Mancil Clay Goodrell

Goodrell, Mancil Clay, soldier, marine officer, was born Nov. 9, 1843, in Cambridge, Ohio. He served during the civil war in the fifteenth regiment Iowa volunteers. During the Spanish-American war he served on the flagship New York. In 1906 he was retired with the rank of brigadier-general.

SOURCE: Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's National Library Of American Biography, p. 604

Elias M. Reed

Elias M. Reed, b. October 5, 1841; son of Thomas Reed (b. 1812) and Maria Myrick (b. 1814); served as a private soldier in the Union army, enlisting in company G, Fifteenth regiment Iowa Volunteers; wounded October 3, 1862, at the battle of Corinth, Miss., and before Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864; follows farming, and resides near Perry, Iowa; m., April 11, 1866 to Mahala Beyerly, daughter of Jacob Beyerly & Susan Hoss, b. September 5, 1842. They had issue:

Ella M., b. October 16, 1867.

Ida V.. b. September 17, 1869; d. September 8, 1870.

James F., b. October 17, 1871.

Oscar H., b. November 18, 1873.

Verna C, b. April 11, 1880.

Edgar-T., b. March 29, 1882.

Elias M., b. April 6, 1884

SOURCE: Abstracted from E. Winfield Scott Parthemore, Genealogy Of The Parthemore Family, 1744-1885, p. 171-2 & 209

W. A. Campbell

Private, Co. B, 4^th Tennessee Infantry, CSA

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk Iowa

A Rebel Atrocity - Eight Union Men Starved To Death

A Fort Donelson correspondent states that the bodies of several Union men, on which could be found no wounds, were discovered in Dover jail.  It was supposed that they were either starved or poisoned, but all the rebels said they knew nothing about them.  The Terre Haute Express, without apparently having heard the above particulars, states that one of the prisoners who passed through that place on Saturday, said that last summer eight Union men had been taken and confined at Dover Tennessee, and literally starved to death!  This atrocity deserves a thorough investigation.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2

Accident To Lieut. Marcy

A letter from Key West notes the death of Lieut. Samuel Marcy, commanding the United States ship Vincennes.  It appears that while firing a howitzer at a vessel suspected of an intention to run the blockade, the pivot broke, and the gun capsizing, fell on his leg and fractured it in two places, besides breaking several of his ribs.  He was the son of the late Secretary Marcy.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2

The Future Status of the Rebel States

From the New York Herald to the Chicago Times, thence down to the Democrat of this city and the Express of Dubuque, there is a determination to renew the old compact with slavery, to bring matters back status quo ante bellum  - to the condition they occupied before this unholy alliance culminated in civil war.  In the beginning of the war their motto was that of the infamous Vallandigham, “Millions for defence, but not a dollar nor a man for civil or aggressive warfare.”  This traitor was not only in favor of “letting alone” the Southern States, but he wished to see the President impeached for using the means necessary to defend the Union and the Constitution, and all the little dogs of the pro-slavery school barked in acclaim.  These were the friends of Buchanan and of Floyd.  Alas, that their leaders should have sunk so low that there is none to do them reverence.  Justice is none to do them reverence.  Justice is sure, though sometimes slow, and will yet overtake the infamous instigators and leaders in this unholy plot.

The evidence of determination on the part of the pro-slavery Democracy to restore the old condition, wherein for many years the policy of the country was governed by threats of disunion, is thus concisely summed up by a contemporary:– “The proofs are written on the whole history of the war in the continued protests made by Democratic leaders; first against legislative resistance to secession; second, against the employment of military force; third, against the arrest of Northern traitors; and fourth, against any and all forms of military policy which might endanger the property of traitors in human flesh and blood.”  As we approach the period when the future condition of the rebel States is to be decided, we see their leaders under the garb of conservatism and violated, constitution seeking a restoration of the ancient order of things, a return to that status in which the rebel States were before the rebellion.  Slavery must not be permitted to come back with its hands dyed in blood to hold the balance of power in our Government.  It has already heaped untold misery upon our country, and history demonstrates that wherever it has existed, that has been its uniform effect.

