Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-27

The Union majority in Illinois will exceed
100000
Prof. Ronel'i's telegraph prints foul
hundred legIble letters minute.
The New York State Asylum for inebriatel
will be dedicated January II, 1864.
Both branches Of the Maryland Legislature
have clear majority in favor of calling ,
Convention to make Maryland Free State
The mortality of New York is increasing
-453 deaths last week, which is 90 over the
average.
There are forty-two sovereigns in Europe
In this country there are thirty millions, and
very few without crown.
American prepared corn is a favorite arti
Gle in England for puddings, custard. ETC.
and is largely advertised in the London pa
pers.
Gen. Grant has so far recovered from thu
effects of his accident as to be able to sit or
his horse as gracefully as ever. His equal OF
rider is not in the army
California is being rapidly depleted of he,
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covery Of rich mines of gold and silver in
Nevada.
The Kansas branch of the National Pacific
Railroad will be completed at an early date
1t will probably terminate at Fort Kearney
Nebraska.
There are over three thousand rebel priso.
ners at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, and the
number is being daily increased by accessiona
from Tennessee.
There is good demand for both stores and
dwelling houses in Nashville, Tenn. North
ern enterprise is rapidly enhancing the pros
perity of the place and its attractions to busi-
ness men.
A steam-engine has recently been placed
on board large new clipper ship, the sMis-
tress Of the Seas" at Liverpool, and it is so
arranged as to perform nearly all the ordi-
nary work of the crew.
The Washington hotels are going to charge
four dollars per day this winter. Happy are
the men who don't have to spend the winter
in that city Of magnificent distances and un.
equaled expenses.
In settling up accounts between the Gov.
ernment and the State of New Hampshire
lately, it was discovered that the State has
been owing Uncle Sam SIC, 900 since the war
of 1872
Robert NJ. Jenning, Assistan. Postmaster
as Cairo, was brought before the United States
Commissioner, on a charge of embezz!ing,
secreting and destroying letters, and was
bound over to Court for trial.
The number of immigrant who arrived at
New York last week, was 1000, making the
number since January 1st, l40,5s6, against
68, ,294 to the corresponding date last year,
or more than one hundred per cent. more.
Tom Hyer's fighting days are over. He is
reported to be rapidly sinking under a COM
plicatlon of infirmities, which are hurrying
him to his grave. The civilized world will
not regret his loss.
The free colored citizens of New Orleans
held meeting on the 5th, at which speeches
maintaining their right to vote were made,
and an address adopted requesting General
Shepley to have their names enrolled for suf.
frage.
Henry Ward Beecher assured large body
VI AAGSNhSAAE SASiSy III 4IOuOOH tIlaC ne
believed that sore throat, which he brought
from the continent to that city, was cured by
''divino interposition," so that he could speak
in Exeter Hall.
Telescopes are now advertised for sale in
London which only cost twenty-five dollars,
with which double stars may be seen, the fea-
lures of a man distinguished at distance of
live miles, shot marks upon a target two miles,
and the figures on church clock ten miles
A few mornings since we were relating to
our family the fact of friend having found
upon his doorstep fine little male infant,
whom he adopted, when one of the little olive
branches remarked-"2a, it'll be his step. son,
won't it?" We thought it would, decidedly.
Since the war commenced twenty-nine
Union and thirty EIGHT rebel generals have
been killed in battle or died of wounds, eleven
Union and thirteen rebel died of disease.
eighteen Union and thirteen rebel resigned,
and two Union and one rebel dismissed the
service
DR.. Wright, an aristocratic Southerner who
was executed at Norfolk, Va, for the murder
of a negro, had his coffin made after his own
directions, and had photographs of all his fam.
lily placed in the inside. Just before his exc
cution, his daughter was, at his request, mar
rled in his cell.
A new kind of carriage has made it's ap-
pealance on Broadway N. Y.-a two.horse
buggy propelled by steam. 1t is Boston
invention. A hod of coals will run it thirty
miles. The inventor is desirous of matching
it against any trotting horse in the world for
one thousand dollars.
Assistant Quartermaster Chapman gives
notice through the st Louis papers that the
Government will no longer pay extravagant
prices for hay. Ifa good article of baled hay
does not come forward at $25 per ton, the
Government will seize it wherever found, send
it to St. Louis or Cairo, and deduct the trans
portation from the above price.
Meats are less high than everything else in
The retail prices in the leading
New York markets on Saturday were, roast
beef 13al5c, sirloin steak l4a1 6, mutton 8a12,
corned beef 6al2, pork 10a12, bacon IL, tur-
keys l0a14, chickens 12a15, partridgcs 75ca$1
a pair, rabbits 50a60 pair, good oysters
65a$l hundred, butter 24a35, eggs 80.
The Philadelphia Gas Trustees have raised
the price of gas from 2,25 to $3.50 a thous-
and cubic feet, with discount of five per
cent. if paid within five days after presenta-
ton of the bill, subject to the U. s. tax. They
have been compelled to do this by what the
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