Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-23
News E':sr agra p7rs.
There are many cases of yellow fever
Pensacola.


, country 10 the new Atlantic telegraph.
The roads this side of Salt Lake are sc
filled with snow that the coaches have to take
a circuitous route.
The reported capture of 1900 of Gen. Her.
ron S men on the A chafalaya, La, is reduced
to 400. This is bad enough
"Prof James Dale Owen" the geological
pickpocket, was arrested at Tamaroa, I'll last
week. He Will be taken to Dubuque fer trial
! Dick Taylor, who commands the rebel
troops in Louisiana, is son of Gen. Zachary
Taylor, ex-President OF the United States.
Long earrings have come into fashion in
Paris. Long ears have been the fashion there
for a long time.
The Loyal League women are signing a
petition to Congress to emancipate all the
slaves in the United States-an excellent
object,
( Seven government barracks at Camp Den
nisor, o., were destroyed by fire on the light
of the 18th. A soldier was burned to death
The fire is supposed to have been the work
Of an incendiary.
A few days ago as some men were engaged
in raising the framework of q steeple at Sa-
vannah, Wayne county, N. Y. it fell, injur-
ing eight of them, four of whom are in a
critical condition.
| DR.. Joab Brown of Liberty, Me-, has been
held to trial for procuring for conscripts the
| appearance of the worst description of piles
| He is said to have charged $lOO or more in
| each case, and to have done large business.
| AtSt Henedine, in the county of Dorchester,
Canada, some nights since, the house of Mr.
rheotlme Couture took fire, and all the in
mates-Conture' wife, father and SIX children
were burned in the fumes.
The boiler Of the Illinois Iron orks, at
Alton, exploded fe DAYS since, demol' 'shiny
| the engine shop and seriously damaging the
main building. The engineer and another
man were killed, and another was badly
wounded.
The annual report of the Sons of Temper
ance reveals the instructive fact that tn
numbers of the order have dwindled from
245, 600 in 1850 to 5000 in 1868 This
marks the decline Of the temperance cause in
thirt en- years.
The civil war in Venezuela seems to he in
creasng in violence. The old Government
has got pos ession of the Government ships
and the other party has got hold Ct fine
English steamship, and both sides are pre-
pairing for great struggle.
The Governors cf Nevada and Utah Terri.
| tories have concluded satisfactory treaties with
the Wester: bands Of Ind ans. Alithe Indians
west of Fort Bridgcr have been treated with
| except the uosboats, and they are voluntarily
manifesting friendly relations.
The Providence Journal says that the
Friends who were drafted in Rhode Island
and sent to Fort Columbus have been paroled
and permitted to return home. Py the terms
of the parole they are to answer to the call of
TIE Government
brick-making machine has been invented
at New Haven, which VETS the clay, kneads
it, forces it through an orlfice Just brick size,
and at proper distances cuts It off the COM
plete brick, at the rate of so per minute
The baking process, of course, comes after
ward.
Mrs. Greenough, the rebel strong minded
woman, who made such a fus. over her i'm
prisonn ent by the authorities at Washington,
and was sent by them to Richmond, has gone
'ver to England, and is act down for the role
of female diplomat there in behalf of the
rebel cause.
Capt. Thomas T. Wright, of Jefferson
! county, Indiana, has ten acres planted in cot
ton. As the result of his experiment in the
production of this crop, he says the yield
will be not less than three hundred pounds
20 the acre The late frosts have not Sc
riously affected the growing plants.
At the wire rope manufactory of John A.
Roebling. at Trenton, N j., is being prepared
material for the construction of wire sus-
| peasion bridge over the Ohio river at Gin
cinnati, which will cost 81 100000. This is
nearly four times the cost of the bridge over
Niagara river, which was also built by Mr..
Roebling.
| A method of ftelegraphing by flashes Of sun
light has Just been invented and secured at
Washington by Oliver Lane, of Connecticut.
1t is effected by common looking glass re-
flecting the suns rays, and the time between
the flashes indicates the letters of the alpha
bet. For army purposes this is believed to
| be useful invention.
William Hays, Company G, 122d Illinois
Volunteers, will be shot for assertion at
Benton Barracks, No., on the 22d William
Pratt, 7th Missouri Cavalay, will be executed
at Sedalia, for murder, on the 9th; John
Nicholson, Missouri guerrilla, is to be hung
these sentences having been passed by
General Court Martial at Jefferson City.
The father Of Spencer Kellogg Brown, the
YOU man who was hung at Rlchmoni OF
the 25,h of September, as Federal spv, went
INTO ths Fulton street meeting, New York last
week, and quested prayers that tins death
of his son no was murdered" in Richmond
might be sanctified to HIM and his surviving
family The request produced thrill and
sensation thr ugh the audience.
DR.. j King. of Cincinnati, proposes that
in each OF our Nnrthern States central stu
alton be selected for the erection of large
marble cenotaph consisting of balls. rooms
: &c, upon the walls of which shall be engraved
the names, &c, OF all the soldiers of the State
who have fallen in the present war. both those
of the cenotaph in each State to be designed
by some good architect.
An entire family Of seven persons-con
sisting of husband. wife, three sons and two
daughters residing near Paol, Orange coun
ty, Ind, were murdered in their house abou
two weeks since. They were Germans
named Stalk. The horrible affair was no
discovered till several days after it was per
petrated. The object was most probably
plumber, as Stalk was reported to have con
siderable money, The murderers are un
known.
rw The New York Times says: "Olt
copperheads are natural enough, but young
ones are monstrosities. 1t is hard tor mar
| m r;sa rho for wars has crinoed and crept