Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-05-23
News Paragraphs.

JEFF. Davis complains that the fall OF New
Orleans 'interferss with his plans
Kossuth has just lost his second daughter,
aged eighteen.
The travel to Europe is increasing. The
steamers of last week went out with every
berth engaged.
Rarey is tanning horses in Boston. At one
of his lectures last week he subdued the
evil propensities of half dozen pugnacious
beasts.
An extensive wool factory has just been
completed and put in operation in GAINESVILLE,
Wis. 1t is owned by F. A. Wheeler q
Jones.
The South Carolinians seem determined to
make Gen. Hunters proclamation effective.
They have published it in Charleston, Great
ing great excitement among the negroes.
The Sultan of Turkey attended q circus re-
Gently, and being sealed out" got into the
pit and made stump speech. The Sultan Is
progressing.
ONE firm in Sheffield produces every week
twenty tons of crinoline. 1t is estimated that
enough crinone has been manufactured in
that city to encircle the globe several times.
The smallpox is very prevalent in Con-
necticut. Upward Of fifty cases have occur
red in Willmantic, but only about half a dozen
have been fatal. t'l.
The Troy authorities acknowledge the re
CENT of about 81 900 from citizens of New
York. for the relief of the sufferers by the fire
of Saturday.
The Republican State Committee of New
York has adopted the Legislative Union ad-
dress, aud will merge its distinctive organl-
zation into the new party.
| A meeting was held in Hannibal, Mo-, on
the 10th which was attended by the most
influential citizens Of the place, including many
Shareholders. Strong resolutions in favor OF
emancipation were adopted.
A LETTER to q person in Brandon, from Ship
Island, says that Vermont private on guard
there fell sick one night and was taken to the
hospital, where the soldier gave birth to
child. The soldier and the young recruit are
doing well.
! Capt. Henry A. Durrivage of Boston, COM
handing the cavalry attached to Genera
Buffers column, fell overheard from one o.
the transports below Fort jackson, on the
night of April 23d, and was drowned. dc
was 50 years of age, and splendid officer.
| Secretary Seward has directed the U. s
Minister to Constantinople to demand redress
from the Sultan for the recent bloody murde
of American missionaries in Turkey, and tina
all American Consuls exercise the utmost ASST
DUTY in aiding the Turkish authorities to fer
ret out the murderers.
Gov. johnson is enforcing mis- proclamatlo
. in Tennessee. A Union soldier had bee
, fred on by a concealed foe, N Murfreesoort
I For this twelve Secessionists were arreste!
Including brother of Mrs. Ex-President Poll
; Two hundred loaded guns had been found
+ Murfreesboro. Gov. johnson will put ste
q to bushwhacking.
). The Nashville Union says that ex-Gover1
, or Neil s. Brown, well known formerly as
. leading politician, and for the last twel'
T. months as leading rebel of Tennessee, vi
arrested on Wednesday by order of Governt
johnson, on the charge of treason. He W
subsequently released on parole, for the pu
pose Of attending to some important priva
business.
= Congress last week passed an importa
ne bill, which not only provides for the educa
q of colored children IN the District of ColuI
L. bia, for which ten per cent. of the school fu
!, is set aside, but abolishing the "Black Code
= Thus is q series of cruel laws and munich
~ regulations which are now swept away, al
colored persons are henceforth to be plac
on legal level with whites, so far IS II
they are amenable to the same laws and
ldinances.
Between the 23d Of February-the .
on which Nashville surrendered-andt the II
of May, three thousand six hundred and
bales Of cotton were shipped from that city
Northern ports. There is large quaint
vet to be shipped, sufficient, it is said,
amount in the aggregate to nearly two milli'
of dollars. It i. rumored that Gov. John
will, by proclamation, forbid the burning
any more cotton, and affix strong penaNt!
IAN the crime.
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