Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-12-04

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News Paragraphs.
The official returns as far as received in
Minnesota give Miller, the Union candidate
for Governor, 1884 majority.
Z fire in stable at st. Louis, last week,
was extinguished by the use of twenty barrels
of lager. That was putting the stuff to good
use.
New York has twenty theatres, which con.
tain nightly twenty-five thousand persons,
who spend on an average twenty-av thous-
and dollars each evening.
The States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and
Michigan, are detached from the military
Department of the Ohio, and are now under
| the control of the Provost Marshal General
The payment of the troops called out to
suppress the New York riots will cost that
city $277, 24S 81, exclusive Of their board
bills.
An order has been issued dropping from
| the rolls Of the army ell enlisted men who
were two years ago transferred to service in
the Western gunboats.
| The Ohio law to enable soldiers to vote has
no provision for those in hospitals, by which
accidental omission many soldiers in the
Washington hospitals lost their opportunity
Of voting.
A Catholic priest in Chicago has been de.
prived of the robes he disgraced, and elected
from his Office for gross immortality; having
been arrested at house Of i'll fame by the
police.
Cairo is growing fast When the war
commenced it had 1000 inhabitants; now it
has 5000. Many good buildings are going
up, and the inside of the town is being filed
up aud graded.
! The iron safe of the Treasurer of Carlson
county, Pa, which was carried away from his
Office in the great freshet of June 4th, 1862,
has been brought up by dredging machine.
The contents were but slightly damaged.
The New York Hotel Keepers Association
are organizing a special police force, for the
protection Of themselves and their guests
az inst thieves and pickpockets. About
thirty detectives will be kept in constant en-
ploy.
! The real estate Of Chicago is this year
valued at $35, l43, 252; personal estate, ST.
479,572. Last year the amounts were
$31 .5S7, 545 and So, 1862, 1906 respectively
Last years tax levy was $519, 800; this year
it is 1926, 1856.
| The new iron railroad bridge over the Ohio
at Steubenvle will be 1890 feet long, have
8 spans Of 90 feet above the water; 4 of 225
feet, % of 2l0 feet, and l ofS20 feet. The az
gregate weight is estimated at 1886 tons, or
100000 lbs.
| 1t is said that gold has been found in Ari-
iona Territory, 500 miles west of Santa Fs,
and that for 100 miles it may be found in
every gulch and creek bed. Gen. Carlton has
sent troops to the locality, and established
military post.
The tholus (conical chamber, something
like cupola) on the dome of the Capitol at
Washington is being rapidly constructed
On this the bronze statue of Freedom will be
placed, 1t will be put up in sections, the
heaviest of which weighs 4,740 pounds.
A letter was received at Bath, Maine, last
week, which was mailed at the Office in July,
1868, for Davenport Iowa. and was found in
the bottom of a mail bag ct Washington, D.
O., that was laid aside for repairs, making
five years and four months before it was de-
livered.
The rebels positively refuse to exchange
mar for man, but demand the release of all
the excess of prisoners we hold on parole
Of course this cannot be granted them, as they
have broken all previous paroles. Their Com
missioner declined to exchange $4,000 pris-
oners held by them for 5000 held by US
Any exchange is, therefore, for the present,
impossible.
Willie johnson, aged thirteen years, drum
mer in Company D, Third Vermont Regiment,
has been presented by Secretary Stanton in
person with the Star Medal Of Honor, for
heroic conduct in the seven days fight before
Richmond. While strong men threw away
guns. knapsacks, and everything calculated
to impede their flight, this boy chung to his
drum. and he was the only drummer in the
division who brought his drum from the
field.
The first instance in the Union army of
commissioned officer being reduced to the
ranks is the case Of First Lieutenant Joseph
]. Ennis, Slst Ohio regiment, found guilty of
forging an order, detailing him to 60 from
Louisiana to Cincinnati, to arrest deserters.
He absented himself seven months under this
forged order. A court martial sentenced him
to serve three years or during the war as
private in such regiment as the general com.
handing the department might designate and
selected the Twentieth Kentucky regiment,
and ordered the offender sent to it under
guard.