designed as an iron
plated steam battery" had attracted
much attention throughout the north
for several months previous to its
launching. Employing a distinctly
new idea in naval construction, 1t had
been the subject of much adverse
criticism from experts, and was re-
garded with popular skepticism. The
launching was viewed with curiosity
by large crowd OF spectators. Naval
salutes from several vessels greeted
its first appearance in the water
Captain John Morgan. Confederate
partisan fighter, captured six Union
soldiers in a church near Lebanon.
KY. II was reported in the north that
he permitted FIVE of the men to leave
with their clothing. but forced The
sixth into the church and set fire to
it. The alleged intended victim sue
ceeded in making his escape. The
First Ohio cavalry appraised of the oc-
currence set out in pursuit of Captain
Morgan, but failed to come up with
him, owing to the condition of the
roads.
The senate OF the United States
passed a resolution introduced by II.
M. Rice of Minnesota directing the
secretary of war to procure from off,
GERS and soldiers, then prisoners in
the southern states. allotment pay for
their families.
January 81. 1852.
Queen Victoria declared her de-
termined purpose ito observe the du-
ties Of neutrality during the existence
Of hostilities between the United
States and the states calling them
selves the Confederate States of
America" and ito prevent. as far as
possible. the use Of her majesty's har-
bors. ports and coasts. and the waters