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

Six regiments have been raised in St. Louis
for the u S. Service
There are still 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 fugtives are at
Fl. Monroe now There are $4,000 U. 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
mand 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 to
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 $204,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 are
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, a pretty sure
indication Of more than usually malignant
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. The
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 Douglas
county, Oregon-the ball entering the lower
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 many
odd companies Over SO, 900 men are enrolled
in these regiments, and it will be perfect,
easy to raise 90, 900 more in the State.
An army officer, who had an interview
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
/. around Washington shall be entirely finishes
t and guns mounted. f-lo So no ga