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WEEKLY JOURNAL.
OFFICIAL I'AIEU or TIIK COUNTY.
JOHN MAHIN, EDITOR.
CITY OF NIJ8CATI1VE.
FSIDAY MORNING APRIL 17,1863.
Republican State Coayeatlon.
The Republican* of lows at* r»quMt»d to wod
CttM to a State CnT«ntion, to b« held la th« Citr o*
DN MOIMI, on Wrdartday, th* 17th
vt
Jam, 1M to
commense at 10 o'clock A for th* parpouof plac
ing in nomination, to b* Totad for at tb* •DIHIUC
October tlac.ion, candidate* for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, and one Judge of th* Supreme Com t, aad for
the tr.meectiun of aucb other buiineas a* ma properly
come before the Convention.
Tbe ratio of reprrientatlon wlllbe tbe aameae at the
laat Republican State Convention, Tlx Oae delecate
to each onrmnltoJ county, and one delegate additional
fbr each 100 vote* cut at the last Presidential election
for Abraham Lincoln a* President of tbe United State*,
fractional vote* of fltty or more will be entitled to an
add tlonal delegate All citizens without distinction of
party, who are heartily In favnr of aantainlng the Gov
ernment la the ate ot all Constitutional aad necee
aary War measures fur tbe apeedy and complete rap
preealon ot the Rebellion, and th) (anlahnrnt ef
?reaaon who are oppoaed to the echemee deelftned to
bring anarchv and bloodshed to our own flreeldea by
dividing tbe free
State* into haatlleaad petty Oonfed-
eraclee and who still believe In tbe good old doctrine
of Oeueral Jackson, "Tie Caion-ti
vrntrttd!"
mtui and
«A«U
lit District, J. O, FoeTi, Dee Hoine* County.
Sd J. W Noai ts, Wapello
8d 8rstit, Pottawattamie"
4th UotiaHUcIIcNaT, Crawford
6th FiTCaMtams, Polk
•th C. \T. Sl&OLK, Jelfersoa
Sill Tunmi liuaHts, Johnioa
9th O. P. BHIIII, Dubuqu*
10th DAMCII MiaatLL, Clayton
11th T. 0. VcO it,, Story
Davenport, Feb. 11, lS&i.
Iowa Politic*.
But a few weeks will elapse before the two
parties in this State will meet in Convention
and nominate candidates for our suffrage?.—
Who the Copperheads will nominate we know
not. Certain we are that they will be for a
rigorous prosecution of peace with our ene
mies upon any terms. They will be ultra
anti-war men. Mason, Dean, Mahony, Cla
gett,or some other equally as obnoxious man,
will be forced upon the Democratic party.
The candidates will be for Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor and Judge of th* Supreme
Court.
The Republican Central Committee have
called a Convention at Des Moines, June 17th,
and all citizens, without distinction of party,
who are heartily in favor of sustaining the
Government in all constitu ional and necessa
ry war measures, for the speedy and com
plete suppression of the rebellion, and the
punishment of treason—who are opposed to
the schemes designed to bring anarchy and
bloodshed to our firesides, by dividing the
free States into hostile and petty confedera
cies, and who still believe in the good old doc
trine of Gen. Jackson, "The Union, it must
be preserved," are cordially invited to unite
In sending delegates.
To our mind this is a platform upon which
truly loyal citizens cannot refuse to stand.—
No reference to former platforms, party is
sues or doctrines. One plank, the Union,
now and forever. It matters not by what
name the party is called, so that its principles
are correct. The principles laid down in this
code are correct, and no loyal citizen can hes
itate as to his duty in the approaching politi
cal campaign,
W e desire to sea unconditional Unionists
put in nomination—no others can be elected.
We have as yet seen no public expression of
choice, but deem it our duty as a public jour
nalist, who should always lead the way, to ex
press our preferences.
For Governor, we present to the Republi
can Unionists of the State the name of our
former fellow-citizen and late popular and effi
cient Secretary of State, Hon. ELIJAH SELLS.
lie is too well known throughout the State
for us to bestow upon his name any encomi
ums of praise.
Familiar with the affairs of State for the
last ten years—and no man in it more so—
possessed of unimpeachable integrity—we be
lieve the popular heart will with one accord
second our nomination. We know the PEO
PLE want him. The greatest commendation
we can now give him, is a reference to his
majorities in past elections.
For Lieut. Governor the present gentlemanly
incumbent will be entirely satisfactory to us.
Gov. Needham is a popular and efficient
Lieut. Governor, and we shall be more than
phased to see him again in the presiding
chair of the Senate.
For Judge our first choice is the present
incumbent, Judge Baldwin. His nomination
ij due to to tha Slope and himself. He has
won the respect and admiration of all wiih
whom he has been brought in contact. We
have heard it intimated, however, that he will
not be a candidate for re-nomination. If this
be the case, then our choice is Judge Will
iams, of Clayton county, a gentleman who has
a State reputation of being a jurist of the
highest order of talent. Men of all parties
admit him to be one of the best judges in
Iowa. Without any exception we believe
him to be the most popular gentleman in the
North half of the State. His locality demands
of the people this nomination. Residing in
the north cast part of our State—a part that
has done so much for Republicanism and the
Union—unrepresented in the political organi
zation of the State, we trust Judge W. may
receive the nomination—provided, of course,
Judge Baldwin retires.
Treason Sympathizer* to be Pun
lulled.
The Courier in its issue of Wednesday made
a silly and senseless attempt to make its
readers believe that the recent order issued
by Gen. Burnside, concerning express and
implied treason, was intended only for Gree
ley, Sumner and others of their school. That
our very loyal friend may not be deceived in
regard to this Rubjec', and thereby ignorant
•y run his utc'- into n hal'er, we publish Gen.
Burnside'a orkr No. If Greeley and
Sumner are found doing what is here prohib
ited, within Burnside's lines, we trust they
will be summarily dealt with—moreover, we
believe they will be. Read the order, Mr.
Thayer:
Hereafter, all persons found within our
lines, who commit acts for the benefit of the
enemies of the country, will be tried as spies
or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer
death. This order includes the following
classes of persons: Carriers of secret maiU
writers of letters sent by secret mails secret
recruiting officers within our lines persons
who have entered into an agreement to pass
our lines for the purpose of joining the ene
mv persons found concealed within our lines,
belonging to the service of the enemy and,
in fact, all persons found improperly within
our lines, who could give private information
to the enemy all persons within our lines
who harbor, protect, conceal, feed, clothe, or
in any way aid the enemies of our country.
