Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-16
News Paragraphs.
Substitutes for drafted men are quoted
Concord from $500 to 1926.


Concord from $45O to 1926.
The 25th of October if fixed for the com.
mencement Of the draft in Wisconsin,
Fom Thumb retires upon a quarter of q
million. 1t IS sometimes easier to make a
fortune by litleness than by greatness.
The coal diggers at Wheeling, Virginia,
are not content with making four dollars per
day, and are on o strike for seven.
Anna Dickinson, the pretty Quaker orator,
is speaking every night for the Republican
cause in Pennsylvania.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has re-
turned to England from the Continent His
numerous admirers will be glad to know that
he is so far on his homeward way.
Kossuth lives near Turin poor and wan,
and his wife in consumption. GaribaiGi is
on his island farm at Caprera, lame but
cheerful, with an income of 5000.
There was an explosion on the Upper Mis-
Winona, Minnesota A deck hand was killed
and several other persons were injured.
An association has been formed at St. Louis
for the purpose Of creating Fruit Park of
one thousand acres, near St. Louis. The
Park is to be stocked with lruit trees and
vines.
There was new style of hoops on exhibi-
ton at the Indiana State Fair. 1t was orna-
mented around the bottom with lead sinkers.
The exhibitor said the object was to keep the
balmorals down On windy days,
1t is calculated that the rebels lose one
hundred slaves per day, who are valued at
100000. At the same rate of loss, the Sc
cesh, in one year, would be out of pocket
$50 500, 900 in the value of human chattels
alone.
Three more negroes concerned in the
Beckham murder were hung at Columbus,
KY, on Friday last. The other three will be
imprisoned in Nashville for five years, and
one for one year. The latter tried to persuade
the rest from committing the deed.
Nevada Territory will be sufficient to pay a
national debt $40, ,000, 900, 900, to give every
returning soldier musket of silver and to
furnish all our iron cads with plating Of
silver thicker than their present covering Of
iron.
On the l4th Of August great fire occurred
at Monastir, Turkey, when 1900 shops, 2IO
houses, 40 khams, 3 mosques, 6 synagogu,s
and other property was destroyed, all of the
value of two million an half of dollars
More than SIX hundred Jewish families have
been rendered houseless by this calamity.
Hon. JOAN Minor Bolts is now within the
lines Of the Army of the Potomac. Ills resi-
dence is near Brandy Station. 1t will he
remembered that Mr.. Bolts has been long
confined in prison at Richmond for his de-
votlon to the Union. lie is now under parole
to the rebel Government rot to communicate t.
information TO our commanders.
Charles N Derby, Of the firm of Derby &
Day, wholesale liquor merchants of Chicago,
fell through the hatchway in the fourth story
of This establishment falling upon some arrcls.
and was instantly killed. He was intoxicated
at the time and in company with lewd
woman. This sad and shameful affair oc-
Cured on the night of the 9Th inst.
Blondn almost killed himself in Seville,
Spain, recently. While on his rope during
an exhibition in that city, with fireworks on
his head, he found himself burning, and in
trying to relieve himself he slipped and fell,
but luckily caug ght one foot on the rope, and
with the utmost grace saved his brains from
being dashed out.
The 101st Ohio went into the battle of
Chicamauga 400 strong, and came out with
but 80. Company of that regiment came
out with two men. The 35th Ohio went in
with nearly 700, and came out with less than
200. The proportion of killed to wounded
Is smaller than usual, partly because buck
shot were used by the rebels.
The following is an accurate statement, in
round numbers, of the business of the Pension
Office: Invalid application to date, thirty
thousand widows app ications, thirty thous-
and; number of certificates of disability
received from Surgeon Generals Office, two
hundred and fifty thousand. They are still
coming in at the rate of three hundred
day.
Brigadier General Helm (rebcD, who was
killed at Ohicamauga was the husband of
half-sister of Mrs. Lincoln, and a sister of
Alexander Todd, who was killed at Baton
Rouge 1t will also be remembered that
Lieutenant Todd, who was killed at Shiloh,
was his brother in-iaw. Another b, other of
Mrs Lincoln, Lieutenant Todd, was captured
at Vicksburg
The sad and startling intelligence has
reached St. Paul that Cspt. Fisk's overland
expedition to Idato has been massacred by
Sioux Indians. The news was brought by
half breeds to Pcmbina. Nothing definite
is given as to the time or locality of the
massacre, evcept that it was on the Big Bend
of the Missouri. The expedition numbered
about 100 persons.
The Washington Cd. C.) Republican an
nounces formally that there will be another
draft in that district under the old enrolment
The Republican says it is supposed that in
due time the President will order second
draft in all the districts which have not filled
their quota and none have done it, and few
have come so near it as the Washington dis
trict.
The trial of Mr.. Yocum, formerly Superin-
tendent of contrabands at Cairo, for selling
negroes into slavery. is set for the Goth Of
October. A Cairo dispatch says that rich
developments are promised, that will implicate
others equally guilty, am ,ng them Chaplain
Rodgers, now lecturing in the North, depict
, ing the sorrows of the poor Africans and So
liciting aims for their relief.
A woman residing in Peoria, I'll by the name
of Crowley, on Sunday week beat her own
child on the head so seriously as to cause
almost instant death. A few days previously
she had broken an arm IF another child with
dray pin. At another time she caught one
of her children by the nose and twisted it
until she fiactured the bone while throwing
them over fences, or running after them with
a pitchfork or an ak, was daily amusement.
The boiler of the large building known as
the Swartz Iron Works, in Buffalo, exploded
on the 26th nit tnmh]ino nearlv one.half of