Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-25

finished 80 miles west of st. Paul by the Ii
of January next.
Msjor- General B. T. Butler, is engaged
canvass the State Of Pensylvania for th
Union ticket ~" $685. ca.ai g. fjiH -~
The Atlantic Telegraph Company have cor
tracted for the laying oi a cable from Irelan
to Newfoundland during the summer of 1866
No vessel can leave the harbor of New Yor
after sundown or before daybreak. The Gov
eminent has issued stringent orders to thi
effect. '"''! --'''o''"'' ''l'' -t'a' E'l'f ,-'A
Gen. Grant was thrown from his horse, a
New Orleanr, on the 4th inst, and so severe
ly injured that he was confined to his room
several days. s.f ,te--. .f .,...~.. ...
Gen. Rosecrans entered Chattanooga in per
son on the 10Th instant. Bishop Purcell, tn
Catholic Bishop Of Cincinnati, was with him
and, at the Generals request, celebrated Mas
in the Cathedral at that place. ri a:-.-5 FL.
Emigrants numbering one hundred ant
seven thousand have arrived at New Yorl
since January-just double the number VIII
came during the same time last year. Twenty
three hundred arrived last week. H-'-..
"A steam tug was run down by propelle
in the Chicago Harbor, on Monday last. Re
suit two persons drowned and tug lost Tn
accident seems to have been occasioned by tn
incautious movement of the tug itself.
The amended act of March Sd adds tw'
years Imprisonment to the other penalties fo
doing business without United States license
Persons interested will do we'll to attenr tt
their licenses at once, as they expired Sep
tember 1st. ...
The railroad war is at an end, the three
leading eastern lines having COMPROMISED
Their differences, and returned to their ole
local rates. Rates east will hereafter be guild
ed by rates from Chicago, and will be the
same by aN routes. ....t .....t- ..
A boy named James McCarty, sixteen years
Of age, was arrested in Charlestowp, Mass.
a few days since for cruelty to dog, in sat
urating him with kerosene oil which was se,
on fire, causing the dog to run at a fearfu
rate in a sheet of fame, from the effects o1
which he died. '- '- " -.'
Ex Provost Marshal VIM. R. Strachan, ot
Palmyra, and now member of the Missouri
Legislature, was arrested in Quincy, ILL.,, last
week, and taken to St. Louis for trial, or
charges Of embezzlement of $40, 900 of United
States funds, matchmaking crimes, and some
others even more discre1itable. ~ .'5A
MRS.. j. Sawyer, recently principal of the
High School in Pittsfeld, Massachusetts, has
renounced Professionalism and will enter the
Romish priesthood. He has previously (says
the Pittsfeld Euyle) been Unitarian, Con
gregational, and Episcopalian. Boxing the
ecclesiastical compass y a
A mammoth picnic excursion took place
from New York few days since to Yonkers,
short distance up the Hudson. 1t was
composed of 1000 employees of J. W. Broad
ley's hoop skirt factories, Q70o girls and 300
young men, with their invited friends. mum.
bering in all about 5000 persons. r
Chicago has disposed of one hundred thous
and dollars in Bonds f,r the Sewerage Loan
at the handsome rate of eleven per cent prem
ium. The bids amounted to about million,
and the whole sum was awarded to G. G
Parks & Co., Bankers of that city. The
bonds draw seven per cent. interest.
1t is stated that there are at present nine
hundred patients IN the four Ohio Asylums
for the Insane-ln the Columbus Asylum, two
hundred and sixty in the Dayton Asylum,
one hundred and fifty in the Newburg Asy-
lum, one hundred and forty, and the Hamil-
ton County Asylum, three hundred and fifty
1t was John Armstrong, of Jersey City,
who ate plate of ice cream at fair for the
benefit of sick and wounded soldiers, laid
down five hundred dollar treasury note and
coollY declined the change. The circums ance
was endorsed on the back of the note by the
lady attendant, and came to light in Wash
ington. s. -.s.a.-
A clergyman recently exchanged carpe
bags with a Copperhead orator at railroad
station not many miles from Portland, Maine
and was Mortified when he was preparing fol
service, to find a Copperhead grafton and 8
bottle of whisky in his carpet bag, instead
of his skeleton sermon. Probably the Other
man felt worse than he did. :
The return of the Quartermaster for the
the Union and rebel forces during the Nor
gan raid in Indiana, make the following show
ing: Number sold, 1888 amount received
$7S, ,345 average amount received for eacf
animal, $47 Is. In addition to these, 235 ami
mails were delivered at Louisville, and ZOE
returned by the Quartermaster for the use O.
the army.
At the recent execution of the five substi
tutes who deserted from the army of the Po
tomac, an argument for precedence in the
procession took place between the Jewish
rabbi and the Catholic priest. The priest
claimed the first rank, as representing the
first of churches, and the Jew claimed it as
representing the Oldest of faiths. The claim
of the Jew was sustained by the Provost Mar
shal, who probably oidn't care which wen
frst, if they would only keep quiet. -'
The rebels in their late incursion of Penn
sylvania were very anxious to capture Hon
Thad Stevens; failing in this they burned his
iron works. In conversation with his man
ager, of which we find report in the N. Y
Tribune, the rebel Gen. EARLY regretted tina
he had not captured the proprietor with tht
works. mo doubt you would give him .
berth in Libby" said the manager. "No
sir" said the General; ~ would hang hin
on the spot and divide his bones and sent
them to the several States as curiosities."
SPY Hume IN LAwRENcE.-John Calico wa
tried in Lawrence on Monday, by jury Sc
lected by the citizens. It was proved tina
he knew of the raid and moved his family
out Of town - Thursday night After beins
sentenced to'be hung as spy, he confessed
that he came in with Quantrel, and that h
killed the widow Aliens son. He was ther
Conservative, 18th.
~Some of our readers will remembe
that at the last "grand mass meeting of tn
Democracy at the Court House, Maj. Wilart
held. forth. We learn from the Chicag'
Journal that this Maj. Willard resigned hi
position in the army to avoid approaching
difficulty, and that afterwards going back t.
Memphis he was ordered out of the lines b,
Gen. Hurlbut for disloyalty. That explain
his severity upon Gen. Hurlbut. "That'
what's the matter with the purp"! Wonde