Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-08-09
News Paragraphs.

the rebels only got fifteen cannon belong
ing to US, at tie battle of Bulls Run.
The rebels have confscated the property
of Gen. Scott lying in Virginia.
Capt Avis, John Browns humane jalor,
was killed at Bulls Run in the rebel army.
The hog cholera is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in the western part Of Macomb
couH ty III.
1t is thought in dip omatic circles at Wash
ington that England will soon recogn re the
Southern Confederacy.
One hundred and forty five persons died
in st. Louis during the past week-an in
crease of 10 over the previous week
1t is reported that 600 rebels are at or
lear BoonvilIe, Mo. The rebel force within
ifty miles of Birds Point is estimated at
$1,000.
Hamilton r. Gamble, the Provisional Gov
emor of Missouri, is brother.in-law of Ed
ward Bates; and moreover, is man very
mach like him.
Aft. Burnett. the we'll known elocutionist
and poet, was killed at Poca, Kanawha river
He vas connected 18th one Of the Ohio rcgi-
mems.
A rifed cannon, weighing ten thousand
pounls, capable of carrying a sxty-four
pound ball four miles and half, has just
been constructed.
A Committee of clergyman of Springfield,
Ohio, vas appointed at prayer meeting, the
other day, to draw up protest against at
tacks bling made by our troops on Sundays.
a rather remarkable storm occurred in
England on the night Of July 10th, during
which every object appeared to be of vel
lowish rel color, deepest when the rain fell
heaviest. g.
A soldier named Keith, of Company E,
18th N. Y. Regiment, was shot dead at Fort
Ellsworth, Alexandra, on the LIST inst. for
rioting and .om mittin an assault and battery
on his caphin.
The appropriations already made by Con-
gress, amount to $24.O00.O0O. The Secre-
tary of War asks :or 20,0o0,000 more for
the new volunteers. 1t is thought that no
more than 5Ot, 900 volunteers will be accept.
ed.
The boats composing Gen. Frcmonts fleet
are leased at $4,000 per month the Govern
ment paying al running expenses, and Sc
curing the owntrs aga nst any loss, in case
of the destruction of the boats.
During the recent shock Of an earthquake
at Swanton, VT, a little giIl in an upper
story of house came running down stairs,
saying she was afraid to stay up Their, as
somebody rocked her chair when she didn't
want to-"
Every steamer striving at New York from
foreign ports, brings quantities of approved
arms, most of which are imported to fill
State orders. The imported arms are gen.
orally the Enfield rfe or rifled musket, with
few arms Of Prussian or Belgium manufac.
ture.
VIM H. Randall for fourteen years identi.
fled with the history and growth of St. Paul,
MIMI, and at one time owning real estate in
and near the city valued at million dollars,
died at St. Paul on the 30th ult a poor man.
The financial difficulties of 1857 wrecked
him beyond recovery.
VIM. Murray, Of the I'd New Hampshire
regiment was executed at Alexandria, Va,
on the I'd inst, for the murder of Mary But
ler In order that his ftte might be warning
to all evil disposed soldiers. the scaffold was
erected upon the walls of Fort Ellsworth.
affording an unotstru view to 10000
persons. @ ..sf..
The Dubuque Times says that a lady re
siding at Cedar Falls has received a letter
from sister in Virginia, stating that her
husband and five sons were men. bers OF the
Black Horse Cavalry, and were all killed at
Bulls Run; and that the compsny, four hun
dred strong, were all slain by the New York
Zouaves but sixty.
The New Orleans Picayune, Of the 23d
ult., publishes an address Of the cotton fac.
tors, universally signed BY item, urging
their CORES pondents and customers not to
ship any portion of their cotton crop to that
city, nor to remove it from their limitations
until the blockade is fully and entirely aban.
doned. ~
A bill which has passed both Houses pro.
vides for the punish ment, with fine and i'm
priSonment, of any one who enlists persons
white or black, to aid the rebellion, rs wei
f as those enlisted. Another bill debars slave
owners from any claim to the recovery o.
slaves who are employed to aidlthe rebellion
also bill was passed to pay all volunteer,
mustered into the service for one to three
years or the war, from that time. w;tbou
waiting until they have reached their rem
devious. h..
Mcclellan was selected by jeff, Davis him
} self, who was the Secretary of War. to %
, to the Crimea to observe the great battles
1t will be little curious if the knowledo,
uh;ch he there oaioe Sho,,ld l.. IL