Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-10-11
News P0raSrapfis.

The whole number of Ohio regimen nts now
in the field, and organizing, is sixty-seven.
Parson Brownlow, the gallant Tennessee
editor, and his son, have been arrested, and
are confined in the rebel camp.
Mrs. Bloomer, Of pantsloon memory, is
editing payer st Rlchl,nd Centre, Iowa,
called the Zyuape.
Gov. Morgan of New York, has designated
Thursday, November 2sth, as Day of
Praise, Thanksgiving and Prayer.
There are five rehe! privateers tied up in
Charleston harbor, unable to get out. The
blockade is too close for, them.
Gen. McKinstry has been relieved of duty
in the st. Louis Department and ordered to
the Cumberland District in Kentucky.
DR.. Cummings who predicts of the end all
things earthly liz 1867, has, notwithstanding,
leased dwelling house for thirty years.
The Iissouri Democrat says St. Louis is
in no danger, as there are ten thousand sol.
diers the:e, aud fortiaoations in good order.
The ynicn ticket in Minnesota has been
| Withdrawn. This leaves straight Republi.
can and straight Democratic ticket IN the
field.
A tunnel is in process of construction un
der the bed of the river Indus, India. 1t is
to be 7,2l5 feet long, and lighted by gas.
The cost will not be less than 81 800, 900.
The rebels have robbed the State Insane
| Asylum of Missouri Of all its bedding and
blankets, and stripped the poor lunatics Of
their spare clothing.
A rotary breech- loading gun, the invention
/ of n r Raudnlp1, IF Su,spxGolJ ~ l..
been tested and proved to be Of effective SER
vice, firing from 40 to so shots per minute.
The Secretary of the Treasury in forms the
Bank Committee at New York, that he is
spending 81, 200, 900 daily, or SIS, 100000 a
week, in prosecuting the war.
The New Orleans Crescent of the 18th ult =,
m its &C numerical ca.umn, says: 1.-The pres
tige Of Carondoet street, is Que Of the things
that were. No cotton, no exchange, and no
shaving"
| Forti6ca.ions have been commenced in
Cincinnati. All laborers who offer them
selves are employed at Is cents day The
work is ordered by the Council Committee
under the direction of Gen. Mitchell, who
commands the Cincinnati Department.
The New York Herald confssses that, in
the matter Of recruiting, New York State is
behind Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and ac-
cuses Governor Morgan Of being in fault 1t
says New York should furnish 100, 900 men,
at least.
! Accounts from Northern India state that
the terrible scourge, Asist;c cholera, had
again broken out, and carried off large
number Of victims. In one place sixteen
were alta, ked il the morning, and of that
number only one was alive on the evening of
the same day.
| The suspension of specie payment by the
New Orleans banks. to which they were COM
PEELED by the Governor. in order 10 maintain
the credit o the Sl00, ,000,Oco Treasury notes
issued By the rebel government, has made
change terribly scarce in that city. The city
authorities fave issued small notes for five,
ten, and fifty c.nts, to surfly the place
Of change.
| The State Of Ohio has in store, within six
ty miles Of Cincinnati, over eighteen tons of
musket and cannon powder, of the very best
quality that can be manufactures. This is
being held for any emergency that may oc.
cur. The State authorities are making am.
ple preparations to secure the safety of the
cities and towns OF tie border, in case Of
threatened invasion. $50 acl. tyg 30, E