Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
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Crops in the South are said to be abundant,
Starvation" is nowhere
Boston has appropriated $50, 900 for an
fund for the defense of the city
and harbor.
Suffolk, Virginia, has been abandoned by
the federal troops, the Notifications leveled
and the town destroyed.
The French army occupied the city of
Mexico on the Sd ult., and Gen. Forey took
formal possession on the 10th.
Daniel D. Warner, formerly negro bar
Der of Baltimore, where he was born, in 1926,
has been elected President of Liberia.
The Drove Yards in Allegheny City, Penn
sylvania, were set fire to and burned on the
4th. Thirty-fve horses were burned in the
stables.
Prof. Airy, celebrated English astrono-
mer, has discovered that we are several mil
lion miles nearer the sun than has been sup
posed.
Gen. Martin Green and Col. Irwin, two
noted rebels from Missouri, died in Vicksburg
during the recent seige. Green was broth.
er of Elk Senator Jim Green.
A. T. Stewart, the millionaire of New
York, has handed over his check for $50, OOO
to the Assessor, basing tax upon an income
of two millions, more or less. .-.r
Two men were killed at Milgrove, Wood
county, Ohio, on 4th, by the premature dis.
charge Of cannon. Five or six others were
wounded
Deacon John Phillips, Of Sturbridge, Mass.
completed his l03d year the 29th of June
His health is good and all bis faculties are
we'll preserved. .-..
When tie rebel Gen. Barksdale (once Con.
gresham from MississlppD fell MORALLY
wounded, he was brought within our lines
and his last words were, ''Tell my wife fell
like man; but we fought like hell I" 'i
Among the drafted men in Boston are two
Catholic clergymen, six editors, the United
States District Attorney. the Provost Marshal
General, an artillery armorer, and three John
Smiths.
The number of troops actually sent from
New York into Pennsylvania to aid in rep.ll.
ing the invasion was 1880. More would
have gone but for some misunderstanding
says the New York Eoening Post.
Solomon Sturgess, the wealthiest man in
Chicago, passed through Springfield, Mass,
last week, on his way to the Hartford asylum
"a raving maniac, in charge Of three keep.
ers. During the first year of the war be
made million dollars.
Gen. Santa Anna, ex-President of Mexico,
still resides on the Island of Cuba, = few miles
from Havana. He denies, in one of the pa
pers Of that city, that he is about to take the
field on the side of the French and against
his native country.
Nine thousand dogs are annually registered
in St. Louis. The registry for the present
year has already reached seven thousand
Probably at least three thousand dogs 90 un-
Notwithstanding canine total of about
twelve thousand.
Gen. Dan. Sickles, after displaying great
gallantry in the battle Of Gettysburg, was,
near the close of the engagement, struck in
I ne right leg by fragment of shell. His
leg was amputated below the knee, and he is
in a fair way to recover.
Rev. B. Smilhson, of the NJ. E. Church,
Wenona, Ill coppcrhead preacher, has
been arrested, tried and suspended from
preaching by his church, for preaching dis
Loyalty and copperheadsm, and will be tried
at the next Conference and expelled.
The privilege of selling newspaper in the
Army of the Potomac has been awarded to a
person from New York, who pays 81 800 a
month for the privilege Of selling to the news
boys at fixed advance. The price of papers
to the soldiers will be five cents only.
The Indians are becoming very bold in
Minnesota, having made their appearance
within eighteen miles of St. Paul, and Great
ing great alarm among the citize IS. Adj. Gen.
Malmrcos has called for volunteers, and offers
bounty of $25 for every scalp of a male
Sioux delivered at his office.
So intense has been the drought in Mime
sofa that Gen. Sibley's expedition cannot
move. The whole country between Fort
Abercrombie and Pembina has been burned
over by prairie fires, and it would be impos-
sible to subsist animals, or find sufficient
water even tor an emigrant train. s.l.
The Rt. Rev. Henry W. Lee, D. D., Bish-
op of the Diocese of Iowa, hiss been elected
an honorary member of the "Royal Society
of Antiquaries." The society has its head
quarters at Copenhagen, in Denmark, and
the King of Denmark is it's President.
The victims to the Indian atrocities in Car
yer county, Minnesota, an account of which
has appeared in our telegraph columns, were
Amos Dustin, his mother and two children,
who were going from Wright county to Car.
yer county. thus, an entire family were
killed by the fiends. e f.# lH-
Capt Cuts, Judge Advocate of Vallandig-
hams trial, and son.in-law of the late Sena-
tor Douglas, has come to grief. The dispatches
say that he is being tried by court martial for
insolence to member of Burnside's staff, and
also for looking through key hole in the
Burnett House, Cincinnati, to watch lady
undressing.
Mr.. Charles F. Brown (Artemas Ward,)
has two new lectures in preparation for the
winter. One bears the name of Robinson
Crusoe, Born of Poor but Respectable Parents :"
The other is entitled brigham Young's
in Law Showing How Many There
is Of Her." ARENAS goes to California in
October. -l !
A spy named VIM. Richardson, about so
years old, was hung at Frederick, Md. on the
9TH inst. He was captured at Oxford, Md,
but it appears that he had been previously
captured, and had made his escape. It is re-
ported he admitted the charge, and said that
he had been in the business long time, It
is also said that important communications be-
tween Lee and Ewell were found on his per-
son.
Gen. Hancock was wounded in the recent
battle by tenpenny nail, driven from fence
hear by. The nail and small piece of wood
have been extracted, and the patient is con-
1alesccnt. Major General Doubleday, report
ID seriously wounded at Gettysburg, was
trock by spent piece of she'll on the back
# the head, and partially stunned, but con-
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