Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-06-20

of the company starts for the East this week
to purchase the iron, which will be laid as far
~ Monona this fall.
News ParaSraphs.
Large quantities of cotton, sugar and mo.
lasses are coming up the river frem Memphis.
Col. Elicit, of Mississippi ram fame, built
the suspension bridge at Wheeling
Soloman Sturgs, one of the weal;hiest
men of Chicago, has been adjudged insane
by the courts and relieved OF attending to
any Of his business interests.
Dispatches to the Richmond papers
state that Gov. johnson and Gen. Butler have
been assassinated. Of course these are but
idle rumors.
Parson Brownlow has been summoned
to Washington AZ witness in the case Of
West H. Humphreys, now under indictment
for treason.
Antioch Collcgs, at Yellow Springs, Ohio,
is to be closed after the 26th inst. Cause
want of an endowment fund and falling off in
the number Of students, on account of tho
war.
Cross Keys, the scene of the late battle
between Fremont's command and the reb,el
forces under Jackson, is = road crossI. o in
Rockingham county, Va, about siZ. miles
south of Harrisonburgh.
Several members of the Socie'. ~ If Fr;enda
hare been recently drafted IN North Caro-.
lima, but were finally reb ..sed on the nav.
ment of one hundred doll,rs Zach. wh;ch
sum renders them fr' a of military dutv for
one year.
The house of Anthony Stanton, about
seven rifles eH.t of Kankakee, Illinois, was
ouI,led to th', ground on Sunday last with
oil its contents, and sad to relate, his three
small chldfsn were burned to ashes, and his
wife and sister were badly burned. The lat
ter Is net expected to recover.
A report from Charleston states that the
rebels are supposed to have 10000 men there,
having been largely REINFORCED from Beaure-
gN:ds army. Our troops hold James Island,
but do not deem it best to make an attack
until their numbers are strengthened.
The Washington secesh started painful
rumor that the Monitor had been captured.
That vessel is known to be safe, but crab
schooner of the same name was captured by
our fleet; hence the story of the imaginative
traitors.
4 breach of promise case, which has ex-
cited much interest in Middlebury, Vt, in
which Miss Ross, aged forty six, sued Mr..
Norton, aged fifty six, for $4,000 damages,
has just been decided by the jury giving the
fair plaintiff damages in the sum of $40.
Many of the rounded hillocks by the road.
side in the vicinity of Corinth, supposed to
have contained the bodies of buried rebels.
have been discovered to be receptacles Of
guns and ammunition. Our forces have dig
covered fifteen pieces of artillery and large
numbers of small arms thus ingeniously
concealed.
Calhoun Benham of Kentucky, it will be
remembered, was arrested with Senator Gwip
just after the two arrived at New York from
California. Benham was afterward released.
and was one Of Boauregard's aids at the
battle of Shiloh. The Louisville journal.
however, says he broke no parole in Joining
the rebel army. but was let free uncondition-
ally.
The papers from the Pennsylvania oil re.
giops represent the present rates as too low
| to pay for mining or operating. Business
is dull, and producers are holding back for
more relnunsrativs prices Many of the
largest wells have ceased to flow entirely,
and the summer production will be light.
Luz PeOpic VI lHe SncuanOOa0 aLlesE are
having realizing sense of the vicissitades Of
war. First ito occupation by the rebels.
Then its occupation by Gen. Banks. Then.
the retreat Of the latter and its re- possession
by Jackson and his tatterdemallions. and,
finally the summary expulsion of the latter
and tho resumption of Federal authority.
At the Washington navy yard 1900 work.
men are now employed repairing vessels and.
manufacturing every descript on of ordnance.
At the Columbia armory 800 women are en-
ployed in the preparation of carrridges of
which 100000 are manufactured per day.
A large force is also engaged at the arsenal:
fitting out batteries, siege guns and naval
ordnance, and preparing fixed ammunition.
for them.
Paymaster Wise of the western gunboat.
fotills, publishes card in the western papers,,
in which he says:-'I have paid the whole.
expense of the fotilla from the first, and in
Guiding the cost OF the gunboats, their equip
ment, the purchase of several large steamers,
pay OF officers and men and the accumulation
OF vast amount of material got together in
hurry, end with al the disadvantages o.
forming navy in the far West, our wh u.
expenses do not thus far cover So, 600 oon
and we have hardly debt upaid. ,,ooo'
penses are now about $3.50, 600 pe W., .th
making S., 600 per day. "a 'n''''"'
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