Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-11
News Paragraphs.

Morgan along his route through Indiana.
The receipts for the internal revenue for
August amount to s5,6O4 POI So, an increase
over the receipts for July. - s
The Springfield Neaos says that vallandig.
ham is boarding in Windsor, at the house Of
q man named Cherry, who is deserter from
our army.
Five children were drowned in Third Lake
near Waukegan, Ill, on Wednesday of last
week, by the upsetting of a boat in which
they had embarked for sail. I'D. ,.... ..4
Miss AnnaE. Dickinson, the female Cicero,
has returned from her trip to the White
| Mountains, and has gone to PHILADELPHIA to
begin her labors in the Pennsylvania cam.
palgn. t'
A secret political organization is said to ex.
list in several States. 1t is called "The Dem
ocratic Empire" and processes to be for the
purpose of uniting the whole American cont.
nent under one Government.
The commerce of the world requires 5000.
600 able bodied men to be traversing the sea
The amount of property moved on the water
Is from 81 ,200,000,000 or $4,000, DOC, 600
and the average animal loss is $25 900, 900.
The recent frosts extended as far eastward
as Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but we
hear of no serious damage east of Ohio. We
learn from the Nashville Union that there
was frost even as far south as Middle Ten.
nessee.
Gen. Fremont, it is stated, has succeeded
in adjusting all the difficulties heretofore sur
dino In !
all Of his California business, which leaves him
over million and a half dollars worth Of
property.
Mr.. Mcdowell, a local Methodist preacher
living at Mound City, Kansas, on the 18th
ult., fatally stabbed man named Castle for
improper intimacy with his wife, Mcdowell
caught the parties IN Jlagrante delicto in a
thicket of plum trees.
A National Cemetary has been purchased
by the State of Pennsylvania at Gettysburg
1t comprises about IA acres on the highest
point on the Cemetery Hill. Other States
have been invited to cooperate in the remov.
al of the soldier dead to these grounds.
The large bridge across the Cumberland
river, near Nashville, Tennessee, replacing
the suspension bridge destroyed by the rebels
was opened for travel on the 9th ult. 1t is
substantial structure, and was built under
the direction of the military authorities.
The ironclad, Uahawha, being built in Gin
cinnati, is rapidly progressing towards compile
ton. 1t will be constructed after the stilc O
the Monitors, with a revolving turret, to b.
moved by machinery, and to be CONSTRUCTED
Of ten thicknesses of Is inch iron plate.
Nathaniel Ames, the sole surviving revolu
! tionary soldier Of the Northwest, died a
Madison, Wisconsin, on the 9th ult., aget
1O2 years, 4 months and 2 days. He wit
messed the execution of Andre, and was pres
ent at other historic events of the revolutionry
war.
G. Edwards Lester, the clerk in the Wa
| Department arrested on suspicion of treason
able correspondence with the enemy, has
been released on the ground that he was only
drunk. That is nothing new for him, anc
the other and worse thing would be nothing
strange to his character.
Quite number of the drafted men in Pitts
burg are being exempted, the quota having
been filled before their names were reached
Those who paid $500 will get their money
back, but those who procured substitutes car
only realize their investment by selling then
TO some other conscript. The selling rate il
$275. .......
We are in the way of getting into wa,
with Japan. American as well as English
vessels have been fred into, and our vessels
retaliated by opening upon certain Of theil
coast defenses, capturing them and destroy
| ing town. The news has very serious as
pect, and it is not unlikely that Great Britain
and the United States will have war with
Japan.
The story has been circulated that the
steamer Ruth, which was burned on the Mis-
sissippi few weeks since, was set on fire te
conceal the robbery of the paymaster's chests
! Of which there were several on board contain
ing an immense sum in greenbacks. Divers
have, however, fished up large quantities O.
the charred notes-which show that no such
fraud was practiced. r.-..
Mrs. Senator Harlan, of Iowa, was robbed
of her purse, containing $275 and two rail
road tickets, while getting aboard the Sara
toga train at Troy, N. Y, on the 18th ult
Two young men, who few days afterwards
attempted to use the tickets, have been ar
rested on charge of the robbery. Mrs. Har
Ian is now in New York, but will leave 70,
New Orleans in few days.
The "Swamp Angel" after which Gilmore's
battery has been called, is an animal much
dreaded in the South and of which many
marvellous stories have been told, all describ
ing 1T as ferocious and unconquerable, attack
ing with desperation, and destroying all whom
it can reach. No doubt this is sufficient
description of the fort which our gallant vol
unteers have erected in the unguarded SWAMP
to the left of Wagner.
Mr.. Henry Myers, of Clouet street, New
Orleans, was struck by lightning and sup
posed to be dead. A Coroner's jury so pro
nounced him, and every preparation was made
for the funeral. Just, however, as the coffir
was about to be closed the dead man sat boil
upright, and after surveying the scene a few
minutes, he inquired the cause of all these
gloomy preparations. The electric shock sus
pended animation for over twenty -four hours
The Union meeting at Springfield, Illinois
on the Sd inst, was grand affair, apparently
meeting the most sanguine expectations. A,
| the lowest calculation, fifty thousand persons
were present. Speeches were made by Gov
| Yates, Senators Lane of Indiana, Trumbul
and Doolittle, Gems Oglesby and McC lernand
and others. Among the letters read beside
that of the President were a plain spoken
missive from Major Gen. Butler and patri.
otto communication from Hon. Edward Ever.
EFT.
Cyrus later, formerly Probate Judge for
Lykins (now Miami) county, Kansas, was
hung on the Goth ult, for the murder of a
man near the city of Omaha, in June last.
The murdered man, who had considerable
money in his possession, had been hired by
later to bring him from Pixies Peak to
Omaha. later, after killing him and taking
his money, threw his body in the river. The