Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-12-13

| Mason and Slidell have sent TO congress
protest against their arrest. @N
Negroes confined in the st. Louis Jail, Wit
are slaves of secessionists, are to be set t
work for the Government.
Two men attempted to cross the river a
St. Louis, on the I'd inst, in skiff. twas
caught in the ice, and one of them, DAME
Gleeson, was drowned. an EN 4
There are in Indiana 10000 more boys
than girls under the age of 81 years. That
to make up the waste Of war
Senator's Gwin and Calhoun Benham, re
leased on parole at the intercession of Geo
D. Prentice, are at Washington, and effort
are being made to have them released alto
gether., Fs .>r ry-Yg.f yl-sr, ~
! The wives of two thousand soldiers hav'
held mass meeting in St.. Louis and petit
toned the President to either let them hav'
back their husbands or some of the money
due for the services of those husbands.
| A Washington. letter writer says 'som'
bill will probably pass Congress abolishing
slavery in tho District of Columbia, either i'm
mediately, by compromising loyal owners.
or declaring all born after a certain date
| free"
The Richmond Enquirer contains an ad
vertisement for three hundred negro men
slaves or freemen-to be employed in the
construction of military roads for the use Of
the army of the Potomac Twenty dollars
to each man.
"Itis at Brussels" says the Moniteu,
Vinicole, ''that the greatest quantity of beer
is consumed; at Stockholm the most brandy
at Madrid the most chocolate; at Paris the
most absinthe at Constantinople the most
coffee, and at London the greatest quantity
of strong wines"
Among the ridiculous canards circulated
at the South for the purpose Of keeping the
ignorant portion of the population at fever
heat, is a proclamation purporting to have
been issued by President Lincoln. stating
that he intends to set the slaves free for the
purpose of having them murder the women
and children =!
The third "stone feet'' will sail from
New York in a few days, for the purpose of
blocking up the water approaches to Charles
ton. 1t consists of twenty old vessels. The
stopped Ocracoke Inlet, and the second has
pEODaUit OOuC llC SdlilC lOi CdfalIudI
Tie Postmaster at New Orleans advertises
that letters for any part of the United States,
to go by Costa's foreign mail, will be received
at the post office, if sent open. They will be
sealed and forwarded, if they con;
vey no improper intelligence 10 the enemy.
rheI rate of postage will be 81 Is per half
ounce.
The mutineers, fifty in rum Der, now
confined at the Tortugas, complain bitterly
ofthe treatment they are receiving at the
hands of the government They are used to
Keep the fort clean, and do much of the
work on the island, such as coaling vessels,
cattle, etc.
The we'll known and popular Methodist
Irvine, Rev. Granville Moody, has been ten.
Tered and accepted the Colonelcy Of the Sew
,nty Fourth Ohio Regiment. near Xenia.-
Baron Van Schrader, distinguished Prus
sian officer, is to be Lieutenant Colonel of
The regiment Parson Moody will make a
good Colonel. Bully for him!
Not single United States soldier now re-
mains in Utah, and the travel across the
plains is much diminished. There is no
rouble whatever between the Mormons ard
he citizens of the State. The National
Electric Telegraph passes through the Ter
'itory, and it is a matter of boast with Brig
lam that it is scrupulously protected from
injury.
The latest invention Of which VIC have
heard is Chewing Mactine-in other words,
| little mill intended for toothless people and
hose who cannot properly masticate their
iood Such an article is advertised in the
london Lancet. 1t IL fastened to the dinner
able, goes with crank, and is said to mlnce
he food very nicely.
A gentleman of Hartford, Conn, has in
rented revolving ritled cannon which has
hree separate barrels, made of steel and ri
led, thirty inches in length and one inch
,ore, firmly fixed in triangular iron or steel
rame. These are mounted on u light pair
# wheels about four feet in diameter. The
whole does not weigh more than two hun
lred.
As one Of the incidental connections of the
present war, we notice that an offic, has
,een opened at Washington, f. embalming
he dead, under the management of DR..
Jharles D. Brown and Joseph B. Alexander.
Their system is that of the celebrated Sur.
uet, of Paris-by an injection Of powerful
ntSeptlc nuiu, Wnlch sooH aiuohS '"o "o-
ues to marble-like substance, and perfect
Y preserves the color and features. and keeps
he body free from all offensive odors.
An advertisement appears in the Hamil-
on &C. W. Times calling for one hundred
healthy negroes" to enter the service of
he Australian Cotton Association, in New
south Wales and Queensland. Passage paid
md 1874 per annum, with rations, are the
and it is promised that the ne
,roes vii! be ''treate1 by the Australian Cot
ION Association precisely in the same man.
ner that white servants are, all being alike
free subjects Of our enlightened govern
nent"