Show miscellaneous item atenis s 4 T the repulse of the federal army orl ori on the 61 gah h of april at pittsburg landin landing was not considered si side bide reil rell by many in the tha western we 71 rn states vey 1 creditable to the officers in command and demands had been made unde for an investigation by congress 0 into the cause of the troops having 0 been surprised and driven from the field which A took so much hard fighting 0 to regain it was stated on good authority that hundreds of men left east tennessee for kenta kentucky phy after the proclamation of governor harris calling 0 out troops there was a riot in east st louis on the evening of the of april caused ly the interference of the employees of the ohio and mississippi railroad with a culvert that had bad i been made to prevent the town from being 1 flooded the provost marshal with a posse 1 sent to quell the disturbance was fired on by the populace the posse then charged bayonet and dispersed the crowd in which apera tion three of them were wounded by coming in in contact with those sharp pointed weapons of war the president sent a message to the senate on the uit concerning the arrest of ex Secre secretary jary fary cameron atthe at the suitor suit sult of pierce buter for il illegal egal imprisonment in which re tto president stated that buter was arrested under hs h a mr Lincol ns authority considering it a state necessity and that he was responsible for the act the house committee on on foreign afna afra affairs irs irb on the agreed to report a bill for the appointment of a commission on nat onal defenses to consist ot 0 two officers ers ets ot oe the army two of the navy and two civilians of oe attainments the almost universal rains which prevailed from the loth to the of bf april greatly retarded regarded military movement movements as alleged both at yorktown ani on the tennessee in addition to the rams raws the confederates at yorktown about the com commenced merice melice d hooding flo fio the ground 1 in front ol of their by turning a portion of york river by means if cf dams dims in that direction the st louis R publican republican received a dispatch on the 1 ath uit from a gentleman at omaha connected sith vilh the telegraph stat ng that the late lato trouble troubie ies iea with the overland mail mall i comp company a n y were not occasioned by the r Ir lidian dian dlan but by companies of employees sho who aho not having been paid their wages for a long iong time had become dissatisfied and se seed zed the stock and other available p belonging to the company and put off to the northern mines the in lans ians along the route were report d as be being lne ine p peaceably pace ably disposed and had not interfered with the malis mails G gen C F smith w 11 II as one of the principal majera majers of of the utah expedition un gen johnson Job joh died at savannah on the ten river of oe dysentery on the of april arill |