Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-05-23
News Paragraphs.

There are 1000 sick soldiers in St. Louis
hospitals.
The capital of the Southern Confederacy
has been temporarily removed to Danville,
NC.
Billiard playing by minors is forbidden by a
new law of the Ohio Legislature, which wen,
into effect last week
Goldsmith Bailey, member of Congress
from the Worcester District of Massachu-
sets, has just died of consumption, at his
home in Worcester.
The rebels are placing distractions in James
River, twelve miles below Richmond. The
Monitor has assembled within twenty five miles
of Richmond.
Bets are being made that JEFF Davis will
turn up in Mexico within sixty days, throwing
himself upon the protection of the French
flag.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that the
production Of molasses in the West during the
coming season will be equal to the wants of
home consumption. ... ...
| Kidnappers are busy around Washington
They lie in wait around the bridges crossing
the Potomac, and carry off the negroes escap-
ing from Virginia and sell them.
Many Of the Maryland newspapers are be-
ginning to favor the acceptance of compen-
satory emancipation for Kidding their State
Of the evils of slavery.
A soldier being asked if he met with
much hospitality while in Dixie, replied that
| he could not have been treated more hospit.
ably, as he was in the hospital all the time.
The miscreant who placed the obstruc-
lla- evil
railroad, thereby causing the death of Prof.
Fletcher has been arrested and made full con-
fession. He will undoubtedly be hung.
The share Of prize money which accrues
to the Navy Del artment from the prizss
taken dnring the war amounts already to a
very large sum, sufficient to cover a large
part of the outlay of the department in pur-
chasing vessels for the blockading fleet.
Commodore Foote goes to Cleveland, Ohio
to recruit and give needed attention to his
wound. he will there be the guest of his
brother, John a. Foote, most estimable gen.
tleman and lawyer of eminence, who resides
in Cleveland.
A DR.. Raub formerly Of Davenport in this
State, but now of ST. Louis, is said to have in
vented locomotive of an entirely new con-
struction. 1t remedies all the acknowledged
defects of the engines now in use, and possess
es features which it IS said will revoutionize
railroading.
The unfinished monument to the memory
Of Mrs Washington, IN the vicinity of Freder-
cksburg, has been sbamelessly defaced by the !
rebel scldiery, who used it as target 1t is
covered with profane writings and obscene
caricatures ard scaled by bullets, some of |
which are buried in the marble. ~
Mrs. Mary G. Thome, the last surviving
witness of the execution of General Andre, |
died in New York on Saturday, at the age of |
3d. Her father was a quartermaster of the
Continental army, and was stationed in the
highlands when Andres capture and execu-
ton took place,
The rebel officers taken prisoners have been
set to work digging up the ,orpedoes at York
town, which they had themselves placed -
They groancd under their work, but the off
Ger on charge told them that the planting of
torpedoes was rot a case laid down in the
books of civilized warfare. Their next expo
rience will be in their own magazines.
The discomfort that exists among the rebel ,
forces was strikingly exemplified few days
SINCE The steamer Wyandauk, on recon-
noissance up one Of the tributaries of the Rap
oahannock, found 500 men who had deserted
rom the rebel batteries at Gloucester Point,
md were on their way to the national armies
o surrender themselves. By their request
he Captain of the steamer administered the
'ath of allegiance to the whole five hundred. b
New York has in the field one hundred and q
i've regiments of infantry, eleven of cavalry,
md five of artillery. Pennsylvania, which
las been pluming herself upon the largest
puet three s months men, only sixty EIGHT reg
ments of infantry, twelve of cavalry, and two
f artillery-thirtY.nin less than New York.
illinois now has sixty regiments of infantry,
hirteen of cavalry, and thirteen batteries of
rtillery.