Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-06-05
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The plantations Of Jeff. Davis and Joe
johnson are within the Federal lines at
Vicksburg.
General Fremont, it is said has been elect
cd President of the Pacific Railroad, east.
ern division.
Gen. Hooker foots up the official returns of
the killed and wounded at the battle of Chan
cellorville at 5000, not including the missing.
An order has been officially promulgated
for the es.ablisbm emf of bureau in the War
Depa tment especially to attend to the or
ganization and of1ice,iug, &C., of colored
troops.
General Baron Dupin, who saved the life
OF Napoleon Bonaparte, at Schoenbrun, by
Selling the ERIN of the regcide Sahs, and who
fought in all the Napo.eonic campaigns, died
at Paris on the 9Th u't
Miss E. T. Greenfield, celebrated the world
over as the Black Swan, and one Of the mu-
steal prodigies of the age, is announced for
two grand concerts at Chicago the present
week.
| Union men ar c numerous in Northern Ceor-
gia, where they hold weekly meetings in
secret. There are also great many men
evading the conscript law by hiding in the
woods and mountains.
1t is estimated that the wool clippings in
! New Mexico this season will amount to nine
million pounds. The last legislature incor
porated a company, who propose to erect ex.
tensive WOODEN factories at Los Vegas.
In Washington, few nights ago, Mrs.
Hanning arose from her bed, hearing noise
|
awoke shortly afterward, and being on the
alert for burglars, mistook his wife for one,
fired at her, and inflicted a fatal wound.
Fitz John Porter, the defunct Major Gem
eral, is announced to address meeting Of
the Copperheads of Newark, N. j., called to
sympathize with Vallandngham. 1t is mete
that his first effort should be made as the
apologist for the most determined hater OF
the North. .t
The Denver, Colorado Neaos says that
never since the settlement OF that Territory
have so many ro5beries been committed as
during the past month or six weeks. Some
dozen persons have been shot in the past ten
days, aud no clue can be found to the perpe-
traitors of these ou.rages.
The commission Of agriculture at WASH
ington is receiving the first of the proposed
series of reports upon the condition and pros
poets of the growing crops. They are very
favorable 10 their statements, and indicate
that the present will be Il most bountiful
year in the products Of The soil.
Over 80 large packages of fine linen and
lint, contributed by the friends of the Union
along the Rhine, for the benefit of our sick
and wounded soldiers, arrived at New York
by steamship from Hamburg, few days
ago Some of the packages were of the size
of hogsheads, and all ere made up of the
best material This noble donation will
touch every Union heart, and warm it towards
all Germany. ta-.
The French Military Almanac for 1868
states that there are, at present, ten Marshals
of France Marshal Valiant figures at the
head of the list. His commission IS dated
December, 1851. Count Ornano is the last =;
he was appointed on the 2 Of August, 1861.
The number of Generals of divisions On the
general staff, maintained in the first section
as having been commanders.in-ch is ten.
Count Schramm is the first, and Count Pa
licoa the last.
The enlisting of negroes goes on briskly.
Already eleven regiments are full along the
Mississ ppi. Others are being organized in
Kentucky and Tennessee, while Massachu-
sets has just sent forward full regiment to
Hilton Head, (most of whom came from Can
ada, } and Adjutant Gen. Thomas, on his re-
turn to Washington, will Immediately proceed
to organize ten regiments in that vicinity.
This will save so much drafting of white
men.
A shocking case of hydrophobia occurred
in Cleveland, Ohio. on the 18th inst A
little boy attending public school, who had
been bitten by dog some time before, sud-
denly became mad and bit little girl in the
school,. He then ran out, frothing at the
mouth, and rushed into house near bv.
The family in the house were terribly fright
ened and fed, but the neighbors surrounded
the house. and secured the unfortunate boy,
who was at once placed under medical treat
ment. Up to last accounts he was still alive.
In an attempt recently to capture horse
thief at Kokoma, Ind, he turned upon his
pursuers and fired, MORALLY wounding two of
them. He was taken subsequently, and
lodged in Jail. On Thursday Of last week,
mob of three hundred citizens broke into the
Jail, seized the prisoner and hanged him upon
a scaff"ld erected in the public squares. The
mob were nearly two hours in breaking open
the jail. The Sheriff refused to give up the
key, and resisted all attempts to take it from
him by force. Joel Sutton, an accomplish,