Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-09-20
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Gen. Banks has 10000 men under his
command.
Ninety two persons died in St. Louis
during the week ending Sep ember l4th.
All the reports concerning the death of
jeff DAVIS were without foundation in truth.
| In the LeHinsvlle skirmish, on the 18th,
our total loss was seven killed and fifty three
wounded.
The will Of the late General Lyons, of the
U. 5. A. gives all HIS property, worth thirty
| thousand dollars to the Government of the
United States. He had no family.
The City Council of Philadelphia are doing
handsome thing tor Generals Mcclellan
and Anderson. At a cost of ST., 100 they are
to resent to each sword, that of the for.
mer to have diamond and pearl set
jeff Thompson has issued proclamation,
in which, as retaliatlve measure for FIRE.
monts pros lamation he threatens for every
Southern soldier and citizen executed, to
hang, draw and quarter one of Abraham Lin
coins soldiers.
John Ross, the Cherokee chieftain, contin.
ues firmly to resist all attempts made by the
rebels to swerve him from the consistent DO
sitlon ofheutrality assumed by him at the
outbreak of the present unhappy crisis.
The statement going the rounds Of the
press that the original Tom Thumb had re-
Gently died in one of the Paris hospitals I'm.
der circumstances of great indulgence, is ca
nard The General is now exhib ting him
self at Montreal as lively as ever.
Under the coniscaton act the officers of
the Government have seized considerable
amount Of money in the Boston banks, being
all the balances due at the South. Thirty
thousand dollars have also been seized on
Wall street New York.
The principal business housr in Cincin-
natl now close at 4 o'clock p NJ for the pur.
pose of enabling their proprietors and all
able bodied persons in their employment to
engage in drilling and in preparing them
selves to met an invading foe.
Lieut.. Lyon, nephew of the late Gen.
Lyon, was one of the XII led in the accident
near Cockeyesville, Md, where the train
bearing the IRA Harris cavalry" was will.
fully thrown from the track. He was for
merly employed in the Office of the Christian
Sfcret"ry at Hartford, Ct. His remains will
be taken to Ashford, Ct, for interment.
nephew of John NJ. Bolts is with Gen.
Banks army. He tells of fearful state of
affairs in Richmond. His uncle is a prison.
er n his own house. Young B"tts is acting
IS Lieutenant and being on scout the 9TH
sr day, he was fired upon by rebel battery,
md cannon ball passed through the tail of
us blouse, making ragged hole which will
need seven-by-n nine patch. Quite as near
IS most men would wish to be
Twenty one Germans, all deserters from
he rebel camp at Bonneville, Tennessee, have
rrlved at indianapolis and been enrolled in
>ol. Wlllch's German regiment Each man
'fought off his arms ard accoutrements.
he party Travelled by night, sometimes on
DOT and at other times in wagons furnished
y the Union men OF Kentucky. They rep
e>ent the Union feeling as very strong in
'enness Ct, and thousands are waiting anx-
'usly foc the approach of Gen. Fremont's
loops.
The London Times, in an editorial on the
resent aspect of American affairs, argues
rat enough has transpired to show that the
lbjugation Of the South is next to impossi-
lie, and submission in the highest degree
nprobable, all the incidents Of the war thus
having bsen favorable to The South. 1t
Us the establishment of PASSPORTS, the
spension of the heabus corpus, and other
ndred measures, all of which are un' void
lie, makes travellers find themselves more
liberty in Venice than New York. The
inses DOUBTS much whether the powers, af-.
+ the wsr is ended, will return to the old
rm of governments, and thinks there must
two governments, ard that they will be
Is democratic, and that the North bears
semblaucs to the last republic.