Tbe habit of declaring sympathies for the en
emy will no longer be tolerated in this de
partment. Persons committing such offenses
will at once be arrested, with a view to being
tried as above stated, or sent beyond our
lines into the lines of their friends. It must
be dstinctly understood that treason, ex
pressed or implied, will not be tolerated in
this department. All officers and soldiers are
strictly charged with the execution of this
order."
jnA tb«t Mr. Thayer may not feel himself
exempt from its penalties, because beyond
Burnside's jurisdiction, we give you the ben
efit of the following information, conveyed to
the Chicago Journal, and' commend it to
your prayerful consideration, gentlemen cop
perheads
"We learn, from Washington, that the
Government contemplates the issuing of a
general war order, to the effect that all men
at the north who shall be found talking or
publishing sentiments of a treasonable char
acter, will be arrested and sent south through
the rebel lines, and thst any person or per
sons in the north who shall be detected in
acts of treason, by giving actual aid to the
enemy, as spies or otherwise, when arrested,
will be tried by court-martial, and, if convict
ed, shot."
There's a good time coming, friends, wait
a little longer.
Behold his Modeitty!!
E. H. Thayer visited Grandview (Grand
view is in Louisa county, Iowa,) last Satur
day, we believe, and repeated a written com
plaition of stereotyped political phrases—quo
tations from Congressional speeches and De
Bow's Review—the same that was read at
Tipton and afterwards in Hare's Hall. It's a
big thing—we have herad it and know where
of we speak. We reiterate that the compiler
read his masterly production at a Democratic
meeting composed of Abolitionists—wo give
his own statement. There was not even a
vote of thnnks passed by his friends, much
less did they request the publication of his
speech. Suffice it to say, that at the conclu
sion of the reading £. H. T. was seen, very
much like one Gilpin of old, making rapid
strides for home, with a shower of eggs fall
ing thick and fast upon his fading form. Ar
rived at his home Saturday evening he pro'
ceeds to his sanctum—having just concluded
upon the purchase of a new hat- and deliv
ers into tbe hinds of the compositor the
"Democratic Speech of Hon. E. H. Thayer,
of Muscatine," and so his wonderful compila
tion comes to light. His modesty protested
to the compositor against putting on anything
more than Honorable. Judge, Ex-Judge, Ex
would-be-Congressman, &c., were suggested
to his modest mind, but he fill my resolved
that Honorable was enough. It's true thaj
looked a little like piling on the agony for an
editor—compiler—to sound his own title, but
then, if his compilation went abroad its read
ers must understand that its author was some
other person than simple Ed. Thayer, so
put it Honorable, and his simplicity would
follow.
bt
are cordially Invited to unit* is landing
dsUgat a.
County Central Committee* are reqaeeUd to take
inch etepe aa will insure a full attendance at the Con
vention, and a thorough and efllclent organisation in
their respective conntie*. JAMES T. LANE,
Cbn. btate Executive Com.
The HON. E. H. Thayer—keep it before the
people, teach it in the barn yards, publish it
in Grandview, aye! teach the matronly hens
of that benighted village, that their peeping
young may in the hereafter crow the Hon. E.
H. Thayer into notoriety. Don't, by any
means, permit the modesty of the martyred
editor of the Courier to fall into disrepute.—
Vive la Hon. E. H. Thayer and the hen
fruit" of Grandview
How the Copperheads
Rebels.
Aid the
At a recent loyal meeting in Washington,
Mr. Howard and other recently released Union
prisoners from the South, agreed in the
opinion that the only support of the rebellion
now was the belief that the Copperheads (.in
the North) were sufficiently numerous and
powerful to prevent the enforcement of the
Conscription act, and to seriously impede the
further vigorous prosecution of the war, even
to the extent of creating a civil war in the
hitherto loyal States." These released pris
oners further testify as to the results of their
Southern observations, that while all express
ions of Unionism in the revolted States are
repressed with an iron hand, "the occupation
of the rebel territory and the re-establishment
of the authority of the Government over it
would be hailed with joy by a large propor
tion even of those enrolled in the rebel ar
mies."
Every intelligent man sees that the cause cf
the Union was never stronger, and that the
rebellion was never weaker than it is to-day.
The only hope of tbe rebel leaders now is in
the wicked machinations of the Copperheads.
If they can succeed in nullifying the Con
scription act and other war measures of Con
gress, it will give them some chance to recruit
their exhausted energies,and leave a lingering
hope of success in their attempt to destroy
the Government. How inconceivably hypo
critical is it for the aiders and abettors of trea
son in the North to profess reverence for the
Constitution while they are thus plainly and
palpably giving all assistance in their power
to those who are striving to overthrow it!
Iowa Cop2erheadl«m.
We present the following resolutions recent*
ly adopted at copperhead meetings in this
State, as specimens of scores of others that
have recently be?n published in the columns
of Iowa copperhead journals.
The first was adopted, among others, at a
meeting held in Pleasant Ridge school house,
Wapello county:
Resolved, That we here deliberately and
firmly pledge ourselves, one to the other, that
we will not render suppoit to the present
Administration in carrying on its wicked abo
lition crusade against the South that we will
resist to the death all attempts to draft any
of our citizens into the army.
The following were passed at a "Democratic
Meeting" held in Adams Township, Mahaska
county:
Resolved, That we will oppose the further
prosecution of the war under the present Abo
lition conquest policy.
Resolved, That we are in favor of an armis
tice and a speedy National Peace Convention.
Resolved, That we regard the Conscription
Bill as unconstitutional, uncalled for, and that
we are under no legal obligations to submit to
its effect.
IralBg Negroes.
Adjutant General Thomas has ordered the
immediate organization and equipment of
eight negro regiments at Memphis, and seven
regiments at Helena.
Cols. Higginson and Montgomery having
demonstrated the fighting qualities of the
blacks, in a war to suppress their rebellious
masters, the negroes of the Mississippi Valley
will have a hand in opening and holding the
great river. We trust that our friends in the
35th regiment who aspire to command will
succeed in bettering their present condition,
"provided their hearts are in the work."—
We would as soon see Muscatine boyg lead
negroes to victory as any others.
The negroes are to be armed, and they are
to fight, whip and conquer rebels. What do
you think of it, Courier1
IOWA AGENT AT MEMPHIS.—By order of
Governor Kirkwood, Adjutant General Baker
has appointed Joshua Dial, of Davenport, as
State Agent to proceed to Memphis, to look
after the
Bick
and wounded Iowa soldiers in
the hospitals there, and to report weekly to
the Adjutant General the names of those who
die, the condition of the sick, and all other
particulars of importance.
It is a pppujar delusion that powder
on a lady's face has the same effect in tbe
barrel of a musket—assists her to go off
The Penalty lor Treason.
By reference to oar dispatches from Cin
cinnati, our readers will learn that justice is
about to be meted out in the Department of
Gen. Burnside. The policy is right—it should
have been instituted when the rebellion was
inaugurated. All aiders and abettors of the
rebell on are to be punished with death. All
implied treason to be punished by nrrest and
transportation to the enemy's country. The
thanks and gratitude of the loyal people are
extended to Gen. Burnside. At last the Gov
ernment has men at the head of the Depart
ments who are terribly in earnest. Let Ben
Butler have his place, and with such co-labor
ers as Burnside.. Ilcoker, Rosecrans, Schenck
and Hunter, the victory must be ours. Let
this policy of punishing treason, actual and
implied, have a general application. It is just
as much needed in Iowa as in Ohio or Ken
tucky. Let the commander of this depart
mcnt take this necessary stop. Let treason
be punished. All honor to Gen. Burnside—
the country will sustain him.
