Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-11-14
News Paragraphs.

The draft in Michigan has been postponed
until the 1st of December.
A New Bedford paper states that eight
rebel steamers are reported atioat, whose
commanders declare their intention OF visit
ing some Northern port.
Gen. Wool assigns as reason for his re-
cent arrest of the citizens of Baltimore, that
they were circulating petitions among tht
soldiers for his removal.
Contractors to supply Grants army with
beef who reside in Cincinnati, furnish two
hundred cattle daily for The armies Of Fenres
see, Arkansas and Mississippi.
The Seventy. third Illinois Regiment con
tains twenty five Methodist clergymen, among
whom are Included the Colonel and seven q
the Captains.
The jamestown, Cha'auque county, New
York, Democrat says that over foot OF SNOW
fell there on Sunday week, causing great
damage to fruit and shade trees.
That great braggart, Gen. Hindman, Of
Arkansas, has fallen into disgrace, and is now
in prison at Little Rock. He is to be sent to
Richmond for trial. Albert Pike charges
him with all manner Of o1trases.
Late dispatches from Gen. Pope, at st
Paul. MINI state that of the Indians tried be-
fore the military commission, twenty ne have
been found guilty. Others are yet to be
tried. +''H
Yeamant has been elected Representative
to Congress from the FIRST Kentucky District.
In place Of Gen. James S. jackson, who re-
signed to ente. the army, and was killed at
Perryville.
Ffty.one business firms of Lafayette, Ind
publish a c,rd, pledging themselves not to
receive or coun enance individual shinplas
ters, as they 'open the door for the most vex
atious Fraud ...-q
The Liverpool papers make a great ado
over the enterprise Of the owners Of the ferry
boats on the Mers y. who have lust begun to
light their boats with gas The plan was
intr 'duced IN the New York ferry boats sew
eral years ago, 'f a,S1
Camp Latham, at Lincoln, Illinois, occupi-
ed by Col L.atham's 106th regiment, was
burned on Saturday night, destroying a
quantity Of arms, &c. Most of the troops
had gone home, leaving few companies, and
the rebel sympathizers thought it fine time
to dcst 'oy government property. sa5
Gold has always been the standard curren-
" in California. and an effort is being made
to keep it so. The bankers of San Francisco
have entered into an agreement not to re-
ceive "greenback" notes on deposit, and
those who i. sist on depositing paper funds
are marked on black list, with whom the
bankers will not trade if they can help it.
The Charleston papers claim that the bat
tie Of Pocctaligo wss second Secessionville
affair. They say that the rebel loss was only
twenty killed and sixty wounded, and that
their troops buried forty of the Northern
dead. The Georgia soldiers gathered quite
a stock Of over coats and other articles found
on the road. sfzasq ses ,.9z5 ESQ
There is on exhibition in Paris an instru-
,nent which initiates the human voice so as
to be mistaken for it. 1t represents female
seated, and the larynx is constructed on
the physiological principles Of construction.
The voice has the compass Of two octaves,
and sings any air with the tone ofa female
" The defenseS OF C0rnltn are OelnS Strength-
,ncd on an extensive scale. Over one hun
lred buildings on the line Of the Notifications,
now completed, have been appraised and
.orn down. The Seminary building is now
,sed as hospital, but will probably be de-
since It il in the range Of our guns.
The Tishomingo House, a very large building.
situated in the center Of the town, just beside
he railroad track, is to be converted into
,ospital, for which It IS well adapted.
IN Boston the operations Of the draft have
,een reduced ton perfect farce Every day,
sundays excepted-tAe commissioners meet I
t the State HOUSE. attended BY an individual !
,orn, b,,nd. who, under the snperysiop of
he Aforesaid commissionars, draws from the
yheel ons name, theUuaucky bearer Of which
y forced to iall ia a. q conscsipt. After that
! pes (ormsd the commission, adjourpsyr and
he 81 pl::pbers rest from their labors until the
day when Ahc same act is performed.
his has bees going on for the last two
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