Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

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Yhe city government of New York have
agreed to issue shinplasters to represent the
sum ofthree millions Of dollars.
Four millions dollars worth Of postage cur
rency has boon issued, leaving only $4,000
600 more to come out. ~ .-8ssA '~2s---
Mrs. Brinsmade, the secesh lady, about
whose detention in New York so much fuss
has been made, has returned to New Or
leans.
= The Union troops captured by rebels at
Huntsville, Tenn, have been paroled. A por-
ton Of those from Ohio have already arrived
at Cincinnati. t.s ...t...
Governor Morton, of Indiana, has written
an able petition to Congress, in favor of in
creasing the pay of private soldiers to $40
per month. 4 '
A sale Of IS, 900 bushels of Youghiogheny
coal was made on the 10th, at Cincinnati to
the Government by one of the dealers, at 16
cents per bushel. .r..f.,.s .i5assf
An old lady named Davis died in Jefferson
county, N. Y, November 2Sth, at the re.
markable age Of one hundred and fifteen.
A convention of those interested in the
growth and manufacture of sorghum in the
State of Ohio, will be held at Columbus, on
the 9th of January next.
The Now York Brother Jonathan of Ben.
jamin H. Day stops rather than pay the ad.
vanced price of paper, and recommends all
other weeklies to do the same until the agony
is over. 4..t...
The subscription for the Lancashire ope-
ratives reaches about 800, 900 in New York,
and yet the work Ia Just commenced. Alex
ander s. Stewart, the merchant prince, gives
100000.
Mr.. P. w. Boswell, of Parish Grove, Tippe-
cano county, Ind, last week, sold 300 head
Of cattle for $4,000. This is said to be the
largest sale Of cattle ever made by one man
in Indiana.
The efficiency of the blockade is shown by
the fact that five hundred and forty three
vessels have been seized by tho blockading
squadrons. worth, with their cargoes, forty
millions Of dollars.
The exhibit of the draft in Connecticut is a
sorry one. Of 1912 men drafted in that
State, only 76, and 142 substitutes, were
mustered in; and of these 81 deserted, leav-
ing 1877 as the net result Of draft of 1912
men. r.f .,.......' -s.
Tax Commissioner Boutwell, has decided, in
q case in New York, that when dealer OF
manufacturer removes his business from one
place to another he must take out new Ii
cense. This decision is commented upon as
rather queer.
The Navy Department is very nearly a
self supporting branch Of the Government
1t is said to have realized from seizures, dur.
ing the past year. about forty millions Of
dollars, whilst its expenditures are Sal ,000,.
900.
Gen. Butler is supporting at Government
expense 10000 white people, and 10000 col
ored people and tas nevertheless paid into
the Treasury three quarters Of million Of
dollars, the proceeds of confiscation of rebe
property. ....... ...-
The Treasury Department has decided thai
the measure of ton in making assessments
for the Internal Revenue, shall be two thous
and two hundred and forty pounds, in al
cases under the excise law, unless the con
trary is specified.
A son of Mrs. 1allman, Of Saltwater, MINI.
member OF TIE I'd Minnesota regiment, now
near Corinth, has been sentenced to be shot
for sleeping at his post AS he is only <
teen years of age, and as his mother is 0
widow, much sympathy is manifested in hi:
case.
Kentucky military negro hunting is about
at an end, if the fate of Col Henry be of any
effectiveness as warning. He stands dis,
missed from the service for his Infamous or.
ders in defiance of the previous orders from
the War Department and the President. touch
ing the rendition Of fugitive blacks.
The Secretary of the Interior gives the
present population of Washington at one hun
dred thousand. This is an increase of about
forty thousand since the spring in which the
rebellion broke out. The city does more than
twice the business it did then, and fortunes
are made there in a winter now, which few
years ago it would have taken years to accu.
mulate.
The Anglo-Afican announces that the
practice of ''calling" on New Years Day
among the colored people, is to be more gen
eral, on the coming LIST Of January, than in
any previous year. 1t says, lin view of its
being the birthday of our peoples liberty, it
IS proper that everything that can be done to
make gala day should be resortcd to. While
we will heartily sympathse with the millions
still suffering the horrors of slavery on that
day, we will rejoice that no longer on tb
side of their oppressors is Law
The bill introduced by Representariv,
Van Wyck proposes monthly additioa O
three dollars to privates and five to far riers
blacksmiths, musicians and non commission
ed officers. The law of 1851 adding two dol
lars per month applied only to pIivstes, bu
this bill applies that increase also to non
commissioned officers and others The SAM
gertleman's bill for the immediate compensa
ton for clothing lost in tho service provide!
for the payment of the same on the next pay
roll, making provisions for soldiers in hos
pitfalls and those discharged.
Iowa Ne VS.. 9 te
The official canvass of the votes of tn
Iowa soldiers foot up as follows Republican