Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-04
News Paragraphs.

| Gen. Burnside has reached Kingston, East
Tennessee, which is about thirty miles from
Knoxville.
| An imperative order has been issued, for.
bidding passes to be issued to females to visit
the Army of the Potomac. '
| The steamer Great Eastern is again at New
York. She goes and comes without exciting
much remark. Her gigantic proportions have
become familiar, and she is earning a reputa-
ton as the most comfortable ofocean steamers.
A Massachusetts Judge has decided that a
husband may open his wife's letter, on the
ground, so often and tersely stated by The
ophilus Parsons, of Cambridge, shat the
husband and the wife are one, and the hus-
band is that one :"
There are now about seven thousand sick
and wounded in the Washington hospitals.
Many of them are convalescent, and nearly
| all draw their full rations. 1t is thought at
| the Medical Directors Office tha} two thirds
| uf this number will return to the army.
Mrs. Senator Harlan, of Iowa, was one of
| the health-seekers whose arrival at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, was announced few days
since by the papers. She was quite worn out
in her patriotic labors among the sick and
wounded SOLDIERS in Gen. Grants army.
The San Francisco Eoening Bulletin, is-
sued ut O'Clock P. NJ, publishes news from
the Atlantic States up to eight P. N Of the
same day-three hours before it transpires
A fast country, truly! This is owing, how.
ever, to the difference Of time in the two lat
itudes. .-+
The projectile fred from 200-pcunder
Parrot gun is eight inches in diameter and
two feet in length The solid projectile used
| against the walls of Sumter was hat.headed.
The shell fired from it is of the same dimen-
sions, conical at the point, and exploded by
percussion. .... ..r
The draft in New York is finished. In
spite of the ardent wishes of secret traitors,
the most profound quiet was preserved-not
q riotous face was seen. The whole number
drawn is little over 1900, or one in six of
the number enrolled of the first class, and
one in five of the voters for President-the
highest vote ever cast in the city.
The water of the Ohio river lately turned
to a greenish color. 1t has been microscopi.
cally examined by DR.. T. W. Fry of New
Albany, who pronounces the co,oring matter
SontoAS" So ~ PoA0iy VCSosAOie, anu states
that the supposition of some that coal oil
produced the green color referred to has no
foundation in fact. & san q Ta5!-i an
jeff. Thompson, who sustained the same
relation to the rebellion in Missouri and Ar.
kansas that John Morgan did in Tennessee
and Kentucky, is now in prison at st. Louis
a precious PAIR of knaves have we now in
prison, in the persons of Morgan and JEFF.
Thompson. Both are Brigadier Generals in
the rebel service and both have proved them.
selves to be frst-rate horse-theives.. ri
Several Federal soldiers belonging to Ken
lucky regiments are to be shot at Munford-
vile, Kentucky, Friday, Sept. 4th. Their
crimes are desertion. They have been tried
and sentenced to death by a regularly organ
lied court martial. and the sentence in each
case has been approved by the General COM
handing the Department, Major General
Burnside.