Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-04-17
News Paragraph.

Eight deserters were drowned in Boston
Harbor last week, while ats mpting to escape.
Indiana is made separate military district
under Gen. Darlington, who reports to Burn
side. o.. .4ssc.7
There are said to be fifteen thousand
Iennesseeans in the army of Gen. Rosecrans,
all of whom are volunteers from among the
loyal Union men of that State.
Our Wisconsin dispatches make the cleo
ton of Dixon certain, by the home vote-
which the soldiers will build into towering
funeral pile for Copperheadism.
The Medical Department statistics show
the number Of rebe! prisoners who have died
in Union hospitals, since the commandments
OF the war, to be over five thousand
Afull-grow panther, weighing l. pounds.
and measuring seven feet from the nose to
the tip of the tail, was killed within five and
half miles Of Lexington, KY, few days
ago, by Mr.. john Curtis. 5.y
At St. Paul the material for the Indian ex.
petition which leaves in May for the plains on
our frontier, is being brought up Troops
are being equipped and concentrated for the
sprirg campaign against the Sioux.
Eight millions of dollars in government.
notes have been received in Memphis for the.
payment Of the soldiers in that vicinity. Thes
money was contained in seven large boxes,
and required the efforts Of eight mules to-
move the lot. -. .s5,...
Immense quantities of cotton are being ex-
ported from the South by way of Mexico.
Foreign vessels are crowding the entrance to
the Rio G:ande. 1t is about time that some
means were used to close this back-door of
rebeldom.
Yellow Wolf, chief of the Iowa tribe of
of Indians, and an eloquent orator, died in
Washington few days ago, of pneumonia, and
was buried in the Congressional Cemetery.
His last moments were spent in advising his
companions to live in peace with the whites.
About $25O,000 have been subscribed, in
New York, towards the construction of
another Atlantic Telegraph. II is assumed
that the amount already subscribed in that
city and London insures the laying of the line
next year beyond a reasonable doubt.
A large number of Texan refugees have
recently arrived at New Orleans. They are
fugitives from the new CONSUMPTION law Of
the State, which exempts no one. Texas has
already sent $1,000 men to the rebel amy.
and the new draft will raise 1000 more.
Several Union soldiers who were confined at
Richmond burned their faces with red hot
wire, pretended to have the small pox, and
got transferred from the Libby prison tos pest
house, whence, not being closely watched, they
made their escape and reached our lines.
To show that the present premium on gold
was brought about entirely by spectators, it
is only necessary to refer to the official fact
that the Banks and Sub Treasures of the Free
States contain, to-day, sizty-tVo millions
more specie than they did before the rebellion
broke out.
On the 4th inst, the general term of the
Supreme court of the District of New York
decided that the United States legal tender
notes were constitutional and valid, a. to debts
contracted before the passage of the law max
ing such notes q legal tender. AL the four
Judges concurred. @ 3D.. r. n.
Ripe strawberries and tomatoes are an
nounced in Philadelphia and New York.
They are brought from the vicinity of Norfolk
and Hilton Head. The fruiterers ask for tho
latter fifty cents per quart, for the former
somewhere about q quarter Of dollar for
dozen berries. t'+ .i.'
Tho smallpox has almost disappeared 1t
and the "camp-itch' has taken its
place. The change is matter of congratula-
ton, the itch being less dangerous and loath-
some than the small pox, and better adapted
to the condition of the people, who have been
obliged to scratch for . living for some time,
past.
The official returns of the st. Louis election,
give Chauncey !. Filley (''charcoal or radical
Emancipationist,) 2,647 majority over 0. D..
Filley, C"Claybank," or Blair Conservative,l
ind 1856 over Joseph O'Neil (Copperhead.(
The combined Radical and Conservative vote
IS in majority of 5, 1856 over the Copperheada
ticket. ~ ge.j ''.,.f6e2 7'si'l
The bread riot in Richmond proves to have
been formidable affair, in which men and
women for time held the laws at bay. The
object was, according to the papers Of that
:ity, to plumber dry goods, fancy and milf
,ery stores being robbed as well as those
which contained the necessaries Of life The
mob was led by q woman in : position above
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