Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-31

service has q more brilliant record, and tn
Govenmer is derelict in duty in not acknow
Lodging his services in proper form. D.
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/ News Paragraphs.
The "grape rot" has destroyed about hal
!, the grape crop in the region of Cincinnati.
Heavy frosts in Minnesota on the nights o
the 14th, 10Th and 10th inst, killed all, o.
nearly all, the corn. t'
| The Baltimore City Conncil have voted t.
expel from the schools all children who vii
not learn to sing the national airs.
| A cat in Hartford recently gave birth Il
five kittens, all of which were firmly connect
ed together. A curious concentration, surely
About 5000 negroes were found in Vicks
burg, of whom all the able-bodied men were
recruited for military service.
| The steamer Continental was the first boat
to load at St. Louis for New Orleans. She
left on Wednesday last, with Government
freight. y. ..'' .'7.-l. s. ~ti:~a
The Bloomington, No., branch of the
Western Bank, was on Monday night robbed
of $15, 900, by gang Of six scoundrels and
bushwhackers. II .r,.
About 200 negro sailors sought and receiv.
ed protection from the mob on British and
French ships of war at New York, and are
still on ship board. 1 .ra'e'7 e-I
There will be no agricultural State fair in
Wisconsin the present year. Such is the
decision of the committee of the Agricultural
Society. .'7..--'..-.
| The great Geo. W. L. Buckley, the reported
Originator of K. G. @. orders, has been taken
prisoner at New Albany and sent to Louis
l Official advices report .1iue thousand rebel
officers as prisoners now in our hands. This
presents rather formidable obstacle to jeff.
Davis system of retaliation.
The French are in possession of the City of
Mexico. and organizing new system of Gov
ernment. The Mexican army is broken up
into small divisions. .'H ~ .7.-'.rr
Gen. Grant, in the sixty days Vicks.
burg campaign, captured 1000 prisoners,
2S9 pieces of artillery, and over 100000, 900
worth of public property. .-s.-
There was splendid torch-light procession
in New Orleans when the news of the taking
of Vicksburg and Port Hudson reached that
city. ' 81 ..a. ''. ''' o. 19 %5 %
Brig. Gen. Mason Brayman, of Illinois, has
been appointed commander of drafted men, to
assemble at Camp Chase, Cincinnati. He
and his Staff are now in that city.
The Indianapolis Journal says the frost of
week before last did a vast deal of damage in
Indiana. One field of 70 acres of corn in Hen
bricks county was entirely destroyed.
The drafted men at Plattsburg, N. Y num-
bering 800, celebrated the ''election" by mus
ic, a procession, repeated cheers for the Presi-
dent, Provost Marshal, Gen. Meade and
others. Ed.
The draft in New York will shortly be re-
sumed, and backed by 5000 Federal troops
now in the city. The draft officers will exc
cute their duties to the letter. The mob must
submit, molsns volens.
Work has commenced on another bridge
across the Mississippi at Fort Smelling "a
bridge for one of the railroads. This will
make the fourth bridge for Minnesota over
the Mississippi. -.... -......
Gold has risen in Richmond to nine hun-
dollars per bushel. Those figures are great
deal more reliable than any other information
we have, as to the sinking condition of the
Confederacy. f'- !.
A burglar who broke into house at Eu-
cid Greek, Ohio, during the absence of the
family, and pocketed spoons and other prop
erty, in getting out of the window stepped on
an insecure cover Of a cistern, broke through
and was drowned.
Beecher refuses to preach on platform talk
in England; he says he did not 90 out on a
political mission, and so far from desiring to
influence public opinion in that country con.
corning America, he don't care anything
about it. Bully for Beecherl -- p.
Rev. Charles Beecher, brother of Henry
Ward Beecher, is on trial before an ecclesias-
tical council in Massachusetts, for heresy.--
He is charged with teaching the pre-existepce
Of man, that belief in the divinity of Christ
is not essential to salvation, and some peculiar
views Of the Divine sorrow. ~ r-.f
The rebels lately captured at Vicksburp.
and paroled by Grant, are said to bc utterly
demoralized. As they left that place without
arms, Pemberton had no means of enforcing
discipline. The result is said to be that a
proportion Of them have already deserted
and are ''making tracks, for their homes
with ell all possible speed. -..,.., ..-
Several steamers lying at the docks at
Memphis and Vicksburg are advertised to
leave for New Orleans, with freight and pas
sengers. The trade and commerce of the river
will be opened at once. oPost-masters have
been appointed for Vicksburg and Natchez,
and the mails will hencefortA be sent regular
ly between those places and the North.
The draft was interrupted at Lancaster, Pa,
by mob of women, who, armed with knives,
heavy spoons and other kitchen implements,
drove off the Provost Marshal and the boy |
turning the wheel upsetting the wheel and |
doing other damage, but destroying no pa.
pers The women were afterwards Joined by |
a large number of men and several fights oc-
cured, in one of which officer Baker was
severely beaten. The mob was finally dis |
persed by the Sheriff, with = posse of2o0
CoPPERHEADs HAVE NO OBJECTIONS TO Ne |
GRO SoLDIERs.-An incident occurred on |
Fourth street, yesterday, which we think de |
serves to be recorded naens0riam rel. A drafted |
copperhead hailed colored man whom he |
saw on the opposite side Of the street, and,
having crossed over, accosted him in the |
most familiar and endearing manner. Hei
grasped his hand firmly, and said. "Why.