Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-03-06
News Paragraphs.

The report Of the committee on the conduct
Of the war covers six thousand pages.
Tobacco sold in Louisville last week as high
as $50 per hul dred los
Tom Thumb and his wife are at their home
ia Bridg port, Ct.
Col. Ell ct, commander Of the gunboat Queen
of the West, is but 10 years ofage.
Nails have adv need four shillngs per key,
ard iron five dollars per ton, in New York.
Gen. B. NJ. Prentiss has been assigned to
the 'mmand of the Eastern District of Ar.
kansas. His headquarters will be at Helena
Refined kerosene oil is now selling at Pitts
burgh, wholesale, for 36 to 40 cents pcr gal
Ion, free from bond.
Since the establishment of Camp Douglas
six hundred aud forty bodies of rebel soldiers
have been buried in Pottei's Field ut Chicago,
Advices from the Straits of Mackinac, via
Green Bay, state there is no ice in the Straits
This being so, lake navig ton will open in a
few days.
The town of IIope6eld, opposite Memphis,
has been destroyed, by order of Gen. Hurl-
burt, for harboring guerl illas. Every house
vas burned.
The copper shoetips, now so extensively
used for children's shoes, are manufactured
a: Lewiston, Maine. Three million pair of
tips are turned out annually at the factory.
The immigration statistics of Canada show
the number of stockholders from the United
States who became frightened at the prospect
of draft, numbered l ,942.
Ice is being freighted from Lake Winneba-
so, near Fon du Lac, Wis, by railroad to Chi
cago, at the rate of twenty car loads per day
The distance is 1T miles, but the ice is
excellent.
Ninety members of Congress have signed
call for Convention to be held in Chicago
on the first Tuesday in June, in favor Of
Ship Canal from the Mississippi to the At
lantic seaboard.
A hospital steward at St. Louis, has been
arr ested for stealing articles sent to the hospi-
tai by the Sanitary Commission for gratuitous
distribution. A good beginning, which it
would be we'll to fellow up elsewhere.
Several of the wealthy rebels in Nashville
have been arrested and confined in the Peni.
Tertiary, a. hostages for the safe return with.
in the Federal lines of several Union prisoners
now held by the Confeds at Chattanooga.
A somewhat stirring meeting has been held
upon the slavery question at Everton, Eng.
land. The Liverpool friends of the rebels
mustered in considerable fore, but the resolu-
tons sympathizing with the North and eman-
cipation scere finally passed by cote Of tpo
to one. .
The high rate of foreign exchange contin-
ues to operate as serious drawback to for
eign travel The two steamers that sailed on
Saturday, from New York for Liverpool and
Bremen, had only fifty passengers, in the az
gregate.
Under an act recently passed by Congress,
the Circuits Of the United States Courts have
been so Gifted as to constitute the States of
Ohio and Michigan the Circuit of Judge
Swayne, who resides in Ohio and Indiana
and Illinois that of Judge Davis, who resides
in the latter.
At the large mandatory for preparing
dessica'ed foo' at Portland, Ma ne, the bust
ness consists Of drying and grind ing potatoes
and putting them up for preservation and
transportation 1t takes thirty three bushels
of the best potatoes to make che of this excel
lent subsistence.
A new s yle of dressing ladies' hair, called
frizzling it, prevails in New York, and so fun
ny does 1t look that gaping crowds stand at
the Church doors on Sunday to see the women
come out. We don't know how it is done,
but suppose the pretty things leave their HAIR
just as it is when they get up in the morning.
A new disease has lately been brought up
from the Potomsc Army. 1t is called Dry |
Gangrene The feet seem to decay, and, il
noe taken quite early. death ensues. It is
the disease comes from keeping the |
boots on week after week, as the soldiers are
very apt to do, whsn they have only shelter
tents and 20 fires.