[Oorrespondenoe of tho Dally Jonrnal.]
FKO.n WASHINGTON.
The Report of the Committee on the Conduct
of the War— The Jawam here at a Party,
etc., etc.
WASHINGTON, April 8, 1863.
The Report of the Congressional Commit
tee on the conduct of the war, the first install
ment of which appeared on Monday, created
quite an excitement here among all classes.
Every body with as much brains as a musquito
dying of a galloping consumption had known,
of course, that McClellan was a dead dog,but
not a w insisted that he might be again res
urrected, to drag the slow length of war along
after his peculiar mode, to the great satisfac
tion of Mr. Jefferson Davis and Vallandigham.
These fellows, many of them, hold office un
der the Government. Many belong to the
uppertendom of Washington society. But
the great majority are of such as delight in
the somewhat questionable charms of Mile.
Julia Mortimer at the Canterbury, and the
lewd attacaons of the Varieties. The Report
squelched 'em all out, without respect of per
sons—as well the aged Audi or w ho moves,
just a little bit mellow, in the same circles
which arc graced by the captivating smiles
and florid eloquence of the Secretary of State,
as the abandoned pimp who encores the
Arab's Lay and is cheek by jo«l with garrot
ers. They died hard, but dead they are, and,
I take it, the less that shall be henceforth said
about poor little Mac, the better it will be all
around. He cannot now be considered wor
thy of hate. I would as soon think of hating
a cast-off slipper. When a man is altogether
played out, there is no use in attacking him
So the loyal citizens here think, and have al
ready about forgotten that there ever was
such a map as McClellan. Such would have
been the natural result, without any extrinsic
cause, but the good news from Connecticut
which was received yesterday tilled the town
with a new and glorious excitement, by which
all minor matters were swallowed up.
The Criminal Court of this District under
the new law was formally organized yester
day. It is a branch of the Supreme Court of
the District, of which David K. Caiter is Chief
Justice. He delivered his first charge to the
(Jiand Jury on this occasion. His instruc
tions manly bore upon the law punishing
frauds aganst the Government, the law ol
treason, and misprision of treason. Touching
I he subject of "aid and comfort,'' Judge Car
ter said:
"It is important that you should have
clear ideas of what is meant by 'giving aid
and comfort to the exis ing rebellion.' This
offense may be committed in various ways
as by sending arms, ammunition, provisions,
clothing, or merchandize, to those who are in
rebellion by giving them information in re
lation to the military affairs of the Govern
ment, the number, position or movements of
trcops the construction, armament, or desti
nation of armed vessels or by sending news
papers, letters or messages conveying inform
ation which may be useful to rebels in their
warlike movement?
BT ENCOURAGING OB AS­
SISTING IN PROCURING DESERTIONS FROM TIIE
ARMY OR NAVY BY OPPOSING OR EFFECTIVELY
DISCOURAGING ENLISTMENTS BY OPPOSING '1IIE
ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS FOR THE ENROLL
MENT OF SOLDIERS IN THE FORCES OF TIIE
UNITED STATES by running or attempting to
run the blockade with goods co itrabaml ot
war by breaking through or attempting to
break through the lines of our army for the
purpose of carrying on illicit trade with the
enemy or with persons in the rebellious dis
tricts.
In short, whatever transactions tend to
strengthen the rebellion, to tive courage or
endurance to the rebels, to dishearten or dis
courage the loyal citizens of the country, to
give rebels any assistance whatever, are with
in the purview of the statute."
In all which, indeed, there is nothing new,
but it may not be altogether without good
thus to remind a certain class of persons that
they may find themselves in the meshes of
the law or the monotonous exercise of work
in the penitentiary before long. A word to
the wise is sufficient.
In my last, I briefly mentioned the fact that
the Iowans now here had a social meeting at
the residence of Mr. Hawes, of the Lyons
Miiror, on Wednesday evening of last week
It was quite a grand affair. The following
gentlemen were present, accompanied by
their wives: Hon. John A. Kasson, Messrs.
Ira Cook and M. B. Hoxie, of Des Moines
W. Turner, Keokuk Deering, Osage Cook,
Dubuque Burris, Davenport Smeed, Wa
verley Wilson, Muscatine Talbott, Win
terset Reynolds, and IngiTsoll, Iowa City.—
Mr. Cowie, of Montezuma, accompanied his
daughter, and Mr. Page, of Mt. Vernou, had
the honor of escorting the accomplished
daughter of Judge Mason, just in the full
bloom of gorgeous womanhood. Mr. Curtis,
a nephew of the General, was present, as was
his wife. They live at Fulton, Illinois. One
or two couples from Minnesota also abided to
the number. Those unaccompanied by ladies
were Messrs, Townsend and Jackson, of
Wapello Scott, of Fairfield Rankin, Bal
linger, Guthrie, Stevens, Bailey, of Keokuk
Bittman and Geo. L. Cook, Dubuque Baird
and Stowe, Mt. Pleasant Smith, Des Moines
Nealley, Sweeney, and Chambers, Burling
ton McDill, Afton Payton, Davenport
Zitchske, formerly of Iowa City Besack,
Waterloo, and Conwell, Knoxviile. I may
have omitted the names of a few, but certain
ly not many. There was a house full of
beauty, of accomplishments, and brains. It
was one of the few parties I ever heartily en
joyed, and herein I know I express the uni
versal opinion of those present. The supper
was all that could have been w'shed, and it
was a late hour when the company, voting
kind acknowledgments to Mr. and Mrs.
Hawes for their hospitable reception, sought
their homes.
Leroy Tuttle, who lived for some time at
Council Bluffs, in our State, has been pro
moted to a $2,000 position in the Cashier's
office, Treasury. The position is one of great
labor and responsibility, but Mr. Tuttle fills
it with complete success. He is a tip-top
business man, universally well spoken of by
the thousands of officers and civilians who
hare otlicial intercourse with him.
A Falmouth correspondent of the Philadel
phia Enquirer recently gave ("apt. Geo. 5.
Corkhill, of Mt. Pleasant, now a brigade com
missary in the Army of the Potomac, a very
complimentary notice, which I intended to
quote at length, but which some villain has
stolen. Suffice it, that the Captain performs
his duties to the thorough satisfaction of
officers and men, and is worthy of prompt
promotion.
J. P. C. Poulton, Esq., of Fairfield, has re
ceived a better position in the War Depart
ment han the one he at first had under Sir
Isaac Newton." LINKENSALE.
—The election at Keomqua resulted in the
choice of a clean thorough-going Union ticket
throughout.
—The Burlington Hawkege—lhe largest,
ablest and most widely circulated daily pa
per in this State—has come out j^ aa entire
uydrefs. Xt looks splendii
O U A Y O E S O N E N E
LAKE PROVIDENCE, April 7,1883.
