Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-09

legislator, and gallant soldier, is in the city,
having been ordered to report to the Adjutant
Generals office here. John P. Cook, ESQ,
of Davenport, is stopping at the National
LTNKENsALE.
News Para.rapas.
Over two thousand artillery and cavalry
horses have Just been contracted for by the
government, for the use of the army Of the
East, at $l13 head.
Mr.. Marvin, who was elected Speaker of
the Lower House Of the Missouri Legislature,
was one Of nine men in Henry county who
voted for Mr.. Lincoln for President
The receipts of cotton at Cincinnati are
now quit, large-some 1868 bales in few
days. The bales from Memphis were LAB,
and $50 came from Cairo.
An order has been received in Cincinnati for
the making Of one hundred and fifty pontoon
wagons for Gen. Rosecrans' department, to be
completed in two weeks.
Pierre Soule is still at Havana. BY the
terms Of his release he is not to 70 to New
Orleans until the war is over, unless allowed
ny the government.
Commissioner Boutwell, has received at his
office, since the tax law wen: into operation,
nearly six million and half dollars. This
does not include collectors receipts.
Ford's Theatre, at Washington, was burned
recently. Mr.. and Miss Richings ere play
ing there. They lost $4,000 worth of Miss
RS splendid wardrobe.
A terrible colliery explosion of fire damp
occurred on the 9Th ult., in the Edmunds'
Main Colliery, Warsbro' Dale. Barnsby, Eng.
land. Fifty-four miners were killed.
Numerous applications for letters of marquc
are made by merchants to the Government.
None can be granted without law of Con-
gress.
The Judges of Connecticut have decided
that the bill just passed by the State Assem-
bly,, allowing soldiers to vote at the spring
elections, is unconstitutional.
Defrees' report of the operations of the
Government printing establishment shows
saving in twenty months Of 100000 under
what tho same printing would have cost on
the old plan.
Among the odd things of the day, are thea
tres, negro minstrelsy, and all sorts of amuse-
ments, as rife as ever in Richmond, Nash
vile, Memphis, and all other centres of the
war.
A large quantity of lint and bandages,
done up in bundles and packages and con-
trbuted by the people Of Massachusetts, for
army hospithl purposes, has been sold for
paper rags in Dalton, Mass, by somebody"
The sum of $28, 100 lost in u gambling
hell in Washington, at the lovely game of
faro, by late United States paymaster, has
just been reco vered and paid to the Govern.
ment.
Gen. John Mcneil, whose shooting of rebel
guerrias at Palmyra, Mo, has been the sub.
ject of so much comment was presented with
a $500 sword by his friends In st. Louis on
Monday night.
The Federal army is officially reported at
1886 men that since the date of the
returns this number has been increased to
over 100000, and when the quotas are filled
up, will amount to over 100000.
In the new municipal legislature Of New
York city there will be but ons member of
the Union party. The Democrats have it all
their own way, and the New York journals
predict a saturnalia of robbery, corruption
and public plumber.
Illinois & Southern Iowa Railroad is the
name by which railroad, now wanting only
ten mics Of track to be laid to be finished, is
called, extending from Warsaw, Illinois, and
Keokuk, Iowa, through Carthage, the county
seat of Hancock county, to Clayton, station
on the line Of the Quincy & Toledo Railroad.
1t will probably be completed in few weeks
to Keokuk.
Senator Wilkinson's bill for the removal O
the several bands Of the Sioux Indians, as
signs them to a new reservation near the
Missouri river, sufficient to give 80 acres of
good agricultural land to each individual,
and approprates 500, 900 for their removal.
1t provides that the old reservations shall be
sold for the benefit of the tribe, and that indi-
viduals who sought to prevent tho recent mas
sacre shall be allowed to remain, and retain
100 acres each.
According to an q, ticle in the New York
Times, there are now eighteen United States
steamers in pursuit of the pirate Alabama.
Among the number are the Kearsage, the
Minnesota. the Vanderbilt, the San Jacinto,
the Canandagua. the Tuscarora, etc. Every
vessel of the eighteen is q match for the Ala
bama, SAGE in speed, and several of them are
able to overhaul her in q fair pull This
force, we hope, will sink her, or bring her in,
before many days.