Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-05-01
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! The Massachusetts colored regiment has six
hundred and sixty-two men on its rolls.
An extraordinary emigration has set in
from Ireland to the United States.
Ten-penny nails pass current among the
North Carolina rebels at FIVE cents each.
The army of the United States used, during
the year 1862, sixteen thousand tons Of
bullets ~ ~ VI ~, !
The ladies are forming Loyal Leagues in
about all the towns and cities In the State of
Connecticut. Ht tFin
Real estate speculation is rife in Chicago.
The city is making 81 600 per week by the
tax ON transfers Of deeds, yq.a,l
Brigadier Generals George A. Mccall and
Louis Blenker have been mustered out of
the service Of the United States.
The st. Louis Democrat thinks the num-
Der of shareholders in Missouri to be nearer
ten thousand than twenty thousand. m er
Gen. Foster did not leave Wilmington, N.
c., through fear, but for the purpose oftaking
up brigade from Newborn, to assist in ham.
mering the rebels. Ai Z" 3-f- '.3
A man in Hollins, N. H a., has pullet which
has laid an egg having the exact representa-
ton Of postage stamp imprinted upon the
shell. ,...-, ...... "a lf,
The shortest explanation of the Corcoran.
Kimball shooting affair down at Suffolk, Va,
is probably whisky. This is the great curse
of our army. ..' 1'
The secessionists of Lexington, Mo-, have
been notified that their property will be held
responsible for any guerrilla outrage on
steamers within five miles of the city.
Fifteen thousand dollars have already been
transmitted from New York, for the relief of
the suffering poor in Ireland. Ono New York
battery in the field has contributed 1886.
The major and brigader generals now in
the United States service, with their respect
i've stats, cost only 100000 year, a sum
which, few years ago, was sufficient to meet
all our military expenses.
Bernhardt Koch, editor of German paper
at Bucyrus, Ohio, was instantly killed at Day
ton by falling under the cars in attempting
to get on the o'clock train, on the l4th,
for Cincinnati. He was badly crushed.
Baffalos have been lately shot within sixty
miles of st. Paul, Minnesota. The Indian
masSacres have rendered the region so unin-
habited, that bisons, wolves, &C., roam freely
where they have not before been seen for
years. ''
They have Tornado Insurance Company
in Freeport, ILL.,, to protect property against
destruction by hurricanes. Some years ago
the town was almost annihilsted by one of
the hardest tornadoes that ever visited the
torrid zone.
Mrs. Semmes, wife Of the Captain of the
pirate Alabama, has resided at Cincinnati for
several moths past. She is q violent secesh,
and under Burnside's order has been directed
to prepare herself to be sent into the rebel
lines. Only justice too long delayed.
About 100000 of money sent by oldiers
to their families was carried off by the rebels,
when they captured the Nashville and Louis
vile train, lately. TWAS IN one of the Adams
& Co.'s express safes. The company will, of
course, bear the loss. i'. '.
The Sioux and Winnebago Indians are to
be Immediately removed from Minnesota to q
tract Of land on the Upper Missouri river,
near Fort Randall, several hundred miles from
any white settlement, where they will be per-
mitted the felicity of cutting each others
Threats to their hearts content
A Washington reporter telegraphs that the
Navy Department has determined to substi-
tute effective guns, in place of the Dahlgrens,
on the iron-clads, before the attack upon
Charleston is renewed. This would occupy
anumber ofweeks. Maybe the report is true
and maybe not. s-.s ts.. .H.
New Carthage, which was taken on the
4th inst, and is now held by the troops un-
der Gen. McClernand's command, is situated
on the west bank of the Mississippi river
about twenty-five miles below Vicksburg
The headquarters of Gen. Grant are at New
Carthage. u' 81" &
A new volcano has broken out in noun
tain, six leagues from the town of Manzanila,
Mexico. So great was the eruption, that the
channel of the river Armenia was filled up to
the depth of over one hundred feet. For sew
eral days there were frequent and heavy
earthquakes. The eruption still continued
~ last accounts. ~ A.. .... 81 ttg .'ssi j
The st. Louis Republican states, as one of
the facts illustrating the magnitude Of the
war, that 81, 1874 horses and 1927 mules
were purchased in that city for the army
during the year ending March 31st. They
cost So, 91l 900. Most of the animals were
brought from Illinois and the northern parts
of Indiana and Ohio.
The body of Douglas Fraser, who murder
ed his wife and children and set his house on
fire, in Buffalo some weeks since was found
about fourteen miles from that city last week.
He had cut his throat and the body had evil
IDENTIFY been lying where it was found, for
| ouor a month Thoro ia Int 1;tflo Aorbf fhok
the miserable man was insane.
| Robert D. Owen and Dr. Howe of Boston,
and McDay, of the Army, are understood to
have been appointed Commission to inves
tigate the condition and necessities of the
contrabands, and report the best means of
transferring them to self-sustaining labors
1t is said one or more of them will visit Hayti
to observe how the problem thus set before
them was there wrought out, and how far its
lessons are applicable in our case. " Ill
The Agricultural Department is preparing
instructions, forms and applications, and
other papers, embracing the machinery for
the establishment of agricultural colleges,
under the act Of Congress of July 9TH, 1862.
Nine States, Iowa, Rhode Island, Maine Kan
sas, Illinois. New York, Kentucky, Vermont
and Missouri, have complied already with the
conditions Of this law, and have secured their
grants of public land. The offer remains
open two years lenger to States which have
not yet accepted it. Within five years from
the passage o! the law, the colleges are required
to be in operation. - ss 2i.r ;"
THINGS TO REMEMBER.-Seventeen pounds
1 of -four contains as much nOuriShment as one
bushel of the best potatoes. A' 1' @'t
Superfne -four contains more nourishment