Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-06-26
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Two full regiments of loyal men have bee
raised in Arkansas, and third is now form
ing. ..r-.s .,s s.. r,s.
The Missouri Legislature has ordered a
equestrian portrait of Gen. Lyon to be place
in the capitol ! i..
Gold at Richmond is quoted from 500 t
800 per cent. premium for Confederate
currency.
The report as to the resistance of the dral
in Berks county, Pennsylvania, and resigns
ton of the enrolling officer, is contradicted.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that donations received by clergy
men and marriage and other fees are taxabl
under the revenue law.
E. 7. Hall is to start from New York, OF
his new Art'c expedition, early in July. Sh:l
builders and enterprising rich men are fittinl
him out in good shape. .. ..
The crops in the vicinity of New York ar
suffering somewhat for the want of rain. Th
fruit prospects are not very encouraging, tn
curculio being abundant in many places
'The oldest inhabtant" of Ann Arbor
Michigan, Mr.. John Hangin, died on the 3Otl
of May, at the remarkable age OF one hun
dred and 10 years. ..
Mrs. Arnold, nearly seventy years o
age, committed suicide at Mt Sterling, ILL.,, /.
few days since, because her son had enlisted
in the army. -si.
| There is great amount of Governr en
cotton at and below Memphis. Twelve
thousand bales will be taken to St, Loui.
and sold at auction.
Parson Brownlow is now enstalled at Nash
vile as Special Agent of the treasury Depart
ment, for the suppression of smuggling and
the collection of customs.
Gef rgc S. Hutchinson, of Gardiner, Maine
who was tried by court martial at Augusta
has been sentenced to be shot, having been
proved guilty of five desertions. He has two
wives living, one of whom he deserted before
the war.
The farmers of Southern Illinois com.
menced cutting their wheat crop last week.
1t is reported to be good, and the yield will
be abundant Some good can come out Of
that Egypt" it seems.
The well known E. T. c. Judson ("Ned
| Buntlino'') a private in the 1st New York
Mounted Rifles, Col. Onderdonk, has been
sentenced to two months Imprisonment al
Fort Norfolk, Virginia, for the crime ot
deserton.
Stewart, the great New York dry goods
dealer, Is reported to have lost two million
dollars by the late heavy fall in cotton goods
he bad bought heavily and got stuck. In
one day shirtings and sheetings were marked
down at his counter from 4Oc to 28c a ward
| But he can stand it. e'i
! A man lately in France, tried twice to
commit suicide, In order to exempt his son.
who would then have been left as the sole
support of widow from the army conscrip
tion. A happy suggestion. Pity some OF
the copperhead parents in this country don't
follow the example. .....
Mrs. Matte Patterson, who was arrested at
Murfreesboro on charge ofcarrying on trea
sonable correspondence with the enemy, was
found guilty and sentenced to Imprisonment
in the penitentiary at Jeffersonvile, for life
Gen. Rosecrans commutes her sentence to
three years close confinement.
Prof Whitney, the State Geologist of Cali
fornia, found among the Sierra Neyadas
about 1000 feet above the level of the ocean
an almost perfect jaw of a rhinoceros. Huge
petrifed oyster shells were also found amone
the mountains of the interior, and at greal
| elevation
Billy Wilson's Zouaves, who have been
doing the State some service down at For
Plckins, and in General Banks Department
during the past two years, arrived in New
York last week. The regiment comes back
| two hundred and fifty men less than it had
VIXEN it left New York. -.
The State of New Jersey is ten thousand
men short of her quota under the last two
calls of the President In this connection i
| may be well to add an explanatory cause, to
wit: New Jersey has more malignant anG
blathering copperheads politicians than any
other State Of its size in the North.
| At Terre Haute, Indiana, copperheai
virago attacked Mr.. B. NJ. Harrison, who was
making the enrolment, scaldng him witt
boiling oil and water, so that his life is de
paired Of The City Marshal attempted te
arrest her for the assault, when she strucl
the Marshal with hot poker, injuring hin
severely. 4afs sa 49,
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
always taking deep interest in the improve
ment of the country, have offered specia
premiums as follows, the award to be mad
at Decatur, nls., trial this fall: For /;
ditcher that will cut ditch two feet deel
and five feet in width, $3.50; for corn cut
ter and stacker, $3.50. These premiums vii
oe awarded only in case of successful trial.
Wash Hanna, acopperhead of Liberty, Ind.
il undoubtedly great coward and sneak
He was arrested for resisting an enrollin,
officer. When brought before Commissioner
he blubbered like BOBBY, and said 'he di'
not know it was against the law to resist th
enrolling officer; that he only pulled out hi
pistol, and, holding it on his lap, told the off
Ger not to enter his yard, and refused to Civ
his name and age"
A private letter says that sad occurrenc
took place last week near South Warren, il
Wyoming county N. Y. Three children a
play with q cat had hidden in q cupboard
when the animal closed tho door, which fast
ened by spring catch. Their mother wa
absent from home, washing; and before the
were rescued two of them were suffocateC
They had worn the skin off their limbs, 9
bows and shoulders in fruitless endeavors t
} get the cupboard door open.
~ One swallow does not make sun
mer. 1t often, however, makes breakfas
! at way station on the Railroad.