The Saturday’s issue of the Democrat was a reflex of this pro-slavery policy.  In addition to its leader, to which we paid our respects yesterday, it contained what was entitled, “An Episode in the House,” giving the remarks of Mr. Richardson, of Ills., in which he takes occasion to assert, that of the four thousand men from his congressional District who were in the fight at Fort Donelson, twenty-five hundred of them voted for him.  Although we doubt the statement we hope it may be so; we would that every man in the District who enlisted had been a pro-slavery Democrat; we venture the assertion that had such been the case ninety-nine hundredths of them would have returned what the gentleman is pleased to call abolitionists.  Such has been the uniform effect of this war.  What the unprejudiced telegraph informed us, one day last week, that “the officers who entered the Richmond tobacco factories pro-slavery Democrats, returned thoroughly abolitionists.”

The Chicago Tribune, speaking of this man Richardson’s District, says: “we met, the other day, an officer of an Illinois regiment, recruited almost exclusively in Gen. Richardson’s District, and which has seen nine months of actual service in the field.  We asked him what was now the sentiment of the regiment in regard to slavery.  Said he, ‘Without a solitary exception so far as I know, rank and file are in favor of its extermination.’”  The same authority instances the case of an uncompromising pro-slavery Democrat, from the same District, one who voted for Mr. Richardson, who, after serving as captain of a company in Missouri, says, “My experience in Missouri has flattened out my bump of conservatism, and I am in favor of destroying the cause of the war!”  His company, many of whom voted as he did, to a man repeat his sentiments.  An officer of another company, a Democrat who had voted for Richardson, in a speech said, “In the very first fight which we had, when I saw Capt. M. shot out of his saddle, and when I saw three of our brave privates shot dead in their tracks by the minions of slavery, I raised myself in my stirrups, and said, God being my helper, from this day forth I am an abolitionist.”  And so it is everywhere.  When Mr. Richardson returns from the polluted atmosphere of Washington to the invigorating air of his own prairie home, he will find such a revolution in public sentiment, as nothing but a nation wrestling with giant wrong threatening to subvert her liberties, could ever produce.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2

Mrs. Lydia Jane Pierson . . .

. . . well known in this country as an authoress of fine abilities, died at her residence near Adrian, Mich., a few days ago, at the age of 60.  She was a native of Middletown, Ct.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2

Hon. James B. Gardenhire . . .

. . . the leading Republican politician of Missouri, candidate of that party for Governor in 1860, and Attorney General of the State several years ago, died at his residence in Howard county, Mo., on the 19^th inst.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2

Ensign H. King

Ensign H. King is one of our soldier ministers. We have enough of them to make a goodly Veteran's Society. Their annual camp fires light a good many hearts that did not go to the war, but who have, and always will have, an affection for those who did, an affection that grows in proportion to the length of time that separates between them and those days that tried men's souls. Chaplain King was born near Newcastle, Penn., January 28, 1838. His parents were devout Methodists, and so reared him that he never knew when he was not a child of God. He joined the Church in Iowa in 1853. He was licensed to preach in 1860. He enlisted in company I, Fifteenth regiment, Iowa Volunteers, in November, 1861. He began as a private, but was promoted during his first three years through the office of first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, to be chaplain of the regiment. He served in this last office until regularly mustered out at the end of the war in August, 1865. He immediately began his work as a pastor, supplying a charge until the time of the Des Moines Conference session in 1866. After eight years of successful labor in that conference, he came to California. In 1888 he was compelled to take a superannuated relation, in which he remains. He resides at Napa.

SOURCE: Charles Volney Anthony, Fifty years of Methodism, p. 346-7

Lewis F. Tuttle

Private, Co. I, 2^nd Iowa Infantry

Died Nov. 16, 1898

Aged 79 Yrs.

