Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-08-29
VOL. XIV---NO. 9.
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twenty degrees west of the north star.
Hon. j, n. Arnold, of Chicago, has been
re-nominated to represent the first district Of
Illinois in the next Congress-.
+ A brother of Mrs Abraham Lincoln, Capt.
liAleN.H. Todd, who was in the rebel army
was killed in the late fight at Baton Rouge
| 70 FIGHT WITH SEGEI-Dispatches have
been received at Cleveland, stating that the
10th, the German regiment from Northern
Ohio, has been assigned to Gen. Sigel's COM
| mand.
Mr.. Vosbrg, Of the firm of Pruyn & Vos-
burg, in Albany, procured substitutes for his
ladies insisted upon being represented in the
ranks. -'N 1fltl 81" s7.:.
Judge Joshua Allen member of Congress-
from the ninth Illinois District, was arrested
and taken to Cairo On the 18th, charged with
discouraging enlistments. Judge Duff, of
Marion county, Qll,) was also arrested on
| similar charge. ..
| The wife ofE. w Johnson, brother of the
rebel Gen. Joseph S. johnson, was arrested on
Saturday at her residence in St. LOUIS, fer
using gross and insulting language to the
provost guard while seaching her house for
concealed weapons. Her husband grew savage
over her arrest, and was sent to the military
prison likewise
Eight iron-clad ships, most of them Monitors,
are now n hand in New York city and vic n
ity. Two of these are very large vessels, and
will not be ready for some time; one of
the new Monitors will be ready in few days.
one is promised by the 1st of September, and
another in Capt. Ericsson's hands is to be
ready in thirty days.
Thos. P. Saunders, Of the Burnett House,
Cincinnati, on last week, called the large
corps of employees of the house together, and
making patriotic speech to them, urged them
to fall into the ranks and Join the army, at the
same time pledging himselfto supportthe moth.
arS, wives and families of the men in his employ
who would volunteer, III addition to this he
promised TO give every man half lis wages
while IN the service, and to restore him to his
situation when he returned That is one of
the most liberal offers we have heard of vet
>se--
How THE REBELS TREAT UNIoS PRISONERS,
The account received from Dr.. Moore, Of
the manner i'll which our prisoners have been
treated, is most revolving, in spite Of his con.
}asson that Col. Gibbs, Of the Forty second
North Carolina and the officers under him,
behaved like gentlemen and did what thty
could under the circumstances. At the air
iround of Lynchburg, where $500 were, not
long since confined, fvs ar sic died eyery dry
from sheer exhaustion. through insuf;.ient
food. But all they endured was as nothing
compared to the torments which those fiends
= the rebel leaders-are inf1icting upon the
officers of Gen. Pope, who have fallen into
their hands, some twenty-ciSht of them
These poor fellows are confined in close and
dark rooms, like common fe,ons, not allowed
70 buy anything to mitigate their sufferings.
even at the usual eXorbitant rates; allowed to
have no meats, nothing but an insufficient
supply OF bread (sour at that,) and water
poisoned with and by the filthy sewerage
which flows into the James river water-so
says my iniormant-that a dog Or hog would
reinse. In addition to these horrors, our
brave men are able at any moment to be
hanged by these monsters in human shape.
-A6a0 loTh Times Correspondence.
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Speech ~. A FIGuTING DEMoCaAT. Patrick
Ac1roarty, Esq, ,ot Cincinnati, made war
tPcech recently y at Springfield, Ohio. Mr.Mc-
droarty said "ile was an old line Democrat.
As Democrat nc had come TO Sprngtiell.to
ppeal 10 men to go to war in order to put
Town the rebellion. He would not discuss
sh=ther Fire Eaters or abotion:sts brought
N the war. Rebels were ia arms against the
Soyarnment. 1t US put down the rebellion.
md tnea settle political questions about it.
L di Int make any difference whether J J1shuas
K. Giddlngs. or jeff Davis, got up the rebeiI-
"n. here It is-we see who is 10 it, and we
must put it down. He appealed to the old
Dymorcats. Ii, void ask them Are YOU
going to see the Con >tltutlon upset and the
Union dissolved, because you think somebody
Up IN Ashtaoula county may 60 to Conaresss
II you are, you are just IS big traitor as
Jef DAVIS. Are you not going tv was ccanse
YOU think Lincoln may have y,7lated the
Constitution Who made you Judge ? lie
was ell ctcd pr per und,r the Constitution.
didn't vote for b m,-I wouldn't vote for
i'm now, but | am for putting doan the re-
e!lion. Now this IS the TACT. Arybody
Tho wort go to war lor the reasons that I
'uggg st, is afraid to risk it, or he is traitor.
All IN are either towards or traitors
inat's the whole of it. Is there aay ma,
acre can put his finger on any injury done to
he rights Of the South Not one, not even
I slaveho der. We old line Democrats were
tlways determined to maintain the rights of
N, South. We gave them moro than thcy
Scre entitled to. Now, then, why this re.
oelllon No. because Lincoln was elected.
.lor because Brec1 inrid- e wasn't, or Douglass
wasn't. Not a bit of it. 1t has been work.
ing for thirty yairs. But are twenty millions
If people to be whipped by six ~ e~must
naye more troops. We can't let this war 90
on one or two years. Men must come o. {
10 stop it. Ii they don't come Voluntarily
he Government will make them come, and is
ought to make them cone.''
FROZEN KINDNESS world is full ufkind.
ness that never was spoken, and that is uct
much better than no kindness at ALL The
lueI In the stove makes the room warm, but
here are great piles OF fallen Trees lying on
rocks on the tops Of hills where nobody can
get them; these do not make anybody wa.lp.
fot might freeze to death for want of wood
Ia plain sigh; OF these fallen trees, if you had
90 means of getting the wood home and me.
KING fire of it. just so in family; love
is what makes the parents and children, the
brothers and sisters, happy. Buff they take,
care nevel to say a word about ii, if they
keep 1t profound Secret, as if it were 8
crime. they will not DO much happier than if
there Vas not any love among them the house
will seem cold even in summer. and if you
live there YOU will envy the dog, when any
one calls him 'poor leI ow."-[ Ur. Holland.
MARRIAGE.-Who marries for love takes
VIII; i; who marres for convenience takes 2
stress who narriaS for cnpct5.r.t;