Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-10-11

The Michigan State Fair held at Detroit
was failure.
The traitor, Jas. B. Clay, has been let to
bail by Judge Catron, at Louisville.
Two thousand seven hundred and fifty
men are now EN- p!oyed in the Brooklyn Navy
| Yard
| Colonel Colt, the revolver man." Of Hart
ford, has subscribed 100000 to the national
loan.
According to the best information, FIRE.
mont is able to concentrate 5000 men, with
100 pieces CT artillery.
A Spanish Gansepse, Ia Sonora Cubas, is
the rage in New York. She is described as
marvel Of ..Gdalas!an grace.
Bsauresard is no logger Commander-in-
| Chief of the rebel forces in front OF Washing.
ton. The chief command has been given to
General Joseph johnson.
There are now more than thirty thousand
| Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois troops in Ken
lucky. They are in greatest :orce at Padu-
cab, on the Louisville and Nashville Rail.
road, and at Camp Dick Robinson.
Southern troubles accumn ate. The last
news is that the price Of whiskey is going
up. In the vicinity Of FsirfaE it is held as
high as so per pint Chewing tobacco,
| too, is growing scarce and dear.
There are two Generals in Missouri who
answer to the name of Price One is General
Thomas L. Price, belonging to the Union
army, whose headquarters have been in JEFF
ferson City, and the othcs il General Sterling
Price, Of the rebel forces, who at last accounts
was retreating from Lexington.
The Southern papers are ed rnestly debat-
ing whether the provisional Government
shall not be continued uEs:i the war is over.
1t is agreed that Davis will be elected per-
mapent President if an election is had now,
and the project Of postponement seems to
come from some who would prefer another
man. l. iu
The lines of the opposing armies around
Washington are beginning to resume the
positions respectively held by them before
the battle of Bulls Run. Que troops have
made reson' .oiss. nee sixteen miles out on
the Alexandria turnpike without resistance,
or even meeting with any large force of the
rebels. r 1. .r1 t4
The New York World has arrived at the
conclusion that "the interests now imperiled
inthe Southwest are, in the eye of q states
man, far more important than the safety Of
Washington; upon which it remarks that
''t is almost appalling to think of the re-
sponsibility that now rests on General Free
mont" 5H
4 singular artillery battalion is now being
organized at Richmond, Indiana. 1t is to
consist of six hundred men, with one hun
bred e.snz-the guns to have the capacity of
CARRYING two pound ball two and a half
miles. A portion Of the guns required by
the battalion will be made in Richmond.
They will be of steel barrels, and Of very
superior workmanship.
Even in Charleston, according to a trust
worthy man who has just escaped thence,
there ar many true frieods of the Union.
They give no public utterance to their senti-
ments, but know each other, and privately
exchange their thoughts. If this be true of
the centre of secession fanaticism, what must
be the condition Of those communities which
were forced into treason? A
Colonel Mulligan is only 80 years old; was
born in Utica in 1880, his parents natives of
Ireland. He was taken to Chicago whsn q |
child by his widowed mother He was edu- |
Gated at the Catholic College, in Chicago, and
studied law in the Office of Hon. Isaac N. Ar
mold. has edited the Western Tablet, is six
feet three inches high, never drank q drop of
spirituous liquors, is fine scholar, good
speaker and writer, and had good law prac-
lice when the war broke out, when he at once
took the field as Colonel Of the Irish Brig