Woodland Cemetery

Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa

The War News

Murfreesboro Abandoned.

THE REBELS RETREATING TOWARDS ALABAMA.

Expected Attack at Centerville.

News from Southern Sources.

THE NEW TAX BILL.

TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN DETROIT.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1

Local Matters

JUST RECEIVED at Plummer’s, No. 50 Brady street, a fine lot of letter and note paper.

CLOCKS. – Another installment of clocks just received and for sale low for cash, at Billon’s, No. 10 Le Claire Row.

WEATHERISH. – Yesterday was a miserable day.  A fine snow and driving wind was the order.  The country people very wisely stayed at home and looked after their stock.

MR. D. TORREY, late local of the GAZETTE, is in town for a few days.  We are pleased to hear he has obtained a good berth at Baltimore, in the employ of the Indiana Central R. R.  He will leave for that city in a day or two.  We wish him success and advancement in his favorite calling.

NO WESTERN TRAIN. – Owing to the great quantities of snow on the road, no train left here yesterday morning for the West, and it is doubtful if any will go to-day.  The train on the branch, on Saturday, failed to connect at the Junction either morning or evening.  A locomotive went out Sunday morning to assist another which had become embanked in the snow, and couldn’t get out.

SELLING OFF CHEAP. – Those goods at Parker & Van Tuyl’s are going off cheap as dirt, and perhaps a little cheaper.  It will be remembered they are a part of the extensive stock which Mr. Willard Barrows, as assignee, has been selling for several days.  It is one of the best chances for bargains which has turned up lately.  Stop in there, either morning or afternoon, or both.  Sale commences at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

THEN AND NOW. On the 1^st day of March last year the ice in the Mississippi commenced to break up, and by the 3d the river was clear.  On the 5th the Northern from St. Louis arrived, and the same day the Fred Lorenz came down from Le Claire.  Now the ice is as solid apparently as it has been this winter, heavily laden teams are crossing and ice and snow several inches deep cover the surface of the ground.

A SHORT HONEYMOON. – The gossips in the western part of the county have been supplied during the past month with an excellent foundation for sensation stories in a wedding which occurred a few weeks ago, the parties being residents of that part of the Hawkeye State.  It appears the gentleman came to the county judge’s office, obtained his certificate, and started back home, with of course, fond anticipations of the bliss of which the document he bore was the forerunner.  Arrived at the residence of the lady, they determined to go to the magistrate and finish the business at once, (though, perhaps, with some mental reservation on her part), which decision was probably accelerated by the absence from home of the parental guardians of the fair one, who, it is said, were opposed to the match.  That night the ‘twain were made one.’  On the way home the bride encountered an idea; it grew on her, and she must communicate it to her husband.  She did so.  It was that he should allow her to go home that night, as she had left the children alone, while he might call for her next day.  Well – hum – y-e-s – guess so, and the bridegroom of course gave a willing consent.  Next day, bright and early, he was around to see his wife, but lo! The bird had flown – gone – left – mizzled – disappeared, – and he hadn’t seen her yet at last accounts.  She has since returned home, however, while he is enjoying life as much as possible, attending all the parties in his neighborhood, and getting along as well as if nothing had ever happened to mar his felicity.

FIRE. – Just as the churches were being dismissed Sunday noon, the city bell sounded an alarm of fire, which started engines and citizens down town to the scene of the conflagration, which was on Second street, near Warren.  The fire originated in the wagon-shop of Mr. Haerling, and extended to a two story dwelling house adjoining, which, with the wagon-shop, were soon enveloped in flames, and the exertions of the firemen could not save them from destruction.  They succeeded, however, in preventing its spread to the corner buildings; these were two small two-story dwelling houses, occupied by colored people.  All the windows of these houses were needlessly removed or destroyed in the beginning of the fire.  The dwelling of Mr. Haerling was only saved by the most persistent exertions of those present.  The fire is supposed to have originated from a stove-pipe, which projected from the dwelling house toward the wagon-shop, the heat from which is supposed to have set fire to the latter.  Mr. Haerling lost all his tools and the material in the shop; his loss is about $300 or $400, he was not insured.  Yesterday, with commendable energy, he, and his son were preparing the timbers for a new shop, determined not to lose any time.  The other building was owned by the Davenport Mutual Saving fund and Loan Association, whose probable loss is about $800, covered to the amount of $500 by insurance.  It was occupied by a Mrs. Emory, and its destruction was no serious loss to community.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1

