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

placing the old wooden bridges on the route
BY structures built of wrought iron. 80
Sixteen Mass ichusetts regiments of nine
months men will return home during June
and July.
During the week ending May I'd, 1875 per-
sons died in New York City, Iof whom more
than one-haf were children under five years
Of age.
Peter Kline and Matthias Beck were suffoca-
ted to death by carbonic acid gas, in well at
the farm Of Mr.. Rumby, near La Porte, Indi-
ana, on Saturday week.
The daughter of John G. Calhoun, the
head and front of secession, whose husband
is in the rebel army, is permitted to reside
in security within sight of the Federal Cap.
itol. &c r.T-le 1ali:3s3 y .s14- .aJGf ni
There is more capital invested in the print
ing business in New York city than in any
other one branch of trade. The late returns
$s,0O0,00O. rr -,.. $50. ..,....
+ II. Mccullough, President of the Bank of
the tate of Indiana, has been appointed
comptroller of the U. s. Currency under the
National Banking Law, and has accepted the
responsible position. 't'
The Buell. Court Of Inquiry, lately in ses-
sion at Cincinnati, has adjourned sine die.
It has forwarded all the testimony, covering
over five thousand pages Of manuscript, to
Washington. o41r5 81 ri .1 t
The contracts for furnishing leather and
canvas mail bags for four years from the LIST
of July next, have been awarded by the Post
master General to Emerson Gaylord, of Chi
copee, Mass, and R. L. Landin, Of Baltimore.
The mail depot for the army and navy
down the Mississippi has been removed from
Cairo to Memphis. The change was render
ed imperatively necessary on account of the
execrable mismanagement of the post Office at
Cairo. r...t MOO. ... 90
The destination of the expedition from
Sioux City against the Indians is Devils
Lake, in Minnesota, where the forces Of Little
Crow are supposed to be concentrated. The
expedition is $500 strong, including the 9Th
Iowa Cavalry. -,..
Pope Plus is dying. The question of his
successor is being already vigorously dis
cussed. Cardinal Wiseman, of England, is
said-though we hardly believe ito be the
favorite candidate of the salons of the Eau
bourg st. German.
The amount of business transacted at the
pension Office is immense During the month
of April nearly 5000 applications for invalid
and widows pensions were received at tn
Bureau, of which $40 widows and 693 inva
lid claims were granted. - e
The Indians in Minnesota have, at last
fallen upon each other. Several were muir
dered, last week, near Mankato, by Winneba
goes. 1t is said by the latter that they wer
Sioux, and that the former had declared wa
against the latter.
Lieut.. Frank Brownell, has presented to tn
Bureau of Military Statistics, at Albany, N
Y, the gun with which jackson shot Col
Ellsworth, at Alexandria, at the opening 0
tho war. Brownell is the man who sho
Jackson for the act.
Thirty three volunteers of the 9th New
jersey Regiment were drowned in the Cum
berland river, on the 9th inst, between Som
erset and Monticello. They were in boat
with others, crossing by the aid of ropes
when, by some mismanagement, it was sud
denly capsized. .......-..-
A correspondence of the Fall River Ne,o,
describing the cheerfulness of many of thos
wounded at the battle at Fredericksburg
says he saw boy lying on stretcher wait
ing for an ambulance. He asked the lad
he was hurt much. ooh, no." said he, "onl
a leg off,"
The 200 contrabands taken up the river o.
the steamer Northerner, a few days since
are to be employed as transfers in Gen
Pope's expedi ion against the Indians. Whe
they reached ST. Paul the Irish police forbi
them from landing, on the ground that the,
were paupers. The boat took them to For
Smelling. N
The rebels report that they have captures
Col. Straight's force of four regiments, whic
had been sent out Oh a grand reconnaissance
into Alabama and Georgia. The Union fore
accomplished considerable damage, and Tough
well, before they finally surrendered. w
must await confirmation of the capture be
fore cred'ting the rebel report.
Recent letters from Colorado represent tina
business is good, and large quantities of golf
are already taken out this spring. At tn
Gregory Mines there are nearly two hundred
quartz mills, mining night and day, and yield
ing, monthly, on the average, $4,000 per mill
The crops are promising, and provisions
cheap, but dry goods are very high. Golt
dust had declined from $22 to $l8, in green
backs. H.-
Michael Burns was executed at st. Loui.
on Friday, the 9Th, for the murder of mar
named Gilmore. He persisted to the last thai
he was not guilty of murder. The descen
of the drop was five feet, and should have
broken the neck of the culprit, but by some
disarrangement it only slowly strangled him
and be fingered in great agony some twenty
minutes. ...-
There was an awful tragedy at Branden.
burg, Ind, last week. Mrs. Wimp got into
dispute with Mrs. John Wimp, her daugh.
term law, and beat her most cruelty. John
soon after came in and held his mother fol-
his wife to beat in turn The mother then
sent for Johns brother, Blanten, to beat John,
when the latter shot him dead as he was com.
ing into the yard. aaa w. a-. aa7I -tsw
The salt works destroyed by Gen. Banks
advance in the Opelousas District, La, were
the largest of the kind in America. The es.
Enlistment was a salt mine or ledge of re-
markaole extent and purity. Blocks of salt
were quarried there as clear as glass, 4htd
some of the specimens collected were wonder
full for their brilliancy. Near the quarry was
a large establishment where all the beef of
the Confederacy was sailed down and packed.
Gen. Banks has issued stringent orders, in
the Department of Louisiana, against giving
aid and comfort to the enemy-death being
the punishment of their violation. A man
who had previously been arrested for the
crime was fined $25,O0O and sentenced to
years Imprisonment. In consequence of the
rahnl not Of laaf Ionn.s,u fox III a aa.....:-A:s