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

| Six regiments have been raised in St. Louis
for the U. S. Service.
There are still a number of spies in Wash
ngton, many of them women.
General Tom Thumb has returned from
Europe, and is holding levees in New York.
Ex-President Fillmore has accepted the post
of captain of company G. 74th New York reg
iment.
The Democracy of New York are called to
meet in State Convention, at Syracuse, on the
4th of July.
It is said some six hundred fugitives are at
Fl. Monroe now. There are $4,000 q. S.
troops there.
The municipal government of New York
city has appropriated $4,000 for the patriotic
celebration of the 4th of July.
A young woman, Rachel Morris, threw her
self over Niagara Falls few days ago, and
persisted, of course, on account of an unfor-
tunate love affair.
The receipts of specie in New York, from
England, were over two and and quarter
millions of dollars on the 9Th inst. This is
unprecedented
Mrs. Hook, an Irish woman, was arraigned
in Chicago last week, for whipping her hus-
band Probably she thought there was no
harm in batting her Hook.
! This is a poor time for emigrants to come to
this country. Many of those who recently
arrived at Boston in the Galway steamer Pa
rama, returned in the same boat.
COL Anderson will spend the summer in
the mountains of Pennsylvania on account of
failing health. He will take no military COM
lnand in Kentucky for the present.
The wcrld-famed Hippopotamus, which Gre
ated such furore in London, at the Zoolog
ical Gardens, has been brought to Montreal and
will be exhibited there next week.
The pilots of Cincinnati have rendered
their services to the Federal Government tc
take gun boats or transportation vessels down
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers free of charge
The public accounts of Canada for the last
year exhibit deficit of $2,2S0,916 Among
the items peculiar to the year, is the expense
of receiving the Prince Of Wales, amounting
to $2O4,SS4.
Whether the Southern ports are blockaded
or not, England will not get much cotton from
there next year. Our exchanges in all the
seeded States mention that the farmers arr
blowing up their cotton and planting corn.
The yellow fever has made its appearance
in New Orleans Its appearance at this early
, day in the season is, doubtless, pretty surf
, indication Of a more than usually malignan
! form Of this dread destroyer.
VIM. Mace and wife, and an adopted son
: were all murdered at their home in Whining
ton, ILL.,, on the 18th of May, by robbers TIL
house was burned, and their mangled bodies
! were found lying in the yard
{ Gen. 10. Lane has met with an accident
He shot himself near his residence in Dougla
county, Oregon-the ball entering the lowe
part Of the breast and coming out at the shout
: der The wound is serious.
The Empire State is worthy Of her escutch
con, Excelsior. Sixty-two full regiment
$ have been offered and enrolled, besides man,
= odd companies. Over $4,000 men are enrolle,
in these regiments, and it will be perfect
easy to raise $4,000 more in the State.
+ An army officer, who had an intervie,
with Gen. Scott on Sunday last, states tina
, he was positively informed by him, that n
important attack upon the positions of tn
, enemy would be made until the fertilization
s. around Washington shall be entirely inishe
It and guns mounted. 10 ~ ID E ,e