Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-21
News Paragraphs.

Inc English squadron which Is to be sem
to the American coast will have over foul
hundred guns, and between five and 81,
thousand men.
The rebels offer $50 for every prisoner cap
tured by privateers. They cannot, it woult
seem, get over their propensity for buying hu
man beings
Jackson, the assassin of Col Ellsworth, i.
ranked in the South with "Old Hickory" Il
is claimed that his example twas worthy O
all Grecian, all Roman fame
Upwards Of seven hundred slaves have es
capped from Virginia within the past two
weeks, and are now held by the government
forces as contraband of war Value to theil
owners, seven hundred thousand dollars
j. L.-Puley, the member for Marion county,
Illinois in the Legislature for that State and
who is known to have aided in forming a reg
iment which went South to the Southern Con.
federate army, is now in safe keeping at
Cairo
A young man named Clinton Rentch, who
was killed at Williamsport it has been salts
factorily ascertained was spy. He was
from Harpers Ferry, and had important doc
uments about his person. He was armed with
a dirk, two slung shots and brace of pistols.
! Gen. Pillow, it is said, concurs in the res
olutions passed at the meeting of Memphis
steamboatmen, excluding all Northern boats
from the waters of the Lower Mississippi, and
compelling captains to take the oath to sup
port the Southern Confederacy.
Our national troubles are reducing the i'm
migration at the port of New York. Last
week only 1866 arrived, making total of
80, 419 since the commencement of the year,
against 3S,917 for the corresponding period
in 1860.
At the burning of Black Hawkes. & Co..
sash and blind factory at Greenville, Mass,
on Sunday, 9th inst, Henry B. Clapp, ESQ.,,
prominent citizen, and another man named
Nelson Hoar, were killed by being crushed by
falling brick wall.
The army worm is making sad havoc in por-
tons of Kentucky and the southern part of
Indiana. The Louisville papers say that even
the Court House Yard in that city is covered
with them. They attack all the growing crops
and literally strip the fields.
The seizure of vessels by the Confederate
States amount in all to fifty eight of these
sissippi river. The others were captured by
privateers.
The Common Council of the city of Boston
have voted to dispense with the usual Fourth
of July dinner, and appropriate the amount
(about $4,000 to the destitute families of vol
unteer soldiers.
The secessionists in Tennessee claim that at
the election on the 6th inst, the majority in
favor of the Ordinance of Secession was seven
ty thousand. Accounts from East tennessee
show much spirit among the Union men there,
and it is expected that local strife will take
place in that part of the State.
An independent corps of rangers, who have
been organized in Philadelphia with special
view to catch the leaders of the rebellion, have
received the gift of photograph album, filed
with likenesses of all the prominent rebels
They will doubtless make themselves thorough
" familiar with the faces therein represented,
SO as to know the originals at sight, but in
case of doubt, they have only to turn to the
book to make sure of the identity of their
prisoners, after which they will know how to
proceed.
Ben. HcCullough's Texan Rangers, according
to Southern accounts, are q desperate set Of
fellows. They nun her one thousand half
sayages, each of whom is mounted upon
mustang horse, Each is armed with pair
of Colts Navy-reyolver's a rifle, tomahawk,
a Texan bowie knife, and lasso. They are
described as being very dexterous in the use
of the latter. These men are to be pitted
AGAINST Wilson's Zouaves and McMullin's
Rangers. But for all of that if they ever get
within mauling distance of Wilson's roughs
they will not be pitied particle.