Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-05-15
News Paragraphs.

4 aesov News Paragraphs. 400
4 There are mining bitches in California 80
miles long. = eails.lsao9 .5aorgfoao re
| Fortress Monroe is to be garrisoned b
negro troops. ''''2 '..7 Hs'h
! There are now nearly 5000 men employs
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Il. 5-5'.t
| Ice. it is thought, will be worth two cent
. pound in Cincinnati next summer. H5
! At the present time there are only abou
eleven thousand Jews in all Palestine.
| Forty acres Of good land, within thre, mile
Of Springfield, Mo-, were recently sold for Sc
Ouerrlllas have broken up the, stage lin,
between Rolla and Springfield by stealing al
Thaddeus Smith, Of North Hadley, had n
acres Of good tobacco last year, which he hal
sold for 80, 900. III i, ,a1e s.g a
The penalty for selling poor butter in Phil
adelphia is confscstion-half to 20 TO til,
clerk, and half to the poor. -.-i - 5....r...
The weekly receipts at the Office of Interna
Revenue in Washington are about one million
two hundred thousand dollars. gre, diHe.4
Gems. Mcneil and vandeyer have returned
from the pursuit of Marmaduke. All is now
quiet in Southeastern Missouri. :.i o....... '
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that all promissory notes, whether
under or over twenty dollars, are subject to a
stab,p. 10 aIa'a -di
Nickel cents are worth only thirty five cents
on the dollar, and the Government is making
heaps Of money by gratifying the pubic ma.
mia for boarding them. "
Thereare more than 100000 Federal troops
in Kentucky under Burnside. They are
mostly south Of Lexington, and seem to be
heading for East Tennessee. p. Eru5 a'. y,5-
Paper is selling at Richmond for $l00 a
ream for foolscap, and $75 for, letter paper
The price of the Richmond Examiner is
$2,4o month, or nearly $50 year. n.
Our troops found at Franklin, La, the
speeches of Seymour, (of Conn., Vallanding-
ham and Samuel Cox, which had been print
ed for distribution among the rebels.
Fifteen thousand and ninety seven persons
died in Philadelphia during the year 1862
This was an increase of six hundred and
twenty-nine over the previous year. .-
The boys in Rosccrans' army have a new
word. When one of their members happen
to be snapped up-suddcnly caught-by the
enemy, they say he was "snavelled." -.
The New York Tribune says: "Onion
Leagues are being formed by the ladies in
many towns and villages for the purpose of
cultivating that fragrant bulb for the use of
our soldiers" d. ~ ..-.....
An effort is making to commence the cul-
tiyation of the poppy in the South, in order
to get supply of opium. The rebel army
Medical Department is sending out poppy
seeds. -. S+ti|aa - -
Charles Brooks, indicted for the murder of
his father, was convicted at Mount Holly,
N. j. last week. His wife and son-in law
of the deceased are to be tried for the same
ofense.
In order to frighten the negroes, the rebels
are circulating everywhere the ridiculous
story that Col. Wilder, on recent expedition,
shot sixty contrabands whom he found in
Yankee uniforms.
The rebel papers re-publish generally, and
with much satisfaction, advertisements for
the sale of copperhead breatpins, ETC., taken
from the New York Caucasian, and other
traitorous sheets in the North. ,....
The Dayton (Ohio) Journal, the office of
which was destroyed by Copperhead mob,
will be in operation again in few days, pre-.
pared to maintain its principles and wage war
against Copperheads and secessionists.
There seems to be no lack of historians to
pen the narrative of this war Already his
tories Of the Great Rebellion" are being got
ten up by Harper & Brothers, Headley, Ab
bott, Duyckinck, Victor and many others.
A young huckster, of the female persua-
sion, ate fifty oranges, one after another, at
Columbia, Ohio, the other day, on wager.
She received S. for thus advertising the ca
paciousness and hexibiIity of her ''bread-
basket"
Lastweek four of the Noble county &C. y re-
sistants. now under arrest at Cincinnati, enter
ed into bonds of $500 each, for their ap-
States Circuit Court. The way of the trans
gressor is hard. saa..3 .a. rst.
Hon. Obadiah Smith, member of the Mis-
souri, Legislature from Cedar county, and
prominent Emancipationist, was murdered
with two other Union men, by the bush
whackers near the Osago river, few days
ago.
A lot of preserved peaches in cans, sold in
Philadelphia for the use of the army, proved
to be most villainous tomatoes, put up in
the scrapings of molasses hogsheads. The
swindler, who is one of many, has been ar
rested. ~
p When repentant seccssionist takes the
oath Of loyalty, his old associates say he is
Iron clad" 1t is better, says the Nashville
Union, to be iron clad" with loyalty. than
copper-cIad with treason, or 60 down to
Dixie and not be clad at all. p - 2sagf rs
A design for a flag has at last been adopted
by the rebel Congress-. 1t has white field
with the battle fag for the union, square in
shape, and occupying two thirds of the width
of the flag, ana blue bar, one.third Of the
flag in its width, dividing the field lengthwse.
& The expedition fitting out at Fort Scott for
Texas, known as Gen. Blunts army, is CON-
posed Of Nebraska and Kansas volunteers
one regiment from Colorado ard 5000 In
dians. Every effort is being made to start
the expedition by the 10th OF May. A negro
regiment has nearly completed the forti6ca-
tions of Fort Scott eaFt .
A letter from Corinth, Mississippi, states
that new social arrangement has been
gotten up between our soldiers and the Se-
cesh women of that locality. The soldiers
get to courting the women, and when match
is struck up they get married in the regular
style with the condition '''while the war
lasts" Over twenty soldiers have entered
into the arrangement lately. .....a.-
Gen. Rosecrans has secured about $50