Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-07-05

pound, or $40 score. Butter sells 81 per
pound.
The government had the misfortune the
other night, to drop overheard one of the To-
comotives it was transporting from Washing
ton to Alexandria, 1t went down in 40 feet
| of water.
The telegraphic story that Mr.. Crittenden
will offer his resolutions to the extra session
OF Congress, presenting the secession of Ken
lucky as an alternative, is undoubtedly manu-.
featured to order by irresponsible parties.
The Chicago Tribune estimates the loss Of
the State of Illinois through the late depreci-
| alton OF the currency at five millions ofdollars.
| and the city of Chicago sunk sum equivalent
| to its entire banking capital
The Louisville Postmaster has been directed
to forward letters from the South to loyal
States after removing the postage stamps, but
to send foreign letters, on which prepayment
| IS compulsory, to the Dead Letter Office.
East Tennessee, as represented in the con-
vention, which has adjourned, desires to Sc
| cede peaceably from the State, or at all events
to remain neutral. She is bound to stay in the
Union unless expelled by brute force.
Nathaniel F. Potter of Providence R. J.
who has experienced the mosquito discc~-'orts
at the Southern States, has ir-enteo de-
| fence to be worn over the h~s.d, ana Is gong
| to present the I'd Rhode Island regiment with
I the article.
1t is stated that the reason why ex-Vice
Presider, Breckenridge will not appear in the
Senate, on the 18th Of July, is because the
seized Geographic dispatches exhibit evidences
of his diSloyalty while he held the second Of
flee in the gift of the people.
| The committee on the national hymn an
nounce that the time for the reception of
manuscripts by them has expired, and that
no more will be admitted to competition The
hundred and fifty.
Tom Drummond, late editor of the Vinton
Eagle. not long since appointed to second
Lieutcnancv in the I'd Regiment L. S. cavalry,
at present has command of company |, of that
regiment, and is stationed just back of the Ar
lington House, near Alexandria, Va.
Iarvey's case grows worse every day. II
seems impossible that the Government car
hesitate to recall him from Portugal 1t is
now stated that he was the confidential Wash
ington correspondent of the Charleston Wer
cury, even after the Inauguration of the Sc
ccssion movement.
The official returns of the killed and wound
ed at the battle of Big Bethel show total o
74-of which Is were killed, IA dangerously
wounded missing and 80 only slightly i'll
iured. Twcnty-one of these casualties occur
! red in the mistaken engagements between tn
!, Sd and 9th New York volunteer regiments.
Rev. John Kelley, rector Of an Episcopal
Church, at Patterson, n. j., on Sunday, 16tl
inst. hastily jumped from a railroad car which
was going at the rate of 90 miles an hour, ant
fell with his left arm upon the rail, cutting i
| off at the elbow He mad made an appoint
E ment to preach, and was fearful of being car
red past the proper station.
Butler county, Kentucky, which lies on tn
Tennessee line, has given the most overwhelm
inc vote for the Union candidates of any coun
tv in the State. The vote stands 1,035 TO
the Union Congressman Captain Jackson
to a against him. The Secessionists hav
: been claiming that Southern Kentucky sym
9 pathized with them, but the result of the lat
election down there indicates anything bu
that.
It is positively stated by persons in the v
: cinitv of the rebel batteries at Vienna, tina
t the South Carolina troops placed in front {
themselves one hundred and fifty negroes
receive the fire of the Ohio men. but that til
$ former fell flat on their faces when the mu
e ketS Of the latter were pointed in their dire
G ton. and that thus the shots passed owe
=, them and killed six of the soldiers whom the
We're set up to protect.
- Mai. Winthrop, who lost his life at Bethe
u was of the old Massachusetts stock OF tn
J. name. being the son Of the late Francis Bayal
Winthrop, of New Haven, who was an ON
cousin of Hon. Robert c.. Winthrop, of Bo
e. ton. His mother was sister of Presdel
:. Woosev, of Yale College. Maj. Theodo
Winthrop was born in New Haven. on Sc
Is te1nl,er -, 1928, and was in his 33d year.
Is He was gentleman of fine literary attai
is ment<, and lively, graphic writer.
" Prentice comes to definite conclusion
q to the prospects of the rebels, as follows :
''Eydentiy the southern government, howev
y calamity, or even desperately, heroic men m;
ed fight, cannot sustain itself in this war. Wi
h. 10 inportations or expectations, with no ma
< igation, with no commerce either by water
land, with 10 treasure, with no credit abroa
= with no means of raising money but by
ed creased taxation, where taxation is alrea'
We runo,,s, with no nationality recognized by al
l. of the nations of the earth, and with no pow
to take prizes into any of the ports of t
= world the government Of the Confedera
at States cannot carry on this war six mont
or longer bv all the resources it can command
- LET Us ALONE Such is the cry of t
e disunion conspirators. The cry has been hea
is before from the lips of depravity. And
in the Synagogue says the Gospel according
to St. Luke chap. 4, verse SO, "there was ma
- which had spirit of an unclean devil, and
- cried out with loud voice, saying, LET
at Alone" But the convenient petition was n
Mt respected. They We're not let alone. Il
ut unclcan spirit was rebuked, and commend
20 to come out of the man, ''and when the de-
VI had thrown him in the midst, he came out
IL him. and hurt him ot"-Lou. Journal.
- UrsBASD KILLED By HIS WIFE.-The 5
W Charles Iowa) Iatelhgencer says Mrs. Mi
~ G. Haley, of Floyd, was brought before Jud
y Waltse, of st. Charles, upon informati'
~ touching the question Of her sanity. \ fe
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