Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-31
News Paragraphs.

The New York police have sent so boxes
of lemons to the hospitals at Washington and
elsewhere.
The Rock Island Union says barracks are
to be erected on the Island at that place for
the confinement Of rebel prisoners soon to be
sent there. ft tl[
The subscription for the relief of the colored
people who suffered in the late riot in New
York, has reached the sum of $58, 625, and
donations are still coming in freely.
| Ten or twelve men and women were drowned
by the sinking of nine canal boats in gale
on Seneca Lake, N. Y, on the Goth inst. The
boats were in tow of the steamer P. H. Field
Judge Wright, of the Police Court Of Bos-
ton, decided lately that "bar-tending" is not
lawful employment, and sentenced man
who claimed this calling to the House of In
dustry. ''- a. .4a
/ The county of New York will have to pay
for all the Damage done to property IN the
late riots in that city. such is the law in the
State of New York and in some other East
ern States.
In Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island and Pennsylvania the draft has
been completed. In the State Of New York,
the draft is also nearly finished, except in the
large cities. tjr @. .-
Mrs. Margaret Driscoll was found dead in
her house at Rock Island, on the 9th. She
had been afflicted with lung disease, but
the immediate cause of her death was an cx-
cessive use Of whisky.
Pemberton, in his first letter to Gen. Grant,
said that his supplies would enable him to
hold out indefinitely. But as soon as he
capitulated he drew upon our stores for thirty
thousand rations. That General can lie if he
can't fight. ..... -....... ..
Hiram Wallace, boy of I6, while clinging
to passing train at Port Byron, III :, on the
25th, attempted to jump off, when he slipped
under the wheels of car. He was almost
severed in two at the hips, and died the next
morning. A warning to boys.
The ship George Griswold, which recently
took out load of food to the starving opera
tives of England, was captured by the pirate
Georgia, on her return passage, and was
bonded for 100000. This vessel should
have been held sacred even by pirates.
The gunboat Baron de Kalb, sunk by a
torpedo in tfferecent movements against Va
ZOO City, was the first gunboat ever afoat on
the Western waters. She was originally
named the st. Louis, and, as such, served as
Admiral Foote'S flagship in the attack on Fort
Donelson. -
A Georgia paper seriously urges the extinc-
ton of the canine species in the South, on
the ground that the dogs eat so much that
they keep up the price of provisions. Since
food has become so costly in the Confederacy,
we presume that this abolition measure
will find many supporters. ......
A lady has been drafted in Lewiston, Me-
The enrolling officer, in visiting boarding
house, asked for the list of names of the
boarders. One of them was Frances Parker,
signed Frank Parker. Frank was accordingly
enrolled, and is now drafted. Let her go into
the infantry service, or get a substitute.
Ben. johnson, prominentr real estate oper-
ator in the city of Keokuk, a few years ago,
has been appointed Postmaster at Vicksburg.
Mr.. johnson was resident of Vicksburg be-
fore the war, and owned considerable proper
ty there, which was all confisoated by the
rebels. He is true and loyal man, well
qualified for the position.
1t is feared the oyster crop this year will be
failure. The beds in the Chesapeake are
almost entirely destroyed, and, as yet, those
in the Virginia rivers cannot be approached.
Fully half of the boats engaged in the trade
have been destroyed since the war broke out
The Baltimore packers have accordingly de-
ciinei to mako contracts on specified terms
| While the Indiana militia were routing John
Morgan, two detachments attacked each other
near Lawrenceburg, and did not find out their
mistake till seven had been killed and twenty
wounded. Among the latter was Judge Good
win formerly State Senator. The rear COM
pany brought in four cavalry prisoners, but
they proved to be Hobson's men instead Of
Morgan's. ~ -
The New York papers give list of g. per-
sons killed in the recent riot There are now
sixty five persons on the beds in the hospital,
and there were eighty five wounded or slightly
wounded. Allallege that they were innocent
and had nothing to do with the riot, but were
looking on. There is one little girl eleven
years old, and two boys, one about fifteen and
the other about eleven. s,
| So far $1,000 of our wounded have been
removed from Gettysburg, to the northern and
and eastern hospitals. The rebels, when they
retreated from Gettysburg, left behind them
six drunken, inefficient and worthless sur
geons, and II 900 wounded. Many of these
have been removed to the hospitals on Staten
Island, N. Y, and other places, leaving but
few thousand at Gettysburg.
The number of bullocks consumed by the
army of the Potomac, during the time that
elapsed between their march from Catlett's
Station towards Fredericksburg under Burn
side, and their return from Catlett's Station
under Hooker, was thirty-fve thousand
Fresh army beef is self transported, and the
saving in transportation effected by driving
cattle for army supplies is found to be equal
| to one and quarter pounds per man day.
Beet culture, for the manufacture of sugar,
will be pretty well tested in the Northwest
this year. A beet sugar factory is to be
erected at Kankakee, H., and another in
| Oconta county, Wisconsin. Prof Mott, who
has the superintendent of their construction,
| has thirty six acres of beets under cultivation
at Kankakee, and, with the crop contracted
for by others, expects to have 1000 tons of
beets at his disposal, which he thinks will
yield 100000 pounds of sugar. lss . .G'..
List of Sick, and Wounded Iowa
Soldiers ~, - x
Arrived at st Louis per steamer City of Memphis, July
10th, 1868. Furnished by Thos. W. J. Long Of Iowa
Office No. @ Laclede Block, Olive Street. St. Louis, Mo.
H Sss battery msEsy sh
a Atkinson CO /. 4th Inf. Thee Pfsscott 18th
| Isaac Ray, +, 4th i Edmund Carroll, r 18th
Jas Patterson, Il, 8th, Oh Gorhammer, G 18th
| q T. n Eaten r. 10Th.