Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14
Iowa News.


- Mrs. Edwards, editress of the Mareng'
Repa b!ican, has received the appointment o
post mistress of that fourishing place. W.
are glad to hear it.
MARK THE TRAlToR-Le Grand Byington
of Iowa City, in a communication to tn
Press, refers to the present action of the Ad
ministra ton as "the internal war policy o
Lincoln, Seward & Co."
A CAVALRY REGIMENT has been organized
in this State, and Col. Fitz Henry Warner
elected Colonel.
A Coon Tn1NG-The Board of Supervisor
of Jones county have appropriated 800 to
wards grand County celebration on the com
ing Fourth of July at some point near tn
center Of the county, and have appointed {
committee of arrangements of one from eacl
township for the occasion. Considering tn,
momentous crisis through which the country
is now passing, the Board have done goot
thing.
RAvAGEs OF THE ARMY WORM AND LOCUST
The Gate CITY says the army worm ha
destroyed a number of fields of wheat, rye
&C., near Fort Madison, since Saturday last
The seventeen-year locusts have also appeared
in vast numbers in that county, but their raw
ages are mainly confined to young and tende
trees. The prospects of farmers thcreabout
were anything but fattcring,
Iowa HOSPITAL FOR THE INsANE-Ther'
are now 103 patients in this Institution. W,
are requested by the Superintendent to stat,
that the portion of the building completed be-
ing nearly filled, chronic, ncurable cases car
no longer be admitted, unless specially order
cd by the Superintendent in each case. Thi!
restriction has become absolutely necessary
otherwise recent and durable cases will be ex
Guided for want of room.-Mt. Pleasant
Journal.
SEIZURE OF POWDER IN TRANsIru. - Or
the 31st ult., certain citizens of Marion, Linz
County, seized 27O kegs of four grades best
blasting powder, in tramsi,u from Dubuque
to the Missouri river, in charge of Titus
Turck, an agent of the firm OF Latin, Smith
& Co., of Platteville, Wis. 1t turned out that
Mr.. Turck held pass from Gov. Kirkwood, re-
qucsting that he be permitted to pass unmo
Tested, from Dubuque, starting within ten
days, on a specific route as far as Des Moines
thence by either of the regular mail routes to
Council Bluffs, and Omaha in Nebraska. Capt
Gray, of the Marion Guards, who was one of the
captors, Immediately telegraphed the Govern
or at Iowa City, and the same day sent by
mail a detailed statement of the capture to
Adjutant General Bowen at the same place
Receiving no answer from either of these gen.
tlemen, who were probably absent, Capt.
Gray. on Saturday, June LIST, telegraphed the
War Department direct at Washington City,
stating that Latin, Smith i Co., were trans
porting powder overland, that four loads had
been seized going South, that more was ex-
pectcd, and asking instructions. Secretary
Cameron. the same day telcgraphed back the
order. Hold on to the powder, and seize all
that is on its way for the use of Southern reb-
els" subsequently, Deputy U. S. Marshal
Conger, of Dubuque, visited Marion and took
of the powder, which has been for
yarded to Marshal Hoxie, at Des Moines, to
wait the determination of the proper author
ties.
The question is, did Gov. Kirkwood really
i've permission to transport this lot Of pow
Ter into section of the country, where, if it
vas not really intended for the use of traitors,
was liable to be captured by them ? 1t is
ertainly a strange procedure, and requires
xplanation. As the people Of Marion have
cen charged with acting too hastily in this
natter, we feel constrained to say that in our
pinion they did as any loyal people should
ave done under like circumstances.