Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-13
News Paragraphs.

| News Paragraphs.
1t is stated that not less than IL. 900 of our
army near Vicksburg are sick.
A lady in Boston was seriously burnt, ro-
Gently, by the explosion of an air-tight can of
tomatoes which she was heating on stove.
Miss Ella X. Hayes, of Great Falls, N. H.,
one day last week, skated 20 miles on Lake
Winnepeseogee, in three hours.
Pennsylvania quota of the Federal direct
tax, under the act of Congress of August 5,
1862, was $l,642716 33. Next year it is
said it will be $95O0o,0OO
Mrs. Gen. Mcclellan has recently been pre-
sented, by the friends of her husband, with
an elegant residence, completely furnished
! from top to bottom.
Through the intercession of Miss Kate
Chase, Mrs. II. Gillespie, an exile from her
home in Virginia, has been appointed to a
c'erkship in the internal revenue bureau.
1t is noted as fac. of rare occurrence that
the Post Office Department does not this year
ask any appropriation for deficiencies. The
| balance for 1862 will square up for 1868. For
ls63-'64 the appropriation is $l2,OOo,ooO.
There is much i'll feeling between North Car
| DINA and the Rebel Government, and the
Richmond Wing, of the 9th ult., implores
| the Legislature of that State not to take any
| steps to bring on a collision between them.
Edward s. Terry, a few years since an emf
nent lawyer in New York, and at one time q
partner of Charles O'Connor; was found dead
In low drinking saloon in that city. lie had
tor the past year given up entirely to his pas
SIGN for strong drink. = -
A deputy marshal in Portland has received
| a note as follows: II would like to enlist in
the naval service. am now in Jail for fog
| glng my wife, and wish a chance to fog tho
southern rebels, as they deserve it as nv wife
did for leaving my Union please call soon.
A steam engine which consumes its own
smoke and steam, and makes no noise, is now
in successful operation on a horse railroad in
New Jersey. It is called q dummy engine.
and If the experiment proves as successful as
1t bids fair to now, the use of horses for such
purposes is about done with, . g-, au.g
Three thousand seven hundred and eighty.
SIX invalids. and five thousand widows. orphan
children, sisters and mothers, have made appli-
cation for pensions since the l4th of July last,
for losses in the present war in the army, and
two hundred and sixty-four in the navy,
making total of nine thousand and fifty.
The Boston boot, shoe and leather market
is very brisk just now. The demand consid.
erably exceeds the supply, and though man.
uiacturers are doing the best they can, aud
sell readily for cash all the work turned out.
the production is limited by the scarcity of
labor and high cost of materials.
Mustard grows wild on thousands Of acres
in California. 1t is superior to the English
imported mustard, and its gathering will yet
become a great branch of business There
were shipped from San Francisco for New
York, in December, two hundred and thirty.
four bags Of mustard. '-.s.- Il
The expedition of Admiral Porter and Gen.
McClernand up the Arkansas river was sue
cessful. 1t was gone just ten days. While
the boats were away, the rebels sent several
boats up the Yazoo river for supplies, not
expecting our feet would return so soon. They
have eleven boats up there that we have
penned up.
The Airline Railway bill before Congress
provides for road 20 be done in two years from
New York to Washington first class trains
to 60 through in eight hours; fare not to ex-
coed d cents per mile first-class freight not
over cents per tun per mile Government
to have priority of business at Q cents per
mile for troops, and cents for freight.
j A Colonel just from Helena, says one hun
dred and fftY-six men were needlessly put
into the street by order of Medical Director
Irwin, and that he saw two of them die in the
mud before he left. All accounts from there
agree that Irwin, Emo and German are utterly
unfit for the positions they occupy, and that
they are fast running the men under their
control. ''' - es.'.- -- is-i
The world will probably be girdled by the
electric telegraph during the present year.
Communication has already taken place be-
tween London and Turner, in Siberia, dis
ance of four thousand and thirty nine miles.
The wires will be extended to the Pacific in
January, and Geographic communication be-
;ween London and New York, by way of
Siberia and California, will be one of the
narvels of 1868. 1its
Messrs. Ellis, Britton and Eaton, Of Spring
ield, Vt, propose to purchase 10000 acres Of
otton lands at Port Royal, and employ 10000
mancipated negroes to work thereon during
he coming year, at 81 ,25 per day each, payable
.eekly. They also propose to sell on the first
January each year, to the negroes, any
mount of such lands, from ons-half acre up
ards, at cost price, and will treat them in
very respect as agricultural laborers in New
'ngland are treated. ge3x 2b