A Public Library

MR. EDITOR: There is not a citizen of any tolerable information in Davenport, who, if inquired of, would not earnestly say, that, of all the social needs of a public character, that which our citizens most require, is a public library.  Knowledge and a desire for it, are not confined to families who are able to provide an extensive private library.

The humblest boy or girl may possess a mind as aspiring, a fancy as poetic, a genius as lofty, and hopes as ambitious, as the most favored in the land.  No private library adorns the shelves of his humble home to which he may go for that mental ailment which a thirsting soul desires; no volumes of historic lore stand invitingly before him when great thoughts leap into being in that mind, ready to be molded into the statesman, the historian or the poet; and to appease that thirst, more ignoble occupation is resorted to as a relief, and thus the embryo of a great man may be irretrievably ruined; when, if a public library were accessible, no such dangers would ensue.

How many young persons are kept at the parental fireside by the charms of attractive books, and thus avoid the temptations and snares which beset the unoccupied minds of youth.  This lad, instead of traversing streets with unprincipled boys, stealing signs, doing mischief, and sowing the seeds of vices which may become crimes, would hang over the pages of Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico, or of Pern, his eye kindling at the brilliant exploits narrated, and his memory fed with historic traditions and recitals requisite for every scholar, and the foundations of that boy’s future greatness and usefulness is being laid deep and strong.

A public library at once becomes the encyclopedia of every boy and girl in our midst, resorted to  to settle questions of disputed history, sought for to enlighten the composition of the student, examined to test the accuracy of the public lecturer or the political orator, without which presumptuous ignorance might impose its pretensions upon public credulity, and counterfeit greatness be held in equal venerations with genuine scholarship.  Ours is especially a country where

“Honor and shame from no condition rise,”

and where upstart pretensions based upon lineage or wealth find no general favor, but where true merit is justly honored and caressed.  No elevation is so great that the humblest may not aspire to its attainments; and our form of government is one in which the cultivation of the mind becomes essential to the preservation of the public liberties.

Take the publication of a newspaper, Mr. Editor.  Suppose that but a numerical fraction of our citizens could read, how long, think you, would the daily journal continue to be published?  And is it not true, that the greater the attainments of a man, the greater is his demand for publications, and his library table every day covered with at least half a dozen dailies and as many magazines?  You then, more than any others have a direct interest in the topic I am discussing.  Your very prosperity, nay, existence, depends upon it.

What then shall we do?  This is easily answered.  Already there is the nucleus of a fine public library in our midst; belonging to the nearly defunct Young Men’s Literary Association, with about eight hundred volumes.  Unorganized efforts have been made by a few persons to preserve its existence, and to keep the library from being scattered, and they have made many sacrifices to this end.

They desire that the public shall take the matter in charge, shall come generously forward and place this Library upon safe and sure foundations.  A joint stock company is proposed, in which citizens can subscribe for shares, either in money or books, and thus rescue a library in the greatest danger of shipwreck, convert it into a public and endurable institution, and secure for the present and future generations a ceaseless fountain of public knowledge, whose blessings can be no more estimated than the stars be numbered.

Newspapers can secure the desired object by persistently urging, encouraging and sustaining every effort for the establishment and success of such a valuable institution.  To them it will be bread cast upon the waters; it will return after many days in increased subscription list, and enlarge patronage.

