Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-04-25
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The number Of slaves in the District of
Columbia is about 5000.
/ The Mayor of Baltimore has had his salary
increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
The City Council Of Chicago has voted
SIC, 900 for the relief of tho wounded in the
late battle. a-..I ,...
y Gen. McClellan's department now compris-
es only the peninsula between the York aud
James rivers.
DR.. William Moffat, the celebrated ''patent
medicine" man, died at his residence in New
York city on the 18th inst
There are now $50 rebel prisoners in Fort
Delaware, near Philadelphia, chiefly those
captured at Winchester, by Gen. Shields.
.p On Thursday of last week 5Sl bales of con-
fiscated cotton were sold at auction in New
York, on account of the Government, realiz-
ing $S6,365.
Simon Strickland, the oldest Free Mason
in Philadelphia. died on the 10th inst. He was
about ninety years Of age, and attended the
funeral Of Washington. .o.a ..l4 ....
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, of n ew Jer.
sey, died on the 18th inst, aged II. He was
candidate for Vice President on the ticket
with Clay in 1874.
General Halleck is at Pittsburg Landing
busily engaged in reorganizng and preparing
| the army for another encounter. Gen. Grant
is reported to be under arrest.
A rebel prisoner named Riley, belonging
| to the 10th Tennessee, confined at Camp
Douglas, was shot dead while attempting te
escape on the night Of the l4th inst.
More than one half of the beautiful! village
of Cooperstown, N. Y, once the residence o.
the great novelist, Cooper, was burned on
the 10th inst Loss not less than 5000, 1000
The 9th Ohio, Col Moody, now in charge
of the rebel prisoners at Camp Chase, Colum
bus, and the 69th OHIO, Col. Lewis D. Camp
bell, are ordered to Nashville to strengthen
the hands of Gov. Andy johnson.
The convict Toole, who murdered the
Warden of the Wethers6eld, Conn.,, prison
says he did it in order to be hung. The
life imprisonment to which he was condemn.
ed had become insupportable to him.
Hon. Clara Mackay, the daughter ola Scotch
been recently committed suicide in London by
throwing herself from her bedroom window
forty feet from the ground. She was thirty
six years old, unmarried, and very wealthy
GEL. Hunter has divided his department. in.
to three districts, and has designated their
commands as follows: Gen. Benham, head.
quarters at Beaufort; Gen. Brsnnan, at or
near Key West; Gen. Arnold, at Fort Pick
ems.
At Ada, near Grand Rapids, Mich, last
Sunday night, Alexander NJ. johnson, hotel
keeper, was shot and instantly killed by his
wife. in return for his getting beastly drunk
and calling her bad names before bar-room
full Of people.
Young Misses are advised by the latets
fashions, that nets for the hair, those aids to
sloveliness, are disposed with altogether, and
the mass Of hair which has been gathered at
the back Of the neck, is neatly and tastefully
arranged in broad loops, braided low at the
There appears to have been some mistake
about the reported evacuation Of Pensacola.
The report from Fort Pckcns, via Havana,
now is that there are still five hundred
rebel troops there, bu. that Fort McRac has
been<abandoned, and that rebel fort on
Santa Rosa Island has been captured by the
Union troops. 100.