ED. JOURNAL: We arrived at this place on
Monday morning at daylight, and had all our
sanitary goods put on shore. The Iowa bri
gade is encamped about three miles down the
river. We sent word to the 11th regiment,
and at 9 o'clock three Government wagons
arrived, with Quartermaster Cadle, and we
felt at home in this southern clime. The
Iowa regiments, consisting of the 11th, 13th,
15th and 16th, are all together—the 11th in a
beau iful lawn in front of a fine house and
splendid plantation. I tbink no patriot would
have felt he had done too much had he seen
the perfect furor of delight manifested when
their boxes and share of the general stores
arrived. I never saw a finer looking set of
men than those of the 11th Iowa, nor a camp
so clean and tidy. The officers' quarters are
in the mansion, with furniture of the richest
description. 1 saw a fine marble-top table in
the tent of one of our Muscatine boys.
The village, or town, or city, of Lake Prov
idence is situated on the river just back of the
levee, which is ten feet high and fifteen wide
on the top. Lake Providence, about six
miles long, lays half a mile back of the town
The canal, or crevasse, runs in the main
street, at right angles with the river to the
lake. All who remember when the old levee
on Muscatine Island gave way, can form a
just idea of the rushing of the water down
this canal. The lake is rapidly filing up,
and the water now extend?, it is said, over
forty parishes, completely destroying the
plantations for this year. I was told the peo
ple tried to have Vicksburg evacuated, to
save them, and offered 'irant $1,000,000 to
prevent it. The town is thus divided into
two parts, above and below the canal. A
frail levee protects tho lower half of the city,
where all the higher officers have their head
quarters. The upper part of the city is sub
merged up to the window ledges—a fine look
ing church among the houses. The Catholic
church is in the lower half.
I must stop here and tell of what has been
going on in the commissary boat in which I
am writing. A constant stream of concra
bands is buying coffee, sugar and tea, by
twenty-five cents to a dollar's worth, paying
about what we pay in Muscatine in green
backs, which they have earned by their la
bor. The clerks tell me it is so every day,
and that their masters and mistresses are fed
at the cost of the Government. Which class
shows the most manhood
Dr. Sparrow, a member of the rebel Con
gress, has a most magnificent mansion at the
north end of the lake, and plantations ex
tending to the river. He has a splendid
piano and a marble billiard table, in a sepa
rate building, with all the surroundings in
perfect keeping. The house, with a little
land around it, is above the water, and the
female part of the household are now residing
there.
He has a large ginning mill above the town
on the river, which our friend Lieut. Wiles
is superintending for the Government. A
company engages to pick, gin and bale the
cotton for one-half, the Government furnish
ing them the power. I learned that the Gov
ernment gets shaved as usual. Quite a num
ber of bales of a superior quality to theirs,
had burst on the wharf, which they bad to re
bale, for which they charged the same as for
picking, ginning and baling not only so, but
they marked all these "1st quality," for them
selves, and an equal number of their 3d qual
ity for the Government. Poor Uncle Sam!
Mr. Wiles told me a thrilling talc of a ne
gro who came to him at the mill in a nude
state, except a shirt. His flesh and feet were
horribly torn and tattered by the the honey
locusts and brush in the swamps.
All the negroes, horses, &c., in this part of
the country have been driven beyond the Big
Mason. Two of the negroes started for our
lines and were two days chased by blood
hounds. Arriving at the river they could
find no boat or anything with which to con
struct a raft, and taking off their clothes and
tying them on their backs they plunged in.
The water being very cold, the youngest sunk
when half way across. The other finding his
strength failing looked his clothes and reach
ed the shore, and in that condition traveled
two or three miles through the cypress
swamps, when he fell into the hands of our
good Samaritan,who clothed him and pet him
to work, I may be wrong, but I can't help
feeling that the fellow earned his freedom,
Copperheads to the contrary notwithstanding
I must tell a little of my experience in dis
'.ributing the books Dr. Waters was good
enough to give me for the Foldiers. Bein_
anxious to return to Memphis, and take the
packages for the 2d and 7th infantry and 2d
cavalry, to them, I had not time personally to
visit each regiment. While waiting for a boat
this forenoon I took a few to the Post Hospi
tal and then to the Wisconsin regiments.—
Every man was eager to take a iract and a
l'ttle book entitled "Evils of Intemperance,"
being the only assortments I had left. Sev
eral shrewd looking men thought I would ac
mplish more good by giving the latter to
the higher officers. Taking the hint I saved
a few, and went to the Provost Marshal Gen
eral (Major Belknap) who immediately agreed
to send one to each of the Generals, and Col
Reid, of the 15th Iowa being present, engag
ed t3 hand what I had left to the Colonels.
I am inclined to think the next best thing
Muscatine can do for her noble boys would be
to send them weekly a goodly number of
some sterling loyal papers and a little literary
religious reading for each company from
our county.
Col. Compton goes down to Young's Point
to-morrow with the remaining stores.
Yours, J. S. HORTON.
CAIRO, April 10.
FRIEND MAHIN:—We were paid "our little
money," as the boys call it, on the 7th, and
were very glad to have our purses replenish
ed by green-backs (if copperheads do say they
are worthless.) But you know they would
not do us much good if we kept them in our
pockets, so it was "hurrah boys" for a jollifi
cation. Nothing wrong, however—but then
the eggs, pies, cakes, cider, beer, ale, and oc
casionally a glass of something a little strong
er—every man according to his taste. Well,
we had a glorious time—just such a time as
soldiers know how to have after being strap
ped for a considerable length of time. That's
all.
We had a general review here not long
ago, by Adjutant General Thomas, who gave
us the cred'-t of being as fine a regiment as
he had seen. He also made a little speech to
the boys, which caused a considerable busi
ness to be done, aft*r review, in the way of
circulating neatly folded papers, and although
the writer of this was busily engaged in the
cook room, yet he was very anxious to see
what those papers were for. But they were
not intended for the inspection of privates,
for they were invariably handed to the com
pany Officers. However, after several un
successful attempts, it so happened that I got
a glimpse of one and found it to read as fol
lows
"To Adjt. General Thomas, U. S. A:—We,
the undersigned, officers of the 35th Regt.
Iowa Infantry, do^heartily recommend
and- as suitable persons to fill any pos
tion you may assign them in the Negro regi
ment now being formed here."
This explained it all. The boys of the 35th
had forgotten the teachings of that secesh in
stitution in the city of Muscatine, and were
asking the privilege to do just what Judge
Thayer said if the Administration undertook
to have them do would cause them to lay
down their arms and let the government
slide—to wit: fight beside the African. I
wonder if the Judge does not begin to think
that that old hobby of his (that the white
soldiers won't fight with the blacks) is getting
pretty well run down and needs to be with
drawn from the track to be recruited. When
he (Thayer) shall learn that our friend "Em."
(who wrote that communication to the Cour
ier last fall in opposition to the Republican
nominees, signing himself "Once a Republi
can,") was the first to ask the privilege to
serve ip a negro regiment will he not think the
old faithful steed that he used to ride so
gracefully is not only run down, but broke
down and entirely ruined, and must be turn
ed out to die? Poor old hobby what a pi'y!
