Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-04-25

Rumors are afloat of the assassination Of
Col. Oorcoran. II 10 alleged to have taken
place ut Richmond. feaa'
General Scott returned to his home in Nix-
abeth, N. J., last week, and it is said he will
now make it his permanent residence.
Four new regiments of volunteers for the
Federal army are rapidly filing up in East
Tennessee. s,...s
! A. w. EASEL, an old resident of Boston,
died last week from the effects of q bite from
q rat which he incautiously stepped upon
while barefoot.
The nett cash receipts Of the Brownlow re-
eeption in Cincinnati were 81, l25, and in In
dianapolis, $500, of all which VAS promptly
paid over to the Parson.
Paul Henry, son Of wealthy merchant in
New York, has been mulcted in 50, 900 dam
ages for seducing servant girl in his fathers
house.
A telegraph Office has been opened at Pitts
burg Landing, Tenn. Charges on messages of
ten words or under 1920, aud % cents each
additional word.
John Brown, Jr., writes to some friend in
Canada, from Humboldt, Kansas, March 4th,
eve have thus far, a. . regiment, succeeded
in freeing 100 slaves belonging to rebels in
A letter from Crittsnden county, Vermont,
April 10th, says that sleighing and skating
were then better than at any other time this
winter. The snow was SO deep Is to cover
the fences, and hard enough to bear up the
heaviest teams.
1t is said that the present high price of tea
l. hxv 10 - =
consequence of the duty of 20 cents per pound
imposed by our Government. The rebellion
there is seriously affecting the tea districts,
and while this state of things continues, there
Is no prospect ola decrease in price,
The fall of Fort Pulaski is another illustra
ton of the inefficiency of the seaboard forti-
fcations which have been erected at vast cost
Brick and stone walls and easements are
speedily knocked in pieces by the tremendous
artillery now in service. We may have to
iron plate. our forts Is well as shipNn
Since the first of January the Union forces
have captured from the rebels five hundr ed
and ninety siege guns and field pieces. This
artillery would equip grand army, and when |
it is remembered what pains the rebels have |
had to procure these guns, the severity Of
the loss will b. fully apparent.
The great Peoria Qll. lawsuit, commenced
some eight or ten years ago, by James P.
darkness and others, against Isaac Under
hill, to recover some forty acres of land in |
that city, has at length been deci ed in favor |
Of Underhill, giving him full and quiet pos
session ofthe property, valued at quarter of
a million of dollars.
An alarming disease has broken out among |
the children at Hartland. Conn. 1t is in |
some respects . malign scarlet fever, and
children attacked by it die in three or four
hours, sometimes before physician can be |
obtained. Six children fell victims to it be-
tween Thursday and Sunday, and three moro
were sick with it on Monday.
The Navy Department has invited pro-
posals by mail or telegraph, up to the Goth
inst, for the buildi: of one or more up to |
four iron gunboats for the Mississippi river
and Gulf service, with two turrets on the plan |
of the Ericsson turrets, for eleven inch guns
the sides to be plated vi iron three inches
in thickness. The vessels must be not less |
than two hundred and twenty feet long, and |
So feet wide. Plans and specifications sent
with the proposals.