Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-11-07
News RaraRrapils.

tenor.
JUDGE WOODWARD, of Muscatine, arrived
here yesterday. He is sojourning at the
Slavery House-Desmoines Register.
The Richmond Examiner quotes gold $50
per cent premium, and silver 900 and advanc-
ing.
Mrs. Mcclellan has closed her house III
Washington, and proceeded to join her hus
band at the headquarters Of the army.
Robert Hamilton, of Ohio, has left q bequest
Of five thousand dollars to the Jefferson Col
lege, Pennsylvania.
The exports from New York last week were
over five millions, an excess Of two millions
above the imports.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad,
m Wisconsin, will be opened to Green Bay
next week.
The great exhibition in London, of the in.
dustry of all nations, has proved, financially,
great failure. a
Gen. VIM. o. Butler, Democratic" cand-
date for Vice President ON the Cass ticket in
lS4S, has joined the rebels in kentucky.
The late Margaret Burr, of New York, left
| the sum of $230,O00, to be divided among
the various religious and benevolent organi-
| zatiors.
1t is understood that the Government will
order different and much better paper for
| the postal currency, as that now in use is
found to be totally inadequate for the purpose
An eminent surgeon says that soldiers in
the hospitals frequently die of inconsistencies !;
the feeling of desolation completely prostrates,
them.
The Office Of the Volunteer newspaper, at
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was destroyed by a
mob on the night of the Oath inst. The pa
per was slightly secesh.
"Gen. Sam JONES'" who is no other than
Stringfellow, of Kansas infamy, has been
placed, by the rebel authorities, in command
of the department of East Tennessee.
The report that Gen. Fremont has been as
signed to the command of new department
in the Southwest is probably premature, al
though such disposition is not unlikely.
Cotton in Kansas has ripened perfectly this
year, producing heavy crop Of good staple
upland cotton; and it was not grown by the
aid Of slave labor.
The Richmond Enquirer rejoices over the
elections in Ohio ard Indiana, az indications
that the Northwest is weary Of the war and
ready to sue for peace.
Supreme Court that the law of Congress pro.
hbiting the issue Of the so called "shinplas-
tiers in the several States, is not constitu-
tional.
During the seven days, from the l lth to the
18th OF October, four hundred and thirty -one
cases of yellow fever occurred in Wilmingt
N. c., of which one hundred and two proved
fatal.
THE Ironsiles, Galena, and other strong
boats, are still in Jares River, waiting for the
appearance of the new rebel iron clad now at
Richmond, but which is expected to ply our
fleet a visit soon.
The pontoon bridge across the Ohio at New
Albany has been removed by order of Gen.
Boyle, and the ferry boats are now plying
regularly, as heretofore between that city
ind Portland.
DRowNED.-William Paine FELL overheard
from the steamer Kate Kassel, and was drown
ed, last evening, below Keithsburg lie was
enlisted by Col. Belknap, at Keokuk, for the
18th Iowa Infantry Hawkeye,
4M.
An immense number Of music boys are be-
ing instructed at Governors Island, New
York, preparatory to active service as drum
mers and fifers in the army. They are from
fourteen to nineteen years Of age.
Some cowardly fellow who had their front
teeth pulled out to avoid draft-being I'M
able to bite cartidge-are to be put into the
artillery service, if drafted, according to an
order from the War Department.
The Legislature of Vermont has determined
to pay the nine months volunteers from that
State, 81 per month in addition to the Gov.
eminent pay. The three years troops all re-
ceive the same, making their entire pay go
per month.
TIE statement Of the Milwaukee Sentinel
that Madam Anna BISHOP, the Singer. had
been burned to death in St. Peal, is corrected
By the Milwaukee Wisconsin, which saws
The Mrs. Bishop who thus met her death was
not the cantatrice, but the wife Of the land
lord of the City Hotel at st. Paul.
The tax law will yield more revenue than
was anticipated. All the indications are that
way. In the Washington City district, for
example, the collector estimated chat he
should require three thousand licenses. but
he now finds that he requees fifteen thousand.
Some think the annual receipts likely to be
nearer $3.50, 900 900, than $150,OOO.O 900.
AN ERoL1TE-Strange Phenomenon.-A
correspondent writing from Hunterdon county,
New Jersey, says: "On Friday afternoon.
about o'clock, an @rolite passed over por-
tons of this county, moving from southwest
to northeast, and exploding with very heavy
report, which reverberatei over the hills and |
along the valleys for several seconds. The
light emitted by this strange visitant was