G. E. H.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1

Edwin L. Horth

Edwin L. Horth, real estate dealer of Centralia, Kans., was born in New York State, October 21, 1847, and is a son of Reuben and Mary Goldthwait Horth, who were the parents of seven children, four of whom are living. Reuben Horth, his father, was born in Massachusetts, and became a lumberman. He died in 1855, at the age of forty years. Edwin L. Horth's mother was also a native of Massachusetts, born in 1818, and died in 1856. It will thus be seen that Mr. Horth was left an orphan at a very early age, and. was reared by relatives who took him with them to Iowa, when he was still a youth. He was a student at Lombard College, Galesburg, Ill., when the Civil war broke out. He returned home and enlisted at Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa, in Company K, Fifteenth regiment, Iowa infantry. He was first enrolled as a drummer boy, but became a soldier in the ranks, and fought with Sherman through the Atlanta campaign. The date of his enlistment as a drummer boy was in December, 1863, and he was honorably discharged in the fall of 1864. When his war service was ended, he went to New York to visit his grandfather and farmed his grandfather's place for five years. In 1869 he came to Centralia, Nemaha county, Kansas, and joined some relatives of the New York colony, who had settled there. This was the time of the great droughts in Kansas and the settlers of this county were in sore need of assistance to keep them alive. Previous to coming to Kansas he solicited aid from the merchants of Fairfield, Iowa, and the same was gratefully accepted by the drought sufferers. When Mr. Horth located in Kansas he raised broom corn and small grains on land owned by his uncle, D. M. Chapin. Three years after coming to Kansas he engaged in the grain and live stock business at Centralia. He erected two elevators, one of which was located at Vermillion, Kans., and was engaged in buying and shipping grain for over thirty years. He did the largest grain and live stock business in this section of the county for a long period. When he first came to Kansas he acted as land agent for the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and sold railroad lands to settlers for $6.00 an acre. Some of the land which he originally sold for this price has again passed through his hands greatly increased in value and has brought as high as $75 and $80 an acre. Since 1905 Mr. Horth has devoted his time and talents exclusively to the real estate and land business.

He was married in 1867 at Hamlet, Chautauqua county, New York, to Miss Adelia Dye, who was born in New York, in February, 1847, and is a daughter of Captain Dye, who was a drill master in the New York State militia. Five children have been born to this marriage, as follows: Mrs. Tressie Hybskmann, Vermilion, Kans.; Frank, Santa Anna, Cal.; Mrs. Effie Brown, a widow, living at Centralia, Kans.; Lincoln, a traveling playwright; Elmer J., a grocer of Centralia.

Mr. Horth is a Republican who has filled several offices during his long career. He has served as township trustee, mayor of Centralia, and has filled the post of justice of the peace. The only office he is now holding is that of notary public.

SOURCE: Ralph Tennal, History of Nemaha County, Kansas, p. 551-2

Proceedings of Board of Education

BOARD OF EDUCATION ROOMS,

March 3, 1862.

The Board met as per adjournment.

Present – Messrs Collins, Cook, French, and Peck.

Minutes of Jan. 11^th head and approved.

Committee on petition of S. G. Crane asked for further time.  Granted.

On motion, a committee, consisting of Messrs. Collins, Peck and Cook, was appointed to examine the Treasurer’s books and account.

The bill of French & Davies, of $55.67, was referred to W. L. Cook, with power to act.

The following bills were ordered piad:

Geo. W. Ells & Co., stationary, $27.60

J. M. Liggett, coal, $95.60

Geo. K. Wood, lumber, $2.40

F. Connelly, repairs No. 4, $2.00

Jefferies & Carman, brooms, $1.50

Richardson, West & Co., advertising, $11.00

Alfred Sanders, advertising, $12.25

S. P. Otterson, $5.75

A. C. Billon, repair of clock, $1.50

On motion, board adjourned to Saturday the 8^th inst., at 1 o’clock p.m.

