Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-08-16
News NsaraSra llls.

regiment in the field.
DR. Leib, of H., nominated for Assistant
Quartermaster, was rejected by the Senate.
At Newark, N. j., on Sunday afternoon
the 4th, four persons were drowned while
taking a boat ride in the Passaic river.
A National Horse Show and Ladies, Eques-
trian Fair is to be held at Ottawa, H., on
the Sd, 4th, 5th, and 9th OF September.
The Hon. Joseph Trumbull, Ex-Governor
Of Connecticut died at Hartford, on Sunday
right, the 4th inst, at the advanced age Of
IS years.
One Of the incidental good effects to the
of number Of gambling houses, which can
not be made topay expenses.
A coored girl has been admitted to the
High School in Chicago, about tie propriety
of which there has been an animated dis
cussion in the papers Of that city.
The new FEDERAL tax bill levies three per
cent on Incomes over eight hundred dollars
per year. 1t is feared that this will prevent
any candidates running for the most lucrative
county officers this fall Who will take them
Edward D. Baker, Senator from Oregon,
has been comm sSioned as a Colonel in the
Indiana legion. This will enable him to &C.
cept position in the army without vitiating
his office as United Slater Senator.
A letter to the Boston Journal asserts that
Hon. Pierre Soule, ex-United States Senator
from Louisiana, is a hearty Union man, and
laments that he originally landed and located
in New Orleans instead OF New York or Ros-
| ton.
1t is stated that in reply to solicitations to
under his command, Gen. Mcclellan replied
that, if he could not have the selection Of his
own subordinates he would throw up his
! command.
Tho State of Connecticut has effected a
war loan of $500, 900 at from fraction above
par to five per cent pr 'ium. the h.cs
amounting to Isl ,219, GOO. Gov. buckingham
took IS 900 at three per cent. premium, the
second highest bidder.
The price of passage from Sacramento to
! St. Joseph by the Overland Mail coaches
| has been fixed at $3.50. Passengers " no
! have travelled the route seem to regard the
trip as enc of 30 great hardship, although
compelled to ride continually, night and day,
for IS days.
Mount Vcsuvius has been in constant
ERUPTION since the 10Th gof December :,
1854 The quantity of lava thrown ont since
1865 has covered all the arabic land about it
f ra square league, and It is the opinion OF
scientific observers that before d great while
the " hole cone vii! tumble in.
Various estimates are made of the number
of United States troops killed. wounded, and
taken prisoners at the great struggle CT the
2Ist July. Col Forney's Sunday paper fig
ures up 3l7 killed, $50 wounded, AMI 715
missing, The N. Y. Heraid's figures are
killed ESQ., wounded 72?, missing AT.
1t is believed in Richmond that wien the
news Of the capture of Sberman's Battery
was received at Washington, Sc 1T privately
ordered six cannon to bs taken from the
Navy Yard and sent to Wa hinton, with
the announcement, in order it might be sad,
that Sherman's Battery ha! arrived safe
TIE St LOUIS Democrat states that orders
have been issued, by which a force of some
twenty or thirty regiments WILL be conccntra-
ted at St. Louis within week or ten days
from date. The object IS to form an eilicienl
camp of instruction for that region, and to
prosecute vigorous military operations from
that important point
Mrs G. ". Field, of Chicago, broke Ter
thigh by coughing, while sitting il. g chat,
on the 3lst nit Three days aiterwardss she
broke her neck in the same way and died.
The coughing spells were by no means s. e;
they were entirely devoid of spasm or con-
vulsion. he Chicago Journal vouches for
the truth Of this remarkable story.
The regiment of Capt. Montgomery the
man who figured so cnnspcuouSly during
the border troubles in. Kansas, has finally
been mustered into service. 1t is known as
the Third Volunt; err regiment CT Kansas,
and is composed of two companies of caval-
ry one company of artillery, and four of in
fantry. 4 nephew OF Louis Kossuth is the
Adjutant.
Claflr, Melcn & Co, Of New York, who
suspended recently, were, with the exception
perhaps of Messrs. A. I. Stewart & Co.,
much the largest dry goods jobbing house in
the country. Their sales in some years have
reache twelve millions Of dollars. The fail
ure is owing to the wholesale reputation OF
debts due them from the South and restricted
remittances from the West. Their liabilities
are reported at three millions.
The Goth section of the act approved Ju
ly, 1888, granting three months extra pay in
lieu of bounty to soldiers who may reenlist,
and the Sd section of the act approved June,
1860, granting bounty equal to transpor
ton from New York to soldiers who may re-
enlist from distant States, having been re-
pcaled by the act approved August Sd, 1861,
lin future no such bounty will be paid.
General Order No. As, which prohibits
volunteers who do not speak the English Ian
guage from being mustered into service, is |
now officially explained. 1t is not intended
to apply to regiments or companies Of for.
eign nations, in which both men and officers
speak the same tongue, but to prevent their
enlistments in regiments OF companies where
officers only speak English, the men not un-
derstsndin9 it,