Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-11-21
News ParaEraplhs.

The New York World, the pensioned or.
gan Of the Wood family, nominatss Fernando
for speaker of the next Congress. .fei ,aa
Mrs. President Lincoln has given two hun
dred dollars for the relief Of the suffering con.
trabands in and around Washington. .srr.
The flow of the Pennsylvania oil wells is
decreasing the daily product of the whole re,
gion being estimated at scarcely A. 900 barrels.
Oysters are said to be scarce this year in
Baltimore, the beds in Virginia being closed
by the war and o rise IN the price is antici-
pated. sTc7p5 .-Eal.-lll b "t., .
Gen Mitchelps last words were, II am
ready to go;" his last gesture was to point
to Heaven; his expression a smile of hope
and faith. 1f .7
The Ohio river is so low in most places
above Wheeling that it can be crossed on
foot by man and besst for distance Of nearly
hundred miles. ..e ,..a,
Emigration to this country is on the in
crease. The number of emigrants who arrived
at New York during October was 6,17l,
against 8, ,266 the same month last year.
The Vicksburg Whig says an extensive Sc
cret abolition society has been discovered in
Northern Texas. Its objects are to resist the
conscription law and cooperate with the
Federal army.
FIVE JUsT MEN IN SoDoM. The Richmond
Examiner enumerates five men in the North,
whom it compares to the five just men in
Sodom" Franklin Pierce, O. L. .Vallandig-
ham, Fernando Wood, Thos. and Horatio Sey.
mour. a- ,.tc7
The national capital is looking up. Six
theaters and two circusses are in full blast in
Washington, and the circus tents on Sunday
are used for religious services. II addition to
this a regular New England Thanksgiving
has been ordained for the first time by the
city government. -r
Gen. Sykes is the only officer Of note that
proposen to resign in congeluence of Gen
cClellan's removal. He is said to have ad-
vised the Regulars to lay down their arms,
but Gen. Mcclellan persuaded him to desist
If this is true, the War Department will, ol
course, promptly relieve Gen. Sykes. .
Prairie fires are causing much damage in
various parts of Kansas, by the destruction Of
crops, &c. A family of six persons was burned
to death or suffocated on the prairie, in An
derson County, on Tuesday last. mt
The Lafayette Qnd.) Courier says that q
little girl Lear that city swallowed brass
thimble, in the early part of last month, and
| is now gradually sinking under the effects Of
the poisonous metal, and has been given ur
to die,
A LEGACY FROM THE GovERNMENr-Medi
cal Director Abbot has issued an order direct
ing that such patients as have suffered ampu-
tation of the legs shall, as soon as able, be re
moved to St. Elizabeth Hospital, opposite the
navy yard, where they will be supplied with
artificial legs. '..'''
The Louisville Journal announces the arri
val in that city, in irons, of Lieut.. L. Wise, q
nephew of Henry A., arrested in Col. Shank's
camp, at Owensboro', KY, as a spy. HI
came into camp under pretense Of selling 8
horse. Letters, conclusivey his true
character, including one in cypher from his
uncle, were found on his person., .-.,
! A married woman of Michigan, whose hus
band is quite wealthy, is now under arress in
New York, for dressing in male apparel and
getting married to pretty girl whom she me-
on the cars and whose affections she won.-
The pair have been living to all outward ap
pearance as man and wife, and spending th.
money of the rich Michigandsr as though j
didn't cost anything. .yde "a
King Ohio, of Greece, abdicated his thrcn'
on the 25th of October, in favor of his broth
er. This measure was forced upon his Majes
Ety by revolution, which commenced il
Western Greece and spread rapidly, the rev
olutionists organized Provisional Govern
msnt in Patras, of which the statesman Mar
l ro~orfla IL President
The Columbus Crisis, Ohio, says the Re
lpublicans Of Iowa have gained their last vic
tory. That's what the tory sheets Of thi
State have been saying for the last eight years
4 Meanwhile, the Republican majority has in
!. creased from 10, 900 to $4,000. There is n
falling of this year. The srmy vote kind {
gets the Philistines.- Desmsoines Register.
Col. J. W. Bissers engineer regiment, whic
performed the famous exploit Of cutting
steamboat route through the woods aroun
, Island Ten, is to be raised to twelve comps
!, MES, with the full complement Of men IN
j officers authorized by recent order Of Il
war department Arrangements IRE to
made for enlisting men in any western Stat
It which win be duly credited with swhAtev
L number it furnishes.