Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-12-04

Reverend Genera! Bishop Polk has bet
restored to command by JEFF Davis.

| reverend Genera. BiSnOp FOLK mas peer
restored to command by JEFF Davis.
The treasurer's box Of Lake & Co.'s Circus
containing 81 800, was stolen at Nashville,
day or two since.
Five girls dressed in male attire arrived a
Louisville the other day, in party of thret
hundred rebel prisoners. es= ss'a
! The bridal presents given to Miss Kate
Chase, now Mrs. Sprague, are valued at $50,
900. Katy has made good market.
Livsried coachmen and coats OF arms are
the rage at New York. Shoddy loves to ape
royalty, but one can easily see through the
varnish.
Small poxis spreading rapidly in Nashville
A military order has been issued in that city
requiring all citizens to take the oath, and gel
yaccinated at once.
DR.. Winship, "the strong man." now lifts
daily dead weight Of twenty-six hundred
pounds. lie says he means to get up to three
thousand pounds, and stop there. ,.....
Sixteen Parrot guns have been mounted
on Johns,n's Island, in position where each
battery separately could sink any wooden
fleet that should attempt an entrance.
Seven hundred and seventy seven dollars
bounty in New York city brings recruits to the
ranks in large numbers. Up to the 30th one
thousand had volunteered, and it it is though,
the county will escape the draft.
A barge used as an eating-house on the
Memphis levee, owned by E. j. Davis, was
accidentally burned on the 21st. Besides the
boat, $1,000 in specie and $4,000 in green.
backs were consumed. Total loss, $50, 900.
The American Horse Nail Company, at
Providence, have invented steam spading
machine which will do the work of fifteen
yoke of cattle, requiring only man and a
boy to operate it 1t consumes quarter Of
a cord Of wool day.
The rebel papers are claiming the capture
of six thousand of our men in Louisiana by
Dick Taylor. They get their information
through q private letter from some anony-
nous officer. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that the story is lie out of the whole cloth.
The Five Points, New York, which has
battied all the attempts Of humanity and re-
ligion for its publication, is nov being oc-
cuped Yith elegant III rble stores. Trade
will soon accomplish what piety has failed to
do. r-... -t a.. -1
The Rocky Mountain Ntsos pablishss as
tonishing stories about the Arizona gold
mines. 1t saws men are picking out from fif-
teen to twenty seven hundred dollars day
each, with a jack-knife They do not pre-
tend to save the 'dus:," oaly looking for big
Jumps. T.
The rebel General Il In, who fell at Chick
amausa, was son-in-law Of Mrs. Todd, of
Kentucky, the mo her of Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs.
Todd has been passed through the Federal
lines by permission Of Gen. Grant, and has
gone to Georgia to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Helm. ~.
The mammoth Lindell Hotel at ST. Louis
was the scene of magnificent opening ball
on Wednesday evening, 25th. All the biz
St. Louis names were on the cards. and many
Of the "bg bugs from various parts of the
West had invitations and were there. 1t was
brilliant affair.
The steamer Tecumseh was burned at Port
Hudson last week, loaded with cotton at
Natchez, for New Orleans. Being too heavily
laden, she made Port Hudson and took off
500 bales, when the boat caught fire and was
consumed wi h the residue, $500 bales. The
river for 50 miles below Port Hudson was
covered with burning cotton.
INTERESTING TO THE WIVES OF PRISONERS
The wives of prisoners in the hands Of the
Confederates will be pleased to hear that the
War Department has revived the old rule to
pay them the money due their husbands
Philadelphia Ledger.
Ambrose Eeeder, of st. Louis, is building
the largest steamer, at New Albany, that has
ever hoated upon Western waters. It is to
be called the Leviathan, and will be 3O7 feet
long, 49 feet beam, Al feet floor, and feet
hold. t
The Chicago Journal, talking about fuel,
and its high price, says that in Cook and
adjacent counties, deposits of peat, as good
for fuel as wood, and more desirable than coal,
exist to an almost unlimited extent, and can
be dug, dried and brought to market for q
much less price than either wood OF COAL
The New York World says the coming
winter is to be twice as gay and extravagant
as any season in that city. All the public
halls are engaged for every night to the end
of February and some of them far into April.
Private balls and parties were never so mum.
erous, and as for theatres, they were never SO
thronged
Gov. Pierpont Of Alexandria, expects to
have twenty-five counties represented in his
Virginia Legislature, to which thirty men,
bers are already elected. The Legislature is
expected to amend the State Constitution and
abolish slavery acting, of course for the
whole State, of which John Letcher pretends
to be Governor. Fl
The internal revenue returns occasionally
exhibit some curious statements For in
stance Mr.. John V. Farwell, of Cooley, Far
well & Co of Chicago, returns a net income
of $4,000 per annu n, while Mr Cooley,
the senior member of the firm, returns oyer
100000. Potter Palmer returns 100000
income. John Wentworth, who is supposed
to be worth over million, returns an income
ofonly 81, 900 per annuln, and Mathew Latin,
reported to be the richest man in Chicago,
returns just no income at ALL .. 90.
Surgeons are regarded as nom n-combatants
in civilized warfare, and consequently released
as soon as possible after capture. fhe rebels,
however, captured DR. Rucker of West Vir-
ginia, against whom they had spite, and
threatened to execute him. Consequently
our Government would not exchange therebel
surgeons IN our possession until Rucker was
released Exchanges, therefore, ceased
DR.. Rucker has, however, escaped from con-
fuement, and the difficulty in regard to the
doctor has been, solved. Ninety five Union
surgeons have just been set at liberty at Rich
mond and arrived at Fl. Monroe. .-~.,
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON DARK RooMs.-
Florence Night;ngale's ''Notes on Nursing"
contain the following hints A dark house
is always an unhealthy house, always an ILL.,
aired, always dirty house. Want of. light