Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-26

Gen. Schenck succeeds Gen. Wool in com.
mand Of tho Department Of Maryland.
They pay $3.50 for mink skins, at St. Paul,
Minnesota, calling them tho "American
Sable"
The majority report of the Commission
appointed to select q position for new navy
yard have recomm ended New London, Conn :,
as the best point.
McPheeters, of st. Louis, "political
preacher" of the rebel kind, has been ordered
| to leave the State of missouri within ten days,
for encouraging disloyalty in his church.
"Blessed Martyr!'
"Chopping Bees are getting very popular
throughout the country-that is, number Of
sturdy men get together on certain day and
chop winters supply of wood for the fami.
| les Of soldiers in the army.
The people Of New London, c., hung Sec.
rotary Welles in effigy because he recon.
mended Philadelphia as the best place for the
new Naval Depot. The New Londoners
hoped to secure it to their port.
A telegraphic cable 1880 feet long-part
Of the celebrated Atlantic cable-has been
laid across the Hudson river, about three
miles above West Point, to take the place of
the masts on which the wire have been
stretched heretofore at Butler Hill.
One of the best things the President ever
said was when he met Mcclellan after the
army got back into its old trenches. swell
General" he said, II have heard of people
being knocked into the middle of next week,
but we are the first people | ever knew who
were knocked into the middle of last wear. "
A Miss Webster, of Milwood, Ohio, while
sweeping, struck loaded gun, which, falling,
was discharged, and the contents entered her
stomach. She was alone in the house, and
lay in her own blood for seven hours, when
her brothers returned from school. Mex,
morning she died.
Colonel Kerrigan, the New York rowdy
member Of Congress, while openly denouncine
the President, at Washington, threatened IA
slap Gen. Rufus Kings face. The latter
replied that if he did h. would kill him
instantly, whereupoa the Colonel didn't slap
anybody's face!
FOurapersons, all members of one family,
were drowned at Somers, Conn.,, on Sunday
by breaking through the ice. A man by the
name Of Scantling was endeavoring to rescue
his three children, who had fallen into the
pond, as well as his children, was drowned
The children were all girls the oldest sixteen
years.
The government has contracted for twenty
thousand barrels of flour at St. Louis, al
prices ranging from $500 to SIS, IA per barrel
The bogus Oonfederacy Government have o
standing contract with the Richmond mills
for the same article at $40 per barrel, pay.
able in scrip" redeemable two years after
the close of the war. We are not sure but
the rebels get flour the cheapest, after all.
A case of abhorrent cruelty in Alabama is
exciting some attention. A reputable gray.
haired old planter from the northern part Of
the State had been sent to the filthy prison al
Little Rock, for his Union sentiments On
his incarceration he was charged to speak nc
word to any one. More than once he refused
to respond to the call of the jailor, not know.
ing if he was being tricked. For this offense
that poor, wretched man, whom fiends might
have pitied and devils wept over, was taken
out and whipped like common field hand for
contumacy.