Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-11-14

News Paragrapns. M
Postage currency is selling at eight per
cent premium in New York. This is IN d.
rect violation of the law. M
There are about $4,000 sick and wounded
soldiers in Ae hospitals in the United States.
Of these $4,000 are at the West.
Ohio citizens are ra' sing fund of$100, 900,
to be devoted to purchasing artificial limbs for
such Ohio soldiers as may need them.
Gen Burnside is native of Indiana. but
be was appointed to the army f'om Rhode
Island.
Our government has decided to pay its rep.
resentatives abroad in gold, in order to pre-
serve their credit. r..es
Cne hundred contrabands from Alabama
have been sent to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
whe'e they find employment.
Gen. Grant has given orders for the release
OF W. Il. lsham, correspondent OF the Chi
cuga Times, arrested some time since for
publishing false and inj 4rious statements.
The late Margaret Burr. Of New York, lef,
the sum Of $2SO,003, to be divided among
various religious and benevolent organlza-
tons.
At the Surry Theatre, london, a novelty
has been introduced in the form of looking
glass curtain, measuring one thousand square
feet.
A French giant. seven feet six inches high,
is now exhibiting himself in London When
his rms IRE extended his stretch measures
954 inches.
The Quincy Qls.) Whig announces that
Gen. Prentiss has been offered by Gen. Hal
leck the choice OF any brigade IN he service
The General will PROBABLY take one under
Rosecrans.
The export Of specie from January LIST to
November LIST of this year, amounts to $49,-
902.205. Same time last year, 1926, S52.
Same, in 1860, $4l,6ls,4l9. Same, 1859,
$64, 7Os, 1893.
A dwarf elephant, twenty years old and
only tn rtv inches high-a perfect Tom Thumb
Of the elephant tribe has just been added to
Wombelrs (now Edmond 81 menager IN
England. 1t was imported from Malacca
Both the commanding Generals in the late
Kentucky campaign have been ,uperseded.
Buell. is in retirement at indianapolis. ard
Bragg has not only been displaced by Joe
Johnston, but has been placed in confine.
ment.
Forty thousand bushels of salt, and the
works for making more, have been destroyed
by our troops at Goose Creek, in Clay county
Ky, at the request of the Union citizens
who were apprehensive lest the rebels Should
return and carry off all they wanted.
Attempts are being made to put altered
United States notes into circulation The fig
ures S., $40 or $50 are pasted over the one
dol ar denominations. A little caution in ex
aiming this kind of currency only is needed
to prevent imposition.
The wife oe William Ii. Perkins has recov
cred from the New Yosa Central Compan,
1000 da" ages for the death ofhe husband
winch occurred by the accident at Saquoi,
creek, in May, 1853 The case has been twice
tried in MOnrne county, the defense being
that Mr. Perkins was travelling on free pass
Blair's majority in the First Missouri Con
gressional District is 427 without he soldier.
vote, which will probably increase it to 1000
The Fifth District il still doubtful. Rol
Inns is elected in the ninth. and Hall in t.,
eighth. A majority of tho members of tn,
Legislature Will Undoubtedly favor emanci
patton.
james Weed Of Wnscatine. V. r. Beach Of
Independence. j. B. Greedy of Summit, and
P. S. Ward # Melville have received patent,
for recent Inventions; the frs for improve.
Tree and Plant rotector, the I'd for improved
Sugar Evaporator, The 3 for Improvement,
in Corn Planters, and the h for improve
mentS in Bee Hives -Desm0jnes Re0isfer.
President Lincoln, through his private
Secretfrv, replied to the deputation of color
ed me'a who had call-d upon him to express
their disappointment in the delsy Of their beins
sent. as promised, to Central America. tia,
he the President was as anxious as he ev
er vas for their departure, that he hal placed
ev cry thing in the ha IDS Of Senator Pomeroy,
Of Kansas, am that he could not now see the
despu,a,ion Of colored men, hut that he would
do SO in the course of few days.