But then our f:iend "Em." is all right. His
late ideas have been abandoned, and he is
now an unconditional Union man. A short
campaign in Dixie cures Thayer men effectu­
ally of their Thayer proclivities. We have
several in our company who supported him
last fall for Congress, but they have denounc
ed him one by one, until the last political
friend of the would-be Congressman in our
company has expired—i. e., their Thayer
proclivities have died and here is the ex
piring sentence of the last one who deserted
him—"I think Thayer must be demented, as
was John Brown, or else he would not act
the d—n fool as he does." ,j
Yours in friendship,
*,_ 38th Iowa-
Letter from the 11th lews,-False
hood* of tbe Courier Correspond*
cat Kipoited.
CAMP OF THE 11M IOWA REGIMENT,?
Near Lake Providence, La., April 5.
ED. JOURNAL :—I am not a regular reader
of the Courier, but occasionally a number
falls into my hands, which I never read with
out feeling my blood boil with honest indig
nation at the vile treason which stands forth
so conspicuously in all its columns. But
hitherto I have kept silent, leaving it for
greater minds and abler pens than mine to
administer the rebuke his foul-mouthed bold
ness so richly deserves for I am no poli
tician, and have never before written but two
or three newspaper articles.
Occasionally, however, articles have ap
peared impeaching the loyalty of our soldiers,
at which my indignation was roused to such
a pitch that it was with difficulty that I could
restrain myself from attempting a reply.—
And in tho last number received here (March
27th) appears a letter from this regiment in
relation to certain resolutions adopted by the
regiment on the Gth of March and sent to
you for publication, which so wilfully and
maliciously misrepresent the facts that I can
no longer hoM my peace, and in a fit of des
peration have seized my pen, and this article
is the result. 1 have not the letter before me,
and consequently will have to refer to it from
memory alone, and may not be able to notice
the obnoxious points in the order in which
they appear,
lie says that before the vote was taken our
commander told us that "all who voted against
the resolutions were traitors, and wanted to
desert and straggled on the march," &c,—
Now this is, to speak plainly, an unqualified
lie. Nothing of the kind was ever spoken.—
In the course of his remarks our Major said
that those who had deserted wore those who
straggled on a march, were skulkers in battle,
and were nothing but a nuisance in the army.
This is all that was said that in any way re
sembled the language of the letter quoted
above.
Again, he says that when the vote was
taken about one third of the regiment voted
for them, and then adds: "Of course tho rest
of us were silent, because we knew that had
we gone against it publicly we would perhaps
have been dishonorably drummed out of the
service, or inarched to the guard-house, and
perhaps court-martialed." There are two
points here to be noticed. First, instead of
only one-third voting for the resolutions, I
think there were at Last. nine-tenths voted
for them. Of course I cannot say that was
the cxact proportion, but to show you how
nearly right it is, I will give you the opinion
of one whom you all know to be good author
ity on that point—Lieut. George D. Magoon
—for all who are acquainted with him know
him to be as strict, uncompromising a Dcino
crat as can be found, and consequently would
not be likely to misrepresent the matter, to
favor the opposite side, lie says he does not
believe there are twenty-five men in the regi
ment who would not freely and unrestrained
ly vote for those resolutions. The few who
refused to vote were those who support the
Muscatine Courier, and subscribe to the trea
sonable doctrine therein set forth.
Now for the next point. He says those
who refused to vote were silent for fear of be
ing drummed out of the service, court-mar
tialed, &c. Now this is not only a lie, but a
malicious slander on the officers of this com
mand for we all know (the writer of that
letter not excepted) that there was not the
shadow of a probability of any such result.—
Our officers are men above employing such
base means to induce men to avow sentiments
distasteful to them, even though they are
sentiments of loyalty.
And not content with falsifying the facts
in regard to the vote on the resolutions, he
must misstate the resolutions themselves, for
he says we could not vote for them without
stating that we have "full confidence in our
rulers." Now, those resolutions do not con
tain the word "ruler" in them, nor anything
in regard to them, as you may see by refer
ring to them. I suppose he refers to the sec
ond resolution, which is the only one he could
in any way misrepresent to contain the lan
guage quoted. It reads as follows:
That in spite of all hardships in the field,
reverses and discouragements, we still feel
unlimited confidence in our Government to
suppress the rebellion, and instead of desiring
a peace or truce, we, on the contrary, are un
alterably opposed to making any terms with
armed rebels, and will not willingly consent
to peace or cessation of hostilities short of
the complete restoration of the authority of
the Government in all the districts now in
rebellion against it."
Instead of containing the language which
the writer of that letter ascribes to it, it does
not express a single sentiment which every
loyal man should not freely and unhesitating
ly subscribe to. Our faith in the old Union
is not destroyed. We cannot believe that a
just God will allow wrong and oppression
thus to triumph over liberty and right.—
Therefore we believe she will yet outride the
storm that threatens to cngulph her, and safe
ly enter the port of peace.
As for peace or compromise, we do not
wish ever to see either on any terms other
than the unconditional recognition of the au
thority of the government on every foot of
soil over which our glorious banner of free
dom has waved its protecting folds. Our
forefathers, under circumstances a hundred
fold more difficult and scouraging than
those under which we labor, to establish the
institutions of liberty which we are striving
to maintain, endured the toils and privations
of a war of eight years duration, while its
terrible, blighting, desolating influences were
exerted around their own homes and firesides,
and their own loved ones were the victims of
it? unspeakable horrors. And although a
soldier's life is one of hardship, privation and
danger, and the heart yearns with unceasing
longings for the comforts and loved ones at
home, I know there are thousands, yea, hun
dreds of thousands of true, patriotic hearts in
our noble army, which wish, if It is necessa
ry to put down this fiendish rebellion, this
war may be as long as that. Yea, more. If
necessary, they are willing to lay their lives
on the altir of their country, if by so doing
they can leave the heritage of freedom unim
paired to their children and their children's
children, rather than live to leave them an in
heritance of woe.
But I am digressing for I only set out to
show the false light in which that letter
placed us, for fear that if uncontradicted it
would leave the people of Iowa to form an
erroneous and very unjust opinion of the loy
alty of this regiment. I do not know wheth
er I have touched on all the points that de
serve notice, but as I have not the letter to
refer to, I will finish by remarking that I
think it will be difficult for the author of that
letter to write another one of equal length
with as little truth ip it,
PAUL JONES.
CO. H., 11th Regt. Iowa Vol,
A War Democrat Defends himself
from aa Assault or the Courier.
FORT BBOWN, SPINGFIULD, Mo.,
April 6th, 1863.