E. PECK, Secretary

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1

Don't Take The Papers

Who doesn’t take the papers these times?  We did suppose that every man who could read took the papers now, but such it seems is not the fact.  Of course they all do in Davenport, if they don’t take their own they take somebody else’s; as it is a fact; they all read them.  But up at Maquoketa, we learn from the Sentinel, there are actually men in business who don’t take their own county paper.  Of course they are punished for it, such conduct toward publishers of newspapers is like curses, it “comes home to roost.”  And thus it happened to them: one chap sold out his cotton goods rapidly, and when he came to buy he had to pay an advance of five cents on his old retail price.  Another covey emptied his tea boxes at 50 cents per pound and ordered a fresh supply, for which he had to pay 75 cents for precisely the same article.  Verdict of the people, served ‘em right!

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1

Mississippi Railroad Bridge Report

FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 1, 1862.

DATE	Stage of Water Above l. w. mark.	Mercury Above & Below
		6 A.M.	12 M.	6 P.M.
Feb 23	6 feet 8 inches	35	37	35
Feb 24	6 feet 6 inches	7	12	17
Feb 25	6 feet 5 inches	23	38	38
Feb 26	6 feet 6 inches	34	38	20
Feb 27	6 feet 6 inches	9	20	22
Feb 28	6 feet 6 inches	11	25	25
March 1	6 feet 6 inches	20	27	24

The number of footmen that crossed the bridge during the week was 267.

J. H. THORINGTON, Bridge Master.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1

Meteorological Observations

(Under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution.)

Made at Griswold College; Davenport,

BY WM. P. DUNWOODY.

Latitude 41.30. North – Longitude 13.39. West – Height above the sea, 737 feet.

DATE.	BAROMETER.			THERMOMETER.			SNOW Inch.
	7 A.M.	2 P.M.	9.PM	7 A.M.	2 P.M.	9 P.M.
Feb. 24	29.16	29.56	29.52	4	14	14
Feb. 25	29.32	29.10	28.96	24	35	32
Feb. 26	28.95	29.21	29.88	29	29	8
Feb. 27	29.43	29.42	29.89	7	22	20	0.3
Feb. 28	20.42	29.43	29.34	11	26	19	3
Mar. 1	29.22	29.08	29.05	19	26	22
Mar. 2	28.96	28.80	28.70	24	27	26	1.5

Mean height of Barometer, 29.22 inches; mean Temperature, 19 degrees; mean amount of clouds 6; general direction of winds E.N.E.  Flashes of diffuse lightning were observed during the 1st in S. and S.E.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1

Alexander Brown

Alexander Brown, who died at Keosauqua August 16, 1910, was a native of the state of Pennsylvania, where he was born May 3, 1837. His parents had come to America about the year 1820. When Alexander was five years old, the family came to Keosauqua. There the son attended school, read law in the office of Hon. George G. Wright, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E of the Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Infantry. On March 1, 1862, he was promoted to Sergeant Major. Soon after this the regiment first participated in the battle of Shiloh, where it was heavily engaged, coming out of the battle with a casualty list of 213. In this action Sergeant Brown was severely wounded in the hip, but recovered in time to reach his regiment and participate with it in the battle of Corinth, October 3, 1862, in which engagement he was again wounded; this time dangerously in the shoulder. This wound rendered him incapable for further active service in the field. He was, therefore, discharged in February, 1863.

In the fall of 1867 he was elected county judge of Van Buren county, and held this office until it was absorbed by that of county auditor two years later. He was then elected auditor of the county and served in that capacity for six years, after which he entered upon the practice of his chosen profession, that of the law, and soon established a reputation as an able and conscientious lawyer, enjoying the fullest confidence of the bench, bar, and people.

He was elected to the state Senate in 1881 and secured important legislation in relation to river bridges and abandoned railroad rights-of-way.

