Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-08-09
News Para:raDfls.


Citizens near Carthage Mo-, assert that
tue rsoels had 100 killed in the late fight,
and that 500 were buried in one trench.
Hon Thomas v. Marshall, the great ora.
tor OF Kentucky, was knocked down in Gin
c'nnasl recently, by sturdy blacksmith, for
rejoicing rather too freely over tho news
| rom Manassas.
The corn eropin some parts Of Western
New York, We learn from a letter. is likely
| TO prove failure this ye r. 1t is backward
IN ITS gov tn and dwarfed. There will not
oe halt Of an average crop.
Half million day is now produced at
ihe Philadelphia mint. Tho North Ame,i-
c"a says, 1.-The opel ativcs are king over
tIme to produce the sinews OF war in s. fl
aent Quantities The coinage is principally
!oub'e eagles. Large Quantities of money
are also berg coined for private account"
Notwithstanding t e blockade, Chicago
| .opesrs 10 bc doing a heavy grain trade.
During "a hours up to o'clock last Tues
day morning the receipts Of gram in that
market amounted to 45l 1867 bushels, and
shipments 10000 bushels.
The slaves who run away from their mas
ters IN Virginia, are set to work at once by
'eneral Butler, and made to keep at it,
much to their annoyance. One Of them hav-
ing been put to it rather strong, said:
'Go!ly. Massa Butler, dis n;gg, never had
TO work So hard before; guess dis chile will
,ccede once NOAH"
The ball which caused the death of Gen.
iarnett was from MIME musket, and the
wound produced is said to be most terrible
one, tearing the body like cannon ball.
the bali entered the middle of the back and
'ame out just above the breast, tearing
through two coats, vest and under cl thing.
All the Generals private effects were care
July preserved, and have been sent South
With his body.
On the last day Of July, band of rebels,
consisting Of about one thousand men, armed
with good rifles and shot guns, and having
with them two field pieces-a nine and six
oounder-surrOunded the town Of Edna, in
Ancx county, Missouri, where there we're
| several hundred Union men encamped, Ill
| OF whom were taken prisoners.
The Legislature of Tent essee has passed
| an act ''for the relief of volunteers" which
.uthorizes the Governor to impress into the
army all the free negroes Of that State, be-
tween the age Of fifteen and fifty years. be-
ng sound in mind and body. These "vo!.
unteers" are to perform such menial service
IN the camp as may be required, and to re-
ceive therefore regular ra.ions, with eight
dollars per month, as wages. .7..s
The statements of the inhumaDity of the
rebels to our wounded and dying are too
we'll authenticated to admit of doubt. Tho
surgeon of New York regiment SAYS hat
he had over hundred wounded placed I'm.
Ter the shade Of trees near house, which
| vas also filled with wounded. A company
| 0! the enemy approaching. he raised his sash,
| TO show that he was surgeon; but seeing
that they were about to fire notwithstanding,
ne sought cover. After the enemy had left
he returned to his wounded, and found ereru
n an Of them had been shot or bayoneted.
| On the 9Th of July Mrs. Emma Amelia
S OFT, the wife of rich merchant in New,
York city, eloped with Mr.. Newt IN
st. John, one of the fast young men that
abound in that metropolis The guilty pair
He'd with $500 belonging to the wife to st.
Paul. and thence down the Mississippi to st.
Louis. where they were detected, by means
Of photographs in possession of the police,
soon after they disembarked from the steam
| - AA'"h oIISO. Ot OOilii Wis put III IuO
calaboose, and Mrs. Scott, who is min, teen
years OF age and remarkably interesting in
appearance. vas taken to a private house to
.ema,n till her friends in New York come
sar her She s, ted that it was useless to
AXE her back to New York, as she was de.
trmned to live with the man with whom
he t,a. fed. - 'i@s M '-
! l,&uTAn TREATMENT or THE WOUNDED RY
THE RzsEls-Mr John IT, Morris, Color Ser
goant Company G, Second Regiment, N Y s.
, NJ reported as killed in the battle of Bulls
Ran, has written to his friends in this city,
stating that he hass arrived in Washington
| having only been slightly wounded. Refer.
ring to the barbarities Of the Rebels, he uses
the following language; 81
e :. 1t was sight which | never will forget
|! the dead and diving. ! am wounded in three
places and was left at the hospital for dead. but
got away by lying down in afield, making
: believe was dead They, The rebels, burned
= the. hospital and those that were not dead
5 they dragged through the hospital, and ran
: them through with bayoncts or c'ubbcd they,
e brains out with the butts OF their muskets. -
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