FRIEND MAHIN :—Allow me to reply through
your columns to an article published in the
Courier of the 20th of March last, headed
"More Resolutions." The Judge says: "the
JOURNAL publishes some more 'officers' resolu
tions,'and among the names of the officers in
terested we notice that of Capt. C. C. Clover,
of this county." The Judge also presumes
that Capt. Clover "is afraid the war may end
before he gets greenbacks enough so that he
could spare a few to pay the Courier bill for
printing posters at the time he was raising
his company." Judge, I regret very much
those resolutions have affected you so seri
ously, and 1 think it is really necessary that
you should have a surgeon to prescribe for
you, and 1 shall take upon myself the respon
sibility of prescribing for yoa, as it is very
essential that your health should be restored
immediately, as our country is sustaining a
severe loss in not having the counsel of that
nicely balanced brain ot fours. No doubt
the^ medicine will be unpleasant to take, but
I shall have to insist on your taking it, as we
cannot afford to lose tbe assistance of so val
uable and loyal a citizen as you. The pre
scription is that you wrap yourself up in the
stars and stripes and take a strong decoction
of United States greenback tea, and continue
to take it until a permanent Union cureia ef
fected.
Judge, as regards that Coutier bill, if you
will go before a Justice of the Peace and make
oath that you have not received that one dol
lar and fifty cents for printing posters for
said Capt. Clover (which will cost you twen
ty-five ccnts, which will make the bill $1,75,)
and forward a copy of said oath to me, those
few odious greenbacks will be forthcoming
immediately. I have no doubt that if you
had a few greenbacks it would do more to
wards a permanent alleviation of that soft
and ponderous substance called brain, than
anything else that could be prescribed. Judge,
I am really sorry that you did not succeed in
getting a position under President Lincoln,
for it would have been much easier for you
to obtain greenbacks from Uncle Sam by oc
cupying some honorable position and using
what little influence you have in assisting to
put down this rebellion, than it is to obtain
themjjby uttering disloyal sentiments.
The Judge also presumes I am afraid the
war will end. My wishes are right the re
verse. If this rebellion could be crushed
within thirty days, and the thousands of brave
men that arc in the field could return to their
once happy homes, which are now made des
o'ate by their absence, I would be satisfied,
but I am not willing to submit to anything
but an unconditional surrender of the rebels.
I know such are the sentiments of the men
of this regiment. Suppose for a moment that
we have an armistice—what then Let us
disband our army, surrender up the forts we
have captured from the traitors, raise the
blockade and have peace for six months, who
will gain by it Certainly not the party of
the Union. We have a recollection of an ar
mistice under the vigorous administration of
Mr. Buchanan, in which he stipulated not to
reinforce Fort Sumter, and the rebels were to
abstain from hostilities. They employed the
time given them in erecting works and plant
ing cannon upon every point that would com
mand the fort and harbor, and when Presi
dent Lincoln would have sent troops to the
aid of Major Anderson, it was found to be im
possible, and our soldiers and fort became an
easy prey to the rebel Beauregard. Are we
to have the same game played over again
Give the rebels six months to strengthen
themselves, and to obtain arms and supplies
from abroad—will it be easier to conquer
them then than now
Judge, I would say to you and all peace
Democrats, your truce is worse than armed
rebellion—it is a base subterfuge, originated
by political demagogues, who either have
been purchased by the rebels, and now have
the price of treason in their pockets, or mean
to go South whenever the independence of
the Southern Confederacy is recognized. But
if the scheme should fail, as fail it must, and
secession not be accomplished, what then
Judge, do you know what will become of you
and your followers in the North, who would
rather see the Government destroyed than
that they should be thwarted in their politi
cal aspirations For you and those cowardly
and traitorous peace men, history will reserve
a place, and you will become as infamous in
the victorious Union as the "cow-boys of the
revolution."
Judge, with a gentle pat on the back, I bid
you adieu for the present.
C. C. CLOVER,
Capt. Co. K, 18th Iowa Infy.
or th Journal.
To E. 11. Thayer, Esq.
DEAR SIR :—I am sorry that in your mis
directed zeal to perpetuate the power of your
party, you so bitterly oppose the legally con
stituted authorities to quell the rebellion.—
Your opposition extends not only to the gen
eral but to our State Government. You
know that such opposition is revolutionary in
its tendency, that it is the spirit ac.d essence
of secession. You seem to forget that we
are in a state of war, for you say that Gov.
Kirkwood "(.uts arms in the hands of his po
litical friends to perpetuate an abolition party
in this State, at any and all hazards." My
opinion is that cur Governor asks himself
what he shall do to protect the Government
against traitors, both Ncrth and South, who
rebel against the laws not what he shall do
to perpetuate the power of Abolitionists. You
know that your charges against Gov. Kirk
wood are without a shadow of justification.
What do you mean by saying if it is neces
sary for Abolitionists to help Sam Kirkwood
into office by means of the bayonet, it is nec
essary for tbe people to keep him out by the
tame means" 1 hope you are not an un
principled demagogue, or a teacher of sedition.
The substratum of your political faith
in this time of the country's sorest need being
mild and gentle peace with rebels against the
laws, it follows of course that you do not like
Gov. Kirk wood's attempts to compel obe
dience to the laws. is preparation to en
force them seems to have awakened in you
more venom than properly belongs to a gentle
and lamb-like advocate of Peace.
Like an angry hornet you keep up a contin
ual buzzing about the "Abolitionists," about
Niggers and the nigger war," about "smell
ing committees," about "circumventing tbe
Governor," about "Lincoln's tyranny," about
"Union Leagues," about every organization,
every policy and every measure which will
hurt those who are in arms to overthrow the
Government.
You must bear with me, for I sm
FO
much
of a friend to you that I am willing to tell
you the strict truth. The rebels, in whose
half you are creating opposition or indiffer
ence as to the furth.r prosecution of the war,
despise you for ibe poor deception you seem
to fc e attempting to play upon them, and
upon the friends of the Union. I copy a few
extracts from a Southern editor who is well
informed respecting the former and present
subserviency of your kind of Democracy to
tho Slave Pov\ er.
Hear what he says of you "The Peace
party of the North is turning out to be an
arrant humbug. They may hold their con
ventions, whine about Peace, and pass their
canting resolutions until dooms-day, but they
will never offect a peace on their terms.
They had better go at some more promising
business than Union-saving. If they are still
determined that the seceded States shall return
into the beloved Union they had better keep
on fighting, as it is their only chance. If
they would restore Peace, let them advoccate
tbe unconditional cessation of this unright
ous war, and unconditional acknowledgement
of the rights of tbe Southern people to govern
themselves. That is the only solution of the
difficulty."
Now sir, in your advocacy of the peace pol
icy, which side,according to this rebel author
ity, are you supporting, that of Union or Dis
union Truly yours, ..
OLDEN BABNEVELMT,
l^wa i*ew»,
—Ex-Lieut. Gov. Favil'e has been appoint
ed President of the State Board of Education
in the place of H. A. Wiltse, resigned.
DROWNED.—Thomas Zurk and Morris Brown,
two worthy citizens of Van Buren county,
were drowned while attempting to cross Des
moines river in a skiff, on the night of the
5th inst.
