Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-02-28
News Raragraplhs.

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An Emancipat OIL League has been orgar
lied in Kansas, to amsliorste the condltio
of fugitive slaves in that State. -.
Two thousand of the Fort Donelson pri,
oners have arrived at Indianapolis, and bee
made comfortable in Camp Morton.
Gen. Bcauregard was said to be in Colum
bus on the 2lst. 1t is not !, very likely tbs
he will stay there long. ...t.
The death Of Ex- Governor Pennington, q
New Jersey, wa caused by giving him eigh
grains Of morphine by mistake in place Q
quinine. t.t ftS' -.
The Wisconsin Senate refuses to concu
wi b tho Assembly in cxpunging the State
Rights resolution Of 1859, so the record can
not be corrected.
The RENEGADE Kentuckian, Ben Hardin
Helm, (relative Of Mrs. Lincolo), commanded
| the rear guard Of the rebels in their retrea
from Bowling Green, and tore up things gen
orally. ,.. -, -.
Rev. Mr.. Winters of Dayton. O., while Of
floating at burial service in that city, thu
other day, remarked that it was the three
thousandth funeral be had attended in 4
ministerial capacity. .te'
The Southern Commissioners have been
denied any space in thu Worlds Fair at Lon.
don, on the ground that the allotment Of q
place to them might be construed into an i'm.
piled recognition of the Confederacy.
Official intelligence by the last Havana
steamer renders it certain that the battle re.
ported to have been fought between the Mex.
leans and the >paniards, At the National
Bridge. is fiction. r.-. .ag
The d-nizens of Chicago arc obliged, for
want Of bett'r, to use water in which large
numbers of FISH have been decomposed.-
Even beasts hesitate to drink it. but the
people of that city have to use it or get
nOne.. -g-iJ-' ,.
Both Houses of the Legislature of Califor-
MIA have unanimously passed resolutions
protesting against the diecontinuancc of the
overland mail, and advocating the restors-
ton Of the Pony Express, and sending print
ed mail matter by sea. ;,..Ist. = -.
The noticeable omissions in the invitations
to Mrs. Lincoln's grand ball at the White
House were the French Secretary of Lega-
ton, and DR.. Russell, the noted correspond
ent of the London Times. : HIt to' .
The report of the death of j. Holbrook,
the mail agent and publ-herg of the o. S.
MaiI, is unfounded The Cincinnati Press
says: ''he was dispatched by the Chicago
Times installing HIM for his son. The son
died last week in Chicago, while the father
still lives the terror of depredators on the
mails" .. ....,
Th> P:oh~onI J;uoya.so- H.
question whether the colportsurs are doing
harm by circulating terrible tracts in the
rebel camp, and. on the eve of expected bat
ties, confronting the men with lutte pamph.
let's, entltled-"Are you ready to die p
Skinner, you are soon to be damned" &c.,
&c.
Congress having declined to make an ap-
to facilitate the arrangements of
the Executive Committee for the Worlds
Fair, including the charterng of . vessel to
carry to Tendon American products, as
by the President the Commits
sion are unable to proceed further in the
premises, aud on Frlds5 adjourned. Exhib-
TORS are, therefore, thrown entirely on their
own resources.
The high rates Of duties begin TO tell upon
the receipts at the New York custom house,
which arc said to be quite as large as in the
m ost prosperous times, ranging from$ l00, 900
to 5000, 900 daily, during the present year.
The articles imported are mainly necessaries
sugar, coffee and tea, for instance-and
immense quantities are placed in bond also
because of the large amount to be paid be
fore tho owners can obtain possession
woolens, and few cottons arri We
but the latter in very small quantities.
o. Jennings Wise, who died in arms
against his country, the tad son Of q bad
father, is the same who acted with such
blood thirsty malignity in the celebrated
iue! with the Hon. Sherrard Clemens, of
Wheeling, Va. Mr.. Clemens had excited the
of the Wise family by his daring
opposition to the 81; We tyrants in Eastern
Virginia. and, like the illustrious Broderick,
was marked out for sacrifice. After the first
ire, when Mr.. Clemens announced himself
the reply of the young whe!p was
to the effect that he had come for blood,
and be would have it. The result was the
of Clemens, which stretched him
On bed of suffering for more than year.
my aired his whole system, and made him
, cripple for life Clemens still lives, and
Wise sleeps the sleep that kAevs no waking.