From Island No. 10.

ST. LOUIS, March 28.

The Democrat’s Cairo dispatch says that heavy and rapid cannonading at Point Pleasant, was heard at the fleet night before last.

Capt. Maynadier and Col. Buford, who accompanied Prof. Steiner on his balloon reconnoisance, on Tuesday, discovered that shells from our mortars have generally fallen beyond the enemy’s batteries.  The elevation of the mortars and charge of powder both being too great.  This will be remedied immediately and a greater execution may be hereafter expected.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 1