—The 6th Cavalry passed through Des
moines on the 9th. The old flag was elevated
on the Capitol, and crowds of citizens turned
out to greet the regiment.
NEW RAILROAD.—Mr. Joseph Green, of
Marion, has been awarded the contract for
grading the first twenty miles of the McGreg
or Western Railroad, in the Northeastern part
of the State.
—R. H, Sylvester, well known as a Demo
cratic editor of several years service, has re
tired from the lorn all
editorial labors, v/
TELEGRAPHIC.
Important order issued by Gen.
Barnside-Traitors in his De,
Jwtment to be penisheip
Virginia will come back into the
Union if Jeff Davis leaves
Richmond.
Government not dftspiiited
by the Charleston news.
Account of the Shooting of Col.
Kimball.
Skirmishes near Fairfax C. H., Va.
Activity of the Rebels
Suffolk, Va.
near
NEW YORK, Aprff'ik
The limes publishes an extra containing
a detailed account of the fight at Charleston.
It says the result of the recent reconnoissance
proves the utter insufficiency of the iron-clad
fleet to take Charleston alone.
The Nahant received 30 wounds, several
being bad fractures. The Passaic was also
wounded severely in the turret and pilot
house. The Nantucket's turret was so jam
ed that the port could not be opened, render
ing her 15 inch gun useless. None of the
other monitors were disabled.
CINCINNATI, April 13.
Gen, Burnside has issued an order pro
nouncing the death penalty on all found
guilty of aiding the rebels, and all rebel sym
pathizers to be arrested, tried and sent beyond
the lines. The order says treason expressed
or implied wtU, tolerated in this de
partment. i
NEW YORK, April 13.
The steamer Roanoke, from New Orleans
5th and Havana 8th, has arrived.
The steamer Marion was wrecked in Dou
ble-IIeaded Shot Keys, on the 2d inst. She
will prove a total loss.
Dates from Mexico are to the 22d and Pu
ebla to the 28d of March, and Vera Cruz to
April 1st. Nothing has been done in the vi
cinity of Puebla except skirmishing, resulting
rather to the discomfiture of the French.
No news was allowed to leak out at Vera
Cruz. A general order had been issued at
Orizaba, imposing a heavy penalty on those
who even talk of affairs at Puebla.
The Vanderbi't was at Havana.
New Orleans advices state that our troops
destroyed all the railroad buildings at Port
Chataula, and had fallen back to Pass Man
chi. A scouting party sent out in the Amite
country had a sharp skirmish with some reb
el cavalry.
Gens. Grover's and Wcitzel's forces are in
supporting distance of each other. Gen.
Emery's division has been sent to join them.
It was believed that Gen. Emery would
command a strong movement up the Atcha
falqua.
Business at New Orleans was rather on
the increase. It is said by people from Dixie
that there is a large quantity of cotton hidden
away by the country people, and as soon as
the Government gets possession, much of
this cotton, which has been reported burned
to the rebel government, will come forth.
A letter in the evening papers says the
receipts entitling the holder to so much per
pound for cotton out of the Confederate
treasury is not very highly prized by any
one, but the hidden staple is considered as
good as so much gold, whenever the market
is opened. A schoonor load or two finds its
way occasionally to the city, much to the dis
comfort of the blatant rebels of the city.
NEW YORK, April 13.
A riot to-day between the negro and Irish
laborers was quite serious for a time. The
Irish are said to have commenced the difficul
ty, by hurling missiles at the negroes, driving
them off a pier into a boat. One of the ne
groes fired a pistol, wounding Jas. Agor in
the head, not seriously. Another account
says the wound was inflicted by a brick
thrown by one of the mob behind him. The
riot was soon after stopped by the police.
Special to Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, April 13.
The rebels, moving in force upon Yorktown
and Suffolk, were beaten back from Yorktown
to Williamsburg by Gen. Keyes, leaving be
hind their ammunition, arms and knapsacks.
There is rumored fighting at Suffolk, but no
particulars. It is rumored that there were
most vigorous preparations for resistance.
The Virginia soldiers say they will lay down
their arms if Jeff. Davis leaves Richmond.
The old regiments are not to be consolida
ted at present in the army of the Potomac,
but are to be filled up with drafted men.
The returns of the Internal Revenue for
the last week are over a million and a half.
The Administration is not dispirited by the
Charleston news, but has more confidence in
eventual success.
It has been ascertained that the iron-clads
can pass the batteries and reach the city, 'if
the obstructions nan be removed. The prob
lem is to remove them.
CAIRO, April 14.
On Friday last company M, 5th Iowa Cav
alry, encountered about an equal number of
rebels, on the road between Fort Donelson
and Waverley. The rebels were completely
routed and twenty-one captured, among them
Major Blaudin, two Captains, one Lieutenant,
one Sargeant and Quartermaster.
Gen. Rosecrans has issued an order that all
hcrses fit for Government service in that part
of the country shall be impressed. This is
to prevent them falling into rebel hands.
Over three hundred horses have already been
picked up.
We have nothing important from below.
One hundred bundles of printing paper are
here for Memphis papers, but cannot be
shipped for want of permits, which are re
fused. It is reported that the Memphis Bul
letin and Aigus have been suppressed by
order of Gen. Grant.
WASHINGTON, April 14.
A special to the Post says that govern
ment is making preparations for a draft to
fill up the old regiments which have been de
pleted by the casualties of the service. The
State of New York will be among the first
called upon for fresh troops. The weather
is magnificent and the Virginia roads in ex
cellent condition.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 14.
The city election to-day resulted in the tri
umph of the Administration party over the
Copperheads. Smith is elected Mayor. There
is great rejoicing in the city—fireworks dis
played, bands playing, etc.
The majorities are as follows: Smith
(Union) for Mayor, 13 Hunt (Copperhead)
for Clerk, 23 Bradford (Copper.) for Treas
urer, 88 Morrison (Copper.) for Attorney, 28
Clark (Copper.) for Assessor and Collector,
55 Rohbaugh (Union) for Street Supervisor,
16 Morgan (Union) for City Marshall, 42.
The Administration party also elected two
Ward Supervisors out of four and three Al
dermen out of five.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 14.
Burnside's order relative to sending do
mestic traitors beyond the Federal lines, and
protection to Union men, is well received in
Indianapolis, as it confirms the previous ac
tion of Gen. Carrington.
A Union man driven from his home be
cause accused of reporting a K. G. C., to the
commander of the district, was sent baek to
day with officers instructed to rely on the
civil authority, but if not protected the of
fenders to be dealt with under the order.
BpceUl to the Chicago TIBM.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 14.
Late on Monday night a squad of rebel
cavalry, under Capt. Harris, made a dash
into Franklin, Ky., arrested the telegraph op
erator, and carried off bis instrument. They
also broke open a number of trunks in the
depot, carrying off the contents.
Persons from below report that a large
force of Confederates, estimated at 20,000,
are crossing the Cumberland, near Lebanon,
Tenn., preparatory to an adyance into Ken
tucky.
