Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-05-01
News Paragraphs.

The number Of persons buried in the Green
wood Cemetary, equals the population of
New York City in 1910. ...t... -.a..,
At Dunlcith, ILL.,, on the 23d, Burt's reaper
factory and all its contents were burned.
Losses 100000; uninsured.
Col. Robert johnson, son of Governor
Andy johnson, reported captured by the
rebels, is safe in Nashville.
The Herald says everybody in New York
is trying to lend money at per cent, and
good many brokers are supplied at 4.
Dr. G. Aver, the famous "medicine man,
it is said, owns larger share of the New
York Tribune than any other person.
The cost of Brigadier General, staff and
all, is abont $4,000 per annum-the cost of
Major General and staff is some $4,000.
The public lands to be sold next summer
embrace in Washing on Territory nearly 81
100000 acres, in Kansas $4,000, and in
Michigan $4,000. ..- D..
A furious and destructive tornado visited
Grundy county, ILL.,, last Saturday, the Is h.
One man was killed, number of persons Sc
riously injured, and much property destroyed.
Over seventy applications from all parts Of
the country for au' hority to establish banks,
under the uniform national currency bill,
have been made. -.s.,,!.r--.. - ..
Nearly one thousand contrabands have
lately been sent from Cairo to Island No. 10,
in the Mississippi 1t is the intention to have
them cultivate the fine farms on that island,
for the benefit of the Government. :,
New Carthage, the place at which the ad-
vance of the Army of the Mississippi had
arrived at last accounts, is on the Louisiana
side of the Mississippi, below Warrenton,
and above the mouth of the Big Black river
The removal of the Minnesota Indians will
be commenced Immediately, under the Super
intendent of Indian affairs. They are to be
removed to tract near Ft. Randall, on the
Upper Mississippi. .-..,
The planning mill of Keator & Skinner, of
Moline, ILL.,, with its entire contents, includ-
ing machinery for sash, door and blind making,
was destroyed bv fire on Thursday. The
loss is from $4,000 to Sc, 900 with no insu-
rance. s-. .-.-.5'i I'll. III s-.sT q.
The estate of the late Stephen A. Douglas,
in Chicago, has been inventoried at seven
thousand dollars, but there are encumbrances
upon it equal to its appraised value. The
executors report that there is no personal
property 81 ~ -.a.s.- l-.t ,5 ea-
The Medical Department statistics show
that the number of rebel prisoners who have
died in Union hospitals, since the commence.
meDt of the war, to be over five thousand
instead of two thousand, as published few
days since.
Over sixty thousand tons of ice have been
taken out of the Kennebec, Me-, during tt1e
season, most of which is to 60 to New Orleans
and Havana. Contractors have agreed to de.
liver some twenty-five thousand tons at the
former city at twenty-five dollars per ton.
One Soloman Henshaw, wealthy citizen
of Fountain county, Indiana, committed sui
eide few days since, because he had become
member of the Knights Of the Golden Cir
Gle, and their reasonable character SO troub-
led him that he could not bear the odium.
An expedition against the "Snake" In.
dians, in Oregon, is planned for this summer
The ruthless slayers of women in that region
will most assuredly be cleaned out by the
Oregonians, who displayed much enterprise
in Indian hunting, as well as in everything
else they undertake. assn 1a>2
Yates 10 his late message, says of that State:
"She now produces twice as much corn as
any other State almost twice as much wheat;
in neat cattle, the first in hogs, but little
behind Ohio; and in the value of live stock
of all kinds, she is already the second State
in the Union" t,.-,.t ..t-r. ..rt ,...---.
The President has appointed Hon. Joseph
A.. Wright, late Minister to Berlin, our
National Representative to the Worlds Fair.
soon to be held at Hamburg. New York
and Illinois will also be represented there.
Articles intended for exhibition, must be de.
livered at New York, ready for shipment, by
the 11th day of June next. 5Z 5sas,H .5,
The whole amount of postal currency print.
ed is ninety million three hundred and six.
teen thousand dollars, nilety-fve cents, Of
which about fifteen million is in circulation.
The rest is in the hands of depositers, and
the printing is stopped. 1t is believed now
that the fractional currency will be ready be.
fore the amount on hand is exhausted.
There was grand Union Meetieg at Ham
ilton, Butler county, O., on Saturday last. The
number in attendance was estimated at not
less than twenty thousand. Gen. Burnside,
Gov. Morton, Of Indiana, Gov. Tod, of Ohio,
Col. Stanly Matthews, Hon. Henry Winter
Davis, of Mary and, and other distinguished
gentlemen and patriots, made earnest and
loyal speeches. The Copperh eads were as.
tonished and shrunk into their holes, to hide