Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-07-26
News Paragraphs.

SNASt Nop
English editors frequently make curious
mistakes when writing on American affairs,
and no paper in England contains more
ludicrous blunders than the London Times
The last geographical error in that sheet is
where il speaks of Fortress Monroe being To-
Gated on Governors Island, in New York har-
Dor.
The residents of Nantucket (Mass.) were
much surprised, on Saturday last, by the
appearance Of what seemed a light snow
storm, but which proved to be the falling of
a dry whitsh substance, resembling down.
1t continued severa. hours, and so resembled
a snow storm that children reported to the
teachers that it was showing.
The salmon fisheries Of Canada are once
more becoming important. By order Of gov
eminent artificial distractions to rivers have
been removed, allowing the fish to reach
their spawning beds, without hindrance, and
already salmon are more plentiful in Canada
than ever before.
At the outposts of one of the camps near
Baltimore, a ball was fired at one OF our
picket guards by a rebel scout, which struck
a small pocket Bible carried by the soldier,
and glanced off at his side without doing
him harm. The Bible was torn and SCARED,
and was sent into Fort McHenry. Gen
Banks now has the book in his possession.
Hon John S. Phelps, member of Congress
from the Sixth District Of Misso uri, has been
chosen colonel of the regiment Of Union vol
unteers at Springfield, Mo. Major Phelps
was q gallant officer in the Mexican war,
and has since distinguished himself in civil
life. He is Democrat, and during the late
administration, held q leading position in
the House.
a Russian gentleman who recently met
death suddenly in a railway carriage at
BourgeS, measured 7 eet inch round the
waist, and the width between his shoulders
was not less than 3!3 inches. HIS weight
was so enormous that not fewer ttan six
,nen had to be employed to remove the dead
body from the carriage, and eight to carry
1t to the cemetery of 81. LaZare.
The IN of the Siamese ambassadors to
Paris live as much trouble to the journalists
rs those Of the Japanese to ourselves. TO
show what a difference OF opinion exists on
this subject. it suif ces to say th5t the Opin-
ION gave one list. the Pat,ie another Slightly
dissimilar, some other journal a third, not
the same as the two former, although closely
resemhling them, and the Woniteur contra
diets all three.
Southern papers state that the constitution
Of the cor federate States is unpopular in
Georgia, because of the absence Of the de-
c%!aration making the threc-ilths Of the
blacks the basis of representation. The
Augusta Chronicle ssys that without such a
basis of representation the constitution can
not be ratified, as 1t would be unjust to a
large part Of the State, placing the slave
holding portion still more in the power Of
the counties with bat few slaves.
The first order issued by Speaker Grow
upon taking possession Of the splendid room
assigned to him, was that the doorkceper
should remove the marble bust Of the traitor
Tx Speaker Orr, from the bracket where it
was placed by the consent Of Orr, and that
the fine ma BILE bust of John Quincy Adams,
that formerly occupied a niche in the old
Representative Hall, be substituted. The
order was executed today. The original
subscribers to Orr's bust can undoubtedly
have the same by calling for 1t, the present
owners having no use for it
An elderly lady who attended a meeting of
the LIST Vermont regiment, just before they
left for the seat of war certainly evlnced the
most patriotism of any one yet heard of.
AS soon as the prominent speakers had fin
ished their patriotic speeches, the old lady
arose, full Of enthusiasm, and said she thanked
God that she was able to do something for
her country her two sons, all S; c possessed
in the world. were in the regiment, and the
only thing she had to regret was that she
could not have known it twenty years ago
she would have furnished more of them.
During the Russian war, 16, 211m men died
by sickness, and only l,761 by wounds in
the various hospitals, ard exclusive of those
k lied in action. In the French and Russian
armies the difference is sad TO have been
still greater. During the las. six months of
the campaign, in which the city was stormed
and taken, the French hospitals received d.
957 wounded, and l0l, 12S cases Of disease.
In TIE disastrous expedition to Walcheren,
fine army by disease, and only sixteen per
campaigns of the Duke of Wellington, the
losses by wounds were about four per cent
while nearly twelve per cent, Of the troops
were carried off by disease.
CLEAN DIV EEf.-II Oii Ill tHC liilDi liidllOll
that is before us at this writing, itwould seem
that the combined columns of Generals Nc
Clellan, Morris and Hill have made and are
making a clean sweep of the rebels from out
of Northwestern Virginia. They have been
driven from their prey like a pack Of sheep
stealing dogs. Their commander has been
killed, and they themselves surrounded, cut
off and captured. They have been ignomin
iously foiled in every attempt to retrieve THEN
fortunes-completely out-generalied and most
disgracefully whipped. All we want to hear
now, is, that old Wise and his son, and their
gang of rag and bob-tail pirates, have been
dealt with after the same fashion. Garnctts shot
and Wise's neck in the gibbet, our troubles in
Western Virginia will be Wheeli Q
An~teUigencsr.
TAKEN FOR AN AssAss1N.-Mr. N. B. Judd, |
OF Chicago, the American Ambassador to
Berlin, way mistaken in Paris for the other
Jud, the famous Jud, the Jud that cannot be
found Jud the murderer of Poinsot. He
was followed for three days by three police
spies before he discovered who were his per-
cecutors, or they discovered WHO was the OBJ
ject Of their pursuit.
INIrIALs.-Let the reader combine the I'M
tial letters of the following names in the Or
der in which they are given. and see what