Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-02

the pattle Oh Pralrle Grove, Arkansas, had Al
killed and lat wounded in that battle.
There are now 900 sick and wounded
soldiers in the hospitals at Keokuk
News Paragraphs.
One thousand deserters from Connecticut
regiments are reported to DO at home.
Dan Rice, the prince of clowns, is now in
Chicago.
The tobacco crop in the vicinity Of Hanni-
bal, Mo-, ia very abundant the present season.
No less than 200 new railway sche mes IRE
proposed to be brought before the English
Parliament next session.
| The population of the Russian Empire in
1922 was ID. 100000; in 1903, $4,000, 900 !;
and at present it amounts to 65,OO0,0O0.
Among the Christmas novelties at Hartford,
Conn.,, was turkey, raised in the city, that
weighed forty pounds and three ounces.
The New York Tribune estimates that
New York city, alone, will yield $l2, 600, 900
per annum, under the internsl revenue law.
The rebel Gen. Cobb, killed at the battle of
fredericksburg, was brother Of tho noto.
rious Howell Cobb. .s
| Gen. Bonham has been elected Governor Of
South Carolina IN place Of Gen. Marcy
Gregg, killed at Fredericksburg.
| The "Friends of Freedom" are called upon
to meet in Albany on the 9th of January, to
take action on the Presidents proclamation.
The Jewish Messenger coatains a letter,
written from Jerusalem, November 7th, an.
nouncing the death of the Chief Rabbi Of
Palestine.
It's believed at Washington that Secretary
Chase will soon lead to the hymenial alta.
the accomplished widow of the late Senator
Douglas
The New York Independent charges that
there is q combination of Eastern railroad
men to prevent the opening Of the navigation
Of the Mississippi.
| The Secretary of War has authorized the
Indian Bureau to raise two additional Indian
regiments, for service rs home guard in
Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory.
Ten tons of prairie chickens and quail
were shipped from Chicago to New York BY
one of the Express companies, q few nights
ago.
The price Of rags and old paper has appar-
emily reached the highest point. A decline
has commenced, and those who have stock
on hand had better sell soop.
The number of deaths in London has great.
~ increased Of late. The last week in No
vember they rose to 1743, or 800 more than
| the AVERAGE ut this Season
| A telegraphic dispatch has been sent from
New York city, between three and four o'clock
in the afternoon, to San Francisco, and an an
swer received between six and seven in the
evening
| The battle near Fredericksburg is said to
have ragged for a long while in the immediate
vicinity of the tomb Of the mother of Wash
ington, which is situated in the outskirts OF
the city.
There are indications that some of the oil
wells in Canada have touched bottom
The famous Shaw wells, VIII CHI used to yield
from 800 to 200 barrels daily, have stopped
flowing almost entirely.
4 man in Ohio has succeeded in manufac.
turing from sorghum seed very good article
of -four, pronounced by all to be superior to
buckwhea.. The same machinery was used
as for the latter, with an ingenious alteration.
Mrs. President Lincoln distributed among
the Washington hospitals for Christmas din.
ners over three tons Of poultry, several hun.
dred bushels of apples, and cranberries, but
ter, coffee, and other articles ''too numerous
| to mention.
Senator Lanes bill to extinguish the title
Of the Indians to their lands in Kansas has
been approved by the Indian officer. Meas
ures will be Immediately taken to provide
homes for these people and to remove them
from Kansas.
At the New England Festival in Chicago
the Yankee girls, in white aprons, and their
hair in curl papers, served up pumpkin pies
three feet in diameter, gibbeted clans, ''apple
sass" and all the other concomitants Of a
genuine downeast supper.
Petroleum gas has been introduced into
the St. Nicholas Hotel, in New York, and the
prorrietors expect to make saving of $751;
0O0a year in their gas bills. The Manhat-
tan company used to charge them $50, 900 a
year.
German officers assert that the air s'My
Maryland" to which the gush of rebel senti
ment is adapted, is by no means original, but
borrowed from poetic eausion in their lam
guage, entitl d Don't hug me now-some
| other time"
Miss Lavina Warren, a lilliputian woman.
aged FL years, is now on exhibition at New
York. She weighs only 20 pounds and
measures but 80 inches in hight-hss a sym.
etrical form and perfect physical develop
ment. She was born at Middleboro, Mass,
Of parents of ordinary size.
A portion of Gen. Banks expedition is
coming up the Mississippi from New Orleans
to cooperate with Gen Sherman in the CAP
ture Of Vicksburg, and that rebel stronghold
is probably by this time in our possession.
The Mississippi river vii! now be opened to
the Gulf in short order.
The premium Of $50 offered, some time
since, through the New York O6servsr and
Independent, for the best tract of eight or
ten pages on Profanity, has been awarded
by the committee to the Rev. C. H. Fish, D.
D., of the First Baptist Church, Newark.
The selection was made from about one hum
dred manuscripts, and is the third premium
taken by the same author.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
Disappointed Hopes.
If we are disappointed in our hopes with
regard to the war, the rebels are much more
SO. If we have failed in doing what we in
tended, they have failed and miscrably
failed, too. They counted upon an easy tri-
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