Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-07-18
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fifteen OF his officers for habitual drunkenness
Massachusetts is to raise $4,000 men, un.
der the new call.
The health of ex-President Van Buren, is
not improving, and very slight hopes are now
entertained of his recovery
Commodore Farragut, by order of General
Butler, confscated three thousand slaves
who are employed on the Vicksburg canal
The national tax bill will go into effect tn,
first day of August, and expire by limitation
in 1866.
The blockading squadron off the Soutf
| Carolina coast captur ed vessels valued, ir
the aggregate, at over $5,000,00O.
The greatest horse show ever known, ac-
cording to promise, is to be held at Chicago,
on the I'd of September next. Fifteen thou
sand dollars are offered in premiums.
The peripatetic government of Arkansas
has now gone to Hot Springs. When last
heard from it was on fatboat, being padded
up the river toward Fort Smith
The Governor of Wisconsin has ordered
the enlistment and immediate organization of
five regiments under the new levy The
Governor of Indiana has called for II new
regiments.
Nine additional regiments of volunteers are
called from Illinois. Twenty EIGHT regiments
in all will be called for to make up the quota
of Illinois for the new levy of 800, 900 men.
A wonderful. child has just died in Eng
land who, at the age of 10 years, 5 months,
quired coffin six feet long, two feet wide, and
seventeen inches deep
The Chicago Tribune states the rather sim
gular fact that over 800 of the secesh priso-
ners at Camp Douglas were enlisted into the
Irish Brigade on duty there, and left with it
for the seat of war.
Charles Anderson, the gallant Texas refu-
gee, has been appointed Colonel of the 90
Ohio regiment, organized under the late call
Of the Governor COL Anderson can use the
tongue, the pen and the sword equal to the
best in the Union cause.
Cotton is now coming forward to Cincin-
natl quite literally. Nearly every steamer
from Memphis and the Tennessee river brings
more or less of this article. The receipts for
the past week were 1920 bales, and for the
past month about q, COO
The Democratic State Convention of Penn
sylvania convened at Harrisburg on the 18th
inst, and nominated the following ticket -
Auditor General, Isaac Henker of Union coun-
ty; Surveyor General, James P. Barr, of Ale
ghany county.
The St. Louis Court House, which has
been in process of construction for several
years, is at length finished, at an aggregate
cost of $1,199,872. 1t is one of the finest
buildings in the Western country
Congress has passed bill doing away with
regimental bands. The regimental bands
will be mustered out of service in thirty days
unless they volunteer to join brigade bands.
This will effect saving of about SIS, 000,0 900
a year.
John W. Leech, well known centenarian
and a native of Maryland, recently died in
Washington, in the 102d year of his age
Most of his children are dead the oldest now
living is 60 years ofage. The third genera
ton of his descendants are nearly all adults.
The State Department, since the COM
mencement of the present month, has levied
Government fee of three dollars upon each
passport issued. This is in addition to the
charge which may be made by the Notary
for his service.
Liz COSC VI IdlSIIlS SOiulclS
State authorities varies very much. In
Michigan, 1000 men cost $21 900; in Iowa
900 men cost $22, 800; in New York, 1000
men cost $27, S35; in Illinois, 1000 men cost
$42, $685. in Wisconsin, 1000 men cost nearly
100000. There must have been cheap Of
plumber" in the latter State.
The proprietors of an oil refinery in Erie
county, Pa, are now using naptha, or ben
zine, as substitute for coal in heating their
furnaces. The naptha is introduced into the
furnaces by means of pipes, constantly feed
ing the fire by gentle flow, and keeping it
up to any heat that may be desired. Itsaves
the labor of two men,
Parson Brownlow is likely to have very
deserved success with his book. Sixty thou
sand copies have been sold already, and the
demand seems but just begun. One firm ii
Cincinnati has ordered 10000 copies. Thu
patriotic parson receives twenty-five cents fol-
each book sold, and if the sale reaches two
hundred thousand copies, as is expected, HI
will be enabled to establish, on firmer basi:
than ever, the old Knoxville Wing.
| Up to the present time this year $21, 75O, 0o(
in specie has left the United States for Europe
During the same time there has arrived a
the port of New York from California
11,255,O7O.