Morgan, with a considerable force, is
Smith county, Tenn., preparing to makea
raid on the Louisville and iNashville railroad.
As the Cumberland River is very low, it is
expected that the rebels will soon attack the
railroad, and there is considerable excitement
along the route.
The 104th Illinois and Hawkins' IlKndfal
Battery arrived to-day, on their way to jots
Rosecrans. j.
A party of guerrillas entered North MNT
dletown, Ky., and arrested three of the 14pf
Kentucky cavalry.
A special to the Tribune says it is report^
in diplomatic circles that Secretary Seward
forwarded a second dispatch to Minister Ad*
ams yesterday, to go by the next steamy
similar in general tone to that written a foi#
night ago, in which Great Britain was warn
ed of the consequences in sending forth a«f
more Alabamas to prey upon our commerce.
This second dispatch, it is stated, is even
more decided in its tenor than its predeces
sor, and goes even so far as lo intimate that
if the British Government permit rebels to
build and dispatch piratical cruisers from its
ports, it ought justly to be held responsible.
The Tribune's correspondent at Norfolk
gives the following account of the shooting of
Lieut. Col. Kimball, of Hawkins' Zouaves
I learn that Col. Kimball had command
of the outer picket guard, and during tile
evening Gen. Corcoran approached the post
and was properly challenged by the guard*
Instead of giving the countersign, Gen. C.
simply said, I am Gen. Corcoran.' Under
the circumstances, with a rebel force in closti
proximity, an enemy mignt have said the
same thing, and Col. Kimball refused to let
Corcoran pass without the proper pass-word.
Gen. C. attempted to ride on, when his bridle
was seized by Col. Kimball, and in the ex
citement of the moment, drew his pistol and
fired the fatal shot."
The same correspondent states that the
rebel force on Black Water is 40,000.
Bptcial to HeraM.
WASHINGTON, Apnl 14.
It is reported that the force at Fairfax C.
H., under command of Gen. Stahl, were it
tacked on Sunday last, as the pickets wew
being called in, by a rebel cavalry force.
Skirmishing is said to have been going on at
intervals ever since, but nothing of impor
tance is believed to have taken place.
Gov. Curtin, of Penn., in view of the exi^
ency of the public service, suggested to tbe-1
President the plan of garrisoning the de
fenses at Washington with militia, and that
the veteran soldiers now in this department
might be spared for the more important and
pressing duties of the field. To this end he
offered to forward here 20,000 militia, and
asked that about 5,000 volunteers, who have
the necessary experience, be distributed
among the militia, to render the latter force
equivalent for all practical purposes to the
same number of volunteers sent to the field.
It i3 not known whether the patriotic offer has
been accepted or not.
Gen. Boyle, of Ky., ordered here by the
Secretary of War, with whom he has had &
conference in reference to the condition of af
fairs in Kentucky, has returned to his oGcl
command under Burnside.
It is understood that the 20,000 soldiers of
fered by Kentucky are accepted, and orders
for them will bo issued without delay.
IVewt* Paragraphs.
Eight deserters were drowned in Boston
Harbor last week, while attt mpting to escape.
Indiana is made a separate military district
under Gen. Carrington, who reports to Burn
side.
There arc said to be fifteen thousands
Tennesseeans in the army of Gen. Rosecrans*
all of whom are volunteers from among tho
loyal Union men of that State.
Our Wisconsin dispatches make the elec
tion cf Dixon certain, by the home voter
which the soldiers will build into a towering
funeral pile for Copperheadism.
The Medical Department statistics shoir
tho number of rebel prisoners who have died
in Union hospitals, since the coinmenccmenfe
ot the war, to be over five thousand.
A full-grown panther, weighing 111 pounds
and measuring seven feet from the nose to
the tip of the tail, was killed within five and
a half miles of Lexington, Ky., a few days
ago, by Mr. John Curtis.
At St Paul the mateiiil for the Indian
pedition which leaves in May for tbe plains**^
our frontier, is being brought up. Troops
are being equipped and concentrated for the
sprirg campaign against the Sioux.
Eight millions of dollars in government,
notes have been received in Memphis far tho.
payment of the soldiers in that vicinity. That
money was contained in seven large boxes^
and required the efforts of eight mules to
move the lot.
Immense quantities of cotton are being ex
ported from the South by way of Mexico.
Foreign vessels are crowding the entrance to
the Rio Grande. It is about time that some
means were used to dose this back-door of'
rebeldom.
Yellow Wolf, chief of the Iowa tribe ef
of Indians, and an eloquent orator, died
Washington a few days ago,of pneumonia, and
was buried in the Congressional Cemeteiy.
His last moments were spent in advising hia
companions to live in peace with the whites.
About $250,000 have been subscribed, In
New York, towards the construction of
another Atlantic Telegraph. It is assumed
that the amount already subscribed in that
city and London insures the laying of the line
next year beyond a reasonablo doubt.
A large number of Texan refugees have
recently arrived at New Orleans. They are
fugitives from the new conscription law of
the State, which exempts no one. Texas has.
already sent 87,000 men to the rebel at my
and the new draft will raise 27,000 more.
Several Union soldiers who were confined aft
Richmond burned their faces with red hot
wire, pretended to have the small pox, anil
got transferred from the Libby prison toa pestr
house, whence, not being closely watched, they
made their escape and reached our lines, u
To show that the present premium on gold
was brought about entirely by speculators^^
is only necessary to refer to the official fact
that the Banks and Sub Treasuries of the Freo.
States contain, to-day, sixty-two million*
more specie than they did before the rebel]koa
broke out.
On the 4th inst., the general term of At
Supreme Oourt of the District of New York
decided that the United States legal tender
notes were constitutional and valid, as to debts
contracted before the passage of the law mqhK
ing such notes a legal tender. All tbe fan*
Judges concurred.
Ripe strawberries and tomatoes arc an
nounced in Philadelphia and New York.
They are brought from the vicinity of Norfolk
and Hilton Head. The fruiterers ask for the'
latter fifty cents per quart, for tho former'
somewhere about a quarter of a dollar for s
dozen berries.
Tho small-pox has almost disappeared ni
Richmond, and the '"camp-itch" has taken Hp,
place. The change is a matter of congratula
tion, the itch being less dangerous and loath
some than the small pox, and better adapted,
to the condition of the people, who have heap,,
obliged to scratch for a living for some tii|MK
st.
The official returns of the St. Louis electioor
give Chauncey I. Filley ("charcoal or radicaf
Emancipationist,) 2,647 majority over O. D.
Fiiley, ("Claybank," or Blair Conservative
and 1,855 over Joseph O'Neil (Copperhead.^
The combined Radical and Conservative vot».
is in a majority of 5,156 over the CopperhfiBd
ticket.
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SI'j
The bread riot in Richmond proves to ha^j?
been a formidable affair, in which mm anai
women for a time held the laws at bay. Tljp
object was, according to the papers of thai
city, to plunder—dry goods, fancy and mil]$:'
nery stores being robbed as well as tho|(i
which contained the necessaries of life The