Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-12
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| -Gen. Mcclellan has taken house in Ne
York city, and settled his family there
The territory Of Colorado is about to sen
her third regiment to the war. 10 .1a't e.
It is said there are million bales Of cotto
in Louisiana and Mississippi at the prsser
--'s'ssat.s -Etll 81 g.=.fal Aast ,9aa.ot e.
A dispatch from San Francisco says tn
Presidents Message was received there b
telegraph in eight hours from Chicago.
Mrs. Lincoln, on account of the death {
her son, last spring, will have no reception
at the White House this winter. sa.s
There is band of organized robbers o.
the roads leading from Memphis. On tn
2sth they robbed Elijah Brooks of $ll,O 900
Mr.. Lowe, of the balloon service, is abou
commencing series of aerial reconnaissance
from the bluffs, opposite fredericksburg.
Mrs. Lincoln returned to Washington OF
Thursday, after six weeks of pleasuring ant
shopping in the Northern Cities I'll T.
The great expedition of Gen Banks com
menced embafking at New York on the st
Its destination is unknown, but is general,
supposed to be South Carolina. 80.
Kerosene oil went up wonderfully in price
and now it is gong d wn again, and will no
bring over 60 cents in large lots. Nobody
but the spectators lnakes any objection.
A tall blast chimney at New Brunswick
N. j., while in proc IS of demolition OF
Thanksgiving Gay, fell to the ground ant
crushed two workmcn to death in the ruins
Their names were Van Most. and an 4 Marks
4 large land force and six gunboats lef
Helena on the 26th, it is conjectured, to e
up the Yazoo river as far as Sun Flower, te
make demonstration in the rear of Grant.
army. .qofsG ss,,rs
Two immense aColumbiads, weighing ID,
1872 pounds, are on their way to New York
and intended for one of the forts command
ing the harbor Of the city. Others are being
made for the same purpose. .' %
A slight shock of earthquake was felt a
st. Louis, Cairo and others places on the
Mississippi and Lower Ohio, about o CLOCK
on Sunday morning. Tho vibration wa.
from south to north, and lasted ten or ffteer
seconds. ''
1t requires thirty acres of painting t
cover the surface of the iron tabular bridge
at Montreal. All iron structures exposed lik,
that to the elements must, for their proper
preservation, be kept well covered with paint
requiring coat about every third year.
There is such gut Of silver coin in Cana
da that the banks will not receive it except a
2@3 per cent discount. 1t is not legal ten
der beyond $40. Postmasters are instructed
by recent order, not to take silver coin fo
money orders, excepting at bank rates.
The sons of Connecticut in New York CAV,
the several regiments Of Connecticut soldier.
in camp near New York grand Thanksgiv
ing dinner. 1t was composed cf 500 turkeys
berries, coffee and other ''6xins" in grea
abundance e p"
The Lexington (Ky.) Observer says tina
there is a widespread if not universal con
viction among the slaves of that region tina,
they are to be free on the approach of Jan
uary. The Louisville Journal has heard
from Lexington gentlemen, facts strongly
corroborating this statement. W "'
Mr.. Eli Thayer is again pushing his schem
for colon; zing Florida with loyal white pop
ulation. Gen. Hunter, who favors the plan
says that few thousand of stalwart emf
grants can take care of lorida. and that the,
will need no military protection, as they Cal
take care of themselves.
The Great Eastern lies off Long Island
aground and with hole on her port side
Her cargo has since been discharged, and re
pairs have been commenced, but their sue
cess is doubtful. In her present conditiol
the Great Eastern could not re-cross the AT
lantic. ''@
The table of mortality for 1860 gives tn
following proportion Of deaths New Eng
land, to every SO; Middle States, to ever,
88; Western States, to every 95; South
ern States, to every II. The total mortal
ity Of the country was ia .095, of which 81,
9lS were males and 80, TT females.
The Governor Of Wisconsin,, to remedy a
far as possible the cases of extreme hardshi
among the drafted men of that State, recog
nizes every commissioned officer whom h
appoints, as substitute for drafted man
and directs the commandant of corps to re
port those instances in which men have beel
drafted under circumstances particularly en-
titling them to relief laoF ala'..
On Friday night near Presidents Island
the steamer Black Hawk, from Memphis ap'
Helena, collided with the upward bound bot
White Cloud The Black Hawk was badl
damaged, and floated some distance and sunk
Three negroes were lost. The rest on boar
escaped. The boat was valued at $4,000
and is total loss to her owners. .a
The railroad bridge across the Ohio river a
Stubenville is being pushed forward wit
commendable energy, the stone piers for th
superstructure being now several feet abov
the water. This bridge is intended to con
meet the P. G. & @. R. R., with line acros
the Virginia Panhandle, and with the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad at Pittsburg, say
ing about forty miles travel.
A young lad of IL years, in Warren, Will
mixing potatoes in hot swill, fell into the ket
tie. Pulling himself from the boiling mas.
he crawled to the door and exclaimed to
little girl, ISIS, am burnt awfully; thros
some water on me-" He lived but seve
hours after the accident, bearing his sufe,
ings heroically.r h5a4 -e9
The late triple tragedy in Otis, Mass, wa
one Of the most fiendish outrages on record
A woman named Jones was grossly violate
aud then brutally murdered, as were also
couple Of her children, who were in the wood
with her, picking berries. The crimina
named james Calender, has been betraye
by his own son, and thaee is other strong ev
dence against hlm. VI q esyl 50 sgsl
A coroner's inquest has been held on tn
bodies of the six men who were killed by th
accident at the, draw bridge on the Bosto
and Maine Railroad. The verdict was tha
the engineer and the draw tender neglecte
their respective duties, The railroad CON
pany will have to pay large amount fe
damages to the families Of the deceased mer
A swindling concern at Lynn has bee
broken up. It pretended to do business ur
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