Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-08-23
News Paragra lDIlS.

s, The Union Defense Committee of Chicag
5. nave gone to work to equip four regiment
), Tor Gen. Fremont.
:. Three hundred and seventy four soldiers
are now in the hospitals Of Washington
; Georgetown and Alexandria.
: Brigadier General Magruder, of the rebe
d army, it appears, burnt Hampton in drunk
en- fit.
q lea is selling at Fredericksburg, Va, al
~ per pound, and sugar at fifty and sixty
y cents.
There are now forty-two Brgadier Gen
I erals in the army, not including regulars en-
: titled to that rank
t Congress in its wisdom voted each regi
ment OF our volunteers chaplain, but re
fused them cook
Horace Greeley, chief editor of the New
York Tribune, has been very i'll Of brain few.
er. He Is now recovering.
Three boys-Sedgwick Stevens and two
sons OF Michael Lay-were drowned near
7 Traverse City, Mich, on the 29th ult.
Ten light draft steamers and four sail YES
; sells are known to be out depredating upon
, our shipping
Geo. Edward Rice, we'll known and high.
f y gifted poet, committed suicide at Roxbury
Mass, on Sunday, 18th. inst.
Gen. Fremonthas now called upon Ohio for
troops, and Col. Grosbech's Cincinnati resi
ment was to leave on Sunday, and obtain
their arms at St Louis.
Prentice says: at may not be easy to
say on which side the victory at Springfield
was. 1t is, however, very easy to say on
which side the glory was"
The N. Y. Zouaves are to be reorganized
Eight hundred, the original ZooZoos, are
ready to shoulder their muskets, and three
hundred fresh ones will mako their number
sufficient.
The Illinois State Fair comes off at Chi
cago on the 9th to the 18th Of September
Premiums to the amount Of $22, 900 are Of
fered. Railroads carry all articles for exhi-
bition free-pasengers at half fare.
| On last Sunday week, two trains, number
ing thirty five car loads of cannon, with shot,
shell, and other articles of compromise, went
to st. Louis, over the Ohio and Mississippi
Rail Road.
Two children, named Denkan, one boy
of six and girl of eight years of age, were
smothered to death at Buffalo, on the l4th
irst. Their parents were drunk and crazy
from the effects Of liquor, when they set the
house on fire.
The Portsmouth (Ohio) Tribune says that
the house of Silas d. Powell, residing near
Wheelersburg, was destroyed on Saturday
night, the 10th, and horrible to relate, his
wife and two children persisted in the flames,
and ne was so injured in attempting to rescue
them that he died next day
A detachment of Lagrange Home Guards
surrounded the residence of II. D. Caldwell,
nine miles west Of Lagrange, No, few days
ago, took him prisoner, and sent him to Gen. |
Fremont at St. Louis on board the Sucker
State. Caldwell is the same individual who
took Joe Hickey prisoner, a few weeks ago,
and who was also in command Of the rebel
artillery at the battle of Athens.
LAST WORDS OF GEN. LYoN-By the way, |
have from DR.. H Reichenbach, surgeon |
in the First Iowa, the very last words which |
fell from the lips of General Lyon. The
Doctor was within a few feet of him when
shot. The General was reclining in the arms
Of his body servant, when turning he exclaim-
ed family, Lehman, am going up" Cor
respondent st. Louis Democrat
AZ In conversation with military friend,
DR.. Tying lately repeated the statement made
in his sermon-that the hattie had been lost
because it was fought on Sunday.
"But," said Colonel --. "it was won
by The rebels. Wasn't it just as wrong for
them as for us ?"
"Hem," said DR.. Tying, 81 didn't think of
that"
The H1PPoPorAMUs IN New YoRK-This
animal is pursuing his amphibious life with
apparent satisfaction in the miniature ocean
at Barnum's, recently vacated bv the whales,
and is hourly drawing great numbers of the
people to the Museum He is said to be
three years old. and is of about the weight of
an OK. He takes his position very mildly,
and rolls about his unwieldy and monstrous
form in the water with great contentment
and good nature. He is very strange and
interesting creature. 7. World.
Lamentng Upon the misery of the
times. New York paper says the saddest
sight is revealed by walk at night through
the upper wards of the city. Troops Of
young girls are there to be seen, walking the
streets for bread not cunning or bold. or
brazen, but shy, frightened seamstresse.,
shop girls, and but recently respectable do
mestics, who, now, without home, employ
ment or friends gee but ono desperate step
between where they stand and starvation.
A SIMPLE SALvE FOR SOLDIERS FEET IN
MARcH1Na.-The Scientific american has
received the following receipt for makingan
excellent composition for amounting the feet
of soldiers during long marching: Take
equal parts of gum camPhor, olye oil and
pure beeswax, and mig them together warm
until they are unied and become salve.-
At night wash the feet we'll, dry them, and
then apply this salve, and ut Oh clean
stockings and sleep with them on. Nextda
your feet will be in excellent trim for march
ing.
ew The following very sensible resolu-
ton was passed with others, at the late ses-
son of the Rhode Island general assembly
"Resolvcd, That in the present crisis of
our public affairs there ough. to be full and
sincere union Of all political partes, in sup
port Of the constitulonally elected govern
ment of the United States; and that this gen.
eral assembly pledges to the president of the
United States the best exertions Of the gov
eminent and people Of Rhode Eslanl and it's
entire resources, for the preservation Of the
Union"
AZ There are now about eight hundred
and fifty men at Camp Mcclellan. and more
are daily expected. The organization of the
camp is gong on as fast as possible.-Dau-
export Democrat 21st
rs, 900 New Troops will be in Wash
ingtOn by Saturday.
New York, Aug. 20.
Troops are being forwarded in great num-
bers by every conveyance, and by Saturday
next, about $4,000, in addition to those al.
ready there, will be in the Capital from the
ten States just called on by the Secretary of