Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-05

oSSSAoIA VI IdS SOuIly SOOA.
i Yours, &C., WHIT.
Gen. Butler, it is said, proposes to order
draft in New Orleans to fill up his Regiments
The Missouri Senate is said to stand seven
teen Emancipationists and eleven Pro.slavery
men.
Seven boats loaded with troops arrived al
Cairo from Cincinnati on the oath. They
passed on down the river.
The Pope has sent magnificent string o.
beads to the Prince Imperial of France, wht
has begun learning his catechism.
Twelve pairs of boots containing twelve
bottles of whiskey, were taken from beneath
the clothes Of a female smuggler at Memphis
recently, just as she was passing into Dixie
Twenty Of the drafted men of Montour
county, Pennsylvania, absolutely refuse to
submit to the draft, and have so far defed the
efforts of the Marshal to induce them to
yield to the law.
Prices of boarding are higher in Washing
ton City than ever before. 1t is to be a
short session of Congress, and hotel and
boarding house keepers are disposed to i'm
prove the time.
There are large number of fugitive con-
trabands in st. Louis, and they are in such
destitute condition that the Mayor and
military authorities have been obliged to
adopt measures for their relief.
There is great activity on Governors Is-
land, and at ali the notifications in New
York harbor. Immense guns, ammunition,
&C., are collected, and preparations are in q
forward state to meet any probable emergency.
Six hundred horses stampeded from the
Government stables in the suburbs of Louis
vile one day last week. In breaking over
the fence twenty two were killed and the re
mainder escaped.
The Government has completed, or in pro-
cess of construction, fifty. one iron-clad mon
sters. They carry two hundred and fifty
eight guns. They vary from three hundred
to five thousand tons burden, the average
being about one thousand TONS
According to the reports in the Adjutant-
Generals Office, the number o! soldiers on the
sick list at the present time amounts to
nearly one-sixth of the entire army in the
service of the United States-namely, one
hundred and six thousand men.
The increase in the price of paper falls very
heavily on publishers, especially of news
papers. A journal the size Of the New York
dailes, which has circulation of 80, 900 cop
les day, loses not less than $3.50, 600 a year
by the recent rise alone, and papers of smaller
circulation and size lose in proportion.
1t is officially shown that on James river
"a, 1000 men were absent from McClellan's
army on leave, and 1000 without leave. This
reflects seriously on the discipline of that
army. An effort is now being made to stop
the desertions by enforcing the penalty and
by stopping the struggling which leads to
desertion.
The Eagle printing establishment at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the
22d inst. The building and contents were
entirely consumed. Platt & Schram's loss in
the Eagle office was about $4,000; Insured
for $500. G. M. Van Kleeck, owner of the
building and store underneath, $15, 900; !;
partially insured Mrs. A. s. Underwood 8
millinery store. 5000 insured, $4,000.
The war seems to stimulate rather than
retard railroad improvements. There are no
less than four railroads in progress in Penn
sylvania, forming connections with New
York and Philadelphia, and the West. The
struggle between the two cities is quite ami
mated, to see which shall command the
Western trade.
Mr.. Ten Brock, the American sportsman
in England, was recently swindled out of
$500 by betting that " reindeer" was spelled
reindeer" instead of "raindeer," the bet
to be decided by the clubs copy Of Johnson's
Dictionary. johnson is the only lexico-
grapher who has this bad spell, and Mr.. Ten
Breck's antagonist knew the fact when he
made the bet, for which he is to be turned
out of the club
A train on the Algiers Railload, near New
Orleans, was destroyed on the afternoon oi
the 7th, quarter of mile distant from the
Lafourche' station, by the explosion of thu
ammunition in a car behind the tender o
the locomotive. About twenty officers ani
privates were wounded, and the limbs o.
somersix or seven persons, supposed to have
been in the ammunition car about the tim,
of the explosion, were scattered in all direc
tions. According to the Delta eleven per
sons were killed by the accident and seven
j teen wounded. ~aF
}, Before the war broke out, 100000 per
, sons were supported in England by cotton
| &c, ,00O, 900 spindles employed IN the produc
ton of the yarn, and the capital absorbed ex
ceeded $3.50, 100000. Four-f Of the cot
, ton consumed in England-80O, 600, 90
; pounds-were American.
: It is stated that q large number of poo
women in Boston and vicinity are hired I
, make wooden shirts for soldiers at the pitts
be pittance of five cents apiece. They a
hired by contractors who get good prices OF
of the Government, and are growing rich OF
of the business.
~ Among the conditions Of sale by q
irish auctioneer, was the following" I'll
. highest bidder to be the purchaser, unle