Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-04-10
News Paragraphs
The number of traitor inmates of Fort La
fayette, at the present time, is about fifty.

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The number Of traitor inmates of Fort La
fayette, at the present time, is about fifty.
Eleven barrels of whisky sold in Atlanta,
Ga, few days ago for $4,000, being more
than $70) barrel. I.-,r.. ......' ..-.,.i a..
George W. Childs has paid over to Parson
Brownlow 81, 1000 as his share Of profits on
the sale ofhis book. T VHH.tte 1A-H,i
Gov. Todd, Of Ohia, has been indicted for
completely in the arrest Of DR.. Olds, under
the law to punish kidnapping. .s.., d. 3.. d.
Kansas hasa dozen regiments of white men,
Ave regiments of Indians and two regiments
of negroes = rather mixed-up-mess. r2 q"
Serfdom expired definitely throughout the
Russian empire. on the Sd of March. Com
pets tranquility prevailed. A Te Deum was
sung in all the churches. f.t,l,,..l. , r.
+ The compensation Of Deputy Provost Mar
shals, under the conscriptlon law, will be the
same as that of Cavalry Captains, which, in.
cluding perquisItes, is 81, $50 per annum.
A gold speoulatcr in New York, on the day
Of the great fluctuations in gold, who jumped
in and jumped out at the right time, made
net profit Of 100000 in less than two hours.
Mr.. Jesse Hunt, President of the Savings
Bank in Baltimore, and his two daughters,
were arrested last week for uttering disloya'
sentiments. f 1| l'.E taiJ - +
According to the official returns up to the
first OF February, 1863, it appears that the
English navy comprised 522 steamers ahoat,
los effective sailing ships, ~ steamships
building. .... -,
The Tennessee Union volunteers in Gen.
Rosecrans' army, to the number Of 10, 600,
met in public assemblage few days since, and
adopted a series of eloquent and indignant
resolutions IN rebuke of the copperheads. :
Besides bloodhounds to hunt conscripts
and d,serters, tho Copfederates have Cher
okee Indian legion, under command of Major
Thomas. Their especial missionary field is
East Tennessee. -.~''D. '..
In Boston, during the year 1862, there
were six cases where white woman was
married to colored man, but not one of a
marriage between white man and colored
woman. '---r.-, I.. t.'.-.T f-4,if. F. Il.
The Prince of Wales has a clear capital of
three million Of dolars, and regular income
of 1--WE hundred md fifty thousand dollars to
begin married lie with. He can afford to set
up Housekeeping.
Brigadier Gen. James Cooper, the COM
mander at Camp Chase, died at Columb US,
Ohio, on last Saturday, after short illness,
aged about SO. He was formerly U. s. Sen
ator from Pennsylvania.
Delaware has repudiated lotteries. - The
legislature. has recently refused to legalize q
swindle under that name, and it is expected
that body will make lottery drawing penal
offense- t.-f.r. I.-a.. ~ r, .a
Frazer's Magazine says a reformed female
drunkard has never BEEN known Mrs
Swisshslm held it possible that they could be
reformed, but thought that as soon as they
were they should be taken out to sea and
sunk -@ '-
Gov. Morton has obtained the payment Of
100000 due to Indiana from the General
Government for advances, so that he will have
funds to carry on the affairs Of the State not.
withstanding the failure of the copperhead
Legislature to make tho usual appropriations
A man in Manchester, N H., offers to in
sure persons from the draft for $2O0-$l00
less than the Government requires. As there
is no possibility Of the draft hitting more
than one in three, the operation promises to
be shrewd and paying one.
The amount Of money taken from letters at
TIE dead-leI ter Office, will, it is es.ima ed,
amount to $50, 900 for the present year, be-
ing some 5000 more than the average for
past years. This increase is owing chiefly to
the large sums Of money being constantly
sent home by the soldiers. An additional
force of 25 or 80 clerks is employed. a..
An alarming mystery in Michigan is de-
scribed by the Cleveland Herald, on rhe au
:hority of a friend who is visiting Owosso,
Mich. 1t is that supernatural fire appears
to follow the presence ofan adopted daughter
of farmer named Stearns, living in that
town, about ten years Of age. On several
occasions her clothes haye taken fire from no
apparent cause; the carpet caught fire while
shs was sweeping it !; also, damp towel on
which Mrs. s. had just wiped her face; next,
straw stack near the house was consumed
and bag filed with books apd rags and sus
pended by cord from beam in an upper
room caught fire and having fallen to the
floor was partly consumed when the attention
Of the inmates was attracted to it by the
noise Of the tall. The family moved three
miles, but without getting rid Of this strange
phenomena. A trunk which had not been
opened for year was discovered to be on
fire inside and all its contents consumed.
No plausible theory can account for this mys-
terious manifesto ton. l -' .- #