Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-08-30
Iowa News.

loosa on Thursday the 9th Of Sept, next.
The next term of the Iowa State Uni
verslty will commence on Wednesday, the
10th day of September
The Gem City Telegraph is the title Of
new daily published at the Plaindealer Of
flee in Fl. Madison, edited by j. M. Casey
1t makes very fair appearance.
Solomon Goss, aged thirteen years, son
of Wesley Goss, residing two miles south.
west of Talleyrand, Keokuk county, was
drowned while bathing in Skunk river, on
Saturday evening the 18th, inst.
1.-THE Lyon Avengers is the name of the
second company of cavalry, raised in Iowa
City, by Capt. II. W. Love. The company
is now in Davenport
A monument to cost $500 is proposed to
be erected at Dubuque in honor of the volun-
teers from that place who fell at Springfield
Nearly the requisite amount has already been
subscribed.
WORTHY PRoMorIoN.-DanielM Sells, son
of Hon. E. Sells, Secretary of State, enlisted
as private in the I'd Regiment, but has since
been appointed Lieutenant in the U. S. Marine
corps.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
held its annual session in Iowa CITY last
week. About 100 Lodges were represented.
The membership in the State,a shown by the
Secretary's report is not far from $4,000,
and increasing. The next session of the
Grand Lodge vii! be held in Dubuque.
j. Gallagher ran away from Brooklyn,
Madison county, Iowa, lately, with his neigh
boris wife, Mrs Sarah A, Turner. The pair
were arrested aad brought back AS this is
the third time he has run off with other
mems wives, he is expected to be run to the
penitentary for awhile
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News Paragraphs.
Twenty-Five captured Virgnians were
taken to Columbus, Ohio, on the 18th.
Gen Mcclellan forb:ds the use of gray
uniforms the rebels Color This is done to
prevent cor fusion on the field.
1t is decided that hereafter female nurses
connected with the army are to receive forty
cents day and one ration.
great fools Of themselves in publishing
lengthy and dsgustingly minute reports Of
the movements Of Mrs. Lincoln, who is at
watering place near that city.
On the 9th ult a fire occurred at New
mans Cove, N. F., in the house of man
named Brown, who, with his son, was out
fishing, when, melancholy to relate, five of
his daughters were burned to death.
The Louisville Journal, showing the alb
surdity of the Southern story that thirty two
thousand hand cuffs were taken at the Bulls
Run rout from the Federal baggage wagons.
estimates that forty wagons would have beeu
required to haul them.
To those who have much to say of the
partizanship of the Administration, it may
be worth while to say that Gen. Wool, the
veteran who has been kept out of the service,
is one of the most Jealous Republicans in
the country. He is, indeed, a stout anti
slavery man.
DR.. T. E. Jones, who pretends to cure all
diseases by Divine power, was arrested at
Brooklyn, N. Y, few days since, and COM
PEELED to refund $75, which he had taken
from cripple, under pretense ofmaking him
sound man.
Both East and West there is no demand
for money, except what IS created by the war
wants of the Government The Banks ofthe
great money centres find employment for
their funds in Treasury note investments
and discounts OF paper growing out of con-
tracts for army supplies.
The immigration at New York this year.
falls short only about five thou and, compared
with last year. There is decrease in the
Irish immigration, but the Germans are COM
ing in pretty freely. They find they can
now buy farms cheap in the West, and many
of them enlist for the war.
Mr. John Shepherd arrived at Chicago, last
Tuesday with instructions from Gen. Ere
mont to employ 500 laboring men to work
with the spade for tie United States. La
borers will tc paid one dollar per day and
their expenses from Chicago to st. Louis ant
return will be betrayed by the Government.
There were three fires in New York city
on the 22d inst, by which 100000 worth Of
property in all, was destroyed, viz: Van
Hoo ks Mandatory on Bank street, $25.
900: Tortenbach, Wiskerman & Frygand's
drug warehouse, on West Broadway, $25.
900; and steam tow-boat, valued at $40,
600
At the examination of the case of the
SLAYER Brutus at Boston, Mr.. Milo r. Rob
bins, who was one Of the crew shipped to 60
on a whaling voyage, testified that the mum.
Der of slaves that were intended to be placed
on board the " Brutus" was probably about
7OO-that upwards of so of the slaves were
drowned in being conveyed from the shore
to the ship, and that over 100 were sutfocated
on the passage to Cuba, so that out of the
700 slaves they landed somewhere in the vi
cinty of 500-men, women and children.
| ANNOUN CEMENT.
! ME- EpIToR.--P Please announce the name of ZEPH-
ENIAH WASHBUEN a candidate for the Office OF
County Judge at the ensuing election subject to the
decision of the Republican Convention. FoTER.