Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-05-15
News Paragraphs.

1t IS estimated tnaC II Will require $ZO,.
100000 to pay the pension debts the next
year. ~
One of the six-pound oblong shells fired
into the vessel on which Gen Foster ran the
rebel blockade bore the mark of George H
Fox & Co., Boston manufacturers.
Two hundred and thirty seven lives arc
reported lost by the recent wreck of the
steamship Anglo Saxon at Cape Race. The
number of passengers and crew on board al
the time Of the disaster was AS. s.
John Heron, one of the most prominent
citizens of Pittsbarg, and father of Gen. Her
ron, died at Pittsburg on Friday last. The
General left Rolla on Friday last to attend
his fathers funeral f4" r-
Col. Baker, the Provost Marshal of Wash
ington, was offered $4,000 to permit certain
rebel prisoners to escape. He took portion
of the money and then arrested the rascals
who offered the bride.
Heber Kimball, the noted Mormon, ranking
next to Brigham Young, was killed on the
9th ult., with forty others, by the explosion
of the boiler of steamer in the barbor OF
San Pedro, California. .7 ... -.1
Gen. Mcneil, who recently administered
such drubbing to the rebels under Marina
duke, in Missouri, is the officer whom JEFF.
Davis was so DESTROYS TO hang, because of his
execution of ten guerrillas who had fallen
into his hands.
The Anglo Saxon makes the sixth vessel
Of the Montreal Company's line which has
been lost since the year 1857, and the twen-
l. or ~rh;oI hoe hoo I,o1
since the commencement of steam communi-
cation between America and Europe.
The French Academy have appointed a
committee to .'make report" from Votaire' s
heart, which was left by the great Frenchman,
with orders that it be not opened for one
hundred years after his death-sixteen years
still to run. -....
The small steamer Ada Hancock, employed
in conveying passengers from the wharf, at
San Pedro, CAL, to the steamer Senator,
which anchors in deep water five miles from
the landing, exploded her boiler on the 9th
,ult., killing forty out of sixty passengers, and
seven. s. -...-r af.r Ell "f F..
The Court martial at Cincinnati has con-
victed two men of recruiting for the rebels
within the Union lines, and they are to be
shot on the 18th of Nav, One man was
found guilty Of publicly declaring sympathy
with the rebellion, and sentenced to four
months hard labor; two others were fined
$500 eachfor aiding deserters to escape.
Among the curiosities of matrimony in
Philadelphia, it is recorded that while only
10 men were married under twenty years Of
age, SIG women were married who had not
reached that age. Nine men were married be-
tween 70 and 80 years Of age, and four women
between 60 aud 70. There were more we'd
dings (90D performed by the Methodist cler-
gymen than those of any other denomina-
ton. r .s..-,.:.F B. ID e. -. /
Morgantown, in Northwestern Virginia,
which the rebel raiders occupied, is the cap
ital of Monongahels county, situated on the
east bank of the Monongahela river, at the
head of steamboat naviga ton. It is about
twenty miles north of Paramount, on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, fifty miles east Of
the Ohio river, scarcely more than five miles
from the Pennsylvania border, and not over
fifty miles in straight line from the city Of
Pittsburg. t .oiocfe.s,s rf..eiI !