In 1894 he was elected county attorney of Van Buren county, serving two terms. He was mayor of Keosauqua continuously for a period of ten years, until 1908, when, on account of growing infirmities, he declined to run again for that office. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Grand Army of the Republic.

SOURCE: Pioneer Lawmaker’s Association Of Iowa Reunion of 1911 Held at Des Moines, March 14-16, 1911, p. 94-5

From Washington

From Washington

Tribune Correspondence

WASHINGTON, March 2.

The House judiciary committee will tomorrow report favorably on the Senate bill, making the final awards of the commissioners appointed to audit claims against the government, incurred in the Western department.

The President will nominate as Major Generals, Brig Gens. Grant, McClernand, and Wallace, who commanded divisions at the battle of Fort Donelson, and as Brigadier Generals the Colonels commanding brigades there.  Subordinate officers will also receive proper promotion.

The President, through the Secretary of war, will in his order of the day, accompanying the announcement of these deserved rewards of valor, strive to pay the just tribute to every man; high or low in rank, who contributed to the glorious result. – Flag officer Foote and his brave sailors will doubtless not be forgotten.

Special to the World.

The policy of the government is energetically directed toward supporting the loyal feeling in the attitude of resistance.  Abundant evidence is afforded that the truly loyal feeling exists which, although for some time overpowered and silenced, is now ready to avail itself of the presence of the U. S. forces for its manifestation, in meeting the enemy in battle.

Times’ Dispatch.

Gen. Buell telegraphed to Gen. McClellan, last night, that the rebels have abandoned Murfreesboro and are in full retreat towards the Tennessee river.  Crossing this river will place them in Alabama and free Middle Tennessee of every armed rebel force.  Inasmuch as the enemy retreat along a railroad line, tearing up the rails as they pass, it will be difficult for Gen. Buell to catch them.

It is announced the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers will be opened this week to free and unrestricted commerce, under the order of the Secretary of the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, March 3.

The Secretary of the Navy received a letter to-day, dated Cairo, Feb. 27^th, from Flag Officer Foote, who says, I have the honor to forward a communication from Lieut. Commanding Bryant, the substance of which I have just telegraphed.  The captain of the steamer who brings the dispatch says, that six miles below Nashville, there was a battery which mounted 15 guns, but several of them were thrown into the river before the Cairo arrived.

He also reports a strong Union feeling manifested in and near Nashville, and that Gov. Harris, after vainly attempting to rally the citizens and others, left on Sunday for Memphis.  He also reports that the gunboats were welcomed by the people at Nashville and other points on the Cumberland river, and that on hearing of my arrival, supposing the gunboats would proceed immediately to Nashville, the enemy retreated panic stricken.  The unusually high water of the river enabling the boats to ascend the river is providential.

The following is the enclosure in Flag officer Foote’s letter:

NASHVILLE, Feb. 28.

To Flag-officer Foote, commanding, &c.

Sir: Uncertain that my letter of the 23d inst. reached you, I repeat that I departed from Clarksville for this point by the request of Brig. Gen. Smith, commanding at Clarksville, and arrive here this morning, preceded by several steamboats conveying an army commanded by Brig. Gen. Nelson.  The troops landed without opposition.  The banks of the river are free from hostile forces.  The railroad and suspension bridges are all destroyed.  Very respectfully,

A. C. BRYANT, Lieut. Com.

The following is an abstract of the tax bill reported to-day.  It provides for the appointment by the President of a commissioner of internal revenue, with a salary of $5,000 per annum; his office to be in the Treasure Department, with a suitable number of clerks.  The country is to be divided as the president may direct, into convenient collection districts, with an assessor and collector appointed by the President, for each district, who shall have power to appoint such deputies as may be necessary.

The bill provides for a duty on spirituous liquors of 15 cents per gallon.

The Baltimore & Ohio R. R. is being rapidly rebuilt and will soon be in running order.  About 40 miles of iron and cross ties have been carried off by the rebels.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1