Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-10-18
News Paragraphs.

Pensions are already being paid by the
Government to the families of soldiers who
fell at Manassas.
DR.. Russell, the London Times cores
pondent, it is said, receives salary of $25
600 and all his travelling expenses paid.
Recent Investigations show that there are
not and have not been any rebel Notifications
on the Potomac at any other place than Aqua
Greek.
According to statement made by Miss
Dix, ladies will best exhibit their patriotism
by knitting yarn stockings for the soldiers
The steamer E. NJ. Ryland, Missouri
river packet, was burned to the water edge,
at 81. Louis, on the evening of the Sth.-
Loss $l5, GOO.
Missouri is one of the largest States in
the Union. 1t contains 81, $3.50 square miles
OF territory, or 43, 200 acres, and has
one hundred and seven counties.
Letters haye recently been received in
Boston from tho South, which had been sent
to the British Provinces in vessels running
the blockade, and from there by mail.
James B. Clay, the renegade son Of "the
Sdt'dbC iidti Dco Jtuf CN NY IVY HOt
over sixteen! Although alone in a buggy,
he was armed with two double shot guns
and two navy revolvers! Bat the boy over
awed him, and he gave up without a shot
1t is stated that the receipts of specie from
abroad this year for breadstuffs, and other
articles of AMERICAN growth, amount to over
forty millions of dollars. The impo7tations
Of foreign fobrics have largely decreased, the
war forcing upon hitherto extravagant peo-
pie tho necessity of economy.
4 recent visitor at Fort Lafayette was
invited to see the legislature of Maryland at
dinner. They were seated in an apartment
at plain pine table. The food was bread
without butter, and coffee without milk.
Each man had tin cup, but no other table
service. The lack Of these elegancies great
ly annoys the gentlemen at the tort.
BY the upsetting of boat at Diamond
Cove, near Portland, Me-, last week, the fol-
lowing persons were drowned: Stephen
Morse, Rufus Hyde, Charles Hyde. Charles
Allen, Charles Buzzell and J. W. Ford.
One man named Goodhue, was saved. They
were on pleasure excursion.
The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the
New York Times writes that only enough
vessels to make the blockade of Hampton
Roads secure are at present at that point.
The remainder Of the fleet which crowded
those waters are off somewhere. They will
be heard from soon, We trust.
The Knickerbocker tells of the last dodge
for ''raising the wind" Some fellow in Bos-
ton adyertsas that he will send "a finely en-.
graved portrait Of George Washington, and
another of Benjamin Franklin, to any ad-
dress, for one dollar" The purchaser re-
ceives in due time three cent and one
cent postage stamp
Goodman Bates deliberately shot his
brother dead at Almont, Mich, few days
since. Jealousy was the probable cause of
the murder, as both young men had for some
time been paying their addresses to young
lady in the neighborhood, to whom the de-
ceased was married about two months ago.
The murderer gave himself up to an officer
and was lodged IN Jail.
The means of living in Washington are
pretty high-partly from the difficulty of
procuring gtransportation,-the railroad being
so occupied with the transportation oftroops
and army supplies-and partly because all
supplies from Virginia are cut off. The SOL
diers also buy largely from the Washington
market. Potatoes retail at 81 per bushel
best beef l5c per tb lamb at 121c; butter
Csc; -four $40 per bbl. wood about So per
cord and coal $6 to IS per ton.