Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-20
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
The snow was eighteen inches deep on the
22d Of October in Nevada Territory.
Wood is now selling at $3.50 @ $40 per
cord in Chicago, and short measure ut that.
Lehigh coal is $ll ton in Philadelphia,
with prospect Of further advance.
The issue of the new fractional currency is
to continue. Designs are not to be changed
but another quality Of paper wi be used.
have appointed the 26th INST, as day OF
Thanksgiving.
The Inflated "Great Eastern" steamship has
been laid up indefinitely, and it is stated she
Is to be sold at auction.
The rebel rams in Europe have been oppor-
tunely arrested, but our "old Buck" is said
to be still ut large in Eigand.
The staging upon the dome Of the Capitol
at Washington is nearly completed, and the
statue of Liberty will be raised to it's place
before the meeting of Congress.
1t is stated that army cloth, that, IS months
u
yard, can now be bought for ninety cents
The supply is greater than the demand
At the time of the landing of Banks expe-
dition there were 81 blockade-runners in the
Mexican waters Of the Rio Grande. This
shows the Importance of our assessing and
holding that river.
In order to ascertain the number of men in
ttaS al IL
commanders of regiments to make monthly
returns of the number of men deserving and
Of those rejoning from desertion.
Frederick Douglas has three sons, all of
whom are now in the Union army. Two Of
them have been there considerable time
The last and Youngest has just joined the oath
Massachusetts (colored) regiment.
confederate" currency has so deprecated
that the Richmond people say: "If you 60
to the market YOU have to take your money
in the basket, and carry your beef in the
pocket book"
The public schools Of Vicksburg have been
re opened, after an intermission Of two years
or more. Colored schools have also been es-
tablished, through the efforts of Adiutant
General Thomas.
Bonner, of the New York Ledger, has re.
Gently purchased the celebrated Maine trot-
ting horse "Cloudman," for the snug little
sum Of 500, 900. "Cloudman" recently made
the best half mile on record. in no.
A National Bank has been organized in
New York, with a capital of five millions of
dollars, and authority to increase it to fifty
mil hoo IF fho o,,l
most substantial men of the city for its stock
holders.
| The share Of prize money belonging to vol
untcer Lieut.. William Rodd, United States
| Navy, arising from the capture of the rebel
steamer Memphis is thirty eight thousand
dollars. The seamen will each get over .
thousand dollars.
Rev. H. NJ. Turner, colored pastor of the
Israel Bethel Church in Washington, has
been appointed Chaplain of the LIST Regiment
United States colored troops, now in South
Carolina. He is the first colored minister
who has been commissioned Chaplain.
| BY way of retaliation for the inhuman
treatment of Union prisoners at Richmond.
the rebels on ,Johnson's Island have been re-
longer allowed to supply themselves from the
| Sandusky market.
| One of the Albany papers states that there
is man in that city Tho regularly visits one
of the river towns and buys up all the cats
that he can find, taking them to New York.
The country people are in doubt whether they
are bought for the furriers or the sausage
makers.
We are importing diamonds and other pre-
cious stones as never before In 1861 there
we're imported at New York $46,573 worth,
in 1862 $lSS, S2l. and for the first quarter of
this year S97 ,246. A single diamond, cost
ing SIS, 900, was imported few days ago.
probably the finest in the country.
1t is announced upon good authority, that
twenty-one boxes of clothing, stores, and
medicines recently sent by the Christian Com.
mission to Richmond for the Upion prisoners
| there, had reached their destination, and no
doubt have made glad the hearts of many of
the suffering heroes in those lousy dun.
geons.
Manila is reported to have been DESTROYED
by terrible earthquake early in July last
Nothing was left standing Of the city but
single church and ten thousand of the citizens
are said to have been killed. The report is
said TO have come from commander Baldwin
Of the Vanderbilt. We think it rather
apochryphal.
A bandit named Esp:nosas, who has been
a terror to the people in the southern portion
of Colorado Territory, for year past, was
recently hunted down, and, with his nephew,
killed. In letter to Gen. Evans, he wrote
"Ask in New Mexico if any other two men
have ever been known to kill az many men
as the Espinosas. We have killed thirty
two"
Brgadier General Robert Anderson, the
hero of Sumter, has been placed upon the re-
tired list by the President of the United States
upon the recommended ton of the Retiring
Board. The retirement of General Anderson
is understood to be in entire accordance with
his wishes, as the health of the great soldier
has long been such as to necesstate his
seeking condition of permanent repose.
The different counties of Indiana are out
wing each other in endeavoring to make sol.
dicrs' families comfortable and helping on the
Sanitary Commission. A soldiers supper at
Lafayette the other night, netted $3.50: Car
roll county has given 1926 in cash and 400
wagon loads OF provisions one gentleman in
Richmond has given 1000, and thess are
only examples of what is going on all over the
State.
Colonel Hanks, who recently arrived in
New York from New Orleans. where he has