Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
Ohio troops are in Camp at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania.
Gov. Dsnnison, of Ohio, has refused to
accept colored troops.
The National Safety Insurance and Trust
Company Of Philadelphia has failed.
One of the Rhode Island regiments repre-
sents in its members fifteen millions of dol.
lars.
Great fears are entertained in the border
counties of Mary land of the en- ire slave
population.
The peach crop near Cincinnati was al
most entirely cut of by the frost OF Friday
night, Goth.
The ladies of Columbus, O., made twelve
hundred dsnnel shirts for the II oops in forty
eight hours.
In many parts Of Mississippi, an actual
famine prevails, aud people suffer for want
of enough to eat.
The New York Day Book appears in full
mourning, on account OF the news from
Charleston, S. Q.
Gold mines of a fabulous extent are re-
ported to have been discovered on the 18th
mus of Tehsunterec.
jeff Davis has been hung in cfigy in Bos
ton. We wish we could, with truth, leave
out the words " in ef6gy."
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad, connecting
Columbus, KY, with Mobile, has BEEN com
plsted. This is just now military fact.
Cairo is occupied by about one thousand
armed troops with ten pieces Of cannon,
enough to defend it from any ut ack of tbs
rebels.
The Wheeling (Va.,) lntel7igencsr say,
that the Virginia C"nver ton broke up in {
row, and tat no secession ordinance wal
legally passed.
1t proposed since Gov Letcher of Vir
ginia has ordered no mo -four to be SEN
North, that the North retal4te ser ding mt
more tobacco to Nir; mia.
A shoulder hitting regiment, 1000 strong
composed ofmen of muscle, armed only with
revolvers and clubs. has been organized il
New York, by Mr.. John r Fork.
The people Of Sepatobia, Miss, have beer
terribly scared by the discovery of slave
plot The trouble has been quoted by hang
ing and shooting the ringleaders.
The clergy of Cincinnati have resolved t.
donate all their marriage fees during thii
year, as fund for the widows and orpl an.
of those who may fall in battle.
The working men and mechanics of Balti
more have petiioned the city authorities fol
further appropriations for their relief, they
having already received 100000.
Gen. Hall, of New York city, has a son ir
the army Of the Confederate States anG
another in the Seventh regiment. What il
duty should bring them into collision
There are few or 70 strangers now ir
Washington, except the military from dis
lance. Wizards has scarcely seventy five
guests, and the other hotels are nearly empty
A motion has been made to place Cincin
natl under martial law at once. Some Of
tho citizens thinks it will be wise to intro
duce the restraint at the earliest possible
period.
Report says that IS 600 stand of arms
were removed from Harper's Ferry to Wash
ing on before the Virginia raid upon the
arsenal, and tina. the $1,000 destroyed were
of an inferior quality.
81 900 arms we're removed from the St
Louis Arsenal on Thursday night, week. 6y
order of the President, and taken to Spring
field, III. The removal was accomplished
by deputation of Illinoisans, without in.
reference
The vacant Girard House, Philadelphs,
has been converted into a vast tailoring
ests blishment for making uniforms for tie
troops. Hundreds of girls are employed.
with sewing machines. Thirty thousand
suits are to be made up.
Mrs. Lucrt tia Bradley Hubhell, ofClede,
Sandusky county, sent to Gov. Oennison a
drum for the use Of the Ohio volunteers A
stout hemp cord is attached to the drum.
which, she says,in letter to the Governor,
is to hang JEFF. Davis with.
Edva King, prominent citizen of Foun-
tain county, Ind was killed in an ARRAY
last week There was difficulty about The
possession Of a house, and he was struck
on the head by young man nam cd Nc
Elroy, and died in about two hours.
TIE members OF the New York Seventh
Regimant-the pride Of that state-are said
to represent $3o,O0o,oOo Of property. The
regiment is COMPRISED of 26 officers and 65S
men, TO WHICH are 10 Uc 0Ou0u t06 DAnQ ana
some recent recruits. making total OF one
thousand and thirty FIVE.
A letter from Brownsville says news had
been received that Cortinss, with six hun
bred Mexicans, had crossed the Rio Grande
at Roma, and had laid the town in ashes,
killing 18 Americans. Two companies from
Barracks had started in pursuit of
him.
It is an historical fact that every four years
Charleston is visited with the vel ow fever
in its most malignant type, and, as it the
Lord wished to punish the traitors of that
city, this is the year Yellow Jack makes his
spn earance. Between the avenging hand of
he Lold and the just punishment they will
meet at the hands OF their countrymen, their
condition is truly deplorable
UNITED STATES Troops IN TExAs-THEY
HOLD Possession OF lNDiANoLA AND ATTEMPT
% CAPTURE REBEL VRssKL.-By An arrival
It New Orleans from Indianola, Texas, on
he 17th 1oorn tho< {ha IT tod State, |