Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-28

Count Cavour died of congestion of the
BRAIN
The Queen of Spain gave birth to a Prin-
cess on the 4th inst. .-..
Splendid strawberries are selling in Gin
cinnati for five cents quart. ...
A large gun has been mounted at Cairo,
which the Illinois boys call the ''Pillow Case"
calculated to hit General Pillow at distance
of four miles. 3 H..
Four Union men were hung at Martinsburg,
Va, for refusing to take the oath of allegiance
! to the Confederate States army, the day be-
fore Harper's Ferry was evacuated.
Thomas Ribdy, a volunteer who had been
rejected in New York for being below the
requisite height-fve feet four inches-hung
himself few hours after he was told of his
incompetency.
William David Mercer, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
one of the wounded at Vienna, has since
died. His right arm was shot off. In his
dying moments he attempted to sing the
"Star Spangled Banner"
The family of o. D. F. Conlev, Esq, of
Mendoza ILL.,, consisting of his wife and two
children, were drowned in small stream near
that place, on the 10th inst, while returning
IN carriage 1rO1n fefu.
The Hon. Joseph r. Williams, formerly
proprietor of the Toledo Blade, afterwards
President of the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege, and since Lieutenant Governor Of Mich
igan, died suddenly at his residence in Con-
stantine, in that State, on the 10th inst.
Flora Temple" was winner in the two
mile trot with John Morgan at New York,
on the 18th. Time, 4:55a and 4:524.
Pennsylvania has now twenty-nine regi-
ments in the service of the government, ofwhich
thirteen are for three months, and the balance
for three years.
Since the promotion of Col Curtis to the
Brigadier Generalship, Lieut.. Col. Tuttle has
been promoted to Colonelcy of the Second
Iowa Regiment, and Major NJ. NJ Crocker to
the Lieut.. Colonelcy. This creates vacancy
in the Majorship, which Office is generally
awarded to the senior captain Of the Regi-
ment
Mai. John A. Dix, of New York city, has
received his commission in the U. S. Army,
from the War Department, dated May 10th.
Gen. Dix outranks Generals Mcclellan, But
Ter and Banks, having been an officer in the
United States Army, Ga Captain many years
ago. before any of them.
1t has been intimated, by the President
himself, that he will assure the country in his
message of speedy termination of the war
complishing this by the most energetic meas
for support in his policy.
The Monroe (Mich.) Sentinel says that
wagon-loads of young pigeons, very fat, just
beginning to fly, and called Squads" have
been taken near there. No gun is necessary.
The boys rap on the trees and the squads hop
out race then ensues, and the pigeons a-e
run down.
Professor Lowe made an ascension at Wash
| ington on the 18th inst, in balloon, with a
telegraph wire attached He sent a message
down to the President from high elevation.
No observations were taken, though the use
of balloons for military purposes was shown
to be entirely feasible.
Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, now in
command of the Military Department of the
West, and whose remarkable energy in Mis-
souri, exctes SO much admiration, was born at
Eastford Windham county, Connecticut, in
1920; entered West point Military Academy
in 1888; graduated thence in 1912, and serv-
cu III COIl Ilud LII CiiC AdSC ycdi VI 1uO oCiiAoa0
war. He was with Gen. Scott in Mexico, as
first lieutenant, and was promoted to the
rank of captain at the battle of Contreras.
May 18th, 1861, for the signal service rem
dered by the capture Of Camp jackson,
he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier
| General.
James Rcdpath's paper gives the where
abouts of the five Of John Browns men
lwho escaped from Harper's Ferry. Owen
Brown is in Northern Ohio. The report that
he had lost his hand in firing salute is in
correct. Tidd was in New York few days
,go Merriam is in Hayti. Coppic has joined
one of the Iowa military companies. Ander-
son, the only survivor of the negroes, is in
Canada preparing to emigrate to Africa.
| A FLAG FOR THE WAsHISGTON NATIONAL
MONUMENT Albert G. Widdlcombe, of Wash
ington, has purchased flag in Philadelphia
from contributions by the loyal residents Of
| Washington, to decorate the apex of the
| Washington National Monument in the city of
Washington The flag is 26 by 40 feet, and
will be elevated on the monument on the 4th
of July. The flag staff 45 feet long will be