Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-30
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Coal is selling at $l1 ton in Boston with
a prospect of a rise.
The price of passage f;om San Francisco
to New York is now $265, slS5 and $135.
Barnum has fivc-horned ram which he
labels Gan intempe.ate sheep which has taken
three horns tco much"
The celebrated horse " Green Mountain
Morgan" died recently at Mortified, Yer
mont.
The post Office of Memphis now yields an
income of twenty-five thousand dollars per
annum
The vote on the proposition for State Gov
erment in Nevada Territory was S,l62 in fa-
vor and l 1902 against.
Oil is selling at the Pennsylvania wells at
| seven dollars per barrel, and the average daily
yield is 1000 barrels
Reports from New Orleans show the receipt
of nearly four thousand bales of cotton at that
port in single day.
Secretary Stanton has dismissed all the lady
copyists in the Provost Marshal Generals
office. Luxures can't be INDUCED in in war
times.
jim Lane, in his St. Louis speech, said he
did not mean anything by his bloody talk in
Kansas he orly wanted to scare the border
ruffians
A deserter was shot dead in The streets of
New York one day last week. His body fell
in cellar way, and the coroner's verdict was,
served him right.
Loyal papers are now published in Vicks
burg, Mississippi; Knoxville, Tennessee ;
Natchez, Mississippi, and Little Rock, Arkan-
sas.
The Chicago Sanitary Commission has
made a public appeal for sixty thousand
bushels of onions for the soldiers at Vicks-
burg.
1t is proposed to build a new line of rail
road between Cincinnati and Pittsburg. The
| route is said to be hundred miles shorter
than any now in operation.
The population of Ireland decreased 20 per
| cent. between the census of 1S4l and that Of
1851, and 1 per cent. more between the CEN
sus of 1851 and that of 1861.
| A private letter from Detroit, says "Val-
landigham is terribly cast down by the result
in Ohio. He is fast putting an enemy in his
mouth to steal away his brains"
The returns of our killed, wounded and
missing at the battles of the Chicamauga, are
nearly complete, and foot up an aggregate of
about 10000, of whom 1856 are missing.
There were sixty Ohio soldiers in Phaiel-
phia on election day, and excepting one, who
had been deserter, every vote was cast for
John Brough. The deserter voted for VaIan-
dgham.
Mr.. Crittenden, a prominent citizen of
Brooklyn, N. Y, has offered to pay ten
thousand dollars for two hundred recruits to
fill up the ranks Of the 14th Brooklyn reg
iment.
The largest locomotive in the United States,
if not in the world, has just been built for the
Philadelphia and Reading R. R Co 1t has
twelve driving wheels, and weighs more than
1000 lbs.
| A dispatch from st. Paul contradcts the
reported massacre of Capt. Fiske's party
They were within three or four days march
of Bannock City, Idaho, Sept, 22d, all safe
and sound.
| A paint mine has recently been discovered
in California, which yields eighty-four differ
ent tints, varying from vermilion to dove
color: The supply is large enough to last a
hundred years.
A lot of sixty-six paintings, mostly by
Dusseldorf artists, and lately imported by Mr..
Derby, sold at New York, Thursday night,
for an aggregate OF $4,000. There were
some very fine ones in the lot.
Irish moss has been found growing abun-
dainty on the rocks along the beach in Scituate,
Mass, and about three thousand barrels are
gathered annually. 1t is worth at first hands
from $5 to Sc per barrel.
/ The United States Mint at Denver, Colorado
Territory, is now in active operation. The
Denver Nesos gives a list of the twenty -one
spersons employed in the establishment, under
the superintendence of Hon. Geo. W. Lane
i James NJ. Taylor, of Melburn, Lake coun.
~, Ill.,, Young Englishman, aged about %
an auctioneer by profession, committed sui
eide at that place on the 10th inst, by taking
laudanum. He did the job very deliberately
leaving minute directions for the manner Of
his burial, &c.
A terrible catastrophe occurred in Troy, n
Y, on the 10Th inst, by the caving in Of 9
large, deep trench, in which Is to 20 mer
were at work, only six of whom escaped. II
is supposed that at least ten men were smo!h
cred in the earth. At last accounts only foul
had been got out.
The Washington Star says: "We noticed
yesterday the ingenious dodge practiced by ;
female peddler to the soldiers camps across
the river. who attempted to smugge TASKS o
whisky in her bosom, passing them off as
: the natural Developments of the 'materna
fount.'" If that dodge is to be tried often
! there will be scramble for inspectorshiD.
i w- The loyal citizens of Muscatine have
been engaged since the election in digging
out a large patch of potatoes for the benefi
of the soldiers. We presume that not ont
Copperhead in the county gave the least as
s sistance.-Des Aois:es Register.
d You are right there, Mr.. Dixon. The,
,oor, to hava constitutional ohiectio tn thi